https://youtu.be/BIKLCdW4HJs Today the church celebrates The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mary does not appear to the Indian Juan Diego in a blue mantle of heavenly light, but in a peasant’s frock decorated with symbols of the Aztec culture. She is not a European beauty, but a woman of dark skin and Mestiza features. […]
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The Feast of Saint Damasus I, Pope
https://youtu.be/MhOUbR3wrnM Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Damasus I, a Pope. He is known for his preservation of the papal archives. Devoted to the relics and resting places of the martyrs, he was the one who convinced Saint Jerome to produce the new translation of the Latin Bible, later to form the main […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
https://youtu.be/saVKnpzxnU8 “Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Juan Diego, who has a last name that I can’t begin to pronounce,” says Father Jerry in today’s new video. “His last name begins with a C and means The Talking Eagle.” Our Lady appeared four times to this native convert at Tepeyac near Mexico City. […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of the Immaculate Conception
https://youtu.be/wbobbSF27D0 Do you think Mary, just moments before the Annunciation, had a sense that she was specially blessed by God? The Church teaches that Mary was free from sin from the very moment of her conception, and that she was “full of grace” and that she was perfectly sinless throughout her life. Was this something […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Ambrose
https://youtu.be/rnvd9Ji_h_A Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Born of noble parents, classically educated while still a catechumen, in other words, one who has not been baptized, but will be baptized, Ambrose was chosen by popular acclaim as the Bishop of Milan. Legend says that he went […]
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