https://youtu.be/f0qaSn93xeo Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Peter Claver. A saint from the 17th century, a Catalonian Jesuit, who served in the Colombian Missions in Cartagena for 38 years, he devoted his life to caring for African slaves, baptizing over 300,000. He called himself “the slave of the slaves forever.” He is the […]
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The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
https://youtu.be/PRX_l10D6S8 Today the church celebrates The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast was first celebrated in the 5th Century, and marks the anniversary of the dedication of a basilica in Jerusalem built according to tradition, on the location of the home of Saint Anne, the Mother of Mary, and Patroness […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Pope Gregory the Great
https://youtu.be/8JG0LrF3XMk Today the church celebrates the Feast of Saint Gregory the Great, a pope of the church in the middle ages. An Anglican historian has written, “It is impossible to conceive what would have been the confusion, the lawlessness, the chaotic state of the Middle Ages, without the medieval papacy. And of the medieval papacy, […]
Continue ReadingThe Passion of Saint John the Baptist
https://youtu.be/rcVizepoIis Today the church celebrates The Passion or the Martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist. Let us pray. O God, who will that Saint John the Baptist should go ahead of Your Son. both in his birth and in his death. Grant that as he died a martyr for truth and justice, we too may […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo
https://youtu.be/J-APWKYmlvU What would you do with an $86,400 DAILY budget? Father Jerry shares some ideas in today’s homily. Click to watch. Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Augustine, born in the year 430 in North Africa, after a dissolute young life, was baptized at the age of 33 by Saint […]
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