Today the church celebrates The Sixth Day within the Octave of Christmas. Let us pray. Grant we pray, Almighty God, that the newness of the Nativity in the flesh of your only begotten Son may set us free, for ancient servitude holds us bound beneath the yoke of sin. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your […]
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The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket
Today the church celebrates The Fifth Day of the Octave of Christmas, and also The Feast of Saint Thomas Becket, bishop and martyr. Let us pray. O God, who gave the martyr Saint Thomas Becket the courage to give up his life for the sake of justice, grant with his intercession that renouncing our life […]
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Today the church celebrates Monday within the Octave of Christmas. It is also The Feast of the Holy Innocents, the first martyrs. Let us pray. O God whom the Holy Innocents confessed and proclaimed on this day not by speaking but by dying, grant we pray that the faith in You which we confess with […]
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Today is the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The Holy Family’s flight to Egypt and their stay there gave rise to many tales composed centuries later. It is said that their journey to Egypt was blessed with many miracles-lions and leopards wagging their tails in homage, and palm trees bending […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of the Holy Family: Sunday within the Octave of Christmas
Today the church celebrates Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, or The Feast of the Holy Family. The idea of an octave is that the feasts being celebrated, in this case Christmas, or The Nativity of the Lord, is too great a feast to celebrate on just one day, so the celebration is extended over […]
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