https://youtu.be/L_yY27hITJY 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 […]
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Monday within the Octave of Christmas
https://youtu.be/W5VbmWQqod0 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 […]
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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
https://youtu.be/FOFZk4r8Fdo 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Stephen
https://youtu.be/IUX6wzlLYd8 Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Stephen, a deacon and the first martyr of the church. “We obviously don’t know the exact date of Saint Stephen’s martyrdom,” says Father Jerry in today’s opening prayer, “but the church is trying to show us that following Jesus has consequences, and some of them demand […]
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