Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, priest, martyr, and companions, also martyrs. During the 17th to the 19th centuries in Vietnam, some 130 Christians suffered cruel martyrdom, many by decapitation or strangulation. Today, 117 most of them killed between 1820 and 1840, are remembered. They include seven Dominicans, 10 members of […]
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The Feast of Saint Miguel Pro
Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Miguel Pro, who on the 23rd of November 1927, at the age of 36, was martyred for his Catholic sympathies. He was a Jesuit, and was martyred during the government persecutions of Catholicism in the 1920s. As he was executed, he cried, “Long live Christ the King!” […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Today our church celebrates The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Let us pray. Almighty, ever living God, whose will it is to restore all things in Your beloved Son, the King of the Universe, grant we pray that the whole creation set free from slavery, may render Your majesty, service, […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today the church celebrates The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This memorial finds its origins in a 2nd Century apocryphal source, the Proto-Avon Galleon or Book of Saint James, and in the dedication on the 21st of November in the year 543, of the Basilica of Saint Mary the New in […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of the Dedication of the imposing Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul in Rome
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