Click above to watch Father Jerry’s video for Thursday, September 17th. Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Robert Bellarmine, an Italian Jesuit who was instrumental during the counter-reformation of the church. He wrote a catechism and is the patron saint of catechists and catechumens. Let us pray. O God who adorned the Bishop […]
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The Feasts of Saint Cornelius and Saint Cyprian
Today the Church celebrates The Feasts of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian Bishop. both martyrs. Both Saints Cornelius and Cyprian are mentioned in the first Eucharistic prayer, which means from the very earliest days of the church, these men were revered for their holiness and for dying for their faith. O God, who gave Saints […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
Today the church celebrates The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. By the 14th century, the sorrows of Mary numbered seven: The presentation of Jesus in the temple The flight into Egypt Jesus being lost in Jerusalem The meeting of Mary and Joseph on the way to Calvary The crucifixion The taking down of Jesus’ […]
Continue ReadingThe Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Today the church celebrates The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Today’s feast celebrates a double anniversary. In Jerusalem, Constantine erected a round church, the Anastasis above the empty grave of Jesus, and a basilica, the martyrium, in the square between the two churches, a shrine marking the place of the crucifixion. Dedicated in 335, they […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Peter Claver
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 patron […]
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