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 of […]
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The Feast of Saint Pope Gregory the Great
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, the […]
Continue ReadingThe Passion of Saint John the Baptist
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 fight […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo
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 Ambrose, […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Monica
Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine. The circumstances of Saint Monica’s life could have made her a nagging wife, a bitter daughter-in-law, and a despairing parent. Yet she did not give way to any of these temptations. From the day her son Augustine was born, until the […]
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