https://youtu.be/8JG0LrF3XMk 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, […]
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The Passion of Saint John the Baptist
https://youtu.be/rcVizepoIis 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo
https://youtu.be/J-APWKYmlvU 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Monica
https://youtu.be/0JISz8TQpi0 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle
https://youtu.be/exJxFNwJr-I Today the church celebrates The Feast of Saint Bartholomew, also known as Nathaniel, an Apostle of the Lord, Jesus. Let us pray. Strengthen in us, O Lord, the faith by which the Blessed Apostle Bartholomew clung wholeheartedly to Your Son. And grant that through the help of his prayers Your church may become for […]
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