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Feasts of the Holy Innocents 14 y
The Holy Innocents, Martyrs
Feast Day
December 28th
Collect:
Father,
the Holy Innocents offered you praise
by the death they suffered for Christ.
May our lives bear witness
to the faith we profess with our lips.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen +
Readings for Mass:
RSV-CE translation
First Reading: 1 John 1:5-2:2
Beloved; This is the message we have heard from Him [Jesus Christ], and proclaim to you, that God is light; a ... read more Feast of St. John the Apostle 14 y
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Evangelist/ teacher in the suite of the great King is the beloved disciple St. John. So greatly did Christ love this disciple that He con ... read more Feast day of the Holy Family 14 y
Holy Family Definition and Summary
The Feast of the Holy Family celebrates the family unit and the Holy Family: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. The feast usually falls on the Sunday after Christmas. If Christmas is a Sunday, then the feast is celebrated on December 30th. In 2010, the feast falls on December 26. Feast of the Holy Family Prayers: Prayers for Families and for the Feast of the Holy Family.
Basic Facts
Liturgical Color(s) : White
Type of Holiday: Feast; Holy Day of Obligation (if on a Sunday)
Time of Year : The Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s Day; If both ... read more Fourth Sunday of Advent 14 y
Fourth Sunday in Advent, 19 Dec 2010
Joseph’s ’yes’
Matthew 1:21-25
The woman you are about to marry suddenly turns up pregnant, and you know you didn’t do it. What are you going to do? Stand th ... read more Feast of the Immaculate Conception 14 y
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December 8th: The Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin
"Remember, My children, come to My Mother; for in Her memory of Her human days upon earth, She above all humans created—sinless, without the stigma of sin, a perfect life upon earth without sin, and assumed into Heaven, body and spirit—She above all can direct you because She is your Mother; She is the Queen of Heaven, and the Mother of every human being upon earth." - Jesus, August ... read more Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle 14 y
Saint Andrew, Apostle
Feast
November 30th
Saint Andrew - El Greco
1606 - Oil on Canvas
Museo del Greco - Toledo
Venite post me, faciam vos fieri piscatores hominum.
Come and follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Saint Andrew Christmas Novena
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour, vouchsafe, O my God! to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His Bl ... read more Feast of Christ The King 14 y
Feast of All Souls Day! 14 y
Feast of All Saints Day!!! 14 y
All Saints Day is when the Church commemorates all saints, known and unknown. The eve of All Saints is known as All Hallows Eve, or Halloween. All Saints Day is November 1. Prayers: All Saints Day Prayers
Basic Facts About All Saints Day
Liturgical Color(s) : White
Type of Holiday: Solemnity, Holy Day of Obligation (West); Feast (East)
Time of Year : November 1 (in the East, the Sunday after Pentecost)
Duration : One Day
Celebrates/Symbolizes : All Saints, known and unknown
Alternate Names : All Hallows, Hallowmas, Halloween
Scriptural References : Mark 12:26- ... read more Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude 14 y
October 28
Spiritual Bouquet: It is God who works in you both to will and to accomplish. Phil. 2:13
SAINTS SIMON and JUDE
Apostles and Martyrs
(† First Century)
Simon was a simple Galilean, as the ancients called one’s close relatives — aunts, uncles, first cousins; he was one of the Saviour’s four first cousins, with James the Less, Jude and Joseph, all sons of Mary, the wife of Alpheus, or Cleophas, either name being a derivative of the Aramaic Chalphai. The latter was the brother of Saint SAINTS SIMON and JUDE
Apostles and Martyr ... read more Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist 14 y
Saint Luke
Saint Luke
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Feastday: October 18
Patron Physicians and Surgeons
Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul’s "Luke, the beloved physician" (Colossians 4:14). We know few other facts about Luke’s life from Scripture and from early Church historians.
It is believed that Luke was born a ... read more Feast of St. Margaret Mary 14 y
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Champion of the Sacred Heart!
... read more Feast of St. Teresa of Avila. 14 y
Saint Theresa of Jesus
Saint Teresa of Avila
Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Memorial
October 15th
Biography | Readings
Biography
Saint Teresa of Avila (Saint Theresa of Jesus)
Born in Avila, Spain March 28, 1515; died in Alba de Tormes, October 4 [15], 1582
Foundress of the Discalced Carmelites, 1560-62.
Canonized by Gregory XV, 1622; declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970.
One of the most charismatic of the Church’s counter-reformation saints, Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada was born the daughter of a saintly and lit ... read more Feast of our Lady of the Rosary 14 y
Pray the Rosary NOW!
How Did the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary Start on October 7th?
I n the Great Battle of Lepanto the Christians Defeated the Muslims by Praying the Holy Rosary…
Four hundred years ago the Ottoman Empire (Moslems) was conquering the world. A powerful Ottoman armada advanced on a badly out manned and out gunned Christian navy. The world was in great danger. All that stood between the Ottomans and Western Civilization were a relatively few ships, a small number of valiant men and the Holy Rosary. So the men knelt in prayer and invoked the intercession of ... read more Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary 14 y
Our Lady of the Rosary
Memorial
October 7
Madonna of the Rosary (with Mysteries of the Rosary) - by Lorenzo Lotto
(1539) Oil on canvasChurch of San Nicolo, Cingoli
[Click picture to enlarge]
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Feast of the Holy Rosary
The feast of the Holy Rosary was established by Saint Pius V on the anniversary of the naval victory won by the Christian fleet at Lepanto, October 7, 1571. The victory ... read more Feast of St. Faustina 14 y
Saint Faustina
The task of "proclaiming and introducing into life" the mystery of God’s mercy, and imploring that mercy for the world, which the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II places before entire Church, was entrusted to Saint Faustina as her life’s witness and mission.
Saint Faustina was born in 1905 in the village of Glogowiec near Lodz (Poland) as the third of ten children in the family of Marianna and Stanislaw Kowalski. From her childhood she was distingu ... read more Feast of St. Francis 14 y
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
October 4
St. Francis inspires us by his love of peace and his kinship with all creatures. Some eight centuries after Francis lived in Italy, hundreds of thousands of Franciscans around the world strive to follow the Gospel with the joy he expressed.
St. Francis embraced this prayer before a crucifix in a little church called San Damiano: "Most high, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart. Instill in me a correct faith, a certain hope and a perfect love; a sense and a knowledge, Lord, so that I may do your holy and true comm ... read more |