21 Aug – Memorial for St. Pius X, Pope St Pius X (1835-1914) encouraged frequent Holy Communion. He reformed the liturgy, promoted clear and simple homilies, and brought Gregorian chant back to services. He also reorganized the Roman curia, the administrative elements of the Church, and worked against the modern antagonism of the state against [...]
20 Aug – Memorial for St. Bernard, Abbot, Doctor of the Church St Bernard (1090-1153) founded and led a monastery which had over 700 monks and 160 daughter houses. He revised and reformed the Cistercians, and was advisor to, and admonisher of, King Louis the Fat and King Louis the Young, and spritual advisor to [...]
19 Aug – Memorial for St. John Eudes, Priest, Religious Founder St John Eudes (1601-1680) established seminaries, and founded the Congregation of Jesus and Mary Eudists to promote virtuous secular parochial clergy not bound by vows, but dedicated to improving the clergy through seminaries and missions. He also founded the Sisters of Our Lady of [...]
18 Aug ____________________ Judges 6:11-24 The angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah which belong to Joash of Abiezer. Gideon his son was threshing wheat inside the winepress to keep it hidden from Midian, when the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘The Lord is with you, [...]
17 Aug ____________________ Judges 2:11-19 The sons of Israel did what displeases the Lord and served the Baals. They deserted the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from the gods of the peoples round them. They bowed down to these; they [...]
16 Aug – Lay Apostolate Sunday; Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time Our Eucharist: Thanksgiving Eucharist means thanksgiving. Today, filled with the Spirit, we make thanksgiving to God for the bread of life. – The Sunday Missal ____________________ Proverbs 9:1-6 Wisdom has built herself a house, she has erected her seven pillars, she has slaughtered her [...]
14 Aug – Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mary is taken up body and soul into the glory of Heaven, and with God and in God she is Queen of Heaven and earth. And is she really so remote from us? The contrary is true. Precisely because she is with God [...]
14 Aug – Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Vigil Mass) Mary is taken up body and soul into the glory of Heaven, and with God and in God she is Queen of Heaven and earth. And is she really so remote from us? The contrary is true. Precisely because she is [...]
14 Aug – Memorial for St Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr St. Maximillian Mary Kolbe (1894-1941) was known as a mischievous child, sometimes considered wild, and a trial to his parents. However around the time of his first Communion, he received a vision of the Virgin Mary that changed his life. While still in seminary, [...]
13 Aug – Memorial for St Pontian, Pope, Martyr and St Hippolytus, Priest, Martyr St. Pontian was among the first victims of an anti-Christian new emperor. Rounded up with the antipope St Hippolytus, St Pontian was deported to the labour mines. While imprisoned, St Hippolytus reconciled his differences with St Pontian and even ordered his [...]
