08 Sep – Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary The birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary announced joy and the approaching salvation of a lost world. Mary was brought into the world not like other children of Adam, infected with the contagion of sin, but pure, holy, beautiful, and glorious, adorned with all the most [...]
August 22, Queenship of Mary On Oct 11, 1954, Pope Pius XII promulgated his encyclical “Ad caeli reginam” in which he pronounced this new feast of the Queenship of Mary. It was celebrated on May 31 before Pope Paul VI moved it to Aug 22, a week after the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary [...]
15 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 – Vigil of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary ____________________ 1 Chronicles 15:3-4,15-16,16:1-2 David then summoned all Israel to Jerusalem, to move the ark of Yahweh to the place which he had prepared for it. David also called the sons of Aaron and the Levites together: and the Levites [...]
29 June - Soleminty of Peter and Paul, Apostles ____________________ Acts 12:1-11 It was about this time that King Herod started persecuting certain members of the Church. He beheaded James the brother of John, and when he saw that this pleased the Jews he decided to arrest Peter as well. This was during the days of [...]
24 June – Solemnity of St John the Baptist (Mass during the Day) ____________________ Isaiah 49:1-6 Islands, listen to me, pay attention, remotest peoples. The Lord called me before I was born, from my mother’s womb he pronounced my name. He made my mouth a sharp sword, and hid me in the shadow of his [...]
23 June – Solemnity of St John the Baptist (Vigil) ____________________ Jeremiah 1:4-10 ____________________ 1 Peter 8-12 ____________________ Luke 1:5-17 ____________________ Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Have you ever wondered what you’re doing on Earth? Have you ever wondered where your life is heading? You could have just reached [...]
1 May - Feast of the Ascension The fortieth day after Easter Sunday, commemorating the Ascension of Christ into heaven. In the Eastern Church this feast was known as analepsis, the taking up, and also as the episozomene, the salvation, denoting that by ascending into His glory Christ completed the work of our redemption. The terms used in [...]
21 Oct – World Mission Sunday Isaiah 2:1-5 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem. In the days to come the mountain of the Temple of the Lord shall tower above the mountains and be lifted higher than the hills. All nations will stream to it, peoples without number will come [...]
19 Aug – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Lay Apostolate Sunday Victory With Christ Today’s celebration should raise our morale in the fight against evil. Christ our Leader, who came to bring fire on the earth, communicates to us something of his tremendous zeal. – the Sunday Missal _____________________ Lord, help me! There is a [...]
