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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
Bisextilis is not a Jesuit holiday, though it sounds like it. Otherwise, happy Feast of St Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin, patron saint of handgunners, marksmen, novices and seminarians
“I want to break my own will into pieces, I want to do God’s Holy will, not my own. May the most adorable, most loveable, most perfect will of God always be done.” St. Gabriel Here we are near the … Read More →
Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in Rome issues Decree naming Fr Emil Kapaun Venerable
Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in Rome issues Decree naming Father Emil Kapaun Venerable The decree was published on the website of the Diocese of Wichita. HERE Bishop Carl Kemme is pleased to announce that on February 25, 2025, … Read More →
10 February – José de Jesús Sánchez del Río, Martyr: “Tell Christ the King I shall be with him soon.”
Today is the Feast of José Sánchez del Río. I would very much like a relic of this wonderful saint. Anyone? I suspect many people, perhaps even among the readers here, have convinced themselves that the persecution of the Church … Read More →
St. Ignatius, martyr, and Bl. Ludovica, widow – Beauty, differently manifested
My Roman Curia calendar today shows that it is the Feast of Bl. Ludovica Albertoni (+31 Jan 1553). My (Novus Ordo – 2005) Martyrologium Romanum listed her yesterday, the day of her death, otherwise known as her dies natalis, her birthday into heaven. … Read More →
28 January – SECOND St. Agnes
One can tell how our ancient Roman forebears venerated their saints by how many churches they had and how many feasts. Today is the SECOND Feast of St. Agnes. An octave after the feast of her martyrdom, today, 28 January, … Read More →
23 January: St. Raymond Peñafort – surfer extraordinaire
Today is the feast of St. Raymond of Peñafort (+1275). What you see below might leave you slightly puzzled. The painting is in the Spanish church in Rome, Santa Maria in Monserrato. Here is another view. This is St. Raymond … Read More →
21 January – “O glorious St. Agnes, intercede with Christ the High Priest for a return of orthodoxy, sanity and sanctity to the Roman Church!”
The Church, especially the Church in Rome, is in an objectively dreadful state. For the sake of the Roman Church, let us today invoke St. Agnes, virgin and martyr. O glorious Agnes who, though weak, was chosen by God to … Read More →
St. David: Musical Poet King, Prophet, Progenitor of Christ
Holy Church considers many Old Testament figures to be saints. Today when you open your trusty copy of the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum you will find, just below the St. Thomas Becket, this interesting entry: 2. Commemoratio sancti David, regis et … Read More →
27 Dec – St. John Evangelist and St. Fabiola and Card. Wiseman about the Bible
Today, being the Feast of the Evangelist John, we have a special blessing for wine and other libations. I wrote about that HERE. We have this blessing because of an assassination attempt. There was an attempt on the life … Read More →
26 Dec: St. Stephen the Protomartyr, his Archconfraternity, and the Octave
In addition to Boxing Day, and the day good King Wenceslaus went out, it is the feast of St Stephen. I hope all your snow is neat and crisp and even. St. Stephen’s feast has been celebrated this day since the … Read More →
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