Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ (August 6)

[Sermon of Pope Saint Leo The Great, Father and Doctor of the Church] I. Peter’s confession shown to lead up to the TransfigurationThe Gospel lesson, dearly-beloved, which has reached the inner hearing of our minds through our bodily ears, calls us to the understanding of a great mystery, to which we shall by the help…

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Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (August 22)

(Sermon of Saint Bernadine of Siena) What mortal man, unless he were protected by a divine pronouncement, would presume with his uncircumcised, his impure lips to speak briefly or at length about the true Mother of God and man – about her whom God the Father predestined before all ages to be a perpetual Virgin,…

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Feast Of The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15)

(Homily of Saint Peter Canisius, Doctor of the Church) The Church both reverently and frequently celebrates Feasts of the Mother of God. For She knows with certainty that it is a work pleasing to God and worthy of the faithful to honor, among all the Saints, the most saintly Mother of Our Lord and God…

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