Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
[sermon of Pope Saint Leo the Great] I. Rome owes its high position to these Apostles The whole world, dearly-beloved, does indeed take part in all holy anniversaries, and loyalty to the one Faith demands that whatever is recorded as done for all men’s salvation should be everywhere celebrated with common rejoicings. But, besides that…
Saint Camillus de Lellis
[from the writings of Archbishop Alban Goodier, S.J.] Saint Camillus de Lellis had a good but timid mother; his father seems to have been the very opposite. Both were of respectable, some say of noble, families; and the surname confirms it. But the father, himself the son of a fighting man, had become such a…
Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(From the writings of Saint John Eudes) All Doctors of the Catholic Church hold that the most Holy Virgin was only three years old when she left the house of her father and mother to be presented to God in the Temple of Jerusalem. This departure from the home of her parents is closely related…
Feast of Good Friday
[Saint Augustine, Bishop, Father, Doctor of the Church] I. What We Behold on The Cross As they were looking on, so we too gaze on His Wounds as He hangs. We see His Blood as He dies. We see the price offered by the Redeemer, touch the scars of His Resurrection. He bows His Head,…
Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua
[from “The Liturgical Year”, by Dom Prosper Guéranger] “Rejoice thee, happy Padua, rich in thy priceless treasure!” Anthony, in bequeathing thee his body, has done more for thy glory than the heroes who founded thee on so favored a site, or the doctors who have illustrated thy famous university! The days of Charlemagne were past…
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
[Pope Benedict XIV] “He hath not done in like manner to every nation.” (Psalm 147:20) “If my duties did not prevent me, I would make a pilgrimage to the New World Shrine, and approach the Holy Virgin as the other poor pilgrims do, i.e. Barefoot And On My Knees!” [Pope Leo XIII] “With complete satisfaction,…
Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
[ Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church] The virtue and the greatness of the Blessed and Glorious Mary ever Virgin were proclaimed in God’s own words by the Angel when he said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women.” For it was fitting that the Virgin should…
November Month Of All Souls, Feast Of All Souls Day
The month of November all masses are dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory, especially those whose names have been placed on the altar. Send names to be placed on the altar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Boston Kentucky to: • marcosandolini333@yahoo.com • ourladyofmtcarmelusa@gmail.com On the first of November, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of…
Feast Of All Saints Day
[A Sermon of Saint Bede the Venerable] Today, beloved brethren, we celebrate in one joyful solemnity the Feast day of all the Saints. In their society Heaven exults, in their protection earth rejoices, in their triumphs the Holy Church is crowned. The more endurance they showed in giving witness, the brighter is the glory of…
Feast of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ
[Excerpts from “Quas Primas” (On the Kingship of Christ) by Pope Pius xi, Dec,11,1925.] Let Us expain briefly the nature and meaning of this Lordship of Christ. It consists, We need scarcely say, in a threefold power which is essential to lordship. This is sufficiently clear from the Scriptural testimony already adduced concerning the universal…
Feast of the Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
(Homily of Saint Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Father and Doctor of the Church) I see here a joyful company of Christian men met together in ready response to the call of Mary, the Holy and ever-Virgin Mother of God. The great grief that weighed upon me is changed into joy by your presence, venerable Fathers….
Feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary
(Excerpts from the writings of Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort) Ever since Saint Dominic established the devotion to the Holy Rosary (given to him by Our Lady in 1214) up until the time when Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established it in 1460, the Holy Rosary has always been called the Psalter of…
Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel
Prayers to Saint Michael. (A Sermon of Pope Saint Gregory the Great) We speak of nine orders of Angels, because we know, by the testimony of Holy Scripture, that there are the following: Angels, Archangels, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Dominations, Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. Nearly every page of Scripture witnesses to the fact that there are…
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
[Homily of Pope Saint Leo the Great] When Christ is exalted on the Cross, beloved brethren, do not let only those things which the ungodly have seen, come to the sight of your mind. For to them it was said through Moses, “And your life will be hanging before your eyes and you will…
Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary
[Excerpts from the writings of Saint John Eudes] There are (special) qualities which the holy Doctors of the Church attribute to the Sacred Name of Mary, which are very consoling to us. Saint Epiphanius tells us that “Mary is the prodigious and admirable treasure of the Church.” “She is an inexhaustible treasure of grace and…
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
( A Sermon of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Father and Doctor of the Church) The hoped-for day of the Blessed and Venerable Mary ever a Virgin has now come; therefore let our earth rejoice with great gladness, illuminated by the birth of so great a Virgin. For she is the flower of the field…