July

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…

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Feast Saint Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary

[“The Liturgical Year” by the Right Rev. Dom Prosper Gueranger, Abbot of Solesmes] Uniting the blood of kings with that of pontiffs, the glory of Anne’s illustrious origin is far surpassed by that of her offspring, without compare among the daughters of Eve. The noblest of all, who have ever conceived by virtue of the…

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Feast Of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel

(“Mary In Her Scapular Promise”, 1940) It is eight hundred and sixty years before Christ. A striking scene is being enacted in Palestine. The entire Jewish nation is assembled there on the summit of the Scripturally famous Mount Carmel. Within a circle formed by the thousands of Israelites, eight hundred and fifty pagan priests are…

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Feast Of The Visitation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary

[Sermon of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church] God, who is One, loves unity and union; and all that is not unified is displeasing to Him, as the great Apostle Paul says: One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. [Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:5-6]. But if He…

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Feast Of The Most Precious Blood Of Our Lord Jesus Christ

[“The Liturgical Year” by the Right Rev. Dom Prosper Gueranger, Abbot of Solesmes] John the Baptist has pointed out the Lamb, Peter has firmly established his throne, Paul has prepared the bride; their joint work, admirable in its unity, at once suggests the reason for their feasts occurring almost simultaneously in the cycle. The alliance…

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