Tuesday, 11 August 2026

11 AUGUST – SAINTS TIBERTIUS AND SUSANNA (Martyrs)

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: Laurence is followed today by the son of Chromatius, prefect of Rome, Tiburtius, who also suffered on burning co...
Monday, 10 August 2026

10 AUGUST – SAINT LAWRENCE (Martyr)

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Lawrence was born circa 225 AD in Spain. While studying he met the future Pope Sixtus II who was then a teacher. When Sixtus became ...
Sunday, 9 August 2026

9 AUGUST – SAINT ROMANUS (Martyr)

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Romanus Ostiarius was a soldier who converted to Christianity by the example of Saint Lawrence, who baptised him after he was imprisoned. A...

9 AUGUST – ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: With the Greeks, this Sunday — their eleventh of Saint Matthew — is called The Kings Parable, who calls his se...
Saturday, 8 August 2026

8 AUGUST – SAINT MARY OF THE CROSS (Virgin) (AUSTRALIA ONLY)

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Today is the feast day of Australia’s first and only saint, Mary of the Cross, who was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI on 17 October 201...
Friday, 7 August 2026

7 AUGUST – SAINT CAJETAN (Confessor)

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Cajetan was born to the noble family of the Lords of Thienna near Vicenza in Lombardy in 1480. His mother immediately dedicated him to ...
Thursday, 6 August 2026

6 AUGUST – SAINTS SIXTUS II (Pope and Martyr) and FELICISSIMUS and AGAPITUS (Martyrs)

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Sixtus II, a native of Athens, was first a philosopher, and then a disciple of Christ. He ruled the Church of Rome for only 11 month...

6 AUGUST – THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD

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  Dom Prosper Guéranger: “O God, who in the glorious transfiguration of your only-begotten Son, confirmed the mysteries of the faith by t...