Friday, 29 March 2019

29 MARCH – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: In Persia, the holy martyrs Jonas and Barachisius, under Sapor, king of Persia. J...
Friday, 22 March 2019

22 MARCH – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: At Narbonne in France, the birthday of the bishop St. Paul, a disciple of the Apostles. H...
Sunday, 10 February 2019

10 FEBRUARY – FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY

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Epistle – Colossians iii. 12‒17 Brethren, put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, hu...
Saturday, 22 December 2018

22 DECEMBER – EMBER SATURDAY IN ADVENT

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: The Lessons from the Prophet Isaias are interrupted today also, and a Homily on the Gospel of the Mass is read in ...
Friday, 21 December 2018

21 DECEMBER – EMBER FRIDAY IN ADVENT

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: The Church does not read anything from the Prophet Isaias today. She merely gives, in the Office of Matins, a sent...
Thursday, 20 December 2018

20 DECEMBER – THURSDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT

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Lesson at Matins – Isaias xxxiii. 2‒17 O Lord, have mercy on us: for we have waited for you: be you our arm in the morning and our salvati...
Saturday, 1 December 2018

1 DECEMBER – FERIA

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: The Church of Rome does not keep this day as a feast of any Saint. She simply recites the Office of the Feria unl...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

18 NOVEMBER – LAST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (SIXTH AFTER EPIPHANY RESUMED)

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Epistle – 1 Thessalonians i. 2 ‒ 10 Brethren, we give thanks to God for you all, making a remembrance of you in our prayers without...
Sunday, 4 November 2018

4 NOVEMBER – FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY (RESUMED)

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Epistle – Romans xiii. 8‒10 Brethren, owe no man anything, but to love one another, for he that loves his neighbour has fulfilled the La...
Saturday, 27 October 2018

27 OCTOBER – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYOLOGY: The vigil of the holy Apostles Saints Simon and Jude. At Avila in Spain, the Saints Vincent, ...
Friday, 20 April 2018

20 APRIL – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: At Rome, the holy martyrs Sulpicius and Servilian who were converted to the faith ...
Thursday, 19 April 2018

19 APRIL – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: The birthday of St. Timon, one of the first seven deacons, who taught first at Ber...
Wednesday, 18 April 2018

18 APRIL – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: At Rome, St. Apollonius, a senator under the emperor Commodus and the prefect Pere...
Tuesday, 17 April 2018

17 APRIL – SAINT ANICETUS (Pope and Martyr)

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Anicetus, a Syrian by birth, governed the Church during the reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. He passed a decree which forbade clerics ...
Monday, 16 April 2018

16 APRIL – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: At Corinth, the birthday of the holy martyrs Callistus and Charisius, with seven ...
Sunday, 15 April 2018

15 APRIL – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: At Rome, the saints Basilissa and Anastasia. Of noble family, they were disciples ...
Saturday, 14 April 2018

14 APRIL – SAINTS TIBURTIUS, VALERIAN AND MAXIMUS (Martyrs)

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Valerian, a Roman by birth and of a noble family, was married to the blessed Caecila who was of equal nobility. By the advice of this virg...
Thursday, 12 April 2018

12 APRIL – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: At Verona, the martyrdom of the bishop St. Zeno, who governed that Church with grea...
Wednesday, 11 April 2018

11 APRIL – SAINT LEO THE GREAT (Pope and Doctor of the Church)

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Leo I, a Tuscan by birth, governed the Church at the period when Attila, the king of the Huns, (surnamed the Scourge of God), was invad...
Tuesday, 10 April 2018

10 APRIL – FERIA

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On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY: The prophet Ezechiel, who was put to death in Babylon by the Judge of the people ...