Friday, 12 January 2024

12 JANUARY – FERIA

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: Having laid their offerings at the feet of Jesus as the sign of the alliance they had in the name of all mankind ...
Friday, 15 December 2023

15 DECEMBER – FERIA

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Dom Prosper Gu é ranger: This, the eighth day from that on which we kept the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is the Octave prope...

15 DECEMBER – FRIDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT

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Lesson at Matins – Isaias xxiv. 1‒15 Behold the Lord will lay waste the Earth, and will strip it: and will afflict the face thereof, and sc...
Thursday, 14 December 2023

14 DECEMBER – THURSDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT

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Lesson at Matins – Isaias xix. 1‒2 The burden of Egypt. Behold the Lord will ascend upon a light cloud: and will enter into Egypt: and the ...
Wednesday, 13 December 2023

13 DECEMBER – SAINT LUCY OF SYRACUSE (Virgin and Martyr)

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Lucy, a virgin of Syracuse, illustrious by birth and by the Christian faith which she had professed from her infancy, went to Catania wit...

13 DECEMBER – WEDNESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT

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Lesson at Matins – Isaias xvi. 1‒5 Send forth, O Lord, the Lamb the ruler of the Earth, from Petra of the desert to the mount of the daught...
Tuesday, 12 December 2023

12 DECEMBER – TUESDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT

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Lesson at Matins – Isaias xiv. 1‒15 Her time is near at hand, and her days will not be prolonged. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, an...
Saturday, 9 December 2023

9 DECEMBER – SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT

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Lesson at Matins – Isaias vii. 10‒14 And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying: “Ask a sign of the Lord your God, either to the depth o...
Monday, 4 December 2023

4 DECEMBER – MONDAY OF THE SECOND WEEK OF ADVENT

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Lesson at Matins – Isaias xiii. 1‒11 The burden of Babylon, which Isaias the son of Amos saw. Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a bann...
Friday, 1 December 2023

1 DECEMBER – FERIA

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Dom Prosper Gu é ranger: The Church of Rome does not keep this day as a feast of any Saint. She simply recites the Office of the Feria unle...
Sunday, 26 November 2023

26 NOVEMBER – SAINT SILVESTER (Abbot)

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Sylvester was born of a noble family at Osimo in the Marches of Ancona, and in his boyhood was remarkable for his love of study and ...
Saturday, 11 November 2023

11 NOVEMBER – ARMISTICE DAY/REMEMBRANCE DAY/VETERANS' DAY

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down ...
Sunday, 5 November 2023

5 NOVEMBER – TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: For the years when the number of the Sundays after Pentecost is only twenty-three, the Mass for today is taken...
Friday, 27 October 2023

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 Vince...
Thursday, 8 June 2023

8 JUNE – THE CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION

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Dom Prosper Guéranger: Who is this who comes up, embalming the desert of the world with her clouds of incense and myrrh and perfumes un...