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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Ember Friday in Whitsun Week

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MOST merciful God, we beseech thee: that thy Church, being gathered together in the Holy Spirit, may nevermore be disquieted by the assault...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

God's Embrace

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The most important choice of our lives was made on the day of our Baptism, and it was strengthened on the day of our Confirmation. It was t...

Thursday in Whitsun Week

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ALMIGHTY God, who as at this time didst open the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of thy Holy Spirit: shed ...

St. Barnabas, Son of Encouragement

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St. Barnabas was not numbered amongst the original apostles, but he has been given the title from the earliest years of the Church because o...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Ember Wednesday in Whitsun Week

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We beseech thee, O Lord, that the Comforter who proceedeth from thee may enlighten our minds: and lead us, as thy Son hath promised, into a...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Tuesday in Whitsun Week

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Grant, we beseech thee, merciful God: that thy Church, being gathered together in unity by thy Holy Spirit, may manifest thy power among all...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

St. Columba of Iona, Abbot

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St. Columba, or Columkill, apostle of the Picts, was of Irish descent and was brought up in the company of many saints at the school of St....

St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church

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St. Ephrem was born sometime around the year 306 in Nibisis, a Syrian town located in modern-day Turkey, during the time when the Church wa...

Monday in Whitsun Week

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Send, we beseech thee, Almighty God, thy Holy Spirit into our hearts: that he may direct and rule us according to thy will, comfort us in ou...
Saturday, June 7, 2025

Pentecost: The Breath of God

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Fifty days ago it was Easter, and we celebrated the fact that Jesus rose from the dead. Ten days ago, we commemorated the fact of the Ascen...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

St. Norbert, Bishop and Confessor

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St. Norbert was born about the year 1080 and his early life was one of ease and selfishness. It was an easy move for him to enter into the ...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr

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Named Winfrith by his well-to-do English parents, Boniface was born near Exeter, Devon. As a boy, he studied in Benedictine monastery school...
Monday, June 2, 2025

St. Charles Lwanga and his Companions

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Charles was one of twenty-two Ugandan martyrs who had converted from paganism to the Catholic faith. He was baptized in November 1885, a ye...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

St. Marcellinus and St. Peter the Exorcist, Martyrs

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St. Marcellinus and St. Peter the Exorcist were martyred during the Diocletian persecution in about the year 304. The early church held the...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Easter VII: "That they may all be one..."

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  [Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying, “Holy Father] I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me thr...