Traditional Catholic Feast Days
Upcoming Feasts
(from the writings of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church) All virtues and perfections were then reflected absolutely in Saint Joseph, so that it almost seemed as if he were as perfect and possessed all virtues in as high a degree as the glorious Virgin Mary. Certainly, Saint Joseph is most…
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Prayers to Saint Michael. (A Sermon of Pope Saint Gregory the Great) We speak of nine orders of Angels, because we know, by the testimony of Holy Scripture, that there are the following: Angels, Archangels, Virtues, Powers, Principalities, Dominations, Thrones, Cherubim and Seraphim. Nearly every page of Scripture witnesses to the fact that there are…
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(Homily of Saint Peter Canisius, Doctor of the Church) The Church both reverently and frequently celebrates Feasts of the Mother of God. For She knows with certainty that it is a work pleasing to God and worthy of the faithful to honor, among all the Saints, the most saintly Mother of Our Lord and God…
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(Homily of Saint Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church) The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of the great King by reason of a noble kind of Conception, according to the message given her by the Angel. “Behold,” he said, “thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and thou shalt bring forth a Son”; and again, “The…
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[Pope Saint Leo the Great] Rejoice in the Lord, my dearly beloved brethren; again I say, rejoice. For it is but a few days since the solemnity of the Birth of Christ, and the world is already illumined by the Feast of His manifestation. On this Feast Day the world acknowledges Him Who was born…
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[Homily of Pope Saint Leo the Great] When Christ is exalted on the Cross, beloved brethren , do not let only those things which the ungodly have seen, come to the sight of your mind. For to them it was said through Moses, “And your life will be hanging before your eyes and you will…
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[ Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church] The virtue and the greatness of the Blessed and Glorious Mary ever Virgin were proclaimed in God’s own words by the Angel when he said, “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women.” For it was fitting that the Virgin should be…
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(Sermon of Saint Bernadine of Siena) What mortal man, unless he were protected by a divine pronouncement, would presume with his uncircumcised, his impure lips to speak briefly or at length about the true Mother of God and man – about her whom God the Father predestined before all ages to be a perpetual Virgin,…
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[Excerpts from “Quas Primas” (On the Kingship of Christ) by Pope Pius xi, Dec,11,1925.] Let Us expain briefly the nature and meaning of this Lordship of Christ. It consists, We need scarcely say, in a threefold power which is essential to lordship. This is sufficiently clear from the Scriptural testimony already adduced concerning the universal…
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(Homily of Saint Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Father and Doctor of the Church) I see here a joyful company of Christian men met together in ready response to the call of Mary, the Holy and ever-Virgin Mother of God. The great grief that weighed upon me is changed into joy by your presence, venerable Fathers.…
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