Traditional Catholic Feast Days
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[Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Doctor and Father of the Church] Not in vain does the Holy Ghost compare the Name of the Bridegroom with oil when He makes the bride say to the Bridegroom, “Thy Name is an oil poured out.” For oil gives light, nourishment, and ointment. It feeds the flame, nourishes…
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[Excerpts from the writings of Saint John Eudes] There are (special) qualities which the holy Doctors of the Church attribute to the Sacred Name of Mary, which are very consoling to us. Saint Epiphanius tells us that “Mary is the prodigious and admirable treasure of the Church.” “She is an inexhaustible treasure of grace and…
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[“The Liturgical Year” by the Right Rev. Dom Prosper Gueranger, Abbot of Solesmes] John the Baptist has pointed out the Lamb, Peter has firmly established his throne, Paul has prepared the bride; their joint work, admirable in its unity, at once suggests the reason for their feasts occurring almost simultaneously in the cycle. The alliance…
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(Homily of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church) One of the soldiers thrust a lance into the side of Christ; and Divine Pro vidence had reasons for permitting this: that from the Sacred Side of Jesus Christ, the New Adam, as He slept on the Cross, there might be formed the Church, the…
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(from the writings of Archbishop Alban Goodier, S.J.) THE COMING OF JOHN THE BAPTIST It was the fulness of time. That strange, unruly people had waited long. Jericho, as they passed it on their way to and from the Holy City, had stood there through the centuries, to remind them forever of that day when…
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( A Sermon of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Father and Doctor of the Church) The hoped-for day of the Blessed and Venerable Mary ever a Virgin has now come; therefore let our earth rejoice with great gladness, illuminated by the birth of so great a Virgin. For she is the flower of the field…
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(From the writings of Saint John Eudes) All Doctors of the Catholic Church hold that the most Holy Virgin was only three years old when she left the house of her father and mother to be presented to God in the Temple of Jerusalem. This departure from the home of her parents is closely related to…
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[Sermon of Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church] The martyrdom of the Virgin is set before us both in Simeon’s prophecy and in the narrative of the Lord’s Passion. “This Child is destined,” the holy elderly man said of the Child Jesus, “for a sign that shall be contradicted; and thine own soul,”…
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[Sermon of Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church] God, who is One, loves unity and union; and all that is not unified is displeasing to Him, as the great Apostle Paul says: One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. [Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:5-6]. But if He…
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[“The Liturgical Year” by the Right Rev. Dom Prosper Gueranger, Abbot of Solesmes] Uniting the blood of kings with that of pontiffs, the glory of Anne’s illustrious origin is far surpassed by that of her offspring, without compare among the daughters of Eve. The noblest of all, who have ever conceived by virtue of…
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