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Showing posts with label March. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March. Show all posts
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Feast of St Gregory the Great OSB

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  Today is the feast of St Gregory the Great, a key Benedictine saint, but this year the feast is not celebrated on its proper date due to t...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Feast of St Patrick (March 17)

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March 17 marks the feast of St Patrick in many places, and for those who say (or want to say) Matins, of the feast, I have posted notes...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Saints of the martyrology: St Chad of Mercia (March 2)

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St Chad, Lichfield Cathedral From the martyrology: At Lichfield in England, St. Chad, bishop of Mercia and Lindisfarne, whose excel...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Feast of the Annunciation

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From the readings at Matins: Reading 4 (From Sermon 22 of Pope St Leo the Great): The Almighty and merciful God, Whose nature is good...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Feast of St Benedict (March 21)

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From the Matins readings of the feast: Reading 5: Benedict was born of a noble family at Norcia, about the year of our Lord 480, and s...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Feast of St Joseph (March 19)

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From the readings for Matins: Reading 5 (From the Sermons of St Bernard, Abbat of Clairvaux. 2nd on Luke i. 26): What and what manner ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Feast of St Gregory the Great

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Antiphonary of Hartker of the monastery of Saint Gall c1000 St Gregory the Great is particularly noted for his contributions to the li...
Friday, March 30, 2012

From the martyrology: St John Climacus (March 30)

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From the martyrology: "On Mount Sinai, Abbot St. John Climacus." St John Climacus (c525-606) is famous for his work The Ladd...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

A saint of Syria: St John Damascene, Memorial (March 27)

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The martyrology entry for St John reads: "St. John Damascene, priest, confessor, and doctor of the Church, whose birthday is commemor...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Feast of the Annunciation (March 26)

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 Jacopo Da Montagnana, c1494-7 
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

St Benedict (March 21)

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From the martyrology: "At Monte Cassino, the birthday of the holy abbot St. Benedict, who restored and wonderfully extended the mona...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

St Matilda (March 14)

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From the martyrology: "At Halberstadt in Germany, the death of blessed Queen Matilda, mother of Emperor Otto I, renowned for humilit...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Forty Martyrs, Memorial (March 10)

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From the martyrology for March 9: "At Sebaste in Armenia, under the governor Agricolaus, in the time of Emperor Licinius, the birthd...
Friday, March 9, 2012

St Francis of Rome OSB, Memorial (March 9)

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From the martyrology: "At Rome, St. Frances, widow, renowned for her noble family, holy life, and the gift of miracles." Fam...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

From the martyrology: St John of God (March 8)

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Murillo, 1672 From the martyrology: "At Granada in Spain, St. John of God, founder of the Order of Brothers Hospitallers, famed f...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

St Thomas Aquinas, memorial (March 7)

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Fra Battolommeo From the martyrology: "In the monastery of Fossanova, near Terracina in Campania, St. Thomas Aquinas, confessor an...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

SS Perpetua and Felicity, Memorial; St Conan (March 6)

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From the martyrology: "SS Perpetua and Felicity, who on the day following this, received from  the Lord the glorious crown of marty...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

March 25: The Feast of the Annunciation, Class I

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The Gospel of the Lent feria is Matthew 21: 33-46 - a man left his vineyard in the care of tenants, but when he sent his servants to collec...
Friday, March 18, 2011

March 18: St Cyril of Jerusalem, Memorial

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St Cyril (313-386) was bishop of Jerusalem and is a doctor of the Church.  He suffered numerous exiles in the face of the debilitating deba...
Saturday, March 12, 2011

March 12: Pope St Gregory I the Great, OSB, Class II

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Pope St Gregory I (540-604), known as 'Dialogus' in the Eastern Churches because of his Dialogues, Book II of which is the Life of ...