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Showing posts with label May. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May. Show all posts
Saturday, May 5, 2018

St Honoratus of Arles (May 5)

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Saint Honorat or Saint Honoré (c. 350 – January 6, 429) was an early Archbishop of Arles, who was also an Abbot of Lérins Abbey. It is b...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

St Bede the Venerable, OSB

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St Bede, I have to say, is currently my favourite saint. Back in the day, Blessed Cardinal Newman wrote that 'Bede is truly the patter...
Friday, May 26, 2017

St Augustine of Canterbury OSB (May 26) - Apostle to the English

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St Augustine of Canterbury was a Benedictine monk who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. The Matins reading for...
Monday, May 22, 2017

St Romanus (May 22)

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Today the martyrology remembers St Romanus, who clothed St Benedict in the holy habit, and aided him in his early years as a hermit: B...
Monday, May 15, 2017

St Pachomius (May 14/15)

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 The feast of St Pachomius (circa 272-348) is celebrated in the modern Benedictine calendar today (May 15); in the 1962 calendar is memor...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Feast of SS Philip and James

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Duccio di Buoninsegna Today is the feast of SS Philip and James.  Their feast was originally celebrated together on May 1, the anniver...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

St Gregory Nazianzus (May 9), Class III

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The reading for the feast of St Gregory at Matins is as follows: Gregory Nazianzus, a noble Cappadocian, earned the name of The Divine ...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Finding of Holy Cross (May 3)

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Unless you are on oblate of Le Barroux (or another monastery that retains this feast), today is not the feast of the Finding of Holy Cro...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

May 27: St Bede the Venerable OSB, Doctor of the Church, Class III

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The reading from Matins: "Bede the priest was born at Jarrow, on the borders of England and Scotland. When a monk, he so arranged hi...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

May 26: St Augustine of Canterbury OSB, Apostle of England, Class III

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St Augustine (d 604) and forty monk companions were famously dispatched to convert England by Pope St Gregory the Great, who had become awa...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

May 25: Feast of St Gregory VII OSB

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The reading from Matins: "Pope Gregory VII, the former Hildebrand, was born near Soana in Tuscany. As noble as any of the nobility in...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

May 19: St Peter Celestine OSB, Memorial

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Curiously, this saint only gets a commemoration in the Benedictine calendar, yet in the Roman he rates third class feast! Particularly curi...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

May 3: SS Alexander, Eventius And Theodolus, memorial

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Alexander, Eventius, and Theodolus were martyrs in Rome under Trajan, being  burned and beheaded c.113 on the Via Nomentana in Rome, Italy....
Monday, May 2, 2011

May 2: St Athanasius, Class III

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St Athanasius, bishop and doctor of the Church is perhaps most famous as a theologian and for his struggle against the Arian heresy. From t...
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