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Monday, May 30, 2011

The lead up to Ascension: Minor Rogation Days

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Rogation days are traditionally days of prayer (with the litany of the saints being sung) and fasting. The custom of Rogation Day proc...
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...
Monday, May 23, 2011

May 24: Our Lady Help of Christians: world day of prayer for China

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Today is the feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, patroness of Australia and New Zealand and other places, so do spare a prayer for the co...
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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Saturday, May 14, 2011

May 14: St Pachomius, Abbot, Memorial

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Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-348) is generally recognized as the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism. A soldier converted by the chari...