सर्वश्रेष्ठ Fr. Damien पॉडकास्टस (2024)

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May 10: Saint Damien de Veuster of Moloka’i, Priest (U.S.A.) 6:44

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May 10: Saint Damien de Veuster of Moloka’i, Priest (U.S.A.) 1840–1889 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of those suffering leprosy A joyful celibate brings hope and dignity to the walking dead It is often just one decision that releases the bolt, opening the door to a new life. The first step down a new road of a thousand sma…

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May 3: Saints Philip and James, Apostles 6:37

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May 3: Saints Philip and James, Apostles First Century Feast; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of hatmakers and pastry chefs (Philip) and pharmacists (James) The smaller the town the bigger the man The popes follow one another chronologically just like the presidents of the United States. One after another, after another, each inheriting the powe…

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May 2: Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor 6:10

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May 2: Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor c. 295–373 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of theologians A fiery Egyptian saves the Trinity  The First Sunday of Advent of 2011 introduced to the faithful a new liturgical translation of the Mass in many English-speaking countries. The new translation had been many years in the making and h…

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May 1: Saint Joseph the Worker 5:50

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May 1: Saint Joseph the Worker Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of workers God wanted a working man to father Jesus Besides the Virgin Mary, there are just two saints who have more than one feast day dedicated to their honor on the Church’s universal calendar: Saint John the Baptist and Saint Joseph. Pope Pius XII instituted …

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April 30: Saint Pius V, Pope 6:40

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April 30: Saint Pius V, Pope 1504–1572 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith One Shepherd, one flock, one Lord, one Church Saint Pius V is buried in the Sistine Chapel, but not “that” Sistine Chapel. His body lies in a glass coffin in the stunning, baroque Sistine Chapel of the Bas…

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April 29: Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor 5:39

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April 29: Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor 1347–1380 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of Italy, Europe, and fire prevention Her frightening intensity prayed the popes back to Rome Saint Peter was not martyred in Frankfurt, Germany; Alexandria, Egypt; or Jerusalem. He could have been. God, in His Providence, wanted Saint Pet…

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April 28: Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr 5:51

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April 28: Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr 1803–1841 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of Oceania Musumusu axed him to death for no reason at all In Paris, just a few blocks down the Rue du Bac from the shrine of the Miraculous Medal, is a fine, imposing stone building. There are a lot of fine, imposing stone buildings in P…

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April 28: Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest 5:53

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April 28: Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest 1673–1716 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of preachers Intensely in love with God, his flame burned hot but not long The English writer Graham Greene grew up Anglican with the typical anti-Catholic biases of his twentieth-century generation. One of those biases firmly held t…

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April 24: Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr 6:02

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April 24: Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr 1577–1622 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of lawyers & the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples His murderers cut a leg off his dead body in retaliation for his many journeys To understand the historical and religious context for today’s saint, consider an eve…

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April 25: Saint Mark, Evangelist 5:44

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April 25: Saint Mark, Evangelist c. First Century Feast; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of lions, lawyers, Venice, interpreters, and prisoners He chronicled what the first Pope witnessed John’s Gospel offers the reader this brief post-Resurrection scene: “Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing.’ They said to him, ‘We will go with you.’ T…

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April 23: Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr 6:03

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April 23: Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr 956–997 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of the Czech Republic and Poland Pagans cut down a courageous bishop in the frozen North Old, stodgy, traditional Catholic Europe in tension with new, liberal, flexible Europe is not a new dichotomy. A millennium ago the roles were reversed. It…

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April 23: Saint George, Martyr 5:38

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April 23: Saint George, Martyr c. Late Third Century Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of England, the nation of Georgia, and scouting Widely venerated, historically elusive, his legacy is massive Saint George suffered martyrdom in Palestine before the reign of Constantine. And that is all that can be said with certainty about S…

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April 21: Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor 6:26

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April 21: Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor c. 1033–1109 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White His pen pierced the blue sheet above, revealing God Few bishops have been canonized as saints since the Catholic Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The earlier history of the Church is, however, replete with saintly bishops…

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April 13: Saint Martin I, Pope and Martyr 6:20

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April 13: Saint Martin I, Pope and Martyr c. 590–655 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Exiled, abandoned, starving, a Pope dies for sound theology After being elected the Bishop of Rome in 649, today’s saint called a local Council which established the correct theology of the Church regarding the two wills of Christ. For this teaching and its broad d…

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April 11: Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr 5:59

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April 11: Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr 1030–1079 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of Poland Royal fury fells a bishop For many centuries, the coronation ritual of a king was considered to be a Sacrament of the Church. Such was the importance of the king’s role in protecting and promoting the faith in his realm that his enthroneme…

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March 25: Annunciation of the Lord 5:47

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March 25: Annunciation of the Lord Solemnity; Liturgical Color: White The flutter of a wing, a rustling in the air, a voice, and the future began to begin The Feast of the Annunciation is the reason why we celebrate Christmas on December 25. Christmas comes exactly nine months after the Archangel Gabriel invited the Virgin Mary to be the Mother of …

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Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) 7:28

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Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) Solemnity; Liturgical Color: White True power pardons In the Nicene Creed, we say that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. When a judge walks into a courtroom, the bailiff announces, “All rise,” and the judge sits in judgment. In his see city, a bishop rests in his cathedra, and in his pala…

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April 7: Saint John Baptiste de la Salle, Priest 6:18

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April 7: Saint John Baptiste de la Salle, Priest 1651–1719 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of Christian teachers Great faith, charm, and skill opened school doors to millions A cowboy mounts a horse and lassos a calf to show the next cowboy how to wrangle. A fisherman tosses a net into the ocean so that his son learns to put food on …

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April 5: Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest 5:05

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April 5: Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest c. 1350–1419 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of builders He slept on the floor, fasted endlessly, performed miracles, and converted thousands Saint Dominic de Guzman, a Spanish priest, founded the Order of Preachers in the early thirteenth century. He wanted to establish an Order of prie…

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April 4: Saint Isidore, Bishop and Doctor 5:35

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April 4: Saint Isidore, Bishop and Doctor c. 560–636 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of the internet There was little he did not know The vast colonial ambitions of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries went hand in hand with equally epic Catholic missionary efforts. This unity of purpose, these shared goals, with…

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April 2: Saint Francis of Paola, Hermit 6:09

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April 2: Saint Francis of Paola, Hermit 1416–1507 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of Calabria, mariners, and naval officers He lived a perpetual Lent The first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi were known as the “Mendicants from Assisi.” Yet as the group attracted men and women from all over Italy and beyond, a new name, …

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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord 7:28

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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord c. 33 A.D. The first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on, or after, March 21 Solemnity; Liturgical Color: White or Gold Checkmate! If you want to discover what’s really going on in a story, follow the women. Curious about how the plot of a book, movie, or show is going to resolve itself? Foll…

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Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) 6:36

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Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) c. 33 A.D. Triduum; Liturgical Color: Red No one knew love looked like this One of the most famous Greek sculptures in the world, a larger-than-life marble statue of a female, reigns over a monumental staircase in the Louvre. A soft, unfelt breeze ripples through the thin, flowing sheets that wrap her…

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March 28, 2024: Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday) 5:59

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Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday) c. 33 A.D. Triduum; Liturgical Color: White No last will and testament has been as heeded as Christ’s From the moment Christ first uttered the words at the Last Supper on Holy Thursday evening, the Church has never ceased to be faithful to them: “Do this in memory of me.” These words of a man about to die, if n…

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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord 5:59

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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord c. 33 A.D. The Sunday before Easter Solemnity; Liturgical Color: Red Beginning with the end we understand His greatness One way to understand a book, or to watch a movie, is to begin at the end. To read, or watch, backwards allows every character and plot twist to be interpreted in light of their conclusions. …

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March 23: Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop 7:06

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March 23: Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo, Bishop 1538–1606 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Violet (Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of Latin American Bishops and native people’s rights He died in the field six thousand miles from home Today’s saint was the second Archbishop of the second most important city in Spain’s Latin American empire in the 150…

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March 19: Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary 6:27

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March 19: Saint Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary First Century Solemnity; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of the Universal Church, fathers, and a happy death Jesus and Mary lived under his gentle, fatherly authority The husband of Mary had a perfect spouse, untouched by original sin. He was also the foster father to a boy who was the…

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March 18: Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor 5:45

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March 18: Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Doctor c. 315–386 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Violet (Lenten Weekday) A wise and persevering bishop teaches his flock It is the Christ-given obligation of every Catholic bishop, and the priests and deacons who share in his ministry, to teach, sanctify, and govern all people under their spiritu…

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March 17: Saint Patrick, Bishop 6:18

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March 17: Saint Patrick, Bishop Fifth Century Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Violet (Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of Ireland The black arts of pagandom bowed to this one-man fortress Today’s saint, the Patron of Ireland, was English. He was born in an unknown year to Catholic parents in an educated home in Roman Britain. His father was a deac…

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March 9: Saint Frances of Rome, Religious 5:49

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March 9: Saint Frances of Rome, Religious 1384–1440 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet when Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of motorists and widows Just to be near her was thought a blessing Today’s saint, born into a wealthy noble family in the Eternal City, was married to a man from a similarly privileged family when she was just thi…

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March 8: Saint John of God, Religious 6:03

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March 8: Saint John of God, Religious 1495–1550 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet when Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of hospitals, printers, the sick, and alcoholics He walked the fine line between madness and holiness There are many “Johns” who are saints, beginning with those found in Scripture itself: Saint John the Baptist, Sain…

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March 7: Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs 6:09

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March 7: Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs c. Late Second Century–203 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red (When Lenten Weekday, Optional Memorial; Violet) Patron Saints of expectant mothers, widows, and butchers They bled to death as pagan eyes drank in the spectacle Many centuries ago in the desert lands of North Africa, now populated by millions …

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March 4: Saint Casimir 5:23

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March 4: Saint Casimir 1458–1484 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet when Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of Poland and Lithuania A prince crowned with humility lives well but not long Ever since the Three Kings left their gifts at the altar of the crib in Bethlehem, Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, has drawn generations of nobles, k…

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March 3: Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin (U.S.A.) 5:50

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March 3: Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin (U.S.A.) 1858–1955 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet when Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of racial justice and philanthropists From riches to rags, she lived the Catholic dream Today’s saint wove in and out of oncoming traffic. She travelled north while everyone else was zooming south. Friends …

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February 27: St. Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor 7:02

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February 27: St. Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor 950–c. 1003 Optional Memorial: Liturgical Color: White Widely venerated in Armenia A mystical eastern monk praises God like a troubadour A crowning glory of the Armenian people is that their nation was the first to adopt Christianity as its official religion. Approximately twelve years before the …

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February 23: Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr 6:56

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February 23: Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr c. 69–c. 155 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red (When Lenten Weekday, Optional Memorial; Violet) Patron Saint of earache sufferers A venerable bishop’s martyrdom ends the sub-apostolic age A Catholic bishop is brutally executed in Turkey. His assassin yells “Allahu Akbar,” stabs his victim repeatedly in t…

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February 22: Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle 6:18

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February 22: Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle Feast; Liturgical Color: White The gift of authority serves order and truth in the Church It’s unusual to have a feast day for a chair. When we think of a chair, perhaps we think of a soft recliner into which our body sinks as if into a warm bath. Or our mind turns to a classroom chair, a chair in a waitin…

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February 21: Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor 6:03

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February 21: Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor 1007–1072 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet on Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of Faenza and Font-Avellana, Italy A wise monk becomes a Cardinal and thunders for reform Every Catholic knows that the Pope is elected by, and from, the Cardinals of the Church gathered in the Sistine Chap…

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February 17: Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order 5:03

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February 17: Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order Thirteenth Century Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet on Lenten Weekday) Invoked to aid in imitating the charity of Our Lady of Sorrows Groups buttress fidelity to individual good intentions There are many reasons to join a group. To quilt, play soccer, learn chess, or travel. We…

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Ash Wednesday 5:45

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Ash Wednesday Forty-six days before Easter Liturgical Color: Violet Without God we are a tiny pile of crumbs The marauding pirates of the high seas had their tough skin inked with tattoos. Roman soldiers smothered their bodies in oil before a battle. Primitive peoples ritually paint a warrior’s face before a fight, stretch earlobes with hoops, or p…

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February 14: Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop 6:08

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February 14: Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop St. Cyril: 827–869; St. Methodius: 815–884 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (When Lenten Weekday, Optional Memorial; Violet) Co-Patrons of Europe and Apostles to the Slavs Two makers of Europe light the flame of Eastern Christianity The Cyrillic alphabet, used by hundreds of millions of people…

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February 11: Our Lady of Lourdes 4:44

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February 11: Our Lady of Lourdes Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet on Lenten Weekday) Patroness of bodily ills A heavenly lady appears to a country girl, and miracles follow In 1858, 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous told her friends that a beautiful young lady was appearing to her in a rock formation on the outskirts of her small t…

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February 10: Saint Scholastica, Virgin 5:40

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February 10: Saint Scholastica, Virgin c. Early Sixth Century–547 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (When Lenten Weekday, Optional Memorial; Violet) Patron Saint of nuns, convulsive children, education, and books A mysterious woman co-founds Western monasticism Saint Scholastica was born in the decades after the last Western Emperor was forced to a…

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February 8: Saint Jerome Emiliani, Priest 6:11

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February 8: Saint Jerome Emiliani, Priest 1481–1537 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet on Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of orphans and abandoned children He was forever grateful after a near-death experience In the year 1202, a wealthy young Italian man joined the cavalry of his town’s militia. The inexperienced soldiers went into ba…

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February 8: Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin 5:31

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February 8: Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin 1869–1947 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Violet on Lenten Weekday) Patron Saint of Sudan and human-trafficking survivors Out of Africa comes a slave, to freely serve the Master of all Black-on-black or Arab-on-black slavery normally preceded and made possible the white-on-black slavery practi…

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February 6: Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs 6:14

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February 6: Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs St. Paul Miki: c. 1562–1597; Late Sixteenth Century Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red (When Lenten Weekday, Optional Memorial; Violet) Patron Saints of Japan Native Japanese die to gain the pearl of great price The words of the American poet John Greenleaf Whittier capture the pathos of today’s memo…

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February 5: Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr 6:02

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February 5: Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr c. Third Century Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red (When Lenten Weekday, Optional Memorial; Violet) Patron Saint of Sicily, breast cancer, rape victims, and bellfounders Of all the men drawn to her, she desired only one Pope Saint Gregory the Great reigned as the Supreme Pontiff of the Church from 590–604. …

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February 3: Saint Ansgar, Bishop 5:07

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February 3: Saint Ansgar, Bishop 801–865 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of Scandinavia, Denmark, and Sweden He sowed the frozen turf of the North, though little bloomed Today’s saint walked the forests of Northern Europe during that stretch of history later known, prejudicially, as the “Dark Ages.” He lived three hundred ye…

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February 3: Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr 5:38

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February 3: Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr c. Early Fourth Century Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of wool combers and sufferers of throat diseases The memory of an obscure bishop-martyr endures A secularist does not evaluate religion on its own terms but on its practical benefits. Is a religion true? It doesn’t matter. But i…

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February 2: The Presentation of the Lord 5:53

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February 2: The Presentation of the Lord Feast; Liturgical Color: White God goes to Church The various names, meanings, and traditions overlapping in today’s Feast churn like the crystals in a kaleidoscope, revealing one image and then another with every slight rotation of the tube. The Presentation of the Lord in the Temple is, rotate, also the Pu…

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