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St. Gertrude, Virgin (Patroness of the West Indies) Feastday-November 16 St. Gertrude was born at Eisleben in Saxony. At the age of five, she was placed in the care of the Benedictine nuns at Rodalsdorf and later became a nun in the same monastery, of which she was elected Abbess. The following ...
By Stephen Kokx | July 8, 2021 | 4:32pm EDT Joe Biden speaks at a church. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) How much do Catholic bishops in the United States care about unborn babies? Or, for that matter, infallible church teaching on the Eucharist? By the looks of it, not that much. The Spring General Assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops came to a conclusion in June. Unsurprisingly, the group failed to issue a statement on the need for pro-abortion politicians to be denied Holy Communion. Although such a denunciation was alway...
Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma (File photo courtesy of CBCP via PNA / MANILA BULLETIN) In a circular letter dated June 29, the prelate said the prayer should be recited in every Mass in the archdiocese. “Said prayer is to be recited before the start of every celebration of the Holy Mass immediately after the reading of the Mass Intentions,” Palma said. “We likewise continue our petition for Archbishop Camomot’s canonization in our General Intercessions of every Holy Mass,” he added. “As we continue with our different jubilees celebrating our 500th Year of Christianity, we also fervent...
By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Apr 01, 2021 Holy Thursday and the Last Supper provide us with a tender and complicated scene of personal relationships: an admixture of joy, melancholy, and disturbing prospects of denial and betrayal. The Sacred three days—the Triduum—conclude with the glorious Resurrection. The grand finale of the Easter Season includes the Ascension and Pentecost. But we may wonder why the Ascension of Jesus—His departure from the friends He loves and His return to the Father—is a glorious mystery of the Rosary rather than o...
Mary’s Devotion to the Eucharist Mary’s Devotion to the Eucharist Madonna of the Host, painted by Jean-Auguste Ingres, now in the Museum d’Orsay, Paris Contemplative Riches of the Mass, Part IV From the Book By a Hermitess It is most becoming to insist here a little on what Holy Mass and Holy Communion, received from the hands of St. John, must have meant for Our Blessed Lady. Why had Mary been committed to St. John on Calvary rather than to the holy women who were also at the foot of the Cross? The reason was that St. John was a priest and had a treasure which they could not give her,...