These are the Daily Office Propers as taken from the Antiochian Western Rite Ordo 2013, New Calendar. Sunday 5 Epiphany (St Scholastica) – MP – EP – Martyrology. MONDAY St. Gregory II, P.M. – MP – EP – Martyrology. TUESDAY Feria – MP – EP – Martyrology. WEDNESDAY Feria – MP – EP – Martyrology. THURSDAY [...]
The infancy which the Son of God did not think beneath his glory, grew over the years to mature manhood. When the triumph of his passion and resurrection was completed, all the actions of humility which were undertaken for us ceased. However, today’s feast renews for us the holy infancy of Jesus born of the [...]
Not that political activists are ever logical, but if you boycott Chick-fil-a because the owner offers his personal money to a political cause you find objectionable, what will you do to Apple, signing a real, business-level deal to distribute the message of Pope Benedict XVI? Probably nothing because Apple is Cool.
Dearly beloved, the day for which we have longed, the Feast-day of the Blessed and Worshipful and Alway-Virgin Mary, that day is come. Let our land laugh and sing with merriment, bathed in the glory of this great Virgin’s rising. She is the flower of the fields on which the priceless lily of the valleys [...]
At Troyes, St. Nemorius, deacon, and his companions, all martyrs, who were slain by Attila, king of the Huns. At Nicomedia, the birthday of the blessed martyr John, who upon seeing the cruel edicts against Christians, posted in the public square, and being inflamed with an ardent faith, reached out his hand, took them away [...]
At Rome, St.Zephyrinus, pope and martyr, whose birthday falls on the 20th of December. At Canterbury, Bregwine, the twelfth Archbishop of that see. At Rome, during the persecution of Valerian, the holy martyrs Irenæus and Abundius, who were thrown into a sewer from which they had taken the body of blessed of Concordia. Their bodies [...]