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Liturgical Calendar Update

- Liturgy

July 6, 2016

Overview for July 06, 2016 to July 20, 2016

Ordinary Time
Jul. 6	Optional Memorial of St. Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr St. Maria Goretti was born near Ancona (Italy). The daughter of a poor peasant family, Maria was well known to her neighbors for her cheerfulness and piety. When she was twelve she was a victim of assault. She preferred to die ...	Opt. Mem.
Jul. 7	Thursday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. Their memorial in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated on March 7. Today is ...	Weekday
Jul. 8	Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time; Bl. Peter Vigne, priest (GRC) Bl. Peter Vigne, a French priest, was beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II and proposed to the universal Church as an example of a tireless missionary and apostle of the Most Holy Sacrament. According to the 1962 ...	Weekday
Jul. 9	Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs Saint Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 companions in 1815. Among their number was an eighteen year old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and ...	Opt. Mem.
Jul. 10	Fifteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn and ...	Sunday
Jul. 11	Memorial of St. Benedict, abbot St. Benedict was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had ...	Memorial
Jul. 12	Saturday of the Fourteenth Week of Ordinary Time According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. John Gualbert, a native of Florence, Italy. One Good Friday, accompanied by armed servants, he met his brother's ...	Weekday
Jul. 13	Optional Memorial of St. Henry; St.Clelia Barbieri, foundress (Italy) Henry II, successively Duke of Bavaria, King of Germany and Emperor, devoted himself to the spread of religion by rebuilding churches and founding monasteries. Until the end of his life he displayed the virtues of a great saint. ...	Opt. Mem.
Jul. 14	Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin Kateri was born in 1656 near the town of Auriesville, New York, the daughter of a Mohawk warrior. She was baptized by Jesuit missionary Fr. Jacques de Lambertville on Easter of 1676 at the age of twenty. She devoted her life to ...	Memorial
Jul. 15	Memorial of St. Bonaventure, bishop and doctor St. Bonaventure was born in Italy in 1221. He joined the Franciscan Order and went to Paris for his studies. He was made General of his Order and deserves to be reckoned its second founder for his work in consolidating an ...	Memorial
Jul. 16	Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Sacred Scripture celebrated the beauty of Carmel where the prophet Elijah defended the purity of Israel's faith in the living God. In the twelfth century, hermits withdrew to that mountain and later founded the Carmelite order ...	Opt. Mem.
Jul. 17	Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her (Luke 10:41-42)." Click here ...	Sunday
Jul. 18	Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (USA) St. Camillus, entirely without means of existence and from his early youth suffering from an incurable wound in his foot, experienced the horrors of the Roman hospitals in the sixteenth century in which the nursing and other ...	Opt. Mem.
Jul. 19	Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week of Ordinary Time Historically today is the feast of the holy abbot Arsenius. Before he left the world and retired into the desert, he led an innocent and saintly life at the court of Theodosius the Great, who had entrusted him with the care of ...	Weekday
Jul. 20	Optional Memorial of St. Apollinaris, bishop and martyr Early accounts report that Saint Apollinaris was ordained Bishop by Saint Peter himself and sent as a missionary bishop to Ravenna during the reign of the emperor Claudius. Renowned for his powers to heal in the name of Christ, ...