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Liturgical Calendar Update

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September 10, 2014

Overview for September 10, 2014 to September 24, 2014

Ordinary Time
Sep. 10	Wednesday of the Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time St. Nicholas of Tolentino, a native of Sant' Angelo, in the diocese of Fermo, was born about the year 1245. As a young man, but already endowed with a canon's stall, he was one day greatly affected by a sermon preached by a ...	Weekday
Sep. 11	Thursday of the Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time According to tradition Sts. Protus and Hyacinth were Romans by birth, brothers and servants in the house of St. Basilla. They were burned alive around 257, during the persecution of Valerian and Gallian. St. Hyacinth is unique ...	Weekday
Sep. 12	Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary On this day dedicated to the Holy Name of Mary let us repeat that wonderful prayer of Saint Bernard, responding to Pope Benedict XVI's invitation to ?invite everyone to become a trusting child before Mary, even as the Son of God ...	Opt. Mem.
Sep. 13	Memorial of St. John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor St. John Chrysostom, born in Antioch about 347 A.D., was a great genius. His powerful eloquence earned him the surname of Chrysostom, or golden mouthed. With St. Athanasius, St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. Basil, he forms the ...	Memorial
Sep. 14	Exaltation of the Holy Cross This feast was observed in Rome before the end of the seventh century. It commemorates the recovery of the Holy Cross, which had been placed on Mt. Calvary by St. Helena and preserved in Jerusalem, but then had fallen into the ...	Feast
Sep. 15	Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady has its roots in Sacred Scripture and in Christian piety, which always associates the Blessed Mother with her suffering Son. Today's feast was introduced by the Servites in order to ...	Memorial
Sep. 16	Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, pope and martyr and Cyprian, bishop and martyr Today the Church commemorates two friends in the service of Christ and his Church. Cornelius, a Roman, was the twenty-first Pope during the reign of the Emperor Gallus and Volusian. He had to oppose Novatian, the first ...	Memorial
Sep. 17	Optional Memorial of St. Robert Bellarmine, bishop and doctor St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) was born in Montepulciano, Italy, and died in Rome. The son of noble parents, he entered the Society of Jesus, finishing his theological studies at Louvain, Belgium. His services to the Church ...	Opt. Mem.
Sep. 18	Thursday of the Twenty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time St. Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663) was born at Cupertino, Italy, and died in Osimo. He was of lowly origin and had little formal education. In his youth he was employed as an apprentice to a shoemaker. He joined the Conventual ...	Weekday
Sep. 19	Optional Memorial of St. Januarius, bishop & martyr Little is known about St. Januarius. He was Bishop of Benevento in Campania. He died near Naples, about the year 305, martyred under the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. Around the year 400 the relics of St. Januarius were ...	Opt. Mem.
Sep. 20	Memorial of St. Andrew Kim, priest and martyr, St. Paul Chong, martyr, and Companions, martyrs During the 17th century the Christian faith was brought to Korea through the zeal of lay persons. From the very beginning these Christians suffered terrible persecutions and many suffered martyrdom during the 19th century. ...	Memorial
Sep. 21	Twenty-Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time "Brothers and sisters: Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me life is Christ, and death is gain. If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. And I do not know which I ...	Sunday
Sep. 22	Monday of the Twenty Fifth Week in Ordinary Time According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Thomas of Villanova, a great saint of the Spanish Renaissance and a good friend of Emperor Charles V. He was a ...	Weekday
Sep. 23	Memorial of St. Padre Pio Padre Pio was born in 1887 in the small Italian village of Pietrelcina. He joined the Capuchin Friars at the age of sixteen and was ordained a priest seven years later. For fifty years at the monastery of San Giovanni Rotundo he ...	Memorial
Sep. 24	Wednesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time This is my prayer to you, my prayer for your favor. In your great love, answer me, O God, with your help that never fails: rescue me from sinking in the mud; save me from my foes. The Blessed Virgin appeared in 1218 in ...	Weekday

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