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Liturgical Calendar Update

- Liturgy

June 15, 2016

Overview for June 15, 2016 to June 29, 2016

Ordinary Time
Jun. 15	Wednesday of the Eleventh 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. Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia. Very little is known of these saints. St. Vitus was martyred in Lucania in South ...	Weekday
Jun. 16	Thursday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time Historically today is the feast of St. John Francis Regis, who was ordained into the Society of Jesus in 1630. He was gifted with a marvelous talent for missions, he labored for the conversion of the Huguenots, assisted the ...	Weekday
Jun. 17	Friday of the Eleventh 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. Gregory Barbarigo, canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1960. He was the Bishop of Bergamo and of Padua. St. Gregory ...	Weekday
Jun. 18	Saturday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time The virtues of gratitude, confidence and love, stimulated and motivated by the Holy Eucharist, are especially necessary in the modern world. Today gratitude has become a forgotten virtue; confidence in God has been replaced by ...	Weekday
Jun. 19	Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Then he said to all, “If any man wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it ...	Sunday
Jun. 20	Monday of the Twelfth Week of Ordinary Time St. Silverius was pope for a very short time in 546-7 A.D. But his brief pontificate made him a martyr for the truth, which he defended at the cost of his life. He died in exile at the isle of Ponza, for refusing the empress ...	Weekday
Jun. 21	Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, confessor St. Aloysius Gonzaga's outstanding quality was his radiant purity and the Church praises this perfect innocence with the words, "Thou has made him little less than the angels." He was baptized in the womb, because his life was ...	Memorial
Jun. 22	Optional Memorial of St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop and confessor; Optional Memorial of Sts. John Fisher, bishop and martyr and Thomas More, martyr St. Thomas More was born in London, England and was Chancellor of King Henry VIII. As a family man and a public servant, his life was a rare synthesis of human sensitivity and Christian wisdom. St. John Fisher studied ...	Opt. Mem.
Jun. 23	Thursday of the Twelfth Week of Ordinary Time According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the Vigil of St. John the Baptist. The Birth of St. John the Baptist is a solemnity, and so observance still begins with Evening ...	Weekday
Jun. 24	Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist This feast, a segment of Advent in the season of Ordinary Time, makes us aware of the wonderful inner relationship between the sacred mysteries; for we are still in the midst of one Church year and already a bridge is being ...	Solemnity
Jun. 25	Saturday of the Twelfth Week of Ordinary Time Saint William was born to noble parents at the beginning of the twelfth century. He was orphaned while still an infant and was raised by relatives. He built a monastery on the summit of Monte Vergine near Naples, and established ...	Weekday
Jun. 26	Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time "As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." And Jesus said to him, 'Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head (Luke ...	Sunday
Jun. 27	Optional Memorial of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, one of the metropolitan sees of the Christian Church in the east, was one of the great defenders of the faith against the heresy of Nestorius who denied the oneness of person in Jesus Christ. ...	Opt. Mem.
Jun. 28	Memorial of St. Irenaeus, bishop and martyr St. Irenaeus was born in Asia Minor around the year 140. It is not known when he came to Gaul. He was a priest of the Church of Lyons during the persecution of 177 when St. Pothinus, first bishop of the city and the first martyr ...	Memorial
Jun. 29	Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles Veneration of the two great Apostles, Peter and Paul, has its roots in the very foundations of the Church. They are the solid rock on which the Church is built. They are at the origin of her faith and will forever remain her ...