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May 27, 2015

Overview for May 27, 2015 to June 10, 2015

Ordinary Time
May
May. 27	Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury, bishop St. Augustine was born in Rome and died in Canterbury, England, in 604. When Pope Gregory I heard that the pagans of Britain were disposed to accept the Catholic Faith, he sent the prior of St. Andrew, Augustine, and forty of ...	Opt. Mem.
May. 28	Thursday of the Eight 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. Augustine of Canterbury. He was sent by St. Gregory the Great to the Anglo-Saxons and is the great Apostle of ...	Weekday
May. 29	Friday of the Eighth 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. Mary Magdalen of Pazzi. At the age of ten she consecrated her virginity to Christ, she was a Carmelite famous for ...	Weekday
May. 30	Saturday of the Eighth 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 Corpus Christi which traditionally is celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. In the Ordinary Rite the ...	Weekday
May. 31	Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity The fundamental dogma, on which everything in Christianity is based, is that of the Blessed Trinity in whose name all Christians are baptized. The feast of the Blessed Trinity needs to be understood and celebrated as a ...	Solemnity
June
Jun. 1	Memorial of St. Justin, martyr St. Justin, apologist and martyr, was one of the most important Christian writers of the second century. He himself tells how his study of all the schools of philosophy led him to Christianity, and how he dedicated his life to ...	Memorial
Jun. 2	Optional Memorial of Sts. Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs Peter and Marcellinus are two Roman martyrs who suffered under the Diocletian persecution, about the year 303; the first was an exorcist, the second a priest. Their cultus was so important that after peace was restored to the ...	Opt. Mem.
Jun. 3	Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, martyrs Today, together with the whole Church, we honor twenty-two Ugandan martyrs. They are the first martyrs of Sub-Saharan Africa and true witnesses of the Christian faith. Charles Lwanga, a catechist and a young leader, was martyred ...	Memorial
Jun. 4	Thursday of the Ninth Week of Ordinary Time Three things made Francis of Caracciolo stand out from his wealthy Neapolitan friends: he was powerfully drawn to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, he fasted every Saturday in honor of the Virgin Mary, and he had a generous ...	Weekday
Jun. 5	Memorial of St. Boniface, bishop and martyr St. Boniface, a monk of Exeter in England, is one of the great figures of the Benedictine Order and of the monastic apostolate in the Middle Ages. Gregory II sent him to preach the Gospel in Germany. He evangelized Hesse, Saxony ...	Memorial
Jun. 6	Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, bishop St. Norbert was born at Xanten near Cologne about the year 1080. As a young cleric he resided at the court of the Archbishop of Cologne and then at that of the emperor where he allowed himself to be influenced by the spirit of ...	Opt. Mem.
Jun. 7	Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is my body." Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, "This ...	Solemnity
Jun. 8	Monday of the Tenth 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 Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces. Pope Leo XIII declared in his Encyclical of September 22, 1891: "We may affirm that ...	Weekday
Jun. 9	Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, deacon and doctor St. Ephrem, called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit," is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about ...	Opt. Mem.
Jun. 10	Wednesday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time St. Landericus was the Bishop of Paris from 650 to his death. He is best remembered as the founder of the first hospital in Paris. According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today ...	Weekday

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