Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Wednesday, September 9 : Saint Athanasius
The Word of God, incorporeal, incorruptible and immaterial, came down to our world. Not that he had been far from it before, since no part of creation was ever without him. Together with his Father he filled all things. But he came to us full of love for us and showed himself to us openly. […]
Wednesday, September 9 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a […]
Tuesday, September 8 : Isaac of Stella
Rightly indeed does the Virgin Mary, who truly conceived the first born of all, hold first place in the congregation of the just. For Christ is “the firstborn of many brethren” (Rm 8:29) … And so, in the divinely inspired scriptures, what is said in general of the Virgin Mother the Church is said individually […]
Tuesday, September 8 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 1,1-16.
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren. And Judas begot Phares and Zara of Thamar. And Phares begot Esron. And Esron begot Aram. And Aram begot Aminadab. And Aminadab begot Naasson. And […]
Monday, September 7 : Saint Augustine
“Awake, you sleeper, rise from the dead and Christ will give you light!” (Eph 5,14)… We often say of those who are manifestly dead that they are sleeping; and indeed they are all sleeping for the One who is able to awaken them. For you a dead person is truly dead: you may well slap […]
Monday, September 7 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a […]
Sunday, September 6 : Saint Gregory the Great
He rose again on the third day, what then is to come after in His body, i.e. in the Church, He makes appear; for He shewed in example, what He promised in reward, that as believers knew and owned that He had Himself risen again, so they might hope for the rewards of the resurrection […]
Sunday, September 6 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 7,11-16.
And it came to pass afterwards that Jesus went into a city that is called Naim: and there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother: and she was a […]
Saturday, September 5 : Saint Pio of Pietralcina “Padre Pio”
“Brothers, up till now we have done nothing at all: so let us begin today.” It was to himself that Saint Francis addressed this counsel; let us humbly make it our own. How true it is that we have done nothing – or very little – as yet! One year follows another without our asking […]
Saturday, September 5 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 25,14-23.
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: For even as a man going into a far country called his servants and delivered to them his goods; And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability: and immediately he […]
Friday, September 4 : Saint John Chrysostom
See what benefits Jesus Christ promises and how beneficial his commands are to us since they set us free from such great evils. The misery caused you by riches, he says to us, is not just that of arming thieves against you and filling your mind with impenetrable gloom. The great wound they inflict is […]
