Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Sunday, June 15 : Saint Athanasius
Fools! (…), how is it that you can’t stop your prying investigations into the Trinity or be content to believe it exists since you have for your guide the apostle who wrote: “Anyone who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him” (Heb 11:6). (…) So let no […]
Sunday, June 15 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 28,18-20.
And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I […]
Saturday, June 14 : Saint Basil
The soul that loves God is never satisfied, yet to speak of God is bold indeed: our minds are very far from so great a matter… The further one goes in the knowledge of God, the more one feels one’s powerlessness. This is what it was like for Abraham, this, too, was what it was […]
Saturday, June 14 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 4,38-44.
And Jesus rising up out of the synagogue, went into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever: and they besought him for her. And standing over her, he commanded the fever: and it left her. And immediately rising, she ministered to them. And when the sun was down, all they […]
Friday, June 13 : Saint Aelred of Rielvaux
Unhappy Adam! What more could you possibly seek than the divine presence? Yet see how thanklessly you ponder your misdeed: “No! I will be like God!” (cf. Gen 3:5). What insufferable pride! You have only just been created out of clay and mud and, in your insolence, you want to be like God?… This is […]
Friday, June 13 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 5,17-26.
And it came to pass on a certain day, as he sat teaching, that there were also Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, that were come out of every town of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was to heal them. And behold, men brought in a bed […]
Thursday, June 12 : Saint Augustine
The blessed apostles… were the first to see Christ hanging on the cross. They mourned his death and were seized with fear before the miracle of his resurrection but, very soon, transported by love at this manifestation of his power, they no longer hesitated to shed their own blood to prove the truth of what […]
Thursday, June 12 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 9,1-6.
Then calling together the twelve apostles, he gave them power and authority over all devils and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. And he said to them: Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two […]
Wednesday, June 11 : Saint Peter Damian
The Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, she warmed him up in her arms, she wrapped him in swaddling clothes and surrounded him with motherly care. It is the same Jesus of which we now receive the body and drink the redeeming blood in the sacrament of the altar. This is what the Catholic […]
Wednesday, June 11 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 6,44-52.
No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him. And I will raise him up in the last day. It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned cometh forth me. Not that […]
Tuesday, June 10 : Saint Augustine
“Thus says the Lord: ‘I myself will come’”… This is what he has undoubtedly done and what he will yet do: “I myself am coming: I will seek out my sheep, I will tend them as a shepherd tends his flock.” The wicked shepherds took no care of them because they did not redeem their […]
