Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine)
Sunday, July 5 : Saint Bede the Venerable
In this account of the miracle we must consider in one and the same Redeemer the separate operation of his divinity and of his humanity. And the error of Eutyches, who dared to teach that in Christ there is but one operation, must be wholly driven out from Christian lands. Who cannot see that the […]
Sunday, July 5 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 8,1-9.
In those days again, when there was great multitude and they had nothing to eat; calling his disciples together, he saith to them: I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat. And if I shall send them away fasting to their home, […]
Saturday, July 4 : Saint Bernard
Mary was very discreet; we have proof of this in the gospel. Where do you see her having been talkative or full of presumption? Once she stood at the door wishing to speak to her son, but she did not use her maternal authority either to interrupt his preaching or to enter the house where […]
Saturday, July 4 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 11,27-28.
And it came to pass, as Jesus spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck. But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it. Roman […]
Friday, July 3 : Saint John Eudes
In several places in Holy Scripture our most loving Savior assures us he is in constant care and watchfulness on our account; that he himself carries, and will always carry us in his breast, his heart, his inmost being… Let us take great care not to place our trust on the power or favor of […]
Friday, July 3 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 10,28-32.
And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs […]
Thursday, July 2 : Saint Charles de Foucauld
Mary, my mother, today is both one of your feasts and one of the feasts of Jesus: like the Purification, which is above all the Presentation of Jesus, the Visitation is one of your own sweetest feasts but, still more, one of the feasts of Our Lord since it is he who acts in you […]
Thursday, July 2 : Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1,39-47.
And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. And she entered into the house of Zachary and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the […]
Wednesday, July 1 : Saint Bonaventure
They have not only pierced his hands and his feet (Ps 22[21],17) but his side as well, and have opened up the inmost part of his most holy heart, already wounded by the lance of love. Oh how good and how pleasant it is to dwell in this heart! (cf Ps 133[132],2). O my good […]
Wednesday, July 1 : Holy Gospel according to Saint John 19,30-35.
Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost. Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might […]
Tuesday, June 30 : Saint John Chrysostom
We must always keep in mind how much all of us are surrounded by so many proofs of the same love of God. If his justice had preceded repentance the world would have been annihilated. If God had been swift to punish the Church would not have known the apostle Paul, would not have received […]
