January 2024

Month

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS & THE EUCHARIST. Although we do not celebrate Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Feast Day this year since it’s on a Sunday and we are not named in honor of him, we are in the three-year National Eucharistic Revival - and Saint Thomas Aquinas’ - nicknamed the ‘Angelic Doctor’ because of his purity and...
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SAINT VINCENT, DEACON & MARTYR. The Feast Day of the courageous man we honor this week, Saint Vincent, Deacon and Martyr, was originally January 22, which is now the annual Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn in the USA. His Optional Memorial was permanently transferred to January 23, which is also...
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VOCATIONS & THE EUCHARIST. I hope you know by now that we are in the last part of the USA’s Bishops’ three-year National Eucharistic Revival which reaches its climax at this summer’s 5-day Congress, July 17-21 in Indianapolis, Indiana. While the main goal is to reawaken, reaffirm and renew our belief in our Lord’s Real...
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WHAT IS MY GIFT TO GOD? Although the last day of this year’s Christmastime is on Monday, the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, “it all comes down” after the last Mass this Sunday. Today we recall with great festivity the Magi’s three highly symbolic gifts by  which they proclaim that the Christ Child...
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