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Catholic Saints & Feasts

Fr. Michael Black

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"Catholic Saints & Feasts" offers a dramatic reflection on each saint and feast day of the General Calendar of the Catholic Church. The reflections are taken from the four volume book series: "Saints & Feasts of the Catholic Calendar," written by Fr. Michael Black. These reflections profile the theological bone breakers, the verbal flame throwers, the ocean crossers, the heart-melters, and the sweet-chanting virgin-martyrs who populate the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church.
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April 24: Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr 1577–1622 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of lawyers & the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples His murderers cut a leg off his dead body in retaliation for his many journeys To understand the historical and religious context for today’s saint, consider an eve…
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April 25: Saint Mark, Evangelist c. First Century Feast; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of lions, lawyers, Venice, interpreters, and prisoners He chronicled what the first Pope witnessed John’s Gospel offers the reader this brief post-Resurrection scene: “Simon Peter said to them, ‘I am going fishing.’ They said to him, ‘We will go with you.’ T…
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April 23: Saint Adalbert, Bishop and Martyr 956–997 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of the Czech Republic and Poland Pagans cut down a courageous bishop in the frozen North Old, stodgy, traditional Catholic Europe in tension with new, liberal, flexible Europe is not a new dichotomy. A millennium ago the roles were reversed. It…
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April 23: Saint George, Martyr c. Late Third Century Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of England, the nation of Georgia, and scouting Widely venerated, historically elusive, his legacy is massive Saint George suffered martyrdom in Palestine before the reign of Constantine. And that is all that can be said with certainty about S…
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April 21: Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor c. 1033–1109 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White His pen pierced the blue sheet above, revealing God Few bishops have been canonized as saints since the Catholic Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The earlier history of the Church is, however, replete with saintly bishops…
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April 13: Saint Martin I, Pope and Martyr c. 590–655 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Exiled, abandoned, starving, a Pope dies for sound theology After being elected the Bishop of Rome in 649, today’s saint called a local Council which established the correct theology of the Church regarding the two wills of Christ. For this teaching and its broad d…
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April 11: Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr 1030–1079 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of Poland Royal fury fells a bishop For many centuries, the coronation ritual of a king was considered to be a Sacrament of the Church. Such was the importance of the king’s role in protecting and promoting the faith in his realm that his enthroneme…
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March 25: Annunciation of the Lord Solemnity; Liturgical Color: White The flutter of a wing, a rustling in the air, a voice, and the future began to begin The Feast of the Annunciation is the reason why we celebrate Christmas on December 25. Christmas comes exactly nine months after the Archangel Gabriel invited the Virgin Mary to be the Mother of …
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Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) Solemnity; Liturgical Color: White True power pardons In the Nicene Creed, we say that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. When a judge walks into a courtroom, the bailiff announces, “All rise,” and the judge sits in judgment. In his see city, a bishop rests in his cathedra, and in his pala…
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April 7: Saint John Baptiste de la Salle, Priest 1651–1719 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of Christian teachers Great faith, charm, and skill opened school doors to millions A cowboy mounts a horse and lassos a calf to show the next cowboy how to wrangle. A fisherman tosses a net into the ocean so that his son learns to put food on …
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April 5: Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest c. 1350–1419 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of builders He slept on the floor, fasted endlessly, performed miracles, and converted thousands Saint Dominic de Guzman, a Spanish priest, founded the Order of Preachers in the early thirteenth century. He wanted to establish an Order of prie…
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April 4: Saint Isidore, Bishop and Doctor c. 560–636 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of the internet There was little he did not know The vast colonial ambitions of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries went hand in hand with equally epic Catholic missionary efforts. This unity of purpose, these shared goals, with…
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April 2: Saint Francis of Paola, Hermit 1416–1507 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of Calabria, mariners, and naval officers He lived a perpetual Lent The first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi were known as the “Mendicants from Assisi.” Yet as the group attracted men and women from all over Italy and beyond, a new name, …
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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord c. 33 A.D. The first Sunday after the first full moon that falls on, or after, March 21 Solemnity; Liturgical Color: White or Gold Checkmate! If you want to discover what’s really going on in a story, follow the women. Curious about how the plot of a book, movie, or show is going to resolve itself? Foll…
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Good Friday - The events of Good Friday seem anything but good. Yet we call it good because it is the day that salvation became a reality for us all. Jesus makes it so. The events begin with the “trial” and condemnation of Jesus by Pilate. The Jews needed permission from the Roman governor to put anyone to death.…
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Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday) c. 33 A.D. Triduum; Liturgical Color: Red No one knew love looked like this One of the most famous Greek sculptures in the world, a larger-than-life marble statue of a female, reigns over a monumental staircase in the Louvre. A soft, unfelt breeze ripples through the thin, flowing sheets that wrap her…
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Holy Thursday - The scriptures for Holy Thursday begin with Jesus instructing his disciples to make ready the upper room. Notice the mastery that Jesus demonstrates as he instructs his disciples exactly who they will meet in the street and what to say to them. Jesus remains in control.All Saints Catholic Church - Lakeville, MN
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Wednesday of Holy Week - The Gospels do not record any activities on this day in the life of Jesus. From Wednesday onward, Judas secretly watched for a chance to turn Jesus over to the chief priests. Thus, many Christians label this day as "Spy Wednesday."All Saints Catholic Church - Lakeville, MN
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Tuesday of Holy Week - We see that Jesus’s cursing of the fig tree was effective; it is withered. When Jesus comes to the temple, he convicts the chief priests and scribes through their own words.All Saints Catholic Church - Lakeville, MN
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Thursday of Holy Week (Holy Thursday) c. 33 A.D. Triduum; Liturgical Color: White No last will and testament has been as heeded as Christ’s From the moment Christ first uttered the words at the Last Supper on Holy Thursday evening, the Church has never ceased to be faithful to them: “Do this in memory of me.” These words of a man about to die, if n…
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