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A meditation for the Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Bartholomew, also known as Nathanael in the Gospel tradition, was one of the Twelve Apostles chosen by Our Lord Jesus Christ. A native of Cana in Galilee, he was introduced to Christ by the Apostle Philip, who told him that they had found the Messiah. In...

A meditation for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume II of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining...

A meditation for the Octave of the Assumption, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining readings...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572–1641) was a French noblewoman, wife, mother, widow, and religious foundress who became one of the great models of Christian charity and patient suffering. Widowed at the age of twenty-eight, she devoted herself to raising...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was a French Cistercian monk, abbot, mystic, theologian, and one of the most influential saints of the twelfth century. Born into a noble family of Burgundy, he entered the newly founded Cistercian monastery at Cîteaux in...

A meditation for the Fifth day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not y...

A meditation for the Fourth day within the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Hyacinth, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Hyacinth of Poland (c. 1185–1257), known as the “Apostle of the North,” was a Polish Dominican friar and one of the great missionaries of medieval Europe. Born into a noble family, he studied at Kraków, Paris, and Bologna before becoming a canon of Kraków. He accompa...

A meditation for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume II of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining rea...

A meditation for the Feast of the Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrates the glorious truth that, at the end of her earthly life, the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken body and soul into heavenly glory by the power of God. Because she was the Mother of Go...

A meditation for the Vigil of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thu...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Radegund of Poitiers, Queen of the Franks, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Radegund (c. 520–587) was a sixth-century Frankish queen who became renowned for her holiness, charity, and renunciation of worldly power. Born to a royal family in Thuringia, she was taken captive by the Frankish king Clotaire I, who...

A meditation for the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Clare of Assisi (1194–1253), a noblewoman of Assisi and spiritual daughter of Saint Francis, founded the Poor Clares and became one of the great witnesses to evangelical poverty in the medieval Church. Inspired by Francis’s example, she renounced her wealth...

A meditation for the Feast of Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saints Tiburtius and Susanna were early Christian martyrs of Rome who suffered during the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian. St. Tiburtius, traditionally said to have been the son of the Roman prefect Chromatius, was converted to Christianity through t...

A meditation for the Feast of Saint Laurence, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Laurence of Rome was one of the seven deacons of Rome under Pope St. Sixtus II and one of the most celebrated martyrs of the early Church. During the persecution of the Emperor Valerian in 258, Pope Sixtus and several of his deacons were arrested and put to death,...

A meditation for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume II of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining re...

A meditation for the Feast of Saint Cajetan of Thiene, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. St. Cajetan of Thiene (1480–1547) was an Italian priest and reformer who devoted his life to renewing the clergy and restoring a spirit of holiness and apostolic zeal within the Church. Born into a noble family in Vicenza, he studied law at Padua before becoming...

A meditation for the Feast of the Transfiguration, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining readi...

A meditation for the Feast of Our Lady of the Snow, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. The Feast of Our Lady of the Snows (August 5) commemorates the dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, the most highly honored church in the West dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. According to a cherished tradition dating from the Middle Ages, the Virgi...

A meditation for the Feast of St. Dominic, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Dominic (1170 to 1221), founder of the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans), dedicated his life to preaching the truth of the Catholic faith, combating heresy through learning, charity, and holiness, and leading souls to Christ. Born in Caleruega, Spain, he recognized...

A meditation for the Feast of the Finding of St. Stephen’s Relics, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. The Finding of the Relics of Saint Stephen commemorates the miraculous discovery of the protomartyr's long-hidden remains in A.D. 415 near Jerusalem. According to ancient tradition, the priest Lucian was directed in a series of visions by the lea...

A meditation for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume II of the Time after Pentecost. Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining readi...

A meditation for the Feast of Saint Peter’s Chains, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. The Feast of Saint Peter's Chains, celebrated on August 1 in the traditional Roman calendar, commemorates the miraculous deliverance of St. Peter from imprisonment in Jerusalem, when an angel of the Lord freed him from the chains with which King Herod Agrippa h...

A meditation for the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491 to 1556) was a Spanish nobleman and soldier whose life was transformed after a severe battle wound led him to a profound conversion. During his long recovery, he exchanged tales of chivalry for the lives of Christ and the saints,...

A meditation for the Feast of Saints Abdon and Sennen, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume IV of the Time after Pentecost. Saints Abdon and Sennen were Persian Christians who, according to ancient tradition, suffered martyrdom at Rome during the persecution of the Emperor Decius in the third century. Having been arrested for giving honorable burial to Christians who had been slain f...