Upon The Feast Of St. Alphonsus Liguori

The publishing house named after him needs my completed transcript 14 days from now.

If you're having trouble figuring out who St. Alphonsus is, here's a hint: He's the guy who wrote this.

Upon The Feast Of St. Lawrence Of Brindisi

In addition to the Italian he was raised speaking, and the Latin he used in Church, he studied French, German, Greek, Spanish, Syriac, and Hebrew.

St. Lawrence, if you're reading this:

prega per noi!

ora pro nobis!

priez pour nous!

bitte für uns!

προσεύχονται για μας!

ora para nosotros!

להתפלל עבור לנו!

(and my apologies, Fra Lorenzo- I don't know how to ask for your prayers in Syriac.)

Upon The Feast Of St. Irenaeus Of Lyons

St. John the Evangelist's "Spiritual Grandson."

"It is possible, then, for everyone in every church, who may wish to know the truth, to contemplate the tradition of the apostles which has been made known to us throughout the whole world. And we are in a position to enumerate those who were instituted bishops by the apostles and their successors down to our own times, men who neither knew nor taught anything like what these heretics rave about....Surely they wished all those and their successors, to whom they handed on their authority, to be perfect and without reproach" (Against Heresies 3:3:1 [inter A.D. 180-199]).

Upon The Feast Of St. Cyril Of Alexandria

NESTORIANISM EQUALS BAD

Who wants a God-man who can't decide if he's God or Man?

Upon The Feast Of St. Thomas More

Upon The Feast Of St. Vitus

Boiled to death with a rooster. Patron saint against oversleeping.

Upon The Feast Of St Anthony Of Padua

I found today's saint! And my keys...

Gomer Pyle and Corpus Christi

I can connect the two in one move.

Since Today is Jim Nabors' 79th birthday, and Sunday is the Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, it only seems appropriate to post the singing marine's rendition of "Panis Angelicus," the great Eucharistic hymn of Thomas Aquinas. Enjoy.

Upon The Feast Of St. Barnabas

Zeus to Paul's Hermes.

Upon The Feast Of St. Brigid Of Ireland

"I would like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings.
I would like to be watching Heaven’s family drinking it through all eternity."

Upon Trinity Sunday

Or, as a priest friend of mine refers to it, "Heresy Sunday."

If you're going to get something wrong, this is probably the thing you're going to get wrong.

Upon The Feast Of St. Boniface

BONIFACE SMASH!

Upon The Feast Of Pentecost

Happy Birthday, Church.

Upon The Feast Of St. Matthias The Apostle

Patron saint of backup plans?

Upon The Feast Of St. Florian

If that's all the bigger the fire was, I could have put it out with one bucket too...

Upon The Feast Of St. Athanasius

Arianism never had a chance.

Upon The Feast Of St. Joseph The Worker

From the Shrine of St. Joseph comes the following prayer:

Joseph, by the work of your hands
and the sweat of your brow,
you supported Jesus and Mary,
and had the Son of God as your fellow worker.

Teach me to work as you did,
with patience and perseverance, for God and
for those whom God has given me to support.
Teach me to see in my fellow workers
the Christ who desires to be in them,
that I may always be charitable and forbearing
towards all.

Grant me to look upon work
with the eyes of faith,
so that I shall recognize in it
my share in God's own creative activity
and in Christ's work of our redemption,
and so take pride in it.

When it is pleasant and productive,
remind me to give thanks to God for it.
And when it is burdensome,
teach me to offer it to God,
in reparation for my sins
and the sins of the world.

Take that, communists.

Upon The Feast Of Pope St. Pius V

"I'll see your Reformation, and raise you one Counter-reformation."

Upon The Feast Of St. Catherine Of Siena

The stigmata, without the stigma.

Upon The Feasts of Sts. Gianna Beretta Molla, Louis De Montfort, And Peter Chanel

If there were such a geometric possiblity as a three-sided die, Catholics could roll it today to determine which of three significant feasts to observe today. Two French priests and an Italian woman get their day in the liturgical sun. Here are the vitals:



St. Gianna Beretta Molla
-1922 to 1962
-Italian saint
-Physician and surgeon
-While pregnant with her fourth child, doctors discovered an ovarian cyst and recommended Gianna have an abortion. She refused, and died a week after from complications.
-Patron saint against abortion



St. Louis Marie de Monfort
-1673 to 1716
-French saint
-Priest and founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Wisdom
-Fought Jansenism (which my wife has broadly referred to as "Catholic Calvinism")
-Among those books of his still in print:The Secret of the Rosary and True Devotion to Mary



St Peter Chanel
-1803-1841
-French saint
-Priest and missionary to New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in the South Pacific shortly after it outlawed cannibalism
-When a native king became jealous of Peter's influence, he had him beaten with clubs and dismembered

Holy men and women, Ora pro nobis!