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  • Pope Saint Gregory the Great

    Of the 264 Popes who have passed to their eternal reward only 79 of them have been canonized Saints (11 Blesseds).  Of these 79:  only 47 were canonized for something […]

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  • Saint Thomas Aquinas

    “There was in the thirteenth century a philosopher to whom the sight of the world did not give nausea, but a joy ever new, because he saw in it only […]

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  • Catholic Online Library

    “Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.” -Saint Jerome, Father and Doctor of the Church This […]

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  • Practices During Lent

    The Liturgical YearDom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.Volume 5 – LentChapter III – Practices During Lent After having spent the three weeks of Septuagesima in meditating upon our spiritual infirmities, and upon […]

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  • The Mystery of Lent

    The Liturgical YearDom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.Volume 5 – LentChapter II – The Mystery of LentWe may be sure, that a season, so sacred as this of Lent, is rich in […]

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  • The History of Lent

    The Liturgical YearDom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.Volume 5 – LentChapter I – The History of LentThe Forty Days’ Fast, which we call Lent [In most languages the name given to this Fast […]

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  • Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.

    Born in Sablé on April 4, 1805, Prosper Guéranger frequently made Solesmes the destination of his childhood walks, drawn by the charm of the church building and its life-sized saints […]

     

  • Saint Scholastica

    There are few Catholics and not even too many outside the Church who are not aware of the great Patriarch of Western Monasticism: Saint Benedict, especially after reign of the […]

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  • Practices During Septuagesima

    The Liturgical Year Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B. Volume 4 – Septuagesima Chapter III – Practices During Septuagesima The joys of Christmastide seem to have fled far from us. The forty […]

     

  • The Mystery of Septuagesima

    The Liturgical Year Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B. Volume 4 – Septuagesima Chapter II – The Mystery of SeptuagesimaThe Season, upon which we are now entering, is expressive of several profound […]