Feast of Saint Didacus, Confessor: Missa “Justus ut palma” This holy lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor was born around the turn of the 15th century to poor Spanish parents who placed him under the direction of a hermit living in the neighbourhood of San Nicolas del Puerto, his native town. Feeling himself…
Category: Mass Propers
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Martin I of Rome, Martyr
St Martin I of Rome, Martyr: Missa “Statuit ei Dominus” Martin I lay too sick to fight on a couch in front of the altar when the soldiers burst into the Lateran basilica. He had come to the church when he heard the soldiers had landed. But the thought of kidnapping a sick pope from the…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Martin of Tours
St Martin of Tours, Bishop & Confessor; Com. St Mennas, Martyr: Missa “Státuit ei Dóminus” The story and history of Saint Martin of Tours. When a mere boy, Martin became a Christian catechumen against his parents’ wish; and at fifteen was therefore seized by his father, a pagan soldier, and enrolled in the army. One…
Carissimi: Sunday’s Mass; St Andrew Avellino, Confessor
St Andrew Avellino, Confessor; Commemoration Sunday XXII Post Pentecost: Missa “Os justi” On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Andrew Avellino, 1521-1608. Lancelotto Avellino was a canon lawyer and a priest for the diocese of Naples. One day, while pleading a case, he told a lie. His remorse caused him to give up…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Saviour
Feast of the Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Saviour – the Lateran; Commemoration of St Theodore the Recruit, Martyr: Missa “Terribilis est” As one of the four principle basilicas of Rome and one of the seven pilgrim churches, Rome’s Cathedral of St. John, the Basilica of Our Divine Savior is dedicated to both St. John…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Octave Day of All Saints
Octave Day of All Saints; Commemoration of the Four Crowned Martyrs: Missa “Gaudeámus omnes” Today is the traditional Octave Day of All Saints according to the pre-1955 Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendar. This Octave was eliminated in the 1955 reforms; however, those attached to the traditions of the Church still call to mind the spirituality appropriate for…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Our holy father S. Willibrord
Our holy father St Willibrord, Bishop Confessor, Apostle to the Frisians, Founder of the See of Utrecht; Commemoration of the Octave of All Saints: Missa “Statuit ei Dominus” Today is the celebration of St. Willibrord, a British-born, Irish-trained, Roman-commissioned Benedictine who evangelized the Netherlands (or in the words of the Roman Martyrology, “Friesland and Denmark”). As…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Feast of the Holy Relics
Feast of the Holy Relics; In the Octave of All Saints: Missa ‘Multae tribulatiónes’ It has long been customary especially in churches which possessed large collections of relics, to keep one general feast in commemoration of all the saints whose memorials are there preserved. An Office and Mass for this purpose will be found in the…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Charles Borromeo
St Charles Borromeo, Bishop Confessor; commemoration of the Octave of All Saints and Ss. Vitalus & Agrícola Martyrs: Missa “Statuit ei Dominus” No age of the Catholic Church’s history is without its share of confusion and corruption. Still, even in moments when disorder may seem overwhelming, individuals and movements eventually arise to propose the faith…
Carissimi: Sunday’s Mass; St Winefride, Com. Sunday XXI Post Pentecost
St Winefride, Virgin & Martyr; Com. Sunday XXI Post Pentecost; Com. Octave of All Saints: Missa “Me exspectaverunt“ St Winefride, who came from Flintshire, Wales, died in the year 650 in a convent in Gwytherin, Denbighshire, and in 1398 her relics were transferred with great pomp to the Benedictine abbey in Shrewsbury where they were enshrined…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass: ALL SOULS
ALL SOULS’ DAY: Missa “Requiem ætérnam“ The commemoration of all the faithful departed is celebrated by the Church on 2 November, or, if this be a Sunday or a solemnity, on 3 November. The Office of the Dead must be recited by the clergy and all the Masses are to be of Requiem, except one of…
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Solemnity of All Saints
Solemnity of All Saints: Missa “Gaudeámus omnes” We can pay no greater honor to the Saints than by offering up to God in their name the Blood of Jesus. The efficacy of their past merits and present prayers is greatly increased when offered to God in close association with the merits and prayers of Our Lord….
