December 6 – St Nicholas, Bishop of Myra & Confessor
Divine Wisdom has willed that on the way which leads to the Messias, our Great High Priest, there should be many Pontiffs to pay him the honor due to him. Two […]
Friday of the First Week of Advent
Come, let us adore the King, our Lord, who is to come. From the Prophet Isaias 6:1-3 In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon […]
December 5 – Commemoration of St Sabas, Abbot
The Roman Church confines herself today to the Office of the Feria; but to that she joins a Commemoration of St. Sabas, Abbot of the celebrated Laura of Palestine, which still […]
Thursday of the First Week of Advent
Come, let us adore the King, our Lord, who is to come. From the Prophet Isaias 5:1-7 I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his […]
Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
Come, let us adore the King, our Lord, who is to come. From the Prophet Isaiah 3:1-11: For behold the sovereign the Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, […]
December 4 – St Barbara, Virgin & Martyr
Although in the Roman Liturgy St. Barbara is merely commemorated in the Office of St. Peter Chrysologus; yet the Church has approved an entire Office for the use of those Churches which honor […]
December 4 – St Peter Chrysologus, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
The same divine Providence which would not that the Church should be deprived of the consolation of keeping, during Advent, the feast of some of the Apostles, who announced to […]
