Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Sunday XX Post Pentecost

Sunday XX Post Pentecost: Missa “Omnia, quæ fecisti nobis” The lessons in the divine office during the whole month of October,

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Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Placid & Companion Martyrs

St Placid was the notable Benedictine monk who, two years before the death of Saint Benedict himself, along with his two brothers, Saint Eutychius and Saint Victorinus, and his sister, Saint Flavia, and thirty Benedictine monks, was martyred on the Island of Sicily, in the town of Messina. These are the Benedictine protomartyrs. Saint Benedict was so proud of them that he spoke of these martyrs constantly during the two years he lived after them, until he himself went to Heaven.

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Francis of Assisi

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Francis of Assisi, Confessor

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Thomas de Cantilupe

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Thomas [de Cantilupe] of Hereford

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Holy Guardian Angels

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Holy Guardian Angels

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Remigius of Rheims

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Remigius of Rheims

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Jerome of Bethlehem

Saint Jerome, born in Dalmatia in 329, was sent to school in Rome. His boyhood was not free from faults; his thirst for knowledge was excessive, and his love of books, a passion. He had studied under the best masters, visited foreign cities, and devoted himself to the pursuit of learning…

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Feast of the Dedication of St Michael the Archangel

This is the original feast of the leader of the Heavenly armies, Saint Michael. The captain of the heavenly armies, the angel named in the Canon of the Mass, held from early times the first place in the Liturgy among the other angels; wherefore many churches dedicated to St. Michael in the Middle Ages were simply known as churches “of the holy angel.”

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Sunday XIX Post Pentecost

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Sunday XIX Post Pentecost

Carissimi: Today’s Mass; S. Wenceslaus, Martyr

If saints have been falsely characterized as “other worldly,” the life of Wenceslaus stands as an example to the contrary: He stood for Christian values in the midst of the political intrigues which characterized 10th-century Bohemia.