Monday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. John Eudes, 1601-1680; found the greatest need to be for seminaries; founded a new order, the Eudists, or Congregation of Jesus and Mary, dedicated to the formation of diocesan clergy; probably best known for the central theme of his writings: Jesus as the […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/4ecf39e7-bdc9-429d-89e5-b1d00002e353/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/18/24 Gospel: John 6:51-58 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/8e5e511c-7e30-4514-a6e5-b1cf0028aada/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/8e5e511c-7e30-4514-a6e5-b1cf0028aada/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary, 975-1038; born a pagan, baptized at 10; succeeded his father and adopted a policy of Christianizing the country; asked the pope to provide for the church’s organization in Hungary. crowned king on Christmas day, 1001; established a system of tithes […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/8f152be1-a818-4fff-a149-b1ce0007cc16/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/15/24 Gospel: Luke 1:39-56 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/94e597c0-070a-48a4-8b14-b1cd002720aa/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/94e597c0-070a-48a4-8b14-b1cd002720aa/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, 1894-1941; joined the Conventual Franciscans, and was ordained at 24; founded the Militia of the Immaculata, and the magazine, “Knight of the Immaculata”; in 1939, Fr. Kolbe was arrested by Nazis, but released only three months later; in 1941, Fr. Kolbe was […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/89527773-88cf-4440-81fa-b1cc00458eaa/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus, pope and antipope; Pontian was the first pope to abdicate; he struggled with the schismatic movement which supported the antipope Hippolytus; Pontian was arrested by Roman officials in 235; Hippolytus was reconciled to the church before his martyrdom; both died in […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/c37b5e6c-bb51-4e98-a15f-b1cb005d1890/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 1572-1641; married to–and then widowed from–Baron de Chantal, by whom she had six children, three of whom died in infancy; after her husband’s death, Jane sank into deep dejection; she met St. Francis de Sales, who became her spiritual […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/c6d3d42a-cd0f-45e7-aa03-b1c8018755d2/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/11/24 Gospel: John 6:41-51 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/a4e4fb82-a0dd-4072-86fe-b1c80041a714/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/a4e4fb82-a0dd-4072-86fe-b1c80041a714/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Feast of St. Lawrence, 225-258; a Roman deacon under Pope St. Sixtus II, assigned to care for the material goods of the church; when ordered by the prefect of Rome to turn over the treasures of the church, he gathered a large number of the blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned, and widowed, and said, “These […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/a4f18390-f4dc-4652-90d3-b1c80006500e/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; a brilliant philosopher who stopped believing in God when she was 14, Edith Stein was so captivated by reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila that she began a spiritual journey that led to her baptism in […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/a226060f-e5fb-4c62-9f95-b1c70028d328/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Dominic, 1170-1221; on a journey through France, he came face-to-face with the Albigensian heresy, and was commissioned to be part of the preaching crusade against it; Dominic and three Cistercians began itinerant preaching, and eventually became a community, the beginning of the Order of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/7c3ca968-c315-46b1-b4f6-b1c50160927f/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sixtus II; elected pope in 257, and repaired the rift between the sees of Rome and Carthage that had developed over the issue of baptism and rebaptism; forbidden to hold services, Sixtus and his deacons worshipped in the cemetery chapel; in 258, soldiers broke into the chapel […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/78a7066e-7722-4c54-9d7d-b1c5002ff51c/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more