Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, 1577-1622; a lawyer who left his career to become a Capuchin priest; as a Franciscan, he served the weak and needy; during a severe epidemic, he cared for and cured many soldiers; preached against Calvinists and Zwinglians in Switzerland, where he […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/c0e1cd76-4f2b-4023-9cf0-b15b017c40ee/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. George, 280-303; martyr who suffered at Lydda in Palestine, probably before the time of Constantine; the Church believes that he was willing to pay the supreme price to follow Christ–and it is enough; tales of him slaying a dragon, and such, are part of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/40def355-400e-4131-a47c-b15b002664d7/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Tarbula; Fourth Century Virgin and martyr, the sister of St. Simeon the Persian bishop and martyr; she was consecrated a virgin and met her own martyrdom soon after the death of her brother; she was accused of witchcraft, and of causing sickness to […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/8f093bbd-bc73-4e4b-9c5e-b15901875415/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Fourth Sunday of Easter Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/21/24 Gospel: John 10:11-18 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/3584b530-8cb9-491f-8f7c-b15800403574/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/3584b530-8cb9-491f-8f7c-b15800403574/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Saturday of the Third Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Agnes of Montepulciano, 1268-1317; entered the monastery of Montepulciano at the age of nine; four years later, Pope Nicholas IV asked her to assist in the foundation of a new convent at Procena; at 15, she became head of the nuns there; the […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/602507a8-4ed4-4d52-8995-b158002b3e9d/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Friday of the Third Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Alphege of Canterbury, 954-1012; became abbot of the Bath monastery, and was then consecrated bishop of Winchester, and eventually elevated to the see of Canterbury; during a Danish invasion of Canterbury, Alphege offered himself, and was consigned to a dungeon; an epidemic frightened […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/fcffb4d8-78a1-47c8-ab38-b1570037afe6/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Thursday of the Third Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Appolonius the Apologist; Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by one of his slaves; the Praetorian Prefect, Sextus Tigidius Perennis, arrested him, also putting the slave to death as an informer; Perennis and Appolonius debated, and despite Appolonius’ eloquent defense, he was […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/1fb2e846-96fb-44c6-876c-b15501822201/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Stephen Harding; joined St. Robert of Molesme at the abbey in Burgundy; when Robert left because of corruption and laxity, Stephen went with him, along with St. Alberic; when 21 other monks left Molesme, a new monastery was founded at Citeaux, with Robert […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/1be2d553-1a5c-4251-b3e1-b154015eecf9/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Bernadette Soubirous, 1844-1879; first child of a poor miller in Lourdes, France; in 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette 18 times; on March 25, she told her, “I am the Immaculate Conception”; the Church confirmed the authenticity of the apparitions in […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/838a3d3a-9219-4807-aea1-b1530180ecb9/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Monday of the Third Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Hunna; she was known as “the holy washerwoman,” a noblewoman who devoted herself to the poor of Strasbourg, France; she was the daughter of a duke and wife of Huno of Hunnaweyer, she even washed the poor; patroness of laundresses, laundry workers, and […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/da0a7b91-3f80-4bbd-a7ff-b15300129ef6/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Third Sunday of Easter Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/14/24 Gospel: Luke 24:35-48 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/63dc2114-7f0f-483b-956d-b151000646f8/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/63dc2114-7f0f-483b-956d-b151000646f8/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Saturday of the Second Week of Easter Optional Memorial of Pope St. Martin I; became pope in 649, when there was a popular heretical teaching that Christ had no human will; Martin held a council in the Lateran in which the patriarch of Constantinople and two of his predecessors who held to this heresy were […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/b8291b27-01b7-4287-9e95-b150017940e2/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more