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About Today - July 13 - Saint Henry Optional Memorial
July 13 Saint Henry Optional Memorial St. Henry II lived from 972-1024. He was King of Germany and Italy and crowned Holy Roman Emperor, the last in the Ottonian (Saxon) dynasty. His education was steeped in ecclesiastical matters, giving him a compassionate heart for the Church and the common people. He felt a heavy responsibility for the good of the Church, which led him to involve himself in Church appointments in a way that later 11th century reformers would reject. He and his wife Kunegunda were very generous to the poor and to monasteries. He founded a cathedral and monastery in Bamberg. St. Henry was canonized in 1146/1152, the only German king to be venerated to sainthood. [1] Written by Sarah Ciotti Reviewed by Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB, STD [1] Catholicpedia: The Original Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. s.v. "St. Henry II." Note: Optional Memorials and Commemorations are optional celebrations and, at present, we do not include content specific to these special days. This "About Today" is provided so that you can celebrate this Saint as you worship Christ.
- 3 weeks ago1 min
About Today - July 9: Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs. Optional Memorial.
July 9 Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs Optional Memorial Today we honor Saint Augustine Zhao Rong and his 119 companions, martyrs of China. In the year 2000, John Paul II canonized these holy men and women who gave their life between 1648 and 1930. Historically, these persecutions began with the invasion of the Fujian region by the Manchu Tartars of Mongolia, continued through the Taiping Rebellion; a civil war accounting for 20-30 million deaths, and culminated in the Boxer Rebellion; the uprising rejecting Western imperialism at the beginning of the 20th century. The Christians martyred throughout this period include 87 native Chinese and 33 foreign missionaries. Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, the first martyred Chinese priest, had earlier witnessed the persecution of Monsignor Dufresse and became ordained because of it. In these martyrs, we are shown a fervent faith in a people who, "with just pride preserved their Chinese identity and culture." [1][2][3] Written by Sarah Ciotti [1] Agostino Zhao Rong and 119 Companions, Martyrs in China, Vatican News Services, 2000. [2] John Paul II, Homily, October 1, 2000. [3] "120 Martyrs of China," Catholic News Agency, 2012. Note: Optional Memorials and Commemorations are optional celebrations and, at present, we do not include content specific to these special days. This "About Today" is provided so that you can celebrate these Saints as you worship Christ.
- 3 weeks ago6 min
Gathered Together From the Ends of the Earth
The Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Optional Memorials of St Maria Goretti and St Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions - The Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot · Liturgical Colours: White/Green/Red This week the Hours return constantly to a single image: the Church as one body, gathered from scattered pieces into a single loaf. Saint Clement opens and closes the week pleading against the schism dividing the Corinthians. The Didache prays it directly on Wednesday — bread scattered on the mountains, gathered and made one. Saint Paul's letter to the Ephesians, on Friday, names the barrier itself: "the barrier of hostility that kept us apart." Saint Ambrose asks us to throw open the gate of the heart. And on Saturday, Saint Benedict's Rule gives the practical form this gathering takes: a community bound together by putting Christ before everything. The thread is unity — not the absence of difference, but the deliberate, costly work of staying gathered, staying open, staying one. Gathered Together Saint Clement of Rome, writing to a Corinthian church that had split into factions, opens the week's Office of Readings on Monday with the question underneath everything that follows: "Why do we tear apart and divide the body of Christ? Why do we revolt against our own body?" — Second Reading, Office of Readings, Monday This week the Church celebrates optionally, Saint Maria Goretti on Monday, and Saint Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions on Thursday. These saints share a foundational bond, a togetherness: they wore the crown of martyrdom, they chose death over renouncing their Christian faith and virtues. By Tuesday, this week's theme turns outward. Saint Augustine insists that even those separated from the Church remain brothers — "whether they like it or not." And Tuesday's Morning Prayer gives the same conviction its most luminous expression of the week, worth carrying beyond this one day: "You are not in the dark, brothers, that the day should catch you off guard, like a thief. No, all of you are children of light and of the day. We belong neither to darkness nor to night." — Morning Prayer, Tuesday, Reading:1 Thessalonians 5:4–5 Children of light and of the day — the phrase names something no schism can take away. Division may separate believers from one another in practice, but it cannot revoke what they were made to be. Among the earliest Christian writings outside the New Testament is a short manual called the Didache — "The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles." Wednesday's Office of Readings gives us its instruction for the Eucharist, and one line of the prayer over the bread has stayed in the Church's memory for two thousand years: "As this broken bread scattered on the mountains was gathered and became one, so too, may your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into your kingdom." — Second Reading, Office of Readings, Wednesday Grain scattered across many hillsides, gathered into a single loaf — the image becomes theological precisely because it starts so ordinary. Later in the day, Evening Prayer sings of Christ in nearly identical terms, but reaching further still — not only the Church gathered, but the whole created order: "Through him all things were made; he holds all creation together in himself." (Ant. 3). What the Didache says of bread, the Colossians canticle ant. says of the universe. Nothing holds together except in Him. Thursday, the light shines on everyone, Saint Ambrose insists — but it cannot enter a door that stays shut. That evening, the reading at Evening Prayer names what such an
- Jun 28, 202618 min
Office of Readings - August 29, 2026 - ord memorial
The Office of Readings for Saturday, August 29, 2026. Liturgical season: Ordinary Time. Rank: memorial.
- Jun 28, 202617 min
Office of Readings - August 28, 2026 - ord memorial
The Office of Readings for Friday, August 28, 2026. Liturgical season: Ordinary Time. Rank: memorial.
- Jun 28, 202617 min
Morning Prayer - August 28, 2026 - ord memorial
The Morning Prayer for Friday, August 28, 2026. Liturgical season: Ordinary Time. Rank: memorial.
- Jun 28, 202616 min
Evening Prayer II - August 28, 2026 - ord memorial
The Evening Prayer II for Friday, August 28, 2026. Liturgical season: Ordinary Time. Rank: memorial.
- Jun 28, 202616 min
Office of Readings - August 27, 2026 - ord memorial
The Office of Readings for Thursday, August 27, 2026. Liturgical season: Ordinary Time. Rank: memorial.
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