There are plenty of Saints whose feast days are celebrated this week...
I've updated a previous post with a few new links.
The Church honours St Sixtus II and Companions, martyred in Rome on 6 August AD 258. Sixtus had been Pope for just under a year.
This article charts the life and death of Sixtus and his companions and also remembers more recent martyrs.
August 8th
I've updated a previous post with a few new links.
The Church honours St Sixtus II and Companions, martyred in Rome on 6 August AD 258. Sixtus had been Pope for just under a year.
This article charts the life and death of Sixtus and his companions and also remembers more recent martyrs.
August 8th
Sister Mary MacKillop (1842-1909), Australia's first saint (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
She had formidable courage - We need more like her today.
More articles here
Short video of Mary Mackillop below
August 8th is also the Feast of St. Dominic
Boticelli's St Dominic Source |
Pope Francis words on this year's feast day - "This
great Saint reminds us that in the heart of the Church a missionary
fire must always burn. It must be a constant incentive to make the first
proclamation of the Gospel and, wherever necessary, a new
evangelization. Christ, in fact, is the most precious
good that the men and women of every time and every place have the
right to know and love! And it is comforting to see that in the Church
today too there are many pastors and lay faithful alike, members of
ancient religious orders and new ecclesial movements who spend their
lives joyfully for this supreme ideal, proclaiming and witnessing to the
Gospel! " (Pope Francis, 8/8/2013).
Fine reflection here
and a daily dose of Dominican audiopodcasts on the scriptures with reflections from different speakers from here.
and a daily dose of Dominican audiopodcasts on the scriptures with reflections from different speakers from here.
Catholic artistic tradition
assigns saints particular symbols that denote the Saint's martyrdom,
miracles, or circumstances of their lives. These symbols serve to identify the
saints, and aids to memory of a Saint's life and actions, and as symbols of
spiritual ideals.
August 9th
Fr Augustine Baker ( above), OSB (9 December 1575 – 9 August 1641), was a Benedictine mystic and and master of contemplative prayer. As a Catholic priest in 17th century England, Augustine Baker lived in constant danger. His persecutors followed him wherever he went to pray and profess religion. He was one of the earliest members of the newly restored English Benedictine Congregation.
You can read his treatises here
Fr Augustine Baker ( above), OSB (9 December 1575 – 9 August 1641), was a Benedictine mystic and and master of contemplative prayer. As a Catholic priest in 17th century England, Augustine Baker lived in constant danger. His persecutors followed him wherever he went to pray and profess religion. He was one of the earliest members of the newly restored English Benedictine Congregation.
You can read his treatises here
St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross better known ad Edith Stein, Virgin, Martyr
martyred on this day August 9th, in 1942 in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Good biography here.
martyred on this day August 9th, in 1942 in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Good biography here.
More from here "Sister Teresa Benedicta a Croce, "a blessed martyr ... an example of a heroic follower of Christ" (insightscoop.typepad.com)
Check out the facebook page here from the Carmelite sisters in Illinois who have celebrated the life of Edith Stein with some of beautiful meditation aids that highlight her thoughts and wisdom. (Put Edith Stein onto their search box on the FB page)
August 10th
St Lawrence (Deacon)(Martyr)
Image Source |
Good article on his life from here
There are several interesting reflections on St. Clare below
and here
and here
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