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Catholic Saints & Feasts

Fr. Michael Black

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"Catholic Saints & Feasts" offers a dramatic reflection on each saint and feast day of the General Calendar of the Catholic Church. The reflections are taken from the four volume book series: "Saints & Feasts of the Catholic Calendar," written by Fr. Michael Black. These reflections profile the theological bone breakers, the verbal flame throwers, the ocean crossers, the heart-melters, and the sweet-chanting virgin-martyrs who populate the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church.
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September 27: Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest 1581–1660 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of all charitable societies, hospitals, and leprosy victims A powerhouse priest organizes multitudes for charity and renews priestly formation Today’s saint was one of the brightest stars in the galaxy of saintly men and women whose light rejuvenate…
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September 26: Saints Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs c. Late third–early fourth century Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saints of doctors, barbers, and pharmacists Holy twins are honored for their healing, their poverty, and their deaths The ancient walls of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem enclose the sacred ground where th…
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September 23: Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio), Priest 1887–1968 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of civil defense volunteers and adolescents A humble friar’s love for Christ burns holes in his hands Long-married spouses often develop similar patterns of speech. A boy might learn to walk just like his father, and a girl might favo…
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September 21: Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist First Century Feast; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of bankers, accountants, and money changers A lover of money becomes greedy for God People leave their jobs for all sorts of reasons: more pay, better opportunity, a shorter commute. Today’s saint left his job for a better boss. Matthew was a…
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September 20: Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs Nineteenth century Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saints of Korea Their martyrdom for a new faith caused the Christian sun to rise in Korea Catholicism was not originally brought to the isolated Korean Peninsula by celibate missionaries who trekked ove…
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September 19: Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr c. 300 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of Naples An early bishop martyr is honored due to an enduring miracle of blood In every lost corner and hidden valley of the Catholic world is a painting of the Virgin Mary that cries watery tears, a crucifix whose growing hair must be cut…
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September 17: Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin and Doctor 1098-1179 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patroness of philologists A one-woman magisterium orchestrates a life in tune with the Creator In the high Middle-Ages, she was New-Age. Before farm-to-table was a term, she lived organically. Before alternative medicine was de rigueur, s…
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September 17: Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor 1542–1621 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of catechists and catechumens A learned scholar with a warm personality drives the Counter-Reformation forward A massive, multi-volume work of Christian theology was published in the 1580s refuting Protestant errors. The volume…
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September 16: Saint Cornelius, Pope, Martyr c. Late Second, or Early Third, Century–253 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of cattle, domestic animals, and earache sufferers A Pope reigns for two years, excommunicates a schismatic, and dies in exile The twenty-first pope of the Church, Saint Cornelius, succeeded no one. After the death of…
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September 16: Saint Cyprian, Bishop, Martyr c.200–258 Memorial; Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of Algeria and North Africa The faithful soak up the blood of their beheaded bishop The elegantly named Thaschus Caecilius Cyprianus was born in an uncertain year in that buzzing beehive of early Christianity known as Roman North Africa. His biography…
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September 15: Our Lady of Sorrows Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patroness of Slovakia A mother is only as happy as her saddest child Every life climbs its Calvary. Every soul has its quiet sorrow which cannot be shared in full with any other soul. This concealed pain is the very real drama that plays out behind the curtain of the duties and dis…
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September 14: Exaltation of the Holy Cross Feast; Liturgical Color: Red Patronal Feast of Cortona, Italy A torture device is transformed into a universal symbol of hope and peace If the Romans had hung criminals from a gibbet, then Catholic churches would display a noose in their sanctuaries instead of a cross. Or a statue of Jesus’ lifeless body w…
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September 13: Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor c. 347–407 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of preachers and speakers A great preacher, writer, and intellectual suffers for the faith In the tug and pull of the theological disputes of the fourth and fifth centuries, today’s saint was a seminal figure. Along with other luminaries…
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September 12: The Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Every name begins a relationship A name doesn’t imply that you know everything about someone, but it does make a person “invocable.” To know that there is a “someone” standing before you is not to know too much. When that “someone” has a name, however,…
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September 9: Saint Peter Claver, Priest (U.S.A.) 1580–1654 Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of slaves, Colombia, seafarers, and missionaries to Africa A builder of the Spanish Bridge, he personified respect for human rights It is commonly taught that human rights were born in the Anglo-Saxon Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighte…
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September 8: Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary Late First Century B.C. Feast; Liturgical Color: White Patroness of silversmiths, potters, and chefs The last and greatest figure of the B.C. era causes its end The birthdates of great men and women are remembered for posterity. The presidents of the United States are commemorated near the February birt…
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September 5: Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Religious 1910–1997 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White (Mother Teresa is not on the Church’s universal calendar but is included here due to her renown) Patron Saint of the Archdiocese of Calcutta, India She equals in generosity the great ‘Teresas’ she emulated Anjezë (Agnes) Gonxha Bojaxhiu was a tiny …
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