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PHILIP the Apostle Memorial3 May (Roman calendar) (formerly 1 May); 14 November (Greek calendar) ProfileDisciple of Saint John the Baptist. Apostle. Brought Saint Nathanael to Christ. Confidant of Jesus. Little is known about him, but scriptural episodes give the impression of a shy, naive, practical individual. Preached in Greece and Asia Minor. Martyr. Bornat Bethsaida, Palestine Diedmartyred c.80 at Hierapolis, Phrygia CanonizedPre-CongregationPatronagehatters, Luxembourg, pastry chefs, UruguayPrayersPrayer to...Representation elderly bearded man holding a basket of loaves and a cross which is often t-shaped elderly man casting a devil from the idol of Mars; elderly man crucified on a tall cross; elderly man...

PRAYER OF THE DAY: Almighty God, you chose your faithful servant Mattias to be numbered among the twelve. Grant that your Church, being delivered from false apostles, may always be taught and guided by faithful and true pastors; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. FIRST LESSON • Isaiah 66:1-2 Thus says the LORD: Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool what is the house that you would build for me; and what is my resting place? All these things my hand...

     Dzien Swietego Jozefa (St. Joseph's Day) Feast Day * Iconography of St. Joseph * Hymns to St. JosephSt. Joseph Prayer for a Happy Death * St. Joseph's Day ProverbThe Litany of St. Joseph * Blessing of the St. Joseph's TableThe Story of St. Joseph's Day in Polonia: A Polish-American HybridSt. Joseph Links Feast Day: March 19 / 19. MarcaIn Poland, it is customary to celebrate "Imienien" or Namesday, the feast day of one's patron saint. To allow the many Josephs to celebrate their namesday, the Church would grant a dispensation from the rigors of Lent on March 19. ...

Joseph the PatriarchFr. Joseph Lienhard, S.J. St Joseph represents the last of the Old Testament patriarchs. For seventeen hundred years, even since God said to Abraham, the first of the patriarchs, "Go forth from the hand of your kinsfolk and from your father's house" (Gn 12:1), God has been calling His people forward, calling them out of themselves into His way. St. Matthew traces Jesus' lineage from Abraham through David to Joseph - that is, from God's first call to faith, through His promise to make David's royal throne firm forever, to the man designated to be Mary's husband and...

ST. JOSEPH Charles L. Souvay Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The chief sources of information on the life of St. Joseph are the first chapters of our first and third Gospels; they are practically also the only reliable sources, for, whilst, on the holy patriarch's life, as on many other points connected with the Saviour's history which are left untouched by the canonical writings, the apocryphal literature is full of details, the non-admittance of these works into the Canon of the Sacred Books casts a strong suspicion upon their contents; and, even...

St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) bishop and doctor. Feast: January 24. Biographical sketch and quote taken from: Hoagland, Victor and George Angelini. The Book of Saints: The Lives of the Saints According to the Liturgical Calendar. 1986. The Regina Press, New York. St. Francis de Sales was born on August 21, 1567, at the Château de Sales in the kingdom of Savoy near Geneva, Switzerland. He came from a noble family and even as a child he desired to serve God completely. Though frail and delicate, he had a quick, intelligent mind and a gentle, kind disposition. His family...

St. Elizabeth of Portugal (1271-1336), married woman, queenDaughter of Peter II of Aragon and of Constance, granddaughter of Frederick II, she was given the name of her great aunt, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Her birth began the work of peacemaker which distinguishes her, for it reconciled her father and grandfather. At the age of twelve she was married to King Denis of Portugal, though one is glad to know that she was almost nineteen before she gave birth to the elder of her two children. As a queen she led a life of prayer, austerity and charitable works. Every...