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August 5, 2006 Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Saturday 32 Reading 1Jer 26:11-16, 24 The priests and prophets said to the princes and to all the people,“This man deserves death;he has prophesied against this city,as you have heard with your own ears.”Jeremiah gave this answer to the princes and all the people:“It was the LORD who sent me to prophesy against this house and cityall that you have heard.Now, therefore, reform your ways and your deeds;listen to the voice of the LORD your God,so that the LORD will repent of the evil with which he threatens...

August 5, 2005Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Friday 34 Reading IDt 4:32-40 Moses said to the people:"Ask now of the days of old, before your time,ever since God created man upon the earth;ask from one end of the sky to the other:Did anything so great ever happen before?Was it ever heard of? Did a people ever hear the voice of Godspeaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live?Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himselffrom the midst of another nation,by testings, by signs and wonders, by war,with his...

August 5, 2004 Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time Psalm: Thursday 34 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IJer 31:31-34 The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers: the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they broke my covenant, and I had to show myself their master, says the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will...

Miracle of the Snow to Be Commemorated at St. Mary Major "Liberian" Basilica Will Be Inundated with Flowers on Tuesday VATICAN CITY, AUGUST 1, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The patriarchal basilica of St. Mary Major will be "inundated" with white petals on Tuesday, August 5, solemn feast of St. Mary of the Snows. The celebration recalls the dedication of the basilica and the famous "miracle of snow," which occurred on August 5, 358 A.D. when snow fell on this little Roman hill of the Esquiline, one of Rome's famous seven hills. It was taken as an extraordinary sign -- August is a...