St. Peregrine Novena Day Three
Monday, June 3, 2019
Drawing on personal pain and loss, Fr. Allan, OP, reflects on the problem of evil and loss.
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St. Peregrine Novena Day Two
Sunday, June 2, 2019
For the second day of the St. Peregrine Novena, Fr. Allan, OP, ties in the Ascension to our love and hope for all our loved ones.
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St. Peregrine Novena Day One
Saturday, June 1, 2019
For the first day of the St. Peregrine Novena, Fr. Allan White, OP, reminds us that the very name “Peregrine” means “pilgrim,” and that all of us, are, whether sick or “whole,” pilgrims indeed.
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Translation of the Relics of St. Dominic
Friday, May 24, 2019
We are shaped by our culture, and our culture is one that inherited a certain Protestant suspicion of relics, especially their veneration and use in worship. On top of that, as time went on, death itself became a more antiseptic affair. Bodies were embalmed or otherwise treated to avoid decomposition. Personally dealing with the body […]
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St. Joseph the Worker
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
One of the more common prayer intentions we get at the Shrine is for those looking for employment. So for them on this day of St. Joseph the Worker, patron of laborers and those searching for employment alike, let us ask his help especially for all those who are unemployed or underemployed, that they might […]
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Mother’s and Father’s Day Newsletter
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Fr. Vincent, OP, speaks on the vocation of being a mother and father.
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Major Rogation Day
Thursday, April 25, 2019
As we continue our Easter Novena, we recall that today, April 25th, is the traditional “Litania Maior”, “The Greater Litany” or Major Rogation Day, which was a traditional day for asking for God’s blessings on His people and their lands. “An Old English Martyrology” describes it thus: “On the twenty-fifth day of the month there […]
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The Meaning of Christ’s Life, Passion, and Death
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Christ chose to have parents who were poor but perfect in virtue, lest anyone should glory in his noble lineage and the riches of his parents. He lived a life of poverty to teach others to spurn riches. He lived an ordinary life having no high position to recall others from an inordinate greed for […]
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Laetare – Rejoice!
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Today is “Laetare Sunday,” which takes its name from the Entrance Antiphon, “Rejoice” (“Laetare”) “Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all who love her. Be joyful, all who were in mourning;” Cf. Is 66: 10-11 Because of that uptick in joy in Lent, the liturgical color is lightened to Rose from Violet. The history of the liturgical color […]
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