Saint of the Day: St. Edwin of Northumbria, 586-633; pagan king who converted through the efforts of his wife’s chaplain; spent the remaining six years of his reign as a devout Catholic monarch who brought peace to his kingdom; slain in battle and was venerated as a martyr
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/12/21
Optional Memorial of Pope St. John XXIII, 1881-1963; born of a farming family in northern Italy; named a cardinal and patriarch of Venice in 1953; a month short of entering his 78th year, he was elected pope; called the Second Vatican Council, and criticized the “prophets of doom”; on his deathbed, he said, “It is not that the gospel has changed; it is that we have begun to understand it better.”
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/11/21
Optional Memorial of St. Denis and companions; Denis is regarded as the first bishop of Paris; sent to Gaul from Rome in the Third Century; beheaded in the persecution under Emperor Valerius in 258 A.D.
Saint of the Day: St. Keyne; lived in the Fifth Century, daughter of King Brychan of Brecknock, Wales; became a hermitess in Somersetshire, England, traveled widely, and founded numerous churches
Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, 1811-1849; born in Quebec; invited by her bishop to found the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, a congregation of women dedicated to Christian education; she remained unswerving in her concern for the poor
Optional Memorial of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, 1819-1867; born in Bavaria, he came to the United States in 1843; worked under St. John Neumann in Pittsburg; served in parish ministry in Maryland, and trained Redemptorist students; appealed to President Lincoln not to draft his students for military service during the Civil War, though some were; preached throughout the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states, and was then assigned to New Orleans, where he died of yellow fever, contracted while visiting the sick
Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226; a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally, actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyrfully, without limit, and without a sense of self-importance; received the stigmata two years before his death, at age 44
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