Thursday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Francis Borgia, 1510-1572; gave up a career in the Spanish imperial court to join the Jesuits; helped to establish the Gregorian University in Rome; founded a dozen colleges; responsible for the founding of Jesuit missions in many parts of the world Office […]

Wednesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Saint Denis and companions; Denis was sent to Gaul (modern day France) by Pope St. Clement about 250 A.D.; the base of Denis’s missionary activity was the city of Lutetia Parisorium (modern day Paris), and he is thus regarded as the first bishop of […]

Tuesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Keyne; Fifth Century holy woman and hermitess who said to have traveled widely through what is now South Wales and Cornwall Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/8/19 Gospel: Luke 10:38-42

Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary; established by St. Pius V in 1573, in thanks for the victory of Christians over the Turks at Lepanto Monday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/7/19 Gospel: Luke 10:25-37

27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/6/19 Gospel: Luke 17:5-10

Saturday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time Saints of the Day: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, 1819-1867; worked among German and English speaking Catholics in the United States; and St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, 1905-1938; received revelations from Jesus about Divine Mercy Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/5/19 Gospel: Luke 10:17-24

Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; took the gospel literally, by following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit, and without a sense of self-importance Friday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/4/19 Gospel: Luke 10:13-16

Thursday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Theodora Guerin, 1798-1856; foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/3/19 Gospel: Luke 10:1-12

Memorial of the Guardian Angels Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/2/19 Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10

Memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux, 1873-1897; one of the most popular saints, known for her autobiography, “Story of a Soul”; proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1997 Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/1/19 Gospel: Luke 9:51-56