Domingo, Julio 04-2021 conoce a ... Santa Berta Viuda y abadesa

Despues de 20 años de matromonio y al quedar viuda, en el año 680 pudo abrazar por fin su vocación monástica, para lo que construyó dos casas de oración. Pero, cuenta su leyenda, se le apareció un ángel para indicarle que el lugar en el que debía fundar era el monasterio de Blangy

Sunday, July 04-2021 Get to know ... Blessed Peter of Luxemburg Bishop and Cardinal

St. Peter died at a Carthusian convent in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in Avignon due to his self imposed penance. He wanted to his burial in a common grave like that of the poor.  Soon, however, miracles reported emanating from his tomb. This made his brother Jean order the construction of a church dedicated to the sainted Pope Celestine V. This is where his remains were transferred to.

Sunday, July 4-2021 Get to know ..Saint Bertha Widow, Abbess

Saint Bertha was the daughter of Count Rigobert, the Mayor of the Palace under King Clovis II prior to Ebroin. Her mother Ursana, was the daughter of the King of Kent.

At the age of twenty, Bertha married Siegfried or Sigfrid, a relation of the king. When her husband Siegfried died in 672, after nearly twenty years of marriage and five daughters, Bertha was determined to become a Religious. In the year 682 or 685 Bertha had founded a convent at Blangy, Artois (now Blangy-Sur-Ternoise). She retreated there with her two eldest daughters, Deotila and Gertrude. Later, her daughter Deotila succeeded her as Abbess, when Bertha retired to live the life of a recluse, solely devoted to prayer.[2] St Bertha died at an advanced age of natural causes on July 4, 725. Her feast day is celebrated on July 4.

Sunday, July 04-2021  - Evening Prayer Week 14 Ordinary Time

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14  We feel that we must be continually thanking God for you, brothers whom the Lord loves because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctifying Spirit and by faith in the truth. Through the Good News that we brought he called you to this so that you should share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sunday, July 04-2021 - Morning Prayer Week 14 Ordinary Time

Ezekiel 36:25-27  I shall pour clean water over you and you will be cleansed; I shall cleanse you of all your defilement and all your idols. I shall give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and give you a heart of flesh instead. I shall put my spirit in you, and make you keep my laws and sincerely respect my observances.

Sábado, Julio 03-2021 Conoce a ... San Tomás, Apóstol y Mártir

Tomás le llamó a Cristo "Señor mío y Dios mío", como nadie lo había hecho antes. Jesús, finalmente, hace una promesa que es para toda la humanidad, hasta el fin de los tiempos: "Bienaventurados los que, aunque no hayan visto, creen".

Se entiende que Tomás no era muy culto, pero ciertamente lo compensó con el inmenso amor que sentía por Jesús. Según la tradición, le tocó a él evangelizar Siria y luego la ciudad de Edesa, desde donde se trasladó para fundar la primera comunidad cristiana de Babilonia, en Mesopotamia, donde permaneció durante siete años, cuando se embarcó para la India y desde Muziris, donde ya existe una próspera comunidad judía que en poco tiempo se hizo cristiana, viajó por todo el país hasta llegar a China, impulsado siempre y sólo por amor al Evangelio. De vuelta en la India, tuvo una muerte de mártir, atravesado por una lanza en la actual Chennai, el 3 de julio del año 72.

Sábado, Julio 03-2021 Conoce a ...San León II Papa

Sábado, Julio 03-2021 Visperas -Liturgia de las Horas-Oración Nocturna - Semana 13 Tiempo Ordinario

El poder del amor de Dios es inmenso. Debemos confiar en que el poder de su amor de Dios se desborda sobre nosotros cada día.

Su poder u gracia es más fuerte que cualquier cosa que atravesemos. Nada podrá impedir las bendiciones que Dios quiere darnos al soportar la pruebas con fe y valentía.

Nada podrá robarnos la calma mientras descansamos en los brazos amorosos de nuestro Padre Creador.

Saturday, July 03-2021 - Evening Prayer Week 13 Ordinary Time

Colossians 1:2-6  Grace and peace to you from God our Father. We have never failed to remember you in our prayers and to give thanks for you to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, ever since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you show towards all the saints because of the hope which is stored up for you in heaven. It is only recently that you heard of this when it was announced in the message of the truth. The Good News which has reached you is spreading and bearing fruit all over the world.

Saturday, July 03-2021  Get to know... Saint Leo II Pope

In the brief time that he was in the office of the pontiff, Leo II managed to carry out a few policies. The most important of these was his receiving, approving, and publishing of the acts that came out of the Sixth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in the year 680 A.D. Pope Leo II ordered the translation of portions of the acts into Latin from the original Greek so that the clergy would be able to understand them throughout the Western European churches.