Saint of the day and Feast days - Part 2

[James - a humble servant]

Thank you so much Odhiambo !!!

[Poche]

St Mary Magdalene;

The feast of St. Mary Magdalene is considered one of the most mystical of feasts, and it is said that of all the songs of the saints, that of Mary Magdalene is the sweetest and strongest because her love was so great. That love was praised by Jesus Himself who said that because much was forgiven her, she loved much. Where she is buried, no one knows. Legend has her dying in Provence, France, in a cavern where she spent her last days, and her body resting in the chapel of St. Maximin in the Maritime Alps. Another has her buried in Ephesus where she went with St. John after the Resurrection. This latter view is more likely, and St. Willibald, the English pilgrim to the Holy Land in the eighth century, was shown her tomb there.

She was the first witness to the resurrection of Jesus, His most ardent and loving follower. She had stood with Mary at the foot of the Cross on that brutal Good Friday afternoon and had been by the side of Mary during these difficult hours. On Easter morning, she went with the other women to the tomb and it was there, in the garden near the tomb, that Jesus appeared to her. It was she who brought the news of the Resurrection to the Apostles, and Peter and John raced to the tomb to see what had happened.

She was from Magadala, a small fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, between Capernaum and Tiberias. She was known to be a "great sinner," a woman of the streets who heard Jesus speak of the mercy and forgiveness of God and changed her life completely. Her matter-of-fact witness to the Resurrection moved Peter and John to go and see for themselves: "I have seen the Lord and these things he said to me." Jesus had chosen her to bring the news to them and she simply told them what had happened.

She has always been the example of great love and great forgiveness, one of those close to Jesus who grasped the truth of God's love for human beings and spent her life bearing witness to that love.

[Poche]

St Pantaleon;
St. Pantaleon, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, was a physician, who practiced without payment, and who was martyred under Diocletian. His cultus is primarily connected with Bithynia, where Emperor Justinian rebuilt his church at Nicomedia. Churches are dedicated to him in Constantinople and Rome. In the East he is known as the Great Martyr and Wonder Worker. A reputed relic of Pantaleon's blood kept at Ravello in southern Italy displays the phenomenon of liquefaction on his feast day, similar to that of Saint Januarius.

[odhiambo]

St Pantaleon;
St. Pantaleon, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, was a physician, who practiced without payment, and who was martyred under Diocletian. His cultus is primarily connected with Bithynia, where Emperor Justinian rebuilt his church at Nicomedia. Churches are dedicated to him in Constantinople and Rome. In the East he is known as the Great Martyr and Wonder Worker. A reputed relic of Pantaleon's blood kept at Ravello in southern Italy displays the phenomenon of liquefaction on his feast day, similar to that of Saint Januarius.

I read that his name, "Panteleimon" in Greek means "the All Merciful".
Saint Pantaleon, pray for us!

[Shin]

Well that makes his name more meaningful. I had no idea what it meant.

[Poche]

St Pantaleon;
St. Pantaleon, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, was a physician, who practiced without payment, and who was martyred under Diocletian. His cultus is primarily connected with Bithynia, where Emperor Justinian rebuilt his church at Nicomedia. Churches are dedicated to him in Constantinople and Rome. In the East he is known as the Great Martyr and Wonder Worker. A reputed relic of Pantaleon's blood kept at Ravello in southern Italy displays the phenomenon of liquefaction on his feast day, similar to that of Saint Januarius.

There is astory I heard about St Pantaleon. Before his conversion when the priest, Hermalaos explained Christianity to Pantaleon. Pantaleon wanted to try out what he had heard. So one day when a blind man came to his home begging for alms, Pantaleon raised his hand and said, "In the name of Jesus, be healed." the man was able to see from then on and Pantaleon was converted.
     

[odhiambo]

Today is the Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori,  bishop and doctor of the Church; Founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, i.e, the Redemtorists and patron saint of moral theologians.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori,
pray for us!

 

[odhiambo]

"Realize that you may gain more in a quarter of an hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament than in all other practices of the day."
Saint Alphonsus  Liguori

[odhiambo]

Today is the Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori,  bishop and doctor of the Church; Founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, i.e, the Redemtorists and patron saint of moral theologians.
Saint Alphonsus Liguori,
pray for us!

Moral theology?

[Shin]

Yes he wrote a book on that subject, but it hasn't been translated into English, I looked hard on that.

Today's St. Peter in Chains on the traditional calendar, and the 2nd is St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori's there.

I love this saint! I think he may've been the first I ever read, I picked up his books from Our Lady of the Rosary Library.

He is a saint who quotes many saints!

[Poche]

Yes he wrote a book on that subject, but it hasn't been translated into English, I looked hard on that.

Today's St. Peter in Chains on the traditional calendar, and the 2nd is St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori's there.

I love this saint! I think he may've been the first I ever read, I picked up his books from Our Lady of the Rosary Library.

He is a saint who quotes many saints!

Actually I haave seen his an English version of his book. I think it had a very limited circulation. 

[Shin]

What was the title?

[Poche]

What was the title?

I don't recall the title. It was more than thirty years ago.

[Poche]

The saint of todady is St John Vianney.

[Shin]

'Listen. Did the Holy Fathers of the Church say too much about it? St. Ephraim tells us that dancing is the perdition of girls and women, the blinding of men, the grief of angels, and the joy of the devils. Dear God, can anyone really have their eyes bewitched to such an extent that they will still want to believe that there is no harm in it, while all the time it is the rope by which the Devil pulls the most souls into Hell? . . . Go on, poor parents, blind and lost, go on and scorn what your pastor is telling you! Go on! Continue the way you are going! Listen to everything and profit nothing by it! There is no harm in it? Tell me, then, what did you renounce on the day of your Baptism? Or on what conditions was Baptism given to you? Was it not on the condition of your taking a vow in the face of Heaven and earth, in the presence of Jesus Christ upon the altar, that you would renounce Satan and all his works and pomps, for the whole of your lives–or in other words that you would renounce sin and the pleasures and vanities of the world?'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney

[odhiambo]

7th August
 On August 6, 258 while Pope Sixtus was celebrating the Eucharist in the Catacombs of Saint Callistus, the Roman soldiers, under the orders of Emperor Valarian, seized him along with four others  deacons and decapitated them.