27 May 2020

27 May 2020

WEDNESDAY WITHIN THE SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER SAINT AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, BISHOP FEAST St Augustine of Canterbury (+c.604) was a monk at St Andrew’s on the Celian Hill in Rome. He was sent by Pope St Gregory the Great to…

26 May 2020

26 May 2020

TUESDAY WITHIN THE SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER SAINT PHILIP NERI, PRIEST MEMORIAL St Philip Neri (1515-1595) was born in Florence but spent most of his life in Rome and is known as the city’s ‘apostle’. He had a mystical experience…

25 May 2020

25 May 2020

MONDAY WITHIN THE SEVENTH WEEK OF EASTER SAINT BEDE THE VENERABLE, PRIEST AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH MEMORIAL St Bede the Venerable (673-735) is currently the only English-born Doctor of the Church. He was a monk at Jarrow and wrote…

23/24 May 2020

23/24 May 2020

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER In his farewell discourses to the disciples, Jesus stressed the importance of his “return to the Father”, the culmination of his whole mission: indeed, he came into the world to bring man back to God, not…