16 July 2020

16 July 2020

THURSDAY WITHIN THE FIFTEENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL MEMORIAL This feast honours the Blessed Virgin as patroness of the Carmelite Order. It later came to be associated with a supposed vision of St Simon Stock,…

15 July 2020

15 July 2020

WEDNESDAY WITHIN THE FIFTEENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME SAINT BONAVENTURE, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH MEMORIAL St Bonaventure (1221-1274) was born at Bagnorea (Bagnoregio), near Viterbo (Italy) and entered the Franciscan Order. A friend of St Thomas Aquinas, he…

11 July 2020

11 July 2020

SATURDAY WITHIN THE FOURTEENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME SAINT BENEDICT, ABBOT, CO-PATRON OF EUROPE FEAST St. Benedict (c.480-c.547) was born in Norcia (Italy) and was educated in Rome. Turning his back on the worldliness he encountered there, he retired to…