Daily Readings for August 2026

Daily Readings for August 31, 2026

St. Raymond Nonnatus (August 31) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office 8.31.26 | Monday Morning Prayer

– Divine Office 8.31.26 | Monday Evening Prayer | Vespers

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– Receiving the Word with Faith – Monday, August 31, 2026

Faustinus of Rome (2nd half of the 4th century) -Priest

Treatise on the Trinity
“God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power” (Acts 10:38)

Our Savior became Christ, or Messiah, in his incarnation and he remains true king and true priest… Among the Israelites, priests and kings received anointing with oil…; they were called “anointed ones” or “christs”. Whereas our Savior, who really is the Christ, was consecrated by the anointing of the Holy Spirit…

We know this to be true from the Savior himself. When he took the book of Isaiah, he opened it and read there: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me,” then he declared that this prophecy had now been fulfilled for those who heard it. Peter as well, the prince of the apostles, has taught us that this holy oil, this chrism, through which the Lord revealed himself as Christ, is the Holy Spirit, otherwise known as the power of God. In the Acts of the Apostles, when he spoke to the centurion, that man full of faith and compassion, he said: “This began in Galilee after the baptism that John preached. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Spirit and power. Wherever he went he accomplished miracles and wonders and delivered all those who had fallen into the power of the devil,” (10:37f).

So you see, Peter said the same thing: This Jesus, in his incarnation, received the anointing that “consecrated him with the Holy Spirit and power.” This is why Jesus himself, in his incarnation, has been made Christ, he whom the anointing of the Holy Spirit has made king and priest for ever.

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Sirach 31,8-11.
Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things in his life. Who hath been tried thereby, and made perfect, he shall have glory everlasting. He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: Therefore are his goods established in the Lord, and all the church of the saints shall declare his alms.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 12,35-40.
Jesus said to his disciples: Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.
And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-395) monk and Bishop

Sermons on the Song of Songs, no.11, 1 ; PG 44, 996
“Gird your loins and light your lamps”

It is so that our spirit may be detached from its fantasies that the Word invites us to shake off this heavy sleep from the eyes of our souls, so that we may not slide away from the true reality by clinging to what lacks substance. That is why he sets before us an image of vigilance when he says: “Let your loins be girt and your lamps lit”… The meaning of these symbols is clear enough. Someone who is girded with temperance lives in the light of a pure conscience because filial trust enlightens his life like a lamp. Lit up by the truth, that person’s soul is detached from the sleep of illusion because no empty dreams are leading it astray. As the Word says: if we do this we shall enter into a life like that of the angels…

Indeed, these are they who wait for the Lord at his return from the wedding and who are seated by the heavenly gates with watchful eyes so that the King of Glory (Ps 24[23],7) might once more pass through when he returns from the marriage feast and enters again into the beatitude above the heavens. “Coming forth like the groom from his bridal chamber” (Ps 19[18],6)…, he united to himself like a virgin the nature we had prostituted to idols, once he had restored its virginal integrity through sacramental regeneration. The nuptials having now been accomplished, since the Church has been espoused by the Word… and brought into the chamber of his mysteries, the angels awaited the return of the King of Glory to the blessedness that matches his nature.

Hence the text says that our lives ought to be like those of the angels. Just as they live far from vice and self-deception, ready to welcome the second coming of the Lord, so we too ought to remain awake at the doors of our dwellings and stand ready to obey when he comes and knocks at the door.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 31, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

St. Raymond Nonnatus (31 August): Mercedarian Priest & Redeemer of Captives | Freedom from Sin

Daily Readings for August 30, 2026

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office 8.30.26 | Sunday Morning Prayer

– Divine Office 8.30.26 | Sunday Evening Prayer | Vespers II

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– Losing Life to Gain It – Sunday, August 30, 2026

– Unpacking The Mass – Keith Nester – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A

Saint Caesarius of Arles (470-543) – monk and Bishop

Sermon 159 ; CCL 104, 650 (©Friends of Henry Ashworth)
“Let him follow me”

Human sin made the road rough but Christ’s resurrection leveled it; by passing over it himself he transformed the narrowest of tracks into a royal highway. Two feet are needed to run along this highway; they are humility and charity. Everyone wants to get to the top – well, the first step to take is humility. Why take strides that are too big for you – do you want to fall instead of going up? Begin with the first step, humility, and you will already be climbing.

As well as telling us to renounce ourselves, our Lord and Savior said that we must take up our cross and follow him. What does it mean to take up one’s cross? Bearing every annoyance patiently. That is following Christ. When someone begins to follow his way of life and his commandments, that person will meet resistance on every side. He or she will be opposed, mocked, even persecuted, and this not only by unbelievers but also by people who to all appearances belong to the body of Christ…

If you want to follow Christ, then, take up his cross without delay. Endure injuries, do not be overcome by them… “If anyone wants to be my disciple, let him take up his cross and follow me.” We must strive with God’s help to do as the Apostle Paul says: “As long as we have food and clothing, let this content us”. Otherwise, if we seek more material goods than we need and desire to become rich, we may “fall prey to temptation.” The devil may trick us into wanting the “many useless and harmful things that plunge people into ruin and destruction” (1Tim 6,8-9). May we be free from this temptation through the protection of our Lord.

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Readings & Reflection

Epistle to the Galatians 5,16-24.
I, Paul, say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh: For these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.
And they that are Christ’s have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 6,24-33.
And opening his mouth, Jesus taught his disciples, saying: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Saint John Chrysostom (c.345-407) – priest at Antioch then Bishop of Constantinople, Doctor of the Church

Baptismal catechesis, no.8, 19-25 ; SC 50 (trans. ©Friends of Henry Ashworth alt.)
“Is not life more than food”

If spiritual things hold first place in our lives, material needs will cause us no concern, for God in his goodness will give them to us in abundance. On the other hand, if we devote ourselves entirely to earthly pursuits and neglect our spiritual life, concern for what this life has to offer will lead us to neglect our souls… I urge you, therefore, let us not overturn the established order. We know that our Master is good, so let us commit everything to him and not be taken up with the cares of this life… “Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things even before you ask him” (Mt 6,32.8).

Jesus wishes us, then, to be free from every anxiety regarding temporal affairs, and to have all possible leisure for the things of the Spirit. He says: “Your part is to seek spiritual blessings, and I myself will provide amply for your material needs. Look at the birds in the sky. They neither sow nor reap nor gather crops into barns, and yet your Father feeds them.” In other words, “If I take such care of irrational birds as to supply them with all they need without plowing or sowing, I will take much greater care of you who are endowed with reason, if only you make up your minds to put spiritual things before temporal ones. If I made these creatures for your sake, as well as the whole of creation, and if I take such care of them, of what great care will I not deem you worthy – you for whom I created all of this?”
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Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Padre Peregrino – From Gal 5 and Mt 6.

TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 30, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

Saint Rose of Lima: The 1st Saint of the Americas: One Thing Is Necessary, To Love God & Do His Will

Daily Readings for August 29, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office 8.29.26 | Saturday Morning Prayer

– Divine Office 8.29.26 | Saturday Evening Prayer | Vespers I

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– Faithful to the Truth – Saturday, August 29, 2026

Lanspergius the Carthusian (1489-1539) – monk, theologian

Sermon for the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, Opera omnia, vol.2, p.514f.

“Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness” (Mt 5,10)

The death of Christ stands at the head of an innumerable crowd of believers. Through this same Lord Jesus’ power, and thanks to his goodness, the precious deaths of his martyrs and saints have given birth to a great multitude of christians. Indeed, never has the christian religion been wiped out by the persecution of tyrants or the indefensible murder of the innocent. Rather, it has drawn greater increase from them each time.

We have an example of this in Saint John, who baptised Christ and whose holy martyrdom we celebrate today. That faithless king, Herod, true to his oath, wanted to wipe out completely the memory of John from men’s minds. Yet not only was John not destroyed but men in their thousands, inflamed by his example, have welcomed death with joy for the sake of justice and truth… What Christian is there worthy of the name who does not venerate John today, he who baptised the Lord? All over the world Christians honor his memory, all generations proclaim him blessed and his virtues suffuse the Church with their perfume. John did not live for himself alone and he has not died for himself alone either.

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Jeremiah 1,17-19.
Thou gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. Be not afraid at their presence: for I will make thee not to fear their countenance. For behold I have made thee this day a fortified city, and a pillar of iron, and a wall of brass, over all the land, to the kings of Juda, to the princes thereof, and to the priests, and to the people of the land. And they shall fight against them, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 6,17-29.
For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her. For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife. Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death and could not. For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly. And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his birthday, for the princes, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee. And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the king said to the damsel: Ask of me what thou wilt, and I will give it thee. And he swore to her: Whatsoever thou shalt ask I will give thee, though it be the half of my kingdom. Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But her mother said: The head of John the Baptist. And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith thou give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist. And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her: But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish. And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother. Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.

Saint Maximus of Turin (?-c.420) – Bishop

Sermon 36
« And you, child, will be called prophet of the Most High » (Lk 1,76)

Among all the holy and blessed ones, I do not know which to prefer of all the claims to glory of John the Baptist, whose feast we celebrate today : his miraculous birth or his even more miraculous death. His birth carried a prophecy with it (Lk 1:67 f.), his death, the truth; his birth announced the Savior’s coming, his death condemned Herod’s incestuous relationship. This holy saint… was worthy in God’s eyes of not departing from it in the same way as others do in this world: he left the body he had received from the Lord while he was confessing him. In all things John fulfilled God’s will since his life, like his death, corresponded to God’s designs…

Even while still in his mother’s womb he celebrated the Lord’s coming with joyful movements since he was unable to do so by word. Elizabeth said to blessed Mary: “When the voice of your greeting reached my ears, the child in my womb leaped for joy” (Lk 1:44). John, then, rejoiced before his birth, and even before his eyes could see what the world looks like, his spirit already recognised who is its Lord. I think that this is the meaning of the prophet’s words: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before were born I had consecrated you” (Jer 1:5). So let us not be astonished if, locked up in the prison where Herod had put him, he went on preaching Christ by means of his disciples’ mediation (Mt 11:2) for, enclosed as he was in his mother’s womb, he already proclaimed the Lord’s coming with his bounds.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 29, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

The Beheading of St. John the Baptist | A Feast of Truth & Courage (29 August)

Daily Readings for August 28, 2026

– St. Augustine (August 28) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office 8.28.26 | Friday Morning Prayer

– Divine Office 8.28.26 | Friday Evening Prayer

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– Ready to Meet the Lord – Friday, August 28, 2026

Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604) – Pope, Doctor of the Church

Homilies on the Gospels, 12[10] ; PL 76, 1119-1120 (copyright Cistercian Publications, Inc., 1990)
“Our lamps are going out”

“The five foolish ones took no oil with them, but the wise ones took oil in their flasks with their lamps.” The brightness of glory is signified by the oil, and the small containers are our hearts, in which we carry all that we think. The wise virgins have oil in their flasks, because they keep the brightness of glory within their consciences. So Paul testified when he said: “Our glory is this, the witness of our conscience” (2Cor 1,12). But the five foolish virgins take no oil with them, because when they seek glory from the mouths of their neighbors they do not have it within their consciences…

“At midnight a cry arose: ‘See, the bridegroom is coming; go forth to meet him’”… Then all the virgins arise… The lamps of the foolish virgins go out, because their works, which appeared outwardly evident to people at the judge’s coming, are hidden within; and they find no recompense from God, because they have received from men the praises which they loved.

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Readings & Reflection

Second Epistle to Timothy 4,1-8.
Dearly beloved, I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by His coming, and his kingdom : Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober. For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand. I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 5,13-19.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled. He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Saint Maximus of Turin (?-c.420) – Bishop

Sermon 53, on Ps 117[118] ; PL 57, 361
“He was the true light who enlightens everyone, coming into the world” (Jn 1:9)

This “day which the Lord has made” (117[118]:24) penetrates all things, contains all things and simultaneously embraces heaven, earth and the underworld! The light which is Christ is neither hindered by walls nor broken by the elements nor darkened by shadow. Yes, I say, the light of Christ is a day without night, a day without end, shining everywhere, extending everywhere, remaining everywhere. Christ is day, says the apostle Paul: “The night is advanced, the day is near” (Rm 13:12). The night is advanced, he says, it precedes the day. Understand by this that, as soon as the light of Christ appears, the darkness of the devil is dispersed and the night of sin does not follow, eternal splendor casts out the shadows of yesterday and halts the insinuating advance of evil.

Scripture attests that the day of Christ illumines heaven, earth and hell. It shines on the earth: “He was the true light” says saint John, “who enlightens everyone, coming into the world” (Jn 1:9). It gives light in the underworld: “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;” says the prophet, “upon those who lived in a land of gloom a light has shone” (Is 9:1). And in heaven this day remains, as David said: “His dynasty will continue forever, his throne like the sun before me” (Ps 89:37).
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 28, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

“Our Hearts Are Restless” – St. Augustine’s Journey to God – Sensus Fidelium

Today we celebrate St. Augustine of Hippo (354–430), one of the greatest Church Fathers, theologians, and philosophers in Catholic history. Once a brilliant but restless seeker, Augustine pursued worldly pleasures and false teachings before his dramatic conversion to Christianity, inspired by St. Ambrose and Scripture (“Take and read” – Romans 13). Baptized in 387 A.D., Augustine went on to become Bishop of Hippo and left behind some of the most important writings in Church history, including Confessions and The City of God. His teachings on original sin, grace, free will, and the pursuit of truth continue to shape Christian thought to this day. 🙏 Famous quotes from St. Augustine: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in You, O Lord.” “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” “Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new.” May we follow his example of humility, honesty, and conversion, always seeking truth in Christ.

Daily Readings for August 27, 2026

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Faithful Until He Comes – Thursday, August 27, 2026

Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) – Dominican tertiary, Doctor of the Church, co-patron of Europe

Letter 67 to Andrew Cavalcabo – Blessed the servant who keeps watch!

Dearest Brother in Christ, the gentle Jesus—I, Catherine, servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ, write to you in His precious blood, desiring to see you a just lord in the exercise of the power entrusted to you. (…)

One must be just, and justly guard the city of one’s soul by living in the true and holy fear of God; one must love virtue and detest vice. In this way, we shall taste the blood of the crucified Jesus; true and holy justice will shine within you, and you will be a just and good master to your soul and to your neighbor—but not otherwise. That is why I told you I desired to see you a just master: so that, living justly, you might uphold right and justice in the office you hold.

My dearest Brother, sleep no longer; shake off your slumber with zeal. Let us return to ourselves and not wait upon time, for time does not wait; time moves faster than we imagine. I would have us step out of our current state and break the bonds that tie us; for he who is bound cannot move forward, and we must advance along the path of virtue by following the teaching of the crucified Jesus—who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Whoever follows Him does not walk in darkness but in the light. We must, therefore, walk in this gentle and straight path.

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Wisdom 10,10-14.
Thy wisdom conducted the just, when he fled from his brother’s wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours.
In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable. She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all. She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit.
And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 18,1-5.
At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus, calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them. And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven. And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

Saint John Cassian (around 360-435) – founder of monasteries
Conferences no.15,7 (©Ancient Christian Writers; SC 54, p. 216 rev.)

“The one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.”

              “Come,” said Christ to his apostles, “and learn from me” - not, to be sure, how to cast out demons with heavenly power, nor how to cleanse lepers, nor how to enlighten the blind, nor how to raise the dead... But you, he says, “Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart” (Mt 11:28-29). For this can be learned and practiced by everyone in general, whereas the works of signs and mighty deeds are neither always necessary and appropriate for everyone, nor are they bestowed on everyone. 

Humility, then, is the teacher of all the virtues; it is the most firm foundation of the heavenly edifice; it is the Savior's own magnificent gift. For a person may perform without danger of pride all the miracles that Christ worked if he strains after the meek Lord not because of his exalted signs but because of his patience and humility. But a person who itches to command unclean spirits, to bestow the gift of health on the sick, or to show some wondrous sign to the people is far from Christ even though he invokes the name of Christ in his displays, because by reason of his proud mind he does not follow the Teacher of humility.

Even when he was returning to his Father he prepared what I might call his testament, and he left this to his disciples: “A new commandment I give you,” he said, “that you love one another; as I have loved you, you must also love one another.” And immediately he added: “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Jn 13:34-35). He did not say: If you also perform signs and mighty deeds, but: “If you have love for one another.” Certainly no one can observe this but the gentle and the humble.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 27, 2026

Daily Readings for August 26, 2026

– Pope St. Zephyrinus (August 26) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office Lauds 8.26.26 | Wednesday Morning Prayer

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– A Faith That Is Genuine – Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Saint Bernard (1091-1153) – Cistercian monk and doctor of the Church
2nd sermon for the 1st. day of Lent, 5 ; PL 183, 172-174

“A clean heart create for me, O God” (Ps 50,12)

“Rend your hearts and not your garments,” the prophet says (Jl 2,14). Who is there among you whose will is particularly subject to obstinacy? Let him rend his heart with the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Eph 6,17). Let him rend it and reduce it to dust for we can only be converted to the Lord if we have a contrite heart (Ps 51[50],19)… Listen to someone whom God has found according to his heart: “My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready” (Ps 57[56],8). It is ready for adversity, ready for prosperity; it is ready for humble things, ready for those that are lifted high, ready for whatever you command… “My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready.” Who, like David, is ready to go out and come back and walk according to the King’s will? (2Sm 5,2).

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Readings & Reflection

Epistle to the Galatians 3,16-22.
My brethren, to Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ. Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise. Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one. Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 17,11-19.
And it came to pass, as Jesus was going to Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off. And lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean. And one of them, when he saw that he was made clean, went back, with a loud voice glorifying God. And he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks. And this was a Samaritan.
And Jesus answering, said: Were not ten made clean? And where are the nine? There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this stranger. And he said to him: Arise, go thy way; for thy faith hath made thee whole.

Saint Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) hermit and missionary in the Sahara
Meditations on the gospels, p.25

Father, Glorify your name!

S. John xii, 27. Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour. Father, glorify now thy Son.

This is another form of the prayer of Gethsemane, a simple cry to God of our human nature, human nature in great suffering and great need, but which then pulls itself together and cries: ‘ My God, what matters this or any other thing I may suffer.’ All I care for is your glory.

I ask only this and nothing else. Forget my first request. I made it to you as my Father, because in duty I should shew you my pressing need. But having shewn you my
need, in all simplicity I only say over and over again how infinitely greater is my need, my desire, for your glory and honour. This is my true and only desire, and I pray you with all my soul to satisfy this desire. My Father, glorify yourself in me. My Father, glorify your Holy Name.

My Lord Jesus, let me, a miserable creature, join with you in making this prayer. My God, my voice unites with the adorable voice of my Lord Jesus in saying ‘Not my will but thine be done.’ My only desire is for your glory; this is what 1 thirst for. My Father, do with me as you please, whatever it may be. My Father, may your name be glorified.
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Daily Readings for August 25, 2026

St. Louis IX (August 25) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office Lauds 8.25.26 | Tuesday Morning Prayer

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– A Heart Pleasing to God – Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Catechism of the Catholic Church
§ 1455-1458
“Cleanse first the inside of the cup”

The confession (or disclosure) of sins, even from a simply human point of view, frees us and facilitates our reconciliation with others. Through such an admission we look squarely at the sins we are guilty of, take responsibility for them, and thereby open ourselves again to God and to the communion of the Church in order to make a new future possible. Confession to a priest is an essential part of the sacrament of Penance…: when Christ’s faithful strive to confess all the sins that they can remember, they undoubtedly place all of them before the divine mercy for pardon… [But] if the sick person is too ashamed to show his wound to the doctor, the medicine cannot heal what it does not know” (Council of Trent; St Jerome).

According to the Church’s command, “after having attained the age of discretion, each of the faithful is bound by an obligation faithfully to confess serious sins at least once a year”… Without being strictly necessary, confession of everyday faults (venial sins) is nevertheless strongly recommended by the Church. Indeed the regular confession of our venial sins helps us form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit. By receiving more frequently through this sacrament the gift of the Father’s mercy, we are spurred to be merciful as he is merciful (Lk 6,36)…

“When you begin to abhor what you have done, it is then that your good works are beginning, since you are accusing yourself of your evil works. The beginning of good works is the confession of evil works. You ‘do the truth’ and ‘come to the light’.” (St Augustine; Jn 12,13).

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Wisdom 10,10-14.
Thy wisdom conducted the just, when he fled from his brother’s wrath, through the right ways, and shewed him the kingdom of God, and gave him the knowledge of the holy things, made him honourable in his labours, and accomplished his labours. In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable. She kept him safe from his enemies, and she defended him from seducers, and gave him a strong conflict, that he might overcome, and know that wisdom is mightier than all. She forsook not the just when he was sold, but delivered him from sinners: she went down with him into the pit. And in bands she left him not, till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom, and power against those that oppressed him: and shewed them to be liars that had accused him, and gave him everlasting glory.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 19,12-26.
Jesus said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said to them: Trade till I come. But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.
And it came to pass that he returned, having received the kingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading, And the first came saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities. And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds. And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities. And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin.
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow. He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow. And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?
And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds. And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten pounds. But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

Origen (c.185-253) – priest and theologian
Homilies on the Book of Numbers, no. 12, §3

The gift of God, the freedom of man

What have we to offer God? Faith and love. That is where we find what God asks of us, as it is written: “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul” (Dt 10:12). These are the offerings and these the gifts we should make to the Lord. And if we are to offer him these gifts with all our heart, then first of all we must get to know him. We must have drunk of the knowledge of his goodness from the deep waters of his well…

People who deny that salvation lay within the power of the our freedom should be ashamed on hearing these words! Would God ask something from us if we weren’t capable of responding to God’s demand and giving him what he owed? For there is God’s gift but also our contribution. For example, it was well within that man’s power that one gold coin should make ten or five more; but that the man should possess that gold coin with which to produce ten more in the first place belonged to God. Once he had given God the ten gold coins he had made, the man received a new sort of gift: not money this time, but the power and sovereignty over ten cities.

In the same way, God asked Abraham to make an offering of his son, Isaac, on the mountain he would show him. And Abraham, without hesitation, offered his only son: he laid him on the altar and drew out his knife to slay him. But at once a voice restrained him and a ram was given him to be sacrificed in his son’s place (Gn 22). So you see: what we offer God depends on us; but this offering is asked of us so that, in making our gift, we might witness to our love for God and faith in him.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 25, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

The Catholic King Who Put God Above All – St. Louis IX | August 25

Daily Readings for August 24, 2026

– St. Bartholomew (August 24) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office Monday Vespers 8.24.26 | Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle

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– Come and See – Monday, August 24, 2026

Benedict XVI

pope from 2005 to 2013
General Audience, 4 November 2006 – Copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana
“Come and see”: the apostle Bartholomew-Nathanael meets the Son of God

The apostle Bartholomew has traditionally been identified with Nathanael: a name that means “God has given”. This Nathanael came from Cana (cf. Jn 21: 2) and he may therefore have witnessed the great “sign” that Jesus worked in that place (cf. Jn 2: 1-11). It is likely that the identification of the two figures stems from the fact that Nathanael is placed in the scene of his calling, recounted in John’s Gospel, next to Philip, in other words, the place that Bartholomew occupies in the lists of the Apostles mentioned in the other Gospels.

Philip told this Nathanael that he had found “him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph” (Jn 1: 45). As we know, Nathanael’s retort was rather strongly prejudiced: “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” (Jn 1: 46). In its own way, this form of protestation is important for us. Indeed, it makes us see that according to Judaic expectations the Messiah could not come from such an obscure village as, precisely, Nazareth (see also Jn 7: 42). But at the same time Nathanael’s protest highlights God’s freedom, which baffles our expectations by causing him to be found in the very place where we least expect him. Moreover, we actually know that Jesus was not exclusively “from Nazareth” but was born in Bethlehem (cf. Mt 2: 1; Lk 2: 4) and came ultimately from Heaven, from the Father who is in Heaven.

Nathanael’s reaction suggests another thought to us: in our relationship with Jesus we must not be satisfied with words alone. In his answer, Philip offers Nathanael a meaningful invitation: “Come and see!” (Jn 1: 46). Our knowledge of Jesus needs above all a first-hand experience: someone else’s testimony is of course important, for normally the whole of our Christian life begins with the proclamation handed down to us by one or more witnesses, but afterwards we ourselves have to become personally committed in a deep and intimate relationship with Jesus.

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Readings & Reflection

First Epistle to the Corinthians 12,27-31.
My brethren, now you are the body of Christ and members of member. And God indeed hath set some in the church; first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly doctors: after that miracles: then the graces of healings, helps, governments, kinds of tongues, interpretations of speeches. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all doctors? Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a more excellent way.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 6,12-19.
And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God. And when day was come, he called unto him his disciples: and he chose twelve of them (whom also he named apostles):
Simon, whom he surnamed Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon who is called Zelotes, And Jude the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, who was the traitor. And coming down with them, he stood in a plain place: and the company of his disciples and a very great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the sea coast, both of Tyre and Sidon, Who were come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And they that were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. And all the multitude sought to touch him: for virtue went out from him and healed all.

Saint Augustine (354-430) – Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church Discourse on the Psalms, Ps. 86

Saints Philip and James, apostles, foundations of the holy city (Rv 21:19)

“Her foundations are upon the holy hills; the Lord loves the gates of Zion.” (Ps 86 87:1-2)… “You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone” (Ep 2:19-20)… Christ, the cornerstone, and the apostles and mighty prophets, the hills that bear the fabric of the city, constitute a sort of living structure. This living building now makes its voice resound in your hearts. God himself, a master builder, is working in you through my tongue so that you may be built up into its structure, like so many squared stones….

Note the shape of a stone that has been perfectly squared off: Christians should have similar qualities. In all their trials they never fall; though pushed and, after a fashion, knocked over, they do not fall; for whatever way a square stone is turned, it still stands erect… Be similar to those squared stones, and be thus prepared for every shock; whatever the force which may push you, it cannot make you lose balance…

You will rise to take your place in this building by a sincere Christian life, by faith, hope and love. The holy city is constructed of its own citizens; they are themselves the blocks that form this city, for these stones are living: “You also,” says Scripture, “like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house,” (1 P 2:5)… Why are the apostles and prophets the foundations? Because their authority is the support of our weakness… Through them we enter the kingdom of God: they proclaim it to us; and while we enter by their means, we enter also through Christ, who is himself its gate (Jn 10:9).
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 24, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
The Apostle Who Wouldn’t Believe Without Evidence | St. Bartholomew

Daily Readings for August 23, 2026

– Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year\r\n4 hours ago

Liturgy of the Hours

– August 23 – Sunday Morning Prayer | Divine Office | Lauds

– Divine Office Vespers II 8.23.26 | Sunday Evening Prayer

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– Built Upon the Rock – Sunday, August 23, 2026

– 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) – Dominican tertiary, Doctor of the Church, co-patron of Europe

Letter 86 to Nicholas of Osimo
Build the ediface of our soul

My very dear and beloved Father in Christ Jesus—I, Catherine, servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ—write to you in His precious blood, desiring to see you become a firm stone, founded upon the gentle Jesus, the unshakable Rock. (…)

O dearest Father, is there anything better or sweeter than building the edifice of our soul? Yes, it is a truly sweet thing to have found the stone, the architect, and the workman needed for this edifice. Oh, what a good architect is the Eternal Father, in whom infinite wisdom, knowledge, and goodness reside! Our God is He who “Is”; all things that possess being derive it from Him; He is a Master who does all that is beneficial and desires only our sanctification. Everything He gives or permits is for our good—to purify us of our sins or to increase grace and perfection within us. He is, therefore, a gentle Master, for He knows well how to build and gives us exactly what we need. (…) We had lost grace through sin, but He came to unite Himself with our nature and be grafted onto it; He gave Himself entirely to us, for His power resides in His Son. He made Him an artisan, too, by bestowing His own power upon Him; He made Him the Stone—as Saint Paul says: “Our rock is Christ” (1 Cor 10:4). He made Him the servant and workman of the edifice, for charity—that ineffable love with which He gave His life and blood—prepared the mortar, and now we shall lack nothing.

Let us therefore rejoice and exult with gladness, for we have a good architect, an excellent stone, and a workman who has cemented us together with His blood; And his work is so strong that neither the devil, nor created beings, nor hail, nor storm, nor wind will ever be able to overthrow this edifice, unless we consent to it.

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Readings & Reflection

Epistle to the Galatians 3,16-22.
My brethren, to Abraham were the promises made and to his seed. He saith not: And to his seeds as of many. But as of one: And to thy seed, which is Christ. Now this I say: that the testament which was confirmed by God, the law which was made after four hundred and thirty years doth not disannul, to make the promise of no effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Why then was the law? It was set because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not of one: but God is one. Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise, by the faith of Jesus Christ, might be given to them that believe.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 17,11-19.
And it came to pass, as Jesus was going to Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered into a certain town, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off. And lifted up their voice, saying: Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. Whom when he saw, he said: Go, shew yourselves to the priests. And it came to pass, as they went, they were made clean. And one of them, when he saw that he was made clean, went back, with a loud voice glorifying God. And he fell on his face before his feet, giving thanks. And this was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering, said: Were not ten made clean? And where are the nine? There is no one found to return and give glory to God, but this stranger. And he said to him: Arise, go thy way; for thy faith hath made thee whole.

Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) – Dominican tertiary, Doctor of the Church, co-patron of Europe

Letter to my Lords Bannerets, volume 1, number 46
Be grateful!

Very dear brothers and Lords in Christ, I Catherine, the slave of the servants of Jesus Christ, I write to you in his precious blood, with the desire to see you grateful for all the benefits that You have received from God, so that they can increase and nourish in you the source of divine love in your souls. Gratitude is very pleasant to God, and is very useful to us; But ingratitude displeases God a lot and does us great harm: Ingratitude dries up the springs of piety, and we invite God to no longer increase His graces and to deprive us of those he gave us. It is therefore necessary to apply oneself with great zeal to see the benefits of God, because by seeing them we will be grateful and by gratitude we will return glory and praise to his name.

And how will we show our gratitude and ingratitude? I’m going to tell you: we will show our ingratitude by offending the goodness of God and our neighbor, offering them in a thousand ways and by a thousand injustices, by not giving them what we are forced to return to them, that is,, by not loving God over all things, and the neighbor as ourselves. (…) Quite the opposite happens for the faithful man, grateful to his Creator; he does him justice by giving him what is due, that is the praise and the honor that God asks; He does it by loving Him above all things, and loving his neighbor as himself. He contemplates the humility of God to lower his pride (…); He widens his heart in charity, and he purifies himself of all defilement in the purity of Christ, in the abundance of his precious blood. (…)

So I want my very dear brothers, that you are grateful for the graces that you have received from our creator, so that they may increase.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 23, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

– St. Philip Beniti (23 August): Butler’s Lives of the Saints

Daily Readings for August 22, 2026

The Octave of the Assumption (August 22) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office Lauds 8.22.26 | Saturday Morning Prayer

Divine Office 8.22.26 | Saturday Evening Prayer

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– The Humility That Exalts – Saturday, August 22, 2026

Saint Pio of Pietralcina “Padre Pio” (1887-1968) – Capuchin
T. 54

“Whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.”

Do not cease to do acts of humility and love towards God and human beings. For God speaks to the person who keeps his heart humble before him, and God enriches him with his gifts.

If God has the sufferings of his Son in store for you and wants to let you touch with your finger your own weakness, it is better to make an act of humility than to lose courage. Let a prayer of surrender and hope rise up to God when your fragility causes you to fall, and thank the Lord for all the graces with which he enriches you.

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Sirach 24,17-21.
I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.

Holy Gospel according to Saint John 19,25-27.
Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.

Saint Amadeus of Lausanne (1108-1159) – Cistercian monk, then Bishop
Marian Homily, V, 72

Close to the cross of Christ stood His mother

There are two martyrdom species: one manifest, the other secret; One visible, the other hidden; One in the flesh, the other in the heart. (…) The martyrdom of the heart goes beyond the torments of the flesh.

So the glorious virgin triumphed in this kind of suffering, all the more glorious as it was closer when, attached to the adorable cross of the Lord’s passion, she drew from the chalice, she drinks of His passion , watered in the torrent of pain, she could endure a pain forever unparalleled. She runs following Jesus not only with the smell of her perfumes, but in the abundance of her pain; Not only in the joy of consolations, but also in the overflow of suffering. Mother, she saw her son, the real Solomon, with the tiara of which she had crowned him and, herself crowned with a crown of affliction, she was following Him.

She was standing with the cross (Jn 19,25) to consider (…) the very soft head of her son, anoint of oil with her companions, struck with a reed and crowned with thorns. She saw the most beautiful of the children of men who no longer had neither radiance or beauty. She saw despised and restored to the last rank He who is exalted above all peoples. She saw the saint of saints crucified with the scoundrels and the impious. She saw the eyes of this sublime man lowering himself, and the head of the one who supports the universe to lean, tilted on his shoulders, the very serene face of God wither, and vanish the beauty of his face.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 22, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (22 August): To Jesus Through Mary

Daily Readings for August 21, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

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– Love That Gives Life – Friday, August 21, 2026

Saint Augustine (354-430) – Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church

Sermon 34.1-3, 5-6; CCL 41, 424-426 (Vatican site)
Love God through God

There is not one who does not love something, but the question is, what to love. The psalms do not tell us not to love, but to choose the object of our love. But how can we choose unless we are first chosen? We cannot love unless someone has loved us first.

Listen to the apostle John: We love him, because he first loved us. The source of man’s love for God can only be found in the fact that God loved him first. He has given us himself as the object of our love, and he has also given us its source. What this source is you may learn more clearly from the apostle Paul who tells us: The love of God has been poured into our hearts. This love is not something we generate ourselves; it comes to us through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Since we have such an assurance, then, let us love God with the love he has given us.

As john tells us more fully. God is love, and whoever dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. It is not enough to say: Love is from God. Which of us would dare to pronounce the words of Scripture: God is love? He alone could say it who knew what it was to have God dwelling within him. God offers us a short route to the possession of himself. He cries out: Love me and you will have me for you would be unable to love me if you did not possess me already.

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Proverbs 31,10-31.
Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her. The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils. She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life. She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands. She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar. And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens. She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.
She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm. She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night. She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.
She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her hands to the poor. She shall not fear for her house in the cold of snow: for all her domestics are clothed with double garments.
She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering. Her husband is honourable in the gates, when he sitteth among the senators of the land. She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite.
Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day. She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue. She hath looked well on the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle. Her children rose up, and called her blessed: her husband, and he praised her.
Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands: and let her works praise her in the gates.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 13,44-52.
Jesus said in parables: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant seeking good pearls. Who when he had found one pearl of great price, went his way, and sold all that he had, and bought it. Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. Which, when it was filled, they drew out, and sitting by the shore, they chose out the good into vessels, but the bad they cast forth. So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Have ye understood all these things? They say to him: Yes. He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

Saint Augustine (354-430) – Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church

Discourse on Psalm 95 (96):14-15
“They hauled it ashore and sat down to put what was worthwhile into containers”

“He shall rule the world with justice and the peoples with his truth.” (Ps 96:13) Which justice and which truth? He will gather to him his chosen ones (Mk 13:27); the others he will separate, for he will place the former at his right and the latter at his left (Mt 25:33). What will be more just, more true than that? Those who did not want to practice mercy before the judge came, will not expect mercy from the judge. Those who wanted to practice mercy, will be judged with mercy (Lk 6:37). For he will say to those whom he has placed at his right: “Come. You have my Father’s blessing! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.” And he will attribute acts of mercy to them: “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink” and all that follows (Mt 25:31ff.) (…)

Because you are unjust, will the Judge not be just? Because you sometimes lie, will Truth not be truthful? If you want to meet a merciful judge, be merciful before he comes. Forgive if someone has offended you; give away the possessions of which you have an abundance. (…) Give what you have received from him: “Name something you have that you have not received.” (1 Cor 4:7) These are the sacrifices that are very pleasing to God: mercy, humility, gratitude, peace, charity. If that is what we bring in sacrifice, we will await with assurance the coming of the judge, of him who “shall rule the world with justice and the peoples with his truth.”
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 21, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Jane Frances Fremiot de Chantal, Widow (21 August) ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

Daily Readings for August 20, 2026

St. Bernard of Clairvaux (August 20) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office Lauds 8.20.26 | Thursday Morning Prayer

– Divine Office Vespers 8.20.26 | Thursday Evening Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours

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– A Heart Made New – Thursday, August 20, 2026

Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-395) – monk and Bishop

Homilies on the Song of Songs, Homily 9, Page 287 Translation by Richard A. Norris Jr.

The wedding garment

‘The fragrance of your garments is as the fragrance of frankincense.” (Song of Songs 4:11) This indicates what the goal of the life of virtue is for human beings. For the limit that the virtuous life approaches is likeness to the Divine, and for the sake of this goal both the soul’s purity and its separation from any passionate disposition are in virtuous persons carefully realized, so that a certain impress of the transcendent Nature comes to them also, on account of the nobler quality of their life.

Now the virtuous manner of life is not uniform or marked by a single style, but just as in the making of a fabric the weaver’s art creates the garment by using many threads, some of which are stretched vertically and others are carried horizontally, so too, in the case of the virtuous life, many things must twine together if a noble life is to be woven. Just so the divine apostle enumerates threads of this sort, threads by means of which | pure works are woven together; he mentions love and joy and peace, patience and kindness (cf. Gal 5:22) and all the sorts of thing that adorn the person who is putting on the garment of heavenly incorruptibility in place of a corruptible and earthly life (1 Cor 15:53).

Thus the meaning of the enigma is this: “In your case, O Bride, the garment of virtues imitates the divine blessedness because it has been made like the unapproachable Nature by its purity and impassibility.

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Book of Sirach 39,5-10.
He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men. He will give his heart to resort early to the Lord that made him, and he will pray in the sight of the most High. He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for his sins.
For if it shall please the great Lord, he will fill him with the spirit of understanding: And he will pour forth the words of his wisdom as showers, and in his prayer he will confess to the Lord. And he shall direct his counsel, and his knowledge, and in his secrets shall he meditate.

Epiphanius of Benevento (5th-6th centuries) Bishop
Commentary on the Four Gospels, PLS 3, 852 (trans. Friends of Henry Ashworth)

“In order that the Scripture might be fulfilled” (Jn 19,28)

“I have come not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it”… Indeed, at that time, by his own power and in his own person, the Lord fulfilled all the mysteries the law foretold concerning himself. All prophecies were fulfilled by his passion. When, as holy David predicted, a sponge full of vinegar was offered him on the cross, he accepted it and said: “It is fulfilled”; and bowing his head, he gave up his spirit (Jn 19,30).

Now as well as carrying out himself all that had been prophesied, he also gave us commandments to carry out. Of old the easier commandments laid down by the law (Ac 15,10) were not observed, but we, by grace and the power of the cross, are expected to observe more difficult ones.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 20, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Bernard of Clairvaux (20 August): The Crisis of Masculinity in the Church

Daily Readings for August 19, 2026

– Fifth Day within the Octave of the Assumption (August 19) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Wednesday Morning Lauds | August 19, 2026

– Divine Office | Wednesday Evening Vespers | August 19, 2026

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– Today’s Catholic Mass Readings — Wednesday, August 19, 2026 | Gospel Reflection

Anonymous 9th century author in present-day Italy
Homily for Septuagesima, 4-7

“You too go along to my vineyard”

My beloved, persevere in the good works you have begun… Unfortunate people serve an earthly king, thus putting their life in danger and facing enormous difficulties for a benefit that passes and disappears very quickly. Why would you not serve the king of heaven so as to obtain the happiness of the Kingdom? Since by faith the Lord has already called you to his vineyard, that is to the unity of the holy Church, live, behave in such a way that, thanks to God’s generosity, you might receive the coin, that is to say, the happiness of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Let no one despair because of the greatness of his sins and say: “The sins in which I persevered until old age and even extreme old age are many; now I will no longer be able to obtain forgiveness, above all since it is the sins that have left me, not I who have rejected them.” May that person absolutely not despair of divine mercy, for some are called to God’s vineyard at the first hour, others at the third, others at the sixth, others at the ninth, others at the eleventh. That is to say that some are led to God’s service when they are children, others when they are adolescents, others in their youth, others in old age, others in extreme old age.

Thus let no one despair, regardless of how old he is, if he wants to turn back to God… Work faithfully in the Church’s vineyard to receive the salary of eternal happiness and to reign with Christ forever and ever.

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Saint Columbanus (563-615) – monk, founder of monasteries
Spiritual Instructions, no. 12, 2 (trans. Breviary, Week 28 Tuesday)
“You are the light of the world” (Mt 5,14)

How blessed, how happy are those servants, “whom the lord when he comes shall find watching!” (Lk 12,37) Blessed watch, in which they watch for God the Creator of the universe, who fills all things and surpasses all!

Would that me also, wretched though I be, yet his poor servant, he might deign so to arouse from the sleep of idleness, so to kindle with that fire of divine love, that the flame of his love, the longing of his so great charity, would mount above the stars, and the divine fire would ever burn within me!

Would that I were of such deserving, that my lamp might ever burn by night in the temple of my Lord, that to all entering the house of my God it might give light (cf. Mt 5,15). Lord, grant me, I pray you in the name of Jesus Christ your Son, my God, that love which knows no fall, so that my lamp may feel the kindling touch and know no quenching, may burn for me and for others may give light.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 19, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. John Eudes (19 August): it’s All Connected

Daily Readings for August 18, 2026

Fourth Day within the Octave of the Assumption (August 18) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Tuesday Morning Lauds | August 18, 2026

– Divine Office | Tuesday Evening Prayer | August 18, 2026

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– Today’s Catholic Mass Readings — Tuesday, August 18, 2026 | Gospel Reflection

Saint Peter Damian (1007-1072) – hermit then Bishop, Doctor of the Church

Sermon 9, PL 144, 549-553
To give up everything and follow Christ

It is a great thing, in truth, to “give up everything”, but greater “to follow Christ”, for, as we learn in books, many people gave up everything but did not follow Christ. Following Christ is our task, our work, in that consists the main part of man’s salvation, but we cannot follow Christ if we do not leave behind everything which hinders us. Because “like an athlete he joyfully runs his course” (Ps 19:6) and no one can follow him laden down with a burden.

Peter said, “We have given up everything”, not only worldly goods, but also the desires of our heart. For those who remain attached, even just to their own life, have not given up everything. Moreover, it’s no good leaving everything behind except one’s self, for there is no burden heavier than our ego. What tyrant is crueler, what master more pitiless for man than his own will? … Consequently, we must give up our possessions and our own will, if we want to follow him who had “nowhere to rest his head” (Lk 9:58) and who came “not to do his own will but the will of the one who sent him” (Jn 6:38).

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Second Epistle to the Corinthians 3,4-9.
Brethren, such confidence we have, through Christ, towards God.
Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter but in the spirit. For the letter killeth: but the spirit quickeneth. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather in glory? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 10,23-37.
Turning to his disciples, Jesus said: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him and saying, Master, what must I do to possess eternal life?
But he said to him: What is written in the law? How readest thou?
He answering, said: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said to him: Thou hast answered right. This do: and thou shalt live.
But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers, who also stripped him and having wounded him went away, leaving him half dead. And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way: and seeing him, passed by. In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by.
But a certain Samaritan, being on his journey, came near him: and seeing him, was moved with compassion: And going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine: and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two pence and gave to the host and said: Take care of him; and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay thee. Which of these three, in thy opinion, was neighbour to him that fell among the robbers? But he said: He that shewed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do thou in like manner.

Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622) – Bishop of Geneva and Doctor of the Church

Treatise on the Love of God, 10:11
The love of God produces love of our neighbor

As God created man to his own image and likeness (Gn 1:26), so did he appoint for man a love after the image and resemblance of the love which is due to his own divinity. He said: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart; this is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Why do we love God? “The cause for which we love God,” says S. Bernard, “is God Himself;” as though he had said: we love God because he is the most sovereign and infinite goodness. And why do we love ourselves in charity? Surely because we are the image and likeness of God; and whereas all men are endowed with the same dignity, we love them also as ourselves, that is, as being holy and living images of the divinity.

For it is on that account… that he makes no difficulty about calling himself our father and us his children; it is on that account that we are capable of being united to his divine essence by the fruition of his sovereign goodness and felicity; it is on that account that we receive his grace, that our spirits are associated to his most Holy Spirit and made, after a fashion, a participant of his divine nature (2P 1:4)… And therefore the same charity which produces the acts of the love of God produces at the same time those of the love of our neighbour. And even as Jacob saw that one same ladder which touched heaven and earth serving the angels both for descending and ascending (Gn 28:12), so we know that one same charity extends itself to both the love of God and our neighbor.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 18, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Agapitus (18 August): A 15-Year-Old Martyr Who Converted 500 Souls

Daily Readings for August 17, 2026

– St. Hyacinth (August 17) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Monday Morning Lauds | August 17, 2026

– Divine Office | Monday Evening Vespers | August 17, 2026

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– Choosing the Greater Treasure – Monday, August 17, 2026

Account of the three companions of Saint Francis of Assisi (c.1244) § 27-29 (trans. ©Franciscan Institute of St Bonaventure University)

The joy spiritual detachment

One day, Lord Bernard approached Francis secretly, for he did not then have a companion… And Lord Bernard said: “Brother, I want to give away all my worldly goods for the love of my Lord who gave them to me, as it seems best to you.” Francis told him: “We will go to the church early in the morning and, through the book of the Gospels, we will learn how the Lord instructed his disciples.” Rising at daybreak, then, together with another man named Peter, who also wanted to become a brother, they went to the church… They entered for prayer, but, because they were simple, they did not know how to find the passage in the Gospel about renunciation. They prayed devoutly that the Lord would show them his will on opening the book the first time.

When they had finished praying, Blessed Francis took the closed book and, kneeling before the altar, opened it. At its first opening the Lord’s counsel confronted them: “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell everything you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven”. Blessed Francis was overjoyed when he read this passage and thanked God. But since he was a true worshiper of the Trinity, he desired it to be confirmed by a threefold affirmation. He opened the book a second and a third time. When he opened it up the second time he saw: “Take nothing for your journey” (Lk 9,3) and at the third opening: “If any man wishes to come after me. he must deny himself” (Lk 9,23)… Francis said: “Brothers, this is our life and rule and that of all who will want to join our company. Go, therefore, and fulfill what you have heard.”

Then Lord Bernard, who was very rich, after selling all he had and acquiring a large sum of money, went and distributed it all to the city’s poor… And, from that hour, they lived according to the form of the holy Gospel as the Lord had shown them. This is why Blessed Francis said in his Testament: “The Lord himself revealed to me that I should live according tot he form of the holy Gospel”.

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Aphrahat (?-c.345) – monk and Bishop near Mosul

The Demonstrations, no.4 (©Cistercian publications; SC 349, p. 316)

“Be vigilant at all times and pray”

My beloved, that a person should do the will of God is what constitutes prayer. That is how prayer seems to me to excel. Above all, be eager for prayer and do not weary in it, as it is written that our Lord said: “Pray and do not weary.” You should be eager in wakefulness and remove far from yourself drowsiness and sleep; you should be watchful both by day and by night and not be disheartened.

Now I shall show you the different occasions for prayer. There is petition, thanksgiving, and praise (Phil 4,6). In petition one asks for mercy for one’s sins, in thanksgiving you give thanks to your Father who is in heaven, while in praise you praise him for his works. At a time when you are in trouble, offer up petition, and when you are well supplied with good things, you should give thanks to the Giver, and when your mind rejoices, offer up praise.

Make all these prayers of yours with discernment to God. See how David was always saying: “I have risen to give thanks to you for your judgments, O Just One.” (Ps 119[118],62). And in another psalm he said: “Praise the Lord in heaven, praise him in the heights” (Ps 149[148],1). Again he says: “I will bless the Lord at all times, and at all times his praises are in my mouth” (Ps 34[33],2). Do not pray using only one kind of prayer, but all separately according to circumstance.

I am convinced, my beloved, that everything people ask for with diligence, God will grant them. But he takes no pleasure in the person who offers up prayer in mockery. As it is written: “This is required of the person who prays, offering up prayer: that he turn over and inspect his offering well, lest some blemish be found on it; only then should he offer it” (cf Mt 5,23-24; Mk 11,25), so that your offering does not remain on earth. What is this offering if not prayer?… Of all offerings pure prayer is the best.
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 17, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Hyacinth, Confessor (17 August) ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

Daily Readings for August 16, 2026

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
InPrincipio Podcast

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Sunday Morning Prayer | August 16, 2026

– Sunday Evening Prayer | August 16, 2026

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– Faith That Opens the Door – Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday, August 16, 2026

John Tauler (c.1300-1361)

Sermon 9
“O woman, great is your faith!”

“Have pity on me, Lord, son of David!” This is a cry for help of immense force…, a groan emerging as if from fathomless depths. It greatly surpasses our nature for it is the Holy Spirit himself who puts forth this groaning within us (Rom 8,26)… But Jesus says to her: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” … And what did she do, thus dismissed as she was?… She descended even more deeply into the abyss. Stooping down and humbling herself she continued to trust and said: “Please, Lord, for even the dogs eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.”

Ah! If only you, too, could manage to penetrate the depths of truth so truly, not through learned treatises, grandiose words or even with the senses, but within your own real depths. Neither God nor any creature would be able to tread you under foot or crush you if only you would remain in the truth, in trustful humility. People might affront, despise or rebuff you but you would stand firm in your perseverance, pushing down even deeper still, filled with complete confidence, and would increase in persistence even more. Everything depends on this and whoever reaches this point will succeed. These paths, and these alone, are what truly lead to God without any stopping places in between. Yet there are few who remain in this great humility in this way, with the perseverance and whole and entire confidence like this woman.

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Blessed Guerric of Igny (c.1080-1157) – Cistercian abbot

2nd Sermon for Advent (trans. ©Cistercian Publications, Inc., 1970; SC 166, p. 109

“Many prophets and kings longed to see what you see”

Come then, Lord, “save me and I shall be saved” (Jer 17:14). Come and “smile upon us and we shall find deliverance” (Ps 79[80]:4,8,20). We have waited for you, “be our stronghold, our deliverer in time of trouble” (Is 33:2). In this fashion did the prophets and holy men, with great desire and longing, run to greet the Christ who was to come, hoping if possible to see with their eyes what they foresaw in their hearts. Hence the words of the Lord to his disciples: “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see; I tell you there have been many prophets and holy men who longed to see what you see and never saw it, to hear what you hear and never heard it.” Abraham, our father, “was full of joy to see the day” of Christ. “He saw it” — but in the lower regions — “and rejoiced” (Jn 8:56).

In that day the coldness and hardness of our hearts will be greatly punished—I mean, if we do not look forward with joy of spirit to the anniversary of Christ’s birth which, we are promised, we shall, God willing, see very soon. In fact Holy Scripture seems to insist we have such joy so that our spirit, lifted out of itself, may run to meet the arrival of Christ in transports of joy, and, straining forward impatient of delay, may strive to pierce the future even now.

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Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Joachim (16 August): God Hears the Prayers of the Faithful

Daily Readings for August 15, 2026

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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– Saturday Morning Lauds | August 15, 2026

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– Raised in Glory – Saturday, August 15, 2026

Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923)

Abbot
The Virgin Mary and the Priest, Christ ideal of the priest
Son of the Queen of Heaven in Christ

Upon what does this blessed certainty—of being a child of the Queen of Heaven—rest? Above all, upon the dogma of our incorporation into Christ as His members.

Is a woman not a mother the moment she becomes a source of life for another? The moment she imparts the very life she herself enjoys? In the supernatural order, whence comes this divine life within us—a life destined not to end with death, as our bodily life does, but rather to blossom in glory throughout eternity? Eve gave us life according to nature and sin; yet the life of grace descended to us through Mary. Mary is the New Eve, associated by her predestination with the New Adam. How effective was her cooperation in the work of redemption! At the Annunciation—as we have noted—God willed, in a certain sense, to make the coming of His Son contingent upon her consent. From that moment on, the Virgin became the privileged creature who imparts God’s gift—supernatural life—to all; she embraced her motherhood in accordance with the full scope of the divine intentions. Now, God’s plan entailed that she be the Mother not only of Christ, but also of all His members. (…)

By accepting to become children of Mary, we enter fully into the Lord’s merciful designs. Did the Father not “predestine us to be conformed to the image of His Son” (Rom 8:29)? (…) What a consolation! Through our veneration and love for Mary, we gradually perfect our likeness to the Savior.

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Book of Judith 13,22-25.15,10.
And all the ancients of the city adored the Lord, and said to Judith: The Lord hath blessed thee by his power, because by thee he hath brought our enemies to nought. And Ozias the prince of the people of Israel, said to her: Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth. Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies. Because he hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth of men who shall be mindful of the power of the Lord for ever, for that thou hast not spared thy life, by reason of the distress and tribulation of thy people, but hast prevented our ruin in the presence of our God. And when she was come out to him, they all blessed her with one voice, saying: Thou art the glory of Jerusalem, thou art the joy of Israel, thou art the honour of our people:

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 1,41-50.
And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost. And she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord.
And Mary said: My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. Because he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy is his name. And his mercy is from generation unto generations, to them that fear him.

Saint Aelred of Rielvaux (1110-1167) – Cistercian monk – 2nd sermon for the Assumption, from the Durham collection

“From henceforth all ages will call me blessed”

If Saint Mary Magdalene – who had been a sinner and from whom the Lord had cast out seven demons – merited to be glorified by him to the extent that her praise abides for ever among the assembly of the saints, who can measure the extent to which “the upright rejoice and dance for joy in the presence of the Lord” with regard to holy Mary, who knew not man? (…) If the apostle Peter – who was not only unable to watch for one hour with Christ but who even went so far as to deny him – afterwards won such favor that the keys of the Kingdom of heaven were entrusted to him, of what praises is holy Mary not worthy, who bore the king of angels himself in her womb, he whom the heavens cannot contain? If Saul, who “breathed murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord” (…) was the object of such mercy (…) that he was “caught up to the third heaven, whether in the body or out of the body”, it is not surprising that the holy Mother of God – who stayed beside her son through all the trials he endured from his cradle onwards – should have been lifted up to heaven, even in her body, and exalted high above the choirs of angels.

If there is “joy in heaven before the angels over one sinner who repents”, who can tell what joyful and lovely praises rise up before God concerning holy Mary who never sinned? (…) Indeed, if those who “once were darkness” and have now become “light in the Lord” “will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father”, who is able to tell “the eternal weight of glory” of holy Mary, who came into the world “like dawn arising, beautiful as the moon, resplendent as the sun” and of whom was born “the true light which enlightens everyone coming into the world”? Moreover, since our Lord said: “Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am there will my servant also be”, where do we think his mother must be who served him with such eagerness and fidelity? If she followed him and obeyed him even to death, no one can wonder that now, more than anyone else, she “follows the Lamb wherever he goes.”

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 15, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
Assumption of Mary ~ Death is Not to be Feared (15 August)

Daily Readings for August 14, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Friday Morning Lauds | August 14, 2026

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– Faithful Love That Endures – Friday, August 14, 2026

Benedict XVI

pope from 2005 to 2013
Encyclical letter “Deus caritas est”, § 9-11
“The two shall become one flesh”

In the world of the Bible, God’s relationship with Israel is described using the metaphors of betrothal and marriage; idolatry is thus adultery and prostitution… But God’s eros for man is also totally agape. This is not only because it is bestowed in a completely gratuitous manner, without any previous merit, but also because it is love which forgives… In this biblical vision, on the one hand we find ourselves before a strictly metaphysical image of God: God is the absolute and ultimate source of all being; but this universal principle of creation—the Logos, primordial reason—is at the same time a lover with all the passion of a true love. Eros is thus supremely ennobled, yet at the same time it is so purified as to become one with agape… The first novelty of biblical faith consists… in its image of God. The second, essentially connected to this, is found in the image of man.

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Readings & Reflection

Book of Sirach 24,17-21.
I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 11,27-28.
And it came to pass, as Jesus spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him: Blessed is the womb that bore thee and the paps that gave thee suck.
But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

Saint Caesarius of Arles (470-543) – monk and Bishop
Sermons to the people, no. 7, 1 (cf SC 175, p.338f.)

Receiving the Word into good soil

May Christ help you, dearest brethren, always to welcome with an eager and thirsting heart the reading of God’s word; then your faithful obedience will fill you with spiritual joy. But if you wish Holy Scripture to bring you sweetness and the divine precepts to profit you as much as they should, then relax from your material preoccupations for a few hours. Read God’s words over again in your house, dedicate yourselves entirely to his mercy. Thus you will succeed in realizing within yourself what is written of the man who is blessed: “meditating on the Law of the Lord day and night” (Ps 1:2) and “Happy are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart” (Ps 118[119]:2).

Merchants don’t seek to make a profit on one single product but on several. Cultivators seek a better return by sowing different kinds of seed. You who look for spiritual gains don’t be satisfied just with listening to the sacred texts in church. Read them at home. When days are short, profit by the long evenings. Thus you will be able to gather spiritual grain into your heart’s storehouse and lay out in the treasure house of your souls the precious pearls of Scripture.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 14, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Maximilian Kolbe: Model for Our Age | Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea – The Fatima Center

Daily Readings for August 13, 2026

– InPrincipio Podcast uploaded: St. Radegund (August 13) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year\r\n4 minutes ago

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Thursday Morning Lauds | August 13, 2026

– Divine Office | Thursday Evening Prayer | August 13, 2026

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– The Power of Forgiveness – Thursday, August 13, 2026

Saint Augustine (354-430) – Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church

Sermon 83
If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you

Every man is God’s debtor and each has his brother in debt to him. Indeed, who could be without debt towards God if not him in whom is found no sin? And who could not have a debtor in his brother if not he whom no one has ever offended? Thus every man is both debtor and creditor… A beggar asks you for alms but you, too, are God’s beggar, for when we pray we are all beggars of God. We stand – or rather, prostrate ourselves – at our Father’s door (cf Lk 11,5f.); we beseech him with groans, anxious to receive a grace from him, and this grace is God himself. What does the beggar ask of you? Bread. And what is it that you are asking of God but Christ, who said: “I am the living bread come down from heaven” (Jn 6,51). Do you want to receive pardon? Then, show pardon. “Forgive and you will be forgiven.” Do you want to receive? “Give, and gifts will be given to you” (Lk 6,37-38)…

Thus we ought to be ready to forgive all the wrongs done to us if we want God to forgive us too. Truly, if we consider our sins and think over the offences we have committed, I don’t know how we can sleep without feeling the burden of our debt weighing down upon us. And this is why we make our requests to God each day. Each day our prayers strike his ears; each day we prostrate ourselves, saying: “Forgive us our debts as we ourselves forgive those who are in debt to us.” Which of your debts would you like to have remitted? All of them or only some? You are going to reply: All. So do the same for your debtor.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

First Epistle to the Corinthians 15,1-10.
Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand. By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: And that he was buried: and that he rose again according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven.
Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen by James: then by all the apostles.
And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 7,31-37.
And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, Jesus came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst the of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him. And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.
And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right. And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it. And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.

Saint Gregory of Agrigente (c.559-594) – Bishop
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 10:2

“The poor have the good news proclaimed to them”

The sun’s light as seen by our bodily eyes proclaims the spiritual sun, the “Sun of Justice” (Mal 3:20). This was truly the gentlest of suns to have arisen on those who, at that time, had the happiness of being his disciples and of seeing him with their own eyes while he was sharing man’s life as though he were an ordinary man. And yet, by nature, he was also truly God, which was why he was capable of restoring sight to the blind, of making the lame to walk and the deaf to hear; he cleansed lepers and, with a word, brought back the dead to life.

And now, too, there is truly nothing sweeter that to fix our spiritual eyes on him so as to contemplate and picture to ourselves his inexpressible, divine beauty. There is nothing sweeter than to be enlightened and made beautiful by this participation and communion in the light, to have one’s heart softened, one’s soul sanctified, and to be filled with a holy joy all the days of this present life. (…) Truly, this Sun of justice is, for those who gaze at it, the transmitter of joy according to the prophecy of David: “The just rejoice and exult before God; they are glad and rejoice!” And again: “Exult you just in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting!” (Ps 68[67]:4; 33[32]:1).
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 13, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
– St. Radegundes, Queen of France (13 August): Butler’s Lives of the Saints

Daily Readings for August 12, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Wednesday Morning Lauds | August 12, 2026

– Divine Office | Wednesday Evening Prayer | August 12, 2026

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– Restoring One Another – Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

founder of the Missionary Sisters of Charity
No Greater Love
“Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” : the sacrament of reconciliation

The other day, a man, a journalist, asked me a strange question. He asked me, “Even you, do you have to go to confession?” I said, “Yes, I go to confession every week.” And he said, “Then God must be very demanding if you have to go to confession.”

And I said, “Your own child sometimes does something wrong. What happens when your child comes to you and says, ‘Daddy, I’m sorry’? What do you do? You put both of your arms around your child and kiss him. Why? Because that’s your way of telling him that you love him. God does the same thing. He loves you tenderly.” Even when we sin or make a mistake, let’s allow that to help us grow closer to God. Let’s tell Him humbly, “I know I shouldn’t have done this, but even this failure I offer to you.”

If we have sinned or made a mistake, let us go to Him and say, ”I’m sorry! I repent.” God is a forgiving Father. His mercy is greater than our sins. He will forgive us.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Second Epistle to the Corinthians 10,17-18.11,1-2.
My brethren, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he who commendeth himself is approved: but he, whom God commendeth. Would to God you could bear with some little of my folly! But do bear with me. For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 25,1-13.
At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: The Kingdom of Heaven shall be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. And five of them were foolish and five wise. But the five foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them. But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps. And the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh. Go ye forth to meet him. Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise: Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out. The wise answered, saying: Lest perhaps there be not enough for us and for you, go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves.
Now whilst they went to buy the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage. And the door was shut. But at last came also the other virgins, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answering said: Amen I say to you, I know you not. Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Book of hours of Sinai (9th century)
Midnight Canon, 9th Ode, SC 486
Give me the strength to meet you with the wise virgins

Inexpressible birth, conception without seed, exempt of corruption, the deliverance of a mother that has no spouse. The birth of God renews the human nature; this is why all the generations magnify you as is due, O mother and Spouse of God!

O my Christ, friend of man, God of all goodness, in the middle of the night, before the trumpet sounds, as the scripture says, “Rise, the Spouse is here!” Purify my soul and my mind, and give me the force to go to meet you with the wise virgins.

When the souls of the just are filled with Joy while sinners groan and cry, when judgement is at the door, and you appear as one coming down from heaven, spare me then , O compassionate One, have mercy and save me.

You who are without beginning, uncreated, Son of God, Supreme Deity, in your mercy save me, and give me the strength to stand in your presence, without flinching, till morning that I might worship you and glorify you, O my Creator. Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 12, 2026
The Meaning of the Word

St. Clare was born at Assisi in Umbria and became the first of the holy virgins whom St. Francis consecrated to God in Christlike poverty. After expressing to St. Francis her desire to become a spouse of Christ, she was joined by her sister Agnes and other women in a life of poverty, prayer, abstinence, and humility. Though St. Francis gave her the Rule of St. Benedict at first, he desired her community to return to the early traditions of Benedictine poverty, so that Pope Gregory IX could call them worthy daughters of blessed Benedict. St. Clare was deeply devoted to the Holy Eucharist, and when the Saracens attacked the convent of San Damiano, she held up the pyx containing the Blessed Sacrament before them, and the enemy fled. She passed to her heavenly reward on August 11, 1253, and was canonized by Pope Alexander IV two years later.

Feast / Saint of the Day

– St. Clare, Virgin & Abbess (12 August): Butler’s Lives of the Saints

Daily Readings for August 11, 2026

Saints Tiburtius and Susanna (August 11) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Tuesday Morning Lauds | August 11, 2026

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– Tuesday Evening Prayer | August 11, 2026

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– The Greatness of Humility – Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Saint John-Mary Vianney (1786-1859) – priest, curé of Ars

Thoughts of the Curé d’Ars
Union with God

The Good Lord has no need of us. If He commands us to pray, it is because He desires our happiness—and because our happiness can be found nowhere else. When He sees us approaching, He inclines His Heart low toward His little creature, like a father who bends down to listen to his small child speaking to him.

In the morning, we must act like the infant in its cradle: the moment it opens its eyes, it quickly looks to see if it can spot its mother…

There are two means by which to unite ourselves with our Lord and secure our salvation: prayer and the sacraments. All those who have become saints frequented the sacraments and lifted their souls to God through prayer.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

John Tauler (c.1300-1361) – Dominican

Sermon 49, 1st for the 12th Sunday after Trinity
“He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and (the) mute speak”

Let us take a close look at what makes someone deaf. The first couple, our ancestors, were the first to become deaf because they gave an ear to the Enemy’s insinuations and paid attention to his words. And we follow them to such an extent that we cannot either hear or understand the eternal Word’s lovable inspirations. And yet we know that this eternal Word is at the depths of our being, so unspeakably close to us and within us that our very being, our own nature, thoughts, everything we can name, speak or understand is not so close or so intimately present to us as is the Word eternal. And this Word never ceases to speak in the human creature who does not hear it all because of the great deafness with which he is afflicted… At the same time, he has been so afflicted in all his other faculties that it has also made him dumb from it, unable to know himself. If such a one would speak of his own interior life, he would be unable to, not knowing where to find it or understanding his own way of being…

So what is this harmful whispering of the Enemy? It is all the disorder he lets you see beneath the shimmering of his side, persuading you to accept it by using your love or quest for created things, for the things of this world and all that belongs to it: goods, honors, even friends and relatives, even your own nature, in fact anything that conveys a taste for the good things of this fallen world. All these are what make his whisperings…

It is then that Our Lord comes: he puts his holy finger in man’s ear and, with the saliva of his tongue, causes him to regain his speech.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 11, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

Sts. Tibertius and Susanna, Martyrs (11 August) ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

Daily Readings for August , 2026

St. Laurence (August 10) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

Divine Office | Monday Morning Lauds | August 10, 2026

Divine Office | Monday Evening Vespers | August 10, 2026

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– The Fruit of Selfless Giving – Monday, August 10, 2026

Saint Cyril of Alexandria (380-444) – Bishop, Doctor of the Church
Commentary on the Book of Numbers, 2 ; PG 69, 619 (©Friends of Henry Ashworth)

“If the grain of wheat dies, it produces much fruit”

As the firstfruits of our renewed humanity, Christ… trampled death under foot and came to life again, and then he ascended to the Father as an offering, the firstfruits, as it were, of the human race… Christ is symbolized in another way by the sheaf of grain the Lord required Israel to offer in the Temple (Lv 23,9), as a brief explanation will show.

The human race may be compared to spikes of wheat in a field, rising, as it were, from the earth, awaiting their full growth and development, and then in time being cut down by the reaper, which is death. The comparison is apt, since Christ himself spoke of our race in this way when he said to his holy disciples: “Do you not say: Four months and it will be harvest time? Look at the fields I tell you, they are already white and ready for harvesting. The reaper is already receiving his wages and bringing in a crop for eternal life” (Jn 4,35-36). Now Christ became like one of us; he sprang from the holy Virgin like a spike of wheat from the ground. Indeed, he spoke of himself as a grain of wheat when he said: “I tell you truly, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground
and dies, it remains as it was, a single grain; but if it dies its yield is very great”. so, like a sheaf of grain, the firstfruits, as it were, of the earth, he offered himself to the Father for our sake.

For we do not think of a spike of wheat, any more than we do of ourselves in isolation. We think of it rather as part of a sheaf, which is a single bundle made up of many spikes. The spikes have to be gathered into a bundle before they can be used, and this is the key to the mystery they represent, the mystery of Christ who, though one, appears in the image of a sheaf to be made up of many, as in fact he is. Spiritually, he contains in himself believers. “As we have been raised up with him” writes Saint Paul, so “we have been enthroned with him in heaven” (Eph 2,6-7). He is a human being like ourselves, and this has made us one body with him (Eph 3,6), the body being the bond that unites us. We can say, therefore, than in him we are all one, and indeed he himself says to God, his heavenly Father: “It is my desire that as I and you are one, so they also may be one in us” (Jn 17,21). Thus the Lord is the firstfruits of humanity destined to be stored in heavenly barns.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Second Epistle to the Corinthians 9,6-10.
Brethren, now this I, Paul, say: He who soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly: and he who soweth in blessings shall also reap blessings. Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work, As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever. And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:

Holy Gospel according to Saint John 12,24-26.
Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal. If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour.

Saint Augustine (354-430) – Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church

The Spirit and the letter, §27-33
“But I say to you” : the fulfillment of the Law

Grace hid itself under a veil in the Old Testament, but it has been revealed in the New Testament according to the most perfectly ordered dispensation of the ages (…). Now, amidst this admirable correspondence, there is at least this very considerable diversity in the cases: the people in the earlier instance were deterred by a horrible dread from approaching the place in which the law was given; whereas, in the other case, the Holy Spirit came upon those who were gathered together in expectation of His promised gift. There, it was on tablets of stone that the finger of God operated; here, on human hearts. (…)

“Love is the fulfillment of the Law.” Now this law of love was not written on tablets of stone but is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. God’s law, therefore, is love. “To this the carnal mind is not subject, neither indeed can be”; but when these works of love are written down on tablets in order to caution the carnal mind, there arises the law of works and “the letter which kills” the transgressor. But when love itself is shed abroad in the hearts of believers, then we have the law of faith, and “the Spirit which gives life” to the one who loves.

Now, observe how consonant is this diversity with these words of the apostle Paul (…): “You are shown to be a letter of Christ, administered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but on tablets that are hearts of flesh.” (…) Observe the same thing also in the testimony given by the prophet Jeremiah on this subject in the clearest way: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers (…). I will place my law within them, and write it in their hearts.”

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 10, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Lawrence (10 August): God Loves a Cheerful Giver

Daily Readings for August 9, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

– Sunday Morning Lauds | August 9, 2026

– Sunday Evening Vespers | August 9, 2026

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– Keep Your Eyes on Jesus – Sunday, August 9, 2026

– Keith Nester – Unpacking the Mass – 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

Venerable Pius XII – Pope from 1939 to 1958
Radio address to Lourdes Pope Pius XI April 28, 1935 closing the year of Redemption

Victorious in the storm

Our hope—just like our faith, of which it is the substance and reality—resides in heaven, and there on high it remains fixed; yet here below, it sustains our life. If, in the name of Christ and His Cross, the choirs of angels in heaven (…) sing before the throne of God: “glory, honor, salvation, and blessing,” here below, the Church of the faithful—still pilgrims on their journey—places all its hope in the Cross. “O Cross, our salvation, our only hope!” (Hymn of the Passion)

The ocean of humanity is in turmoil; nations, like the waves, rise up and crash against one another under the pressure of the winds of social and political passions; the shores and beaches of peace are battered and shaken by the unleashed surges. (…) Who shall command the winds and the storms? Who shall silence their whistling and their rage? (…)

Do not fear, my brothers. Upon the waves and the storms, walking in the shadow of the tabernacles, is the Lord of heaven and earth; no, He will not pass by our storm-tossed boat with indifference; He will come to us and say: “Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.” (Mt 14:27) Did He not promise that He would be with us until the end of time? (…) Do we not believe in Him? Do we, perhaps, not know Him? Ah, may He never have to say of us—after having spent so much time in our midst—this reproach: “I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me?” (Jn 14:9)

We are lost amidst the storm that roils the ocean of society and nations; yet in the Cross of Christ—which stands firm amidst the upheavals of the world—reside our confidence and our hopes. She is the anchor that, amidst the raging waves, provides security to the boat of the Church and of our soul—which strives toward the haven of supreme and invisible goods; she is the anchor firmly fixed to God and to His infallible promises.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

First Epistle to the Corinthians 15,1-10.
Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand. By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: And that he was buried: and that he rose again according to the scriptures: And that he was seen by Cephas, and after that by the eleven. Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen by James: then by all the apostles. And last of all, he was seen also by me, as by one born out of due tine. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

Holy Gospel according to Saint Mark 7,31-37.
And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, Jesus came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst the of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him. And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened. And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right. And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it. And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.

Saint John-Mary Vianney (1786-1859) – priest, curé of Ars
Sermon for the 11th Sunday after Pentacost

“His ears opened and his mouth opened and he spoke correctly” Mk 7:35

How desireable it would be, my brothers, that we could say of each of us what the Gospel says of this mute that Jesus healed, that he spoke very well. Alas! My brothers, could we not, on the contrary, reproach that we almost always speak badly, especially when we talk about our neighbor.

What is the conduct of most Christians these days? Here it is. Criticize, censor, blacken and condemn what the neighbor does and says: these are all the most common, the most universally widespread vices, and, perhaps, the worst of all. Vice that you can never hate enough, vice which has the most fatal consequences, which carries disturbance and desolation everywhere.

Ah! May God give me one of these coals of which the angel used to purify the lips of the prophet Isaiah (cf. is 6, 6-7), in order to purify the language of all men! Oh ! How many ailments would be banished from the earth, if we could chase away this backbiting! May I, my brothers, give you so much horror, that you have the happiness of correcting you forever!

I finish saying that, not only, it is bad to depreciate and slander others, but also to listen to backbiting and slander with pleasure; Because if no one listened, there would be no sown. (…) Let us often say: “My God, give me the grace to know myself. “Happy ! A thousand times happy, the one who will only use his tongue to ask God for forgiveness for his sins and sing his praises!”
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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 09, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross/Edith Stein (9 August): Be Affected By the Saints

Daily Readings for August 8, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

Divine Office | Saturday Morning Lauds | August 8, 2026

Divine Office | Saturday Evening Vespers I | August 8, 2026

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Faith That Overcomes – Saturday, August 8, 2026

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem (313-350)

Bishop of Jerusalem, Doctor of the Church
Baptismal instructions, no.5, 12-13 ; PG 33, 520-524 (trans. Breviary 31st Thursday)
The transmission of the Creed : “I believe; help my unbelief”

The faith which the Church hands down to you has all the authority of the scriptures behind it. This is the faith, and none other, which you must learn to proclaim and in which you must persevere. Our spiritual life must not be put at risk through ignorance, and since there are some who do not read the bible, either because they are too busy or because they are illiterate, the essence and core of our faith has been captured, and can be memorized, in the few short lines of the Creed…

To begin with, simply take the words as they stand at their face value, put your faith in them and commit them to memory. Later, as opportunity offers, you can take the propositions one by one and study them as truths of the sacred scriptures. This summary of our faith is not a merely human composition but the more striking sayings of the scriptures have been assembled together to form one comprehensive statement. And as a small mustard seed carries within itself the potential of large branches (Mt 13:32), so the words of our creed are pregnant with the whole content of our religion as it is expressed both in the Old and the New Testament.

Pay attention, then, brethren, to the truths of the faith now being handed down to you and “write them on the tablets of your hearts” (2Cor 3:3)… As the apostle Paul says: “In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate bore witness to that great claim; I charge you to keep the faith unstained until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Tim 6: 13f.).

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 12,35-40.
Jesus said to his disciples: Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands. And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them. And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants. But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Saint Ambrose (c.340-397) – Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church
12th Sermon on Psalm 118 ; CSEL 62, 258
“Ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks”

God, the Word, stirs up the lazy and arouses the sleeper. For indeed, someone who comes knocking at the door is always wanting to come in. But it depends on us if he does not always enter or always remain. May your door be open to him who comes; open your soul, enlarge your spiritual capacities, that you may discover the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace and sweetness of grace. Expand your heart; run to meet the sun of that eternal light that “enlightens everyone” (Jn 1,9). It is certain that this true light shines for all, but if anyone shuts their windows then they themselves shut themselves off from this eternal light.

So even Christ remains outside if you shut the door of your soul. It is true that he could enter but he doesn’t want to use force, he doesn’t put those who refuse under pressure. Descended from the Virgin, born from her womb, he shines throughout the universe to give light to all. Those who long to receive the light that shines with an everlasting brightness open up to him. No night comes to intervene. Indeed, the sun we see each day gives way to night’s darkness; but the Sun of justice (Mal 3,20) knows no setting for Wisdom is not overcome by evil.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUL 08, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
St. John Vianney: The Humble Priest Who Transformed France | Patron of Parish Priests

Daily Readings for August 7, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Friday Morning Lauds | August 7th, 2026

Divine Office | Friday Evening Prayer | August 7, 2026

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– The Cost of Following Christ – Friday, August 7, 2026

Saint Augustine (354-430)

Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church
Sermon 96 §1-4.9
Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Christ

What the Lord has commanded us: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself” seems hard and difficult. Yet it isn’t either hard or difficult because the one who commands it is the one who helps us to fulfill what he commands. For if that saying of the psalm is true, that: “according to the words of your lips I have pursued difficult paths” (Ps 17[16],4), so also is true the saying spoken by Jesus: “my yoke is easy and my burden light,” (Mt 11,30). For anything hard in the command, love turns to sweetness. We know well of what marvels love is capable. There are times when love is of doubtful worth and is depraved. Yet how many difficulties will not men endure, what humiliating and unendurable treatment will they not suffer if only they might attain to what they love!… Since life’s great enterprise must be to choose well what one should love, is it surprising that anyone who loves Jesus Christ and desires to follow him denies himself in order to love him?…

What is the meaning of what follows: “Let him take up his cross”? Let him endure what is painful and so let him follow me. For when a man begins to follow me by acting according to my precepts, there will be plenty of people to disagree with him, oppose him, discourage him. And that on the part of people who claim to be Christ’s friends. Those who stopped the blind men from crying out (Mt 20,31) were walking in Christ’s company. So whether it is a matter of threats, flattery, prohibitions, if you want to follow Christ, turn it all into the cross; endure it, bear it, don’t let yourself be overcome…

You love the world, but you should rather love him who made the world… We live in a world that is holy, that is good, reconciled, saved or, rather, that is to be saved but which is saved now in hope. “For in hope we were saved,” (Rom 8,24). In this world, therefore, that is to say in the Church, which wholly follows Christ, he said to all: “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself.”

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 6,24-33.
And opening his mouth, Jesus taught his disciples, saying: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.
And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Saint Clare (1193-1252)
Foundress of the Poor Clares (Order of Saint Clare)
1st Letter to Agnes of Prague, 25-29 (trans. ©The Province of St Mary of the Capuchin Order, 2006)
Choosing to enter through the narrow gate

I firmly believe that you know the kingdom of heaven is promised and given by the Lord only to the poor (cf. Mt 5:3), because she who loves what is temporal loses the fruit of love.

It is not possible to serve God and mammon, for either the one is loved and the other hated, or the one is served and the other despised; one clothed cannot fight another naked because she who has something to be caught hold of is more quickly thrown to the ground: someone who lives in the glory of earth cannot rule with Christ; it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven (cf. Mt 19:24).

Therefore you have cast aside your garments, that is, earthly riches, so that instead of being overcome by the one fighting against you, you will be able to enter the kingdom of heaven through the straight path and the narrow gate (cf. Mt 7:13-14).

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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 07, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

St. Cajetan (7 August): Prayer is the Key

Daily Readings for August , 2026

– The Transfiguration (August 6) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office Lauds 8.6.26 | Thursday, Feast of the Transfiguration

– Divine Office | Thursday Evening Vespers | August 6th, 2026

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– Behold His Glory – Thursday, August 6, 2026

Saint Ephrem (c.306-373)

deacon in Syria, Doctor of the Church
Opera Omnia
“This is my beloved Son”

Simon Peter said: “Lord, it is good for us to be here!” What on earth are you saying, Peter? If we stay here who will bring to pass the prophecies of the prophets? Who will confirm the words of the heralds? Who will bring to completion the mysteries of the righteous? If we stay here, in whom will these words be fulfilled: “They pierced my hands and my feet”? To whom will the following be applied: “They shared my garments among them, cast lots for my robe”? (Ps 22[21], 17,19; Jn 19,24). Who will bring to pass the declaration of the Psalm: “For food they gave me poison and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink”? (69[68],22; Mt 27,34; Jn 19,29). Who will live out the statement: “Freed among the dead”? (Ps 87,6 Heb.) How will my promises be carried into effect, how will my Church be built?

And again Peter said: “Let us make here three tents : one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah”. Sent to build the Church in the world, Peter wants to set up three tents on the mountain. As yet he only sees Christ as a man, he sets him on a level with Moses and Elijah. But Jesus will very soon show him he has no need of a tent. He was the one who, for forty years, set up a covering of cloud for the Fathers while they were dwelling in the wilderness (Ex 40,34).

“But while they were still speaking a bright cloud covered them with its shadow”. Now, Simon, do you see this tent set up so effortlessly? This bright and shining tent dispels the heat without consisting of darkness! While the disciples still stood amazed, the Father’s voice was heard from the cloud: “This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom is all my delight; listen to him!”… The Father was teaching the disciples that Moses’ mission had been fulfilled: from now on they must listen to the Son . On the mountain the Father revealed to the apostles what was still hidden from them: “He who is” reveals “He who is” (Ex 3,14), the Father makes known his Son.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Second Epistle of Saint Peter 1,16-19.
Brethren, we have not by following artificial fables, made known to you the power, and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we were eyewitnesses of his greatness. For he received from God the Father, honour and glory: this voice coming down to him from the excellent glory: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And this voice we heard brought from heaven, when we were with him in the holy mount. And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Holy Gospel according to Saint Matthew 17,1-9.
And after six days Jesus taketh unto him Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: And he was transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the sun: and his garments became white as snow. And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with him. And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them. And lo a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye him. And the disciples hearing fell upon their face, and were very much afraid. And Jesus came and touched them: and said to them: Arise, and fear not. And they lifting up their eyes, saw no one, but only Jesus. And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man, till the Son of man be risen from the dead.

Saint Ephrem (c.306-373)

deacon in Syria, Doctor of the Church
Sermon for the Transfiguration 1,3-4
“This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased”

He leads them up on a high mountain to show them the glory of his divinity and to let them know that he was Israel’s Savior, as revealed by his prophets…They saw him eat and drink, get tired and rest, sleep, suffer anguish to the point that his sweat became like drops of blood, all things that did not seem to have much to do with his divine nature, but only with his human nature. This is why he leads them up on a high mountain so that the Father may call him “my Son” and show them that he really was his Son and that he was God.

He leads them up on a high mountain and shows them his royalty before suffering, his power before dying, his glory before being insulted and his honor before undergoing ignominy. In this way, when he will be captured and crucified, his apostles will understand that he did not undergo this because of weakness, but to consent and willingly for the salvation of the world.

He leads them up on a high mountain and shows them the glory of his divinity, before his resurrection. In this way, when he will rise from the dead in the glory of his divinity, his disciples will testify that he did not receive this glory as a reward for having suffered – as if he needed to, but that this glory belonged to him long before the centuries, with the Father and in the Father as he himself will say as he approaches his voluntary Passion “Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began” (Jn 17,5).

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 06, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

Transfiguration (6 August): Fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets

Daily Readings for August 5, 2026

Our Lady of the Snow (August 5) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MFi2NcWTM8

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Wednesday Morning Lauds | August 5, 2026

– Divine Office | Wednesday Evening Vespers | August 5th, 2026

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– Faith That Perseveres – Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger [Benedict XVI

pope from 2005 to 2013]
From a retreat preached at the Vatican, 1983
“My Lord, our King, you alone are God. Help me, who am alone and have no help but you” (Est 4,14)

In the Gospel Jesus invites us to pray: “Ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you”. Jesus’ words here are very valuable because they express the true relationship between God and man and answer to a fundamental difficulty in the history of religions and in our personal lives. Is it right and proper to ask God for things? Isn’t the only response that answers to God’s transcendence and greatness to glorify, adore and give him thanks in a prayer that will, for this reason, be disinterested?

Jesus pays no attention to this fear. Jesus does not teach a religion for the wholly disinterested elite. The understanding of God that Jesus teaches us is something else: his God is very human, a God who is good and powerful. Jesus’ religion is very human, very simple – it is a religion for the simple: “I give praise to you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned, you have revealed them to children” (Mt 11,25). Children, those who have need of God’s help and tell him so, understand the truth far better than the learned who, by not accepting petitionary prayer and only allowing disinterested praise of God, construct a self-sufficiency for man that does not correspond to his dependence, as expressed in Esther’s words: “Come to my help!” (4,14). Behind the noble attitude of not wanting to disturb God with our little woes hides the doubt: ‘Has God the power to respond to the realities of our life? Can God change the situation and enter into the reality of our earthly life?’…

But if God doesn’t act, if he doesn’t have power over the concrete events of our lives, how could God still be God? And if God is love, won’t love discover a way of answering the hopes of one who loves? If God is love, and if he is unable to help us in our actual lives, then love would not be the ultimate power at work in the world.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Book of Sirach 24,14-16.
From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein] (1891-1942)

Carmelite, martyr, co-patron of Europe
The Prayer of the Church (trans. ©Institute of Carmelite studies, 1992)
“Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it”

The decision for the Redemption was conceived in the eternal silence of the inner, divine life. The power of the Holy Spirit came over the Virgin praying alone in the hidden, silent room in Nazareth and brought about the Incarnation of the Savior. Congregated around the silently praying Virgin, (Acts 1,14) the emergent Church awaited the promised new outpouring of the Spirit that was to quicken it into inner clarity and fruitful, outer effectiveness…

In the silent dialogue with their Lord of souls consecrated to God, the events of Church history are prepared that, visible far and wide, renew the face of the earth (Ps 104[103],30). The Virgin, who kept every word sent from God in her heart (Lk 1,45; 2,19), is the model for such attentive souls in whom Jesus’ high priestly prayer comes to life again and again.

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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 05, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

Our Lady of the Snows (5 August): No Hardship You Can Give to God that He Won’t Reward You With

Daily Readings for August 04, 2026

St. Dominic (August 4) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Tuesday Morning Prayer | August 4, 2026

Divine Office | Tuesday Evening Prayer | August 4, 2026

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– A Heart That Pleases God – Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591)

Carmelite, Doctor of the Church
Counsels and maxims
“A pure heart create for me, O God ” (Ps 51[50]:12)

Purity of heart corresponds to the degree of love and grace of God. Therefore, when our Savior calls blessed those who are pure in heart (Mt 5:8), he speaks of those who are filled with love, since blessedness is bestowed on us according to the degree of our love.

He who truly loves God is not ashamed of what he does for God before the world, nor does he hide it away in confusion though the whole world should scorn him.
He who truly loves God considers the loss of all created things to be a gain and reward, together with the loss of himself for love of God…

He that with pure love works for God not only does not care whether or not it is known by others, but does not even do these things that God Himself might know it…
It is a great thing to exercise oneself much in holy love, for the soul who has attained the perfection and fulfilment of love is not held back, whether in this life or the next, from seeing the face of God.
He whose heart is pure profits equally from being raised up or cast down to become ever more pure. Whereas the impure heart is useless for anything except to produce still more fruits of impurity.
In everything the heart draws out a knowledge of God that is flavorsome, chaste, pure, spiritual, full of joy and love.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Second Epistle to Timothy 4,1-8.
Dearly beloved, I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by His coming, and his kingdom :
Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:
And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.
But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.
For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand.
I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.
As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 12,35-40.
Jesus said to his disciples: Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.
And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.
And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those servants.
But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open.
Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

Cardinal, founder of the Oratory in England, theologian
Sermon « Watching », PPS vol. 4, no. 22
« Stay awake, praying at all times »

“Watch!” Jesus insists… We are not simply to believe, but to watch; not simply to love, but to watch; not simply to obey, but to watch. To watch for what? For that great event, Christ’s coming… We seem to see a special duty enjoined on us, such as does not naturally come into our minds. Most of us have a general idea what is meant by believing, fearing, loving, and obeying; but perhaps we do not contemplate or apprehend what is meant by watching…

He watches for Christ who has a sensitive, eager, apprehensive mind; who is awake, alive, quick-sighted, zealous in seeking and honouring him; who looks out for him in all that happens… And he watches with Christ (Mt 26,38), who, while he looks on to the future, looks back on the past, and does not so contemplate what his Saviour has purchased for him, as to forget what he has suffered for him. He watches with Christ, whoever commemorates and renews in his own person Christ’s Cross and Agony, and gladly takes up that mantle of affliction which Christ wore here, and left behind him when he ascended.

And hence in the Epistles, as often as the inspired writers show their desire for his second coming, as often do they show their memory of his first, and never lose sight of his crucifixion in his resurrection… If he speaks to the Corinthians of “waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,” (1Cor 1,7-8) he also speaks of “always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body” (2Cor 4,10)… Thus the thought of what Christ is, must not obliterate from the mind the thought of what he was… And the same union of opposite thoughts is impressed on us in Holy Communion, in which we see Christ’s death and resurrection together, at one and the same time; we commemorate the one, we rejoice in the other; we make an offering, and we gain a blessing.

This then is to watch; to be detached from what is present, and to live in what is unseen; to live in the thought of Christ as he came once, and as he will come again; to desire his second coming, from our affectionate and grateful remembrance of his first.

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– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 04, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day

St. Dominic (4 August): The Dog of God

Daily Readings for August 3, 2026

Finding of the Relics of St. Stephen (August 3) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Monday Morning Lauds | August 3, 2026

Divine Office | Monday Evening Prayer | August 3, 2026

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– Keep Your Eyes on Jesus – Monday, August 3, 2026

Origen (c.185-253)

priest and theologian
Commentary on Matthew, L.11, chapters 5-6
“Let us cross over to the far side of the lake.” (Lk 8:22)

However, the disciples could not precede Jesus to the other side… Perhaps he wanted to teach them through this experience that it was not possible to get there without him… What is this boat that Jesus insisted his disciples get into? Isn’t it the fight against temptations and difficult circumstances? … He, the Savior, thus insisted that the disciples embark in the trials so as to get to the other side, to go beyond the difficult circumstances by means of his victory over them…

Then he went up the mountain to a lonely place to pray. For whom did he pray? Probably first of all for the crowds so that, after having been sent away after eating the blessed bread, they not do anything that was contrary to that sending by Jesus. For the disciples as well…, so that on the sea, they might not have to suffer from the waves or the opposing wind. I would really like to say that it was thanks to Jesus’ prayer to his Father that the disciples suffered no damage on the sea.

“While dismissing the crowds, Jesus insisted that his disciples get into the boat and precede him to the other side.” The crowds could not leave to go to the other side, since they were not Hebrews in the spiritual sense of the word, the translation of which is: “the people from the other side”. This work was that of the disciples of Jesus: to leave for the other side, to go beyond the visible and corporal, temporary realities, and to be the first to arrive at the invisible, the eternal…

As for us, if one day we fall under the constraint of temptations, let us remember that it is not possible to come to the other side without enduring the trial of the waves and the opposing wind. Then, when we find ourselves surrounded by many tiresome matters, when we are already a little tired because of the prolonged crossing, let us consider that our boat is in the middle of the sea and that these waves are seeking to cause “shipwreck to our faith” (cf. 1 Tim 1:19)… Then let us believe that the end of the night is near: “The night is far spent; the day draws near.” (Rom 13:12) The Son of God will come close to us, walking on the waters in order to make the sea benevolent to us.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

First Epistle to the Corinthians 12,2-11.
My brethren, you know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led.
Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.
Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit.
And there are diversities of ministries. but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all.
And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.
To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:
To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit:
To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches.
But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 18,9-14.
To some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, Jesus spoke this parable:
Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican.
The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.
I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner.
I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Saint Gregory the Great (c.540-604)

Pope, Doctor of the Church
Moralia, 76
An open breach

With what precaution the Pharisee, who went up to the Temple to pray and who had fortified the citadel of his soul, claimed to fast twice a week and give the tenth of all he earned. When he said: “My God, I thank you,” it is very clear he had brought along every imaginable precaution with which to defend himself. However, he leaves one place open and exposed to the enemy by adding: “Because I am not like this publican here”. And so, through his vanity, he handed over to his enemy entrance into the city of his heart which, nevertheless, he had thoroughly locked up with his fasts and alms.

All other precautions are useless, then, when there remains in us some opening by which the enemy might enter… That Pharisee had conquered gluttony with abstinence; he had overcome avarice with generosity… But how much work for the sake of this victory had been made useless by a single vice? by the breach of a single sin?

This is why we ought not simply to think about doing good but watch carefully over our thoughts to keep them pure in our good deeds.. For if they are a source of vanity or pride in our hearts then we are only fighting for a glory that is vain, not for that of our Creator.
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 03, 2026

Feast / Saint of the Day
Invention of St. Stephen’s Relics (3 August): Legendary Bones

Daily Readings for August 2, 2026

– Tenth Sunday after Pentecost — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Sunday Morning Lauds | August 2, 2026\r\n2 hours ago

– Sunday Evening Vespers II | August 2, 2026

ORDINARY ROMAN CALENDAR (O.R.C)
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– Keith Nester – Unpacking The Mass – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A

Saint Romanos Melodios (?-c 560)

composer of hymns
Hymn 24, “ The multiplication of the loaves” (SC 114, p. 117f.)
“They all ate and were satisfied”

Seeing that day was speeding on towards its setting, the apostles of the Redeemer hastened to find him, calling: “Lord, day is almost over and all these people are faint with hunger but, as you know, this is a desert place. Send them away before nightfall so that they can buy bread in the villages. For these people here are not able to fast as we do; to us you have given the strength for it, for you are the heavenly bread of everlasting life.

“You are the great Savior of the world by nature and have taught us all understanding; by feeding these people with your words of truth you have directed humankind on the way of salvation by granting them knowledge of righteousness. Their souls have been spiritually nourished but now they need to take care of their bodies… Send them away because we are very anxious… You have taught your disciples to have compassion for all, for you are the heavenly bread of everlasting life…”

When Christ heard these words, he replied: “You are mistaken because you do not know that I am the world’s Creator. Yet I watch over the world; I well know what these people here have need of; I am well aware of the desert place and the setting sun but it is I who determined the sun’s course. I know the weariness of the crowd here and I know what I will do on its behalf. I myself will give satisfaction to its hunger for I am the heavenly bread of everlasting life…

“You may be thinking: ‘Who is going to feed this crowd in the desert?’ Well, my friends, you should know who I am: I am the one who fed Israel in the desert and gave them bread from heaven. I caused water to gush out of the rock in a dry land and, more still,obtained quails in profusion for them, for I am the heavenly bread of everlasting life…”

Increase the multitude of your mercies in us all, O Savior, and as you satisfied the multitude in the desert by your wisdom and nourished them by your power, so satisfy us all with your righteousness by strengthening us in our faith, O Lord. Feed us all, O Compassionate One, grant us your grace and forgiveness for our sins… for you alone are the Messiah, the only merciful One, O Heavenly Bread of everlasting life.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

– TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS AUG 02, 2026

First Epistle to the Corinthians 12,2-11.
My brethren, you know that when you were heathens, you went to dumb idols, according as you were led. Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit. And there are diversities of ministries. but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit. To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: To another, faith in the same spirit: to another, the grace of healing in one Spirit: To another the working of miracles: to another, prophecy: to another, the discerning of spirits: to another, diverse kinds of tongues: to another, interpretation of speeches. But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

Holy Gospel according to Saint Luke 18,9-14.
To some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, Jesus spoke this parable: Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee and the other a publican. The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner. I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

John Tauler (c.1300-1361)

Dominican
“O God, be merciful to me a sinner”

Sermon 48, for the 11th Sunday after Trinity
Dear Sisters, be assured of this, truly, if I were to find someone who really possessed the publican’s feelings, who genuinely took themself for a sinner, so long as that person had a desire to be good while in this feeling of humility… I would give the body of our Lord to them every other day with a good conscience!… If someone wants to carry on defending themself from falls and grave sins then it is extremely necessary they should be sustained by this noble and strong food… That is why you ought not to abstain lightly from communion because you know yourselves to be sinners. To the contrary, you ought to hasten to the holy table all the more, for it is from there that comes, there that are placed and hidden all strength, all holiness, all help and all consolation.

But you are not to judge those who don’t do this either… You should bear no judgment so as not to become like the Pharisee who glorified himself and condemned the man standing behind him. Watch yourselves against that as from the loss of your souls;…watch yourselves against the dangerous sin of condemnation…

When someone reaches the heights of all perfection nothing has ever been more necessary to them than to plunge into the lowest depths and penetrate to to the roots of humility. This was why the publican, having acknowledged the ultimate depths of his lowliness to the point of not daring any more to raise his eyes to heaven, was raised up on high since “he went back to his house justified”.

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Feast / Saint of the Day
St. Alphonsus Liguori (2 August): All For the Glory of God

Daily Readings for August 1, 2026

Liturgy of the Hours

– Divine Office | Saturday Evening Vespers I | August 1, 2026

– Divine Office | Saturday Morning Lauds | August 1, 2026

ORDINARY ROMAN CALENDAR (O.R.C)
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Saint John Damascene (c.675-749)

monk, theologian, Doctor of the Church
On the Orthodox Faith, I, 1
Herod kept trying to see Christ

“No one has ever seen God. The only Son who is at the Father’s side, has revealed hom” (Jn 1:18). Divinity is inexpressible and incomprehensible: “No one knows the Father except the Son, and no one knows the Son except the Father” (cf. Mt 11:27) and, similarly, the Holy Spirit knows what is of God… But following this original, blessed divine knowledge, no one has ever known God except those to whom God has revealed himself…

Nevertheless, God does not leave us in total ignorance since each one of us possesses the knowledge (sown by him) that God exists. Creation itself, by its cohesiveness and direction, proclaims the splendor of the divine nature (Rm 1:20). Then the Law and the prophets and, afterwards, his only Son, the Lord, “our God and Savior Jesus Christ” (2Pt 1:1), have made known the knowledge of God according as we can understand it. That is why we receive and understand and give ourselves to everything handed on to us by the Law and prophets, the apostles and evangelists. We fix our devotion on that and do not look beyond it.

God is good; he sees to it that all is well… Since he knows everything and provides what is suitable for each, he has revealed to us what we need to know and kept from us what we cannot bear. Let us be content with that, then, and remain in it.

1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection

Book of Sirach 24,9-12.
And have stood in all the earth: and in every people,
And in every nation I have had the chief rule:
And by my power I have trodden under my feet the hearts of all the high and low: and in all these I sought rest, and I shall abide in the inheritance of the Lord.
Then the creator of all things commanded, and said to me: and he that made me, rested in my tabernacle,

Saint Bede the Venerable (c.673-735)

monk, Doctor of the Church
Homily on St Luke ; L. IV, 49
“Blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it”

“Happy the one who bore you and she who nursed you at the breast.” How great is the devotion, how great the faith are expressed in the words of this woman in the gospel. Whereas scribes and Pharisees put the Lord to the test and blaspheme against him, this woman acknowledges his incarnation before them all with such loyalty and confesses it with such assurance that she undoes the calumny of her contemporaries and the false faith of heretics to come. Offending against the works of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ contemporaries deny he is really the Son of God, consubstantial with the Father. Later on people also denied that Mary ever-Virgin had, through the working of the Holy Spirit, provided the substance of her flesh to the Son of God, who would be born with a truly human body. They denied he was really Son of man with the same nature as his mother. But the apostle Paul condemns this opinion when he says of Jesus that he was “born of a virgin, subject to the Law” (Gal 4,4). For, conceived in the womb of the Virgin, he took his flesh, not out of nothing, nor from some other source, but from the body of his mother. Otherwise it would not be correct to call him truly Son of man…

O truly happy mother who, in the words of the poet: “has given birth to the King who, through all ages, rules heaven and earth. She has the joy of motherhood and the honor of virginity. Before was there none like her and none will be seen after her” (Sedulius). Nevertheless the Lord adds: “Happy, rather, are those who hear the Word of God and keep it”. The Savior gives magnificent confirmation to this woman’s testimony. Not only does he declare blessed she to whom it was granted to give birth to the Word of God bodily, but blessed, too, all those who give themselves to spiritually conceiving the same Word through the hearing of faith and to giving birth and feeding him either in their own hearts or in that of others, keeping him present by doing good.

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