After an abusive childhood, Saint Sabas found refuge in a monastery, where he also found his vocation to the monastic life. Permitted to live as a hermit, Saint Sabas soon found others attracted to his way of life, and he eventually became the abbot of a monastic community.

She continued in a simple, matter-of-fact tone: "Because celebrating Christmas is not in the Bible." Every other Protestant on our team still celebrated Christmas, but this young woman's opposition to Christmas reminded me of the very first Protestants. Throughout most of Church history, Christians did not exchange gifts on December 25.

One of Ambrose's historical claims to fame is that he was instrumental in the conversion of Saint Augustine, and also baptized him. Known for his lively preaching and writing, Saint Ambrose must have been a force to be reckoned with. Maybe those qualities were what attracted Saint Augustine.

This happy Feast is a Holy Day of Obligation here in the USA (Mother Mary is our patron under this title).

We will have mass in the Church at 8:30 AM and 7:00 PM.

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Thousands of people gathered in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe July 31, 2002, for the canonization of Juan Diego, to whom the Blessed Mother appeared in the 16th century. Pope John Paul II celebrated the ceremony at which the poor Indian peasant became the Church's first saint indigenous to the Americas.

Image: Adolph Kolping | Den katolske kirke Saint of the Day for December 10 (December 8, 1813 - December 4, 1865) The rise of the factory system in 19th-century Germany brought many single men into cities where they faced new challenges to their faith.

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Then the arguments begin. The hostilities and the senses of betrayal and loss arise. One grabs a Bible and begins quoting newly discovered verses out of context, while the other tries to recall why he believes Catholic teaching but, alas, discovers he believes but doesn't know why.

The collect used in the Ordinariate form (Divine Worship) for today's Mass is quite different from the one being used in most of the Catholic world: Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead; we may rise to the life immortal.