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Jul. 11 Memorial of St. Benedict, Abbot, Memorial

Posted on 07/11/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples came in numbers to join him and important Roman families entrusted him with the education of their children. He organized a form of monastic life in twelve small monasteries. Under his guidance, as abbot, the monks vowed to seek God and devoted themselves to work and prayer. A few years later St. Benedict left the district of Subiaco to found the great abbey of Monte Cassino on the heights of Campania. There he wrote his Rule in which are wonderfully combined the Roman genius and the monastic wisdom of the Christian East. St. Benedict died in 547. St. Benedict's feast bBefore the reform of the General Roman Calendar in 1969 was celebrated on March 21.

Myanmar bishops encourage faithful to persevere despite war, disasters (Fides)

Posted on 07/10/2025 22:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Three bishops of central Myanmar have joined in a pastoral letter to their people, encouraging them to put their faith in God at a time when their land is ravaged by both a bloody civil war and a devastating earthquake.

“No matter how difficult our situation may be, if we pray to God every day with faith and love, we will be able to endure all difficulties and become bearers of the Cross with Jesus Christ, receiving his grace of consolation and encouragement,” the bishops write.

The pastoral letter is signed by Bishops Mung-ngawn La Sam of Myitkyina, Raymond Sumlut Gam of Banmaw, and. Lucas Dau Ze Jeimphaung of Lashio. All three of the bishops—like thousands of their people—have been forced to leave their homes because of bombing in the region.

Nigerian bishop: 'It is genocide' (SIR)

Posted on 07/10/2025 21:07 PM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

“It is genocide,” Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of Makurdi says about jihadist violence against Christians in Nigeria. “The want to Islamize the country.”

“Attacks against Christian communities have become a recurring, almost daily fact,” the bishop continues, in an interview with the SIR new agency. “The government of Nigeria seems not to understand, or lives in a state of denial.”

Jewish settlers attack Palestinian Christian village (CWN)

Posted on 07/10/2025 05:07 AM (CatholicCulture.org - Catholic World News)

Jewish settlers in the West Bank attacked the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh (Taibeh) and set fires near the cemetery and a fifth-century church. The priests of the village’s three churches—Latin-rite Catholic, Melkite Catholic, and Greek Orthodox—appealed to the international community for an “immediate and transparent investigation.”

Jul. 10 Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

Posted on 07/10/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

The Roman Martyrology commemorates today: St. Canute (or Knud) (1043-1086), King of Denmark. St. Canute was put to death out of hatred of his faith and his zeal in working for its extension in his kingdom. He was killed in St. Alban's Church in Odense.

Jul. 9 Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs, Opt. Mem.

Posted on 07/9/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

The Church commemorates the Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong (1746-1815). He was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 other Chinese Catholics. Among their number was an eighteen-year-old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were preparing to flay him alive: "Every piece of my flesh, every drop of my blood will tell you that I am Christian."

Jul. 8 Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

Posted on 07/8/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates Blessed Peter Vigne (1670-1740), a French priest, was beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II and proposed to the universal Church as an example of a tireless missionary and apostle of the Most Holy Sacrament.

Jul. 7 Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday

Posted on 07/7/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Today's Roman Martyrology commemorates:

Jul. 6 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday

Posted on 07/6/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Gospel Excerpt, Cycle C, Luke 10:2-5: He said to them, "The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Go on your way; behold, I am sending you like lambs among wolves. Carry no money bag, no sack, no sandals; and greet no one along the way. Into whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace to this household.'"

Jul. 5 Saturday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Priest; Opt Mem of St. Elizabeth of Portugal (USA), Opt. Mem.

Posted on 07/5/2025 00:00 AM (Catholic Culture Liturgical Year)

Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria (1502-1539), who was the founder of the Clerks Regular of St. Paul, later called the Barnabites from the name of their principal church in Rome. He also founded a congregation of nuns, the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul. St. Anthony was a great admirer of St. Paul and was himself imbued with the teaching of the great Apostle, whom he gave to his followers as a model and a patron. He was a zealous and untiring preacher and completely wore himself out at this work; he died at the age of thirty-six on July 5, 1539.