Saint Joseph Catholic Church

The Roman Martyrology's commemorations today include:

The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Paternus (482-586), Bishop. He first joined the monks of Ansion and later became a hermit near Coutances. Eventually he was consecrated bishop of Avranches, Normandy, France.

"Children, have you caught anything to eat?" They answered him, "No." So he said to them, "Cast the net over the right side of the boat, and you will find something." So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in, because of the number of fish. So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" ( Jn 21:1-14)

Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Martin I (d. 655), who was pope from 649 to 654. He was a courageous defender of the faith against heresy. He held a council at Rome which condemned the Monothelite heresy which taught that Christ had no human but only a divine will and defended that Christ was true God and true man. The heretical Byzantine emperor, Constans II, had him treacherously arrested and taken to Constantinople. After many sufferings and humiliations, he was exiled to Cherson in the Crimea where he died of exhaustion, broken by his sufferings, in 654.

"I shall sing forever the Lord's mercy" (Ps 89 [88]).

Alleluia Verse, Ps 118:24:This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.

Alleluia Verse, Ps 118:24:This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.

Alleluia Verse, Ps 118:24:This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.

Alleluia Verse, Ps 118:24:This is the day the LORD has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it.