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“In fine Immaculatum Cor meum triumphabit.” Beata Maria de Fatima, die 13 Iulii 1917
Dies Martis 8 Septembris A.D. 2026
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Tempus per Annum Viridis
Mysteria Dolorosa Agonia in Horto Flagellatio ad Columnam Coronatio Spinis Bajulatio Crucis Crucifixio et Mors
Sanctus / Sancti diei
Dies Martis 8 Septembris A.D. 2026
Festum
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The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
FESTUM
The Church keeps Mary’s birthday as a feast: the dawn before the Sun, the child of Joachim and Anne from whom the Savior would take flesh.
Memoriae
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Sancti Petri Claver, presbyteri
memoria ad libitum
Saint Peter Claver (1581–1654) was a Catalan Jesuit priest who, at his solemn profession, bound himself by vow as "the slave of the Africans forever" and spent forty-four years in the slave port of Cartagena de Indias meeting the ships of the Middle Passage with food, medicine, and the Gospel. Timid by nature yet daring in charity, he baptized and catechized some three hundred…
Etiam celebrati
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Beate
Frédéric Ozanam
Blessed Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (23 April 1813 – 8 September 1853) was a French layman, husband and father, lawyer and Sorbonne professor of foreign literature, who at twenty founded with fellow students the "Conference of Charity" that became the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. Answering the taunt that the Church had nothing left to give the modern world, he answered not…
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Beate
Josefa de San Juan de Dios
Blessed Josefa de San Juan de Dios (Josefa María Ruano García, 1854–1936) was a Spanish Little Sister of the Abandoned Elderly who spent nearly sixty years bathing, feeding and comforting the poor of old age in Valencia, Cascante, Requena and Alcira. Superior of the asylum at Requena when the Spanish Civil War broke out, she was arrested with her sisters and shot by militiamen…
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Sancte
Sergius I
Pope Saint Sergius I (c. 650 – 8 September 701) was a Roman pontiff of Antiochene Syrian descent, born to a family settled at Panormus (Palermo) in Sicily, who governed the Church of Rome from 15 December 687 until his death. Elected to end a violent double claim to the papacy, he became a missionary-minded shepherd who baptized King Cædwalla of Wessex, consecrated Saint…
Dicta Sanctorum
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The reason for our existence is to quench the thirst of Jesus. When he asked for water, the soldier gave him vinegar to drink—but his thirst was for love, for souls, for you and me.
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What does it cost us to say, ‘My God help me! Have mercy on me!’ Is there anything easier than this? And this little will suffice to save us if we be diligent in doing it.
Beata Virgo Maria
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Guadalupe
Tepeyac, Mexicum · 1531
Beata Virgo Ioanni Didaco, pauperi Nahuae converso, in colle Tepeyac apparuit. Episcopo signum poscente, rosae Castellae in colle hiemali natae sunt, imagoque in tilma relicta est — mater primum ad pauperes veniens, per quam Americae ad Filium adductae sunt.
Praecipua nuntia
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Lourdes
Lourdes, Gallia · 1858
In specu Massabielle Beata Virgo duodevicies Bernadettae Soubirous, filiae pauperis molitoris, apparuit. Beata Virgo fontem patefecit ad quem aegroti adhuc accedunt, sacellum et processiones petivit, et — quattuor annis post dogma — se Immaculatam Conceptionem nominavit. Ex illo abdito specu locus lavacri, luminum et peregrinationis numquam cessavit.
Praecipua nuntia
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Fatima
Fatima, Lusitania · 1917
Postquam Angelus Pacis eos praeparavit, Beata Virgo sexies Luciae, Francisco et Hyacinthae apparuit, cotidianum Rosarium petivit, infernum et Cor Immaculatum ostendit, nuntiumque miraculo solis coram magna turba confirmavit.
Praecipua nuntia
Medjugorje
Nuntius recentissimus Dominae Nostrae Medjugorjensis, Reginae Pacis
“Dear children, Today I am calling you: return to God, return to prayer, so that you may become carriers of peace. Pray, little children, for peace that is in danger; and may prayer begin to flow anew from your hearts and from your families, so that, in joy, you may feel the voice of Jesus in your hearts: 'Peace be with you.' Be, little children, carriers of peace and prayer for all those who do not pray. I am with you and I pray for you before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
Nuntii Catholici
Nuntii onerantur…
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