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ST. SIMON & ST. JUDE

FEAST: OCTOBER 28 Sts. Simon and Jude are some of the lesser known apostles in the Gospels. Neither have any dialogue in the Gospels. Their...

OCTOBER 26, 2025 GOSPEL REFLECTION

Jesus addresses his parable in the Gospel today to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. To be blunt,...

POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 22 Pope St. John Paul II was born in Poland in 1920 as Karol Wojtyla. Being a student during WWII, Wojtyla did most...

ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 20 St. Paul of the Cross lived in the beginning of the 18th century. After leaving the army, St. Paul lived a life...

OCTOBER 19, 2025 GOSPEL REFLECTION

In any great story, the meaning of what happens at the beginning of the story is only fully revealed at the end of the...

ST. JOHN DE BREBEUF & ST. ISAAC JOGUES

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 19 St. John de Brebeuf and St. Isaac Jogues were Jesuit missionaries of the 17th century, and with their companions are known as...

ST. LUKE

FEAST: OCTOBER 18 St. Luke is one of the four gospel writers, and he also wrote the Acts of the Apostles. He was a gentile...

ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 17 St. Ignatius was consecrated the Bishop of Antioch in Syria by St. Peter. Ignatious was a disciple of St. John, and he...

ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 16 St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was born at the end of the 17th century in France. As an only child, she had a...

ST. TERESA OF JESUS (AVILA)

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 15 St. Teresa lived in the 16th century during the protestant reformation. She grew up with a strict father who sent her to...

POPE ST. CALLISTUS I

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 14 Callistus was born at the end of the second century in and was a slave of Christian in Rome. He was put...

OCTOBER 12, 2025 GOSPEL REFLECTION

In today’s gospel, we hear the parable of ten lepers who cry out to Jesus and ask Him to heal them. Jesus does not...

ST. CARLO ACUTIS

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 12 St. Carlo Acutis was born in London to Italian parents on May 3, 1991, but Carlo’s family soon moved to Milan, Italy,...

POPE ST. JOHN XXIII

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 11 Born to a poor Italian family in 1881, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children. He was ordained a priest...

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY

MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 7 This feast was established in 1573 by Pope Pius the Fifth in gratitude for the naval victory of the Christians over the Turks...