by Faith Central & Steve Welsh
“Saint John of the Cross who is well known for his mystical writings and poetry, was closely associated with Saint Teresa in her work of founding the reformed Carmel. Juan de Ypes was born at Fontiveros in Spain in 1542 into a poor and struggling family. The death of his father soon afterwards and the lack of family support for
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“Dec. 14 is the liturgical memorial of Saint John of the Cross, a 16th century Carmelite priest best known for reforming his order together with Saint Teresa of Avila, and for writing the classic spiritual treatise ‘The Dark Night of the Soul.’ …”
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Catholic TV Mass for the Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Dec. 14, 2018, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]
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Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily for the Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Dec. 14, 2018, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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Catholic televised Mass for the Memorial of Saint John of the Cross, Dec. 14, 2018, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]
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“… ‘… this generation … is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’ … John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, “He is possessed by a demon.” The Son of Man came eating and
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“A lovely tradition that I remember fondly as a child was visiting a nativity scene in a Croatian church during Christmastime and finding fresh shoots of wheat placed near the baby Jesus. I learned that the new wheat symbolized the newborn King who will become for us, our living bread. Like the grains of wheat, He will be buried and
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“… At Rome in the sixth century Lucy was honored among the other virgin martyrs, and her name was inserted in the Canon of the Mass. A reference to her sanctity occurs in a letter written by Pope Gregory the Great. In the Middle Ages, she was invoked by persons suffering from eye trouble, perhaps because Lucy (in Italian, Lucia)
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Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily for the Memorial of Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr, Dec. 13, 2018, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]
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“St. Lucy is a virgin and martyr of Syracuse in Sicily, whose feast is celebrated on December 13th. … Like so many of the early martyrs, Lucy had consecrated her virginity to God, and she hoped to devote all her worldly goods to the service of the poor. …”
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