Memorial of Blessed Isidore Bakanja
Isiidore Bakanja worked as an assistant mason for white colonists in what was then the Belgian Congo and later known as Zaire.
Memorial of Blessed Titus Brandsma, July 27
Titus Brandsma, Dutch priest, educator, journalist and modern mystic, has much to say to Twenty-first Century Christians.
Memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Virgin Mary, Protectors of the Order
The names of the parents of Mary are known from the apocryphal “Proto-Gospel of James” (2nd century).
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ Day 9
Day NINE Mary, sister in the Christian community Listening to the Word: With Mary, the Mother of Jesus (Acts 1:12-14) Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey away; and when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son ...
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ Day 8
Mary, mother at the foot of the cross
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ Day 7
Mary, listening virgin
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ Day 6
Mary, untiring seeker of God
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ Day 5
Mary, Lady of the offering
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ Day 4
Mary, contemplative woman
Novena to Our Lady of Mount Carmel ~ Day 3
Mary, the mother who clothes us with the Scapular