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Saint Bonaventure, pray for us!

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

From Fr Z’s Blog: Today is the Feast of St. Bonaventure, Doctor of the Church. Back in the happier year of 2010, Pope Benedict XVI gave a General Audience talk about St. Bonaventure, about whom he had written as a … Continue reading →

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17th September, The Imprinting of the Holy Stigmata on St Francis, Confessor

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

Two years before his death, St. Francis retired to mount Alverno where he began a fast of 40 days in honour of St. Michael the archangel. And lo! in the midst of his meditation he saw a figure like a … Continue reading →

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Hymns of Lent 5

Posted on April 4, 2014 by GC

  And from Thy cross embrace me with arms outstretched to save.  (From the translation by Monsignor R.A. Knox of words attributed to St Bernard) The Epistle of the Mass of Passion Sunday, 5th Sunday of Lent, in the 1962 … Continue reading →

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