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Catholic Saints & Feasts of the Liturgical Year

Catholic Saints & Feasts of the Liturgical Year

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If a list were made of the greatest human beings who have ever lived, the Catholic saints would be at the top. Though historians often attempt to judge greatness from a subjective perspective, there must be objective criteria by which human greatness is judged. The only Being capable of establishing that criteria is God. The criteria that God has established are the virtues, as identified by Jesus and revealed by Him through the holy Gospels.

The goal of this podcast is to present each saint found on the Catholic liturgical calendar in such a way so as to identify the Godly virtues that place each one on that list. The Church has already confirmed the saints’ greatness and their heroic virtues. Importantly, God chose the men and women found in these pages, not only for greatness in their lifetimes, but also as models of holiness in ours. These men and women are gifts to you, given by God through the Church.

Each podecast reflection comes from the four-volume series Saints and Feasts of the Liturgical Year. These reflections can be read at our website for free: mycatholic.life. They are also available for purchase in eBook and paperback.2024 My Catholic Life! Inc. Cristianismo Espiritualidad Ministerio y Evangelismo
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  • October 5: Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin—Optional Memorial

    October 5: Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin—Optional Memorial
    Oct 5 2024
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    October 5: Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin—Optional Memorial

    1905–1938
    Patron Saint of The Divine Mercy devotion
    Canonized by Pope John Paul II on April 30, 2000
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    I am to write down the encounters of my soul with You, O God, at the moments of Your special visitations. I am to write about You, O Incomprehensible in mercy towards my poor soul. Your holy will is the life of my soul. I have received this order through him who is for me Your representative here on earth, who interprets Your holy Will to me. Jesus, You see how difficult it is for me to write, how unable I am to put down clearly what I experience in my soul. O God, can a pen write down that for which many a time there are no words? But You give the order to write, O God; that is enough for me. ~Diary of Saint Faustina, #6

    Prayer:
    Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, as God spoke to you, you listened and responded. Through you, the message of Mercy has been profoundly revealed and an invitation to live in God’s mercy has been given. Please pray for me, that I will be open to that Ocean of Mercy pouring forth from Heaven, so that it will flood my soul and affect many others through me. Saint Faustina, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest—USA Optional Memorial

    October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest—USA Optional Memorial
    Oct 4 2024
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    October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest—USA Optional Memorial

    1819–1867
    Invoked against cancer
    Beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 9, 2000
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    Every offering has value only insofar as one snatches it away from one’s own benefit and dedicates it to God through this self-conquest. One loves and gives precisely because one loves, and because one considers what is given as a good, as a treasure. Love of creatures must be subordinated to the love of God, whom one is pledged to love above all things. Time, in which we have found nothing to offer up to God, is lost for eternity. If it is only the duties of our vocation that we fulfill with dedication to the will of God; if it is the sweat of our faces that, in resignation, we wipe from our brow without murmuring; if it is suffering, temptations, difficulties with our fellowmen – everything we can present to God as an offering and can, through them, become like Jesus his Son. Where the sacrifice is great and manifold, there, in the same proportion, is the hope of glory more deeply and more securely grounded in the heart of him who makes it. ~From the Letters of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos

    Prayer:
    Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, God called you to be a priest, and you fulfilled your priestly duties with extraordinary zeal. You touched one soul at a time, leaving a legacy of converted hearts. Please pray for me, that I will strive to live a life of exceptional holiness throughout the ordinary moments of my life, seeking to touch every soul I encounter every day. Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • October 4: Saint Francis of Assisi—Memorial

    October 4: Saint Francis of Assisi—Memorial
    Sep 30 2025
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    October 4: Saint Francis of Assisi—Memorial

    1182–1226
    Patron Saint of animals, ecologists, families, lacemakers, merchants, needleworkers, peace, and zoos
    Invoked against dying alone and fire
    Canonized by Pope Gregory IX on July 16, 1228
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    Hear, my lords, my sons and my brothers, and with your ears receive my words. Incline the ear of your heart and obey the voice of the Son of God. Keep His commandments with all your heart and fulfill His counsels with a perfect mind. Praise Him for He is good and extol Him in your works, for therefore He has sent you through all the world that by word and deed you may bear witness to His voice, and you may make known to all that there is no other Almighty besides Him. Persevere under discipline and obedience and with a good and firm purpose fulfill what you have promised Him. The Lord God offers Himself to you as to His sons. ~Excerpt from a letter to his friars, by Saint Francis

    Prayer:
    Saint Francis, you fell radically in love with God and with God’s people. You embraced poverty, prayer, sacrifice, and every form of suffering for the sake of Christ. You became a true knight in the army of the Kingdom. Please pray for me, that I will be able to detach from everything in this life that keeps me from the love and service of God, so that I can imitate the life that you lived. Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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