Monthly Archives: May 2025

Antiphon 1 Ant. God has gone up amidst shouts of joy,the Lord to the sound of the trumpet, alleluia.V. All peoples, clap your hands. *Cry to God with shouts of joy!For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome, *the great king over all the earth. Psalm 47 True and only Light,from whom comes every good gift,send your Spirit intoContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, June 1, 2025”

The VisitationThis feast commemorates the visit of the Blessed Virgin to her cousin Elizabeth, recorded in the Gospel according to Luke (1:39–56). Elizabeth, who was then carrying John the Baptist, greeted Mary with the words, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Mary broke into the song of praiseContinue reading “Oremus for Saturday, May 31, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/2p9c4fyw Look to your covenant, O Lord,and forget not the life of your poor ones for ever.Arise, O God, and defend your cause,and forget not the cries of those who seek you. Psalm 74 O God whom we long to know,burning fire within our souls,grant to us the tongues like fire,the sound of rushingContinue reading “Oremus for Friday, May 30, 2025”

Ascension Day Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/47syb79m You kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;praise the Lord, who ascends above the highest heavens;his majesty and might are in the skies, alleluia. Eternal God,by raising Jesus from the deadyou proclaimed his victory,and by his ascension,you declared him Lord of all.Lift up our hearts to heavenwhere he lives and reignsContinue reading “Oremus for Thursday, May 29, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/228vra7b Come to me, all who labor and are burdened,and I will refresh you, says the Lord. Matthew 11 God Most High, by your Word you created a wondrous universe, and through your Spirit you breathed into it the breath of life. Accept creation’s hymn of praise from our lips, and let the praiseContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, May 28, 2025”

John CalvinJohn Calvin was the premier theologian and leader of the Reformed wing of the Protestant Reformation. He was born in France in 1509. His father wanted him to study law, which he did for a time, but Calvin’s own passions were theology, languages, rhetoric and the literary sciences. Around 1534, he underwent a majorContinue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, May 27, 2025”

St Augustine of CanterburyAugustine was prior of the monastery of St Andrew in Rome. In 596, at the instigation of Pope Gregory the Great, he was dispatched as the leader of a group of forty monks to re-evangelise the English Church. Augustine appears not to have been a particularly confident person, and in Gaul heContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, May 26, 2025”

Antiphon 1 Ant. Spread the news with a voice of joy; * let it be heard, alleluia; speak it out to the very ends of the earth; the Lord has liberated his peo-ple, alleluia, alleluia.V. Cry out with joy to God, all the earth; *O sing to the glory of his name.O render him gloriousContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, May 25, 2025”

William Lloyd GarrisonIn 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published the inaugural issue of his abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, writing: “I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. … I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND IContinue reading “Oremus for Saturday, May 24, 2025”

Nicolaus CopernicusBorn in 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus first studied law and medicine before serving as a cleric under the direction of his uncle, the Bishop of Warmia (in northeastern Poland). Copernicus first set forth his heliocentric theory of astronomy in a small work called the Commentariolus, which was not published until 1878. His argument that theContinue reading “Oremus for Friday, May 23, 2025”