Monthly Archives: September 2025

MatthewMatthew appears in the list of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, according to the gospel written under his name, was a tax collector. Mark and Luke called the tax collector Levi, and it has been assumed that they are one and the same. This occupation was despised by his fellow Jews as a betrayalContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, September 21, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/3jdmfueu You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven,endowed with all delights and sweetness in every taste. Wisdom 16 God of all who worship you,make us one with all your saintsand with any who are in need.Teach us to befriend the weak,and welcome the outcast,that we may serve the Lord Jesus Christand live to offerContinue reading “Oremus for Saturday, September 20, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/y4dwv48e We have come to know and to believein the love that God has for us. 1 John 4 O God, you clothe the sky with light and the ocean depths with darkness.You work your mighty wonders among us. Give us new and honest hearts, that we may hate evil and love justice; andContinue reading “Oremus for Friday, September 19, 2025”

Dag Hammarskjöld Dag Hammarskjold (1905 – 1961) was born into an influential Swedish family; his father was a former prime minister. He studied law and economics after which he was offered the post of Swedish ambassador to the United Nations. Hammarskjold then was elected Secretary General, an honored but difficult role he played for eightContinue reading “Oremus for Thursday, September 18, 2025”

Hildegard of BingenHildegard was born in 1098 at Böckelheim in Germany. From her earliest years she had a powerful, visionary life, becoming a nun at the age of eighteen, much influenced by her foster-mother, Jutta, who had set up the community and whom she succeeded as Abbess in 1136. Her visions of light, which sheContinue reading “Oremus for Wednesday, September 17, 2025”

Edward Bouverie PuseyEdward Pusey was born in 1800 and educated at Oxford, where he became a Fellow of Oriel College in 1823. He became an expert in biblical languages and criticism and in 1828 he was appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew in Oxford, the same year he was ordained. His patristic studies and firm adherenceContinue reading “Oremus for Tuesday, September 16, 2025”

The Martyrs of BirminghamAddie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were getting ready for church services when a bomb exploded on this day in 1965 at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing all four of the school-age girls. The church had been a center for civil rights meetings and marches. Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/vm2nse5e YouContinue reading “Oremus for Monday, September 15, 2025”

Holy Cross DayThe cross on which our Lord was crucified has become the universal symbol for Christianity, replacing the fish symbol of the early church, though the latter has been revived in recent times. After the end of the persecution era, early in the fourth century, pilgrims began to travel to Jerusalem to visit andContinue reading “Oremus for Sunday, September 14, 2025”

Cyprian of Carthage Born in Carthage in about the year 200, Cyprian was a teacher of rhetoric and a lawyer in the city before his conversion to Christianity. He gave away his pagan library and set his mind to study the sacred Scriptures and the commentaries that were beginning to proliferate. He became a priestContinue reading “Oremus for Saturday, September 13, 2025”

Antiphon https://tinyurl.com/823z9syw We have come to know and to believein the love that God has for us. 1 John 4 God of steadfast love,in a constantly changing world we look to you as our rock of hope. Hear us as we pour out our hearts to you, and give us your grace and protection; throughContinue reading “Oremus for Friday, September 12, 2025”