by Joseph | Apr 26, 2019 | April, Saints
St. Leo the Great (Pope Leo I) Feast Day: April 11 or 10 November Saint Leo Magnus by Francisco Herrera the YoungerBorn: c. 400 AD Died: November 10, 461 LEO was born at Rome. He embraced the sacred ministry, was made archdeacon of the Roman Church by St.... 
by Joseph | Apr 23, 2019 | April, Saints
St. Bademus Feast Day: April 10 St. Bademus from Little Pictorial Lives of the SaintsDied: April 10, 376 BADEMUS was a rich and noble citizen of Bethlapeta in Persia, who founded a monastery near that city, which he governed with great sanctity. He conducted his... 
by St. Thomas Aquinas | Apr 20, 2019 | Lent Meditations
April 20 Why Our Lord Went Down to Limbo From the descent of Christ to hell we may learn, for our instruction, four things:1. Firm hope in God. No matter what the trouble in which a man finds himself, he should always put trust in God’s help and rely on it.... 
by St. Thomas Aquinas | Apr 19, 2019 | Lent Meditations
April 19 The Death of Christ That Christ should die was expedient.1. To make our redemption complete. For, although any suffering of Christ had an infinite value, because of its union with His divinity, it was not by no matter which of His sufferings that the... 
by St. Thomas Aquinas | Apr 18, 2019 | Lent Meditations
April 18 The Last Supper It was most fitting that the sacrament of the body of the Lord should have been instituted at the Last Supper.1. Because of what that sacrament contains. For that which is contained in it is Christ Himself. When Christ in His natural... 