St. Bernardino Realino

Feastday: July 2
1616

St. Bernardino Realino was born into a noble family of Capri, Italy in 1530. After receiving a thorough and devout Christian education at the hands of his mother, he went on to study medicine at the University of Bologna, but after three years he switched to law and received his doctorate in 1563. Word of his learning, dedication, and legal brilliance spread rapidly, and in 1554 he was summoned to Naples to assume the position of auditor and lieutenant general.

Shortly afterward, his exemplary young man came to the realization that he had a religious vocation and, aided by our Lady's appearance to him, joined the Society of Jesus, being ordained in 1567. For three years he labored unstintingly at Naples, devoting himself wholeheartedly to the service of the poor and the youth, and then he was sent to Lecce where he remained for the last forty-two years of his life.

St. Bernardino won widespread recognition as a result of his ceaseless apostolic labors. He was a model confessor, a powerful preacher, a diligent teacher of the Faith to the young, a dedicated shepherd of souls, as well as Rector of the Jesuit college in Lecce and Superior of the Community there. His charity to the poor and the sick knew no bounds and his kindness brought about the end of vendettas and public scandals that cropped up from time to time.

So greatly was this saint loved and appreciated by his people that in 1616, as he lay on his death bed the city's magistrates formally requested that he should take the city under his protection. Unable to speak, St. Bernardino bowed his head. He died with the names of Jesus and Mary on his lips. His feast day is July 2nd.

July 2- Visitation of Our Blessed Lady

2nd Cl., white

The Feast of the Visitation was instituted for the whole world in the year 1389 by Pope Urban IV. It recalls the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. The circumstances of her visit are described in today's gospel, especially the sanctification of St. John the Baptist in his mother's womb.

July 1 - The Most Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ

Kyrie, eleison (Kyrie, eleison.)
Christe, eleison (Christe, eleison.)
Kyrie, eleison (Kyrie, eleison.)

Christe, audi nos (Christe, audi nos.)
Christe, exaudi nos. (Christe, exaudi nos.)

Pater de caelis, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Spiritus Sancte, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, (miserere nobis.)

Sanguis Christi, Unigeniti Patris aeterni, salva nos
Sanguis Christi, Verbi Dei incarnati,
Sanguis Christi, Novi et Aeterni Testamenti,
Sanguis Christi, in agonia decurrens in terram,
Sanguis Christi, in flagellatione profluens,
Sanguis Christi, in coronatione spinarum emanans,
Sanguis Christi, in Cruce effusus,
Sanguis Christi, pretium nostrae salutis,
Sanguis Christi, sine quo non fit remissio,
Sanguis Christi, in Eucharistia potus et lavacrum animarum,
Sanguis Christi, flumen misericordiae,
Sanguis Christi, victor daemonum,
Sanguis Christi, fortitudo martyrum,
Sanguis Christi, virtus confessorum,
Sanguis Christi, germinans virgines,
Sanguis Christi, robur periclitantium,
Sanguis Christi, levamen laborantium,
Sanguis Christi, in fletu solatium,
Sanguis Christi, spes paenitentium,
Sanguis Christi, solamen morientium,
Sanguis Christi, pax et dulcedo cordium,
Sanguis Christi, pignus vitae aeternae,
Sanguis Christi, animas liberans de lacu Purgatorii,
Sanguis Christi, omni gloria et honore dignissimus,

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (parce nobis, Domine.)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (exaudi nos, Domine.)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (miserere nobis, Domine.)
Redemisti nos, Domine, in sanguine tuo. (Et fecisti nos Deo nostro regnum.)

Oremus. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui unigenitum Filium tuum mundi Redemptorem constituisti, ac eius sanguine placari voluisti: concede, quaesumus, salutis nostrae pretium ita venerari, atque a praesentis vitae malis eius virtute defendi in terris, ut fructu perpetuo laetemur in caelis. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. (Amen.)

Pope Benedict XVI said recently: “The blood of Christ is the pledge of God’s faithful love for humanity. Gazing at the wounds of the crucified Christ, every man, even in extreme moral poverty, can say: God has not forsaken me, He loves me, He gave his life for me; and so rediscover hope.” [Angelus, 5th July 2009]

Societas Liturgiæ Sacræ Sancti Gregorii Announcement

Traditional Latin Mass Schedule

what : Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

when : July 4, 2010 time : 9:30 am

where : Adoration Chapel,
National Shrine of St. Therese,
Villamor AirBase, Pasay City

June 28 - St. Irenaeus, bishop and martyr

The writings of St. Irenaeus entitle him to a high place among the fathers of the Church, for they not only laid the foundations of Christian theology but, by exposing and refuting the errors of the gnostics, they delivered the Catholic Faith from the real danger of the doctrines of those heretics.

More Saints of the Day

• St. Almus
• St. Argymirus
• St. Austell
• St. Benignus
• St. Vincenza Gerosa
• St. Theodichildis
• St. Crummine
• St. Egilo
• St. Heimrad
• St. John Southworth
• St. Paul I, Pope
• St. Plutarch

June 23 - Vigil of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist

Vigil of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist
2nd Cl.
Purple

The Church throughout her entire Liturgy commemorates three births: that of Jesus, that of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that of St. John the Baptist. Saint John has this singular honor because he was sanctified in his mother's womb by the presence of Jesus, and leapt with joy at the coming of the Savior.

PRAYER

May your servants walk in the path of salvation, almighty God. May they follow the exhortation of Blessed John, the precursor of Jesus Christ and herald of His coming, and by doing so come safely to Your Son our Lord; Amen.

Ash Wednesday

21. "On the Wednesday before the first Sunday of Lent, the faithful receive the ashes, thus entering into the time established for the purification of their souls. This sign of penance, a traditionally biblical one, has been preserved among the Church's customs until the present day. It signifies the human condition of the sinner, who seeks to express his guilt before the Lord in an exterior manner, and by so doing express his interior conversion, led on by the confident hope that the Lord will be merciful. This same sign marks the beginning of the way of conversion, which is developed through the celebration of the Sacrament of Penance during the days before Easter". (22)

22. Ash Wednesday is to he observed as a day of penance in the whole Church, one of both abstinence and fasting. (24)

Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel

Remember, you are dust, and to dust you will return