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St. Catherine of Siena
Thursday:
Holy Hour for the Sick
5:15 PM Mass with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
6:00 PM Evening Prayer with Preaching
7:00 PM Night Prayer, Benediction, and
Visiting of the Altars

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Sunday:
3:00 PM Eucharistic Adoration
SUNDAY HOLY HOUR at St. Catherine is canceled for the summer months and will resume September 19 here

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Once while preaching in San Sebastian, there was a shepherd in the mountainside who was anxious to hear St Vincent. So, trusting in the goodness of his purpose, he drew a circle on the ground around his sheep, forbidding them to go outside it until his return. He made his way down into town and joined the crowd of listeners. At the end of Vincent’s sermon, he heard the preacher concluding his comparison with “. . . just like the Shepherd over there, who has left his flock to take care of themselves after making a circle round them, and forbidding them to leave it . . . ”. The shepherd returned; the flock in the circle. here

[alexandra]

The Miracle of the Watered-Down Wine here

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St Vincent was one day passing through a certain street in his home town of Valencia, when he heard arguing, cries of rage, blasphemies and horrible imprecations coming from a house. Entering the house, as the husband was leaving, he found the wife continuing to curse her husband. He asked her why she was so furious and for what reason she uttered such shameful blasphemies. The sobbing women answered: “Father, it is not only today, but every day and every hour of the day, that this wretched man, my husband, persecutes me, and always ends by cruelly beating me and bruising me with blows; this is not life, my Father, it is a constant death, damnation of the soul, and a hell worse than that of the devils.” Vincent sweetly answered “No my daughter, you must not speak thus; this anger will profit you nothing, except to offend God still more grievously … tell me why your husband persecutes and maltreats you in this manner.” “It is because I am ugly” the women replied. The Saint then said “And is it for that, that he offends God so exceedingly?” Then raising his right hand over the woman’s face, he added: “Go, my daughter, now you will no longer be ugly; but remember to serve God, and become holy.” At that moment she was transformed into the most beautiful woman in Valencia. This miracle was so celebrated in Spain, that for centuries there was the common expression when encountering a less than attractive women: “This woman has great need of the hand of St. Vincent.” more

[billy3321]

While preaching in Pampeluna, Master Vincent suddenly stopped and informed his audience that God commanded him to put a stop to a grievous offense being committed in the city. He descended the pulpit and a group followed him to the entrance of a large palace, who’s doors were closed. Vincent touched one of the doors which then opened by itself. Entering and traversing the halls and chambers, he exclaimed the impure vice which was occurring. Those who had followed Vincent could not see anyone but could distinctly hear the people in their sinful passions. St. Vincent implored them to stop, threatening them with terrible chastisements, but they derided him. They were all then changed into statues of marble. But being touched with compassion, he approached the statues and breathed into their mouths, restoring them to life. These sinners, moved from hearts of stone, all made their confessions one after the other. As each received their sacramental absolution, they expired at the feet of our Saint.

[bretthomas8]

“Those who live according to reason are men; those who follow their senses are beasts; the proud are lions; the avaricious foxes; the sensual pigs; the envious dogs; the greedy are wolves; the angry snakes or vipers; the lazy donkeys. Therefore the house of this world is corrupt, unclean and infected. . . . Therefore it must be cleansed and purified. . . . We do not notice the foulness of this world because we have been born and bred in this ill-savored place . . .”

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Into this maelstrom, while the Black Death was raging, Vincent Ferrer was born in Valencia, in the Kingdom of Aragon, now Spain. He entered the Dominican order as a young man; he was ordained in 1378, the year the Papacy went into schism. He died in 1419, having lived just long enough to see that schism healed at the Council of Constance. His priestly life was coterminous with this grave crisis in the life of the Church. more

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But St. Vincent’s main concern was that the two popes come to peace, mutually resign if need be, and a conclave be held to heal the deadly division. His authority and saintliness were so evident that his support of the Avignon line did much to secure its legitimacy. But when his own good friend, the Avignon-line Benedict, proved to be intractable and unwilling to take any steps towards unity, St. Vincent publicly withdrew his support, paving the way for an ending of the schism and a restoration of the unity of the Church.

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This kind of celebrity and these kinds of miracles might lead one to think of St. Vincent as something of a fanatic: a man of extreme views and of strange, if amazing, powers. But in this, St. Vincent was a true son of St. Dominic. His life and his teaching were characterized by a remarkable balance. He was a deeply prayerful man, and yet a man of action who was to die on the road, far from home, preaching. He led an austere life, but he would not let his followers go into excess in the practice of physical penances, insisting that it was rather the mind and the will that needed to be purified much more than the body. He spoke of the things of God with great feeling, but he was also a Doctor of Theology who took great pains to teach the truth accurately. He preached compellingly of God’s coming judgment, yet he was noted for his kindness, his compassion, his insistence on forgiveness as the very heart of God’s dealings with humanity. St. Vincent’s life and teaching expressed not the extremism of the fanatic, but the balance of the disciple: the truly human life.

[Narcisco88]

One such age of crisis unfolded in the fourteenth century, a seemingly grim time for the Church and for Western Christian civilization as a whole. That time witnessed the Hundred Years War between the English and the French, when France, Europe’s most populous and influential state, was repeatedly ravaged by battles and by the disease and famine that always accompany them. Intellectually, the great achievement of St. Albertus Magnus and St. Thomas Aquinas looked to be breaking into pieces, as nominalist philosophies arose that questioned the sacramental vision of the Christian world. The Ottoman Turkish empire was on the rise and becoming an increasingly potent external threat. And for three horrible years at mid-century the Black Death stalked Europe, leaving a third of its population, tens of millions, dead. In the midst of this dissolution of Medieval Society, its most significant institution, the one that gave the civilization its fundamental unity, the key to the whole of its religious system, the Papacy, went into crisis. Europe found itself looking at not one successor of Peter, but two, and for a brief time even three, with half of the European states backing one of the claimants, and half backing another. more

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