Apologies dear friends, Breathing Catholic will be out of action for a while. Our entire area is in darkness due to a violent storm. Electricity Pylons have been uprooted and the lines supply quite a large area. It is almost precisely a year ago when we experienced a very similar storm and ensuing electricity disaster, leaving us for more than 3 days without power.
We are praying that it will not be as long this time. Please keep us in your prayers 🙏
Our Morning Offering – 29 August – The Beheading of St John the Baptist
God Called Great Prophets to Foretell
By the Benedictine Nuns
of Stanbrook Abbey, UK
God called great Prophets to foretell
the coming of His Only Son;
the greatest, called before His Birth,
the Baptist, John, the chosen one.
John searched in solitude for Christ
and recognised Him when He came.
He showed the world the Lamb of God
and, trusting, hailed Him in our name.
That lonely voice cried out the Truth
by men derided and denied.
As witness to the law of God
in faithful Martyrdom he died.
We praise Thee, Trinity in One,
the glorious Light of unknown ways,
the hope of all who search for Thee,
Whose generous Love fills all our days.
In the Divine Office, God Called Great Prophets to Foretell, is used for Morning Prayer on the Memorial of the Beheading of St John the Baptist, as well as with Evening Prayer I on Solemnity of the Birth of St John the Baptist.
The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Here:
https://anastpaul.com/2017/08/29/saint-of-the-day-the-beheading-of-st-john-the-baptist-29-august/
AND:
https://anastpaul.com/2023/08/29/saint-of-the-day-29-august-the-beheading-of-saint-john-the-baptist/
St Sabina of Rome (Died c 126) Martyr, Widiw
Her Life and Death:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/08/29/saint-of-the-day-29-august-saint-sabina-of-rome-died-c-126-martyr/
Blessed John of Perugia OFM (Died 1231) Martyr, Priest, Confessor and Friar of the Friars Minor
AND
Blessed Peter of Sassoferrato OFM (Died 1231) Martyr, Confessor, Lay Brother, Friar of the Friars Minor
Their Lives and Deaths:
https://anastpaul.com/2022/08/29/saint-s-of-the-day-29-august-blessed-john-of-perugiaofm-died-1231-and-blessed-peter-of-sassoferrato-ofm-died-1231-martyrs/
St Adelphus
St Adausia of Rome
St Alberic of Bagno de Romagna
St Basilia of Sirmium
Bl Bronislava
St Candida of Rome
St Edwold the Hermit
St Euthymius of Perugia
St Maximian of Vercelli
St Medericus
St Nicaeus of Antioch
St Paul of Antioch
St Repositus of Velleianum
Bl Richard Herst
St Sabina of Troyes
St Sator of Velleianum
St Sebbe of Essex (c626-695) King, Monk
St Velleicus
St Victor of La Chambon
St Vitalis of Velleianum
AnaStpaul 
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