Day: October 28, 2026

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Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles of Christ, Lord of Miracles/Señor de los Milagros de Nazarenas, Notre-Dame de Vivonne / Our Lady of Vivonne, Savoy, France and Memorials of the Saints – 28 October

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Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles of Christ

Lord of Miracles/Señor de los Milagros de Nazarenas – A mid-17th-century painting of the Crucifixion that is venerated in Lima, Peru and its celebration involves one of the largest processions in the world.

It was painted by an unnamed African taken to Peru as a slave from what is now Angola. Above the Cross is the Holy Spirit and God the Father. Below and to the right of Jesus, is His mother, the Virgin Mary with her heart pierced by a sword of sorrow. Kneeling and weeping at the foot of the cross is St Mary Magdalene.

The name originated on 13 November 1655 when everything around it was destroyed in an earthquake that left the painting standing and undamaged. Christ is shown enduring the pain of Crucifixion. Every year in October, hundreds of thousands of devotees from all races and economic backgrounds participate in a procession honouring the image through the streets of Lima. Boulevards are decorated in purple on 18,19 and the final Feast 28 October to celebrate the Lord of Miracles.

Notre-Dame de Vivonne / Our Lady of Vivonne, Savoy, France – 28 October:

The Abbot Mathieu Orsini wrote: “Our Lady of Vivonne, in Savoy, where a miraculous image is venerated, which was found by a ploughman while preparing his field for the spring planting.”

Vivonne is a village in France having a population of somewhat less than 5,000 inhabitants and located about 20 kilometers south of Poitiers. It is situated on a rocky height looking down upon the three rivers that flow through the region. There are apparently two Churches in the village, the better known church being the Church of Saint George, on which construction began in the twelfth century. The other Church is Our Lady of Sais-les-Vivonne.

According to tradition, a farmer was ploughing his field when he overturned something peculiar in the sod. To his great surprise, the man found the object was a Statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The good farmer took the Statue, now known as Our Lady of Vivonne, or Notre-Dame de Vivonne, to his home. After lovingly cleaning the debris from the Statue, the farmer took it to the local Church and gave it to the Parish Priest. The Priest immediately placed the Statue in the Church later that same day.

The next morning when he returned to the Church, he found that the Statue was missing. After much inquiry and searching the farmer found the Statue was once again in his field. The man returned it to the Church but once again it disappeared from its place, only to be found again in the field. This occurred a total of three times before it was decided to build a Shrine where it had been found. The strange phenomenon brought people from near and far to the Shrine. Soon the image proved to be miraculous and pilgrimages began. The Church which was built to honour the image of Our Lady was given to the Carmelite Order. I can find no images of this Church online.

St Abdias of Babylon
St Abraham of Ephesus
St Alberic of Stavelot
St Anastasia the Elder
St Anglinus of Stavelot
St Cyril of Rome
St Cyrilla of Rome
St Diomedes the Younger
St Dorbhene of Iona
St Eadsin of Canterbury (Died 1050) Archbishop of Canterbury
St Elius of Lyon
St Faro of Meaux

St Fidelis of Como (Died c 304) Soldier-Saint Martyr

St Genesius of Thiers
St Gioan Dat
St Godwin of Stavelot
St Maria Ascuncion
St Remigius of Lyons
St Rodrigo Aguilar Aleman
St Salvius of Amiens
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Martyrs of Avila – 3 saints: Two sisters and a brother who, during a period of persecution, fled Talavera de la Reina, Spain, were caught and executed. Martyrs: Christeta, Sabina and Vincent. 303 in Avila, Spain.

Martyred in the Spanish Civil War:
• Blessed Claudio Julían García San Román
• Blessed Maria Asuncion

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Our Morning Offering – 28 October – O Fathers of Our Ancient Faith

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O Fathers of Our Ancient Faith

O Fathers of our ancient faith,
With all the heav’n, we sing your fame
Whose sound went forth in all the earth
To tell of Christ and bless His name.

You took the gospel to the poor,
The Word of God alight in you,
Which in our day is told again,
That timeless Word, forever new.

You told of God, who died for us
And out of death triumphant rose,
Who gave the Truth which made us free
and changeless through the ages goes.

Praise Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
Whos gift is faith that never dies,
A light in darkness now, until
The Day-Star in our hearts arise.

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One Minute Reflection – 28 October – “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you”

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One Minute Reflection – 28 October – Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles and Martyrs – Readings: Ps 138:17, Ps 138:1-2, Eph. 4:7-13, John 15:17-25

Remember the word that I have spoken to you: No servant is greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also; if they have kept My word, they will keep yours also.

John 15:17-25

REFLECTION – I rejoice with you greatly in our Lord Jesus Christ that you welcomed the copies of true love [Ignatius of Antioch and his companions] who were encumbered with saintly chains, which are the diadems of those truly chosen by God and our Lord. And I rejoice because the deep root of your faith, which has been renowned from early times, still lasts and bears fruit to our Lord Jesus Christ, who for our sins endured even facing death, and whom “God raised, releasing him from the throes of death”. “Though you have not seen him, you believe with unutterable, triumphant joy”. “He who raised him from the dead will raise us also”, if we do his will and live by his commands and love what he loved. Let us be imitators of his endurance, and if we suffer for his sake, let us glorify him. For he set us this example himself, and this is what we have believed.

So I beg you all to obey the message of uprightness and to exhibit all endurance, such as you saw with your own eyes not only in the blessed Ignatius and Zosimus and Rufus, but also in others of your number, and in Paul himself and the rest of the apostles, being assured that all these “have not run in vain”, but in faith and uprightness, and that they are in the place that they have deserved with the Lord, with whom they suffered. For they did not “love the present world”, but Christ who died for us and was raised up by God for our sakes.

St Polycarp

PRAYER – Lord God, You taught us to call upon Your name, through the preaching of the Apostles. Open our eyes each day, grant that we may see Jesus Your Son at our side, open our ears that we may hear His voice, open our mouths, that we may beg forgiveness and proclaim the good news, as we follow the way Your Son carved out for us. At the intercession of Sts Simon and Jude, may Your Church continue to grow and to hope in Your love. We make our prayer through Jesus our Lord, with the Holy Spirit, God forever, amen.

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Quote/s of the Day – 28 October – If you were of the world, the world would love what is its own

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But the style is so barbarous, and the language so vile and such a heap of blunders, that I could neither understand what he was talking about, nor by what arguments he was trying to prove his points. At one moment he is all bombast, at another he grovels: from time to time he lifts himself up, and then like a wounded snake finds his own effort too much for him. Not satisfied with the language of men, he attempts something loftier.

St Jerome

You ask me why drunken people are so rarely converted. This is the reason: it is that they have neither faith, nor religion, nor pity, nor respect for holy things. Nothing is able to touch them or to open their eyes to their unhappy state.

St John Vianney

First Point – When great evils oppress the sinner, the thought of hell ought to be a powerful motive of patience. Ought the sinner to complain of any evil, however great it may appear, when he realizes that he has deserved the pains of hell, that is to say, an infinite, an eternal evil? If a lost soul could exchange places with you, you who murmur on account of your evils, he would esteem himself happy; your state would be paradise to him.

Fr François Nepveu

The remorse of conscience is, even in this life, a torment so great that some, to free themselves from it, have deliberately deprived themselves of life. Such an one was Judas, who, as we all know, went and hanged
himself.

St Alphonsus Liguori

And since that time have not Celsus, Porphyry, Julian the Apostate, Mahomet – the greatest enemies Jesus Christ ever had in the world- have they not honestly confessed that He was a man of miracles, thereby giving testimony of His doctrine, His merit, and consequently of His Divinity?

La Pere Dozennes

I ask, if some one were taken to a musical festival, or to a ball, or to a feast, and there had to be suspended by the feet, with his head downwards, would he enjoy this amusement? Even such is that man who lives with his soul turned upside down, living in the midst of the riches of this world, but without God. He may eat, he may drink, he may dance, he may wear that rich dress, he may receive those honours, he may obtain this post, that possession ; but he will never find peace. ” There is no peace unto the wicked.” Peace can be obtained alone from God, and God grants this peace to His friends, but not to His enemies.

St Alphonsus Liguori

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Thought for the Day – 28 October – Veneration of the angels

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The Glories of the Holy Angels

Venerable Henri Boudon, Archdeacon of Evreux

OCTOBER FIFTEENTH.
Let us devote thin day to the veneration of the Angels who appeared at the Sepulchre of Jesus.

We may piously imagine, that after the body of our crucified King was laid in the tomb, the holy Angels stood and guarded the sacred deposit, quite motionless at this his prodigious annihilation, until the morning of the Sabbath, when the Maries, on coming to the door of the monument, found the stone rolled away, and an Angel sitting thereon, whose countenance was as lightning, and his garments like snow.” This conduct of the Angels should make us like the great saint of this day, St. Teresa, most assiduous in visiting Jesus in his holy Sacrament, the tomb of his love. He is there night and day, suffering with infinite patience the irreverences of some, and the total forgetfulness of almost all.

Practice—A visit to the Holy Sacrament, to beg a great devotion towards it, and the Angels.
Asp.—Ah ! blessed Angels ! teach us to honour Jesus in the Sacrament of his love.

OCTOBER SIXTEENTH.
Let us this day honour the Angels who appeared at the Ascension of Jesus Christ.

The time being come in which Jesus was to pass out of the world, and ascend to his Father, he led his disciples to Olivet, and having given them his last instructions, he was taken up into heaven, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And as they continued to look after him, two men stood by them clothed in white, who said. “You men of Galilee, why stand you looking up to heaven? This Jesus, whom you have seen ascend there, will one day return.” It is not by a devotion merely speculative, as those Angels insinuated, we are to prepare for this coming. We must pray, act, suffer, lest we be found with our hands empty when the Lord will descend to judge us.

Practice—Examine for five minutes if your devotion be in accordance with the Spirit of God—whether it show itself by the subjection of the passions, &c., or in mere external forms only.
Asp.—O ! blessed Spirits ! render us adorers in spirit and truth.

Lecture—10th Motive

OCTOBER SEVENTEENTH.
This day is dedicated to our good Angel.

Blessed for ever be that infinite goodness, which, not content with all that it has done for us, has deputed an Angel for our guide—and woe be to us if insensible to the favour. It is indeed true that “God has given his Angels charge of us that they are always at our side, that they “ bear us up in their hands’ and lose not sight of us day or night. Let us be grateful to these blessed Guardians, and, as St. Bernard recommends, demonstrate respect for their presence, affection for their services, confidence in their guardianship. Let each of us often say to his Guardian Angel, with sincere regret for past indevotion—too late have I loved you, O, good Angel!

Practice—The Litany of the Angel Guardian.
Asp.—O Blessed Angel! I love you, and I wish to love you more.
Lecture—Half 5th Motive

OCTOBER EIGHTEENTH.
The Angel of our Patron Saint.

Let us this day honour the Angel Guardian of our Patron, as this blessed Intelligence has done so much for his or her sanctification. It is gratifying to them that we may pay them our respects; they will not fail to acknowledge it.

Practice—Visit the Angel of your Patron, to thank him, and beg his intercession.
Asp.—Holy Angel of my Patron; I venerate you.
Lecture—Finish yesterday’s Motive in preceding work.