Berkeley, Monday, January 5, 2026 2:38 AM Feast day: January 14 Saints whose feast is on that day: Saint Gregory Nazianzen St. Felix of Nola, Priest This is according to Franciscan Media and Vatican News. From the sources above, only a biography from Saint Gregory Nazianzen is available at Franciscan media. I will do the […]
Category: Novenas
Nine days of prayer dedicated to Saint, a feast, to the Holly Spirit or to a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church
Novena to St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Berkeley, Friday, December 26, 2025 1:18 am [Update Saturday, December 27, 2025 0:05 PM] Feast day: January 4, 2026 The church remembers on January 4 the lives, and ask for the intersection, of Saint Angela of Foligno, a Franciscan, and St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. Since we are living in the the USA, would you […]
Blessed Mary Frances Schervier
Berkeley, December 9, 2025 12:23 PM Feast day: December 15 Novena: My understanding, so far, feel free to edit, is that Blessed Mary Frances Schervier was born to a distinguish family in Aachen, which is currently in Germany, near the border to the Netherlands and Belgium, I believe, and when she was born near the […]
Selecting the next novena
Berkeley, Saturday, December 6, 2025 5:38 PM Next novena is on Dec 15. It is the feast from Blessed Mary Frances Schervier and Saint Valerian, Bishop in Africa and Martyr. Now, it is not a decision of one, to select the next novena. Blessed Mary Frances Schervier seems that was a secular Franciscan sister, or […]
Saint Sabbas Sanctified Patriarch of Monks
Berkeley, Monday, November 24, 2025 00:51 AM Feast Day: December 5. https://bigccatholics.blogspot.com/2017/12/st-sabbas-sanctified-patriarch-of-monks.html Structure: Prayer for Saint Sabbas intersection after the rosary. Mention each day one of his gifts. Then pray a prayer from the link above, might be or write one. Day 1: Saint Sabbas : Born in the 5th century, son of devout parents, […]
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Berkeley, November 17, 2025 10:22 AM Saint Catherine of Alexandria feast day: November 25 https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/11/25.html As per the links above, Saint Catherine of Siena was born around the late years of 200 a.d. Her death was around 310 a.d. She was persecuted and executed. She was beheaded. The interesting fact she was excellent to debate […]
Saint Albert the Great
Berkeley, Friday, November 7, 2025 4:42 AM This is misplaced in here, but I most offer to the Lord to somehow avoid videos, whatsapp distraction etc. On the other hand, with the problem of being judgamental, at the end one most distinguish good from bad, there is something called rip current in the sea near […]
St Zechariah and St Elizabeth
Berkeley, Monday, October 27, 2025 8:24 Pm I come a bit unprepared to this novena, which I will start today. Although, I know from the scriptures the story of Saint John the Baptist parents’ Saint Zachary and St. Elizabeth. Add citations from bible. At what age Elizabeth conceived John? And how old was Zachary then? […]
Santo Pedro de Alcántara
Berkeley, Wednesday, October 15, 2025 11:26 PM The feast day of Saint Peter of Alcantara is on October 26. I screwed up or delayed a bit my novena from Saint John Henry Newman. So I am adjusting things. But I learned a bit about Saint Isaac Jogues, and the other Jesuits and more martyrs of […]
Saint John Henry Newman
Berkeley, Friday, September 26, 2025 1:59 Pm John Henry Newman is a Doctor of the Church. He lived or was related to the Saint Philip Neri Oratory in Birmingham, England. John Ronal Reuel Tolkien used to live there. I would need to learn more about Cardinal Newman live. I know he lived in the late […]
