Liturgical Year 2020 of the Celtic Orthodox Church
Wednesday 1st January 2020
Holy Name of Jesus Circumcision of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea of Palestine, Father of the Church (379) Beoc of Lough Derg, Donegal (5th or 6th c.) Connat, Abbess of St. Brigid’s convent at Kildare, Ireland (590) Ossene of Clonmore, Ireland (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 3:10-19 Eph 3:1-7 Lk 6:5-11
Holy Name of Jesus: ♦ Vespers: Ps 8 and 19 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Ps 64 1Tm 2:1-6 Lk 6:16-22 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ps 71 and 134 Phil 2:6-11 ♦ Matins: Jn 10:9-16 ♦ Liturgy: Gn 17:1-14 Ps 112 Col 2:8-12 Lk 2:20-21 ♦ Sext: Ps 53 ♦ None: Ps 148
1 Thursday 2 January 2020
Seraphim, priest-monk of Sarov (1833) Adalard, Abbot of Corbie, Founder of New Corbie (827) John of Kronstadt, priest and confessor (1908) Seiriol, Welsh monk and hermit at Anglesey, off the coast of north Wales (early 6th c.) Munchin, monk, Patron of Limerick, Ireland (7th c.) The thousand Lichfield Christians martyred during the reign of Diocletian (c. 333)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 4:1-6 Eph 3:8-13 Lk 8:24-36
Friday 3 January 2020
Genevieve, virgin, Patroness of Paris (502) Blimont, monk of Luxeuil, 3rd Abbot of Leuconay (673) Malachi, prophet (c. 515 BC) Finlugh, Abbot of Derry (6th c.) Fintan, Abbot and Patron Saint of Doon, Limerick, Ireland (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 4:7-14a Eph 3:14-21 Lk 6:46-49
Saturday 4 January 2020
70 Disciples of Our Lord Jesus Christ Gregory, Bishop of Langres (540)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 4:14b-20 Eph 4:1-16 Lk 7:1-10
70 Disciples: Lk 10:1-5
2 Sunday 5 January 2020 (Forefeast of the Epiphany)
Syncletica, hermit in Egypt (c. 350) Convoyon, Abbot-Founder of St. Savior Monastery near Redon (868), and Tedwin, priest-monk Cera, nun, Foundress-Abbess at Kilkeary, Ireland (679)
♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Is 61:1-3, 9a; 62:11-12a Eph 4:20-28 Lk 2:41-52 ♦ Vespers: Ps 92
Forefeast of the Epiphany ♦ Vespers: Ps 67 (vs 29-36) and 71 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Nm 24:15-25 2K 6:1-7 ♦ Liturgy: Is 49:8-13 2Co 4:6-7 Lk 3:23-38
Monday 6 January 2020
(St Apollinarius, Church of Ravenna)
Epiphany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (The Three Kings) Melanius, Bishop of Rennes (530) Schottin, hermit of Kilkenny (6th c.) Diman Dubh, student of St Columba, Bishop of Connor (658) Edeyrn, recluse in Brittany, companion of King Arthur (6th c.) Merinus, hermit, Patron of Paisley, Scotland (620)
3 Hywyn, founder of Aberdaron in Gwynedd, Wales (516) Peter, 1st Abbot of the monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul at Canterbury (607)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 5:1-5 Eph 4:17-25a Lk 7:11-16
Epiphany – Three Kings ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Nm 24:15-25 ♦ Liturgy: Is 60:1-16 Ap 21:9-11, 23-27 Mt 2:1-12
Tuesday 7 January 2020
Theodosius, Archbishop of Chernigov (1696) Tillo, Abbot of Solignac (702) Kentigerna, hermitess of Loch Lomond (734) Cronan Beg, Bishop of Aendrum, County Down, Ireland (7th c.) Cedd of Lastingham, Bishop of Essex, 1st Abbot of Lastingham (664) Brannock of Braunton, Wales (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 5:6-14 Eph 4:25-32 Lk 7:31-35
Wednesday 8 January 2020
Agathon, hermit in Egypt (c. 435) Frodobert, monk of Luxeuil, Founder of Moutier-la-Celle (673) Albert and Erhard, of Ireland, Bishop-missionary en Bavaria (686) Lucian, 1st Bishop, Maximian and Julian, martyrs at Beauvais (286) Gudula, virgin, Patroness of Brussels (712) Athelm, Archbishop of Canterbury (923) Ergnad of Ulster, nun (5th c.) Wulsin, Bishop of Sherborne (1005) Nathalan, Bishop of Aberdeenshire, Scotland (678)
4 ♦ Liturgy: Wis 5:15-23 Eph 5:1-8a Lk 7:36-50
Thursday 9 January 2020
Peter II, Bishop of Sebaste (391) Faolan [Fillan], abbot of Stathfillan, hermit at Pittenween (750) Brithwald, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Archbishop of Canterbury (731) Paschasia, virgin and martyr near Dijon (178) Adrian, Abbot of St Augustine’s, Canterbury (710)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 6:1-11 Eph 5:8b-21 Lk 8:5-15
Friday 10 January 2020
Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, Father of the Church (394) Sethrida, 2nd abbess of Faremoutiers (660) Dermot, Abbot of Innis-Clotran Island, Ireland (6th c.) Thomian, Archbishop of Armagh (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 6:12-25 Eph 5:25-33 Lk 8:16-21
Saturday 11 January 2020 (Closing of the Nativity – (Forefeast of the Theophany)
Theodosius the Cenobiarch, Abbot-Hermit in Palestine (529) Theodosius, Abbot-Founder in Cilicia (412) Ethne and Fedelma of Connaught, virgins (433) Theodosius of Antioch, monk and founder (412)
♦ Liturgy: Is 12:3-6 Ac 13:25-33
5 Jn 1:29-34 ♦ Vespers: Ps 28 and 113 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Ps 26 Ex 15:22 – 16:1 Jos 3:7-8, 15-17
Sunday 12 January 2020
Theophany Tatiana, deaconess at Rome, martyr (225) Caesaria, Abbess at Arles (540) Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth (690) 38 Monks of Iona martyred by the Vikings (806) Alan ab Erbin, King of Cornwall (480)
♦ 2nd Nocturn: Ps 73 2K 2:19-22 Is 12:3-6 Ac 13:25-33 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ps 22 1Co 10:1-4 ♦ Matins: Is 35:1-10 ♦ Liturgy: 2K 5:9-14 Rm 6:3-11 Mt 3:13-17
6 Monday 13 January 2020
James, Bishop of Nisibis, Father of the Church (350) Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Father of the Church (368) Kentigern, Bishop-Abbot of Glasgow (603) Elian of Llanelian, Anglesey, Wales (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 7:1-14 Eph 6:1-9 Lk 8:22-25
Tuesday 14 January 2020
Nina, hermit in Georgia (325) Sava I, Patriarch of Serbia (1237)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 7:15-21 Eph 6:10-17 Lk 8:26-39
Wednesday 15 January 2020
Paul, The First Hermit in Thebes (342) Ita, princess of Ireland, abbess of Killeedy (570) John Calabytes (“the Hut-Dweller”), monk of the Acemetes (450) Ceolwulf of Lindisfarne, King of Northumbria (765) Lleudadd, Abbot of Bardsey, Gwynedd, Wales (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 7:22 – 8:1 Eph 6:18-24 Lk 9:37-43a
Thursday 16 January 2020
Fursey, from Ireland, Bishop-Founder of Lagny (650) Honoratus, abbot of Lerins, Bishop of Arles (429) James of Syria, 1st Bishop of Tarentaise (429) Dunchaid O’Braoin, hermit, Abbot on Clonmacnoise, near Westmeath, Ireland (988)
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♦ Liturgy: Wis 8:2-8 Phil 1:1-11 Lk 9:43a-48
Friday 17 January 2020
Anthony the Great, abbot-founder in the Thebaid (356) Mildgytha, princess of Mercia, abbess of Wenlock (676) Nennius, one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland (ca. 6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 8:9-16 Phil 1:12-20a Lk 9:49-56
Saturday 18 January 2020 (Beginning of Christian Unity Week)
Deicola [Desle], Abbot-Founder of Lure (625) Prisca, martyr at Rome (250)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 8:17-21 Phil 1:20b-30 Lk 9:57-62
Beginning of Christian Unity Week: ♦ Liturgy: Eph 4:1-7, 13-21 Jn 17:1, 11-23
8 Sunday 19 January 2020 (Wedding at Cana)
Macarius the Great, priest-monk of Scetes (391) Blathmac and companions, monks at Iona, martyrs (824) Branwallader, of Cornwall, Bishop in Jersey (6th c.) Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester (1095)
♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Nm 20:1-13 Rm 8:22-27 Jn 2:1-11
Monday 20 January 2020
Euthymius the Great, abbot in Palestine (471) Sebastian, martyr at Rome (288) Fechin, Founder and 1st Abbot of Fobhar Monastery, Westmeath, Ireland (665) Molagga, Founder and 1st Abbot of Fermoy Monastery, Wales (655)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 9:1-8 Phil 2:1-11 Lk 10:1-15
Tuesday 21 January 2020
Agnes, martyr at Rome (304) Patroclus, 1st Bishop of Troyes, martyr (259) Meinrad, monk of Reichenau, hermit at Einsiedeln (861) Vimin, Scottish bishop, Founder of Holywood Monastery (6th c.)
9 Brigid of Kilbride (6th c.) Maccallin, Founder of Waulsort Abbey, near Dinant, Belgium (978) Lawdog of Wales (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 10:1-8 Phil 2:12-18 Lk 10:16-24
Wednesday 22 January 2020
Solen or Solemnis, from Ireland, Bishop of Chartres (509) Timothy, disciple, Bishop of Ephesus, martyr (97) Vincent, deacon of Saragossa, martyr (304) Brithwold, Bishop of Ramsbury, See moved later to Old Sarum (1045)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 10:9-14 Phil 2:19-30 Lk 10:24-37
Thursday 23 January 2020
Maimbod, from Ireland, martyr at Dampierre (c. 880) John the Almoner, Pope of Alexandria (619) Barnard, founder of Romans-sur-Isère, Bishop of Vienne (842) Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov (1894) Colman, Abbot-Bishop of the monastery of Lismore, Ireland (702)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 10:15 – 11:3 Phil 3:1-8a Lk 10:38-42
Friday 24 January 2020
Cadoc, hermit at Etel, abbot-founder of Llancarfan, martyr (588) Ebertram, monk of Luxeuil, founder of Saint Quentin (7th c.) Guasacht, Bishop of Granard, Ireland (5th c.) Manach, Founder of Lemonaghan Monastery, Ireland (664)
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♦ Liturgy: Wis 11:4-14 Phil 3:8b-19 Lk 11:1-8
Saturday 25 January 2020
Conversion of Saint Paul Gregory the Theologian (also called Gregory Nazianzus), Patriarch of Constantinople, Father of the Church (380) Dwynwen, hermitess of Llanddwyn Island, off the coast of Anglesey, Wales (5th c.) Eochod, Apostle of the Picts of Galloway, Scotland (697)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 11:15-20 Phil 3:20 – 4:9 Lk 11:9-13 Conversion of St Paul: ♦ Liturgy: Si 2:1-11 Ac 9:1-22 Jn 13:34-35; 14:2-4
Sunday 26 January 2020
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Is 6:1-10 1Co 1:26-31 Lk 4:16-22
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Monday 27 January 2020
Julian, 1st Bishop of Le Mans (3rd c.) Peter the Egyptian, hermit in Syria (400) Natalis, monk and abbot of Ireland (564)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 11:21 – 12:2 Phil 4:10-23 Lk 11:14-23
Tuesday 28 January 2020
Ephrem the Syrian, Father of the Church (378) Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh, Father of the Church (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 12:3:11a Col 1:1-12 Lk 11:23-28
Wednesday 29 January 2020
Gildas the Wise, founder of Rhuys (570) Valerius, 2nd Bishop of Trèves (320) Sulpicius, Bishop of Bourges (7th c.) Dallán Forghaill, martyr, scholar, poet (598) Blath, cook at St Brigid’s convent in Kildare (523) Voloc, Irish missionary bishop in Scotland (724) Triphina of Brittany, nun (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 12:11b-18 Col 1:13-20 Lk 11:29-32
12 Thursday 30 January 2020
Bathildis, Queen of France, nun-foundress of Chelles (680) Aldegonde, foundress of Maubeuge (684) John, Bishop of Saint-Denis (1970) Amnichad, Irish or Scottish hermit at Fulda, Germany (1043) Tibbe of Brecknock, virgin (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 12:19-22 Col 1:21-29 Lk 11:33-41
Friday 31 January 2020
Maedoc, founder of Ferns (632) Marcella, martyr at Rome (410) Aidan, 1st Bishop of Ferns (632) Melangell, Welsh virgin and hermitess (590) Adamnan, monk and prophet at monastery of Coldingham, (680) Eusebius, Irish martyr, monk of Saint Gall Abbey (884)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 13:1-9 Col 2:1-7 Lk 11:42-54
Saturday 1st February 2020 (Forefeast of the Presentation in the Temple of Our Lord Jesus Christ)
Brigid of Ireland, Foundress-Abbess of Cill-Dara (Kildare) (524) Sigebert, King of Austrasia (656) Eubert, 1st Bishop of Lille (294) Cinnia, Princess of Ulster, nun, converted by St Patrick (5th c.) Derlugdach of Kildare, 2nd Abbess of Kildare, friend of St Brigid (ca. 524) Jarleth, Bishop of Armagh, disciple of St Patrick (480) Seiriol, Abbot of Penmon (Anglesey) and Ynys Seiriol (Puffin Island) (6th c.) Euny, missionary in Western Cornwall (6th c.) Crewenna, missionary in Cornwall (5th c.)
♦ Vespers: Ps 96 and 97
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Sunday 2 February 2020 (Presentation in the Temple of Our Lord Jesus Christ – Candlemas)
Purification of the Virgin – Candlemas Adalbald, Duke of Flanders, martyr at Ostrevant (652) Erlulf, 4th Abbot of Werden, martyr (830) Columbanus of Ghent, hermit (959) Laurence, Archbishop of Canterbury (619) Ronan, Bishop of the Isle of Man (6th c.) Columbanus the Hermit (959) Feock of Cornwall (unknown)
♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Ez 37:19-26 Gal 5:26 – 6:6 Jn 4:46-54
Presentation in the Temple: ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1Co 7:25-40 ♦ Liturgy: Si 24:23-31 Rm 8:3-11 Lk 2:22-40
14 Monday 3 February 2020
Symeon the Just (1st c.) Anne the Prophetess (1st c.) Blaise, Bishop of Sebastea, martyr (320) Barsauma, Father of Syrian monasticism (491) Ia (Ives) of Cornwall, martyr (450) Maximus the Confessor (662) Colman, bishop, founder of monastery at Kilmacduagh (632) Werburga of Chester, Abbess of Hanbury (699) Werburgh, Abbess of Bardney (ca. 785) Caellainn of Roscommon, nun and virgin, Donegal (6th c.) Cuanna, nun at Kilcooney (651) Cuannan, monk at Moville (743) Laurence, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury (619)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 14:1-11 Col 2:13b-19 Lk 12:13-21
Tuesday 4 February 2020
Apostle Timothy of the Seventy (ca. 96) Rabanus Maurus, of Ireland, Bishop of Mainz (856) Vulgis, abbot of Lobbes (760) Modan of Melrose, abbot then hermit (6th c.) Aldate, Bishop of Gloucester, martyr (577) Liephard, martyr and companion to King Caedwalla (690)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 14:12-21 Col 2:20 – 3:4 Lk 12:22-32
Wednesday 5 February 2020
Bertulf, abbot-founder of Renty (705) Agatha, martyr in Sicily (251) Avitus, Bishop of Vienne (520) Indract and Dominica of Glastonbury, martyrs (708) Buo of Ireland, monk, missionary to Norwegians on Iceland and Faroe Islands (ca. 900)
15 Merryo, hermit at Bangor (7th c.) Tuor, king in Wessex (730) Vodalus, missionary and hermit (725)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 14:22-26 Col 3:5-11 Lk 12:32-40
Thursday 6 February 2020
Barsanuphius the Great, hermit at Gaza (563) Amand, Bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht, founder de Tournai (684) Vedast, Bishop of Arras and Cambrai (540) Mael, Bishop-Abbot of Ardagh and Maelchu (488) Mael and Mun, bishops and nephews of St. Patrick (ca. 488) Ine, King of Wessex [and his wife Ethelburga] (727)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 14:27-31 Col 3:12-17 Lk 12:41-48
Friday 7 February 2020
Meldon, from Ireland, priest at Peronne (6th c.) Tressan of Mareuil-sur-Marne, missionary, hermit at Avenay (550) Richard of Wessex (720) Aule [Augulus] of London, martyr (303) Aedh, Bishop of Sletty, Ireland (700) Maonacan, Founder of monastery of Athleague, county Roscommon, Ireland (ca. 500)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 15:1-6 Col 3:18 – 4:1 Lk 12:49-53
16 Saturday 8 February 2020
Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, Father of the Syrian Church (538) Nicetius, Bishop of Besancon (613) Paul, Bishop of Verdun, hermit (469) Elfleda, Abbess of Whitby (714) Theodore Stratelates, warrior and martyr (319) The Prophet Zechariah (ca. 500 B.C.) Cuthman of Steyning, shepherd and hermit (8th c.) Conon, bishop and monastic founder on the Isle of Man (648) Colman, Abbot of Clonard, Country Meath, Ireland (653) Kigwe of Monmouth, virgin, (5th c.) Oncho of Clonmore, poet and pilgrim (600) Ternoc of Clonmore, monk and hermit (569)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 15:7-13 Col 4:2-9 Lk 12:54-59
Sunday 9 February 2020
Ansbert, Bishop of Rouen, 3rd Abbot of Fontenelle (695) Teilo, 2nd Bishop-Abbot of Llandaff (580) Alto, Abbot-Founder of Altomuenster (ca. 760) Cronan the Wise, bishop of Ireland (8th c.) Eingan of Llanengan, Welsh prince and hermit (6th c.)
♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 33:14-22 1Co 1:3-11 Jn 3:16-21
Monday 10 February 2020
Austreberta, foundress of Pavilly (704) Fagan, Bishop of Glastonbury (2nd c.) Scholastica, abbess of Nursia (543) Trumwin of Abercorn, Scottish bishop (704) Morwenna, Cornish virgin (5th c.)
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♦ Liturgy: Wis 16:5-14 Eph 4:25-32 Lk 13:1-9
Tuesday 11 February 2020
Gobnait, abbess of Ballyvourney (6th c.) Jarlath, Bishop of Armagh (480) Benedict, abbot of Aniane (821) Caedmon of Whitby, monk and hymnographer (680) Ecian, Bishop in Ireland (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 16:15-20 Eph 5:1-8a Lk 13:10-17
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Meletius the Great, Patriarch of Antioch, Father of the Church (381) Ludan the Pilgrim, prince of Scotland (1202) Ethewald, monk and Bishop of Lindisfarne, disciple of St Cuthbert (740) Siadhal, Bishop of Dublin (785) Factna, Bishop of Armagh (874)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 16:21-29 Eph 5:8b-21 Lk 13:18-21
Thursday 13 February 2020
Aquila and Priscilla, disciples, martyrs en Asia Minor (1st c.) Martinian, hermit of Caesarea, in Palestine (ca. 398) Ermengilda (queen in Mercia, Abbess of Ely (700) Huno, monk-priest of Ely (690) Dyfnog of Clwyd, Wales (7th c.) Modomnoc, Bishop of Ossory, hermit at Tibraghny (550) Rioc, hermit at Gwengad (4th c.)
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♦ Liturgy: Wis 17:1-8 Eph 5:25-33 Lk 13:22-30
Friday 14 February 2020
Cyril, apostle of the Slavs (869) Valentine, Bishop of Terni, martyr (269) Conran, Bishop of Orkney Islands (dates unknown) Blavili, hermit at Faoc (6th c.) Manchan, Abbot of Mohill (651)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 17:9-21 Eph 6:1-9 Lk 13:31-35
Saturday 15 February 2020
Waningus, Founder of Fécamp (7th c.) Faustinus, priest of Brescia, martyr (120) Onesimus, Apostle of the Seventy (1st c.) Oswy, King of Northumbria (670) Berach, Founder of Abbey at Cluain, Ireland (595) Dochow of Wales, founded monastery in Cornwall (473) Farannan, Abbot of Iona then hermit, disciple of St Columba (590) Sigfrid of Glastonbury, Apostle of Sweden (ca. 1045)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 18:1-9 Eph 6:10-17 Lk 14:1-11
Sunday 16 February 2020
Tanco [Tancho], of Ireland, 3rd Bishop of Werden, martyr (ca. 800) Armentarius, Bishop of Antibes (460) Flavian the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (449)
19 Guevroc of St-Pol-de-Leon (ca. 547) Prophet Azarias (10th c. B.C.) Laurence of Canterbury, bishop (619)
♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Ez 33:1, 7-11 Col 2:1-7 Mt 17:14-20
Monday 17 February 2020
Finan, 2nd Bishop-Abbot of Lindisfarne (661) Silvin of Ireland, Bishop-missionary around Therouanne (718) Mariamne, disciple (1st c.) Fintan, Abbot of Clonenagh, Ireland (603) Cormac, Bishop and Abbot of Trim (741) Loman, 1st Bishop of Trim, in Meath, Ireland (450) Fortchern, 2nd Bishop of Trim (6th c.) Aldate, of Gloucester, martyr (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Wis 19:18-22 Eph 6:18-24 Lk 14:12-15
Tuesday 18 February 2020
Colman, 3rd Bishop-Abbot of Lindisfarne (675) Angilbert, abbot of Centula (814) Leontius, Bishop of Metz (451) Berchart, Abbot of Tallylease (780) Colman, Bishop and Abbot of Lindisfarne (675) Ethelina of Gloucestershire (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Si 1:1-10 Phil 1:1-11 Lk 14:16-24
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Wednesday 19 February 2020
Mesrob Mashdots the Translator, prince of Armenia (5th c.) Valerius, Bishop of Antibes, martyr (450) Leu, Bishop of Chalon-sur-Saone (610) Archipus and Philemon, Apostles of the Seventy (1st c.) Odran, Ireland, martyr (452) Baithin, monk (592) Maoldobharchon, Bishop of Kildare (708)
♦ Liturgy: Si 4:1-10 Phil 1:12-20a Lk 14:25-35
Thursday 20 February 2020
Bessarion, hermit at Skete (ca. 400) Eucherius, monk of Jumiege, Bishop of Orleans (743) Eleutherius, Bishop of Tournai, martyr (532) Colgan, Abbot of Clonmacnoise, Ireland (796) Mildred, Anglian princess, Abbess of monastery at Thanet in France (ca. 700) Bolcan, Bishop of Derkan, Ireland, baptized by St Patrick (480) Colchu [Colga] the Wise, Abbot of Lusk (794) Cuthbert, Bishop and Abbot of Lindisfarne (687) Tyrannron, Bishop of Tyr, and Silvanus, martyrs under Diocletian (310)
♦ Liturgy: Si 4:11-19 Phil 1:20b-30 Lk 15:1-10
Friday 21 February 2020
Eustathius, Patriarch of Antioch (377) Germanus, Founder de Moutier-Grandval, martyr (677) Emebert, Bishop of Cambrai (710) Elwin of Cornwall (6th c.) Erkengota, princess of Kent, virgin of Faremoutiers (660)
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Saturday 22 February 2020
Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch Abilius, 2nd Pope of Alexandria (97) Aristion, disciple (1st c.) Paschasius, Bishop of Vienne (312) Melbride, Abbot of Iona (927) Elwin, martyr, missionary to Cornwall (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Si 5:1-8 Phil 2:12-18 Lk 16:1-9
Chair of Saint Peter: ♦ Liturgy: Is 32:1, 3-9, 15-18 Ac 12:1-17 Mt 16:13-19
Sunday 23 February 2020
Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, martyr (167) Milburga, 2nd Abbess of Wenlock (715) Alexander, Abbot of the Acemetes [The Unsleeping Ones] (430) Boswell [Boisil], Abbot of Melrose (661) Finnian, Abbot of Cluain Lorarrd (549) Jurmin, prince in East Anglia, confessor (7th c.)
♦ 3rd Nocturn: Si 2:7-18 ♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 7:1-7 1Co 1:3-9 Mt 17:1-13
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Monday 24 February 2020
Matthias, Apostle, martyr (63) Ethelbert, King of Kent (616) Cummain Ailbe [Cumine the White], Abbot of Iona (669) Caedmon of Whitby, monk (680)
♦ Liturgy: Si 5:9 – 6:4 Phil 2:19-30 Lk 16:10-18
Matthias: ♦ Liturgy: Ac 1:15-26
Tuesday 25 February 2020
Leonhard, monk of Bangor, Abbot-Founder of Marmoutier (618) Adeltruda, 2nd abbess of Maubeuge (696) Walburga, Abbess of Heidenheim (779) Ethelbert, King of Kent (616)
♦ Liturgy: Si 6:5-17 Phil 3:1-8a Lk 16:19-31
Wednesday 26 February 2020 (Called Ash Wednesday) First day of Lenten Fast Imposition of the ashes at the beginning of the Liturgy and at the beginning of the Prayer of Saint Ephrem the Syrian
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Alexander, Pope of Alexandria (328) Agricola, Bishop of Nevers (596) Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza (420) Photini the Samaritan woman, martyr (1st c.) Aela, Abbot of Clonmacnoise (651) Arzhvael, Bishop of Aleth, Brittany (7th c.) Koulfinid, 3rd Bishop of Aleth, Brittany (6th c.)
♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ex 20:1-17 ♦ Liturgy: Jl 2:12-13 Gal 4:21-31 Mt 6:16-21 ♦ Sext: Wis 12:12-22 ♦ None: Prov 1:23-32; 7:1-2
Thursday 27 February 2020
Leander, Bishop of Seville, Father of the Church (596) Honorina, martyr in Normandy (393) Comgan, Abbot of Glenthsen or Killeshin, Ireland (570) Alnoth of Stowe, hermit, martyr (ca. 700) Herefrith, Bishop of Lindsey, England (869)
♦ Liturgy: Is 38:1-6 Jas 1:2-13 Jn 1:1-14 ♦ 1st Nocturn: 1st part of the Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete
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Friday 28 February 2020
Ruellinus, 2nd Bishop-abbot of Treguier (6th c.) Romanus, abbot-founder of Condat (ca. 460) Sillian, Abbot of Bangor (610) Ermina of Ireland, (6th c.) Madoc, Bishop of Llanmadog (6th c.) Oswald, Archbishop of Worcester and York (992) Ternoc of Kilnasaggart (718) Llibio of Anglesey (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Is 56:1-12 Jas 1:13-21 Jn 1:15-29
Saturday 29 February 2020
Gregory, priest-monk of Narek, Father of the Church (951-1003)
♦ Liturgy: Is 58:9b-14 Jas 1:22-27 Jn 1:29-34
1st Sunday of Lent Sunday 1st March 2020
David, 1st Bishop of Menevia [Mynyw] (589) Albinus, Bishop of Angers (550) Eudokia, martyr at Heliopolis (107) Marnock of Annandale, missionary bishop (ca. 625) Monan, monk of St Andrew’s, Scotland (unknown)
♦ 3rd Nocturn: Prov 1:23 – 2:9 ♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: 1K 19:3b-15 2Co 6:1-10 Mt 4:1-11
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2nd Week of Lent Monday 2 March 2020
Chad of Mercia, Bishop of Lichfield (672) Fergna the White, 2nd abbot of Iona (637) Slebhene, monk from Ireland, Abbot of Iona (767) Joavan of Leon, Romano-Briton, bishop (ca. 570)
♦ Liturgy: Is 1:16-19 Jas 2:1-5 Jn 1:35-51
Tuesday 3 March 2020
Winwaloe, Abbot-Founder of Landévennec (532) Calupan, priest-monk of Meallot (575) Non, mother of St David, patron saint of Wales (5th c.) Owen of Lichfield, monk (680) Foila of Galway, nun, sister of St Colgan (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Is 45:5-11 Jas 2:6-13 Jn 2:12-23
Wednesday 4 March 2020
Gerasimus the Hermit, Abbot-Founder of the Saint Gerasimus Laura (475) Adrian, apostle of the Picts, Bishop of Saint-Andrew, martyr (875) Leodovaldus, Bishop of Avranches (2nd half 6th c.) Gerasimus the Righteous of the Jordan, abbot (5th c.) Adrian of Stalbrand, Bishop on the Isle of May, martyred with companions (ca. 875)
♦ Liturgy: Is 30:15-18 Jas 2:14-21 Jn 3:22-36
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Thursday 5 March 2020
Virgilius of Lerins, Bishop of Arles (610) Ciaran (or Kieran) the Elder, abbot of Saighir, 1st Bishop of Ossory (530) Piran of Padstowe, hermit in Cornwall (ca. 480) Colman of Armagh, disciple of St Patrick (5th c.) Caron, Bishop of Tregaron, Dyfed, Wales (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Is 18:1-7 Jas 3:1-9 Jn 4:43-54 ♦ 1st Nocturn: 2nd part of the Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete
Friday 6 March 2020
Fridolin, of Ireland, Founder of Sackingen (540) Cadroe, of Ireland, Abbot of Waul (971) Chrodegang, Bishop of Metz (766) Fridolin of Ireland, founded monastery at Sackingen (ca. 540) Kyneburga, Kynewide Abbesses of Castor, and Tibba (ca. 680) Baldred of Glasgow, priest and hermit (756)
♦ Liturgy: Is 50:6-7 Jas 3:10-13 Jn 5:1-18
Saturday 7 March 2020
Paul the Simple, monk in the Thebaid (340) Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs at Carthage (203) Enodoch of Cornwall (ca. 520) Esterwine, Abbot of Weamouth, England (688)
♦ 1st Nocturn: Ho 14:2-10 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 3:12-14 Jas 4:1-6 Jn 5:19-27
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2nd Sunday of Lent Sunday 8 March 2020
Senan, Bishop of Scattery Island (560) Julian, Bishop of Toledo (690) Felix of Dunwich, Apostle of East Anglia (7th c.) Duthac of Ross, Scotland (unknown)
♦ 2nd Nocturn: Dn 2:1-25 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1P 3:5-9 ♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Dn 2:26-27, 31-47 Jas 2:21-26 Jn 4:5-42
3rd Week of Lent Monday 9 March 2020
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (320) Constantine, King of Cornwall, martyr (576) Bosa, Bishop of York (705)
♦ Liturgy: Jer 3:20-22 Jas 4:7-10 Jn 5:28-30
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Attalas, 2nd Abbot of Bobbio (627) Himelin, of Ireland, Priest at Vissemaeken (750) Anastasia the Patrician, hermitess at Skete (6th c.) Kessog of Lennox, bishop in Scotland (ca. 560) Emilian, born in Ireland, Abbot of Lagny (675)
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Wednesday 11 March 2020
Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (644) Aengus of Keld, the Culdee, Abbot of Cluain-eidneach (824) Ceratius, Bishop of Eauze (5th c.) Constantine, Scotland’s first martyr (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Jer 18: 7-11 Jas 5:1-11 Jn 5:39 – 6:2
Thursday 12 March 2020
Symeon the New Theologian (1021) Paul Aurelian, 1st Bishop-Abbot in Léon (573) Tanguy, Founder of Monastery at Gerber (594) Mura McFeredach, Abbot of Fahan in County Derry (ca. 654)
♦ Liturgy: Jer 14:5-10 Jas 5:12-15 Jn 6:5-14 ♦ 1st Nocturn: 3rd part of the Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete
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Friday 13 March 2020
Euphrasia of Constantinople, nun of the Thebaid (410) Mochoemoc, of Ireland, founded Liath-Mochoemoc (656) Gerald of Ireland, Abbot of Mayo (732) Kevoca, honored in Kyle in Scotland (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Jer 25:1-7 Jas 5:16-20 Jn 6:15-23
Saturday 14 March 2020
Leobinus, Bishop of Chartres (556) Kyrin, 1st Bishop of Ross (ca. 630) Talmach of Lough Erc, founder of a monastery (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Jer 6:6-21 1P 1:1-9 Jn 6:24-29
3rd Sunday of Lent Sunday 15 March 2020
Aristobulus of the Seventy, 1st Bishop of Britain, martyr (1st c.) Longinus the Centurion, martyr à Caesarea of Palestine (1st c.)
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♦ 2nd Nocturn: Dn 9:4-19 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Nm 22:2 – 23:10 1Jn 2:8-12 ♦ Matins: Jn 9:39 – 10:9 ♦ Liturgy: Dn 4:16-24, 30-34 1Jn 1:5-9 Jn 9:1-38
Aristobulus: ♦ Liturgy: Is 42:1-4 1P 5:1-11 Jn 3:1-11
4th Week of Lent Monday 16 March 2020
Gregory of Armenia, Bishop of Nicopolis, hermit at Pithiviers (3rd c.) Eusebia, Abbess de Hamage (680) Abraham the Solitary, hermit near Edessa (6th c.) Abban, Abbot of Kill-Abban, Ireland (620) Finnian of Lobhar, Abbot of Swords, near Dublin (560)
♦ Liturgy: Jl 2:12-13 1P 1:10-16 Jn 6:30-34
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Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, Bishop of Armagh (461) Gertrude, Abbess of Nivelles (659) Agricola, Bishop of Chalon-sur-Saone (580) Llinio of Llandinam, Abbot and Founder of Llandinam, Powys, Wales (520)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 4:1-7 1P 1:16-21 Jn 6:35-40
Mid-Lent Wednesday 18 March 2020
Edward the Martyr, King of England (978) Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, Father of the Church (386) Fridianus, of Ireland, Bishop-Abbot of Lucca (588) Frigidian, Bishop of Lucca, hermit (588) Egbert of Ripon, Bishop of Lindesfarne (ca. 720) Finan of Aberdeen, Bishop of Lindesfarne (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Jl 2:15-17 1P 3:10-15 Jn 6:41-47
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Joseph the Just, Spouse of Mary (1st c.) Leontius, Bishop of Saintes (640) Lachtnan, Founder of Clonfert, Ireland Landoald, Abbot-Founder of Wintershaven and Amance (668) Alkmund of Northumbria, martyred in Shropshire (ca. 800)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 20:12-24 1P 4:7-11 Jn 6:47-55 ♦ 1st Nocturn: 4th part of the canon of Saint Andrew of Crete
Joseph the Just: ♦ Matins: Mt 1”18-21 ♦ Liturgy: Si 45:1-4 Col 3:14-15, 17 Mt 2:19-23 ♦ Vespers: Ps 111 and 112 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ps 2 and 96
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Cuthbert, Bishop-Abbot of Lindisfarne (687) Wulfram, Bishop of Sens, apostle of Frisia (720) Remigius, Bishop of Strasbourg (783) Herbert, hermit of Derwentwater (687)
♦ Liturgy: Mi 7:18-20 1P 5:6-11 Jn 6:56-59
Saturday 21 March 2020
Benedict, Abbot-Founder of Nursia (547) Enda of Arranmore, Founder of Cashel (ca. 530) Nicolas, hermit at Flue (1487) Isenger, Irish Bishop of Verdun (9th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Am 5:14-15 2P 1:5-11 Jn 6:60-66
4th Sunday of Lent Sunday 22 March 2020
Paul Sergius, 1st Bishop of Narbonne (290) Ruff, 1st Bishop of Avignon Darerca, Queen in Scotland (5th c.) Failbhe, Abbot of Iona (ca. 680) Trien, Abbot of Killelga (5th c.)
♦ 2nd Nocturn: Dn 10:12 – 11:2; 12:1-13 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Jas 4:11-17 ♦ Matins: Jn 8:15-20 ♦ Liturgy: Dn 10:2-12, 15-16a, 19b Jas 3:14-18 Jn 7:14-30
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5th Week of Lent Monday 23 March 2020
Ethelwald, hermit at Lindisfarne (699) Victorian and Fromentius, martyrs at Adrumentum (484) Eusebius II, Bishop of Tricastin (600) Gwinear, Phiala and companions, martyrs near Penzance, Cornwall (460) Maidoc [Mo-Mhaedog], Abbot of Fiddown (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Is 1:1-4, 24-26 2P 1:12-21 Jn 8:3-11
Tuesday 24 March 2020 (Forefeast of the Annunciation)
Gabriel the Archangel Sara-o-Kali, hermitess at Skete (4th c.) Hildelitba, nun of Chelles, 2nd Abbess of Barking (717) Caimin of Inneskeltra, hermit on island of Lough Derg, Ireland (653) Macartin, Bishop of Clogher (ca. 505)
♦ 2nd Nocturn: Dn 9:4-19 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Nm 22:2 – 23:10 1Jn 2:8-12 ♦ Liturgy: Is 5:20,23-27 1Jn 1:1-4 Jn 8:21-30 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Akathist Hymn
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Gabriel the Archangel Dn 9:21-26
Forefeast of the Annunciation ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ez 43:27 – 44:4 Prov 9:1-11 ♦ Vespers: Ps 44 and 84
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God (1st c.) Hermenland, Abbot-Founder of Aindre (720) Dismas the Repentant Thief (33) Kennocha, nun in Fife, Scotland (1007) Alfwold, Bishop of Sherborne (1058) Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow (1925)
♦ Liturgy: Ho 5:10; 7:13-16; 13:4 1Jn 1:10 – 2:2 Jn 8:31-45
Annunciation ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ex 3:1-8 ♦ Matins: Lk 1:39-49, 56 ♦ Liturgy: Prov 9:1-11 Hb 2:11-18 Lk 1:24-38
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Thursday 26 March 2020
Ludger, of Zuilen, 1st Bishop of Munster (809) Larissa and companions, martyrs en Crimea (ca. 375) Sincheall, Founder of monastery in Killeigh, Ireland (5t
♦ Liturgy: Jer 9:7-9, 12 1Jn 2:3-11 Jn 8:52-59 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Great Canon of Saint Andrew of Crete
Friday 27 March 2020
Rupert of Ireland, 1st Bishop of Salzburg (717) John the Anchorite, monk in the Thebaid (394) Alkeld, holy woman martyred by Danes (10th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Jer 12:7-10, 14-15 1Jn 2:12-17 Jn 10:20-28
Saturday 28 March 2020
Gundelindis, 2nd Abbess of Niedermunster (750) Justin, 1st Bishop of Tarbes, martyr (5th c.) Guntram, King of Burgundy (593) Tuthal [Tutilo], gifted artistic monk of St Gall (ca. 915)
♦ Liturgy: Is 50:8-10 1Jn 2:18-25 Jn 7:33-38
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5th Sunday of Lent Sunday 29 March 2020
Resurrection of Lazarus Eustace, 2nd Abbot of Luxeuil (625) Jonas and Barachisius, martyrs in Persia (327) Lasar, nun in Ireland (6th c.) Gwynllyw of Wales, husband of St Gladys, father of St Cadoc, hermit in Wales (ca. 500) Gwladys [Gladys], mother of St Cadoc, Wales (5th c.)
♦ 2nd Nocturn: La 3:1-21, 24-31, 52-66 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1P 4:13-19 ♦ Matins: Jn 5:28-29, 8:51-53, 58-59 ♦ Liturgy: 1K 17:17-24 1Jn 5:16-20 Jn 11:1-52
6th Week of Lent Monday 30 March 2020
John Climacus, Abbot of Mount Sinai, Father of the Church (606) Patto of Ireland, 2nd Bishop of Werden (788) Rule [Regulus], 1st Bishop of Senlis, France (ca. 260) Fergus, Bishop of Downpatrick, Ireland (6th c.) Tola, Abbot and Bishop of Disert Iola, Ireland (ca. 733)
♦ Liturgy: Hab 1:2-4; 2:4 1Jn 2:26-29 Jn 10:27-31
Tuesday 31 March 2020
Acatius, Patriarch of Antioch (250) Amos, Prophet (745 B.C.) Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, Abbot of Malmesbury (709)
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Wednesday 1st April 2020
Mary of Egypt, penitent (421) Valerius (Walric), Abbot-Founder of Leuconay (622) Melito, Bishop of Sardis, apologist (180) Cellach, Archbishop of Armagh (1129) Agilbert, Bishop of Dorchester (673)
♦ Liturgy: Lam 1:19-22, 3:25,32 1Jn 3:13-17 Jn 15:1-5
Thursday 2 April 2020
Nicetius, Bishop of Lyons (579) Flodobertha, and Landeberga, nuns of Faremoutiers (7th c.) Urban, Bishop of Langres (390) Ebba the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham, England (870) Bronach of Glen-Seichis (unknown) Constantine II, early King of Scotland (952)
♦ Liturgy: Lam 1:16; 3:54-56 1Jn 3:18-24 Jn 15:12-16
Friday 3 April 2020
Florentius, monk of Ireland, Bishop of Strasbourg (693) Urbitius, Bishop of Clermont (724) Nicetas, Abbot of Medicion (824) Joseph the Hymnographer, one of greatest liturgical poets and hymnographers (886) Comman, monk at Iona (688)
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Saturday 4 April 2020
Isidore, Bishop of Seville (636) Zosimas, monk-hermit in Palestine (560) Gweirir of Liskeard, hermit of Cornwall (unknown) Merryn, missionary in Cornwall and Brittany (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Jb 30:13, 20-21, 23-24 1Jn 4:7-16 Jn 7:1-10, 30
Sunday 5 April 2020
Palm Sunday – Our Lord’s Entrance into Jerusalem Tigernach, Bishop-Abbot of Cluain-Eois (549) Ethelburga, Abbess-Foundress of Lyminge (647) Theodora, nun at Thessalonica, martyr (892) Derferl-Gadarn of Llanderfel (5th or 6th c.) Becan, Founder of monastery at Kill-Beggan (6th c.) Probus and Grace, husband and wife, from Cornwall (unknown)
♦ 2nd Nocturn: Gn 49:1, 10-11 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Zep 3:14-19 ♦ Matins: Zec 9:9-17 ♦ Liturgy:
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Holy Week – Great and Holy Monday Monday 6 April 2020
Methodius, Archbishop of Moravia, Apostle of the Slavs (9th c.) Brec’han (or Brychan), King of Brecknock, Wales (unknown) Gennard, 3rd Abbot of Saint-Germer-de-Flay (720) Berthane, Bishop of Kirkwall in the Orkneys, Scotland, monk of Iona (840) Ulched, patron saint of Anglesey, Wales (unknown) Elstan of Abingdon, Bishop of Winchester (981)
♦ Liturgy: Is 57:1-4, 13 1Jn 4:17 – 5:4 Jn 7:43 – 8:2
Great and Holy Tuesday Tuesday 7 April 2020
Gibardus, Abbot of Luxeuil, martyr (888) Aphraates, hermit at Antioch (345) Finan of Kinnitty, Offaly, Ireland (6th c.) Goran, missionary of the district of Cornwall (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Is 50:5-8 1Jn 5:5-15 Jn 8:46-51
Great and Holy Wednesday Wednesday 8 April 2020
Apostles of the Seventy, Rufus, Agabus, Asyncritus, Herodion, Phlegon and Hermes, martyrs (1st c.) Perpetuus, Bishop of Tours (490)
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Great and Holy Thursday Commemoration of the Last Supper Thursday 9 April 2020
Mary of Cleopas, disciple in Palestine (1st c.) Hugh, Bishop of Paris, of Rouen, and of Bayeux (730) Prochorus, deacon of Antioch (1st c.) Dotto, Abbot of a monastery in the Orkney Islands of Scotland (6th c.) Hedda of Peterborough and 84 monks, martyrs, slain by the Danes (870) Theodore, Abbot of Croyland, martyr (869) Madrun of Wales, Queen of Gwent, widow (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Zac 2:13 – 3:5; 11:7-14; 13:7-9 1Co 11:23-32 Composed Gospel ♦ 1st Nocturn: Tenebrae Service
Great and Holy Friday Friday 10 April 2020
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Palladius, Bishop of Auxerre (661) Paternus, hermit at Abdinghof, martyr (1058) Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres (1028) Beocca of Chertsey, martyred by the Danes with other monks (870) The Prophetess Huldah (600’s B.C.)
♦ 2nd Nocturn: Ps 3 Is 52: 13; 53:13 Ps 8 Rm 5:6-21 Ps 30 Rm 6:1-14 Ps 38 Hb 2:5-18 Jn 16:29 – 17:11 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ps 39 Hb 9:6-14 Ps 40 Hb 9:15-28 Ps 48 Col 2:8-15 Ps 54 1P 2:21-25 ♦ Matins: Ps 50 and 21 Jn 17:12-26
Office of the Passion ♦ Liturgy: Jer 11:15-20; 12:7-9 Am 8:4-11 Zac 8:14-15; 12:10 1Co 1:18 – 2:2 Is 53:9-12 Composed Gospel Ps 50 and 21
Great and Holy Saturday Saturday 11 April 2020
Godebertha, Abbess of Tournai and Noyon (700) Isaac, hermit at Monteluco (6th c.)
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♦ Matins: Paschal Vigil Dn 3:26-45 (7th Ode) Ez 36:24-28 Mt 27:62-67 ♦ Paschal Vigil: New Fire Office of the Readings Baptismal Office Procession of the Resurrection ♦ Night Liturgy: Ap 1:18 Rm 6:3-11 Mt 28:1-7
Holy, Bright and Great Easter Sunday Sunday 12 April 2020
Erkemboden, Bishop of Therouanne (714) Zeno, Bishop of Verona, martyr (371) Florentinus, 1st Abbot of Arles (553)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 1:9-18 1Co 15:1-11, 20-22 Mt 28:8-20 Vespers: Ps 117
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Bright Week – 1st Week after Easter Monday 13 April 2020
Hermengild, King of Seville, martyr at Saragossa (586) Winnoc, Bishop of Scotland (ca. 838) Martius, Abbot of Clermont in the Auvergne, Gaul (ca. 530)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 2:1-7 Ac 2:14, 22b-32 Mk 16:1-7 ♦ Liturgy: Ps 117
Bright Tuesday Tuesday 14 April 2020
Lambert, 2nd Abbot of Fontenelle, Bishop of Lyons (688) Thomais, martyr at Alexandria (476) Praetextatus, Bishop of Rouen, martyr (586) Tassach, 1st Bishop of Raholp, Ireland (495) Apostles of the Seventy Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus, martyrs (1st c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 2:8-11 Ac 2:36-41 Lk 24:13-35 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
Bright Wednesday Wednesday 15 April 2020
Paternus (Padarn), Founder of Llanbadarn Fawr (482) Basilissa and Anastasia, disciples of St Paul, martyrs at Rome (68)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 3:7-13 Ac 3:1-10 Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
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Bright Thursday Thursday 16 April 2020
Paternus, 1st Bishop of Vannes (564) Fructuosus, Bishop of Braga (665) Withburga, princess, Foundress of Monastery at Dereham (743) Elias, Abbot of the Gaelic abbey of Saint Martin the Great at Cologne, Germany (1042)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 2:12-17 Ac 3:11-26 Jn 20:1-9 ♦ Liturgy: Ps 117
Bright Friday Friday 17 April 2020
Donan (or Donnan), Abbot of Eigg, martyr (617) Wando, Abbot of Fontenelle (756) Landericus, Bishop of Meaux (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 2:18-19 Ac 4:1-12 Jn 20:11-18 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
Bright Saturday Saturday 18 April 2020
Apollonius, apologist, martyr at Rome (185) Hiduiphus, Abbot-Founder of Lobbes (707) Cogitosus, monk of Kildare, biographer of St Brigid (8th c.) Laserian, Abbot of Leighlin (639)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 3:1-6 Ac 4:13-21 Jn 21:1-14 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
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1st Sunday after Easter – Thomas Sunday Sunday 19 April 2020
Ursmar, 1st Bishop-Abbot of Lobbes (713) Vincent, martyr at Collioure (304) Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (1012)
♦ Liturgy: Mt 28:1-5 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 7:2-12 Ac 8:26-40 Jn 20:19-31 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
2nd Week after Easter Monday 20 April 2020
Marcellinus, 1st Bishop of Embrun (ca. 374) Anastasius I, Patriarch of Antioch (598) Theotimus the Philosopher, Bishop at Tomi on the Black Sea (307) Caedwalla of Wales, King of Wessex in England (689) Gundebert, Bishop of Sens, Founder of Abbey of Senores (676)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 3:14-22 Ac 4:23-31 Mt 20:17-28
Tuesday 21 April 2020
Beuno, Founder of Clynnog Fawr (640) Anastasius the Sinaite, Abbot of Mount Sinai (700) Eingan of Bangor, Welsh prince, built hermitage at Llanengan (6th c.) Maelruhba, Founder of monastic community of Applecross in Ross, Scotland (722)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 5:1-5 Ac 4:32-37 Mt 22:23-33
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Wednesday 22 April 2020
Opportuna, Abbess at Montreuil (770) Alexander and Epidodius, martyrs at Lyons (178) Arwald and Rufus of Glendalough, martyrs (686)
♦ Liturgy:
Ap 5:6-10 Ac 5: 17-26 Mk 9:30-37
Thursday 23 April 2020
George, Great Martyr and Wonderworker at Nicomedia (3rd c.) Ibar, Bishop-Founder of Beggery (5th c.) Felix, priest, Fortunatus and Achilleus, deacons of Valence, martyrs at Lyons (212) Ethelbert, King of Kent (616)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 5:11-14 Ac 5:27-33 Lk 6:17-23
Friday 24 April 2020
Dyfnan, Founder at Anglesey, Wales (unknown) Dye, Abbot of Blois (unknown) Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury (624) Egbert, monk of Lindisfarne (729) Ivo of Huntingdonshire, Cornish bishop and abbot (ca. 1000)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 6:1-6 Ac 5:34-42 Lk 8:40-42, 49-56
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Mark, Apostle and Evangelist, Founder of the Church of Alexandria, martyr (1st c.) Anianus, 2nd Bishop of Alexandria (1st c.) Erminus, 2nd Bishop-Abbot of Lobbes (737) Macaille, Bishop of Croghan, Offaly, Ireland (489) Keby of Cornwall, bishop (4th c.) Maughold of Man, bishop (ca. 488)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 6:7-12 Ac 6:1-7 Lk 9:18-22 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117 Mark: ♦ Vespers: Ps 18 and 118 ♦ Matins: Lk 10:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Ez 1:10-14 1P 5:6-14 Lk 10:16-21
2nd Sunday after Easter – Sunday of the Paralytic Sunday 26 April 2020 Riquier, Abbot-Founder of Celles (645) Trudpert of Ireland, hermit at Saint Trudpert, martyr (644)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 21:9-23 Ac 9:1-22 Jn 5:1-18 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
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3rd Week after Easter Monday 27 April 2020
Symeon, kinsman of the Lord, 2nd Bishop of Jerusalem, martyr (c.107 or 117) Theodore the Sanctified, 2nd Abbot of Tabenna (368) Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia, martyr (303 or 311-312) Assic [Asicus], 1st Abbot-Archbishop of Elphin Monastery in Roscommon, Ireland (490) Enoder of Wales, abbot (6th c.) Winewald, 2nd Abbot of Beverley Monastery in England (731)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 6:13 – 7:1 Ac 6:8-15 Lk 9:23-27
Tuesday 28 April 2020
Aphrodisius, of Egypt, 1st Bishop of Béziers, martyr (1st c.) Theodora and Didymus, martyrs at Alexandria (4th c.) Cronan, Founder-Abbot of Roscrea Monastery, founder of fifty monasteries (640) Gerard the Pilgrim (1120) Probe and Germaine, martyrs (ca. 5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 7:13-17 Ac 7:51 – 8:1a Lk 14:7-14
Wednesday 29 April 2020
Tychicus and Jason, disciples (1st c.) Endellion, princess of Cornwall, recluse (6th c.) Wilfrid, Abbot-Bishop of York (746) Senan of North Wales, hermit (7th c.) Fiachan, monk in Lismore Abbey, Ireland (7th c.) Dichu of Ulster, 1st convert of St Patrick (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 8:1-5 Ac 8:1b-8 Lk 16:19-31
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Thursday 30 April 2020
Onenn, of Tréhorenteuc (Brittany), virgin (7th c.) Eutropius, 1st Bishop of Saintes, martyr (1st c.) Erkenwald, Bishop of London (693) Cynwl of Wales, hermit (6th c.) Swithbert the Younger, English missionary, Bishop of Werden, Germany (807)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 8:6-13 Ac 10:1-23a Jn 3:1-8
Friday 1st May 2020
James the Minor and Philip (the Less), apostles, martyrs (1st c.) Brieuc, of Wales, 1st Bishop-Abbot of Saint-Brieuc (510) Ultan, of Ireland, abbot-founder of Fosses (657) Asaph, 1st Bishop of Llanelwy (600) Ceallach, Bishop of Killala, Ireland (6th c.) Kevoca of Kyle, Scottish (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 9:1-6 Ac 10:23b-33 Jn 3:7-15
James and Philip ♦ 1st Nocturn: 1Jn 1:1-7 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Jas 1:1-12 ♦ Matins: Jn 21:15-25
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Saturday 2 May 2020
Athanasius, pope of Alexandria, Father of the Church (373) Waldebert, 3rd Abbot of Luxeuil, founder of Moutier-Grandval (668) Gennys of Cornwall, hermit (perhaps 10th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 9:7-12 Ac 10:34-48 Jn 3:16-21 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
3rd Sunday after Easter – New Commandment Sunday 3 May 2020
Conleth [Conlaed], 1st Bishop of Kildare (519) Scannal, monk of Iona (563) Ethelwin, 2nd Bishop of Lindsey, England (700)
Matins: Lc 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 4:1-10a Ac 8:14-25 Jn 13:33 – 14:13
4th Week after Easter Monday 4 May 2020
Florian, martyr at Lorsch (304) Monica, mother of Saint Augustin (387) Sacerdos, Bishop of Limoges (720) Ethelred, King of Mercia, Abbot at Bardney, England (716) Chad of Lichfield, bishop, abbot of several monasteries (7th c.)
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Tuesday 5 May 2020
Hilary, Bishop of Arles (449) Nicetius, Bishop of Vienne (449) Diuma, founded monastery in Peterborough, England, missionary and evangelizing bishop (658) Echa, hermit of Crayk, near York, England (767) Hydroc of Lanhydroc, Cornwall, England (5th c.) Gibrian of Ireland, priest (509)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 10:1-7 Ac 11:19-26 Jn 8:12-19
Wednesday 6 May 2020
Evodius, 1st Patriarch Antioch, martyr (69) Eadbert, Abbot-Bishop of Lindisfarne (698) Valerius, 3rd Bishop of Auxerre (366) Colman Mac Ui Cluasigh, professor at Cork (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 10:8-11 Ac 12:24 – 13:5 Jn 10:1-10
Thursday 7 May 2020
John Zedazneli, of Syria, Georgian Church Father, martyr (6th c.) Flavius, martyr on the Isle of Pandateria (300) Nilus of Sora, Abbot-Founder of Sorsk (1508) John of Beverley, Bishop of York, Founder of Beverly Abbey (721) Liudhard of Canterbury, bishop (600)
53 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 11:1-13 Ac 13:13-25 Jn 10:11-18
Friday 8 May 2020
Arsenius the Great, monk of Scetis (445) Ita, foundress of Nivelles (652) Michael the Archangel at Monte Gargano (ca. 490) Catald, Bishop of Taranto (ca. 480) Odrian, Bishop of Waterford (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 11:14-19 Ac 13:26-33 Jn 12:19-36
Saturday 9 May 2020
Pachomius, father of cenobitic monasticism, Abbot-Founder of Tabenna (346) Beatus, of Ireland, hermit at Thun (112) Holy Prophet Isaiah (8th c. BC) Gofor of Llanover, Welsh (unknown) Tudy [Tedwin], Abbot of Landevennec, Brittany (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 12:1-6 Ac 13:44-52 Jn 13:16-20 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
4th Sunday after Easter – True Vine Sunday 10 May 2020
Comgall, Abbot-Founder of Bangor (601) Solange, martyr at Villemont (880)
54 ♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 14:1-7 Ac 4:32 – 5:11 Jn 15:1-15
5th Week after Easter Monday 11 May 2020
Mamertius, Bishop of Vienne (475) Possessor, Bishop of Verdun (486) Credan, Abbot of Evesham, England (780) Fremund of Dunstable, martyr (ca. 866)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 12:7-12 Ac 14:5-18 Jn 14:1-6
Tuesday 12 May 2020
Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, Church Father (403) Richrudis, Abbess of Marchiennes (688) Ethelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury (806) Pancras, martyr, beheaded during Diocletian persecution (304) Diomma of Kildim, Ireland (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 12:13-17 Ac 14:19-28 Jn 14:7-14
Wednesday 13 May 2020
Servatus, Bishop of Tongres and Maastricht (383) Disciole, nun of Holy Cross Convent, Poitiers (583) Agnes, 1st Abbess of Holy Cross Convent, Poitiers (588) Abban of Abingdon, Irish hermit in England (520) Erconwald, Bishop of London (693) Mael, Welsh hermit on the island Bardsey (8th c.) Merewenna, Abbess of Rumsey Abbey (970)
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♦ Liturgy: Ap 13:1-10 Ac 15:1-6 Jn 14:21-26
Thursday 14 May 2020
Carthach the Younger, Bishop of Lismore (637) Pontius, martyr at Cimiez (257) Leontius, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1175)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 13:11-18 Ac 15:7-21 Jn 14:27-31a
Friday 15 May 2020
Waldalenus, monk of Luxeuil, founder of Beze (7th c.) Dionysia, Peter and Andrew, martyrs at Lampsacus (1st c.) Dympna of Glee, Irish martyr in Belgium (7th c.) Gereburnus of Sonsbeck, martyr in Geel, Belgium (7th c.) Britwin, Abbot of Beverley (733)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 14:8-13 Ac 15:12-17 Jn 15:12-17
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Saturday 16 May 2020
Brendan the Navigator, Abbot-Founder of Clonfert (577) Peregrinus, 1st Bishop of Auxerre, martyr at Bouhy (304) Carantoc, Welsh Founder-Abbot at Cernach, Wales (6th c.) Primael of Quimper, hermit (ca. 450)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 15:1-8 Ac 16:1-10 Jn 15:18-21 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
5th Sunday after Easter – Perfect Joy Sunday 17 May 2020
Andronicus and Junia, disciples (1st c.) Maiduif, of Ireland, Abbot-Founder of Malmesbury (7th c.) Madern of Cornwall, monk and hermit (ca. 545) Cathan, Bishop on the isle of Bute, Scotland (6th or 7th c.)
♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 19:5-16 Ac 9:32-42 Jn 16:16-33
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6th Week after Easter Monday 18 May 2020 (Rogation Monday)
Dioscorus, martyr at Alexandria, Father of the Church (305) Merililaun, of Ireland, monk-martyr in the Ardennes (8th c.) Conval of Strathclyde, Irish evangelizer in Scotland (ca. 630) Feradarius, Irish Abbot of Iona, Scotland (863) Elgiva of Shaftesbury, Queen of the Saxons, nun (944)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 16:1-7 Ac 16:11-15 Jn 15:26 – 16:4
Tuesday 19 May 2020 (Rogation Tuesday)
Ivo of Kermartin, priest at Treguier (1303) Pudens and Pudentiana, martyrs at Rome (2nd c.) Dunstan of Canterbury, reviver of monasticism in England (10th c.) Alcuin of York, Benedictine scholar (804)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 16:8-14 Ac 16:22-34 Jn 16:5-11
Wednesday 20 May 2020 (Rogation Wednesday)
Austregisilus, Bishop of Bourges (624) Baudelius, apostle of Nimes, martyr (295) Ethelbert, King of East Anglia, martyr (794)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 16:15-21 Ac 18:1-8 Jn 16:12-15 ♦ Vespers: Ps 23, 46 and 107
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Thursday 21 May 2020
Ascension of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Silaüs, bishop in Ireland (unknown) Hospice of Egypt, hermit at Villefranche-sur-Mer (580) Barrfoin of Kilbarron, Irish missionary (6th c.) Collen of Denbighshire, Welsh (7th c.) Godric of Finchale, hermit in County Durham, England (1170)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:14-20 ♦ Liturgy: 2K 2:1-15 Ac 1:1-11 Lk 24:36-53
Friday 22 May 2020
Ausonius, 1st Bishop of Angouleme, martyr (ca. 300) Julia of Carthage, martyr in Corsica (480) Quiteria, martyr in Landes (477) Boethian, built the Pierrepont Abbey near Laon, martyr (7th c.) Conall, Abbot of Inniscoel Monastery, County Donegal, Ireland (7th c.) Helen of Carnarvon, virgin martyr, foundress of churches in Wales (418)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 19:1-4 Ac 18:9-18 Jn 16:23b-28
59 Saturday 23 May 2020
Didier and companions, Bishop of Langres, martyrs (407) Siacre, Bishop of Cimiez (787) Gobain of Old-Leighlin, abbot from Ireland (6th c.) Petroc of Cornwall, Welsh founder of monasteries (ca. 594)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 20:1-6 Ac 19:1-8 Jn 16:29-33 ♦ Vespers: Ps 117
6th Sunday after Easter – The Disciples sent on mission Sunday 24 May 2020
Vincent, monk of Lérins (450) Donatian and Rogatian, martyrs at Nantes (299)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 4:2-4, 10-11 Eph 4:7-10 Mk 16:15-20
7th Week after Easter Monday 25 May 2020
Mary of Cleopas, Marie-Salome, disciples, and Sara, their servant (1st c.) Dunchadh [Donkad], Abbot of Iona (717) Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, Abbot of Malmesbury (709)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 20:7-15 Ac 20:17-27 Jn 17:1-11a
60 Tuesday 26 May 2020
Carpus, Bishop of Bereia and Alpheus, disciples (1st c.) Godo, monk of Fontenelle, founder of Oyes (690)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 21:1-8 Ac 20:28-38 Jn 17:11b-19
Wednesday 27 May 2020
Eutropius, Bishop of Orange (475) Therapont, Bishop of Sardis, martyr (ca.259) Augustine, Bishop of Canterbury (605) Bede the Venerable, scholar, father of English history (735) Melangell, Abbess at Pennant Melangell, virgin and hermitess in Wales (590)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 21:24-27 Ac 22:30 – 23:6-11 Jn 17:20-26
Thursday 28 May 2020
Eutychius, disciple, Bishop of Melitene, martyr (1st c.) Germanus, Bishop of Paris (576) William, Abbot of Gellone (755)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 22:6-15 Ac 25:13-21 Jn 21:15-19
Friday 29 May 2020
Ragnacharius, monk of Luxeuil, Bishop of Augst (ca. 630) Maximinus, Bishop of Trier (347) Maxentius (or Maixent), Bishop of Poitiers (515) Theodosia of Constantinople, nun, martyr for the defense of icons (745) Theodosia of Tyre, virgin martyr with companions at Caesarea, Palestine (303
61 Dyfrig [Dubricius] of Caerleon, founder of monastic life in Wales (612)
♦ Liturgy: Ap 22:16-21 Ac 15:1-4 Jn 21:20-25
Saturday 30 May 2020 (Forefeast of the Pentecost)
Cadoc, Ireland, monk in Ponthieu (7th c.) Mac Cuil, of Ireland, hermit at Centula (685) Walstan the Generous, penitent from Bawburgh, near Norwich (1016)
♦ Liturgy: Is 61:1-5 1Co 12:2-13 Jn 14:23-31 ♦ Vespers: Ps 32, 138 and 142
Sunday 31 May 2020
Pentecost Cantius and companions, martyrs at Aquileia (304) Petronilla, martyr at Rome (1st c.) Hermas, Apostle of the Seventy, Bishop of Philippolis, martyr (1st c.) Winnow, Mancus and Myrbad, from Ireland (6th c.)
♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Jl 2:21 – 3:2 Ac 2:1-21 Jn 15:26; 16:12-15; 17:1-3, 11 21-23
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1st Week after Pentecost Monday 1st June 2020
Wite [Gwenn, Candida] of Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, nun and martyr (unknown) Justin the Philosopher, martyr at Rome, Church Father (166) Ronan, Bishop in Ireland, hermit at Locronan (5th c.) Florus, 1st Bishop of Lodeve (390) Ruadan of Cornwall, missionary bishop 6th c.) Wistan of Evesham, martyr (850) Thecla of Denbighshire (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 1:1-19 Rm 1:1-7 Mk 1:14-22
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Pothinus, Bishop of Lyon, martyr (177) Blandina and Attalus, martyrs at Lyons (177) Erasmus, Bishop of Formia, martyr (ca. 303) Odo the Good, Archbishop of Canterbury (959) Bodfan of Abern, in Gwynedd, Wales (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 1:20 – 2:4a Rm 1:8-17 Mk 1:23-28
Wednesday 3 June 2020
Clotilde, Queen of the Francs (545) Kevin [Coemgen], Bishop-Founder de Glendalough (618) Lyfard, Abbot-Founder of Meung-sur-Loire (565) Cronan the Tanner, disciple of St Kevin (617) Glunshalaich of Glendalough, hermit, disciple of St Kevin (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17 Rm 1:18-32 Mk 1:29-34
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Thursday 4 June 2020
Optatus, Bishop of Milevis, Church Father (384) Petroc, Abbot-Founder of Padstow, Cornwall (564) Metrophanes, Bishop of Byzantium (325) Edfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne (721) Breaca of Cornwall, disciple of St Brigid (5th or 6th c.) Nennoc of Brittany, British virgin, Abbess of convent in Armorica, France (ca. 467)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 2:18-25 Rm 2:1-11 Mk 1:35-45
Friday 5 June 2020
Eoban, of Ireland, Bishop of Utrecht, martyr at Dokkum (754) Winfrith [Boniface], Bishop of Cologne, martyr at Mainz Porcarius, Abbot at Poitiers (595) Boniface of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz (754) Tudno of Caernarvon, Welsh (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 3:1-8 Rm 2:12-29 Mk 2:1-12
Saturday 6 June 2020
Gudwall, of Wales, Bishop of Aleth (625) Jarlath, 1st Bishop of Tuam, Ireland, founded monastery in Tuam (540) Cocca, Irish virgin of Kilcock (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 4:1-15, 25 Rm 3:1-8 Mk 2:13-17
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1st Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 7 June 2020
Colman [Mocholmog], Abbot-Founder of Terryglass, (549) Meriadoc, of Wales, Bishop-hermit of Vannes (1302) Colman Bishop of Dromore (6th c.)
♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Is 6:1-13 1Co 15:31-38 Mt 9:14-17
2nd Week after Pentecost Monday 8 June 2020
Maximinus, disciple, 1st Bishop of Aix, in Provence (1st c.) Medardus (or Medard), Bishop of Tournai and Noyon (560) Eustadiola, Abbess-Foundress of Moyenmoutier (684) Bron of Cassel-Irra, disciple of St Patrick (511) Levan the Irish, missionary to Cornwall, England (6th c.) Syra [Savina], anchoress in Troyes (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 Rm 3:9-20 Mk 2:23 – 3:6
Tuesday 9 June 2020
Columba, Abbot-Founder of Iona (521-597) Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, Father and Doctor of the Church (444) Baithin, 2nd Abbot of Iona (598) Cumian of Bobbio, bishop of Ireland (8th c.)
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♦ Liturgy: Gn 8:6-13, 20-22 Rm 3:21-31 Mk 3:7-12
Wednesday 10 June 2020
Landericus [Landry], Bishop of Paris (656) Evermund, Abbot-Founder of Fontenay-Louvet (720) Ithamar of Rochester, 1st Anglo-Saxon bishop in Britain (656)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 9:1-13 Rm 4:1-12 Mk 3:13-21
Thursday 11 June 2020
Bartholomew and Barnabas, apostles, martyrs (61) Blitharius [Blier], of Ireland, hermit at Verde-en-Brie (7th c.) Herebald, native of Britain, hermit in Brittany (8th c.) Tochmura of Kilmore, Irish virgin (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 11:1-9 Rm 4:13-25 Mk 3:22-35
Friday 12 June 2020
Onuphrius the Great, hermit in Thebes (4th c.) Ternan [Torannan], Bishop of the Picts, founder of Banchory-Ternan (431) Ternan, missionary, founder of Abbey of Culross (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 12:1-9 Rm 5:1-11 Mk 4:1-9
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Saturday 13 June 2020
Aventinus, hermit at Luchon, martyr (813) Rambert [Ragnebert], martyr at Rambert-en-Bugey (680) Damhnade of Ireland, virgin, possessed extraordinary gift of miracles (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 13:2, 5-18 Rm 5:12-21 Mk 4:10-23
2nd Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 14 June 2020
Euspicius, Abbot-Founder of Micy Abbey (6th c.) Methodius I, Patriarch of Constantinople (847) Elisha, prophet (8th c. B.C.) Cearan the Devout, Abbot of Bellach-Duin (870) Dogmael of Pembroke, Welsh monk (6th c.) Nennus, Irish Abbot on isles of Arran and Bute (7th c.)
♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Is 66:5-14 Gal 5:16-26 Mt 5:17-20
3rd Week after Pentecost Monday 15 June 2020
All the Saints and Righteous of the Celtic Orthodox Church Landelinus, Bishop-Founder of Lobbes (686) Psalmodius, of Ireland, hermit at Eymoutiers (7th c.)
67 Prophet Amos (745 B.C.) Trillo of Llandrillo, Welsh saint (6th c.) Vouga of Cornwall, Irish bishop, hermit in Lesneven, Brittany (6th c.) Edburga, Abbess of Winchester Abbey (960)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 15:1-12, 17-18a Rm 6:1-11 Mk 4:24-34
Restoration of the Celtic Orthodox Church and all the Saints and Righteous ♦ Vespers: Ps 15, 36 (1-26) and 36 (27-40) ♦ Liturgy: Dt 30:5b, 9b-10, 16 Ap 3:7b-8, 10-13 Jn 15:12-17
Tuesday 16 June 2020
Berthaldus [Bertaud], of Ireland, Abbot of Chaumont-Porcien (540) Aurelian, Bishop of Arles (551) Ferreolus, bishop, and Ferrutio, deacon of Besancon, martyrs (211) Colman McRhoi, Abbot-Founder of Monastery of Reachrain (6th c.) Curig of Wales, Welsh bishop in Llanbadarn (6th c.) Ismael of Wales, Bishop of Menevia (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 16:1-12, 15-16 Rm 6:12-23 Mk 4:35-41
Wednesday 17 June 2020
Herve [Harvey] of Brittany, Abbot of Plouvien (575) Ours, of Ireland, deacon of Aosta (?) Veredemus, Bishop of Avignon (720) Moling of Wexford, Founder of abbey at Achad Cainigh (697) Botolph of Boston, learned founder of abbey in wilderness of Ikanhoe (680) Nectan of Hartland, Devonshire, hermit and martyr (510)
68 ♦ Liturgy: Gn 17:1, 9-10, 15a, 16-22 Rm 7:1-13 Mk 5:1-20
Thursday 18 June 2020
Amandus, Bishop of Bordeaux (431) Fortunatus, Bishop of Meaux (569) Theneva of Glasgow, mother of St Kentigern (7th c.) Edburga and Edith, nuns at Aylesbury (ca. 650)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 18:1-15 Rm 7:14-25 Mk 5:21-24a, 35 – 6:1
Friday 19 June 2020
Paisios the Great [Pishoy], Abbot of Nitria (417) Deodatus, of Ireland, Founder of Jointures (ca. 680) Gervase and Protase, martyrs at Milan (96) Jude the Apostle, also called Jude Thaddeus (1st c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 18:16-33 Rm 8:1-13 Mk 5:24b-34
Saturday 20 June 2020
Gobain of Ireland, hermit in the Aisne region of Picardy, martyr (670) Latuinus of Great Britain, 1st Bishop of Sées (5th c.) Edburga of Caistor, virgin in Northamptonshire (7th c.) Govan of Wales, hermit (6th c.) Edward of England, king, martyr, body remained incorrupt (978) Oswald of Northumbria, missionary and martyred king (642)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 19:15-29 Rm 8:14-27 Mk 6:2-6
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3rd Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 21 June 2020
Meen [Mewan], of Wales, Abbot-Founder of St-Jean de Gaël Abbey (617) Leutfridus [Leufroy], Abbot-Founder of La Croix Saint-Ouen (738) Corbmac, Abbot of Durrow, disciple of St Columba (6th c.)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Is 5:18-27 Rm 6:19-23 Mt 8:1-13
4th Week after Pentecost Monday 22 June 2020
Alban, Protomartyr of Britain, at Verulamium (254) Lambert, 4th Abbot of Sithiu, now Saint-Omer (ca. 709) Heraclius the Soldier, martyr, Verulamium, Hertfordshire, England (ca. 303) Aaron of Aleth, hermit, monk and abbot at a monastery on Cézembre (after 552)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 21:3, 8-21 Rm 8:28-39 Mk 6:7-13
Tuesday 23 June 2020
Ethelreda, Abbess of Ely (679) Martin des Ormeaux, Bishop of Tricastin (ca. 680) Mochaoi [Moelray], Abbot of Nendrum Monastery, Ireland (493)
70 ♦ Liturgy: Gn 22:1-13, 15-19 Rm 9:1-13 Mk 6:30-45
Wednesday 24 June 2020
Nativity of the Glorious Forerunner and Baptist John (1st c.) Rumold, of Ireland, Abbot-Founder of Malines, martyr (775) Gerome of Germoe, bishop in Cornwall (596)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67 Rm 9:14-24 Mk 6:46-56
Nativity of John the Baptist ♦ 2nd Nocturn: Jdg 13:2-8, 13-14, 17-18, 21 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Is 40:1-3, 9; 41:17-18; 45:8; 48:20-21; 54:1 ♦ Liturgy: Is 49:1-7 Gal 4:22-31 Lk 1:5-25, 57-68, 76-80
Thursday 25 June 2020
Prosper, Bishop in Aquitaine, Church Father (455) Moluag, Bishop-Founder of Lismore (592) Amphibalus of St Albans, priest-martyr (304) Moloc of Mortlach, Scottish bishop and missionary in the Hebrides (572) Milburga, Abbess of Much Wenlock, England (ca.722) Kyneburga of Gloucester, virgin and martyr (7th or 8th c.)
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♦ Liturgy: Gn 27:1-5, 15-29 Rm 9:25-33 Mk 7:1-13
Friday 26 June 2020
Babolenus, of Ireland, Abbot-Founder of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (670) Saulve, Bishop-missionary at Angouleme, martyr at Valenciennes (768) Maxentius, Abbot in Poitou (515) Brannock of Braunton, founded monastery at Braunton, Devonshire (6th c.) Corbican of Ireland, recluse in the Low Countries (8th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 28:10-22a Rm 10:1-13 Mk 7:14-24a
Saturday 27 June 2020
John of Chinon, priest-hermit at Chinon, Touraine (6th c.) Soil and companions, martyrs at Cordoba (31) Benen [Benignus], Archbishop of Armagh (467) Emma of Gurk, Austria, of Saxon nobility (1038)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 32:23-32 Rm 10:14-21 Mk 7:24b-30
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4th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 28 June 2020
Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, martyr, Church Father (202) Maelvon of Ireland, Bishop-Abbot of Aleth (7th c.) Geofroi, [Godefroi] 2nd Bishop-Abbot of Aleth (ca. 656) Austell of Cornwall and Brittany (6th c.) Crummine of Lackan, bishop and disciple of St Patrick (5th c.)
♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Is 40:27-31 Rm 11:32-36 Mt 8:18-26
Maelvon: ♦ Vespers: Ps 18:1 and 111 ♦ Liturgy: Wis 10:17-21 Col 3:12-17 Jn 15:12-17
73 Monday 29 June 2020
Peter and Paul, Apostles, martyrs at Rome (1st c.) Colfin, Bishop of Aleth-St-Malo (6th c.) Marcel and Anastasius, martyrs at Argenton sur Creuse (274) Cocha of Ross-Benchuir, abbess (6th c.) Elwin, Bishop of Lindsey (692) Salome and Judith, Anglo-Saxon anchorites at monastery of Oberaltaich, Bavaria (9th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a Rm 11:1-10 Mk 7:31-37
Peter and Paul: ♦ Vespers: Ps 18 and 111 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1P 1:3-9, 13-19; 2:11-24 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 10:8-10; 11:1, 3-4, 15 2Col 11:21b – 12:9 Mt 16:13-19
Tuesday 30 June 2020
Council of the Holy Apostles (70) Martial, bishop, Alpinian and Austriclinian, priests of Limoges, martyrs (3rd c.) Eurgain, Welsh virgin foundress of Cor-Eurgain (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5 Rm 11:11-24 Mk 8:1-10
74 Wednesday 1st July 2020
Cosmas and Damian, Holy Unmercenaries, martyrs at Rome (ca. 287) Thierry, 1st Abbot of Mont-d’Hor (533) Servanus of Culross, Irish bishop, patron of the Orkney Islands (6th c.) Aaron and Julius, martyred at Caerleon, Wales, during persecution of Diocletian (ca. 304) Cewydd, Welsh saint of Anglesey (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 46:1-7, 28-30 Rm 11:25-36 Mk 8:11-21
Thursday 2 July 2020
Visitation of the Most Holy Mother of God (1st c.) Géroche, Monk of Faremoutiers (ca. 680) Oudoc, Bishop of Llandaff, Wales (615) John Maximovitch, Archbishop of San Francisco (1966)
♦ Liturgy: Gn 49:29-33; 50:15-24 Rm 12:1-8 Mk 8:22-26
Visitation: ♦ Liturgy: Cant 2:8-14 Hb 9:1-7 Lk 1:39-47
75 Friday 3 July 2020
Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea, Church Father, Patriarch of Constantinople (282) Germanus of Man, Bishop of the Isle of Man (474) Cillene, Abbot of Iona, Scotland (752) Gunthiern of Wales, prince, became hermit in Brittany (500) Guthagon the Irishman, hermit, took residence in Belgium (8th c.) Rumold, Bishop of Dublin, martyred near Malines (775) Aaron and Julius (Martyrs, Caerleon (304) Byblig, Welsh monk, Caernarvon (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 1:8-14, 22 Rm 12:9-21 Mk 8:27 – 9:1
Saturday 4 July 2020
Andrew, Archbishop of Crete (712) Bertha of Artois, Abbess of Blangy (725) Finbar of Wexford, Founder and 1st Abbot on the Innis-Doimhle, Ireland (6th c.) Odo the Good, Archbishop of Canterbury (959)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 2:1-15a Rm 13:1-7 Mk 9:11-29
5th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 5 July 2020
Athanasius, Deacon at Jerusalem, martyr (452) Athanasius the Athonite, founder of a lavra on Mount Athos (1003) Fragan, husband of St Gwenn (5th c.) Grace and Probus of Cornwall (6th c.) Morwenna of Morwenstow, Cornwall, Welsh hermitess (6th c.) Modwenna, Foundress and Abbess of Burton Abbey, Staffordshire (7th c.)
♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Is 48:16-21 Rm 6:12-18 Lk 14:16-24
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6th Week after Pentecost Monday 6 July 2020
Sisoës the Great, hermit in Egypt (429) Modwenna, 2nd Abbess of Whitby (695) Sexburga, widow, Abbess of Ely (699) Moninna, Abbess of Killeavy, abbess (518) Monenna, Abbess of Sliabh Cuillin, Ireland (518) Palladius of Ireland and Scotland, Bishop (632) Maelruain [Máel Ruain] Founder, Abbot-Bishop of monastery of Tallaght, Ireland (692) Noyala, Welsh virgin martyr, beheaded in Brittany (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 3:1-6, 9-12 Rm 13:8-14 Mk 9:38-50
Tuesday 7 July 2020
Ethelburga, 2nd Abbess of Faremoutiers (663) Maolruain, Founder of Tallaght (792) Pantaenus the Philosopher, from Sicily, catechetical school at Alexandria (ca. 200) Illtyd, Founder of Llantwit in Welsh country of Glamorgan (6th c.) Boisil, Abbot of Melrose (664) Hedda, Bishop of Winchester (705) Ercongota, virgin, nun at Faremoutiers-en-Brie (660) Medran and his brother Odran of Muskerry, disciples of St Kieran (6th c.) Sethrida [Saethryth], Abbess of Faremoutiers (660)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 3:13-20 Rm 14:1-9 Mk 10:1-12
Wednesday 8 July 2020
Kilian, bishop, Colman, priest and Totnan, deacon, of Wurzburg, martyrs (689) Auspicius, Bishop of Toul (5th c.) Withburga, virgin, founded a nunnery in Dereham (743) Grimbald, Abbot of New Minster in Winchester, restored learning to England (827) Edgar the Peaceful, King of East Anglia (975)
77
♦ Liturgy: Ex 11:10 – 12:14 Rm 14:10-23 Mk 10:13-22
Thursday 9 July 2020
Heracles, Bishop of Sens (515) Agrippinus, Bishop of Autun (538) Evereld, noblewoman, Abbess of Everingham (7th c.) Auremonde, Abbot of Mairé-l’Evescault (6th c.) Grimbald, Abbot of New Minster Abbey in Winchester (901) Morwenna, Welsh hermitess in Cornwall (5th c.) Sunniva and Her Companions, Irish martyrs, Bergen, Norway (10th c.) Urith, virgin, martyr, Foundress of church at Chittlehampton, Hampton (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 12:37-42 Rm 15:1-6 Mk 10:23-31
Friday 10 July 2020
Etto, of Ireland, Founder at La Fayne (670) Pascharius, Bishop of Nantes (680) Etto of Fescau, Irish missionary bishop in Belgium (670)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 14:5-18 Rm 15:7-13 Mk 10:32-45
Saturday 11 July 2020
Sigebert, Monk of Luxeuil, Abbot-Founder of Disentis, and Placidus, martyr (6th c.) Hidulphus, of Ireland, Bishop of Trèves, Abbot-Founder of Moyenmoutier (707) Drostan, Abbot of Dalcongail (9th c.) Drostan, Abbot of Deir, disciple of St Columba (610) Turketil, Abbot-Restorer of Crowland Abbey sacked by Danes (975)
78
♦ Liturgy: Ex 14:21 – 15:1a Rm 15:14-22 Mk 10:46-52
6th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 12 July 2020
Menulphus, of Ireland, Bishop of Quimper (680) Kare, hermit at Lanvellec (?) Viventiolus, Bishop of Lyons (524)
♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Is 48:12-15 Rm 12:1-16 Mt 7:12-21
7th Week after Pentecost Monday 13 July 2020
Turiaf, 4th Bishop-Abbot of Dol (750) Mildred of Thanet, 2nd Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet (700) Eugene, Bishop of Carthage, martyr with his companions (505) Dofgan of Wales, martyr at Dyfed, Pembrokeshire (6th c.) Just of Cornwall, hermit and martyr (unknown) Brigid and Maura of Northumbria, martyrs in Balagny-sur-Therain (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 16:1-5, 9-15 Rm 15:23-22 Mk 11:12-19
Tuesday 14 July 2020
Heraclas, Pope of Alexandria (247) Cyrus, Bishop of Carthage (unknown) Idus, Bishop of Alt Fadha in Leinster, Ireland (5th c.) Deusdedit, first Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Canterbury (664)
79
♦ Liturgy: Ex 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20 Rm 16:1-16 Mk 11:20-26
Wednesday 15 July 2020
Donald, Founder and Abbot of Ogilvy (ca. 660) ---- Donald Ab, Ogilvy, 8th c.) Great Prince Vladimir I, of Russia, Equal to the Apostles (1015) Swithun, Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester (862) Edith, Abbess of Polesworth in Warwickshire (ca. 960) Rumon, Bishop of Tavistock, England (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 20:1-17 Rm 16:17-27 Mk 11:27-33
Thursday 16 July 2020
Helier, hermit at Jersey, martyr (6th c.) Raineldis, Grimoald and Gundulf, martyrs at Hal (680) Sinach MacDara, on isle of Inismacdara, Ireland (6th or 7th c.) Tenenan, recluse in Brittany, then Bishop of Leon (635) Torbach Mac Gorman, Archbishop of Armagh (8th or 9th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 24:3-8 1Co 1:1-9 Mk 12:1-12
Friday 17 July 2020
Marina of Antioch, martyr (304) Fredegand, of Ireland, Abbot-Founder of Deurne (ca. 700) Fredegaud [Frithgod], Archbishop of Canterbury (10th c.) Alexis the Beggar, fool for Christ at Rome (404) Cynllo of Wales (5th c.) Kenelm, martyred King of Mercia, Gloucestershire, England (821)
80
♦ Liturgy: Ex 32:15-24, 30-34 1Co 1:10-16 Mk 12:13-17
Saturday 18 July 2020
Pambo, Abbot in the Nitrian Desert, hermit (375) Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, hermit at Remiremont (614) Arnoud, Bishop of Tours, martyr in the Yveline Forest (?) Theneva of Glasgow, Mother of Saint Kentigern Mungo (7th c.) Edburga and Edith of Aylesbury, Anglo-Saxon princesses, nuns at Aylesbury (650)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 33:7-11, 18-23; 34:4-9, 28 1Co 1:17-25 Mk 12:18-27
7th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 19 July 2020
Epaphras, disciple, Bishop of Colossae (1st c.) Aurea, martyr at Cordoba (856) Macrina the Younger, sister of St Basil the Great (379)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Is 30:15-18 Gal 6:7-10 Lk 15:1-10
8th Week after Pentecost Monday 20 July 2020
Joseph the Just, called Barsabas, Disciple (1st c.) Ansegisel, monk of Luxeuil, Abbot of Fontenelle (833) Aurelius, Bishop of Carthage (429) Elijah, prophet (9th c. BC) Ethelwida [Ealhswith] of Winchester, widow of King Alfred the Great (902) Modmund, martyr of Gloucester (unknown)
81
♦ Liturgy: Ex 34:29-35 1Co 1:26-31 Mk 12:28-34
Elijah: ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1K 17:1-23 1K 19:19-21 2K 2:1, 6-14
Tuesday 21 July 2020
Victor and companions, martyrs at Marseille (290) Arbogast, Bishop of Strasbourg (678)
♦ Liturgy: Ex 40:16-21, 34-38 1Co 2:1-9 Mk 12:35-40
Wednesday 22 July 2020
Holy Myrrh-bearer, Equal to the Apostles, Mary of Magdala, disciple (1st c.) Wandrille, Abbot-Founder of Fontenelle (668) Dabius, Irish missionary to Scotland (unknown) Movean, Abbot of Innis-Coosery, County Down, Ireland (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Lv 19:1-2,11-18 1Co 2:10-16 Mk 12:41-44
82
Mary of Magdala: ♦ Liturgy: Cant 3:2-5; 8:6-7 Phil 2:1-7 Jn 20:11-18
Thursday 23 July 2020
John Cassian, Abbot-Founder at Marseille (433) Apollinaris, from Syria, 1st Bishop of Ravenna, martyr (ca. 200) Ezekiel, prophet (ca. 570 B.C.)
♦ Liturgy: Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37 1Co 3:1-9 Mk 13:1-8
Friday 24 July 2020
Christina, martyr in Tuscany (300) Boris and Gleb, princes of Kiev, martyrs (1015-1019) Christina of Bolsena, martyr at Tyre (3rd c.) Declan, 1st Bishop of Ardmore, Ireland (5th c.) Germoc of Cornwall (6th c.) Lewina, virgin, martyred by a pagan Saxon (5th c.) Menefrida, virgin, Cornwall (5th c.) Wulfhade and Ruffinus, martyred at Stone, Staffordshire (675)
♦ Liturgy: Lv 25:1, 8-17 1Co 3:10-23 Mk 13:9-13
83
Saturday 25 July 2020
James the Greater, apostle, martyr (44) Christopher, in Lycia, martyr (250) Blandina, slave, martyr at Lyons (177) Nissen, Abbot of Montgarth Abbey, Wexford, Ireland (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Nm 11:4b-15 1Co 4:1-8 Mk 13:14-23
James the Greater: ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Jas 1:1-27; 2:1-13 ♦ Matins: Lk 10:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Wis 10:10-14 1Co 4:9-15 Mt 20:20-23
8th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 26 July 2020
Dormition of Righteous Anne, Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos (1st c.) Erastus, Bishop of Philippi (1st c.)
84
♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Is 49:1-6 Rm 16:17-20 Mk 5:21-24, 35b-43
Ann: ♦ Vespers: Ps 112 and 127 ♦ Liturgy: Prov 31:10-31 Gal 4:22-31 Lk 8:16-21
9th Week after Pentecost Monday 27 July 2020
Panteleimon of Nicomedia, martyr and healer (303) Seven Sleepers, martyrs at Ephesus (4th-5th c.) Congall, Abbot of Ibnallivin (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Nm 12:1-13 1Co 4:9-13 Mk 13:24-32
Tuesday 28 July 2020
Samson of Wales, 1st Bishop-Abbot of Dol (565) Apostles of the Seventy, Deacons and Martyrs, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas (1st c.) Nazarius and Celsius, martyrs at Milan (68)
♦ Liturgy: Nm 13:1-2a, 25 – 14:1 1Co 4:14-21 Mk 13:33-37
85 Wednesday 29 July 2020
Martha, disciple (1st c.) Olaf II, King of Norway, martyr (1030) Lupus [Loup], Bishop of Troyes (479) Sulian, Founder-Abbot of Luxulyan in Cornwall (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Nm 20:1-13 1Co 5:1-8 Lk 5:12-16
Thursday 30 July 2020
Jacob Burd’aya [the Rag], Monk of Syria (578) Apostles of the Seventy Silvanus, Bishop in Galatia, martyr, and Crescens, Epenetus and Andronicus (1st c.) Germoc’h, prince of Ireland, hermit near Reims (?) Tatwin, Archbishop of Canterbury (734) Ermengytha, nun at Minster on Thanet Isle, England (680)
♦ Liturgy: Nm 21:4b-9 1Co 5:9-13 Lk 5:17-26
Friday 31 July 2020
Joseph of Arimathea, founder of the Church in Celtic lands, disciple (1st c.) Germain, Bishop of Auxerre (448) Neot, monk in Cornwall (9th c.)
86
♦ Liturgy: Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a 1Co 6:1-11 Lk 5:27-32
Joseph of Arimathea: ♦ Vespers: Ps 18 and 45 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1Co 4:9-16 ♦ Liturgy: Ap 3:7-8, 10-13 Ac 8:1b; 11:19-21 Lk 23:50-54
Saturday 1st August 2020
Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli, martyr (371) Peregrinus of Ireland, hermit (643) Cennydd [Kenneth] of Wales, hermit, founded church at Llangennith (6th c.) Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester (954) Rioch, missionary Bishop-Abbot of Innisboffin, Ireland (480) Aled of Brecknock, nun, martyr (6th c.) Sidwell, virgin from English country of Devon (6th c.) Secundel of Brittany, hermit companion of St Friard on island of Vindomitte (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Dt 4:1, 5-9 1Co 6:12-20 Lk 5:33-39
9th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 2 August 2020
Stephen I, Bishop of Rome, martyr (257) Betharius, Bishop of Chartres (625) Etheldritha, recluse at monastery of St Guthlac in Croyland, England (834) Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury (914) Alban (finding of his relics), Protomartyr of Britain (304) Wulvella, sister of St Sidwell (6th c.)
87 ♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Is 5:8-16 Rm 13:10-14 Mk 10:17-31
10th Week after Pentecost Monday 3 August 2020
♦ Liturgy: Dt 4:32-40 1Co 7:1-12 Lk 6:1-5
Nicodemus: ♦ Liturgy: Is 42:1-4 1P 5:1-11
Tuesday 4 August 2020
Aristarchus, Bishop of Thessalonika (1st c.) Euphronius, Bishop of Tours (573) Lugid, Irish monk, hermit and builder, Abbot of Clonfert, founded 120 monasteries (622) Sithny, patron saint of mad dogs (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Dt 6:4-13 1Co 7:12-24 Lk 6:5-11
88 Wednesday 5 August 2020 (Forefeast of the Transfiguration)
Abel, of Ireland, Bishop of Reims (751) Oswald of Northumbria, king and martyr (642) Gorgal [Gormcal], Irish Abbot of Ardoilen, Galway (1016)
♦ Liturgy: Dt 10:12-22 1Co 7:25-31 Lk 6:24-36 ♦ Vespers: Ps 66 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Ex 24:12-18
Thursday 6 August 2020
Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ Justus and Pastor, schoolboy martyrs near Alcala de Henares, Spain (ca. 304)
♦ Liturgy: Dt 26:16-19 1Co 7:32-40 Lk 6:46-49
Transfiguration: ♦ Vespers: Ps 88 ♦ 2nd Nocturn: Ex 33:11-23; 34:4, 6-8
89 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1K 14:3-9, 11-13, 15-16 ♦ Matins: Lk 9:28-36 ♦ Liturgy: Ex 19:3-20 2P 1:10-19 Mt 17:1-9
Friday 7 August 2020
Donatus, Abbot-Founder of Bèze, Bishop of Besancon (660) Victricius, Bishop of Rouen (407) Claudia, mother of Linus, Roman pope, mentioned by St Paul in 2 Timothy (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Dt 31:1-8 1Co 8:1-6 Lk 7:1-10
Saturday 8 August 2020
Leobald, Founder of Fleury (650) Sigrada, widow of Autun (678) Emilian, Bishop of Cyzicus, died in exile for opposing the iconoclasts (820)
♦ Liturgy: Dt 34:1-12 1Co 8:7-13 Lk 7:11-16
10th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 9 August 2020
Phelim, Bishop-Founder of Kilmore (6th c.) Romanus Ostiarius, martyr à Rome (258) Auspicius, 1st Bishop of Apt (1st c.) Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of All America (1837) Nathy, Founder-Abbot of Achonry (ca. 610)
90 ♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 31:31-34 1Co 3:16-23 Lk 5:1-11
11th Week after Pentecost Monday 10 August 2020
Laurence, Deacon of Rome, Martyr (258) Blane, Bishop-Founder of Dunblane (590) Geraint of Devon, warrior (ca. 508) Bettelin of Ilam, hermit (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Jos 3:7-10a, 11,13-17 1Co 9:1-12 Lk 7:18-23
Tuesday 11 August 2020
Tugdual, Bishop-Abbot at Saint-Dolay, hermit (1917-1968) Clare of Assisi, Abbess-Foundress of San Damiano (1253) Susanna, virgin-martyr in Rome (295) Blane, Bishop of Bute, Scotland (590) Attracta of Drum, hermitess and co-worker with St Patrick (6th c.) Digna of Northumbria, virgin hermitess in Umbria (4th c.)
91 ♦ Liturgy: Jos 24:1-13 1Co 9:13-18 Lk 7:24-30
Claire: ♦ Vespers: Ps 44 ♦ Liturgy: Ho 2:16b, 17b, 21-22 2Co 4:6-10, 16-18 Jn 15:4-10
Tugdual:
♦ Vespers: Ps 15, 56 and 111 ♦ Liturgy: Ex 34:28-35 1Co 3:9-10 2Co 4:5-8a, 9a, 13-14, 16-17 Jn 15:12-16a; 17:5a, 6-8a
Wednesday 12 August 2020
Lelia of Limerick, she gives her name to Killeely (Cill Liadaini) (5th c.) Cecilia, 2nd Abbess of Remiremont (670) Porcarius and companions, Abbot of Lerins, massacred by Saracens (732) Merewenna, virgin (unknown) Just of Penzance, possibly hermit, martyr (unknown) Jambert, Archbishop of Canterbury (792)
♦ Liturgy: Jos 24:14-29 1Co 9:19-27 Lk 7:31-35
Thursday 13 August 2020
Maximus the Confessor, Doctor of the Church (662) Seridos, Dorotheus and Dositheus, Monastic school at Gaza (6th c.) Radegunda, Queen of the Franks, Foundress of Sainte-Croix de Poitiers (587) Muredach, Bishop of Killala, Ireland, hermit on Innismurray Island (6th c.)
92
♦ Liturgy: Jdg 2:11-19 1Co 10:1-12 Lk 7:36-50
Friday 14 August 2020 (Forefeast of the Dormition)
Fachtna, Bishop-Founder Ross-Carbery (ca. 580) Eberhard, Abbot of Einsiedeln (958) Micah the Elder, prophet (8th c. B.C.) Werenfrid of Arnheim, missionary from England to the Frisians (760)
♦ Liturgy: Jdg 6:11-24a 1Co 10:13-22 Lk 8:5-15 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Akathist Hymn
Saturday 15 August 2020
Dormition-Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God Tarcisius, martyr at Rome (257) Maccarthen, Bishop of Clogher, disciple of St Patrick (506)
♦ Liturgy: Jdg 9:6-15 1Co 10:23 – 11:1 Lk 8:16-21
93
Dormition: ♦ Vespers: Psalms 45 and 86 ♦ 2nd Nocturn: Gn 28:10-17 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ez 43:27 – 44:4 Prov 9:1-11 ♦ Matins: Ps 44 Lk 1:39-49, 56 ♦ Liturgy: Jdt 13:18-20; 15:10 Phil 2:5-11 Lk 1:41-50
11th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 16 August 2020
The Most Holy Face of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Theodore, Apostle of the Valais (4th c.) Armagillus [Armel], from Wales, Founder of Saint Armel (570)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 8:4-6; 9:22-23 1Co 6:12-20 Lk 10:25-37
The Most Holy Face: ♦ Vespers: Ps 26, 66 and 33 (Vs 17 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Dt 5:1-7, 9-10, 23-26,28; 6:1-5, 13, 18
94 ♦ Liturgy: Ex 33:9-11 Col 1:12-18 Lk 9:51-57; 10:22-24
12th Week after Pentecost Monday 17 August 2020
Liberatus and companions, martyrs at Carthage (484) Mamet, Deacon at Saint-Flour, martyr (3rd c.) Drithelm, monk at Melrose Abbey (700) James of York, Italian monk and deacon in Northumbria (671) Hiero, Irish missionary to Holland, martyr (885)
♦ Liturgy: Jdg 11:29-39a 1Co 11:2-16 Lk 8:22-25
Tuesday 18 August 2020
Evan, hermit in Ayrshire, Scotland (9th c.) Agapitus, martyr at Palestrina (272) Firminus, Bishop of Metz (496) Daig, bishop, founded monastery at Iniskeen (586) Helena, Empress mother of Constantine the Great, discoverer of the True Cross (330) Arsenius of Paros, confessor, ascetic and miracle-worker (1877)
♦ Liturgy: Jdg 13:2-7, 24-25a 1Co 11:17-22 Lk 8:26-39
Wednesday 19 August 2020
Bertulf, of Ireland, 3rd Abbot of Bobbio (640) Mochta, Bishop-Founder of Louth (535) Donatus, hermit in the Luberon Region (535) Guenninus, Bishop of Vannes, Brittany (7th c.) Credan, Abbot of Evesham, England (780)
95 ♦ Liturgy: Ru 1:1,3-6, 14b-16, 22 1Co 11:23-34 Lk 9:37-43a
Thursday 20 August 2020
Bernard de Fontaine, Abbot-Founder of Clairvaux (1153) Philibert, Abbot-Founder of Jumieges and Noirmoutier (687) Samuel, prophet (ca. 1000 B.C.) Oswin, King and Martyr of Deira, Northumbria (651) Edbert, King of Northumbria, monk at York (960)
♦ Liturgy: Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 1Co 12:1-11 Lk 9:43b-48
Friday 21 August 2020
Privatus, 1st Bishop of Mende, martyr (260) Avitus I, Bishop of Clermont (600) Holy Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Moghtewe, abbot in Ireland (unknown) Hardulf, recluse of Breedon (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 1:1-8 1Co 12:12-21 Lk 9:49-56
Saturday 22 August 2020
Hippolytus of Rome, martyr (236) Symphorian, martyr at Autun (180) Sigfrid, Abbot of Wearmouth (688) Andrew of Ireland, monk, founded a monastery (880) Arnulf of Eynesbury, hermit in England (9th c.) Ethelgitha, abbess of Northumbria (ca. 720) Maelrubha of Applecross (722)
96
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 1:9-20 1Co 12:22-30 Lk 9:57-62
12th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 23 August 2020
Apollinaris Sidonius, Bishop of Clermont (480) Lupus, martyr at Nobes (unknown) Tydfil of Merther, Welsh martyr (480) Ebba the Younger, Abbess of Coldingham, martyr (ca. 879) Eugene, Irish missionary, 1st Bishop of Ardstraw, in Tyrone (6th c.)
♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 3:14-23 1Co 12:27 – 13:8 Lk 6:1-10
13th Week after Pentecost Monday 24 August 2020
Bartholomew, Apostle and Martyr (1st c.) Ouen, Bishop of Rouen (686) Irchard, Bishop of the Picts of Scotland (5th or 7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 1:24 – 2:1a 1Co 12:31 – 13:3 Lk 10:1-15
Bartholomew: Jn 1:43-51
Tuesday 25 August 2020
Titus, disciple (1st c.) Æbbe the Elder, Foundress of Coldingham (683) Gurloes, Abbot-Founder Langroaz (1057)
97 Patricia of Constantinople, died at Naples (ca. 665) Hilda of Whitby (614)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 3:1-10, 19 – 4:1a 1Co 13:4-13 Lk 10:16-24
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Zacchaeus the Publican, Disciple (1st c.) Amadour, hermit at Cahors (418) Pandwina of Ettisley (10th c.) Bregwin, 12th Archbishop of Canterbury (764)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 4:1c-11 1Co 14:1-9 Lk 10:24-37
Thursday 27 August 2020
Caesarius, Bishop of Arles (543) Poemon the Great, Abbot of Skete (450) Decumen of Watchet, Welsh hermit and martyr (706) Malrubius of Merns, Scottish hermit and martyr (ca. 1040)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a 1Co 14:10-19 Lk 10:34-42
Friday 28 August 2020
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Church Father (430) Moses the Black, priest of Skete (410) Julian of Auvergne, martyr at Brioude (304) Prophetess Anna of the Meeting (1st c.) Flannon of Killaloe, bishop (7th c.)
98 ♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 9:1-4, 17-19a; 10:1a 1Co 14:20-25 Lk 11:1-8
Forefeast of the Beheading of John the Baptist: ♦ Vespers: Ps 15 and 65 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Is 40:1-3, 9; 41:17-18; 45:8; 48:20-21; 54:1
Saturday 29 August 2020
Beheading of John the Baptist, Holy Prophet and Forerunner (31) Tekle Haymanot, Founder of Debre Libanos, (13th c.) Sebbi, King of the East Saxons (694) Edwold of Cerne, recluse in Dorsetshire (9th c.) Velleicus, Anglo-Saxon, Abbot of Kaiserswerth on the Rhine (8th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 15:16-23 1Co 14:28-40 Lk 11:9-13
Beheading of John the Baptist: ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Wis 4:7, 16-17, 19-20 ♦ Matins: Mt 14:1-13 ♦ Liturgy: Ml 3:1-2, 5-7, 12-17, 22-24 Ac 13:25-33a Mk 6:14-29
13th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 30 August 2020
Fiacre, of Ireland, hermit at Kilfiachra (475) Theodulph, 1st Abbot of Agaune Rumon, Irish missionary (unknown) Loaran, Bishop of Downpatrick (5th c.) Modan, hermit of Killmodan, Ulster (unknown) Guthlac, priest-monk of Crowland (unknown)
99
♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 5:20 – 6:1 2Co 6:11 – 7:1 Lk 6:36-42
14th Week after Pentecost Monday 31 August 2020
Aidan, Bishop-Founder of Lindisfarne (651) Agilus, monk of Luxeuil, Founder of Rebais (650) Paulinus, Bishop of Trier (358) Babolinus, 4th Abbot of Bobbio (640) Columban, Irish missionary, founded monastery at Iona (597) Cuthburga, Queen of Northumbria, 1st Abbess of Wimborne (ca. 725) Eanswythe, Anglo-Saxon princess and virgin, founded Folkestone Priory (ca. 640)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 16:1-13 1Co 15:1-11 Lk 11:14-23
Tuesday 1st September 2020
Simeon the Stylite, hermit at Antioch (459) Vincent of Brittany, 1st Bishop of Dax (unknown) Giles, Abbot of Saint-Gilles (720) Lytham of Llandaff (unknown) Drithelm of Melrose, hermit (ca. 700) Righteous Joshua, son of Nun (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 1Co 15:12-19 Lk 11:23-28
100 Wednesday 2 September 2020
Viator, monk of Scetes (389) Agricolus, Bishop of Avignon (704) Justus, Bishop of Lyon (390) Hieu, Abbess of Tadcaster Abbey in Yorkshire (ca. 657)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7 1Co 15:20-28 Lk 11:29-32
Thursday 3 September 2020
Edward of England, King and martyr (978) Remaclus, 1st Abbot of Solignac, Founder of Stavelot and Malmedy (663) Mansuetus [Mansuy] of Ireland, 1st Bishop of Toul (375) MacNisse of Connor, Bishop, perhaps founder of Kells Monastery, Ireland (514) Balin of Techsaxon, confessor and disciple of St Colman of Lindesfarne (7th c.) Cuthburga and Quimburga, Foundresses Convent of Wimborne, Dorset (8th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 1Sm 24:3-21 1Co 15:29-38 Lk 11:33-41
Friday 4 September 2020
Moses, Holy Prophet and God-seer at Mount Nebo (1271 B.C.) Babylas, Patriarch of Antioch, martyr (253) Monessa of Ireland, virgin, converted by St Patrick (456) Ultan, Bishop of Ardbraccan. Ireland (856) Birinus, 1st Bishop of Dorchester-on-Thames (649) Rhuddlad, Welsh virgin, patroness of Llanrhyddlad in Anglesey, Wales (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 1Co 15:39-44 Lk 11:42-54 ♦ Vespers: Ps 4 and 98 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Ex 15:22 – 16:1
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Saturday 5 September 2020
Prophet Zachary and Righteous Elizabeth (1st c.) Bertinus, 2nd Abbot of Sithiu, Bishop of Tournai and Noyon (709) Genebaud, 1st Bishop of Laon (555)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 5:1-7, 10 1Co 15:45-58 Mt 4:1-11
14th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 6 September 2020
Cagnoald, Bishop of Laon (635) Magnus of Ireland, Abbot-Founder of Füssen (7th or 8th c.) Bega, virgin, Abbess of Copeland, Cumbria (7th c.) Maccallin, Irish Bishop of Lusk, England (unknown) Felix and Augebert, English martyrs in Champagne, France (7th c.)
♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Is 63:15 – 64:5 Col 3:16-17 – 4:2-6 Mt 21:33-44
15th Week after Pentecost Monday 7 September 2020 (Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God)
Diuma, monk of Lindisfarne, 1st Bishop of Mercia (7th c.) Cloud, Abbot-Founder of Saint Cloud (560) Regina, martyr at Alesia (3rd c.) Alcmund, Bishop of Hexham in Northumberland, miracle-worker (781) Tilbert, 8th Bishop of Hexham (789) Grimonia, Irish virgin, solitary in forest of Thierache, Picardy (4th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19 1Co 16:1-12 Mt 4:23 – 5:1a
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Tuesday 8 September 2020
Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God Disibod, Bishop in Ireland, Founder of Disibodenberg (700) Corbinian, 1st Bishop of Freising (730) Cynfarth, Scottish chieftain who lived in Wales (5th c.) Ina, King, and his Queen, Ethelburga (8th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 7:1-17 1Co 16:13-24 Mt 5:13-20
Nativity of the Mother of God: ♦ Vespers: Ps 9 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Gn 28:10-17 ♦ 2nd Nocturn: Ez 43:27 – 44:4 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Prov 9:1-11 ♦ Matins: Lk 1:39-49 ♦ Liturgy: Proto Gospel of JC 5:1-2; 6:1 Hb 9:1-5a Lk 11:27-28
103 Wednesday 9 September 2020 (Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God)
Holy and Righteous Joachim and Anna, grandparents of the Lord (1st c.) Omer [Audomarus], monk of Luxeuil, 1st Bishop of Therouanne, Abbot-Founder of Sithiu (670) Kieran, Abbot and builder of Clonmacnois Monastery, great center of Irish learning (546) Bettelin of Croyland, England, hermit (8th c.) Wilfrida, Abbess of Wilton (988) Wulfhilda, Abbess of Barking (1000)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 7:18-19, 24-29 Gal 1:1-10 Mt 5:21-32
Thursday 10 September 2020
Luke, Bishop of Laodicea, Clement, Bishop of Sardis (1st c.) Apellus, Bishop of Smyrna, disciples (1st c.) Finian, Bishop-Founder of Moville (579) Salvius, Bishop of Albi (584) Lucius and Clement, Apostle of the Seventy (1st c.) Finian, Abbot of Moville in Country Down, Ireland (579) Frithestan, Bishop of Winchester (933) Otger of Northumbria, monk and missionary (8th c.) Egwin, Bishop of Worcester (717) Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, called “the Father of Monks” (984)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17 Gal 1:11-24 Mt 5:33-41
Friday 11 September 2020
Paphnutius the Great, Bishop in the Upper Thebaid (4th c.) Deiniol the Elder, Bishop-Founder of Bangor-Dee (584) Adelphus, 3rd Abbot of Remiremont (670)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17 Gal 2:1-10 Mt 5:42-48
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Saturday 12 September 2020
Babylas, Patriarch of Antioch, martyr (253) Ailbhe, Bishop-Founder of Emly (528) Emilian, 1st Bishop of Valence, France, martyr (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13a Gal 2:11-16 Mt 6:1-15
15th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 13 September 2020 (Forefeast of the Cross)
Amatus, Monk of Agaune, 1st Abbot of Remiremont (570) Amatus, Bishop of Sion (690) Theneva of Glasgow (7th c.)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 30:3, 7-17 Gal 2:16-20 Lk 15:11-32 ♦ Vespers: Ps 4 and 98 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Ex 15:22 – 16:1
16th Week after Pentecost Monday 14 September 2020
105 Exaltation of the Most Holy Cross of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Maternus of Cologne, 1st Bishop of Trier (325) Cormac of Cashel, Irish abbot (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 18:9-10, 14b, 24-25a, 30 – 19:4 Gal 2:17-21 Mt 6:16-23
Exaltation of the Cross: ♦ Vespers: Ps 4 and 73 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Is 60:11-16 ♦ Matins: Jn 12:28-36 ♦ Liturgy: Prov 3:11-18 1Co 1:18-24 Jn 19: 6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Ribert, Bishop of Varennes (7th c.) Aichardus, 2nd Abbot of Jumieges (687) Mirin [Merinus] of Bangor, disciple of St Comgall (620) Hernan of Brittany, hermit (6th c.) Nicetas the Goth, martyr (4th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2Sm 24:2, 9-16a, 17 Gal 3:1-9 Mt 6:24-33
Afterfeast of the Cross: ♦ Liturgy: Ex 15:22 – 16:1 Gal 2:16-20 Mk 8:34 – 9:1
106 Wednesday 16 September 2020
Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, martyr, Church Father (258) Ninian, Bishop-Founder of Whitehorn, apostle of Scotland (432) Edith of Wilton, nun, daughter of King Edgar of England (984)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 2:1-4, 10-12 Gal 3:10-14 Mt 7:1-12
Thursday 17 September 2020
Stigmata of Saint Francis of Assisi (1224) Lambert of Maastricht, Bishop of Tongres, martyr (700) Rodingus [Rouin] of Ireland, Abbot-Founder of Wasloi (690) Socrates and Stephen of Wales, martyrs during persecution of Diocletian (4th c.) Sophia and her daughters Faith, Hope and Love, martyrs (137)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 3:4-13 Gal 3:15-22 Mt 7:13-23
Stigmata: ♦ Liturgy: 1Co 1:17-25 Lk 9:23-26
Friday 18 September 2020
Richardis of Scotland, Empress of the West (893) Ferreolus, martyr at Vienne (304) Richardis of Scotland, Empress, wife of Emperor Charles the Fat, then nun (895) Hygbald, Abbot of Lincolnshire (690)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 8:1-7, 9-13 Gal 3:23-29 Mt 7:28 – 8:1-4
107
Saturday 19 September 2020
Sequanus [Seine] of Ireland, Abbot-Founder of Segreste Monastery in France (580) Januarius, Bishop of Benevento, martyr (304) Theodore, 8th Archbishop of Canterbury (690)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 8:22-23, 27-30 Gal 4:1-7 Mt 8:14-22
16th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 20 September 2020
Eustace, Theopista and their sons, martyrs at Rome (2nd c.)
♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 31:10-14 1Co 1:17-22 Lk 16:19-31
17th Week after Pentecost Monday 21 September 2020
Matthew, apostle and evangelist, martyr (1st c.) Prophet Jonah (8th c. B.C.) Lô, Wales, 1st Bishop of Coutances (6th c.) Mabenna daughter of St Brychan of Brecknock (5th c.)
108
♦ Liturgy: 1K 10:1-10 Gal 4:8-20 Mt 8:23-27
Matthew: ♦ 3rd Nocturn: 1P 1:1-6; 2:21 – 3:9; 4:1-11 ♦ Liturgy: Ez 1:10-14 1Co 4:9-16 Mt 9:9-13
Tuesday 22 September 2020
Maurice, Candidus, Victor and companions of the Theban Legion, martyrs at Agaune (287) Salaberga, Abbess-Foundress of Saint Jean de Laon (665) Dinooth, Welsh, Founder of Monastery of Bangor-on-Dee (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 11:4-13 Gal 4: 21-31 Mt 8:28-34
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Adamnan, Abbot of Iona (703) Linus, 1st Bishop of Rome (79) Sanctinus, 1st Bishop of Meaux and of Verdun (300) Aelfwald, King of Northumbria, King (788) Cissa, hermit in Northumbria (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 11:29-32; 12:19 Gal 5:1-10 Mt 9:1-8
109 Thursday 24 September 2020
Thecla, equal to the Apostles, disciple de Saint Paul, martyr (1st c.) Silouan the Athonite, staretz of Mont Athos (1938) Germer, Abbot-Founder of Fly (658) New Martyrs of Alaska Juvenaly and Peter the Aleut (1815)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 12:26-32; 13:33-34 Gal 5:11-21 Mt 9:9-13
Friday 25 September 2020
Cleophas, disciple (1st c.) Firminus, of Ireland, 1st Bishop of Amiens, martyr (303) Finbar, 1st Bishop-Abbot of Cork (620) Ermenfridus, Abbot-Founder of Causance (670) Sergius, Wonderworker, Abbot of Radonezh (1392) Ceolfrith, Abbot of St Paul Monastery at Wearmouth-Jarrow, England (716)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 17:1-6 Gal 5:22-26 Mt 9:14-17
Saturday 26 September 2020
Meugant [Mawghan] of Ireland, Bishop-Abbot in Wales (6th c.) Meugant of Cornwall, hermit, disciple of St Illtyd (6th c.) Eugenia, 2nd Abbess of Hohenberg (735) Colman of Llan Elo, Bishop of Connor, Abbot of Muckamore Abbey (617)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 17:7-16 Gal 6:1-10 Mt 9:18-26
110
17th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 27 September 2020
Parchus and Zenas, disciples (1st c.) Lupita, Foundress of Na-Fearta (5th c.) Ceraunus, Bishop of Paris (614) Mark, Aristarchus and Zenas, Apostles of the Seventy (1st c.) Barrog of Wales, hermit on Barry Island (7th c.) Sigebert, King of East Anglia (7th c.) Marcellus, Irish monk at Saint Gall Abbey in Switzerland (ca. 869)
♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 32:37-42 Eph 1:16-23 Lk 14:1a, 12-14
18th Week after Pentecost Monday 28 September 2020
Prophet Baruch ben Neriah, friend of Prophet Jeremiah (6th c. B.C.) Faustus, 3rd Abbot of Lerins, Bishop of Riez (490) Lioba, Abbess at Bischofheim (782) Lioba of Wimborne, missionary, Abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, Germany (782) Tetta, Abbess of Wimborne in Dorsetshire, England (772) Conwall of Scotland, priest, disciple of St Kentigern (630) Machan of Scotland, bishop (ca. 1175)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 18:20-39 Gal 6:11-18 Mt 9:32-38
111 Tuesday 29 September 2020
Michael the Archangel Zenobius, priest at Sidon, Lebanon, martyr (310) Fraternus, Bishop of Auxerre, martyr (450) Bouin, hermit near Troyes (570)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 18:41-46 Ti 1:1-9 Mt 10:5-10 Michael: ♦ Vespers: Ps 33 (v.17) and Ps 90 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Dn 10:1-21 ♦ Liturgy: Jos 5:13-15 Hb 2:2-10 Lk 10:16-21
Wednesday 30 September 2020
Gregory the Enlightener, Apostle of Armenia, martyr (ca. 328) Vartan and Hussik, martyrs (451) Sahag I, Catholicos of Armenia (437) Nersess the Great, martyr in Persia (4th c.) Therese of Lisieux, nun (1897) Midan of Anglesey, Welsh priest (ca. 610) Honorius of Canterbury (653) Enghenedl of Wales (7th c.) Lery of Brittany, Welsh Abbot-Founder of an abbey on the River Doneff (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 19:9a, 11-16 Ti 1:10-16 Mt 10:11-16
112
Thursday 1st October 2020
Remigius [Remi], Bishop of Reims (533) Therese, nun of Lisieux (1897) Melor of Cornwall, monk at Amesbury, martyr (6th c.) Ananias, Apostle of the Seventy, restored sight of St Paul (1st c.)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 19:16b, 19-21 Ti 2:1-10 Mt 10:17-31
Friday 2 October 2020
Holy Guardian Angels Leger, Bishop of Autun, martyr (679)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 21:1-16 Ti 3:1-7 Mt 10:32 – 11:1
Holy Guardian Angels: ♦ Vespers: Ps 33 and 90 ♦ Liturgy: Ex 23:20-23
113
Saturday 3 October 2020
Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite, Bishop of Athens (1st c.) Ewald the Fair and Ewald the Dark, apostles of Westphalia (692) Abba Ghebre Michael, priest-monk in Ethiopia, martyr (1855)
♦ Liturgy: 1K 21:17-29 Ti 3:8-15 Mt 11:20-24
Dionysius: ♦ Liturgy: Ac 17:16-34
18th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 4 October 2020
Francis, Abbot-Founder at Assisi (1226) Feast of Creation Aurea, of Syria, 1st Abbess of Saint Martial in Paris (667) Ammon, 1st Hermit of Nitria (ca. 412)
114 ♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Prov 1:20-33 Rm 3:28 – 4:8 Lk 18:9-14
Francis of Assisi: ♦ Vespers: Ps 18 and 21 ♦ 2nd Nocturn: Ps 3 2Co 8:9; 9:6-11 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Ps 64 Phil 2:2-5; 4:4-7 ♦ Matins: Lk 6:17-23 Ps 32 and 150 ♦ Liturgy: Si 50:1, 3-11a, 13 Gal 6:14-18 Mt 11:25-30 ♦ Vespers: Ps 132, 133 and 145 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Ps 8 Gn 2:5-9 Rm 8:18-22
Feast of Creation: ♦ Vespers: Ps 32 and 64 ♦ Liturgy: Wis 13:1-5 Rm 8:18-27 Mt 6:25-35
19th Week after Pentecost Monday 5 October 2020
Charitina, martyr at Amisus in Pontus (304) Apollinaris, Bishop of Vienne (520) Murdoc the Culdee of Argyleshire, last of the bards, hermit (8th c.) Cynhafal, Founder of Llangynhnfal in Denbighshire (7th c.)
115
♦ Liturgy: 2K 2:1-14 2Co 1:1-7 Mt 11:25-30
Tuesday 6 October 2020
Bruno, Abbot-Founder of the Grande Chartreuse (1101) Pardulphus, Abbot of Gueret (738) Ceollach, Bishop of Mercia (7th c.) Cummian the White, Abbot of Iona (669) Lalluwy, virgin (unknown) Failbhe of Scotland, Abbot (uncertain) Ywi, deacon, C. Wilton (7th c.) Maccallen, Abbot of Waalsor (978) Innocent of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts and Apostle to the Americas (1879)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 4:18b-21, 32-37 2Co 1:8-14 Mt 12:1-8
Wednesday 7 October 2020
Dubtach, Abbot of Iona, Bishop of Armagh (513) Palladius, Bishop of Saintes (590) Armentarius, Bishop of Aix-en-Provence (450) Osyth of Chich, virgin martyr in Essex (7th c.) Cynog [Canog] of Wales M. (ca. 492)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 5:1-15a 2Co 1:15-24 Mt 12:9-13
Thursday 8 October 2020
Thais the Penitent, hermitess in Egypt (4th c.) Pelagia, virgin, martyr at Antioch (457)
116 Benedicta, martyr at Origny (362) Keyne of Wales and Cornwall, hermitess (ca. 490) Triduana of Restalrig, virgin, Scotland (8th c.) Ywi, monk of Lindisfarne and hermit in Brittany (ca. 690)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 2Co 2:1-11 Mt 12:15-21
Friday 9 October 2020
Eleutherius and Rusticus, deacons at Paris, martyrs (250) Denys, Bishop of Paris, martyr (250) Ghislain, Founder of The Cell, apostle of Hainaut (681) James, son of Alpheus, Apostle (1st c.) Righteous Abraham and his Nephew Lot (2,000 B.C.)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18 2Co 2:12-17 Mt 1222-30
Saturday 10 October 2020
Clair, 1st Bishop of Nantes (ca. 290) Telchide, 1st Abbess of Jouarre (660) Paulinus, Bishop of York (644) Patrician of Scotland (5th c.) Tanwg, Merionethshire (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36 2Co 3:1-11 Mt 12:31-37
19th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 11 October 2020
Philip, the Deacon, Apostle of the Seventy (1st c.) Zenaida and Philonella, disciples at Tarsus (ca. 100)
117 Agilbert, Bishop of Paris (673) Kenneth, Founder of monastery in Kilkenny (ca. 599) Ethelburga, Virgin, Abbess of Barking, (7th c.)
♦ Matins: Mk 16:1-8 ♦ Liturgy: Ba 4:21-29 Col 3:5-11 Jn 8:1-11
Philip: Ac 6:1-6; 8:5-13
20th Week after Pentecost Monday 12 October 2020
Edwin, King of Northumbria, martyr (633) Gérin of Aureilhan, priest in Bigorre, martyr at Tarbes (during invasion of Arian Goths) Wilfrith, Bishop of York (709) Fiech, Bishop of Sletty, Ireland (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 22:8, 10-13; 23:1-3 2Co 3:12-18 Mt 12:38-45
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Theophilus, Patriarch of Antioch, apologist (181) Comgan [Cowan], prince du Leinster, Founder of Lochaise (8th c.) Venantius, Abbot at Tours (410) Translation of Edward the Confessor, King (1163) Comgan, Abbot of Lochalsh in Scotland (8th c.) Colman of Stockereau, pilgrim, martyr, relics transferred to the Abbey of Melk (1012) Fyncana and Fyndocha, virgin martyrs in Scotland (8th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 24:8-17 2Co 4:1-6 Mt 12:46 – 13:3a
118
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Burchard of Ireland, 1st Bishop of Würzburg (754) Menehould, nun of Bienville (490) Manaccus, Abbot in Cornwall (6th c.) Selevan [Solomon] of Cornwall, hermit (5th-7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2K 25:1-12 2Co 4:7-18 Mt 13:3b-17
Thursday 15 October 2020
Lucian, exegete at Antioch, martyr at Nicomedia (312) Conogon of Ireland, 2nd Bishop of Quimper (460) Lucian of Antioch, martyr (312) Ethelric, Bishop of Durham (1072) Oswald of York (992) Thecla of Kitzengen, nun (ca. 790) Tudur, Montgomeryshire and Monmouthshire, Wales (6th c.) Brothen, Merionethshire (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: 2Ch 24:17-25 2Co 5:1-10 Mt 13:18-23
Friday 16 October 2020
Gall, Abbot-Founder of St. Gall (645) Bercharius, monk of Luxeuil, Abbot-Founder of Moutier-en-Der, martyr (636) Mummolinus, monk of Luxeuil, Cofounder of Sithiu, Bishop of Noyon-Tournai (686) Kiara of Kilkeary, virgin (680) Lull, Archbishop of Mainz (786) Colman, Bishop of Killruadh, Ireland (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ezr 1:1-6 2Co 5:11-15 Mt 13:24-30
119
Saturday 17 October 2020
Herodion, Bishop of Antioch, martyr (136) Anstrudis, 2nd Abbess of Laon (668) Prophet Hosea (8th c. BC) Ethelbert and Ethelred, Princes of Kent, martyrs (670) Louthiern of Cornwall (6th c.) Nothelm, Archbishop of Canterbury (740) Colman, Bishop of Kilroot (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Ezr 6:7-8, 12b, 14-20 2Co 5:16-21 Mt 13:31-36a
20th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 18 October 2020
Luke, Evangelist, martyr (1st c.) Monon of Ireland, hermit and martyr at Nassogne (645) Asclepiades, Patriarch of Antioch, martyr (217) Gwen of Wales (ca. 492) Gwen of Talgarth, martyred by pagan Saxons (492)
♦ Matins: Lk 24:1-12 ♦ Liturgy: Ezk 28:25-26 Rm 15:4-7 Lk 7:11-16
Luke: ♦ Vespers:
120 Ps 118 (vs 97-112) ♦ Matins: Lk 1:1-4 ♦ Liturgy: Ez 1:10-14 2Co 8:16-24 Lk 10:16-21
21st Week after Pentecost Monday 19 October 2020
Frideswide, Abbess-Foundress of St. Mary’s in Oxford (735) Veranus of Cavaillon, Bishop of Orleans (ca. 590) Aquilinus, Bishop of Evreux (695) Ethbin, hermit near Kildare, Ireland (7th c.) Eadnoth, Bishop of Dorchester, martyr (1016)
♦ Liturgy: Ezr 9:5-9 2Co 6:1-10 Mt 13:36b-43
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Caprasius, Faith, Alberta and companions, martyrs at Agen (303) Vitalis, Bishop of Salzburg (745) Acca, Bishop of Hexham (740) Bradan and Orora of the Isle of Man, bishops and confessors (7th c.) Aidan, Bishop of Mayo, Ireland (768)
♦ Liturgy: Ne 2:1-8 2Co 6:11-18 Mt 13:44-52
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Hilarion the Great, hermit in Palestine (371) Condedus, of Ireland, hermit on the Isle of Belcinae (685) Fintan Munnu, Abbot of Taghmon, Ireland (635) Tuda, Bishop of Lindisfarne (664)
121 Tudwen, confessor, Wales (7th c.) Wendolin of Tholey, Irish hermit (ca. 607)
♦ Liturgy: Ne 8:1-4a, 5-6, 8-12 2Co 7:1-7 Mt 13:53-58
Thursday 22 October 2020
Mellon, of Wales, 1st Bishop of Rouen (314) Donatus, of Ireland, Bishop-Abbot of Fiesole (874) Maroveus, monk of Bobbio, Founder of Precipiano Abbey (ca. 650) Nwython [Noethan], of Denbighshire (6th c.) Gwynnog, confessor, Wales (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Tb 1:1a-2; 2:1-9 2Co 7:8-16 Mt 14:14-21
Friday 23 October 2020
James, 1st Bishop of Jerusalem, apostle (1st c.) Syra, nun of Faremoutiers, Abbess of Chalons-sur-Marne (ca. 660) Columba of Cornwall, virgin (6th c.) Ethelfleda, Abbess of Romsey (ca. 970)
♦ Liturgy: Tb 2:10-14 2Co 8:1-6 Mt 14:22-34
122 Saturday 24 October 2020
Raphael, the Archangel Magloire, 2nd Bishop-Abbot of Dol, Brittany (575) Martin, Abbot-Founder of Vertou (601) Cadfarch, confessor, Montgomeryshire, Wales (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Tb 3:1-17 2Co 8:7-15 Mt 14:34 – 15:11
Raphael: ♦ Vespers: Ps 90 ♦ Liturgy: Tb 12:6-21 Hb 2:2-10 Jn 5:1-4
123 21st Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 25 October 2020
Clothilde of California, nun (1912-1993) Hildemarca, Abbess-Foundress of Fecamp (670) Fronto, 1st Bishop of Perigueux (1st c.) Crispin and Crispinian, martyrs at Soissons (286) Tabitha, disciple, raised from the dead by St Peter (1st c.) Caidin of Ireland, confessor (6th c.) John of Beverley, Bishop of Hexham (721) Marnock, Bishop of Kilmarnock, Scotland (ca. 625)
♦ Matins: Jn 20:1-18 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 30:18 – 31:1 Eph 5:1-8 Mk 10:35-45
22nd Week after Pentecost Monday 26 October 2020
Alor, 3rd Bishop of Quimper (462) Cedd, Bishop-Founder of Lastingham (664) Eata, of Ireland, Abbot of Melrose, Bishop of Hexham (686) Alfred the Great, King of Wessex (899) Gwynnog or Winnow, C. Wales and Cornwall (6th c.) Aneuerin, monk, confessor, Wales (6th c.) Eata, Bishop of Hexham, Abbot of Lindisfarne (685) Bean of Aberdeen, Bishop of Mortlach, evangelized Scotland (ca. 1012) Cuthbert, Archbishop of Canterbury (758) Eadfrid, Founder of Leominster Priory (675)
124 ♦ Liturgy: Tb 6:10-11a; 7:1, 9-17; 8:4-10 2Co 8:16-24 Mt 15:12-21
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Breage [Breaca], nun of Kildare (5th c.) Desiderius, Bishop of Auxerre (621) Odhran of Iona (563) Abban of Wexford, Irish hermit (520) Colman, Abbot of Senboth-Fola (ca. 632) Athelstan of England, West Saxon king (939) Ia and Breacha, virgins, Cornwall (6th c.) Odvan, Archbishop of Melrose (563) Abban, Archbishop of Magharnoide, Ireland (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Tb 11:5-17 2Co 9:1-5 Mt 15:22-29a
Wednesday 28 October 2020
Simon and Jude, Apostles, martyrs in Persia (1st c.) Faro, Bishop of Meaux (678) Dorbheneus [Dorthen], Abbot of Iona (713) Alfred the Great, King C. of England (901) Easdin, Archbishop of Canterbury (1050)
♦ Liturgy: Tb 12:1, 5-15, 20 2Co 9:6-15 Mt 16:1-4
125
Simon and Jude: ♦ Vespers: Ps 18 ♦ Matins: Jn 14:21-24 ♦ Liturgy: Si 46:11-12 Mt 13:53-58
Thursday 29 October 2020
Zenobius, martyr at Antioch (310) Bond, hermit at Sens (604) Tertius, Mark, Justus, and Artemas Apostles of the Seventy (1st c.) Colman of Kilmacdaugh, Bishop of Connaught (7th c.) Kennera of Scotland, virgin in Galway (unknown) Elfleda of Ramsey, Abbess in Hampshire (1030) Ethelnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury (1038)
♦ Liturgy: Es 14:1, 3-5, 12-14 2Co 10:1-6 Mt 16:5-12
Friday 30 October 2020
Foillan, of Ireland, Founder of Fosses, martyr (652) Talacrian of Scotland, Bishop of the Picts (6th c.) Marcellus the Centurion, martyr at Tangier (298) Egelnoth the Good, Archbishop of Canterbury, monk at Glastonbury Abbey (1038) Leofric, Earl of Mercia (1057) Arilda, virgin and martyr, Gloucester (unknown) Issui [Ishaw], martyr, Wales (unknown)
♦ Liturgy: Hg 1:1-8 2Co 10:7-18 Mt 16:13-20
126 Saturday 31 October 2020
Urban, Bishop of Macedonia, disciple (1st c.) Narcissus, Bishop of Athens, disciple (1st c.) Quentin, monk at Amiens, martyr (303) Stachys, Amplias, Urban, Narcissus, Apelles and Aristobulus Apostles of the Seventy (1st c.) Erth, missionary to Cornwall (6th c.) Dogfael, confessor in Pembrokeshire, Wales (6th c.) Bega, virgin in Cumberland (ca. 660)
♦ Liturgy: Hg 1:15b – 2:9 2Co 11:1-11 Mt 17:14-21
22nd Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 1st November 2020
All Saints Day Genesius, Prior of Fontenelle, Bishop of Lyons (679) Cadfan of Wales, Founder-Abbot of Tywyn (6th c.) Ceitho of Wales, abbot and hermit (6th c.) Cledwyn of Wales, hermit at Llandingad, Monmouthshire (5th c.)
♦ Matins: Mt 28:1-15 ♦ Liturgy: Jer 31:27-28 Eph 1:18-23 Lk 17:11-19
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All Saints Day: ♦ Vespers: Ps 15 and 18 ♦ 1st Nocturn: Ps 3, 15, 18 and 100 Is 43:9-14 ♦ 3rd Nocturn: Wis 3:1-9; 5:15 – 6:3 ♦ Matins: 8th Ode Mt 5:13-16 ♦ Liturgy: Wis 4:7-15 Hb 11:33 – 12:2 Mt 10:32-33, 37-38; 19:27-30 ♦ Sext: Ps 111 ♦ None: Ps 115 ♦ Vespers of the Deceased: Ps 89 and 142
23rd Week after Pentecost Monday 2 November 2020
All Souls Day Erc of Ireland, Bishop-Abbot of Slane (515) Baya and Maura, virgins, recluses in Scotland (10th c.) Cumgar of Devon, abbot, founder of various monasteries (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Zec 2:5-9, 14-15a 2Co 11:12-21a Mt 17:24-27
♦ Liturgy of the Deceased: Si 1:11-20 1Th 4:13-18 Jn 5:24-29
128 Tuesday 3 November 2020
Gregory of Parumala, bishop of Parumala, India (1902) Hubert, Bishop of Tongres-Maastricht (727) Pirmin, Founder of Reichenau Abbey, Rhineland (753) Winifred of Holywell, Abbess of Gwytherin in Denbigshire (660) Gwenhael, Abbot of Landevennec (ca. 518) Rumwald of Brackley (662) Cristiolus of Wales (6th c.) Elerius of Wales, abbot in north of Wales (6th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Zec 8:1-6 2Co 11:21b-33 Mt 18:1-10
Gregory of Parumala: ♦ Vespers: Ps 15 and 18
Wednesday 4 November 2020
Modesta, 1st Abbess of Oehren, Trier (680) Amandus, Bishop of Rodez (487) Brinstan, Bishop of Winchester (934)
♦ Liturgy: Zec 8:20-23 2Co 12:1-10 Mt 18:15-20
129 Thursday 5 November 2020
Bertila, 1st Abbess of Chelles (705) Hermas, disciple, Bishop of Philippi (1st c.) Cybi of Cornwall, bishop and king (6th c.) Kanten of Wales, Founder of Llangeanten Abbey (8th c.) Kea of Devon and Cornwall, he died in Brittany (5th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Jon 1:1 – 2:1,11 2Co 12:11-18 Mt 18:21 – 19:1
Friday 6 November 2020
Illtyd, Founder of Llanilltyd Fawr Abbey in Glamorgan, Wales (7th c.) Efflam of Brittany, prince of Ireland (700) Winnoc, Abbot of Wormhoult (717) Leonard, Founder of Noblac Abbey (559) Edwen of Anglesey, patroness of Llanedwen, Wales (7th c.)
♦ Liturgy: Jon 3:1-10 2Co 12:19 – 13:4 Mt 19:2-15
Saturday 7 November 2020
Willibrord of Northumbria and Friesland, Bishop of Utrecht (739) Congar, Founder of monastery at Congresbury, Somerset (520)
♦ Liturgy: Jon 4:1-11 2Co 13:5-13 Mt 20:1-18
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