The Meaning of Catholic

Flanders talks to Mr. Allan Smith about his book Soul of a Disciple: Fulton Sheen’s Meditations on the Cross, the Eucharist, and the Christian Life. In it, Mr. Smith synthesizes Fulton Sheen’s own interior life and helps the reader enter into Fulton Sheen’s contemporary wisdom for the spiritual life.
The Soul of a Disciple: Fulton Sheen’s Meditations on the Cross, the Eucharist, and the Christian Life https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-soul-of-a-disciple/


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IX Post Pent. XVII Tempus Per Annum
MONDAY
* Universal Feast (Greek and Latin) of St. Pantaleon the Great Martyr
* Former apostate turned martyr
* Invoked against lung disease
* Patron of doctors and medical professionals
TUESDAY
* Ss. Nazarius & Celsus, Pope St. Victor (early witness to Papal primacy)
WEDNESDAY
* St. Martha (after sister St. Mary Magdalene last week)
* Ordinariate celebrates Martha, Mary and Lazarus feast day today
* Saint Paul Chen Changpin: Chinese peasant, convert to Catholicism, seminarian, and martyr—beheaded on this day in 1861, aged 23.
* Blessed Martyrs of Calanda: 8 Dominican friars murdered by the Reds on this day in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War.
THURSDAY
* St. Peter Chrysologus, Doctor of the Church
FRIDAY
* St. Ignatius of Loyola
SATURDAY First Day of the Dormition Fast
* St. Peter in Chains (Another Pre-55 Miracle feast)
* Maccabean Martyrs (moved to St. Peter in Chains on this day)
* St. Alphonsus (date of “birthday”)
* The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek: 11 Polish nuns murdered by the Gestapo on this day in 1943, after offering to die in place of more than 120 others.
SUNDAY
* St. Alphonsus (old feast)
* St. Peter Julian Eymard (invoked by Bishop Schneider’s Eucharistic Crusade)


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This Week in the Church Triumphant
God has Destroyed His Liturgy Before
MONDAY:
* Holy Prophet St. Elijah (Roman Martyrology, Carmelite Feast Day, Byzantine Feast)
* God destroyed His own Liturgy before
* His Life helps us understand that there is a tradition more important than the Latin Mass (I Kngs 19:10ff)
* St. Jerome Emiliani (1486-1537), Italian priest - patron of orphans and abandoned children, founder of the Somaschi Fathers
TUESDAY:
* St. Lawrence Brindisi (1559-1619) - Italian Capuchin priest & theologian
* “Vatican II” saint, proclaimed Doctor by Pope St. John XXIII https://a.co/d/0f3PfgtW
WEDNESDAY:
* St. Mary Magdalene “Equal to the Apostles”
* Pope Francis the preface in 2016 which calls her “Apostle to the Apostles”
THURSDAY:
* St. Brigid of Sweden
FRIDAY
* Boris & Gleb, Passion Bearers https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2026/07/24/102082-martyrs-and-passion-bearers-boris-and-gleb
* Vigil of Santiago (St. James the Greater)
SATURDAY
* Dormition of St. Anna (Byzantine)
* Santiago (St. James the Greater)
* St. Christopher
SUNDAY
-Ss. Joachim & Anne (Latin)


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Hebrew Catholic Mr. Gideon Lazar discusses the teaching of the Church on the Jews with Mr. Catholic State, occasioned by the recent controversy at Benedictine College.
This is part of a series at Meaning of Catholic covering Jews, Judaism & Israel, especially in the post-temple period.
Mr. Catholic State’s source material
Mr. Catholic State’s website
Mr. La…


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