Blessed Virgin Mary / St. Clement Ⅰ,

pope & martyr  /  St. Columban, abbot  /  Bl. Miguel Augustin Pro, priest  & martyr 

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 1 Maccabees 6: 1-13

 When King Antiochus was making his way through the upper regions of Persia,

When God the Son came to His own people, the Jews, they refused to receive Him.

It was not that they were ignorant of His visitation, but they deliberately refused to recognize Him as their God.

Jesus was expressing His sorrow for Jerusalem because it had rejected Him.

Instead of being a city of peace, Jerusalem has therefore become a city of weeping.

Dedication of the Basilicas of Peter and Paul   

St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, virgin

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 1 Maccabees 1: 10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63*

 From their descendants there came a godless offshoot,

St. Cecilia, Virgin  & martyr 

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 1 Maccabees 4: 3-37, 52-59*

 (…….) Then Judas and his brothers said:

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Malachi 3: 19-20a

The day already comes, flaming as a furnace.

Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

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1 Maccabees 2: 15-29*

 (…..)The representatives of the king addressed Mattathias,

Blessed Virgin Mary  /  St. Margaret of Scotland, queen 

St. Gertrude the Great, virgin 

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Wisdom of Solomon 18: 14-16; 19: 6-9

While all was in quiet silence and the night was in the middle of its course,

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2 Maccabees 7: 1, 20-31

It happened also that seven brothers were arrested with their mother.

St. Albert the Great, bishop  & doctor 

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 Wisdom of Solomon  13: 1-9

The natural helplessness of humans is seen in their ignorance of God.

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2 Maccabees  6: 18-31

 Eleazar, one of the prominent teachers of the Law,

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 Wisdom of Solomon 7: 22b-8:1

 Because Wisdom, who designed them all, taught me.