(Feast Day ~ November 17) Every Christian knows how arduous the quest for holiness is, how difficult the struggle to overcome the passions and to live a Christ-like life. Converts to Christianity are also aware of the time that it takes to acquire the Christian “mind-set” – to take on the attitudes of one who […]
St. Gregory the Wonderworker
(Feast Day ~ November 17) In the year 203, a child, who was given the name Theodore, was born to a wealthy pagan couple in Neocaesaria. This child was destined to play an important part in the life of the Christian Church and to be numbered among the saints. Theodore was an intelligent, precocious child […]
St. Britius of Tours
(Feast Day ~ November 13) In reading Holy Scripture and the lives of the saints, we are reminded of how often God takes sinful, fallen men whose lives have been anything but exemplary and, through his merciful kindness, brings them to repentance and change of heart so that others may revere them and look to […]
St. Martin I, Pope & Martyr
Feast Day ~ November 12 Many of the saints of the Church have been martyrs for the faith. They have sacrificed their lives rather than deny Christ or compromise the teachings of the Church which have been revealed by God. Most of these saints became martyrs during Christianity’s early years when the prevailing culture was […]
St. Martin of Tours
(Feast Day ~ November 11) About the same year that St. Helena discovered the True Cross (c. 316), a son was born to a Roman army officer and his wife in Pannonia (modern Hungary). The parents were pagans, but the child, Martin, was attracted to the Christian religion he learned about when his family moved […]
St. Nectarios of Pentapolis
(Feast Day ~ November 9) The lives of the saints are not tales of happy days, good deeds, reverence by all, and peaceful death. More often, the lives of the saints have been filled with conflict and difficulties of all sorts in which the saint has had to rise above adversities. But these stories are […]
St. Benignus of Ireland
(Feast Day ~ November 9) When St. Patrick, the “Apostle to the Irish”, returned to that land where he had been held as a slave and had accepted God’s challenge to convert its people to the Christian faith, he knew that he needed converts with particular skills who could help in this work. He was […]
Patriarchs and Prophets of the Old Law
(Feast Day ~ November 8) On the Western Rite calendar, November 8 – the “octave” of All Saints Day – is set aside for honoring the Patriarchs and Prophets of the Old Law. This is not an ancient feast day in the West, but one which was adapted from Eastern practice by Fr. Alexander Turner, […]
St. Willibrord of Utrecht, Bishop and Confessor
(Feast Day ~ November 7) The arduous life of a missionary involves experiences and events which have been common to all who would take on the challenge of bringing the Christian message to a pagan people. From the first missionary journeys of the Apostles, and particularly St. Paul, to the work of missionaries serving today […]
St. Leonard
(Feast Day ~ November 6) In the Psalms, we are told that the Lord “looseth men out of prison” [Ps. 146:7]; in the Gospels, Jesus tells us that we minister to him when we visit those in prison. On November 6, the Church presents to us a holy saint who took these words to heart. […]
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