It's the Feast of Corpus Christi!
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
Veneremur cernui
Et antiquum documentum,
Novo cedat ritui,
Praestet fides supplementum
Sensuum defectui.
Genitori, genitoque,
Laus et jubilatio;
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedictio.
Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio. Amen.
Saint Joan of Arc was born into a pious, peasant family.
Devoted to God from a young age, she heard the voices of many saints prompting her to lead the French army in an attempt to reclaim French territory from the English.
Joan led the armies of France to victory over the English but was captured by enemy forces.
At just nineteen years old, Joan, accused of witchcraft, was burned at the stake. She was canonized in 1920 and is considered one of history’s greatest martyrs.
St. Joan of Arc, pray for us!
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St. Bede was a scholarly giant.
He hand-copied untold numbers of books, penned 45 books of his own, and blessed the Church with 30 full commentaries on books of the Bible, all while serving as Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Paul. It is no wonder why he is revered as a Doctor of the Church.
Greater than all of this, he lived the monastic life with remarkable and constant virtue and emulated Christ in all things.
St. Bede the Venerable, pray for us!