Wednesday Highlights and Spiritual Insights
Image: The Last Judgement Wednesday of the Thirty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time Today's Mass Readings Saint of the Day: St. Catherine Laboure More on St. Catherine Laboure here. Video: St. Catherine Laboure and the Miraculous Medal "Oh, how beautiful it will be to hear it said: Mary is Queen of the universe. That will be a time of peace, joy and happiness which will be long... She will be borne like a banner and will make a tour of the world.” The Virgin foretold that this time would come only after “the entire world will be in sadness... Afterwards, peace.” ~ from St. Catherine's writings recounting the apparitions On This Day in Catholic History: 741 Pope Gregory III died. 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont , Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land. Today's Birthdays: 1757 - William Blake , British poet (d. 1827) 1853 - Helen Magill White , first Americ...