2 Corinthians 3:4-11 • Matthew 5:17-19
Ephrem the Deacon ministered to the Christian community in Nisibis, a city repeatedly besieged by the Persian army. In 363, he fled Nisibis with the rest of the Christians, to Edessa (present-day Urfa, in Turkey). Heresies were rife in the town. He lived austerely in the hillside outside the city, but frequently came into Edessa to refute the heretics. A deeply sensitive man, Ephrem was said to weep almost constantly. His ardent liturgical hymns are used even today in the liturgies of the Syrian rite. In 373, Ephrem, alone of the Edessans, was trusted to dispense grain to the famine-ravaged city. He died shortly thereafter of illness.
September 1, 2019 - Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 29, 2019 - Memorial of the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist (Fr. Peter)
August 28, 2019 - Memorial of St. Augustine (Fr. Peter)
August 25, 2019 - Solemnity of St. Louis (Fr. Peter)
August 22, 2019 - Memorial of the Queenship of Mary (Fr. Peter)
August 21, 2019 - Memorial of St. Pius X (Fr. Peter)
August 20, 2019 - Memorial of St. Bernard (Fr. Peter)
August 18, 2019 - Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Peter)
August 15, 2019 - Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Fr. Peter)
August 14, 2019 - Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe (Fr. Peter)
August 13, 2019 - Memorial of Sts. Pontian & Hippolytus (Fr. Peter)
August 12, 2019 - Monday in the Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time (Fr. David Kelly)
August 11, 2019 - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Fr. Stan DeBoe)
August 9, 2019 - Memorial of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross - Edith Stein (Fr. Nile Gross)
August 8, 2019 - Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Fr. Peter)
August 7, 2019 - Wednesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Fr. Peter)
August 6, 2019 - Tuesday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Fr. Peter)
August 6, 2019 - Monday in the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time (Fr. Joe Krafft)
August 4, 2019 - Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 1, 2019 - Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori (Fr. Peter)
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