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      <title>June 2025 -- Overview for the Month</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The month of June is dedicated to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Highlights
June 13
St. Anthony 
Called the Wonder Worker, he is one of the most popular saints in the Catholic Church and is implored as the patron of lost things and a hundred other causes. He was a preacher and theologian and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII.
Recipe of the Month
Nameday Cookies
On different saints&apos; days, make sugar cookie dough and roll out with symbolic cookie cutters.
Activity of the Month
Stitching Feast-Day Symbols
Research with your children the different symbols for saints and feast days, and do some stitching of the symbols.
Symbols
St. Boniface
The Archbishop of Mentz established the foundation for Christianity in Germany. His emblem refers to his defense of the Gospel as he met the blow of death while confirming baptized converts.
St. Barnabas 
One of the Apostolic Fathers, whose feast day in olden times was celebrated by young lads and clerks bedecked with roses. This shield is divided.
St. Peter &amp; St. Paul
The interwoven symbols of Sts. Peter and Paul are used at Winchester, where the cathedral church is dedicated to these saints.
The Trinity
The triquetra is one of the many symbols that clearly express the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity. 

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in Thee.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2021 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>May 2026 -- Overview for the Month</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The month of May is dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Highlights
May 29 or June 1
Ascension
The whole universe is invited to acclaim the glories of the Ascending Christ. He is surrounded with the just of Limbo, with the souls who had finished their purgatorial expiation and probably with the saints who came out of their tombs on Easter Sunday: &quot;Ascending on high He has led captivity captive&quot;.
Recipe of the Month
Beignets de Pommes (Apple Fritters)
To celebrate the feast of the Ascension, try making apple fritters, or plain Beignets if you don&apos;t  have the fruit.
Activity of the Month
Ascension Thursday Picnic
Solemnities, such as the Feast of the Ascension, should be days of festivity. Why not a picnic and a day of fishing for the feast of the Ascension.

Symbols
St. Philip
It was to St. Philip that Christ addressed his remark concerning the feeding of the multitude. The roundels represent two loaves of bread.
St. James the Less 
This symbol refers to the tradition that St. James was cast down from a pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem, stoned and sawn asunder by the Jews.

St. Matthias
Chosen, by lot, to replace Judas Iscariot, St. Matthias served as a missionary in Judaea, where he is said to have been stoned and beheaded. A battle axe with silver head and tawny handle, white open book with inscription &quot;super Mathiam.&quot;

Our Lady
The fleur-de-lys is a symbol for the Blessed Virgin Mary and is derived from the Madonna&apos;s lily.

You are all-beautiful, O Mary! You are the glory, you are the joy, you are the honor of our people! ]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>February 2026 -- Overview for the Month</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[The month of February is dedicated to the Holy Family.
Highlights
February 2
Presentation
This feast is a festival of light. The procession, in which the blessed candles are carried by clergy and faithful, recalls by its symbolism the manifestation of Christ, the Light of the world, received in the temple. &quot;A light to the revelation of the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people Israel.&quot;

Recipe of the Month
Heart Cakes 
St. Valentine&apos;s Day is a joyful feast, and there&apos;s no better way to observe it than by exchanging sweet, heart-shaped confections.

Activity of the Month
Candlemas Ceremony 
The family, who with lighted candles goes in spirit to the Temple with our Lady, will learn a wonderful lesson of her humility.

	Symbols
St. Polycarp
The bishop of Smyrna was condemned to death by burning. The flames refused to do their task, billowing about like sails, exposing the bishop&apos;s figure in a radiant light. A soldier used his spear to end the spectacle.
St. Scholastica
The sister of St. Benedict, and founder of a Benedictine convent not far from Monte Cassino. It is related that St. Benedict had a vision of a dove rising just before he received word of her death.

St. Agatha
 During the Decian persecution, St. Agatha, a Sicilian of noble birth, died under torture rather than break her vow of lifelong consecration to Christ.
St. Dorothy
The patroness of gardens is particularly well known in the little villages of southern Europe. Her feast is locally celebrated on Feb. 6. The symbol is descriptive of her zeal for the Faith.

Jesus, who hast made Thyself obedient to Thy parents, to Thee be ever glory, with the supreme Father and with the Spirit.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2021 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>A Century of the Catholic Essay: Contents &amp; Links</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[This is the table of contents page which links to the individual essays added to the CatholicCulture.org library from the collection published as A Century of the Catholic Essay in 1946, edited by Raphael H. Gross, C.PP.S. There are 45 essays in eight sub-sections. The essays were added to our library between February 2025 and April 2026.]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Clarence Mangan</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) was a British critic and poet who converted to Catholicism in his early twenties. Known for poetry and his book The Art of Thomas Hardy, Johnson&apos;s career was shortened by frail health and an early death. In this essay he comments on the life and work of the Irish poet Clarence Mangan (1803-1849). [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Charles Waterton: Naturalist</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[James J. Daly (1872-1953) was an educator and author educated at St. Ignatius College in Chicago and St. Louis University. A Jesuit at 18, he was ordained in190. He served as literary editor of both America and Thought, and as professor of English at the University of Detroit. Among his writings are Boscobel and Other Rimes and a number of his scholarly essays which appeared in both A Cheerful Ascetic and Other Essays and The Road to Peace. Here we have a delightful sketch of the remarkable naturalist, Charles Waterton. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Chaucer&apos;s Nuns</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Sister Mary Madeleva (1887-1964) was known for poetry, eloquence, and scholarship. She became the third president of  Saint Mary&apos;s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, from which she had herself graduated. After joining the Holy Cross Sisters she obtained her M.A. from Notre Dame and her doctorate from the University of California. Her poetry is alive with religious mysticism, and her essays--as in the present example--both lively and sure.  Here she defends the Prioress in Chaucer&apos;s Canterbury Tales against a great many false interpretations. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Hermann the Cripple (&apos;Pain is not Unhappiness&apos;) 1013-1054</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[C. C. Martindale (1879-1963) became a Catholic on leaving Harrow and entered the Society of Jesus. Later, at Oxford, he took the highest classical honors. Ordained a priest in 1911, he wrote ceaselessly, even while a prisoner of the Nazis in Denmark. Few English writers hae done so much as he in rebuilding Catholic apologetics around the doctrine of the Mystical Body. Among his works is The Life of Robert Hugh Benson, another great Catholic priest-writer. In this selection from his works, he sketches the remarkable life of a medieval saint. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>There Are No Atheists</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[A popular American Catholic editor, author and lecturer, James Gillis (1876-1957) was raised in Boston. After attending St. Charles College, Baltimore, and St. Paul&apos;s College, Washington, he earned his doctorate in theology at the Catholic University of America in 1903. He had joined the Paulist Fathers in 1898 and was ordained in 1901. Not only was he a member of the Paulist mission band, but he also served for many years ass the editor of The Catholic World. Among his more famous books is False Prophets. In this essay he develops an arresting theory about atheism. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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      <title>Christian Freedom</title>

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	  <description><![CDATA[Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) is one of the greatest of Catholic cultural historians, having written definitive works on the historical rise a European culture. Receiving his M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford, he later did postgraduate work in history and sociology. He was received into the Church in 1914. Among his works are The Making of Europe and Religion and the Rise of Western Culture. In the present essay he considers the nature of Christian freedom as compared with the nearly total absence of human freedom in a pagan world. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]]]></description>
	  
	  <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate> 

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