Welcome to Saint of the Day: the week ahead
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There are, in use currently, two versions of the General Calendar of Saints and other feast days in the Catholic Church.
The dates on which the two calendars align will usually receive an update below.
The days on which our two calendars line up are as follows, during the current week :
— Saint Patrick (17 March)
— St Cyril of Jerusalem (18 March)
— St Joseph (19 March)
The feast of St Benedict is celebrated by monks and by the old Calendar on 21 March.
Today's saint: St Benedict
Cellararius monasterii elegatur de congregatione sapiens, maturis moribus, sobrius, non multum edax, non elatus, non turbulentus, non iniuriosus, non tardus, non prodigus, sed timens Deum; qui omni congregationi sit sicut pater.
A cellarer is to be chosen for the monastery out of the congregation, someone wise, mature in his manners, sober, not much given to greed, not lofty, turbulent, injurious, tardy or prodigal, but Godfearing; someone who may be to the entire congregation just like a father.
Some of the Saints appearing earlier in the week:
St Cyril of Jerusalem
ut Chrysostomus et Cyrillus hoc potissimum argumento reiiciant haeresim quorundam qui negabant Christum illud esse Verbum
. . . so that Chrysostom and Cyril may use this argument powerfully to throw out the heresy of some who say that Christ was not that Word.
St Patrick
et ibi Dominus aperuit sensum incredulitatis meae, ut uel sero rememorarem delicta mea et ut conuerterem toto corde ad Dominum Deum meum, qui respexit humilitatem meam et misertus est adolescentiae et ignorantiae meae et custodiuit me antequam scirem eum et antequam saperem uel distinguerem inter bonum et malum et muniuit me et consolatus est me ut pater filium.
And there the Lord opened my senses, for the benefit of my unbelief, so that even though lately I might remember my faults and turn towards the Lord my God with all my heart — the Lord who looked upon my humility and took pity on my youthful ignorance and who guarded me even before I knew Him and before I could understand or distinguish between good and bad and he consoled me as a father consoles his son.
