Saint Luke, originally a pagan, was born, according to Eusebius, at Antioch, the Capital of the Kings of Syria. Saint Paul tells us that he exercised the profession of a physician. He accompanied Saint Paul (The Apostle of the Nations) on his travels, and was with him during most of his Missions and when he was twice a prisoner in Rome.
Owing to his connection with this Master and the other Apostles, he was enabled to write The Third Gospel, which Saint Jerome and Saint John Chrysostom describe as "The Gospel of Saint Paul".
Like The Doctor of The Gentiles (Saint Paul), he addresses himself to pagans to show them that Salvation is brought by Jesus to all men, without exception, who believe in Him. He is symbolically represented as an Ox, one of the four animals in the Vision of Ezechiel [Third Lesson of The First Nocturn at Matins], because, at the beginning of his Gospel, he mentions the Priesthood of Zacharias, and because the Ox was usually the victim in the sacrifices of The Old Law.
The Mass of Saint Luke, like that of Saint Mark, offers this particular, that its Gospel refers to the instructions given by The Saviour to His seventy-two Disciples, both these Evangelists (Luke and Mark) not having been Apostles, but only Disciples of Our Lord.
Saint Jerome relates that Saint Luke died in Achaia, Greece, at the age off eighty-four.
There have been Celebrations at Saint John Cantius, Chicago, on the 13th of every month since last May to Celebrate the Centenary of The Fatima Apparitions. On Friday, 13 October 2017, over 3,000 Faithful attended the final event Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 'Miracle of the Sun'.
Bishop Joseph Perry Celebrated Pontifical High Mass which was attended by a large number of The Faithful, including many Religious and Clergy, as well as a large group of Seminarians from Mundelein Seminary.
Father Rocky Hoffman, Executive Director of Relevant Radio, Preached the Sermon. Following Pontifical Mass, there was a Candlelight Ceremony to Crown the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima on the steps of the Church.
The Statue was carried by members of The Chicago Police Department.
Saint Teresa was born at Ávila, Spain. From her earliest childhood, she ardently desired to die a Martyr. At the age of eighteen, she entered The Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Consecrated herself to Christ, whom she chose for her spouse (Epistle).
[The Order of Mount Carmel, which spread over The East in Apostolic times, penetrated into The West in the 13th-Century. Illustrious Members of this Order, much by their Sanctity, rank, or writings, are very numerous. Several have filled the greatest dignities in The Church.]
Her heart was so inflamed with Divine Love that she wrote: "How the enraptured Soul feels in this body its captivity and the misery of life ! It considers itself a slave sold in a foreign land; and, what is most bitter, is to see everywhere men's passionate love for this life, and so few banished ones who sigh like itself and Pray for the end of their exile." [Her autobiography, Chapter XXI.]
English: Saint Teresa Of Ávila (Saint Teresa Of Jesus).
One of four female Doctors of The Church. [Editor: The four female Doctors of The Church are: Saint Teresa of Avila; Saint Thérèse of Lisieux; Saint Catherine of Siena,
Counselled by Jesus, she made the difficult Vow of always doing what she judged most perfect.
She attained through Prayer the highest degree of Mystical Life, and there found such enlightenment concerning Divine things (Collect), that her works earned for her, from Popes Gregory XV and Urban VII, the august Title of Doctor of The Church, which has been given to no other woman. [Editor: This last comment was dated 1945 in The Saint Andrew Daily Missal. Since then, three other women have gained the Title of Doctor of The Church. They are: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Thérèse de Lisieux (Saint Therese of The Child Jesus and of The Holy Face)); Saint Catherine of Siena; Saint Hildegard von Bingen. Wikipedia states that Saint Teresa of Ávila was given the Title of Doctor of The Church, by Pope Paul VI, in 1970.]
Saint Catherine of Siena.
One of the four female Doctors of The Church.
Current location: The Church of Santa Maria del Rosario in Prati, Roma, Italy.
"The best Prayer," she wrote, "and the most pleasing to God, is that which brings on improvement, showing itself in good works, and not the enjoyment which only serves for our own satisfaction." [Letter to the Bishop of Ávila.]
The influence of this humble Virgin, who converted thousands of Souls, manifestly proves the supreme importance of The Contemplative Life, addressing itself, directly, as it does, to God, The Author of All Good.
She died of Divine Love on 5-15 October. 1582. [Pope Gregory XIII, in order to reform The Roman Calendar, had ordered the suppression of ten days of the year 1582; the day after 4 October was to be called the 15th of the same month. It was during this historic night, of the 4th to the 15th, that Saint Teresa died.]
After her death, Saint Teresa's cult was known in Spain during the 1620s, and for a time she was considered a candidate to become a National Patron Saint. A Santero image of Our Lady of The Conception, said to have been sent by Saint Teresa with one of her brothers to Nicaragua, is now Venerated as the Country's National Patroness at The Shrine of El Viejo. Pious Catholic beliefs also associate Saint Teresa with the esteemed Religious image called Infant Jesus of Prague, with claims of former ownership and Devotion.
The Institute of Christ The King have made a succession of very exciting announcements about their Apostolate in the North -West of England, historically the most Catholic part of the Country.
In addition to the landmark Church, "The Dome of Home'", the Church of Saints Peter and Paul and Saint Philomena, in The Wirral, Cheshire, England., in The Diocese of Shrewsbury, which they have run since 2012, thanks to Bishop Mark Davis, they were given the magnificent Church of Saint Walburge's, Preston, in The Diocese of Lancaster, which boasts the tallest Spire of any Parish Church in England, in 2014, by Bishop Michael Campbell.