Pentecost XIV Download MP3

August 2010 Update St. Gertrude the Great Newsletter No. 117 is available here. Read about Fr. Hecquard’s Ordination and our summer childrens’ camps. Be sure to buy your copy of Fr. Cekada’s book, “Work of Human Hands”. “Work of Human Hands” is also available on Amazon.com. Click the photo above for a slide show from […]

Bishop’s Corner During August we had to start watering the grounds at least a little to avoid burn-out. I hope that by now the lawn has regained his greenish cast, and that the flowers are blooming again. Our Bendel memorial Dahlias have had a hard Summer, due to the dry weather, but also the multiplying […]

Immaculate Heart of Mary

Click the photo above for a slide show from our Summer boys’ camp. Bishop’s Corner I wish again to thank everyone for our perfectly splendid Summertime feast of the Assumption of Our Lady in our beautifully decorated church. How well you sang the Mass, and how devout were our little flower- bearing angels for the […]

Assumption

Click the photo above for a slide show from our Summer boys’ camp. Bishop’s Corner Blessed, hopeful rain is falling as I write my “Corner” on St. Philomena’s Day, praying for a bit of freshness for lawn and garden for Our Lady’s Day, the Assumption. I wish you a blessed one, and thank you for […]

Pentecost XI

Bishop’s Corner Did you know there is a connection between the “Dog Days” of August, and dogs? Last Wednesday’s St. Dominic is symbolized by a dog with a torch in its mouth, as seen by his pregnant mother, Blessed Jane, in a dream. Later in a Latin pun on his name, his Friars Preachers or […]

St. Peter’s Chains

Bishop’s Corner August, Summer’s last month starts today, our Sunday of St. Peter’s Chains here in Cincinnati, with the Titular or Patronal feast of the Metropolitan Cathedral. August is the month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and of the Divine Wisdom. May Our Lady teach us the wisdom of chaining ourselves as willing servants […]