Daily Devotional: June 5 – S. Boniface
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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It’s the Feast of St. Boniface, 3rd class, with the color of red. In this episode: The meditation: “Virtues and the Supernatural Gifts of the Mother of God,” today’s news from the Church: “Africa, A Priority for the New Pontificate,” a preview of the Sermon: “The Holy Ghost and the Church,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
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- “Africa, A Priority for the New Pontificate” (FSSPX.news)
- “The Holy Ghost and the Church” (SSPX Sermons)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Thursday, June 5th, 2025. |
| 0:06.8 | It's the Feast of St. Boniface, third class with the color of red. |
| 0:10.5 | In this episode, the meditation, virtues, and the supernatural gifts of the mother of God. |
| 0:15.4 | Today's news from the church, Africa, a priority for the new pontificate, a preview of today's sermon, |
| 0:21.9 | the Holy Ghost, and the church, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev. |
| 0:26.5 | But first the call-act of today's Mass. |
| 0:29.1 | O God, who, through the zeal of Blessed Boniface, thy martyr and bishop, graciously called |
| 0:34.4 | a multitude of people to the knowledge of thy name, mercifully grant that we who keep his feast may also enjoy his patronage. |
| 0:42.7 | Today, indeed, we remember St. Boniface, |
| 0:45.4 | the fearless English monk who became known as the Apostle of Germany. |
| 0:49.8 | Born in Devon, around 675, |
| 0:52.9 | Boniface gave up the chance to be an abbot in England to answer |
| 0:56.4 | a different call. |
| 0:57.8 | Missionary work. |
| 0:59.3 | At the invitation of Pope Gregory II, he traveled to the wilds of Germanic Europe in 719, |
| 1:05.6 | where Christianity was, let's say, a mass. |
| 1:09.8 | Paganism was thriving, and what Christianity he did find had drifted into strange superstitions. |
| 1:16.3 | The clergy, often untrained, sometimes immoral, and occasionally not even validly ordained. |
| 1:23.4 | Boniface saw it all, thought about it, and didn't walk away. |
| 1:28.2 | He instead went to Rome, reported honestly, and then was given the tough job of reforming the German church. |
| 1:35.0 | And the Pope wasn't the only one backing him. |
| 1:37.4 | Charles Martel, the powerful Frankish leader and grandfather of Charlemagne, gave Boniface his protection. |
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