Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Tuesday, May 27, 2025.

It's the Feast of St. B. the Venerable and the Lesser Rogations, Third Class with the color of white.

In today's episode, the meditation, union with the prayer of Christ.

Today's news from the church, a religious sister appointed secretary of a

dikastry by Pope Leo the 14th, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev.

But first the call-act of today's Mass.

O God, who enlightened thy church with the learning of blessed bead, thy confessor and doctor,

graciously grant that thy servants may ever be

enlightened by his wisdom and helped by his merits.

If you've ever picked up a history book about early England, you've already felt the influence

about St. Bede, an English monk from the 8th century who practically invented the art of writing

history, at least as we understand

it today. Born around 672, Bede entered monastic life as a young boy and never really left.

He spent nearly his entire life at the monastery of Jero in northern England, devoting himself

to prayer, study, and writing. The combination of his brilliant mind

and the strong scholarly tradition of the monastery turned him into one of the greatest thinkers of

his time. Bede mastered everything that his world could offer, scripture, theology, astronomy,

grammar, music, poetry, and the natural sciences. But it was his writing that made him

famous, so famous, in fact, that a church council during his lifetime ordered his work to be read

in churches. That's like making the bestseller list and being canonized all at once. His most

famous work, the ecclesiastical history of the English people, wasn't just a chronicle.

It helped to shape England's sense of identity and inspire generations of Christians across Europe.

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