Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Wednesday, May 28th, 2025.

It's the Feast of the Vigil of the Ascension with a commemoration of St. Augustine of Canterbury,

second class with the color of white. In this episode, today's news from the church, Benedict

the 16th and Cardinal Sarah may have influenced Pope Francis, as well as news, information on the

SSPX International Pilgrimage to Rome, a preview of today's sermon and today's thought from

Archbishop Marcel Lefev.

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

O God, from whom all good things come.

Grant, we beseech thee that, by thy divine inspiration, we may think what is right, and

under thy guidance, accomplish it.

Today we remember St. Augustine of Canterbury, not the great St. Augustine of Hippo, the

theologian of the early church, but the monk who brought Christianity back to England.

Well, I guess it is still the early church,

because it was the late 500s of St. Augustine of Canterbury.

The Roman Empire had collapsed in the West,

and Christianity in Britain had all but vanished under waves of invasions and pagan kings.

But Pope Gregory the Great had a bold idea,

send missionaries and bring the gospel back. And who better to

lead the charge than one of his own monks, Augustine? Augustine at first wasn't thrilled. He made it

as far as France, got cold feet, figuratively, maybe literally too, I don't know, and turned around.

But Gregory wasn't too pleased. He said, keep going. So Augustine

crossed the channel with a band of about 40 monks landing in Kent around the year 597. To their surprise,

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