Daily Devotional: May 28 – Vigil of the Acension
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
It’s the Feast of the Vigil of the Ascension, with commemoration of St. Augustine of Canterbury, 2nd class, with the color of white. In this episode: today’s news from the Church: “Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah May Have Influenced Francis,” as well as the news “Information on the SSPX’s International Pilgrimage to Rome,” a preview of the Sermon: “St. Germaine and Fatherly Love,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- The Risen Christ– Caryll Houselander (Amazon)
- “Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah May Have Influenced Francis” (SSPX.org)
- “Information on the SSPX’s International Pilgrimage to Rome” (SSPX.org)
- https://sspx.org/en/news/information-sspxs-international-pilgrimage-rome-52672
- To sign up, visit the official pilgrimage website at com
- Video: Just search: “SSPX International Pilgrimage Rome 2025” or go to this link.
- “St. Germaine and Fatherly Love” (SSPX Sermons)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Wednesday, May 28th, 2025. |
| 0:08.0 | It's the Feast of the Vigil of the Ascension with a commemoration of St. Augustine of Canterbury, |
| 0:12.0 | second class with the color of white. In this episode, today's news from the church, Benedict |
| 0:17.0 | the 16th and Cardinal Sarah may have influenced Pope Francis, as well as news, information on the |
| 0:21.4 | SSPX International Pilgrimage to Rome, a preview of today's sermon and today's thought from |
| 0:26.4 | Archbishop Marcel Lefev. |
| 0:29.1 | But first the call-act of today's Mass. |
| 0:32.0 | O God, from whom all good things come. |
| 0:34.8 | Grant, we beseech thee that, by thy divine inspiration, we may think what is right, and |
| 0:39.6 | under thy guidance, accomplish it. |
| 0:43.4 | Today we remember St. Augustine of Canterbury, not the great St. Augustine of Hippo, the |
| 0:47.7 | theologian of the early church, but the monk who brought Christianity back to England. |
| 0:52.7 | Well, I guess it is still the early church, |
| 0:54.7 | because it was the late 500s of St. Augustine of Canterbury. |
| 0:58.5 | The Roman Empire had collapsed in the West, |
| 1:00.7 | and Christianity in Britain had all but vanished under waves of invasions and pagan kings. |
| 1:06.2 | But Pope Gregory the Great had a bold idea, |
| 1:08.9 | send missionaries and bring the gospel back. And who better to |
| 1:12.5 | lead the charge than one of his own monks, Augustine? Augustine at first wasn't thrilled. He made it |
| 1:18.8 | as far as France, got cold feet, figuratively, maybe literally too, I don't know, and turned around. |
| 1:25.7 | But Gregory wasn't too pleased. He said, keep going. So Augustine |
| 1:29.8 | crossed the channel with a band of about 40 monks landing in Kent around the year 597. To their surprise, |
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