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5 days ago · Saint Michael’s Lent is a traditional observance of prayer and fasting practiced from the feast of the Assumption on Aug. 15 to Michaelmas Day, now known as the feast of the Archangels on Sept. 29. It is not a liturgical season but a devotional practice made popular by Saint Francis and taken up today by the men’s ministry Exodus 90.
- St. Michael’s First Apparition
- St. Michael’s Second Apparition
- St. Michael’s Dedication & Third Appearance
- The Fourth Apparition
Between the third and eighth centuries, legend says that while a wealthy man named Gargano tended his animals, one of his bulls escaped and wandered off alone. Angered at finding the bull grazing by himself in front of a cave, he shot a poisoned arrow at it. The arrow then turned around and hit him! Gargano was so disturbed that he told the bishop ...
St. Michael then appeared again in 492. However, this appearance connects to the fight between the Byzantines and the Lombards from 662-663, in which the Greeks attacked the Sanctuary of Gargano. Duke of Benevento Grimoaldo I, came to the sanctuary’s defense. The account reads, “[…] And then the same night, which preceded the day of the battle, St....
After the victory of Grimoaldo, Bishop Maiorano submitted to St. Michael’s request and decided to dedicate the sanctuary. However, St. Michael appeared again and said to the Bishop of Siponto: “It is not your task to consecrate the Basilica I built. I who founded it, I myself consecrated it. But you go in and go to this place, placed under my prote...
In 1656, southern Italy experienced a terrible plague. Bishop Alfonso Puccinelli resorted to prayers and fasting, and asked for St. Michael’s intercession. While in prayer, he felt an earthquake as St. Michael appeared to him “in a dazzling splendor and ordered him to bless the stones of his cave, carving on them the sign of the cross and the lette...
The Community of St. Michael in NYC - why did it move uptown? Very straight forward question. On the occasion I pass through NYC, i try to make it a habit to celebrate Divine Liturgy with at least one Eastern Catholic church. Sometimes its the Ruthenians at St. Mary's, or with the Ukranians at St. George's, or the Maronites at Our Lady of Lebanon.
Jan 21, 2023 · The fact that St. Michael the Archangel was of lower rank emphasizes the humiliation of Satan who used to be the most brilliant of creation. There are also other considerations that might have prompted God to use St. Michael in this way, such as providing us with an exemplary intercessor for our prayers and shield against evil.
1 day ago · The tradition, described in The Little Flowers of St. Francis by St. Bonaventure, honors Our Lady and St. Michael. Much like a ‘mini-Lent,’ the devotion lasts 40 days (excluding Sundays). This period of prayer, fasting, and penance begins on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Aug. 15) and ends on the feast of St ...
Sep 28, 2021 · St. Michael is the spiritual armor and sword when we have to fight evil. And perhaps St. Michael’s latest work of the present time is just sending us messages to recognize the evil in the world ...
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History and legends. Open your eyes and ears to the stories that rise on the tide: from the Archangel Michael to Jack the Giant Killer. Pilgrims’ bare feet padding across the causeway. Soldiers’ heavy leather boots racing up to the battlements. The chant of monks’ prayer in the priory. Stride into the Mount’s past and unearth a rich ...
