JULY 27, 2025 – ST. PANTALEON, MARTYR.
- St. Celestine I (432). Pope. (Historical)
- St. Pantaleon (305). Martyr. Patron of against lung disease, doctors, and medical profession. (Traditional)
- Sts. Nathalia, Aurelius, Liliosa, Felix, and George (852). Martyr. (Historical)
ST. PANTALEON was physician to the Emperor Galerius Maximianus, and a Christian, but, deceived by often hearing the false maxims of the world applauded, was unhappily seduced into an apostasy. But a zealous Christian called prepare himself for the conflict, when Diocletian’s bloody persecution broke out at Nicomedia, in 303, he distributed all his possessions among the poor. Not long after this action, he was taken up, and in his house were also apprehended Hermolaus, Hermippus, and Hermocrates. After suffering many torments, they were all condemned to lose their heads. St. Pantaleon suffered the day after the rest. His relics were translated to Constantinople, and there kept with great honor. The greatest part of them are now shown in the abbey of St. Denys near Paris, but his head is at Lyons.
REFLECTION: “With the elect thou shalt be elect, and with the perverse wilt be perverted.”
WORD OF THE DAY
DIVINE MERCY. The love of God beyond what humankind deserves. In one sense, every manifestation of God’s love is an expression of mercy, since, absolutely speaking, God is not obligated even to create. But more properly, mercy is the exercise of divine charity toward those who have sinned. Mercy, then, is God’s continued love of humans although they have sinned, his forgiving love that invites them to be reconciled with the God against whom they have sinned, his condoning love that mitigates and is even willing to remove all the punishment due to sin, and his superabundant love that mysteriously blesses the repentant sinners beyond what they might have received from God had they not sinned.
Modern Catholic Dictionary, Fr. John Hardon SJ (Get the real one at Eternal Life — don’t accept an abridged or edited version of this masterpiece!)
July, Month of the Precious Blood
The Precious BIood of Jesus – Short Meditations for July. July 27th — The Seventh Shedding of the Precious Blood.
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