Holy Cross Church

06/24/2025

Tú formaste mis entrañas, me tejiste en el seno materno.
Te doy gracias por tan grandes maravillas;
soy un prodigio y tus obras son prodigiosas.
Salmo 138, 13-14

06/24/2025

You formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works!
My very self you know.
Psalm 139:13-14

06/24/2025

Pray that governments will respect the consciences of all people who care for the sick and vulnerable.

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06/24/2025

06/23/2025

Saint Audrey (Etheldreda)
640-679
Feast Day: June 23
Patronage: Cambridge University, neck and throat ailments, and widows
Saint Audrey was an English princess, who took a vow of perpetual virginity at an early age, even though she consented to be married two times for diplomatic reasons. Her first husband died after 3 years and the 2nd husband (Egfrid) was a boy when they married. After 12 years, Egfrid wanted to consummate the marriage. The bishop of York, St.Wilfrid, upheld Audrey’s claim of virginity and helped her separate from him. The marriage was annulled, and Audrey took the veil at the Monastery of Ely. She eventually died of an enormous and unsightly tumor on her neck, which she gratefully accepted as Divine retribution for all the necklaces she had worn in her early years. Her hand is incorrupt to this day.
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. Link in our bio.
https://www.portraitsofsaints.com/collections/all/all-images-st-audrey-etheldreda

06/21/2025

En resumen, no pueden ustedes servir a Dios y al dinero.
Mateo 6, 24b

06/21/2025

You cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:24b

06/21/2025

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
1568 - 1591
Feast Day: June 21
Patronage: young students, Christian youth, Jesuit novices, the blind, AIDS patients
Aloysius Gonzaga was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus. He came under the spiritual guidance of St. Charles Borromeo, and from him received First Holy Communion. While still a student at the Roman College, he died as a result of caring for the victims of an epidemic.
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. Link in our bio.
https://www.portraitsofsaints.com/collections/all/all-images-st-aloysius-gonzaga

06/18/2025

Tengan cuidado de no practicar sus obras de piedad delante de los hombres para que los vean. De lo contrario, no tendrán recompensa con su Padre celestial.
Mateo 6, 1

06/18/2025

Take care not to perform righteous deeds
in order that people may see them;
otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father.
Matt 6:1

06/18/2025

June 18- Happy Feast Day! Sts Mark & Marcellianus (286) Martyrs

They were twin brothers of an illustrious family in Rome, who had been converted to the Faith in their youth and were honorably married.

When Diocletian ascended the imperial throne in 284, the pagans raised persecutions; the brothers were then thrown into prison and condemned to be beheaded. Their friends obtained a delay of the ex*****on for thirty days, that they might prevail on them to worship the false gods. Tranquillinus and Martia, their afflicted pagan parents, accompanied by their sons wives and their little babes, endeavored to move them by the most tender entreaties and tears. But Saint Sebastian, an officer of the emperor s household, arriving in Rome soon after their confinement, daily visited and encouraged them.

The issue of the conferences was the happy conversion of the father, mother, and wives, also of Nicostratus, the public stenographer, and soon afterwards of Chromatius, the judge, who set the Saints at liberty and abdicating the magistracy, retired into the country. Marcus and Marcellianus were concealed by a Christian officer of the imperial household, in his apartments in the palace, but they were betrayed by an apostate and reimprisoned. Fabian, a judge who had succeeded Chromatius, condemned them to be bound to two pillars, their feet nailed to them. In this posture they remained a day and a night, and on the following day were stabbed with lances. Their martyrdom occurred in the year 286. Their tomb and that of their father, Saint Tranquillinus, was found in Rome, in 1782, in the church of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, adjoining that of the martyred pope, Saint Felix II. They are honored particularly in Spain, where the city of Badajoz escaped destruction by their intercession.