Martin de Porres

And today's saint is a paramount example of that moral courage.

Saint Martin de Porres.

Martin's life illustrates the universal dignity of every human person before God.

Through humble service to the poor and the sick, St.

Joseph Asai at St. Patrick's in Ottumwa.

For today, the Memorial of St. Martin de Porres in this month of November, full of wonderful saints and commemorations.

Of course, I hope you got a chance to go to Mass yesterday for the commemoration of the faithfully departed, All Souls Day.

I was able to work it in last night at 6 o'clock over at St. Augustine's.

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Today the church celebrates the memorial of St. Martin de Porres and he is our Saint of the Day.

He lived a long life of fasting, prayer, and penance as a Dominican lay brother.

Tuesday, November 3rd, Literature of the Hours, Morning Prayer.

Today we commemorate St. Martin de Porres.

St. Martin de Porres was born at Lima in Peru of a Spanish father and a Negro mother in 1579.

As a boy, he studied medicine, which later, as a member of the Dominican Order, he put to good use in helping the poor.

He led a humble and disciplined life and was devoted to the Holy Eucharist.

The first reading on this, the Feast of St. Martin de Porres, is a reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Philippians.

Brothers and sisters, have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped, Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness and found human in appearance.

He humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.

The gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

So today is the feast of St. Martin de Porres.

And I have a funeral today.

That's why I didn't have mass this morning.

It's my journey.

The Miracle of the Mice, Saint Martin de Porres.

Martin was born in 1579 in Lima, Peru.

It was only 83 years after Columbus placed a small Spanish flag on the island of San Salvador, claiming it and the entire new world for the Catholic queen, Isabella, as it was she who had financed this expedition in thanksgiving to God for deliverance of Spain from the Moors.

How can you give to the poor? We are the poor.

It's bad enough that you will not eat today, but what of your sister and me? We didn't volunteer to starve.

Saint Martin de Porres and the Mice Saint Martin de Porres and the Mice remind us of Saint Francis of Assisi IX and Lupo the Wolf.

The farmers in the town of Gubbio were going to kill a wolf who was attacking their chickens and cows and eating all their crops.

Vatican and World News.

Today, Tuesday, November 3rd, is the Feast of St. Martin de Porres.

And these are today's headlines.

Pope Leo invites young people to bring their questions to Christ in a message for World Youth Day.

A key theme will be the universal call to holiness.

The press office director recalled several saints and blessings from the three countries, including Mama Antula of Argentina, Enrique Shaw, St.

Rose of Lima, and St. Martin de Porres of Peru.

Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, Maria Montserrat Alvarado, highlighted the Pope's enthusiasm for the journey, describing his return to Peru as a deeply personal homecoming.

OK, but so today is the day after.

Of course, it's also the great feast day of St. Martin de Porres.

But I like to think of today.

Imagine all the souls in purgatory who got into heaven yesterday.

Today is Election Day.

For the latest election updates, visit zeal.co. Today is also the feast of St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian Dominican lay brother born in Lima to a Spanish nobleman and a formerly enslaved Afro-Panamanian woman, making him the first black saint of the Americas.

Renowned for his humility and profound spiritual gifts, he was devoted to the poor and sick and established Lima's first orphanage.

I'm Josh Mercer, editor of The Loop, taking you behind the headlines.