Optional Memorial of St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

What

Optional Memorial of St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

When

9/17/2024

Readings for Today

Preview Gospel Reflection

Tuesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary #444
Liturgical color: green
1 Cor 12:12 – 14, 27 – 31a • Ps 100:1b – 2, 3, 4, 5 • Lk 7:11 – 17

Optional Memorial of St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Liturgical color: white
Optional Readings for Memorial
Lectionary #641
Readings for the Memorial may also be taken from the Common of Pastors, #719-724, or the Common of Doctors of the Church, #725-730.

Optional Memorial of St. Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Liturgical color: white
Optional Readings for Memorial
Lectionary #641A

Today's Saints: St. Robert Bellarmine was a Jesuit scholar and rigorous academic theologian who defended and clarified Church teaching during the Reformation and as an adviser to two popes. He was also a prolific writer. Bellarmine’s many gifts lifted him to reluctant prominence without making him prideful, and he continued to serve others through both his own works of charity and his generous sponsorship of other reformers. St. Hildegard was a German Benedictine abbess, a mystic, musician, and philospher. She is well known for her haunting musical compositions, some of which were incorporated into medieval liturgy. She was named a doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVII in 2012.