November
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday
ALL SAINTS DAY
1
Solemnity
Friday
Saturday
ALL SOULS DAY
2
6
7
8
St Josaphat
12
St Albert the Great
Memoria
13
14
20
21
Feast
St Margaret of
Scotland and
St Gertrude
Memoria
Contents
10
Memoria
St Elizabeth of
Hungary
Memoria
4
1
The Life of St Catherine Laboure
4
Halloween: How did it all start?
6
7
To Save a Life: A Review
Memoria
Two Doctors Proclaimed
8
Every Idol But One
8
Games and Jokes
9
St Martin of Tours
11
Memoria
Dedication of the
Basilicas of Ss Peter
and Paul
18 Op. Memoria
St Clement I and
St Columbanus
St Cecilia
22
Op. Memoria
St Leo the Great
15 Op. Memoria 16 Op. Memoria 17
The Presentation of
the Blessed Virgin
Mary
19
9
Sunday
St Charles Borromeo
Tobymac: A Review
3
Dedication of the
Lateran Basilica
5
St Martin de Porres
Memoria
23 Op. Memoria 24
25
St Andrew
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30
Feast
The Pope’s Intentions
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The first thing I realized I needed to do was to find out what
a doctor is, what is required for one to be a doctor and finally
General Intention
Ministers of the Gospel. how it relates to the Catholic Church. Firstly, if one were to
look up the definition of doctor, you would most likely get the
following definitions. “A person... trained in the healing arts
That bishops, priests,
and licensed to practice or one holding the highest academic
and all ministers of the degree bestowed by a college or university” [American Heritage
Gospel may bear the Dictionary, 4th Edition, 2007]. The relation between a secular
courageous witness of doctor and a theological doctor becomes clear, when one looks
fidelity to the crucified at the requirements needed to become both types of doctors.
and risen Lord.
Missionary Intention
Pilgrim Church.
That the pilgrim
Church on earth may
shine as a light to the
nations.
In the case of a medical doctor the person will have to have
gained three different degrees and spent a total of around twelve
years into getting their doctorate degree. For one to become a
theological doctor they must firstly be a saint, secondly their
life and doctrine must be orthodox and thirdly there is the so
called ‘eminent doctrine’ which must be qualified (Jean M.
Heimann, Rome Reports). The difference between a Saint
whose doctrine and life is orthodox versus a person whom is
not is that, as Saint Athanasius tells us, “The person wishes to
be saved above all else, and keep and teach the Catholic faith,
in its entirety.” Although, the third requirement to be come a
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Children of the Rosary