Sacred Calendar
The Roman year ordered for memory, penance, feasts, saints, and the daily pilgrimage of the faithful.
Calendar standard
Pre-1955 Roman usage
The calendar follows the universal Roman year under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X, with the Roman Martyrology preserved as a distinct daily witness.
The day is presented for prayer, recollection, study, and perseverance in the City.
Daily observance
Today in the City of God
The Church keeps this day in holy time. The Pilgrim's Companion gathers the feast, daily quote, Martyrology, meditation, prayer, and related chapters into one daily path through the City.
Choose a date
Daily observance
St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor
Tuesday, June 13, 2028
Season: Time after Pentecost
The day is set within the Roman year so its feast, Martyrology, daily quote, prayer, and reading path may be received together without blurring their proper sources.
Today's pilgrimage
St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor
Rank: Double
Color: white
Quote for the day
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
“The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clutter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess GOD in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the Blessed Sacrament.”
The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of a Holy Life, Fourth Conversation
The pilgrim's devotional rhythm
Keeping the month and the weekday in prayer
This chosen devotional rhythm does not change the feast, rank, or obligations shown above. It gives the passing days a steady intention, helping the pilgrim honor God, intercede for souls, and carry one Catholic practice into the day. It is a household aid to devotion, not another law of the Roman Calendar.
June intention
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Sacred Heart reveals the human love of the Incarnate Word, burning for His Father's glory and the salvation of souls. Draw near in reparation, obedience, and confidence rather than sentiment alone.
Intention
For reparation to the Sacred Heart, the conversion of sinners, and hearts made meek, humble, and faithful to the commandments of Christ.
A faithful act
Accept contradictions without resentment and offer them in reparation for coldness toward Our Lord.
Prayer
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us and make our hearts like unto Thine.
Tuesday remembrance
The Holy Angels
God has appointed His angels as ministers of His providence. Honor them by greater purity, recollection, and prompt obedience to grace, never forgetting that their whole service leads the soul to God.
Intention
For protection against temptation, guidance in duty, and the defense of children, travelers, and souls in spiritual danger.
A faithful act
Before a difficult duty or conversation, ask your Guardian Angel to help you act without sin and for God's glory.
Prayer
Holy Angel, my guardian, keep me from sin and direct me in the faithful accomplishment of today's duties.
Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology - June 13
At Padua, St. Anthony, a native of Portugal, confessor of the Order of Minorites, illustrious for the sanctity of his life, his miracles, and his preaching. — At Rome, on the Ardeatine road, the birthday of St. Felicula, virgin and martyr, who was delivered to the judge for refusing to marry Flaccus and to sacrifice to idols. As she persevered in the confession of Christ, he confined her in a dark dungeon without food, and afterwards caused her to be racked until she expired. She was then cast into a sewer; but St. Mcomedes buried her on the road just mentioned. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Fortunatus and Lucian. — At Byblos, in Palestine, St. Aquilina, virgin and martyr, at the age of twelve years, under the emperor Diocletian and the judge Volusian. For the confession of the faith she was buffeted, scourged, pierced with red-hot bodkins, and being struck with the sword, consecrated her virginity by martyrdom. — In Abruzzo, St. Peregrinus, bishop and martyr. For the Catholic faith he was thrown into the river Pescara by the Lombards. — At Cordova, in the persecution of the Arabs, St. Fandila, a priest and monk, who underwent martyrdom by decapitation for the faith of Christ. — In Cyprus, St. Triphyllius, bishop.
Highlighted saint
St. Anthony of Padua
Confessor, preacher, and Doctor of evangelical truth.
St. Anthony of Padua is honored for preaching, doctrine, miracles, and zeal for souls.
His witness joins love of Scripture to clear preaching and conversion of life, reminding the Church that eloquence is holy only when it serves truth.
The Church remembers him as a preacher who attacked heresy, not as a religious performer. He teaches that words are not holy because they sound moving. They are holy when they help souls repent, believe, and return to Christ.
Virtue to practice
Preaching ordered to conversion.
Error to resist
The eloquence that delights in words while neglecting repentance.
For the pilgrim in exile
Ask St. Anthony for a tongue governed by Scripture and charity. Speak so that souls find Christ again, not so that you appear clever or severe.
Imitate today
- Read Scripture with reverence.
- Speak truth for conversion, not display.
- Ask help in recovering what has been spiritually lost.
Sources
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, June 13.
- Roman Martyrology, 1916 Baltimore edition, June 13.
From Matins
The Ark of the Covenant sent to preach.
Matins - Second Nocturn - St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor
Roman Breviary, Proper lessons for St. Anthony of Padua
“One of his chief points was to expend all his strength in attacking heresies.”
Doctrine taught
- The Breviary remembers St. Anthony as the Portuguese canon regular who became a Friar Minor after the bodies of the Moroccan martyrs stirred in him the desire for martyrdom.
- Illness and providence turned his road from Saracen mission to Italy, where hidden prayer, fasting, watching, and contemplation prepared him for preaching.
- His preaching drew admiration for wisdom and fluency, but the office chiefly marks his scriptural teaching, direction of Franciscan studies, miracles, and tireless assault against heresy.
For the pilgrim in exile
Let doctrine make speech charitable and strong. St. Anthony teaches that preaching must be born from prayer, disciplined study, humility, and zeal for souls endangered by error.
Sources
- The Roman Breviary, translated by John, Marquess of Bute, 1908, vol. III, Summer, Second Nocturn for St. Anthony of Padua, lessons iv-vi.
- Bute 1908 is used here as an accessible pre-Pius X Breviary witness and is cited distinctly from the 1936-1937 Benziger / Burns Oates edition.
Breviary Witness
Preaching that helps souls find Christ.
Matins - St. Anthony of Padua
Breviary witness
- The Breviary honors St. Anthony of Padua as confessor and preacher, known for doctrine, miracles, and zeal for souls.
- His witness teaches that eloquence is holy only when governed by Scripture, humility, and conversion.
For the pilgrim in exile
Ask for speech that restores, not speech that displays. St. Anthony teaches a tongue disciplined by truth and charity.
Sources
- Roman Breviary, Matins lessons for June 13, St. Anthony of Padua.
- Roman Martyrology, 1916 Baltimore edition, June 13.
Meditation
Preaching Born from Prayer and Truth
St. Anthony of Padua joined prayer, Scripture, disciplined study, and humility to preaching that attacked heresy and sought conversion. His feast shows why holiness cannot coexist peacefully with heresy: love for God rejects lies about Him, and love for souls opposes the poison that leads them away from Christ.
Related paths
Walk the day through the City.
Today's chapters
Read with the feast.
Prayer
The day should become prayer.
O Lord, through St. Anthony, govern my study and speech. Give me hatred of error without hatred of persons, and make every correction humble, exact, and ordered to conversion.
Thought for the pilgrim
Hatred of heresy is charitable when it seeks the rescue, not the humiliation, of souls.
Practice
The day should become obedience.
Read a short passage of Scripture, explain its plain meaning, and let its truths correct error first in your own life.
Source notes
Universal Roman Calendar under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X
Fasting and abstinence according to the laws observed in 1952
Daily quotations and pilgrimage excerpts ordinarily come from eligible Catholic sources issued no later than December 31, 1954: Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, saints, Roman Pontiffs, traditional catechisms, approved devotional works, and received liturgical texts. Legitimate additions promulgated under Pope Pius XII may be retained when identified precisely; this does not adopt the reformed Holy Week or later rubrical changes.
The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, published by John Murphy Company; the local 1916 text is displayed and traceable to its source lines.
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, Liturgical Calendar, pp. xvii–xxviii.
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., 1953 edition; proper Mass or devotion named in this entry.
- Matthew 11:29, Douay-Rheims.
- Psalm 90:11 and Matthew 18:10, Douay-Rheims.