Today at Mater Dei
- August 16, 2025
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St. Joachim, Father of Our Lady
Desiring to associate St. Joachim with the triumph of his blessed daughter, St. Pius X transferred his feast from March 20, on which it used to be kept, to August 16, the day after the Assumption. In Hebrew the name Joachim means “preparation of the Lord.” The Gospel sets out the genealogy according to St. Matthew. The divine preparation was begun far back and runs through the history of the whole chosen people, to finds its completion in our Lady, of whom was born Jesus Christ. The feast of St. Joachim, like that of St. Anne, should help us to venerate all the righteous of the Old Testament, whose lives were passed in preparation and waiting for the coming of the Messias. -
8:30 am - Low Mass
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9:00 am - Confessions
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