Fr. Joseph Whalen, our founder, blessed the above video asking God to give his healing blessing to all who watched it in the most Holy Name of Jesus Christ. (if you have the St. Raphael oil please put a cross shape on your forehead then watch it) This was his favorite healing prayer.
JULY
The month of July is dedicated to The Precious Blood of Jesus. The entire month falls within the liturgical season of Ordinary Time, which is represented by the liturgical color green. This symbol of hope is the color of the sprouting seed and arouses in the faithful the hope of reaping the eternal harvest of heaven, especially the hope of a glorious resurrection. It is used in the offices and Masses of Ordinary Time.
The Holy Father’s Intentions for the Month of JULY 2026
The Holy Father’s Intentions for the Month of July 2026
For respect for human life: Let us pray for the respect and protection of human life in all its stages, recognizing it as a gift from God. (See Apostleship of Prayer.)
The gifts received by us from God are derived not from ourselves but from the Holy Spirit, and are to be used, in a spirit of humility, in the service of the Church and of our brothers and sisters.
“Lord Jesus, help me see how Your Kingdom can grow in me in the smallest ways like a mustard seed. Teach me to depend on You when my faith seems small or insignificant. Work quietly in my heart, like rising bread. Strengthen and shape me every day, so Your Kingdom can take root in me and grow abundantly. Amen.”
that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds,
yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.
It becomes a large bush,
and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches. ”
ORDINARY
TIME:
JULY 27th
Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Other Commemorations: St. Pantaleon, Martyr (RM)
The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Pantaleon (d. 305), one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, was a physician, who practiced without payment, and who was martyred under Diocletian. His cultus is primarily connected with Bithynia, where Emperor Justinian rebuilt his church at Nicomedia. Churches are dedicated to him in Constantinople and Rome. In the East he is known as the Great Martyr and Wonder Worker. A reputed relic of Pantaleon’s blood kept at Ravello in southern Italy displays the phenomenon of liquefaction on his feast day, similar to that of Saint Januarius.
St. Pantaleon
He was a celebrated “fee-less physician” from Nicomedia who placed his skill in the service of God’s kingdom! According to legend he was the emperor’s ordinary physician. He is said to have strayed from the faith because of the voluptuous life at the court, but the zealous priest Hermolaus, by pointing out the example of his virtuous mother, effected such a change that Pantaleon distributed his goods among the poor and devoted his talents for healing to the most wretched and poor among the sick.
Because of his Christian faith he was seized by order of Emperor Maximian, tied to the rack and scorched with torches. But in these tortures Christ appeared, granting him further strength. Finally a stroke of the sword ended his sufferings (Martyrology). He is the patron of physicians and belongs to the “Fourteen Holy Helpers.”
—Excerpted from The Church’s Year of Grace, Pius Parsch
Patronage: bachelors; consumption; doctors; midwives; physicians; torture victims; tuberculosis; protection of domestic animals
Symbols and Representation: Budding olive branch or olive tree; vials of medicine; lion; club; sword and vase
Highlights and Things to Do:
- Read more about St. Pantaleon:
- Watch this Youtube video on St. Pantaleon.
- Read St. Pantaleon: Patron Saint of Trousers and Lotteries.
- See Prayer to St. Pantaleon for Protection from any Illness.
- Read more about the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
- See Saint Pantaleon: The Iconography for images of St. Pataleon.
MASS READINGS
July 27, 2026 (Readings on USCCB website)
PROPERS [Show]
COLLECT PRAYER
Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time: O God, protector of those who hope in you, without whom nothing has firm foundation, nothing is holy, bestow in abundance your mercy upon us and grant that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may use the good things that pass in such a way as to hold fast even now to those that ever endure. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
Daily Meditation: Matthew 13:31-35
The birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches. (Matthew 13:32)
It’s amazing how, in two short parables, Jesus gives such an expansive picture of the kingdom of God. First, he talks about a mustard tree being so large that the “birds of the sky” are free to make their home in it (Matthew 13:32). Then he talks about a woman mixing yeast with “three measures” of flour, an amount large enough to feed as many as one hundred people (13:33). That’s quite a kingdom!
Try to imagine this kingdom. Close your eyes, and picture one hundred people gathering to break bread together. Do they all look alike? Or are they a diverse crowd similar to the mix that you see in many churches on a Sunday morning? And what about all those birds nesting in that mustard tree? Are they all starlings? Or are there thrushes, robins, ravens, and maybe some hawks and doves living together?
This is the nature of the kingdom. It brings together all kinds of people, and somehow they find a way to celebrate their unity in Christ. Their differences, in fact, pale in comparison to what they have in common: their need to find shelter in the midst of an uncaring world and their need for the Bread of Life in a world whose “bread” can never sustain or satisfy.
Jesus came “to gather into one the dispersed children of God” (John 11:52). He came to break down every “dividing wall of enmity” that kept people at odds with each other (Ephesians 2:14). And he did it by overcoming the root of all division and enmity, which is sin. It’s the selfishness of sin that convinces us that God’s love is a limited resource. It’s the arrogance of sin that convinces us that we are more deserving of his love than someone else.
But it’s the generosity and mercy of God that prove that there’s room for everyone in his kingdom. It’s the wide-open arms of the crucified Christ that welcome everyone into “many dwelling places” in his Father’s house (John 14:2).
What a privilege! Jesus has welcomed you into a kingdom filled with countless treasures meant for countless people—as numerous as the “birds of the sky.”
“Jesus, thank you for bringing me into your kingdom!”
Jeremiah 13:1-11
(Psalm) Deuteronomy 32:18-21
(Hymn at Lauds)
The feast day of Raphael was included for the first time in the General Roman Calendar in 1921, for celebration on October 24. With the 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar, the feast was transferred to September 29 for celebration together with archangels Saints Michael and Gabriel.
St. Raphael in the traditional calendar (October 24) — which continues to be observed not only in communities which follow the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite , but also in those locales where St. Raphael is a patron.
In 1830, one of the apparitions sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church occurred in the chapel of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Rue de Bac, Paris. There were three visions given to Saint Catherine Laboure who, at the time of the first one, was a novice in the order. She was awakened at 11:30 PM on the eve of the Feast of St. Vincent de Paul, by a “shining child” who led her to the chapel where she saw Our Lady, who spoke to her for two hours about the difficult task that lay ahead. Four months later, on November 27 Catherine had the second vision wherein she saw a three-dimensional scene of the Blessed Virgin standing on a white globe with dazzling rays of light streaming from her fingers and she heard a voice say:
“There now formed around the Blessed Virgin a frame rather oval in shape on which were written in letters of gold these words: ‘O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee’
This sacramental from Heaven was at first called simply the Medal of the Immaculate Conception, but began to be known as the Miraculous Medal due to the unprecedented number of miracles, conversions, cures, and acts of protection attributed to Our Lady’s intercession for those who wore it.
Sister Catherine became Saint Catherine in 1947. The church instituted recognition of the apparition in which the Miraculous Medal first appeared for November 27, 1830. Millions of the Miraculous Medal have been distributed, and many graces and miracles have been received through this devotion to Our Lady.
BROWN SCAPULAR OF MT. CARMEL
Virgin Mary’s promise to Saint Simon Stock
July 16, 1251″Wear it devoutly and perserveringly,” she says to each soul, “it is my garment. To be clothed in it means you are continually thinking of me, and I in turn, am always thinking of you and helping you to secure eternal life.”
The scapular is an external sign of the filial relationship established between the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother and Queen of Mount Carmel, and the faithful who entrust themselves totally to her protection, who have recourse to her maternal intercession, who are mindful of the primacy of the spiritual life and the need for prayer.
THE SABBATINE PRIVELEGE
The blessed Virgin of Mt. Carmel has promised to save those who wear the scapular fromthe fires of Hell; She will also shorten their stay in Purgatory if they should passfrom this world still owing some temporal debt of punishment.
The Blessed Virgin appeared to him and speaking of those who wear the Brown Scapular said: “I, the Mother of grace, shall descend on the Saturday after their death and whomsoever I shall find in Purgatory, I shall free, so that I may lead them to the holy mountain of life everlasting.”
Pope Benedict XV proceeded to grant an indulgence of 500 days for each time the cloth Scapular is kissed”. On July 16th, the Scapular feast, while addressing the seminarians of Rome, Benedict XV said: “Let all of you have a common language and a common armor: the language, the sentences of the Gospel; the common armor, the Scapular of the Virgin of Carmel, which you all ought to wear and which enjoys the singular privilege of protection even after death.”
The Brown Scapular | A Sacramental
“One of the most remarkable effects of sacramentals is the virtue to drive away evil spirits whose mysterious and baleful operations affect sometimes the physical activity of man. To combat this occult power the Church has recourse to exorcism, and sacramentals” (The Catholic Encyclopedia., 1913, VXIII, p. 293).
The Brown Scapular | A True Story
You will understand why the Devil works against those who promote the brown scapular when you hear the true story of Venerable Francis Yepes. One day his Scapular fell off. As he replaced it, the Devil howled, “Take off that habit which snatches so many souls from us! All those clothed in it die piously and escape us!” Then and there Francis made the Devil admit that there are three things which the demons are most afraid of: the Holy Name of Jesus; theHoly Name of Mary and the Holy Scapular of Carmel.“Modern Heretics make a mockery of wearing the Scapular. They decry it as so much trifling nonsense.” – St. Alphonsus LigouriMary, Mother of God and Our Mother“When Mary became the Mother of Jesus, true God and true Man, She also became our Mother. In His great mercy, Jesus wished to call us His brothers and sisters, and by this name He constituted us adopted children of Mary.” – St. John BoscoOver the years there have also been many miracles associated with wearing the brown scapular.
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