Project BLACK MAMBA: Backlog Edition, Part I

18 November was the feast of the Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter & Paul, Apostles: Basilicas-link ūnus & Basilicas-link duo, Wikipedia-link St. Peter's & Wikipedia-link St. Paul's outside the Walls.

Commentary: Wayback Machine. Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

Vatican Hill was a simple cemetery where believers gathered at St. Peter's tomb to pray. In 319 Constantine built a basilica on the site. St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls [is] where St. Paul is believed to have been beheaded [&] stands over [his] grave.

Quoth the Holy Family bulletin:

This feast commemorates the dedication of the basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican in 350 & the dedication of the basilica of St. Paul in 390. This feast goes back to the eleventh century.

'Twas also the Optional Memorial of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin, R.S.C.J. (1769-1852): Saint-link ūna, Saint-link duae, & Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Quoth the Holy Redeemer bulletin:

St. Rose was a French religious sister & educator, & an early member of the Religious Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She founded the congregation's first communities in the United States & spent the last half of her life teaching & serving the people of the Midwestern & Western United States.

Quoth the Holy Family bulletin:

St. Rose manifested certain religious traits in her early teen years: zeal for the foreign missions, a strong attraction to religious life, a preference for ascetical practices, & above all, a deep-seated devotion to the Sacred Heart & the Blessed sacrament. At the age of eighteen she joined the Visitation nuns but because of the outbreak of the French Revolution the community had to disperse. She joined the Religious of the Sacred Heart. In 1818, at the ge of forty-nine, she landed in New Orleans with four other religious. She founded a school & an orphanage in St. Charles, Missouri. At the age of seventy-two, St. Rose Philippine Duchesne went with three other sisters to open a school for Indian girls at Sugar Creek, Kansas. The Indians called her, "The Woman Who Prays Always," & they loved & respected her. She spent the last ten years of her life in prayer & died in 1852.

Scripture of the Day (Wednesday)
Mass Readings
The Second Book of Maccabees, chapter seven, verses one, twenty thru thirty-one;
Psalm Seventeen, verses one(b,c,d), five, six, eight(b), & fifteen;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter nineteen, verses eleven thru twenty-eight;

or, for the Dedications,
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter twenty-eight, verses eleven thru sixteen, thirty, & thirty-one;
Psalm Ninety-eight, verses one thru six;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter fourteen, verses twenty-two thru thirty-three;

or, for the Memorial,
The Book of Hosea, chapter two, verses sixteen (b,c), seventeen(c,d), twenty-one, & twenty-two;
Psalm Forty-five, verse eleven;,
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter ten, verses thirty-eight thru forty-two.

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On 19 November we remembered Saint Mechtilde of Hackeborn, O.S.B. (circa 1241-1298, A.K.A. of Helfta): Saint-link & Wikipedia-link.

Scripture of the Day (Thursday)
Mass Readings
The First Book of Maccabees, chapter two, verses fifteen thru twenty-nine;
Psalm Fifty, verses one(b), two, five, six, fourteen, & fifteen;
The Gospel according to Luke, chapter nineteen, verses forty-one thru forty-four.