'Tis the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum, "time through the year"): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: Wayback Machine.
Saints of the Day
Otherwise, 20 August would be the festival of Saint Bernard, Abbot & Doctor of the Church, O.Cist. (1090-1153; of Clairvaux, the Doctor Mellifluus ["honey-sweet doctor"]), inaugural abbot of Clairvaux Abbey (1115-1153), a father of the Second Lateran Council (1139, the tenth [X] ecumenical council), & preacher of the Second Crusade (1147-1149); the subject of Pope Venerable Pius XII's encyclical Doctor Mellifluus (1953).
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