Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time: June 9 (Fr. Kevin Mac Donald, C.Ss.R.)
It is hard to pass by a feast day honoring a saint who has been declared “Doctor of the Church.” After all, there have been only 38 declared in the long history of the Catholic Church and they all have something special to teach us. St. Ephrem, a deacon born to Christian parents around the year 306, spent his life teaching Christians throughout Mesopotamia. He did it mostly through hymns, even organizing an all-women choir to perform in church, something that was not practiced at the time. The choir members were even known as “deaconesses.” Ephrem often referred to himself as the “herdsman”…
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