SAINTS OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR

In the first Preface of the Mass for Holy Men and Women we read: “In their lives on earth you give us an example. In our communion with them you give us their friendship. In their prayer for the Church you give us strength and protection.” Moreover, as the Second Vatican Council put it, “every act of love offered by us to those who are in heaven tends to and terminates in Christ, the crown of all the saints, and through him in God who is wonderful in his saints and is glorified in them.” This book, with its addition of feast days proper to the United States, and with new Prefaces for the Masses of some of them, is offered in the hope that it will foster greater devotion and imitation of the saintly men and women chronicled in its pages.

About the Author: The co-editor of an Italian magazine on the liturgy, Dr. Enzo Lodi is a noted authority on the sacraments and the liturgy, having written four major works in this area. He is likewise the author of another book on the saints of the Church in Bologna, Italy, where he teaches liturgy for the Archdiocese at the Institute of Pastoral Liturgy in Padua.