Saint Bede the Venerable, Priest and Doctor of the Church

About this day

Bede was an English monk of the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow who devoted his life to prayer, study and teaching. His commentaries on Scripture and his Ecclesiastical History of the English People made him a teacher of the whole Church; he died on May 25, 735.

Coming up in the next year

Next: Tue 25 May 2027 — Year B · I

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Music

From the Common of Doctors of the Church

• Common of Doctors of the Church – Entrance, Communion (2019) [17. Common of Doctors. 11.16.19] Details
• Organ Propers, Book 20: Common of Commons to Psalms and Tones (Organ) [20. Offertory. 1936-2164. 01.08.20] Details
• Common of Doctors of the Church – Entrance, Communion (2018) [Common Doctors. The mouth. He who ponders. 07.09.18 Philadelphia] Details
• Common of Commons to Votive Mass – Holy Angels – Propers (English & Latin) [Gradual Saints. Outside PT. 2016] Details
• Common of Doctors of the Church – Lauds & First Vespers (English & Latin) [LAUDS. COMMON DOCTORS. summer 2023] Details
• Saints of Thanksgiving Day to Dec 14 – St John of the Cross – Propers (English & Latin) [Propers. III. SANC full. 06.04.20] Details

From the Missal

The Missal takes this day’s antiphons from the Common of Doctors of the Church, or the Common of Holy Men and Women: For a Monk or Nun.