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Happy Feast Day St. Anthony of Padua, pray for us!
336 years after his death, his body was found to be corrupted, yet his tongue was totally incorrupt, so perfect were the teachings that had been formed upon it.
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Happy Mothers Day
Mary, Holy Mother of God and Our Mother.
Pray for us!
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Happy Feast Day
St.Thomas Aquinas, pray for us!
He was an Italian Dominican friar & priest. Also honored as a Doctor of the Church, Thomas is considered the Church's greatest theologian and philosopher.
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Happy Feast Day
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
She appeared six times and identified Herself as “Our Lady of the Rosary”, asking that they pray the rosary daily for the conversion of sinners.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Rita of Cascia, pray for us!
She earned fame for her austerity, devotion to prayer, & charity. She received visions & the crown of thorns of Christ.
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Happy Feast Day
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Elizabeth
“And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.”
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Happy Feast Day Our Lady of Akita
The statue wept human tears 101 times and bled type AB blood, along with other supernatural changes to the statue.
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Happy Feast Day
St.John Bosco, pray for us!
An Italian priest who dedicated his life to the betterment & education of street children, juvenile delinquents, & other disadvantaged youth, employing teaching methods based on love rather than punishment.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Teresa of the Andes, pray for us.
She’s known as the “Flower of the Andes” and was Chile’s first canonized saint.
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Happy Feast Day St. Columba, pray for us!
Considered one of Ireland's 12 Apostles loved by both the Irish and Scots.
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The Infant of Prague
Divine Infant Jesus, I know you love me & would never leave me. I thank you for your close presence in my life. I believe in your promise of peace, blessings, & freedom from want. I place every need & care in your hands…Amen.
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Happy Feast Day
The Holy Innocents, pray for us.
This commemorates the massacre of the male children, 2yr old & under, in Bethlehem, by King Herod (Matthew 2:16-18)
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Happy Feast Day
St. Boniface, pray for us!
An English Benedictine monk known as the “Apostle of Germany” for evangelizing and reforming the Germanic Church.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Isidore the Farmer, pray for us!
He attended Mass daily, though never neglecting his labor. Many times his guardian angel would take up the plow while he lingered in prayer.
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The feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
O glorious Name of Jesus, gracious Name, Name of love and of power! Through You sins are forgiven, enemies are vanquished, the sick are freed from illness, & the suffering is made strong and cheerful.
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The Month of Mary
“The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.”
St. Louis de Montfort
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Happy Feast Day
St. Philip Neri, pray for us!
He had many extraordinary experiences including an enlargement of his heart after a vision of a globe of fire entering his chest & an ability to tell penitents their sins.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, pray for us!
She founded the Society of the Sacred Heart devoted to the Sacred Heart & dedicated to teaching girls.
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Happy Feast Day St. Olivia of Palermo
The the olive branch, she holds is a symbol of peace, fruitfulness, dignity, & beauty, She was kidnapped by the Muslims, yet allowed to live in a cave as a hermit. She cured and converted many Muslims.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Sophia, Mother of Orphans, pray for us.
After a plague took the lives of her 6 children & husband, she opened her home to all, serving families for over 20 years, even adopting 100 children.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Florentina was the sister of three bishops, St. Leander, St. Isidore of Seville, and St. Fulgentius. she embraced the ascetic life & with St. Leander founded a convent for her, where she became abbess as a cloistered nun.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Augustine of Canterbury, pray for us!
He is the “Apostle to the English” who founded the church in England.
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Happy Feast Day
Saint Juliana Falconieri, pray for us.
She founded the Servite Tertiary Sisters who dedicate their life to prayer, penance, & caring for the sick and those in need.She founded the Servite Tertiary Sisters.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Joan of Arc, pray for us!
A national heroine of France, was born in 1412 during the 100yrs War. At age 12 she began receiving visions from saints telling her to drive out the English from France.
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Happy Feast Day St. Barnabas
The Acts of the Apostles chronicles his travels & apostolate to the Gentiles & testifies on behalf of the Gentiles concerning Jewish rites. He was martyred in Cyprus and in 448 his body was found incorrupt.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Joanna the Myrrh-bearer, pray for us!
She was cured of evil maladies by Jesus, then followed & provided for Him & His apostles. (Luke 8:1-3) She was one of the women who discovered the empty tomb on Easter morning.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Melangell patron of hares, rabbits, small animals, and the natural environment, pray for us.
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Happy Feast Day
Our Lady of Good Counsel pray for us.
Hail Mary, Full of Grace, pray for us sinners.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Norbert had a literal “off his horse” conversion. He was thrown from his horse & when he woke up he asked: “Lord, what do want me to do?”
Our Lord said “Turn from evil & do good. Seek peace & pursue it.”
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Happy Feast Day
St. Matthias, pray for us!
The patron of alcoholism, carpenters, smallpox, tailors, and Gary, Indiana. It is he who took the place of Judas among the twelve.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Agatha, pray for us!
Patron of Sicily, breast cancer, bakers, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wet nurses, natural disasters.
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Divine Mercy Sunday
"Humanity will never find peace until it turns with trust to Divine Mercy" Jesus (Diary, p. 132).
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Happy Feast Day St. Vitus, pray for us!
When Vitus wouldn’t sacrifice to the pagan gods, they attributed it to sorcery & threw him in boiling oil, along w/a rooster (as part of a ritual against sorcery) making him the patron against oversleeping.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Aloysius Gonzaga pray for us.
He’s the patron of young students, Christian youth, Jesuit novices, the blind, AIDS patients.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Julia of Corsica Pray for us.
Patron of torture victims. She was tortured and crucified for refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Brendan the Navigator, pray for us!
An Irish saint who was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is most known for his legendary travels, especially to the “Isle of the Blessed” also known as Saint Brendan’s Island.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Clotilde pray for us!
She was married to King Clovis who ruled the Franks and was instrumental in the King's conversion. She is credited with bringing Christianity to Europe.
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Happy Feast Day St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi, pray for us!
She’s called the “ecstatic saint” & had many highs & lows in her lifetime receiving many visions & ecstasies but also desolation, temptations, & dryness.
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Happy Feast Day
St. John Nepomucene, pray for us!
He is known as the “Martyr of the Confessional” after refusing to divulge the Queen's confession. The King in his rage had him killed. Five stars were seen over the spot where he drowned.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Bernardine of Siena, pray for us!
He was a 15th C. Franciscan preacher, known as the “Apostle of Italy” & of "the Holy Name of Jesus”. He devised the Greek symbol, IHS, for the name of Jesus.
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The Nativity of St. John the Baptist
Happy Birthday!!
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Happy Feast Day
St. Erasmus, pray for us!
He was the Bishop of Formia in Italy who was martyred during the Diocletian persecution. He’s one of the 14 Holy Helpers
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Happy Feast Day
St. Paschal Baylon, pray for us!
He lived the vow of poverty his whole life & had a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, defending the True Presence to the Calvinist.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Francisco & St. Jacinta Marto, seers of Fatima. Pray for us!
These “privileged children of the Father,” as JPII referred to them, dedicated themselves to a life of prayer & sacrifice in reparation for the conversion of sinners.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Angela Merici, pray for us!
She was an Italian religious educator. She founded the Company of St. Ursula in1535, in which women dedicated their lives to the service of the Church through the education of girls.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Mariana de Jesus de Paredes, pray for us!
A third-order Franciscan, a mystic who practiced intense mortifications & survived primarily on the Eucharist at daily Mass.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Francis de Sales, pray for us.
He is known for his deep faith & patience, studied law & theology at the University of Padua, Italy, earning a doctorate in both fields.
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Happy Feast Day Bl. Anna Maria Taigi, pray for us. A mystic who conversed w/Jesus & Mary. She was able to see hidden & future events. Her love for the Trinity prompted her to become a Secular Trinitarian, living an ordinary life as a wife and mother.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Lidwina of Schiedam, pray for us.
Patron of Ice skaters, sickness, bodily ills, prolonged suffering, roller skating, sick people, skaters, multiple sclerosis
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Happy Feast Day
Our Lady of Lourdes Pray for us!
Lourdes is one of the most frequented Marian Shrines in the world, known as a place of healing, with over 60+ miraculous cures that have been recognized by church authorities.
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The Month of the Sacred Heart
“It is altogether impossible to enumerate the heavenly gifts which devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has poured out on the souls of the faithful.”
- Pope Pius XII
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Happy Feast Day
St. Eric King of Sweden, pray for us!
He was a father & servant. He codified the laws called King Eric Laws (Code of Uppland)
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Happy Feast Day
St. Lydia, pray for us!
She was Saint Paul's first known convert and the seller of purple cloth, as mentioned in the New Testament: Acts 16:13-15
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Good Shepherd Sunday
“I am the good shepherd & I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me & I know the Father…
These also I must lead & they will hear my voice & there will be one flock, one shepherd.”
John 10:14-16
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Happy Feast Day St. Germaine Cousin, pray for us!
Rejected by her family at 9 she was put to work as a shepherdess & spent much time in prayer, refusing to miss Mass, putting her flock under the care of her guardian angel when she went.
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Happy Feast Day St. Emily de Vialar Pray for us.
In 1835, St. Emily & 26 women took religious vows, calling themselves the Sisters of St. Joseph “of the Apparition.” (referring to The angel Gabriel telling St. Joseph to flee to Egypt)
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Happy Feast Day
St. John Paul II, pray for us.
He was the 2nd longest-serving pope.
No other Pope has encountered so many individuals as John Paul II, the most traveled world leader in history.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Gemma Galgani, pray for us!
Favored with many mystical experiences & special graces, she wished to become a nun, but her poor health prevented her. In 1899, Gemma received the stigmata & suffered with Christ.
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Blessed Virgin Mary
Mother of the Church
“Him whom the heavens cannot contain, the womb of one woman bore. She ruled our Ruler; she carried Him in whom we are; she gave milk to our Bread.”
St. Augustine
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Happy Feast Day
St. Benjamin, pray for us.
He was a deacon and martyr in Persia. He was imprisoned for a year for his faith.
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Happy Feast day
St. Kevin pray for us!
He left his life of solitude to build a monastery and teach the people of Ireland about God.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Abigail, pray for us!
She had a special relationship with bees and would care for the sick with honey and natural medicines.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Justin Martyr, pray for us.
The son of pagan parents came to the faith through Platonic intellectual philosophy. He was the first great apologist. His writings describe the Catholic Mass & the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
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All Saints Day
A solemn holy day of the Catholic Church.
Blessed are those who wash their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb (Revelation 7:14)
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Happy Feast Day
St. Joseph the Worker
St. Joseph came from the royal lineage of David, the greatest King of Israel
(Matthew 1:1-16 & Luke 3:23-38).
The angel who tells Joseph about Jesus greets him as "son of David," a royal title used also for Jesus.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Jose Sanchez Pray for us!
He fought & was martyred during the Cristero War. St. Jose had a love for Our Lady of Guadalupe & the Blessed Sacrament & wouldn’t deny the faith even when tortured.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Charles Lwanga & Companions pray for us!
When they would not renounce the faith, & be sodomized by king Mwanga; he ordered them to be executed.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Thomas More pray for us.
More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to accept him as Supreme Head of the Church of England
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Happy Feast Day
St. Joachim & St. Anne, honored as role models for parents.
They are the parents of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Pray for us!
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The Month of the Sacred Heart
“Do not let the past disturb you, leave everything in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and begin again with joy.” - St. Teresa of Calcutta
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Happy Feast Day
St. Joseph, pray for us!
He was the representative of our Heavenly Father on earth, because he acted as Christ's father in His life on earth & the divinely appointed head of the Holy Family.
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Happy Feast Day
St. William of Perth, pray for us!
Born in Scotland & a baker by trade, he set aside every 10th loaf for the poor and was a daily Mass goer.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Josephine Bakhita was a slave that became a Canossian Daughters of Charity, assisting her community & teaching others about God. She forgave & even thanked her kidnappers because it was through them she came to know God.
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Happy Feast Day
Our Lady of Good Success Pray for us!
This title is shared among numerous images around the world, a number of images in Spain, one in Quito, Ecuador, and one in Paranaque City, Philippines.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Veronica of the Veil, pray for us.
She offered her veil to Jesus to wipe his face on his way to Calvary. This beautiful act of charity is commemorated at the sixth station of the way of the cross.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Monica, pray for us!
Her perseverance in prayer inspired her son, St. Augustine, the Church’s great theologian, to convert to the Catholic faith.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Anthony of Padua, pray for us.
336 years after his death, his body was found to be corrupted, yet his tongue was totally incorrupt, so perfect were the teachings that had been formed upon it.
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Happy Feast Day St. Ephrem the Syrian, pray for us!
He was a deacon, poet, teacher, musician, and defender of the faith.
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The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of the four dogmas of the Catholic Church, that from the moment the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived in the womb, she was kept free of original sin.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Paul Miki, pray for us!
Born in Japan, into a wealthy family & became a Jesuit. Known for his preaching, he gained numerous converts to Catholicism. He was crucified with 25 other Catholics
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Happy Feast Day
St. Agnes of Rome
She was very beautiful, fm a wealthy family & was highly sought after in marriage. However, Agnes made a promise to God to embrace purity. Her love for the Lord was great & she hated sin even more than death!
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Happy Feast Day
St. Pancras of Rome, pray for us!
He was orphaned at an early age, and sent to live with his uncle in Rome. They both converted to Christianity with enthusiasm. Under Diocletian they were both martyred.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Catherine of Siena started having mystical experiences & visions at 6 and became a Dominican tertiary at 16. A brilliant theologian, although no formal education, she persuaded the Pope to go back to Rome from Avignon.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Julian of Norwich Benedictine English mystic & one of the most influential writers of England, wrote 16 Revelations of Divine Love, the 1st English language book by a woman & meditated on revelations from Jesus about Divine Love.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Gregory Nazianzen, pray for us!
“As a fish cannot swim without water, and as a bird cannot fly without air, so a Christian cannot advance a single step without Christ.”
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Happy Feast Day
Sts. Peter and Paul, pray for us!
“Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world”
Psalm 19
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Venerable Father Augustus Tolto, pray for us!
Born into slavery in 1854. During the Civil War, his mother and siblings fled to Quincy Illinois Fr. Tolton persevered through post-Civil War America with patience, humility, and courage
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Happy Feast Day
St. Dominic Savio, pray for us!
He was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. Patron of choirboys, falsely accused people, juvenile delinquents, and choral singing.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Julie Billiart, pray for us.
She’s the patron against poverty, bodily ills, & disease who founded,& was the first Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Amelia
Born into a religious family & was preparing to enter the Benedictines when Charles, son of King Pepin became enamored w/her beauty & virtue.
He pursued her & @ one point broke her arm in a struggle in which it was miraculously healed.
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The Month of the Sacred Heart
“In the Sacred Heart, every treasure of wisdom and knowledge is hidden. In that divine heart beats God’s infinite love for everyone and for each of us as individuals.” JPII
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Happy Feast Day
Blessed Carlo Acutis, pray for us.
The miracle that paved the way for Acutis’ beatification involved the healing of a Brazilian child suffering from a rare congenital anatomic anomaly of the pancreas in 2013.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Bernadette Soubirous, pray for us!
Saint of Lourdes where Our Lady told her that she was the Immaculate Conception.
The body of St. Bernadette is incorrupt & internally undamaged.
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All Souls Day
A day for the commemoration of all the faithful departed.
“He who saves a soul saves his own and satisfies for a multitude of sins.” (James 1:20)
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Happy Feast Day
Bl. Rolando Riva was martyred by the Communist partisans & is a role model for seminarians & youth because of his determination to stay true to the faith in the face of persecution & danger.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Florian a Roman officer. He was scourged, flayed, set on fire, & finally thrown in a river. Miracles are attributed to him; 1 is that he saved a town fm being destroyed by fire after he prayed & threw a bucket of water on the blaze.
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"Advent
is synonymous with hope,
not the vain waiting for a faceless god,
but concrete & certain trust in the return of him who has already visited us.
-JPII
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Happy Feast Day
St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini worked with cholera victims, visited the sick and prisoners, and helped the poor & the bankrupt nobility. He saved thousands of farmers and workers from famine, selling his own goods.
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Happy Feast Day
St. Dorothy, pray for us!
Patron of horticulture; brewers; brides; florists; gardeners; midwives; newlyweds; love.
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Happy Feast Day
Mary, Mediatrix of all Graces
“Mary is the instrument of “the instrument of the Divinity”
- St John Damascene.
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