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26th July – Saints Joachim & Anne
As my God lives, if I should conceive either a boy or a girl, the child will be a gift to my God, serving him in holiness throughout the whole of its life - Saint Anne
As my God lives, if I should conceive either a boy or a girl, the child will be a gift to my God, serving him in holiness throughout the whole of its life - Saint Anne
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him - Saint James the Greater.
Persevere in prayer without ceasing.. to understand and live according to his will, not to change it.
Mary is the lily in God’s garden.
Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of it that you would do nothing else but ask souls of God; and, on the contrary, could a soul in mortal sin be placed before your eyes, you would do nothing but weep, and you would hate sin more than the devil himself, and always pray for the conversion of sinners - Saint Mary Magdalene
My brothers and sisters, as today’s readings remind us to love God because of His loves us, let us do so by repenting from our sins, by being obedient to Him, by being loyal to Him, by practicing and living out the gospel of Christ, and by deepening our faith in Him through prayer, meditation and the reading of the Holy Scriptures.
We therefore grossly deceive ourselves in not allotting more time to the study of divine truths. It is not enough barely to believe them, and let our thoughts now and then glance upon them: that knowledge which shows us heaven, will not bring us to the possession of it, and will deserve punishments, not rewards, if it remain slight, weak, and superficial.
Justa and Rufina died as martyrs for our faith. Their lives teach us what it means to follow the First Commandment: "I am the Lord your God. You shall not have other gods besides me."
Brother, if you commit a sin and take pleasure in it, the pleasure passes but the sin remains. But if you do something virtuous, even though you are tired, the tiredness passes but the virtue remains.
The secret of sweetening our sacrifices is to attend a little less to what costs us and a little more to what we value - St. Teresa of St. Augustine (Martyr of Compiegne)
Truly, we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own, the lamentation of the Prophet: “There is no truth and there is no mercy and there is no knowledge of God in the land” (Hosea 4:1). Yet, in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes, like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man - Saint Pius X.
If you learn everything, except Christ, you learn nothing. If you learn nothing, except Christ, you learn everything.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, let us go out into the world and truly share Christ with others by proclaiming and teaching His gospel fearlessly and solely with His power and authority. Let us also avoid all distractions with prayer, so that we can focus and concentrate on our mission of evangelizing the world.
All in all, this saint was a man of his times. From our standpoint, he may have been too quick to do battle and too ready to use power to accomplish reforms. But granted such limitations, he shows that holiness is possible in a busy secular life. It is in doing our job that we become saints (Franciscan Media)
I cannot refuse what you ask in Christ’s name. I grant you your life and I give you my friendship. Pray that God may forgive me my sin.