Happy Feast Day of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist!
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May the patronage and tutelage of Saint John the Baptist, whose Nativity occurs with the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost this year (A.D. 2012), avail each and everyone of us unto the ceaseless augmentation of the three theological virtues and the gifts of the Holy Ghost; and, by his intercession, may we attain to an ever-increasing yearning for Our Lord Jesus Christ, particularly in Holy Communion, and true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom Our Lord chose as the means to sanctify and consecrate the same glorious Prophet as His illustrious Precursor.
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