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Miseremini · « **Reply #165 on:** September 26, 2025, 02:44:02 PM »

Feast of the North American Martyrs

The eight North American martyrs, also known as the Canadian Martyrs, the Jesuit Martyrs of North America, or the Martyrs of France, included six priests and two lay brothers. They were heroic members of the Society of Jesus who were martyred in North America in order to bring the Faith that is necessary for salvation to the Huron, the Iroquois and the Mohawk Indians. Five of the eight North American martyrs were put to death in what is now Canada, and three of them in New York State. There is a shrine to the United States' martyrs at Auriesville in New York, and there is a shrine to the Canadian martyrs at Fort Saint Mary near Midland, Ontario. (Source: Catholic News Agency)

“You must love these Hurons, ransomed by the blood of the Son of God, as brothers… Try to eat the food they offer you, and eat all you can, for you may not eat again for hours… Be prompt in embarking and disembarking and do not carry any water or sand into the canoe… Do not ask questions. Silence is golden. Bear with their imperfections, and you must try always to be and to appear cheerful…” (St. Jean de Brébeuf)

Read an article here on the life of St. Jean de Brébeuf

Miseremini · « **Reply #166 on:** September 29, 2025, 11:48:07 AM »

Feast of St. Michael the Archangel - Who is Like God?

Of those who are always with God as spirits, He sometimes makes use as Messengers. Those who announce tidings of lesser import are called Angels; those who bring more important messages are called Archangels.
Hence it is that unto the Virgin Mary was sent no common Angel, but the Archangel Gabriel. For the delivery of this, the highest message, it was fitting that there should be sent the highest Angel. Their individual names also are so given as to signify the kind of ministry wherein each is powerful.
Whenever any work requiring great power is to be done, Michael comes forth. Thus from his act and his name we are to understand that no one can do what God alone has the power to do. Hence the old enemy who through pride aspired to be like God saying, “I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of heaven, I will be like unto the Most High” (Is. 14: 13-14), at the consummation of the world when he shall be left as prey of his own conceit in everlasting punishment, is presented to us as about to engage in combat with Michael the Archangel, according to the words of St. John, “There was a battle with Michael the Archangel” (Apoc. 12:7). Similarly, Gabriel, whose name means Strength of God, is sent to Mary. He came to announce him who although he deigned to assume the appearance of humility, came that he might vanquish the ethereal spirits. Raphael’s name is interpreted to mean Medicine of God, because he touched the eyes of Tobias to heal them and dispelled the darkness of his blindness.
O most glorious Prince, St. Michael the Archangel, be mindful of us: here and everywhere pray to the Son of God for us, alleluia, alleluia.

Source: St. Gregory the Great, Sermon 34 on the Gospel, adapted and abridged, and the Magnificat antiphon.

Miseremini · « **Reply #167 on:** September 30, 2025, 11:20:25 AM »

Feast of St. Jerome

St. Jerome, born in Dalmatia, in 329, was sent to school at Rome. His boyhood was not free from fault. His thirst for knowledge was excessive, and his love of books a passion. He had studied under the best masters, visited foreign cities, and devoted himself to the pursuit of science. But Christ had need of his strong will and active intellect for the service of His Church. St. Jerome felt and obeyed the call, made a vow of celibacy, fled from Rome to the wild Syrian desert, and there for four years learnt in solitude, penance, and prayer a new lesson of divine wisdom. This was his novitiate. The Pope soon summoned him to Rome, and there put upon the now famous Hebrew scholar the task of revising the Latin Bible, which was to be his noblest work. Retiring thence to his beloved Bethlehem, the eloquent hermit poured forth from his solitary cell for thirty years a stream of luminous writings upon the Christian world.
Reflection.—"To know," says St. Basil, "how to submit thyself with thy whole soul, is to know how to imitate Christ."

Source: Butler's Lives of the Saints

Miseremini · « **Reply #168 on:** October 04, 2025, 12:36:36 PM »

St. Francis and His Burning Love for the Blessed Sacrament

St. Francis burned with a love that came from his whole being for the Sacrament of the Lord’s Body, and he was carried away with wonder at the loving condescension and the most condescending love shown there. Not to hear at least one Mass each day if he could be there, he considered no small contempt. He frequently received Holy Communion, and he did so with such devotion that he made others also devout.
Showing toward that sacrament deserving of all reverence he could, he offered a sacrifice of all his members; and receiving the Lamb that was offered, he immolated his own spirit with the fire that burned always upon the altar of his heart... He wished at one time to send his brothers through the world with precious pyxes,[1] so that wherever they should see the price of our redemption kept in an unbecoming manner, they should place it in the very best place.
He wanted great reverence shown to the hands of priests, for to these has been given authority from God over the consecrated bread and wine. Often he would say:

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If it should happen that I would meet at the same time some saint from heaven and any poor priest, I would first show honor to the priest and quickly go to kiss his hands. And I would say to the other: 'Wait, St. Lawrence, for the hands of this one touch the Word of Life, and have something about them that is more than human.'"

Excerpted from St. Francis of Assisi, Brother Thomas of Celano (Franciscan Herald Press, 1963).

Miseremini · « **Reply #169 on:** October 11, 2025, 11:19:20 AM »

Feast of the Divine Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

By exalting the divine maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Church celebrates the most perfect of Mothers, the model for all mothers.
This feast was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1931, for the 15th centenary of the Council of Ephesus during which the dogma of Mary’s divine maternity was proclaimed.
In the texts of the liturgy, the Church expresses how Mary is the Mother of Jesus, but also our Mother, since it is by her intercession that she obtains for us the grace that unites us supernaturally to her Divine Son. The virginal maternity of Mary applies through Christ, whom she truly engendered in her flesh, to all the members of the Mystical Body of the Son of God.
This teaching was exposed by St. Pius X in his encyclical Ad Diem Illum (1904):

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For is not Mary the Mother of Christ? Then she is our Mother also. Therefore all we who are united to Christ, and as the Apostle says are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones (Eph. 5:30), have issued from the womb of Mary like a body united to its head. Hence, though in a spiritual and mystical fashion, we are all children of Mary, and she is Mother of us all. Mother, spiritually indeed, but truly Mother of the members of Christ.

BOTHY · « **Reply #170 on:** October 15, 2025, 09:40:29 AM »

Miseremini · « **Reply #171 on:** October 17, 2025, 10:22:55 AM »

Saint of the Sacred Heart

Keep your heart in peace and let nothing trouble you, not even your faults. You must humble yourself and amend them peacefully, without being discouraged or cast down, for God's dwelling is in peace.

~St. Margaret Mary

Miseremini · « **Reply #172 on:** November 01, 2025, 03:22:25 PM »

Feast of All Saints

Today, dear brethren, we celebrate the feast of All Saints with the joy of a shared solemnity.
Their society delights the heavens, their protection comforts the earth, and their triumph crowns the Holy Church. The more their profession of Faith was enclosed in torments, the more radiance they have in glory. For as the violence of battle grows, so the honor of the fighters is also increased. The numerous tortures of martyrdom increase its triumph, and the more dreadful pains obtain the more delightful rewards.
Our Mother the Catholic Church, spread throughout all the world—to whom Jesus Christ, her head, taught by His example not to fear the affronts, nor the crosses, nor death—is more and more strengthened not by resistance, but by patience.
To encourage all those legions of renowned athletes, thrown into prison like criminals, and to stir them all to maintain the fight with the same fervor and equal courage, she inspired them with the holy ambition of glorious triumph.

Taken from a sermon of St. Bede the Venerable (673-735) for the feast of All Saints, found in the Roman Breviary in the 4th lesson of Matins.

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