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Miseremini · « **Reply #90 on:** July 31, 2024, 12:25:29 PM »

Blessed Solanus Casey

Nov. 25 1870 - July 31 1957

https://www.solanuscasey.org/about-blessed-solanus-casey/

Miseremini · « **Reply #91 on:** July 31, 2024, 12:28:08 PM »

Ignatius, courtier and knight, was wounded at the siege of Pampeluna. During his long convalescence the reading of the lives of the Saints revealed to him that the Church militant needed an army of glorious soldiers to fight the forces of Satan: Pagans, Mohammedans, Protestants, etc. He founded the Society of Jesus and as first General of this new spiritual chivalry he moved to the attack under the motto: "Ad majorem Dei gloriam-To the greater glory of God!" He died with the Holy Name of Jesus on his lips in 1556.

Miseremini · « **Reply #92 on:** August 01, 2024, 12:32:04 PM »

These seven holy brothers (the Holy Machabees) suffered martyrdom under Antiochus in the second century before Christ.

Miseremini · « **Reply #93 on:** August 02, 2024, 10:49:12 AM »

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Feast of St. Alphonsus de Liguori
August 2, 2024|Redemptorists Spirituality
August 2, 2024

On this feast of our holy founder, I would like to thank all our friends and benefactors for your continued prayers and support. Recently, the kitchen cabinets have been installed (though we are still waiting for the countertops to be completed), and a concrete mixer truck arrived to pour the cement porches in front of the doors to the chapel, refectory, and utility room. You can find new pictures in our photo gallery HERE.
We can all be encouraged by the example of St. Alphonsus’ patience, which was truly remarkable. He embraced every cross for love of God.
He endured four kinds of sufferings in particular:
1. Physical pains. In his old age (he lived to be almost 91), he was half-blind, half-deaf, and was eventually toothless. He is the official patron saint of arthritis sufferers, since his spine became so deformed that his neck bent his chin against his chest, which caused an open ulcer that regularly had to be cleaned. He also suffered terribly from neuralgia.
2. Mental sufferings. St. Alphonsus had 3 nervous breakdowns during his life. The first time was as a young priest, when he had overworked himself; the second time was when Pope Clement XIII ordered him under obedience to be made a bishop; and the last time was when Pope Pius VI expelled him from the order that he had founded.
3. Trials from men. For 25 years, an unjust lawsuit threatened the existence of the Redemptorist Fathers; but after the death of the litigant, St. Alphonsus financially supported the man’s children. Again, for many years, King Carlos VII of Naples, influenced by anti-clerical politicians, was on the verge of closing the Redemptorists, which caused the saint untold stress. And finally, when St. Alphonsus was 85, Pope Pius VI, due to a misunderstanding, expelled the saint from the Redemptorist Congregation. (After St. Alphonsus’ death, and the misunderstanding having been explained, the pope admitted that he had persecuted a saint.)
4. Trials from God. The devil was allowed to tempt the saint against the holy virtue, even in his old age. His confessor said that St. Alphonsus had never committed a deliberate mortal sin, and yet the saint underwent terrible scruples throughout his life. This was a trial not only for himself, but also for those around him: “Alphonsus suffered,” said his lifelong friend, Fr. Giovanni Mazzini, at the beatification process, “and he made us suffer with him.” However, God removed these fears and scruples from the saint three weeks before his death, so that he approached eternity with perfect peace of soul, the reward of his great love of God and neighbor.
St. Alphonsus’ last words were, “It is all over. Give me the Madonna.” A picture of Our Lady was placed in his hands, and he was seen to go into an ecstasy. He died while the Angelus was ringing at noon on August 1, 1787. In the Tridentine rite, his feast is celebrated the followed day.
St. Alphonsus de Liguori was canonized in 1839, made a Doctor of the Church in 1870, and declared patron of confessors and moral theologians by Pius XII in 1950.
“O God, Who by the blessed Alphonsus Maria, Thy Confessor and Bishop, inflamed with zeal for souls, hast enriched Thy Church with a new religious family: we beseech Thee that, taught by his saving counsels and strengthened by his example, we may happily come to Thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.” +
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Miseremini · « **Reply #94 on:** August 06, 2024, 01:08:45 PM »

The Transfiguration of Our Lord

This Transfiguration of Our Lord, full of lessons and instructions for us, is honored by the Church in the festival of this day, with a particular view to the raising up the thoughts and hopes of her children, in the midst of the hardships and labors of their mortal pilgrimage, to the eternal repose and glory of their heavenly country.
Consider, in this mystery of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, how wonderfully He was here pleased to confirm our faith, as well by the joint testimonies of the law and the prophets bearing witness to the gospel, represented by the glorious apparition of Moses and Elias with Christ; as by the testimony of God Himself in all the Three Persons, by the voice of the Father, by the glory of the Son, and by the manifestation of the Holy Ghost in the bright cloud.
See how He was pleased by the same glory of this transfiguration to encourage all his followers to bear with patience the afflictions, labors, crosses, and persecutions of this life, in hopes of a share in that eternal glory of which He has given us as it were a sketch in this mystery, ever remembering that of the Apostle, II Cor. 4:17. “that our present tribulation, which is momentary and light, worketh for us above measure exceedingly an eternal weight of glory.” But O, let us take along with us that other lesson also, which we are taught by the voice of the Heavenly Father, in the Transfiguration of Our Lord, that the true way to a happy eternity, and to all good, is ever to hear and obey the Son of God.
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