Author Topic: Saint of the day (Read 503049 times)

Miseremini · « **Reply #125 on:** September 17, 2024, 12:01:02 PM »

St. Francis's Burning Love for the Blessed Sacrament

Today (September 17) is the Commemoration of the St. Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata (holy wounds) of Our Lord Jesus Christ. So it is befitting to relate the devotion that the Seraphic Father had for the Blessed Sacrament.

Of St. Francis’s devotion to the Body of the Lord
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, 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:

Quote

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 #126 on:** September 19, 2024, 11:35:17 AM »

St. Januarius, Bishop of Beneventum, was beheaded with his companions Acutius, Eutychius, Desiderius, Festus, Proculus, and Socius at Puteoli in the persecution of Diocletian in 305. St. Januarius is the patron of Naples, where year by year the liquefaction of his blood, preserved in a phial, takes place.

http://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/St.%20Januarius%20and%20St.%20Cyprian.html

Miseremini · « **Reply #127 on:** September 20, 2024, 12:01:12 PM »

Eustace was commander-in-chief in the army of the Emperor Trajan. Having refused to thank the gods for a triumph, he was burned to death with his wife and two children, after undergoing many cruel tortures in 120.

Miseremini · « **Reply #128 on:** September 21, 2024, 11:48:25 AM »

St. Matthew was at first a publican at the toll station at Capharnaum. The publicans, on account of their many acts of injustice and extortion, were looked upon as the greatest sinners by the Jews. Matthew himself by his humble confession gratefully acknowledged the gracious condescension of the Lord to sinners. At his Master's invitation he promptly joined Him. He wrote the first Gospel and preached the Good News in Palestine and in Ethiopia, where he was attacked and killed while saying Mass in 60.

Miseremini · « **Reply #129 on:** September 27, 2024, 01:35:02 PM »

Saints Cosmas and Damian, two brothers, physicians, born at Egaea (Arabia), were beheaded after many cruel tortures in Cilicia, under Diocletian, by order of the prefect Lysias in 283.

CathInfo.com

Author Topic: Saint of the day (Read 503049 times)

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day

Miseremini

Re: Saint of the day