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Todd The Trad · « **Reply #95 on:** November 25, 2021, 11:03:39 AM »

St. Catherine of Alexandria

St. Catherine of Alexandria, educated in the sciences, converted many learned men who assembled to convince her to sacrifice to their pagan idols. She was beheaded about 310, during the reign of Maximian.

Collect: O God, on the summit of Mount Sinai You gave the law to Moses, and by means of Thy holy angels, You miraculously placed there the body of Blessed Catherine, Thy Virgin and Martyr; grant, we beseech Thee, that, through her merits and intercession, we may be able to reach that mountain which is Christ. Who with You liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

Todd The Trad · « **Reply #96 on:** November 25, 2021, 07:48:51 PM »

From Butler's Lives of the Saints;

Todd The Trad · « **Reply #97 on:** November 26, 2021, 10:15:29 AM »

November 26: St. Sylvester, Abbot

St. Sylvester served as a canon in Osimo but respectful rebukes of his bishop's inappropriate conduct led him to leave for a hermitage before the bishop could strip him of his position. He went on to found the Congregation of Sylvestrines under the Benedictine rule. He died at ninety years of age, in 1267.

O most merciful God, You deigned to call Saint Sylvester the Abbot, to a life of shining merit in the wilderness, when pondering upon the vanity of worldly things before an open grave; we humbly beseech Thee, that like him we may despise earthly things, and enjoy companionship with Thee forevermore. Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.

Nadir · « **Reply #98 on:** November 26, 2021, 05:13:56 PM »

https://fatherdoyle.com/2021/11/26/st-john-berchmans-fr-doyle-and-ordinary-life-3/

St John Berchmans, Fr Doyle and ordinary life

November 26, 2021 PK Jesuit, Saints, Virtues

St John Berchmans

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The chief thing God wants from me at present is an extraordinary and exquisite perfection in every little thing I do, even the odd Hail Marys of the day; that each day there must be some improvement in the fervour, the purity of intention, the exactness with which I do things, that in this will chiefly lie my sanctification as it sanctified St John Berchmans. I see here a vast field for work and an endless service of mortification. To keep faithfully to this resolve will require heroism, so that day after day I may not flag in the fervour of my service of the good God.

COMMENT: Today is the feast of St John Berchmans. he was a young Jesuit scholastic from Belgium who died in 1621 at the age of 22. Fr Doyle was only 15 years old when St John Berchmans was canonised – their common Jesuit vocation as well as Fr Doyle’s impressionable age at the time of the canonisation of such a young saint are most probably the reasons for Fr Doyle’s devotion to him.
The striking characteristic of St John Berchmans’ spirituality is its simplicity and emphasis on the ordinary. And for all of us that is the realistic, solid road to sanctity. As Teresa of Avila said, we will find God amongst the pots and pans of the kitchen, or we will not find him at all. Despite the heroism and real drama of Fr Doyle’s life, its bedrock foundation was the faithful fulfilment of ordinary simple duties. It was this that he preached and recommended to his spiritual children, and without this daily faithfulness the drama of the trenches would be impossible – as the Lord says, he who is faithful in little things will be faithful in greater things. It doesn’t work the other way around! If we are not faithful in ordinary activities not only will we be unfaithful when really big things come, but we are probably unlikely to be given even the grace to fulfil a more elaborate mission in the Lord’s service.
Other Jesuits also saw this spirit of St John Berchmans in Fr Doyle. Here is the testimony of a Jesuit who lived with him while he was a Jesuit scholastic on the staff of Clongowes Wood College:

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I can safely say he was a perfect Jesuit and often reminded me of St John Berchmans. His was a combination of real solid piety with a truly human character. Bright and joyous himself, he always made others happy and was evidently happy to be able to do so.

More information on the life and spirit of St John Berchmans can be found here: http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Saints/Saints_015.htm

Todd The Trad · « **Reply #99 on:** November 27, 2021, 11:17:42 AM »

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