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Memorial of St. Scholastica, Virgin
It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your…
Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
Every day we are all called to become a “caress of God” for those who perhaps have forgotten their first caresses, or perhaps who never have felt a caress in their life. — Pope Francis
Optional Memorial of St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin
Seeing the sun, the moon, and the stars, I said to myself, “Who could be the master of these beautiful things?” And I felt a great desire to see him, to know him, and to pay him homage. — St. Josephine Bakhita
Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
O happy soul, who hast loved neither the world nor the things of the world apart from God! Happy soul, who, amid the world’s toil, hast chosen the one thing needful, that better part which can never be taken away! — Bl. John Henry Cardinal…
Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs
After Christ’s example I forgive my persecutors. I do not hate them. I ask God to have pity on all, and I hope my blood will fall on my fellow men as a fruitful rain. — St. Paul Miki
Memorial of St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr
Virtue demands courage, constant effort, and, above all, help from on high. — St. John Vianney
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Let your understanding strengthen your patience. In serenity look forward to the joy that follows sadness. — St. Peter Damian
Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr; St. Ansgar, Bishop
Men by petitioning may merit to receive what almighty God arranged before the ages to give them. — St. Gregory I
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
, “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you prepared in sight of all the peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel."…
Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
The family is more sacred than the state, and men are begotten not for the earth and for time, but for heaven and eternity. — Pope Pius XI