Today, August 20, is the memorial of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Doctor of the Church. Born to the French nobility in 1090 in Burgundy, France, Bernard was the brother of Saint Humbeline and Blesseds Guy, Gerard, and Nivard. At age 22, fearing the ways of the world, he, four of his brothers, and 25 friends […]
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When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees,they gathered together, and one of them,a scholar of the law, tested him by asking,“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”He said to him,“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart,with all your soul, and with all your mind.This is the
Today, August 19, is the memorial of Saint Ezequiel Moreno. Patron saint of cancer patients. Ezequiel was a Spanish Augustinian Recollect who was assigned as a missionary to the Philippines. He was born in 1848 in La Rioja, Spain. His first mission was in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro. He was later transferred to Las Piñas. This
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Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and the elders of the people in parablessaying, “The Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a kingwho gave a wedding feast for his son.He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast,but they refused to come.A second time he sent other servants,
Today, August 18, is the memorial of the Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of Rochefort. The three Discalced Carmelites were Frenchmen: Fr. Jean-Baptiste Duverneuil (Leonard in religious life) was born in 1737, other accounts contend it was 1759; Fr. Michel Louis Brulard was born in 1758; Fr. Jacques Gagnot (Hubert of St. Claude in religious life) was
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Jesus told his disciples this parable:“The Kingdom of heaven is like a landownerwho went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage,he sent them into his vineyard.Going out about nine o’clock,he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,and he said to them, ‘You too go into
Today, August 17, is the memorial of Blessed Angelo Agostino Mazzinghi. Carmelite provincial and reformer. Angelo Agostino was born in 1385 in Florence, Italy. He became a Carmelite in 1413 and was ordained priest. He served successively as superior of the Order’s monasteries in Le Selve, Frascati, and his native Florence. He was the first
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STATEMENT OF THE ORDER OF CARMELITES ON THE 174-HECTARE RECLAMATION PROJECT IN DUMAGUETE CITY “This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her. We have come to see ourselves as her lords and
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Jesus said to his disciples:“Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is richto enter the Kingdom of heaven.Again I say to you,it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needlethan for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.”When the disciples heard this,
Today, August 16, is the memorial of Saint Roch. Patron saint invoked against epidemics and plagues. Popularly known as San Roque, he was a French nobleman who early developed a sympathy for the poor and sick; reported to have been born with the image of a red cross on his breast. Orphaned at age 20,
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