Today, March 12, is the commemoration of Saint Luigi Orione. Founder of the Little Missionaries of Charity, the Hermits of Divine Providence, and the Ladies of Divine Providence. Luigi, born in 1872 in Alessandria, Italy, came from a poor family. At the start of his teenage years, Luigi joined the Franciscans. He went out after […]
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Jesus said to his disciples:“You have heard that it was said,You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.But I say to you, love your enemies,and pray for those who persecute you,that you may be children of your heavenly Father,for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,and causes rain to fall
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“This was St. Simon Stock. The magnitude of his achievements places him in the ranks of the great. In his lifetime, the enormous work of adaptation to new conditions was accomplished and the Order given a form and direction which needed little alteration during the succeeding centuries. Providentially, need called him forth. His accomplishments were
Today, March 11, is the memorial of Saint Eulogio of Cordoba. Eulogio was the son of a senatorial family from Cordoba, Spain. He was a well-respected priest and ecclesiastical school head who provided support to Christian martyrs and their survivors. This was the time of the Islamic persecutions in Moorish-occupied Spain. He was arrested several
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Jesus said to his disciples:“I tell you,unless your righteousness surpasses thatof the scribes and Pharisees,you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven. “You have heard that it was said to your ancestors,You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment.But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brotherwill be
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“The prophecy of St. Cyril was wonderfully fulfilled. In a short time, let us say within a space of ten years, the main body of the Order was transplanted from the East to the West. How quickly this change was brought about may be seen from the fact that although the great Mother House of
Today, March 10, is the commemoration of Saint Marie-Eugénie de Jésus. Foundress of the Religious of the Assumption. Marie-Eugenie was born in 1817 in Moselle, France. She was raised in a well-to-do and educated family with almost zero faith in God. Her father Jacques Milleret lost all their fortune when she was 13. Because of
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Jesus said to his disciples:“Ask and it will be given to you;seek and you will find;knock and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds;and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.Which one of you would hand his son a stonewhen he asked
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“But with the growing dangers and the ever increasing attacks of the Mussulmen, such confidence was not easy. One by one the monasteries were burned and the monks driven out or murdered. Very soon those Friars, many of whom had come from the West, were forced to consider returning to their native land. Some of
Today, March 9, is the commemoration of Saint Frances of Rome. Patron saint of drivers. Foundress of the Oblates of the Tor de’ Specchi (Collatines). Born to the aristocracy in 1384, Frances was the daughter of Paul Bussa and Jacobella de’ Roffredeschi. She wanted to pursue her religious calling, but her parents got in the
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