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9 Oct

ST ABRAHAM, PATRIARCH - 9th OCTOBER

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1. The Father of all believers, and the progenitor, according to the flesh, of the Hebrew nation. He is also the father of Ismael, from whom the Ismaelites or Arabs are descended.
#Abraham #God #Bible #religion #SaintOfTheDay

2. When seventy years of age, he went forth from Babylonia, his native land, at God’s bidding, to dwell henceforth in Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey promised to his seed. There, he led a pastoral and nomad life.

Moreover, God made a covenant with him,
#Genesis

3. changing his name from Abram to Abraham (Father of nations), promising at the same time that his descendants should be more numerous than the stars of Heaven and that in his seed all peoples should be blessed. Of him Our Lord said: "Abraham rejoiced that he might see my day;

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9 Oct

ST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN - 9th OCTOBER

John Henry Newman was born in London on 21st February 1801, the eldest of six children of London banker. He grew up Anglican, became an Anglican vicar in St Mary’s, and in 1843 he resigned at St Mary’s and became Catholic.
#StJohnHenryNewman

2. In 1846 he went to Rome to study for the priesthood and was ordained priest there on Trinity Sunday 1847. He then returned to England and the English Oratory was founded in February 1848 in Birmingham.
He was always a prolific writer. He was made a Cardinal of the Holy

3. Catholic Church by Pope Leo XIII. Newman chose as his cardinalatial motto the words "Cor ad cor loquitur". He lived out the rest of his days, quietly and prayerfully, and still writing, at the Birmingham Oratory. He was taken to his eternal reward on 11th August 1890.

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9 Oct

1. Praise to the Holiest in the height,
and in the depth be praise,
in all his words most wonderful,
most sure in all his ways.

2. O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,
a second Adam to the fight,
and to the rescue came.
(#StJohnHenryNewman)

3. O wisest love! That flesh and blood
which did in Adam fail,
should strive afresh against the foe,
should strive and should prevail;

4. And that a higher gift than grace
should flesh and blood refine,
God’s presence and his very self,
and Essence all divine.

5. O generous love! That he who smote
in man for man the foe,
the double agony in man
for man should undergo,

6. And in the garden secretly
and on the Cross on high,
should teach his brethren, and inspire
to suffer and to die.

#Christianity #JesusChrist #Jesus #CatholicTwitter

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23 Sep

#OURLADYOFWALSINGHAMMEMORIAL: SEPTEMBER 24

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1. Five years before the Norman Conquest, in the little village of Walsingham, England, a pious widow, Richeldis, had a vision in which the Blessed Virgin asked her to build a
replica of the Holy House of the Annunciation.

2. Richeldis hastened to obey. Thus, says the legend, England received its most celebrated shrine.

WALSINGHAM AND LORETO

The Holy House of Loreto is said to be the very house in which our Lady lived, while the house at Walsingham was a replica of it.

3. Of the two, Walsingham is the older. The date given for the foundation of Loreto is 1291, that for Walsingham is 1061. There is no doubt of the sanctity of both shrines nor of the number favours granted there. Among the thousands who made the pilgrimage to Walsingham

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21 Sep

ST MAURICE - 22nd SEPTEMBER

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1. St Maurice was a leader (primicerius) of the Theban Legion, massacred at Agaunum, about 287 (303), by order of Maximian Herculius. The legend relates that the legion, composed entirely of Christians, had been called

#StMaurice #Sep22

2. from Africa to suppress a revolt of the Bagandae in Gaul. The soldiers were ordered to sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving but refused. Every tenth was then killed.

Another order to sacrifice and another refusal caused a second decimation and then a general massacre.

3. St Maurice is represented as a knight in full armour; in Italian paintings with a red cross on his breast, which is the badge of theSardinian Order of St Maurice.

Many places in Switzerland, France, and Germany have him as patron saint, as have also the clothmakers, soldiers

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21 Sep

21st SEPTEMBER: JONAH THE PROPHET

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1. Jonah is the fifth of the Minor Prophets.
Apart from the book traditionally ascribed to him, Jonah is mentioned once in the Old Testament: 2 Kings 14:25.
#Prophet #Jonah #Bible
#memorial #Sep21 #CatholicTwitter #Christian #faith

2. In the book which bears his name, in the opening verse it is stated that "the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amathi, saying: Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me."

#biblequotes #mondaythoughts

3. But the Prophet tries to escape the task assigned to him. He boards a ship bound for that port, but a violent storm overtakes him, and on his admission that he is the cause of it, he is cast overboard.

He is swallowed by a great fish and after a three day’s sojourn
#books

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