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St Fiacc lived about 415 - 520. A poet, chief bishop of Leinster, and founder of two churches. His father, MacDara, was prince of the Hy-Bairrche in the country around Carlow. His mother was sister of Dubhtach, the chief bard
2. and brehon of Erin, the first of St Patrick’s converts at Tara, and the apostle’s lifelong friend.
Fiacc was a pupil to his uncle in the bardic profession and soon embraced the Faith.
Subsequently, when Patrick came to Leinster, he sojourned at Dubhtach’s house #Christian
3. in Hy-Kinsellagh and selected Fiacc, on Dubhtach’s recommendation, to be consecrated bishop for the converts of Leinster. Fiacc was then a widower; his wife had recently died, leaving him one son named Fiacre.
Patrick gave him an alphabet written with his own hand, and Fiacc
4. acquired with marvellous rapidity the learning necessary for the episcopal order. Patrick consecrated him, and in after time appointed him chief bishop of the province.
Fiacc founded the church of Domnach-Fiech, east of the Barrow. To this church Patrick presented sacred
5. vestments, a bell, the Pauline Epistles and pastoral staff.
After many years of austere life in this place, Fiacc was led by angelic command to build a monastery, too.
He suffered for many years from a painful disease and Patrick, commiserating his infirmity, sent him a
6. chariot and a pair of horses to help him in the visitation of the diocese.
He lived to a very old age and was buried in his own church at Sletty, his son Fiacre, whom Patrick had ordained priest, occupying the same grave. #Irish#Saints#CatholicChurch#CatholicTwitter
10. St Fiacc is the reputed author of the metrical life of St Patrick in Irish, a document of undoubted antiquity and of prime importance as the earliest biography of the saint that has come down to us. (Excerpts from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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~thread 1. "DOING EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO AVOID EVERY SINGLE SIN FOR LOVE OF OUR JESUS"
Our Lady of Fatima said on October 13, 1917, the day of the great Miracle of the Sun, ‘People must amend their lives #Fatima#Fatima103#FatimasNextJob
2. and ask pardon for their sins. They must not continue to offend Our Lord, Who is already deeply offended.’
The Holy Bible tells us that ‘He was wounded for our iniquities, He was bruised for our sins’ (Isaiah 53:3). St Alphonsus, Doctor of the Church, says that each one of
3. us can truly say the if I sinned just one sin less, then Jesus would have less to suffer in His Passion and Death.
The Blessed Virgin then tells us that we must pray because she knows, and the Catholic Church teaches, that without the grace of God no one can #Bible#grace
~thread 1. Edward, called the Confessor, nephew of St Edward, king and Martyr, was he last of the Anglo-Saxon kings. When he was ten years old, the Danes, who were then devastating England #StEdwardTheConfessor#Oct13#October#Saints
2. sought him out to kill him. He was forced to flee into exile. The tyrants were eventually overthrown, and Edward was recalled to his country. There he devoted himself to removing all traces of havoc wrought by the enemy, beginning with the churches of God.
He was famous
3. for gift of prophecy and foresaw much of England’s future history by divine inspiration. He had a very special devotion to St John the Evangelist, and on the day predicted by that saint, he died a most holy death, namely on the Nones of January, in the year of salvation 1066.
The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king, who made a marriage for his son. And he sent his servants, to call them that were invited to the marriage; and they would not come. (Mt22:1-14 #SundayMass#Oct11)~Douay Rheims #Bible#JesusChrist
2. But they neglected, and went their ways, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise.
Then [the king] saith to his servants: The marriage indeed is ready; but they that were invited are not worthy.
Go ye therefore into the highways; and as many as you shall find...
3. call to the marriage.. and the marriage was filled with guests.. And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not a wedding garment. And he saith to him: Friend, how camest thou in hither not having on a wedding garment? But he was silent.(Mt22:1-14)
~thread~ 1. St Ethelburga [Ethelburge, Edilburge] was an English Saxon princess, sister to St Erconwald, bishop of London. To the end that she might live entirely to God, she in her youth renounced the world #StEthelburga#England#history#Christian
2. and neither riches nor the tempting splendour of a court could shake her resolution; for the world loses all its influence upon a mind which is wholly taken up with the great truths of faith and eternal salvation.
St Erconwald considered only the perfection of his sister’s
3. virtue, not flesh and blood, when he appointed her abbess of the nunnery which he founded at Barking in Essex. Ethelburge, by her example and spirit, sweetly led on all the chaste spouses of Christ in that numerous house in the paths of true virtue and Christian perfection.
1. The Maternity of the BVM is celebrated on the second Sunday in October. The object of this feast is to commemorate the dignity of the Mary as Mother of God.
Mary is truly the Mother of Christ, #Maternity#BVM#JesusChrist
2. who in one person unites the human and divine nature. This title was solemnly ratified by the Council of Ephesus, 22 June, 431. The hymns used in the office of the feast also allude to Mary’s dignity as the spiritual mother of men.
The love of Mary for all mankind was
3. that of a mother, for she shared all the feelings of her son whose love for men led Him to die for our redemption.
The feast was first granted, on the petition of King Joseph Manuel, to the dioceses of Portugal and to Brasil and Algeria, 22 January 1751, together with the
Think often of Heaven, and of that eternal procession, in which the Lamb of God is attended by the angelic hosts, and by the elect, ransomed by his redeeming Blood. Strive to number and to recognise those friends of yours whom you hope to find
2. among this illustrious Family of the eldest-born of the Lord, and let your heart be lifted up with joy at the thought that you, too, will one day join in those blessed ranks.
Yes, live as much as possible in this delightful hope, which is as much a precept as a virtue.
3. True it is, indeed, we are not perfect; but the Gospel teaches us that the Lord summons to the feast, yea, urgently, even the poor, the infirm, the blind, the lame,