~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.
PRAYER:
O God, who crowned blessed King Edward with the glory of eternity, grant us, we beseech you, so to venerate him on earth that we may be worthy to reign with him in heaven. Through our Lord…
(From: An Approved English Translation of the Breviarium Romanum, London, 1964)
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~thread 1. Teresa was born of pious and noble parents at Avila, in Spain. While she was still a very little girl, she was so enkindled with a desire for martyrdom that, running away from home, she tried to go to Africa. #StTeresaOfAvila
2. She was brought back to her home. After her mother’s death, she committed herself wholly to the patronage of the Blessed Virgin.
When she was twenty years old, she embraced the rule of the nuns of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Solicitous for the salvation of souls, she built
3. many monasteries and proposed that the original rule of the Carmelite foundation be observed by its women and men.
She continually offered to God the voluntary sufferings of her own body on behalf of infidels and heretics and, burning with divine love, she took a most
~thread~ 1. Callistus, a Roman, ruled the Church when Antoninus Heliogabulus was emperor. He instituted the four periods of the year which are known as Ember Days – days on which, in accordance with the apostolic #StCallistus
2. tradition, fasting was to be observed by all.
He built the basilica called St Mary across-the-Tiber and enlarged the ancient cemetery on the Appian Way, in which are buried many holy Priests and martyrs.
For this reason, it is called the cemetery of Callistus. #Christian
3. He reigned five years, one month and twelve days.
After a long imprisonment, during which he was starved and frequently scourged, he was thrown head-downward into a well. He was crowned with martyrdom under the Emperor Alexander and was buried in the cemetery of Calepodius
~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
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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
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.