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19 Oct

BL. JERZY POPIELUSZKO, PRIEST - 19th OCTOBER

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1. Blessed Jerzy was born in 1947 in Okopy in Eastern Poland. After finishing at his secondary school Blessed Jerzy entered the seminary at Warsaw. After ordination to the priesthood
#JerzyPopieluszko #Christian #martyr

2. He worked at the parish of St Stanislas Kostka in Warsaw.

Bl. Jerzy was asked to organise the medical teams during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Poland and Warsaw.

On 13th December 1981, the communist authorities imposed martial law,

3. arresting many Solidarity activists. Bl. Jerzy became an important focus in a welfare programme to support families affected by martial law. He regularly attended trials of Solidarity activists, sitting with their families, so that the prisoners knew they were not forgotten.

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18 Oct

SURSUM (HIGHER)

Let this be your motto, you who have to travel this steep way, which is called life!

When sadness oppresses your soul, and threatens to overwhelm it, look up to heaven, elevate yourself above passing things –

SURSUM, higher.

You were not made for this earth,

2. your country is the kingdom of God; child of God, do not linger over the things of this world.

When your companions on the way are wearied and acknowledge themselves conquered, take courage, gaze steadfastly at heaven and say again:

SURSUM! SURSUM! Higher, still higher!

3. Child of the heavenly fatherland, consider that your life is only the passage from nothingness to eternity. The earth is man’s field of action, he must sow good deeds, endure his share of desolation and of grief; it is only in heaven that he will find true rest and true joy.

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16 Oct

ST IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH - 17th OCTOBER

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1. St Ignatius was a successor of St Peter as Bishop of Antioch. The young Church still had to operate extremely carefully and as inconspicuous as possible because the Roman authorities were constantly on the case of the Faithful.

2. [This difficult situation continued until a Roman Emperor had a dream that he would win the battles of the Roman Empire under the sign of the cross and finally became a Christian – this was Emperor Constantine.]

#history #RomanEmpire #EarlyChurch #Christian #StIgnatius

3. On his journey to Rome Ignatius wrote seven letters to different churches about Christ, the structure of the Church and Christian life. Eventually, St Ignatius was martyred under the Emperor Trajan by being thrown to the lions in the Colosseum in 107 A.D.

#StIgnatiusOfAntioch

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14 Oct

ST TERESA OF AVILA, VIRGIN - 15th OCTOBER

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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

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14 Oct

ST CALLISTUS I, POPE AND MARTYR - 14th OCTOBER

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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

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13 Oct

13th OCTOBER: FATIMA ANNIVERSARY

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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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