ST ALBERT THE GREAT (ALBERTUS MAGNUS), BISHOP, CONFESSOR AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH - 15th NOVEMBER

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1. Albert was born at Lauingen on the Danube in Swabia. To pursue higher studies, he went to Padua. He sought admission to the family of Dominic. #StAlbertTheGreat
2. He was conspicuous for his piety and for his strict observance of the rule. He had the greatest love for the Blessed Virgin Mary and burned with zeal for souls.

He was appointed professor at Hildesheim, Fribourg, Ratisbon and Strasbourg, successively. In the chair at Paris
3. he gained great fame. Among his beloved pupils was Thomas Aquinas.

He was later appointed Bishop of Ratisbon.
He wrote many things on almost every branch of learning, especially on sacred subjects.

Most famous for virtue and miracles,
#ScienceWeek2020 #science #medieval
4. he fell asleep in the Lord in the year 1280.

Pope Pius XII constituted him the heavenly patron with God of all students of the natural sciences.

#NaturalSciences #students #medievaltwitter #PatronSaint #AlbertusMagnus
5. PRAYER:

O God, who made blessed Albert, your Bishop and Doctor, eminent in the submission of human wisdom to divine faith, grant us, we beseech you, so to follow the path of his teaching that we may enjoy perfect light in heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ...
6. (From: An Approved English Translation of the Breviarium Romanum, Burns & Oates, London, 1964)

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16 Nov
ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND - 15th NOVEMBER

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1. Born, perhaps in Hungary, in 1045, Margaret took refuge in the court of Malcolm III of Scotland after the Battle of Hastings. She married him in 1070.

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2. She lived with great piety, spending her time in prayer and fasting, caring for the poor. She used her position to reform the abuse of the time, and had synods held to this end. The Church of the Holy Trinity at Dunfermline was founded at her benefaction.
PRAYER:
God our Father,
you gave Saint Margaret of Scotland
a special love for the poor.
Let her example and prayers
help us to become a living sign of your goodness.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns..
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15 Nov
For even as a man going into a far country, called his servants..
to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to every one according to his proper ability..
But after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them.(Mt25:14-30) #Bible Image
2. And he that had received the five talents coming, brought other five talents, saying:

Lord, thou didst deliver to me five talents, behold I have gained other five over and above..

And he also that had received the two talents came and said..behold I have gained other two.
3. [Their lord said to them each:]
Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place you over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

But he that had received the one talent, came and said..I went and hid thy talent
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13 Nov
ST LAURENCE O'TOOLE - 14th NOVEMBER

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1. St Laurence, Bishop, of princely descent, was born in Leinster about A.D. 1124. After being Abbot of Glendalough, he was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin (A.D. 1154). He guided his flock wisely
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2. encouraging them to patience in the sufferings consequent on the invasion of Strongbow; and governed his diocese with prudence for 26 years.

Repairing in the interests of his Church, to Canterbury, to King Henry II, he narrowly escaped death at the hands of a madman.
3. He was present in Rome (A.D. 1179) at the Lateran Council, and returned to Ireland with the powers of a Legate.

He died at the Abbey of Eu in Normandy (November 14, 1180), having successfully negotiated between King Henry and King Roderic, the Irish monarch.
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13 Nov
13th NOVEMBER: ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI [USA]

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1. St Frances Xavier Cabrini was born into a farming family in Lombardy, Italy, in 1850. She was attracted to a missionary life from an early age and founded the Institute

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2. of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Codogno in 1880. Her original missionary dream was to go to China but historical circumstances prevented this. Pope Leo XIII directed her to the United States, where millions of Italians were arriving in search of work
3. and with the hope of a better life.

Over the next 30 years she established 67 foundations in Europe, the United States and Central and South America. This included schools, hospitals, orphanages and social centres. She established a school in Honor Oak, South London.
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2 Nov
2nd NOVEMBER: ALL SOULS' DAY (THE COMMEMORATION OF ALL THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED)

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1. By purgatory, no more is meant than a middle state of souls; viz., of purgation from sin by temporary chastisements, or a punishment of some sin inflicted after
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2. death, which is not eternal.

As to the place, manner, or kind of these sufferings, nothing has been defined by the Church,it is interwoven with the fundamental articles of the Christian faith.

For, as eternal torments are the portion of all souls which
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3. depart this life under the guilt of mortal sin, and everlasting bliss of those who die in a state of grace, so it is an obvious consequence that among the latter, many souls may be defiled with lesser stains, and cannot enter immediately into the joy of the Lord.

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And I saw another angel.. saying: Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we sign the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them that were signed, an hundred forty-four thousand.. (Apc7:2-4,9-14 #HolyMass #AllSaintsDay #November1st) #Bible
2. After this I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and tribes, and people's, and tongues, standing before the throne, and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands: (Apc7:2-4,9-14 #AllSaintsDay #November1st) DR #Bible
3. And they cried with a loud voice, saying: Salvation to our God, who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb.

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