Events for Thursday 15th February 2024 |
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Sts Cyril & Methodius |
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Starts | 06:00 | Ends | 05:59 | |||
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In 1980 Pope John Paul II declared these two brothers 'Patrons of Europe'. Cyril, a priest, and Methodius, a monk, preached in, and later translated the Gospels to, the Slav language. Made Bishops in Rome, they died in 869 and 885 respectively. |
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St Claude de la Colombiere |
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Starts | 00:00 | Ends | 23:59 | |||
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Of French nobility, Claude felt a call to religious life from an early age. Educated at Jesuit college in Lyons, France, he became a priest. He taught humanities at Avignon. He preached against Jansenism, advocating dedication to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He became a Jesuit in 1659 and was spiritual director to Saint Margaret Mary Alocoque during the revelation to her of The Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Visitation Convent Chapel in Paray-le-Monial, in the heart of France. Claude de la Colombière is considered a "dry" martyr, having suffered every abuse for the faith, but death. His bones are preserved to this day in a glass case in the beautiful 'La Colombière' Church in Paray-le-Monial. Biographical details:
To Jesus My Friend By Claude de la Colombière, S.J. JESUS! You are my true Friend, my only Friend. You take a part in all my misfortunes; You take them on Yourself; You know how to change them into blessings; You listen to me with the greatest kindness when I relate my troubles to You, and You have always balm to pour on my wounds. I find You at all times; I find You everywhere, You never go away: if I have to change my dwelling, I find You there wherever I go. You are never weary of listening to me, You are never tired of doing me good. I am certain of being beloved by You, if I love You; my goods are nothing to You, and by bestowing Yours on me, You never grow poor; however miserable I may be, no one nobler or cleverer or even holier can come between You and me, and deprive me of Your friendship; and death, which tears us away from all other friends, will unite me forever to You. All the humiliations attached to old age, or to the loss of honour, will never detach You from me; on the contrary, I shall never enjoy You more fully, and You will never be closer to me than when everything seems to conspire against me to overwhelm me and to cast me down. You bear with all my faults with extreme patience, and even my want of fidelity and my ingratitude do not wound You to such a degree as to make You unwilling to receive me when I return to You. O Jesus, grant that I may die praising You, that I may die loving You, that I may die for the love of you. Amen.
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