
“When a person loves another dearly, he desires strongly to be close to the other: therefore, why be afraid to die? Death brings us to God!"
-St. Josephine Bakhita

“When a person loves another dearly, he desires strongly to be close to the other: therefore, why be afraid to die? Death brings us to God!"
-St. Josephine Bakhita

Feast of the Martyrdom of St. John Baptist
“His persecutors had demanded not that he should deny Christ, but only that he should keep silent about the truth. But to endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather it was easily borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would be his reward.”
-St. Bede the Venerable on St. John the Baptist

Feast of St. Augustine (354 – 430)
“You have created us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they rest in you.”
-St. Augustine

Feast of St. Monica
“One thing only I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be.”
-St. Monica

“Nothing half-hearted for me–I will follow Christ with all my heart and soul.”
-St. Therese of Lisieux

TOV writes: “Jericho Marches are being conducted by Catholics in order to influence the outcomes of certain situations. The marches are not New Age, but are they Biblical because a God-ordered march was conducted by the Israelites around the walls of Jericho? Do they have any precedent in the Church? Or are they of Protestant origin?”

Feast of St. Joseph Calasanz (1557 – 1648)
“Like the twigs of plants the young are easily influenced, as long as someone works to change their souls.”
-St. Joseph Calasanz

Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle
“The Apostles were the nucleus of the Church, the new Israel, the first visible manifestations of Christ’s Mystical Body.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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