Saint of the day and Feast days-Part 2

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At one time during her sufferings, she was asked: “If Jesus gave you the choice between two alternatives, either going immediately to heaven and having your sufferings disappear, or else remaining here in suffering to procure still more glory for the Lord, which would you choose?” She answered: “I prefer to remain here rather than going to heaven, when it is a question of suffering for Jesus and His glory”
 
Shin said:
'Remember daughter, that whoever truly loves Jesus speaks little and bears all things. I command thee, on behalf of Jesus, to always refrain from giving your own opinion, unless it is asked; always to prefer silence to upholding your own views
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Imagine us here at Catholic Answers trying to follow that advice!😃
odhiambo said:
Is it possible that one so holy would be possessed by the devil?
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It’s been my experience that Satan targets the holy. I recall many years in my youth when I would receive severe temptations on Easter. Right after church no less.
If he could have I’m sure the devil would have possessed Jesus. That, of course, is impossible nonsense, but he would have loved it.
 
12 April

To day is the Feast day of
Saint Teresa of the Andes
Among Many other saints.
 
Saint Teresa of the Andes

Also known as
Saint Teresa of Los Andes
Discalced Carmelite Mystic.

Teresa was born in Santiago, Chile, on 13 July 1900. She was christened Juana Enriqueta Josefina of the Sacred Hearts Fernandez Solar. She was , however called Juanita. Her family consisted of her parents Miguel Fernandez and Lucia Solar, three brothers and two sisters, her maternal grandfather, uncles, aunts and cousins. The family was well off and were also faithful Christians. She was educated in the college of the French nuns of the Sacred Heart.

Juanita was devoted to Christ from a very young age. When she was just fourteen, she decided to consecrate herself to God.
On May 7, 1919 at the age of 19, she entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery of the Holy Spirit in the township of Los Andes, some 90 kilometers from Santiago. She was clothed with the Carmelite habit on 14 October the same year and given the religious name of Teresa of Jesus.

Toward the end of her short life, Teresa began an apostolate of letter-writing, sharing her thoughts on the spiritual life with many people. Still aged 19 she contracted a severe case of typhus. She received the last sacraments, and on 7 April, because of danger of death, she made her religious profession early. She died April 12, 1920 during Holy Week. Three months more and she would have turned 20.
She still had 6 months to complete her canonical novitiate and to be legally able to make her religious vows. She died as a Discalced Carmelite nun.

Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Santiago de Chile on April 3, 1987. Luis, one of her siblings, was present at her beatification.
She was canonized by Pope John Paul II on March 21, 1993. Her remains are venerated in the Sanctuary of Auco-Rinconada of Los Andes.

She is the patron of young people.

Saint Teresa,
Pray for us!
 
odhiambo said:
Saint Teresa of the Andes

Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Santiago de Chile on April 3, 1987. Luis, one of her siblings, was present at her beatification.
She was canonized by Pope John Paul II on March 21, 1993. Her remains are venerated in the Sanctuary of Auco-Rinconada of Los Andes.
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Imagine your very own sister a saint up there!🙂
 
‘How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?’

‘Perfection of life consists in drawing close to God. Heaven is the possession of God. In heaven God is contemplated, adored, loved. But to attain heaven it’s necessary to be detached from what is earthly. What is the life of a Carmelite if not one of contemplating, adoring and loving God incessantly? And she, by being desirous for that heaven, distances herself from the world and tries to detach herself as much as possible from everything earthly.’

St. Teresa of the Andes
 
13 April
Today is the Feast day of
**Saint Martin I, **
Among many other saints.
 
Saint Martin I,
Pope, Martyr
Martin was born at Todi, Tuscany (Italy). He was of noble birth and studied in Rome, acquiring great knowledge. He became a deacon at Rome. Due to his great learning and piety, he was appointed papal nuncio to Constantinople for Pope Theodore I.
On July 21, 649 he was elected pope.
Martin’s pontificate occurred during an extensive controversy that had strained relations between the Eastern and Western churches, namely monothelitism, a heresy maintaining that Christ had only one will. Martin called a council at the Lateran in his first year, condemning Heraclius and monothelitism in the face of the decree, the Typos, issued by the Byzantine emperor Constans II Pogonatus that commanded there be no discussion of the heresy.
On June 17, 653, the Pope, already sick, was seized by Byzantine soldiers and dragged to Constantinople. He was brutally treated along the way by the soldies and when they finally reached the Byzantine capital, he was in very poor physical condition.
He was jailed for three months. Eventually he was tried on a charge of ‘treason’, while his real offence had been his refusal to accept the Typos. He was condemned unheard, flogged and sentenced to death. At the intercession of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the emperor commuted the sentence to banishment, thereby sparing his life, but he was exiled to Chersonesus in the Crimea. He died in exile on 13 April, 655, the last pope to die a martyr.

Saint Martin I,
Pray for us!
 
14 April
Today is the Feast day of
Blessed Peter González
Among many others.
 
Pope St. Martin I ora pro nobis!

Nowadays monotheletism seems so far away. But back then, it shook the world.

A good example for Martin!

This next fellow is from the Dominicans. 😃
 
Saint Peter González
Also known as
Pedro González Telmo.
Saint Telmo.
Saint Elmo.
Erasmus.
Pietro Gonzales.

Peter was born in 1190 in Astorga, Spain. He was educated by his uncle, the Bishop of Astorga.
His becoming a priest was just a means to an end at the time as he had no true vocation then. His uncle made him the Canon of Palencia. For this, however, he had to obtained special papal dispensation as he was still too young for the position.
One day,during a grand Christmas Day entrance into the city, his horse was startled by the noise of the crowds. He was thrown and landed ,with all his fineries onto a dung-heap, much to the delight of the citizens who knew his was a political, not a spiritual appointment.
Humbled, Peter took a hard, long look at himself and it seems he did not like what he saw. He turned away from where he was heading, started on a new path, resigning his positio as Canon and entered the Dominican Order, where he became a renowned preacher. Multitudes gathered to hear him preach and there were numberless conversions.He was made court chaplain to King Saint Ferdinand III of Castile. Against the opposition of more worldly courtiers, he reformed court life around the king. Worked for the Crusade against the Muslims, accompanied Ferdinand into the battlefields, and
after King Ferdinand III and his troops defeated the Moors at Cordoba, Peter was successful in restraining the soldiers from pillaging and persuaded the king to treat the defeated Moors with compassion.

Peter’s real ambition, however, was to preach to the poor. After retiring from the court, he devoted the remainder of his life to the instruction and conversion of the ignorant and of the mariners in Galicia and along the coast of Spain.
Peter died on 15 April 1246 at Saintiago de Compostela, Tuy.
He is buried in the cathedral at Tuy.
He was beatified in 1254 by Pope Innocent IV and
Canonized on 13 December 1741 by Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed)

He is the patron of sailors.
Saint Peter Gonzales,
Pray for us!
 
After he joined the Dominicans, family and friends tried to draw him back to his old life and their planned pursuit of position, but he responded:

“If you love me, follow me! If you cannot follow me, forget me!”
 
Sorry for posting this so late … I’m getting a little too busy.

Although not a Feast day, we should all be aware that we are now in Passiontide.
See catholicism.about.com/b/2011/04/10/the-fifth-week-of-lent-passiontide.htm?nl=1.
Until the calendar was revised the fifth Sunday in Lent was known as Passion Sunday.
Even after the revision of the liturgical calendar, we can still see this shift in focus in the Church’s other liturgical celebrations. The Scripture Readings for the Fifth Week of Lent, drawn from the Office of the Readings, part of the official prayer of the Catholic Church known as the Liturgy of the Hours, are no longer drawn from the accounts of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt into the Promised Land, as they were earlier in Lent. Instead, they come from the Letter to the Hebrews, in which Saint Paul interprets the Old Testament in light of the New.
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I thought it important to point out this ‘shift in focus’. We are getting closer and closer to the Easter Triduum!!!
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The_Reginator said:
Sorry for posting this so late … I’m getting a little too busy.

Although not a Feast day, we should all be aware that we are now in Passiontide.
See catholicism.about.com/b/2011/04/10/the-fifth-week-of-lent-passiontide.htm?nl=1.
Until the calendar was revised the fifth Sunday in Lent was known as Passion Sunday.

I thought it important to point out this ‘shift in focus’. We are getting closer and closer to the Easter Triduum!!!
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Thanks Reginator.
Indeed you are right.
Thank you for reminding us.
 
15 April
Today is the Feast day of
Blessed Cesar de Bus
Among many others
 
Blessed Cesar de Bus.

Cesar was born on 3 February 1544, at Cavaillon, France. He was the seventh of thirteen children.
After completing his Jesuit education he had difficulty settling between a military or a literary career. He wrote some plays but ultimately settled for life in the army and at court. For a while he was contented with his life. Then, he fell seriously ill and found himself reviewing his priorities, including his spiritual life. By the time he had recovered, Caesar had resolved to become a priest.
He was ordained to the priesthood in 1582. He distinguished himself by his works of charity and his zeal in preaching and teaching the catechism. Then he conceived the idea of instituting a congregation of priests who should devote themselves to nothing but the preaching of Christian Doctrine. Thus, in 1592, the Secular Priests of Christian Doctrine ( The Fathers of Christian Doctrine), was founded in the town of L’Isle and in the following year one was opened at Avignon. This institute’s development into a religious congregation was approved by Pope Clement VIII, on 23 December 1597. Besides the Fathers, De Bus founded an order of women originally called “Daughters of Christian Doctrine”, which later came to be called Ursulines (not, however, a part of the major religious Order of that same name); it died out in the 17th century. The Fathers were destroyed during the French Revolution, but an Italian branch, the Doctrinarian Fathers continues today with houses in Italy, France and Brazil.
Saint Francis de Sales called today’s Saint “a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of Catechesis.”

One of Caesar’s works, Instructions for the Family on the Four Parts of the Roman Catechism, was published 60 years after his death.
Caesar died on Easter Sunday, 15 April 1607 in Avignon, France;. He was buried in the church of Saint Mary in Monticelli in Rome, Italy.
He was beatified on 27 April 1975 by Pope Paul VI.
Canonization is pending.
Blessed Caesar,
Pray for us!
 
Amen.

‘I was so beside myself and fired with such a longing to do something in imitation of him, that I would not give my eyes sleep or my days rest until I had given some beginning to this resolution of mine.’

Bl. Cesar de Bus, writing about Saint Charles Borromeo

‘It is a certain, well established fact that no other crime so seriously offends God and provokes His greatest wrath as the vice of heresy. Nothing contributes more to the down fall of provinces and kingdoms than this frightful pest.’

St. Charles Borromeo

‘We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: “I will pray, and then I will understand.” This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in others.’

St. Charles Borromeo
 
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