Heart aflame...

   "I am of the same family as Christ -

what more could I want?" 

 St Pope John XXIII

 

Jesus the Eucharist - Jimmy (Australia) 

"Your most loving Heart, O Jesus,

dwells in this Sacrament,

burning with love for us.

It is there continually performing

thousands of good deeds towards us."

St. John Eudes

The best prayer...

  "The best prayer is the one 

in which there is the most love." 

St Charles de Foucauld

 Prayer of Abandonment 

 St Charles de Foucauld

Father, 
I abandon myself into your hands; 

do with me what you will.

Whatever you may do, I thank you:

I am ready for all, I accept all.

Let only your will be done in me, 

and in all your creatures.

I wish no more than this, O Lord. 

Into your hands I commend my soul;

I offer it to you

with all the love of my heart,

for I love you, Lord,

and so need to give myself,

to surrender myself into your hands,

without reserve,

and with boundless confidence, 
for you are my Father. 

Excerpt from the writings of Fr Rene Voillaumeon
on the Blessed Sacrament and Charles de Foucauld:

"You will always be right in imitating the attitude of soul—which is so simple, so logical, so full of love—of Frere Charles of Jesus towards the Blessed Sacrament. Our devotion to the Eucharist must be profound, honest, totally embraced as essential. When one has acquired the disposition of receiving this gift of God with the soul of a child, one is upset by the reasoning of certain people... who dispute the devotion towards the Eucharist and sometimes question its legitimacy on liturgical or historical grounds... Why not, in the simple logic of faith, love the Eucharist with all the love with which we love Jesus himself? That is what filled Father de Foucauld with the spontaneity of a child."

No matter the cost...

   "We are given graces to overcome our fears

and to accomplish great things 

in Adoration." -  Fr John Hardon

"I strongly recommend that 

each of us make a resolution 

- no matter how much

the decision may cost us -

to make a Holy Hour...

once a week." - Fr John Hardon

Fidelity to the mission...

    After the Last Supper it was Jude who asked Our Lord 

why He chose to reveal Himself only to the disciples 

and not the world.  He received the reply:

 Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; 

and my Father will love him, and we will 

come to him, and make our home with him.  

- John 14: 23 (Today's Communion Antiphon)

"The more lively the Eucharistic

faith of the people of God,

the deeper is its sharing in ecclesial life

in steadfast commitment to the mission

entrusted by Christ to His disciples."

Sacramentum Caritatis, 6

Sts Simon and Jude

Apostles, Martyrs (approx 65 AD)

St. Jude: patron saint of hospital workers,

desperate situations, and impossible causes.

 Novena to Saint Jude -- 

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/novena-to-st-jude

--desperate-situations-and-hopeless-cases-305

St. Simon: patron saint of sawyers and tanners.

Feast Day - October 28

PHOTO: Missionaries of Charity ~Home for the dying - Khaligat ~ Calcutta, India

"Just as Christ was sent by the Father, so also 

He sent the apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit. 

This He did so that, by preaching the gospel to every 

creature (cf. Mark 16:15), they might proclaim that 

the Son of God, by His death and resurrection, had 

freed us from the power of Satan (cf. Acts 26:18) 

and from death, and brought us into the kingdom 

of His Father."- Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy

Almighty God, You chose 

Your servants Simon and Jude to be numbered 

among the glorious company of the Apostles. 

As they were faithful and zealous in their mission, 

so may we with ardent devotion make known the 

love and mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 

who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, 

one God, now and forever. Amen.

Click here: Ss. Simon & Jude - YouTube (2 mins)

Sts. Simon and Jude, pray for us!

My heart, a resting place...

 "I am a child of God through Baptism and 

my resemblance to Him has grown stronger through 

Holy Communion. May I never forget my last 

Communion and may my heart yearn for the next one." 

Mother Angelica

"Heavenly Father, when Your priest holds up 

the host and says "the Body of Christ"

let my soul bow in humble adoration

before the love and humility of Jesus.

Let my heart be a pure 

resting place for Your Son.

I desire, dear Father, that the image of Jesus

grow brighter in my soul after every Communion.

At that tremendous moment God and I are one."

Mother Angelica

Foundress: EWTN and the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration

Excerpt from The Mass is my Life

That you may see...

 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,

for it is light that makes everything visible. ... 

Wake up, O sleeper... 

and Christ will shine on you. - Eph 5:13-14

 "No matter how much you labor,

you labor to this end: 

that you may see."

St. Augustine

Walking in strength...

  The Sovereign LORD is my strength; 

he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, 

he enables me to go on the heights. - Habakkuk 3:19

"God is so good to me.

I (Columba Marmion) live now on my daily Communion.

All the morning I walk in the strength of the divine food,

and from the afternoon I live on the thought

of the following Communion, for It strengthens us

according to our desires and preparations.  Our Lord 

has promised that 'he who eateth Me shall live by Me.'

His life becomes ours, the source of all our activity."

Excerpt from: Abbot Columba Marmion

Fr Raymond Thibaut

A message by the gates of hell...

    This then is how we know that we belong 

to the truth, and how we set our hearts 

at rest in His presence. - I John 3:19

"St Anthony of Claret had always been especially attracted 

by devotions honoring the Blessed Sacrament.  

During his school days he had been so captivated by a book his

 father gave him, The Goodness of  Our Sacramental Lord, 

that he had committed it to memory!

Kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament, he would pray:  

"Oh, my God, grant me a place by the gates of hell, 

that I may stop those who enter there, saying:  

'Where are you going, unhappy one?  

Back, go back!  

Make a good confession.  Save your soul!  

Don't come back here to be lost forever.' "

From Hidden Treasure: The Riches of the Eucharist

Louis Kaczmarek 

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St Anthony Mary Claret

Spain ~ 1807-1870

Missionary, Religious founder (Claretians),

Social reformer, Queen's (Spain) chaplain,

Writer and publisher, Excellent/renowned preacher

Survived 15 assassination attempts

Great devotion to Eucharist and Immaculate Heart of Mary

Said of him... "never without a rosary in his hands"

Archbishop of Cuba 1850-57

"The spiritual father of Cuba"

Feast Day - October 24

   "When I see the need for Divine teaching and how hungry people are to hear it, I am atremble to be off and running 

throughout the world, preaching the word of God. 

I have no rest, my soul finds no other relief, than to 

rush about and preach." - St Anthony Mary Claret

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“I am driven,” Antonio Claret wrote in his autobiography, “to preach without ceasing by the sight of the throngs of souls who are falling into hell. . . . Woe is me if I do not, for they could hold me responsible for their damnation!”
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When asked the secret of his missionary success, the saint answered: “I pray to Our Lady and demand results of Her.But what if She does not give them?Then I take hold of the hem of Her robe and refuse to let go until She has granted me what I want!”

St Anthony Mary Claret, pray for us!
Click here: A Very Special Patron: Saint Anthony Mary Claret | Catholicism.org (excellent!) Click here: St. Anthony Mary Claret - YouTube (2 mins)Click here: Saint Anthony Mary Claret 10-24 - YouTube (1:20 mins)

SALT and LIGHT for others...

 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world 

to be holy and blameless in his sight. - Eph 1:4

From the treatise Mirror of the Clergy by St John of Capistrano, 
but can also be fittingly applied to the priesthood of believers...

  "Those who are called to the table of the Lord 

must glow with the brightness that comes from 

the good example of a praiseworthy and blameless life. 

They must completely remove from their lives the filth 

and uncleanness of vice.  Their upright lives must 

make them like the salt of the earth for themselves 

and for the rest of mankind. The brightness 

of their wisdom must make them like the

 light of the world that brings light to others. ...

  They have been placed here to care for others. 

Their own lives should be an example to others, 

showing how they must live in the house of the Lord."

 St John of Capistrano

Italy ~ 1385-1456

Lawyer, governor

Franciscan priest, preacher, theologian

Taught theology by St. Bernardine of Siena -

 together the two worked to reform the Franciscan order

Nickname:  "soldier priest"*

*"When Mohammed II was threatening Vienna and Rome, St John, age 70, was commissioned by Pope Callistus II to preach and lead a crusade against the invading Turks. Marching at the head of 70,000 Christians, he gained victory in the great battle of Belgrade against the Turks in 1456.

Feast Day - October 23

Painting above: Priest teaching Catechism ~ Jules -Alexis Muenier

 

On St John's tomb in the Austrian town of Villach,

the governor had this message inscribed:

"This tomb holds John, by birth of Capistrano,

a man worthy of all praise, defender and promoter of the faith,

guardian of the Church, zealous protector of his Order,

an ornament to all the world, lover of truth and religious justice,

mirror of life, surest guide in doctrine; 
praised by countless tongues, he reigns blessed in heaven."

St John of Capistrano, pray for us!

Click here: St. John of Capistrano - YouTube (2 mins) 

 

Comments of Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira:
"One could try to make a classification of the saints. Some were founders of nations, others were organizers of nations, still others were founders of religious orders. Then,  there is a category of saints who were the defensive walls of the House of God. They constitute a kind of saint whose principal goal is to fight, to destroy the enemies of God. They have the capacity to put fire in souls to stimulate them to the defense of God, to lead them to combat. And in the combat they know how to sustain the courage of the good as well as how to attack the enemies. Doing this, they defend the walls of the House of God. Such is the mission of this category of saints. St. John of Capistrano was one of these saints."