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

Remembering today... 

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

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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