"To cast fire upon the
earth-
that is my mission!
And how I wish it were already blazing
fiercely!
Nothing in the world can
set hearts ablaze with love
for God
like the Blessed
Sacrament.
That is why this Divine Bread
has been pictured as a furnace of
love."
St Alphonsus Ligouri
Italy ~ 1696
-
1787
Lawyer
before ordination as priest (age
30)
Bishop and Doctor of the
Church
Founder of Redemptorist
order
Prolific writer and gifted in the fine
arts
FEAST
DAY - August 1
"I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire
with the
desire to give Him souls, first of all my own,
and then
an incalculable number of others." ~ St Alphonsus
Ligouri
Someone once remarked, after a sermon by
Alphonsus,
"It is a
pleasure to listen to your sermons;
you forget yourself and preach Jesus
Christ."
St Alphonsus Ligouri, ora pro
nobis!
DOCTORS of
the CHURCH
St.
Gregory the Great · St. Ambrose · St. Augustine · St. Jerome · St. John
Chrysostom · St. Basil · St. Gregory Nazianzus · St. Athanasius of Alexandria ·
St. Cyril of Alexandria · St. Cyril of Jerusalem · St. John Damascene · St. Bede
the Venerable · St. Ephrem · St. Thomas Aquinas · St. Bonaventure · St. Anselm ·
St. Isidore · St. Peter
Chrysologus · St. Leo the Great · St. Peter Damian · St. Bernard
of Clairvaux · St. Hilary of Poitiers · St. Alphonsus
Liguori · St. Francis de Sales · St. Peter Canisius · St. John of the
Cross · St. Robert Bellarmine · St. Albertus Magnus · St. Anthony of Padua · St.
Lawrence of Brindisi · St. Teresa of Avila · St. Catherine of Siena · St.
Thérèse of Lisieux ·
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