Approach the Table often !

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere ...

Psalm 84:10a

 When Pier Giorgio Frassati  was only 22 years old

he wrote in a letter to the Catholic Action group to...

"...approach the Eucharist Table as often as possible.

When you become totally consumed with the

Eucharistic Fire you will be able to taste that happiness 

which people of the world have never tasted."

Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati

Italy ~ 1901-1925

"Man of the Eight Beatitudes"

Patron of World Youth Days

Incorrupt

Motto:  Verso l'alto - "To the heights!"

FEAST DAY – July 4

 To this day, Frassati´s body remains incorrupt: "When they opened

Pier Giorgio´s tomb in 1981, his body was perfectly preserved,"

recalled one witness. "He had a smile on his face and a rosary in his hands.

It was like meeting him for the first time."

 

Click here: THE OFFICIAL USA WEBSITE FOR BLESSED PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI

Click here: Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati - YouTube (2 mins)
Click here: Pier Giorgio Frassati: A commentary by Fr. Barron - YouTube

 Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati, pray for us!

4th of July: Blessed Independence Day:

Let freedom ring !

 

Today we make again our own

The hope which Christ, our life, has sown:

In fertile fields and streets of stone,

Let freedom ring!

Where Justice works amid the weed

Of rampart want and choking greed,

To loose the voice of human need,

Let freedom ring!

Where Mercy's fingers, slashed and torn,

Untangle love from twisted thorn

Of anger, disbelief and scorn,

Let freedom ring!

Where hearts imprisoned toil and weep,

Our founders' dreams still trouble sleep

With harvests we have yet to reap:

Let freedom ring!

In Christ, we tend what God has planned,

With justice, mercy, truth in hand

Till joy sings out through all the land:

Let freedom ring!