Verso l'alto - "To the heights!"...

...everlasting joy will crown their heads. 
Gladness and joy will overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing will flee away. - Isaiah 35: 10

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

Painting above: La Ultima Cine - Francisco Ribalta

“To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend,
without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living,

but merely existing; we must never just "exist". - Bl Pier-Giorgio

*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: OFFICIAL USA WEBSITE  BL PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI

Click here: Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati (July 4) - YouTube (6 mins)

Click here: Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: The Prayer of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati - YouTube (4 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!