Sending messages... often...

Lord, open my lips.

- And my mouth will declare your praise

Invitatory Psalm

“Wherever I may be I will often think of 

Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.  

I will fix my thoughts on the holy Tabernacle – even when I happen to 

wake up at night  - adoring Him from where I am, calling to Jesus in the 

Blessed Sacrament, offering up to Him the action I am performing.

I will install one telegraph cable from my study to the Church, another from my bedroom, and a third from our refectory; 

and as often as I can, I will send messages of love 

to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”

Venerable Andrew Beltrami (+1897) 

Salesian priest
His mother, upon entrusting him 
to the Salesian Novice Master said, 
"Make him a saint"

The worth of a moment...

"You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time

you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will

give you more strength during life and more consolation

at the hour of your death and during eternity."- St. Alphonsus

"Making my meditation before the picture of the Blessed John Vianney,

he seemed to say to me with an interior voice:

'The secret of my life was that I lived for the moment.

I did not say, I must pray here for the next hour, but only for this moment. 

I did not say, I have a hundred confessions to hear, I but looked upon this one as the first and last. I did not say, I must deny myself everything and always, but only just this once. By this means I was able always to do everything perfectly, quietly and in great peace. Try and live this life of the present moment. Pray as if you had nothing else whatever to do; say your Office slowly as if for the last time;do not look forward and think you must often repeat this act of self-denial. This will make all things much easier.' ”

Fr Willie Doyle

Diary entry: 08/13/1913

Click here: Remembering Fr Willie Doyle SJ

"Come to my help"...

Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

... I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched.

My eyes fail, looking for my God.  - Psalm 69: 1, 3 

 

"Go and find Him when your patience and strength 
run out and you feel alone and helpless.  
Jesus is waiting for you in the chapel. 
Say to Him, 'Jesus, you know exactly what is going on.

You are all I have, and you know all things. Come to my help.' 

And then go, and don’t worry about how 

you are going to manage. That you have told God about it
is enough.  He has a good memory."

St Jeanne Jugan

Today is Sunday ("the Lord's Day is the lord of days") 
but also remembering... 
St Jeanne Jugan

Sr Mary of the Cross

France ~ 1792 - 1879

Foundress - Little Sisters of the Poor

Feast Day - Aug 30
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“God will help us; the work is His.” - St Jeanne Jugan
"The Hail Mary will take us to heaven." - St Jeanne Jugan

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Click here: St. Jeanne Jugan - YouTube (2 mins)

Sayings of Jeanne Jugan - Little Sisters of the Poor

St Jeanne Jugan, pray for us!

The miraculous answer...

The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, 
your faithfulness too,
in the assembly of the holy ones. - Psalm 9:10

 

The Miracle of Saint Dominic

    "During the ceremony of profession of the nuns of St Sixtus, there was a great excitement and a call for the saint to come out, since the nephew of one of the bishops who was acting with him in this case had just been thrown from his horse and was lying dead in the square outside. ...The body of the young man was brought in, badly mangled from the accident, and laid at the feet of the saint.  Dominic ordered them immediately to remove the body to another room. 

    Once more life came back at his request; this time after he had offered the Holy Sacrifice.  Bystanders testified that during the Mass they had seen him raised above the ground.  There were hundreds of witnesses to the miraculous answer when he spoke to the dead youth and commanded:  "Young man, I say to thee arise."  The youth rose up joyful and with no sign of injury and was restored to his family.  This miracle was instrumental in bringing into the (Dominican) Order two of its most famous sons; they were the brothers, Hyacinth and Ceslaus, and were later to win great renown as the apostles of the North."  

Sr Mary Jean Dorcy, OP

Saint Dominic

St Dominic

SPAIN ~ 1170-1221

Founder:  Order of Preachers (OP)

(popularly known as Dominicans)

Motto: Laudare, benedicere, praedicare

"to praise, to bless, to preach"

Known for rigorous intellect, humility,
austerity and prayerful love of God
Worked effectively agst Albigensian heresy

Feast Day - August 8

 "Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword;
wear humility rather than fine clothes." - St Dominic

"We must sow the seed, not hoard it." - St Dominic
 

"St Dominic responded when ... He heard his Master call ... And truly lived a pious  life ... With charity to all ... The holiest of friars who ... Were living in his time ... He fought against the ravages ... Of heresy and crime ... He founded the Dominicans ... And taught them prayer and fasting ... And that humility which leads ... To glory everlasting ... One day when he was rapt in prayer ... And dwelt on God’s commands ... Our Lady came to him and placed ... The Rosary in his hands ... And so today each bead we say ... For all the poor and sick ... Should be in loving memory ... Of good St Dominic. 

From Poem Portraits of the Saints, James J Metcalfe (1956)

Click here: St. Dominic - YouTube 
Click here: The History of the Rosary 

Spiritualdirection.com| Saint Dominic's Nine Ways of Prayer 

St Dominic, pray for us!

Divine attraction...

"Receive Communion often, very often ... 
there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured.  
Jesus has not put this attraction 
in your heart for nothing... " - St Therese of Lisieux

"My God, Jesus my love,

uncreated goodness,

what would have become of me

 if You had not

drawn me to Yourself? 

St Gertrude

 Painting: The Communion ~ Alphonse Legros (1865)