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The Great Cloud of Witnesses

Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M.

September 20, 2024

Daily Thought from The Saints

“The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise him to the greatest extent of our Powers.”

— St. Maximilian Kolbe

Daily Scripture Verse

“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “most Blessed are you among women, and Blessed is the Fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for Joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

Luke 1:41-45

Daily Meditation

“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the Way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action the soul does not show its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious.”

— St. John Of The Cross

Daily Catholic Wisdom

The world is all in flames; they want to sentence Christ again, so to speak.

—St. Teresa of Avila
quoted in the book, “The Way of Prayer”

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. Kevin Sandberg, C.S.C.

O Lord, keep us mindful of the journey on which we have embarked from the days of our baptism to proclaim in word and fulfill in deed what the disciples who never abandoned you knew—that male and female share one Spirit in Christ Jesus, who is God forever and ever. Amen.

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