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MORE LAY SAINTS
I am always fascinated to see how lay people become saints as several more have made it onto the roster of new saints- or future saints. The first of whom is BL. ODOARDO FOCHERINI whose life was...
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ANOTHER HOLY LAYMAN
Our new Holy Father has been very busy the past month giving us new saints and furthering others along the path to sainthood. One example is VENERABLE ATTILIO GIORDANI, a layman and Salesian...
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"LOST IN TRANSLATION?"
Our next lay saint to be is VENERABLE SILVIA CARDOSO FERREIRO da SILVA better known as "Dona Sylvia".One of the problems with little known holy people is there is nothing about them in English and I...
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SAINT KILLED BY MAFIA
Beatification DayBL. GIUSEPPE "PINO" PUGLISI (1937- 1993) was a priest in the rough Palermo neighborhood of Brancaccio (Sicily). He openly challenged the Mafia who controlled the neighborhood, and was...
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CONTEMPLATIVES and FARMERS
Since our Order is dedicated to the Contemplative life as well as to Farming, I found this recent article interesting!At the end of the General audience in St. Peter's Square , Pope Francis recalled...
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THANKSGIVING: CHEESE NUN- WEST COAST STYLE
Mother Prioress making cheeseMany of you have heard of the Cheese Nun" and maybe even seen the PBS documentary about her. Mother Noella Marcellino, O.S.B is a Benedictine nun who earned a doctorate in...
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Carlos in AssisiAs we enter into the season of Advent, which is the time for children, we march ahead to the Birth of The Child. I am also preparing my godson for his first Holy Communion on Gaudate...
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CHILD SAINT
Our next child "saint" as we progress through Advent is VENERABLE ANTONIETTA MEO. She was born in 1930 in Italy and may become the youngest saint who is not a martyr ever canonized by the Roman...
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CLOWN FOR GOD
On this Gaudateor Rejoice Sunday, as my godson made his First Holy Communion( a very moving experience for us all) we present our next child saint, BLESSED CECILIA EUSEPI who was born in 1910. She...
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ANOTHER HOLY CHLD
BLESSED CHIARA BADANOwas born in 1971 in Italy. Her mother tried to teach her daughter to love and serve those in need. By the time she was in kindergarten, Chiara was saving up her money to donate to...
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HOLY INNOCENTS
For this feast, one of my favorites, I present modern day martyrs! I pray you all had a blessed and joyfilled Christmas! This blog got behind as I was hospitalized 5 days before Christmas with...
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NOBLE TEEN
Mario di Donato, 1980 My God-son James loves this saint, BLESSED NUNZIO SULPRIZIO, who was born in Sulmona in central Italy in 1817. He was the son of a poor cobbler. Orphaned at the age of nine, he...
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THE MYSTIC ANFROSINA
SERVANT of GOD ANFROSINA BERARDI was born 1920 in Italy. She was brought up according to the religious and moral principles of his family.A fundamental feature of the life of Anfrosina was the long...
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AN ANGEL NAMED HUGO
Since we are still within the season of the Child, today being the feast of the EPIPHANY, we offer the story of this young girl who certainly understood the suffering of Christ and all who were to...
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SPANISH YOUTH
MONTSERRAT GRASESwas born in Barcelona, Spain in 1941. Montse, as she was known by everyone, grew up in a devout Roman Catholic family. After graduating from high school, she continued her studies at...
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TEEN FROM BRAZIL
BLESSED ALBERTINA BERKENBROCK was born in São Luís, Brazil. Her grandparents immigrated from Germany to Brazil and brought with them their three children, one of who was Johann Hermann, who would...
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A SAINT FROM SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA
CHARLENE MARIE RICHARD was born in 1947 of Catholic Cajun (French-Canadian) descent in Louisiana. Charlene has become the focus of a popular belief that she is a saint, a person who is in heaven,...
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A SAINT FROM MONTANA
As our country is in the throws of a bitter cold week, I think of our Oblates in Montana where it is almost unbearable for man and beast.On OCT. 31, our Holy Father gave us another possible American...
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BLESSED MARRIED COUPLES
In this new year I will again try to work in some themes for our saints. For the monastery's saints for the New Year, I threw in some Jesuits of the 20th century (in honor of our new Jesuit Pope). I...
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BLESSED PARENTS
The Vatican also announced on July 13, 2008, the 150th wedding anniversary of LOUIS and MARIE ZELIE MARTIN, that they would be declared Blessed on Mission Sunday, October 19, 2008. Louis Martin...
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