PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING INTENTIONS
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ST. FRANCES OF ROME Wife,
Religious March 9th
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There is an obvious lesson in St. Frances’ life ….. that as large as are the responsibilities of spousehood and parenthood, a person’s life is additionally enriched if he finds time also for the suffering and the needy. For doing good is a quality not governed by definition of role. Frances of Rome was wife and mother, yet still she managed to be deeply involved in the corporal works of mercy as a young and an old woman….. (March 1985 issue of “Generation”) Frances was born into a wealthy family in Rome. She was “a woman of the home and of the world.” Married at the age of 13, she was a devoted wife for 40 years and raised three children. Throughout her life she found time for works of piety and charity. She was joined in this by her sister-in-law, Vannozza. Together they visited the poor and the sick of Rome, often in trying circumstances - during the plague and famine, as well as several invasions of the city by anti-papal factions. After the death of her husband, Frances entered the religious foundation of the Oblates of Mary, which she had earlier organized as a group of women who lived at home, without vows. They were dedicated to helping the poor and the sick, particularly the most difficult cases. Frances’ last years were marked by penance, which was sometimes very austere. Many came to her for advice and guidance, as well as for cures. She was much loved. Source: IN HIS LIKENESS by Rev. Charles E.Yost, SCJ, STL ) How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness. (Anne Frank) |
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THOUGHTS FROM THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH |
Transfiguration
#556 On the threshold of the public life: the baptism; on the threshold of the Passover: the Transfiguration. Jesus’ baptism proclaimed “the mystery of the first regeneration,” namely, our Baptism; the Transfiguration “is the sacrament of the second regeneration”: our own Resurrection. From now on we share in the Lord’s Resurrection through the Spirit who acts in the sacraments of the Body of Christ. The Transfiguration gives us a foretaste of Christ’s glorious coming, when he “will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body.” But it also recalls that “it is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”
Peter did not yet understand this when he wanted to remain with Christ on the mountain.
It has been reserved for you, Peter, but for after death. For now, Jesus says:
“Go down to toil on earth, to serve on earth, to be scorned and crucified on
earth.
Life goes down to be killed;
Bread goes down to suffer hunger;
the Way goes down to be exhausted on his journey;
the Spring goes down to suffer thirst;
and you refuse to suffer?”
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