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                        {A} Tazetta Narcissus Israel   
                        {B} A daffodil with white petals and a yellow corona     
                        {C} Deuteronomy Chapter 6 Verse 4   
                               Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.   
 
                         

'Listen to your divine Spouse, and let yourself be taught by Him.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth.'

Psalm 26:8

St. Joseph Marchand's joint feast day with the Vietnamese Martyrs is November 24.

'If, during life, we have been kind to the suffering souls in purgatory, God will see that help be not denied us after death.'

St. Paul of the Cross

'Listen to the words of those who have been granted perfect love: "What can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? 'As it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded as sheep for slaughtering' (Ps. 44:22). But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:35-39). Those who speak and act thus with regard to divine love are all saints.'

St. Maximos the Confessor

Ministering with minestrone! 

'Jesus helps us to face every tribulation. Holy resignation to his sovereign dispositions is the central, pivotal point which balances the weight of the Cross.'

St. Gaspar del Bufalo

'Let young men be cheerful, and indulge in the recreations proper to their age, provided they keep out of the way of sin.'

St. Philip Neri

In Castronovo Bernard used to go through the streets with a large pot on his shoulders to give minestrone to the poor.