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  • October 5: Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin—Optional Memorial

    October 5: Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin—Optional Memorial
    Oct 5 2024
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    October 5: Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin—Optional Memorial

    1905–1938
    Patron Saint of The Divine Mercy devotion
    Canonized by Pope John Paul II on April 30, 2000
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    I am to write down the encounters of my soul with You, O God, at the moments of Your special visitations. I am to write about You, O Incomprehensible in mercy towards my poor soul. Your holy will is the life of my soul. I have received this order through him who is for me Your representative here on earth, who interprets Your holy Will to me. Jesus, You see how difficult it is for me to write, how unable I am to put down clearly what I experience in my soul. O God, can a pen write down that for which many a time there are no words? But You give the order to write, O God; that is enough for me. ~Diary of Saint Faustina, #6

    Prayer:
    Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, as God spoke to you, you listened and responded. Through you, the message of Mercy has been profoundly revealed and an invitation to live in God’s mercy has been given. Please pray for me, that I will be open to that Ocean of Mercy pouring forth from Heaven, so that it will flood my soul and affect many others through me. Saint Faustina, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest—USA Optional Memorial

    October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest—USA Optional Memorial
    Oct 4 2024
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    October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest—USA Optional Memorial

    1819–1867
    Invoked against cancer
    Beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 9, 2000
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    Every offering has value only insofar as one snatches it away from one’s own benefit and dedicates it to God through this self-conquest. One loves and gives precisely because one loves, and because one considers what is given as a good, as a treasure. Love of creatures must be subordinated to the love of God, whom one is pledged to love above all things. Time, in which we have found nothing to offer up to God, is lost for eternity. If it is only the duties of our vocation that we fulfill with dedication to the will of God; if it is the sweat of our faces that, in resignation, we wipe from our brow without murmuring; if it is suffering, temptations, difficulties with our fellowmen – everything we can present to God as an offering and can, through them, become like Jesus his Son. Where the sacrifice is great and manifold, there, in the same proportion, is the hope of glory more deeply and more securely grounded in the heart of him who makes it. ~From the Letters of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos

    Prayer:
    Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, God called you to be a priest, and you fulfilled your priestly duties with extraordinary zeal. You touched one soul at a time, leaving a legacy of converted hearts. Please pray for me, that I will strive to live a life of exceptional holiness throughout the ordinary moments of my life, seeking to touch every soul I encounter every day. Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • October 4: Saint Francis of Assisi—Memorial

    October 4: Saint Francis of Assisi—Memorial
    Sep 30 2025
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    October 4: Saint Francis of Assisi—Memorial

    1182–1226
    Patron Saint of animals, ecologists, families, lacemakers, merchants, needleworkers, peace, and zoos
    Invoked against dying alone and fire
    Canonized by Pope Gregory IX on July 16, 1228
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    Hear, my lords, my sons and my brothers, and with your ears receive my words. Incline the ear of your heart and obey the voice of the Son of God. Keep His commandments with all your heart and fulfill His counsels with a perfect mind. Praise Him for He is good and extol Him in your works, for therefore He has sent you through all the world that by word and deed you may bear witness to His voice, and you may make known to all that there is no other Almighty besides Him. Persevere under discipline and obedience and with a good and firm purpose fulfill what you have promised Him. The Lord God offers Himself to you as to His sons. ~Excerpt from a letter to his friars, by Saint Francis

    Prayer:
    Saint Francis, you fell radically in love with God and with God’s people. You embraced poverty, prayer, sacrifice, and every form of suffering for the sake of Christ. You became a true knight in the army of the Kingdom. Please pray for me, that I will be able to detach from everything in this life that keeps me from the love and service of God, so that I can imitate the life that you lived. Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • October 2: Guardian Angels—Memorial

    October 2: Guardian Angels—Memorial
    Sep 30 2025
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    October 2: Guardian Angels—Memorial

    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    So the Supreme Majesty has given charge to the angels. Yes, He has given charge to His own angels. Think of it! To those sublime beings, who cling to Him so joyfully and intimately, to His very own He has given charge over you! Who are you? “What is man that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?” As if man were not rottenness, and the son of man a worm! Now why, do you think, he Has given them charge over thee? — To guard thee! ~Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

    Prayer:
    Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here; ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen. Angels of God, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • October 1: Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor—Memorial

    October 1: Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor—Memorial
    Sep 30 2025
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    October 1: Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor—Memorial

    1873–1897
    Patron Saint of foreign missions and missionaries, AIDS patients, air crews, florists, flower growers, and sick people
    Invoked against illness, tuberculosis, and loss of parents
    Canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17, 1925
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    How sweet was the first embrace of Jesus! It was indeed an embrace of love. I felt that I was loved, and I said: “I love Thee, and I give myself to Thee for ever.” Jesus asked nothing of me, and claimed no sacrifice; for a long time He and little Thérèse had known and understood one another. That day our meeting was more than simple recognition, it was perfect union. We were no longer two. Thérèse had disappeared like a drop of water lost in the immensity of the ocean; Jesus alone remained—He was the Master, the King! …And then my joy became so intense, so deep, that it could not be restrained; tears of happiness welled up and overflowed…all the joy of Heaven had come down into one heart, and that this heart, exiled, weak, and mortal as it was, could not contain it without tears. ~Saint Thérèse reflects on her First Holy Communion

    Prayer:
    Saint Thérèse, as a child you fell in love with God while living within the school of love that was your family. Your love grew so intense that God took you to Himself at a young age, to be with Him forever. Please pray for me, that I will discover the same intensity of love that you did, so that I will also share in the glory in which you now share. Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • September 30: Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor—Memorial

    September 30: Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor—Memorial
    Sep 27 2025
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    September 30: Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor—Memorial

    c. 340s–420
    Patron Saint of archeologists, archivists, Bible scholars, librarians, libraries, schoolchildren, students, and translators
    Pre-Congregation canonization
    Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIV in 1724
    Liturgical Color: White

    Quote:
    I interpret as I should, following the command of Christ: “Search the Scriptures,” and “Seek and you shall find.” For if, as Paul says, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, and if the man who does not know Scripture does not know the power and wisdom of God, then ignorance of Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. ~Saint Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

    Prayer:
    Saint Jerome, God gave you a unique calling and used you to provide the Church with a foundational understanding of the Scriptures. Your dedication to prayer, asceticism, and study clearly shows your love for God and His Church. Please pray for me, that I will come to the same depth of love for the Scriptures as you did so that I will also come to the same love of God that you had. Saint Jerome, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • September 29: Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels—Feast

    September 29: Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels—Feast
    Sep 27 2025
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    September 29: Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels—Feast

    Patron Saints of soldiers, police, paramedics, and the sick and dying (Michael); messengers, postal workers, broadcasters, and expectant mothers (Gabriel); travelers, the blind, medical workers, and matchmakers (Raphael)

    Quote:
    The existence of the spiritual, non-corporeal beings that Sacred Scripture usually calls “angels” is a truth of faith. The witness of Scripture is as clear as the unanimity of Tradition. Who are they? St. Augustine says: “‘Angel’ is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is ‘spirit;’ if you seek the name of their office, it is ‘angel:’ from what they are, ‘spirit,’ from what they do, ‘angel’” (St. Augustine, En. in Ps. 103, 1, 15: PL 37, 1348). With their whole beings the angels are servants and messengers of God. Because they “always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven” they are the “mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word” (Mt 18:10; Ps 103:20). As purely spiritual creatures angels have intelligence and will: they are personal and immortal creatures, surpassing in perfection all visible creatures, as the splendour of their glory bears witness. ~Catechism of the Catholic Church #328–330

    Prayer:
    Glorious Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, I entrust myself to your angelic mediation. Please set into motion God’s plan for my life, protect me from the evil one, deliver to me God’s holy word, and heal me of my sin. I thank you for the glorious duties you fulfill in the divine mission and rely upon you in my life. Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, pray for me and mediate God’s grace to me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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  • September 28: Saints Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs—Optional Memorial

    September 28: Saints Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs—Optional Memorial
    Sep 26 2025
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    September 28: Saints Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs—Optional Memorial

    c. 1600–1637
    Patron Saint of the Philippines, Filipinos, immigrants, the poor, separated families, and altar servers
    Canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 18, 1987
    Liturgical Color: Red

    Quote:
    I am a Catholic and wholeheartedly do accept death for God. Had I many thousands of lives I would offer them all for him. Never shall I apostatize. You may kill me if that is what you want. To die for God—such is my will. ~Last words of Saint Lawrence Ruiz

    Prayer:
    Saint Larwence Ruiz and Companions, you endured cruel and ongoing tortures to force you to renounce your faith, but you stayed firm to the end. Please pray for me, that I will never allow persecution or any other form of suffering to deter me from offering my life sacrificially to Christ, for His glory and the salvation of souls, beginning with my own. Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You.

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