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Morning Has Broken

As sung by Cat Stevens

Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the word
Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day.

"These two men lived in England at a time when the practice of one's Catholic faith meant imprisonment and possible execution. Ralph Milner was an elderly, illiterate farmer, the father of eight children, from Flacstead, Hampshire. He was brought up as a Protestant but was so impressed by the lives of his Catholic neighbors that he took instructions and was received into the Catholic Faith. On the very day of his First Communion, he was arrested for having changed his religion and imprisoned in the Winchester jail."

Today in Catholic History:

1220 Thomas Becket's (ca. 1118–1170) shrine was dedicated in Canterbury and became a popular pilgrim attraction. He had been murdered by knights of the English king Henry II.

1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240) dies.

1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917), founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, became the first American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.


Birthdays:

1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)

1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)

1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician

1943 - Joel Siegel, film critic, (d. 2007)

1972 - Lisa Leslie, American basketball player

1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater

1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen

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