Today is the feast of Saint Michael de Sanctis, also known as St. Michael of the Saints, a Spanish Discalced Trinitarian priest, the patron of cancer patients. Michael Argemir was born on September 29, 1591 at Vic, Catalonia, Spain. At age 6, he told his parents that he planned to become a monk and began modeling his life after Saint Francis of Assisi. Michael’s parents died when he was about ten years old. He then served as an apprentice with a local merchant. During this apprenticeship, he continued his fervent devotion to the Lord, especially to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. At the age of 12, he joined the Trinitarian Friars at Barcelona, taking his vows at St. Lambert’s monastery in Saragosa four years later. Shortly afterwards, Michael expressed a desire to join the reformed group of Trinitarians and was given permission to do so. He went to the Novitiate at Madrid and, after studies at Seville and Salamanca, he was ordained a priest. Twice he served as Superior of the hou
When the female embryo is only 6 weeks old, it makes preparations for motherhood by developing egg cells. When the baby girl is born, each of her ovaries carries about 1 million egg cells, all that she will ever have...
ReplyDeleteWe have a duty to all young women as their seniors and mentors to educate them about the beauty of potential life they carry within them from the time they are "knitted in the womb."
Let us help them embrace their feminity and procreative potential and good and beautiful and sacred.
Shall we??
Lynn O'Gorman Latchford
Dublin, Ireland
We must help women understand their gift of femininity and womanhood, and it's importance in God's plan for humanity. I am praying for God to make us ready for what He is going to allow for the future. Whatever that is. Our society has been brainwasher to believe that children are an inconvenient side affect to our sexuality. Children have become a "problem" instead of the Blessing from God that they are. This threatens our relationship with God and each other. Women are being attacked, and we must be instrumental in correcting this spiritual illness our society is laboring under. Pray ladies. God may be calling us to defend our faith, families and nation on a spiritual level. Lord, make us ready. Amen
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