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St. Nuno Alvares Pereira, Religious (M)

Liturgy: 
Monday, April 1, 2013  
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NUNO ÁLVARES PEREIRA was born in Portugal on 24th June 1360, most probably at Cernache do Bomjardin, illegitimate son of Brother Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, Hospitalier Knight of St. John of Jerusalem and prior of Crato and Donna Iria Gonçalves do Carvalhal. About a year after his birth, the child was legitimized by royal decree and so was able to receive a knightly education typical of the offspring of the noble families of the time. At thirteen years of age he became page to Queen Leonor, was received at court and was created a knight.

St. Teresa Margaret - The Virtue of Poverty

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St. Teresa Margaret could be a model for all who strive to grow in virtue. She approached the exercise of all the virtues in an intelligent and carefully planned manner. The little table in her cell contained many small scraps of paper with her resolutions carefully written out as reminders to her of her plan of action.

Edith Stein Quotes

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“As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

St. Maria Maravillas of Jesus, Virgin (m)

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Maria Maravillas Pidal y Chico de Guzman was born in Madrid on November 4, 1891 to the Marquess and Marchioness of Pidal. Her father, at the time, was the Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See and was well noted for his efforts to help the Church and religious Orders.

She was baptized at the age of eight days old in the parish of St. Sebastian.

St. Pedro Poveda Castroverde, (OCD), Priest and Martyr (m)

Liturgy: 
Sunday, July 28, 2013  
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Born December 3rd, 1874 at Linares, Spain and raised in a pious family, he felt an early call to the priesthood. He entered the seminary in Jaen in 1889, then the seminary of Guadix, Grenada. Ordained on April 17th, 1897, taught at the seminary, continued his studies, and received his licentiate in theology in Seville in 1900. He ministered in Guadix to a group of people so poor they lived in caves.

Our Lady, Mother of Divine Grace, (m)

Liturgy: 
Tuesday, July 23, 2013  
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This feast concludes the octave of the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. We honor Mary as Our Lady, Mother of Divine Grace since she is the Mother of the Son of God, the Author of Grace.

‘The Blessed Virgin Mary was eternally predestined, in the context of the Incarnation of the divine Word,

St. Enrique de Ossó  y Cervelló, (OCD), Priest (m)

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Enrique (Henry) was born October 16, 1840 at Vinebre, Tarragona, Spain.  He was the youngest of three children and at an early age felt a call to the priesthood which his mother supported but his father opposed.  Around the age of 12, his father sent him to Quinto de Ebro to learn the family textile trade from his uncle.  He became gravely ill and received his first communion as Viaticum.

St. Joachim and St. Anne, Parents of the Virgin Mary, Protectors of the Order (M)

Liturgy: 
Friday, July 26, 2013  
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The names of the parents of Mary are known from the apocryphal “Proto-Gospel of James” (II century). The cult to Saint Anne is documented in the East in the VI century, in the West in the X century; that of Saint Joachim in the XIV century. In the Byzantine rite the 25 of July reminds us the dedication in Constantinople of a Basilica in honour of Saint Anne.

St. Elijah, Prophet (Solemnity)

Liturgy: 
Saturday, July 20, 2013  
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Elijah is the solitary Prophet who cultivated the thirst of the only God and lived in His presence. He is the contemplative enraptured by the ardent passion for the absolute of God, whose “word burnt like a torch”. He is the mystic who, after a long and tiresome road, learns and reads the new signs of the presence of God.

Solemn Commemoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Solemnity)

Liturgy: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2013  
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Sacred Scripture exalts the beauty of Mount Carmel, there where Prophet Elisha defended the purity of the faith of Israel in the living God. In those places, at the beginning of the XIII century the Carmelite Order, had, as to say its juridical origin, under the title of Blessed Mary of Carmel.

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