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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or to remove it.⠀⠀ He came to fill it with His presence.⠀ - Paul Claudel⠀

Happy Feast Day Saint Thomas More

1529 - 1532 Feast day: June 22 Patronage: adopted children, civil servants, court clerks, difficult marriages, large families, politicians, lawyers, and statesmen St. Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a counselor to Henry VIII and Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular, the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an ideal and imaginary island nation. More opposed the King’s separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to accept him as Supreme Head of the Church of England, and what he saw as Henry’s bigamous marriage to Anne Boleyn. Tried for treason, More was convicted and beheaded.

“The Church needs her perennial Pentecost. She needs fire in her heart, words on her lips, prophecy in her outlook. So let us all say: Come, Holy Spirit!“  - Pope Saint Paul VI  (+)

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