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Quote of the Day – 3 February – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C and The Memorial of St Ansgar (801-865)

“If I were worthy of such a favour from my God, I would ask that He grant me this one miracle – that by His grace, He would make of me a good man.”

Saint Ansgar to a parishioner who was praising him for being a miracle worker

Quote of the Day – 3 February – The Memorial of St Blaise – Martyr (Died c 316)

“Speaking of Prayer”

The heart-rending and beautiful words of another Martyr, St Maximillian Kolbe (1894-1941), on the power of prayer.

The day was long, The burden I had borne Seemed heavier than I could longer bear And then it lifted but I did not know Some one had knelt in prayer; Had taken me to God, that very hour, And asked the easing of the load and He, In infinite compassion, had stooped down And taken it from me. We cannot tell how often, as we pray For some bewildered one, Hurt and distressed, The answer comes, But many times those hearts, find sudden peace and rest. Someone had prayed and Faith, a reaching hand, Took hold of God and brought Him down, that day! So many, many hearts have need of prayer. Oh, let us pray!

St Maximillian Kolbe (1894-1941)