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Lent 2025

“True fasting lies in rejecting evil, holding one’s tongue, suppressing one’s hatred, & banishing one’s lust, evil words, lying and betraying one’s vows. -St. Basil the Great

 Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassatti

1901 - 1925

Feast day: July 4

Pier Giorgio Frassati was a handsome, fun-loving, athletic, courageous and devout Catholic born into a prominent Italian family. He died at the young age of 24 and has since become the model for lay people all over the world. Beatified in 1990 by Pope John Paul II and named "The Man of the Eight Beatitudes," Pier Giorgio teaches us that holiness is for everyone.

Happy Feast Day

St. Hilary of Poitiers

Doctor of the Church

315-368

Feast day: January 13 (New), January 14 (Trad)

Patronage: Against rheumatism, snake bites, mothers, awkward children, the sick, Vervio, Italy, LaRochelle, France

Saint Hilary was born into a wealthy, pagan family, and educated in philosophy and rhetoric. He believed people should rise above their desires and live a life of virtue. This leads him to search for truth, where he “read” himself into the faith through the Gospels. There he found the confirmation of the one true God and our purpose of life, eternity. He was elected Bishop after his conversion, only soon to be exiled by the Arians. This gave him time to research and write on the Trinity and the nature of God, refuting the Arian Heresy. He was the first to compose hymns based on Scripture.

 Saint Thomas the Apostle

1st century 

Feast Day: July 3

Patronage:  architects, builders, construction workers, stone masons, against doubt, against blindness, East Indies, India 

One of the original 12 apostles, St. Thomas was ready to die with Jesus in Jerusalem but is best remembered for doubting the Resurrection until allowed to touch Christ's wounds. He preached in Parthia, Persia, and India. He formed many parishes and built many churches over a wide area and was eventually martyred for his faith.

Venerable Antonietta Meo

December 15, 1930 - July 3, 1937

Feast Day: July 3

Venerated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007

Antonietta Meo, nicknamed “Nennolina", was born in Rome and attended Catholic schools where she stood out for her charm, joy, and love of the poor. When she was 6 years old her left leg was amputated because of bone cancer, which eventually caused her death. Her life was a witness of sanctity for children who suffer because she knew to offer up her pain in union with Jesus. She wrote hundreds of “love letters” to Jesus before she died, sending Jesus “lots of kisses.” She may be the youngest person on the way to sainthood who is a confessor (not a martyr) ever canonized by the Catholic Church.

The Month of the Sacred Heart Of Jesus

"It is altogether impossible to enumerate the heavenly gifts which devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has poured out on the souls of the faithful.” -Pope Pius XII

Saint Juliana of Liege

1192 - 1258

Feast Day: April 6

Patron of the feast of Corpus Christi

Saint Juliana of Liege (also known as Juliana of Cornillon) was orphaned when she was 5 years old and placed in a Belgium Norbertine community, eventually receiving the veil of an Augustinian nun and becoming the superioress. As a mystic, she had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin, the Sacred Passion, care of the sick, and the Blessed Sacrament, strongly promoting a solemn liturgical feast day of Corpus Christi for the Church. In 1264, Pope Urban instituted the solemnity for the universal Church.