January 28
Saints of the Day...and Events

Born c.1225 at Roccasecca, Aquino, Naples, Italy

Died 7 March 1274 at Fossanuova near Terracina of apparent natural causes; relics at Saint-Servin, Toulouse, France

Canonized 1323

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Readings  from the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas:

- Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.
- Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
- We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
- If you seek the example of love: "Greater love than this no man has, than to lay down his life for his friends." Such a man was Christ on the cross. And if he gave his life for us, then it should not be difficult to bear whatever hardships arise for his sake.
- If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because "when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth."
- If you seek an example of obedience, follow him who became obedient to the Father even unto death. "For just as by the disobedience of one man," namely, Adam, "many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one man, many were made righteous."
- If you seek an example of despising earthly things, follow him who is "the King of kings and the Lord of lords, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Upon the cross he was stripped, mocked, spat upon, struck, crowned with thorns, and given only vinegar and gall to drink.
- Do not be attached, therefore, to clothing and riches, because "they divided my garments among themselves." Nor to honors, for he experienced harsh words and scourgings. Nor to greatness of rank, for "weaving a crown of thorns they placed it on my head." Nor to anything delightful, for "in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
- The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.
- Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
- Most loving Lord, grant me a steadfast heart which no unworthy desire may drag downwards; an unconquered hear which no hardship may wear out; an upright heart which no worthless purpose may ensnare. Impart to me also, O God, the understanding to know you, the diligence to seek you, a way of life to please you, and a faithfulness that may embrace you, through Jesus Christ, my Lord. Amen.
- Hence we must say that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs divine help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act. But he does not need a new light added to his natural light, in order to know the truth in all things, but only in some that surpasses his natural knowledge.

 

Blessed Charlemagne, 742-814, Carlus Magnus; Carolus Magnus; Charles the Great; Charles, King of the Franks; Karl der Gross
Crowned first Holy Roman Emperor, sovereign of Christendom in the West by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day 800

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Saint Peter Nolasco, 1182-1258
A Frenchman settle in Barcelona, Spain founder of the Order of Our Lady of Mercy (Mercedarians) to ransom Christians from the Moors

Feast of Our Lady of Mercy

Born 1182 at Mas-des-Saintes-Puelles, near Castelnaudary, Languedoc, France

Died 25 December 1258

Canonized 30 September 1628 by Pope Urban VIII

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        St. Peter Nolasco

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