On St Stephen's feastday, St Edith Stein pauses to write to a former student; she explains the vocation “to suffer with Christ and thereby to cooperate with him in his work of salvation.”
🎄 Read her letter:
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Dear Saint Charles Borromeo, bishop of Asshurim

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Dear All Saints, please me,
and spread the joy of my charity and my hope throughout the
to the poor and needy,
who are in great need
and your
at home and abroad.
Amen.

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Dear Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles of the Spirit, we ask this: accept me as you are willing and pray for us.
May the Lord Christ lead us in a joyful and liberating

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Dear Saint Luke the Evangelist,
let me be clear about one point - you are still a persecuted and persecuted persecuted
Amen.

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Dear Saint Luke the Evangelist, we are told in our dream by your Sister Sister Eve that you are pregnant by a man,
but we did not know that she had conceived because your husband bore a with her. Now you know that I am pregnant.

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Dear Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr, we pray that you may lead us,
in the most perfect possible,
to Christ Jesus Christ,
in Christ our and our only
Amen.

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Dear Saint Peter Claver, priest of mercy, we pray that you lead us to a new age in A new beginning, where all the faithful are heard, is at your
Amen.

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Dear Saint Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the faithful, I am afraid that we will be robbed of our very our very way of
I fear, therefore, for your sake, our communion with Jesus
Amen.

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Dear Saint Monica, your love is always there for me. Every every moment, is precious love.

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I gave myself to Love Divine,
And lo! my lot so changèd is
That my Beloved One is mine
And I at last am surely His.

St. Teresa of Avila

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Dear Saint Louis and Peter,
please send this token to my and to my dear friend
Chedorla:
Amen.

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Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us!

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Happy The of Mary “Mary showed complete trust in God by agreeing to be used as an instrument in his plan of salvation. She trusted him in spite of her nothingness …#St. Teresa of Calcutta

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"Give us this day our substantial bread. This common bread is not substantial bread, but this Holy Bread is substantial, that is, appointed for the substance of the soul."
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
Bishop and Doctor

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St Sebastian was an early Christian martyr, who ended up looking a bit like a pin cushion (although, this incident didn’t kill him). He’s also patron of plague victims, so seems a pretty handy saint to have around at the moment

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"Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction." -St. John of the Cross

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Today is the feast day of St Francis Xavier. Born in 1506, together with St Ignatius Loyola and others he founded the Jesuit order, and travelled to India, SE Asia and Japan spreading the good news of Christ

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Today is the feast of the Triumph of the Holy Cross, that horrific instrument of torture that became the means of our salvation. You’ve seen plenty of pictures of Jesus on a cross, so here’s the painting The Mountain of the Holy Cross by Thomas Moran (1890)

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Who knew chopping down a tree could convert people to Christianity? After leaving his home in Devon and travelling to Germany in 716AD, St Boniface felled the Donar Oak which was dedicated to the God Jupiter. When nothing happened, the people converted. Simple.

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