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Apr 12 - “Life Is Changed, Not Taken Away” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Vita Mutatur, Non Tollitur
(Life Is Changed, Not Taken Away)

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Apr 12 - “Jesus and Mary - Two Hearts” © icon by Joan Cole.

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O Heart of Jesus pierced for our sins and giving us your Mother on Calvary! O Heart of Mary pierced by sorrow and sharing in the sufferings of your divine Son for our redemption! O sacred union of these Two Hearts! Praised be the God of Love who united them together!

May we unite our hearts and every heart so that all hearts may live in unity in imitation of that sacred unity which exists in these Two Hearts. Triumph, O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary! Reign, O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus! Blessed forever be the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary!

Obtain for me a greater purity of heart and a fervent love of the spiritual life. May all my actions be done for the greater glory of God in unions with the divine heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Hear and answer our prayers and intentions (mention your petition) according to your most merciful will. Amen.

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Apr 11 - “Dignity of Work” © artwork by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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The Sabbath is for everyone—all are allowed to rest from their work.
(Deuteronomy 5:13-15)

The Lord blesses our work so that we may share its fruits with others.
(Deuteronomy 14:28-29)

Do not withhold wages from your workers, for their livelihood depends on them.
(Deuteronomy 24:14-15)

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Apr 11 - “Scourging of Christ” © icon by Robert Gerwing.

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Christ’s being scourged at the pillar before His Crucifixion in His Passion, which constitutes the Second sorrowful mystery of the Rosary, is mentioned in three of the four Gospels, John 19:1, Mark 15:15, and Matthew 27:26.

During Lent, the readings and prayers of the Church focus on the Passion of Christ. Collectively, the last two weeks of Lent are called Passion Time. The first week is called Passion Week, while the second is known as Holy Week. Part of Christ’s suffering commemorated during Holy Week is the Scourging or Flagellation of Christ.

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Apr 11 - “St. Gemma Galgani” © artwork by Julie Lonneman. Happy Feast Day St. Gemma!

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Gemma endured poverty and ill health throughout her life. Because she was unable to finish her schooling, she could not realize her desire to become a Passionist nun. When she was twenty-one, this mystic and housekeeper began to display signs of the stigmata. In early 1903, Gemma learned she had tuberculosis and died soon after, in a small room next to her employers' house. Gemma is especially revered in Italy and South America.

"Try to think of a light that fills the whole universe,
that penetrates and kindles it. At the same time,
a light that gives life and animation to all things,
so that all things that exist are imbued with, or encircled in it,
and in it and through it have life. Thus I see God
and in [God] all creatures."
—Saint Gemma Galgani

Italy, 1878-1903.

Her feast day is April 11.

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Apr 10 - “Nothing Is So Strong As Gentleness” © artwork By Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing so gentle as true strength.
—Saint Francis de Sales

His feast day is April 7.

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Apr 10 - “Christ with Lamenting Angels” © by Museum Religious Art Classics.

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Artist: Antonio del Castillo – c. 1650

The Lamentation of Christ is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over his body. This event has been depicted by many different artists.

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Apr 10 - “Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin” © icon by Lewis Williams, OFS.

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“If I see a madman driving a car into a group of innocent bystanders, then I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe and then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.”

Confronted with the rise of Hitler and Nazism, this was Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s call to action.

Distraught with the complacency of the German Evangelical Church, Bonhoeffer became a founding member of the Confessing Church, which opposed the country’s growing anti-semitism. Intrigued by Gandhi’s adherence to non-violence, the pacifist Bonhoeffer struggled with a response. Opposition grew against his Confessing Church, resulting in it being declared illegal. Bonhoeffer was eventually forbidden to speak publicly, or to publish his writing. Bonhoeffer joined the Abwehr, working in military intelligence. With a Nazi plan to use German Jews as spies in America, Bonhoeffer was able to fund Jews exit from the country under “Operation 7,” with no orders other than to escape! In April, 1943, he, his brother-in-law, and others were then arrested. Many of his letters from prison show his growth in faith, yet hope for release. He was never released. The attempted assassination of Hitler July 20, 1944 was tied to Bonhoeffer and others. He was moved between several camps, and finally, at Flossenburg camp, within a few days of liberation by Allied forces, he was stripped and hanged, April 9, 1945.

In this icon Bonhoeffer stands alone, facing the coldness of his cell, hands held open in prayer. He is shown with a halo, indicative of the holiness that was not stifled by the Nazis or his confinement, but blossomed. He loved God’s creative hand in nature, and that same holy light of hope shines through the bars into his cell. From Tegel, he wrote that he had, “…learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the excluded, the ill-treated, the powerless, the oppressed and despised …so that personal suffering has become a more useful key for understanding than personal happiness.”

As he did, may you walk in faith, and find actions that are appropriate to your faith.

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Apr 9 - “Have the Courage” © artwork By Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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Have the courage to swim against the tide.
–Pope Francis

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Apr 9 - “Duke Ellington” © artwork By Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS.

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout
and wrote some blues.
–Duke Ellington

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