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Thursday

< June 24, 2021 >

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.5

Daily Devotional:
The Holy Eucharist/Priesthood
Gift of the Holy Spirit:
Counsel—the gift that assists decision making and helps to guard against rashness; as an interior guide, it assists one to counsel others and to extend compassion to them.
Proclamation of Faith:
“I believe in the Communion of Saints.”
The Blessed Mother:
In imitation of the Blessed Mother after the passion, may we refrain from judging others. Mary’s example was an encouragement to the apostles.
Jesus:
In imitation of Jesus, may we treat all those we encounter with kindness.
Glorious Characteristic:
Quality—our bodies will be youthful and will retain our original gender. (Practice seeing all as a child of God.) (Rev 1:12-18)
Spiritual Work of Mercy:
Counsel the doubtful.
Corporal Work of Mercy:
Bury the dead.
Sacrament:
Holy Orders
Commandments:
  1. You shall not steal.
Thought for the Day:
Padre Pio: “Pray, hope and don’t worry.”

Today’s Reading

Feast Day of The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist. It’s pretty awesome that throughout the centuries, the Catholic church perpetually remembers Saint John the Baptist’s birthday. You may be asking yourself what is so important about John the Baptist that we honor his birth? We honor Jesus’ birth at Christmas and Mary’s birth on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but why John the Baptist? Well, if you remember, Jesus said: “I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John” (Lk 7:28). Jesus honored John above all other men and so it is fitting that we honor him too.
Jesus and Mary were both set aside for a special purpose before they were born and so was John the Baptist. The first reading from the book of Jeremiah today says “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you”. This reading was about the prophet Jeremiah, but it could just as easily apply to Saint John the Baptist as well. In fact, the first reading could also apply to all of us too. God knew us before we were formed in the womb, before we were born too. That’s really something for us to think about in modern times, when abortion has become such a widespread phenomenon. Every human life is valuable and precious in God’s eyes. We will never know if a future Albert Einstein, Beethoven or Mozart were never allowed to have the gift of life, let alone people who may have become saints if they had been given the chance to do so.

St. John the Baptist, pray for us.

Laura Kazlas https://www.acatholic.org/solemnity-of-the-nativity-of-john-the-baptist/

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We could find no better way to describe the purpose of Daily Beatitude than the Prologue of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1:

God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.

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We are called to live in beatitude. This contemplation is one designed to help us incorporate the beatitudes into our day. This work is not one of absolutes. It is just one way to incorporate the countenance of Jesus into each day. It is not the only way. View our rationale.

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