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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.7

Daily Devotional:
The Blessed Virgin Mary
Gift of the Holy Spirit:
Wisdom—the gift of contemplative reflection on, and love for, divine things. It enables one to assess the world by revealed truths and instills peace in the soul.
Proclamation of Faith:
“I believe in the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.”
The Blessed Mother:
May we experience God’s protection as Mary did, by imitating her obedience to God’s Will. Protection Through Obedience.
Jesus:
The life of Christ exemplified prudence, always seeking to do God’s Will alone. May we do the same.
Glorious Characteristic:
Impassability—we will be immune from death and pain. (Rev 21:4, I Cor 15:50-57)
Spiritual Work of Mercy:
Forgive offenses.
Corporal Work of Mercy:
Give drink to the thirsty.
Sacrament:
Anointing of the Sick
Commandments:
  1. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
  2. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
Thought for the Day:
Blessed Virgin Mary: “Do whatever He tells you.”

Today’s Reading

Feast Day of Our Lady of Loreto

The humble home in which Mary grew up

Unlike most other Marian feast days, Our Lady of Loreto doesn’t refer to an apparition or a Marian title. It refers to a building. Specifically, it refers to the humble home in which Mary grew up and the extraordinary measures God took to preserve it.
The Sancta Casa of Loreto is not impressive. It is a stone house with three walls and no foundation, measuring about 31×13 feet. It originally stood in Nazareth.
The events that occurred in and around the house, however, are extraordinary. Tradition tells us that this is where Our Lady was born. It’s also the site of the Annunciation and where the Holy Family lived for many years.
We know that the early Christians revered this house as Mary’s home. St. Epiphanius, St. Willibald, and the Venerable Bede all wrote about it. Later, St. Helena even built a basilica over it. St. Louis IX of France was the last saint to visit the sancta casa in Nazareth in 1251, just before the Fall of Jerusalem. St. Helena’s basilica was destroyed in 1263.
This is where the story gets interesting. The Sancta Casa appeared in Italy as early as 1291. Legend says that angels carried the house from Nazareth to modern-day Croatia, then on to Italy. There’s actually a detailed story about two brothers discovering the Sancta Casa and arguing over how to make the most profit from it. The house then disappeared and reappeared on a road next to a ditch in the town of Loreto, off the Adriatic coast.
Some historians believe that a family called the Ageli was responsible for bringing the house over by ship. That’s fine; Catholics aren’t required to believe that angels affect archeology, and there’s strong evidence supporting that theory. But archeologists in the 1960s actually did find the Sancta Casa’s stone is from Palestine, as are minute bits of pollen found in the stone. There is also graffiti on the stone that matches graffiti in St. Helena’s ruined basilica. Finally, measurements of the remains of the foundation in Nazareth perfectly match the Sancta Casa. It’s the same house.
Our Lady of Loreto, pray for us.

Melissa Keating https://media.ascensionpress.com/2019/12/10/the-extraordinary-story-of-loreto/

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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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