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June 30

 “Be of good cheer, only work, only strive cheerfully; for nothing is lost. Every prayer of yours, every psalm you sing is recorded. Every alms, every fast is recorded.”

                                                                        -St. Cyril of Jerusalem

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June 29

 Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles

“Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one; and even though they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, and Paul followed. And so we celebrate this day made holy for us by the apostle’s blood.”

                                                                                    -St. Augustine

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June 28

Feast of St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr (130 – 200)

“Where there is order, there is also harmony, where there is harmony, there is also correct timing; where there is correct timing, there is also advantage.”

                                                                                    -St. Irenaeus

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June 27

Feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria , Bishop (D. 444)

“That anyone could doubt the right of the holy Virgin to be called the Mother of God fills me with astonishment. Surely she must be the Mother of God if our Lord Jesus Christ is God, and she gave birth to him! Our Lord’s disciples may not have used those exact words, but they delivered to us the belief those words enshrine, and this has also been taught us by the holy fathers.”

                                                                        -St. Cyril of Alexandria

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June 26

“How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I’ve received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven.”

                                                                        -St. Therese of Lisieux

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June 25

“If you’re a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches, and the climate makes no difference.”

                                                                        -Flannery O’Connor

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June 24

 “Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.”

-Matthew 3: 3

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June 23

 “My daughter, I see more Pharisees among the Christians than there were around Pilate.”

 -St. Margaret of Cortona

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June 22

 Feast of St. Paulinus of Nola (355-431)

What I have I give thee; we will go to Africa, and I will give myself for your son."

                                                                               --St. Paulinus of Nola to a widow

whose only son was taken into

slavery by the son-in-law

of a Vandal king

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June 23

Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga

“I am but a crooked piece of iron and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance.”

                                                                        -St. Aloysius Gonzaga

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