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To be made straight

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June 21

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

Finding Joy in the Cross

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June 20

“I could not be happy without the Cross – I could not lay it down for all the world would give. With the Cross I am happy; but without it would be lost.”
                                                –Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop

Safe Against Error

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June 19

“The soul that journeys in the light and the truth of the Faith is safe against all error.”
                                                                        –St. Frumentius, Bishop

Lord, Save Us!

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June 18

“Whenever any grievous temptation or vehement sorrow oppresses thee, invoke they guardian, thy leader; cry out to him and say, ‘Lord, save us, lest we perish!'”
                                                                                    –St. Bernard

Where the Mother is, there also is the Son

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June 17

“Meditate often on the sorrows of the holy Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you seek the Cross, there you will find the Mother and where the Mother is, there also is the Son.“
                                                                        -St. Paul of the Cross

Deeper Needs and Greater Destinies

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June 15

“The great women always recall us to the deeper needs and the greater destinies; and so they try to save the world from the shallow, the slick, the facile, and the cruel, and to show us that the world of men is not meant to be either a battlefield or a laboratory, but a family.“
                                                                                    –Gerald Vann, O. P.

Prayer

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June 14

“Give up prayer, and you no longer see the inwardness of things; you see only the surface. And with nothing to go by but effects, statistics, and evidence supplied by natural perceptions, you arrive at the wrong conclusions.”
                                                                        -Dom Hubert Van Zeller

Firm Purpose of Amendment

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June 12

“Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.”
-St. Francis de Sales