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Want to grow in your faith, and learn more about God? Are you ready to commit your life to God?

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Senate Must Reject Todd Blanche for Attorney General

Attorney General is our nation’s top law enforcement position. The person in that role leads a Department of Justice, including the FBI, that is supposed to be an independent force for upholding the rule of law.

Todd Blanche is down on all fours and slobbering at the chance to be a “good boy.” Do not confirm Blanche for Attorney General.

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https://act.citizen.org/page/99013/petition/1

Quote of the day, 8 June: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

On Monday, 8 June 1891, Elizabeth once again put on her white First Communion dress. In the church of Notre-Dame, she received the sacrament of confirmation from the hands of Bishop Lecot, bishop of Dijon. What did her catechism say about confirmation? “Confirmation is the sacrament that confers the Holy Spirit upon us with the abundance of his gifts and makes us perfect Christians.” And “how does confirmation make us perfect Christians? Answer: Confirmation makes us perfect Christians by increasing in us the grace of baptism and by giving us the strength to profess our faith, even at the peril of our life.”

These fruits of the Holy Spirit quickly matured in her. “Our confirmation took place at Notre-Dame,” Marie-Louise Hallo recounts. “From that moment Elizabeth’s piety increased even more; she received Communion often and shed abundant tears afterward” (Biographical Account). “Often” means that, according to the norms of the time, as a general rule she received Communion once a week. Marie-Louise states this explicitly for the period “from the age of twelve”: “Her mother did not want her to receive Communion frequently and, in fact, she received Communion once a week,” even though “at the age of twelve we went to Mass three times a week” (Poinsenet Dossier). Louise Recoing, who became acquainted with Elizabeth not long before Elizabeth turned twelve, says more or less the same thing: “At that time [she] must have received Communion once or twice a week.”

Sometimes, in their games, the little girls were already expressing their dream of religious life. Marie-Louise recounts: “We played at being nuns before 1893, after our First Communion. We would go to confession behind the curtains. We put on our mothers’ skirts, especially the skirts with trains. Madame Catez was still in mourning for her husband. We imitated the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. At home we had a fairly large apartment, and what was especially enjoyable was that there was an empty attic where we played.” It is not said whether the mutual confessors remained serious the whole time.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Rien Moins Que Dieu, ch. 3

de Meester, C 2017, Rien moins que Dieu: sainte Elisabeth de la Trinité, Presses de la Renaissance, Paris.

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 1984, Je te cherche dès l’aurore : évocation d’un visage et d’un coeur, produced by C. de Meester and the Carmel of Dijon, Carmel de Dijon, Flavignerot.

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Detailed portrait of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, taken on 8 June 1891 after her Confirmation. Although photographed on the day of her Confirmation, the portrait also commemorates her First Holy Communion, received earlier on 19 April 1891. The setting is the garden of the Catez family home in Dijon. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites (used by permission).

A quotation from Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-06-09)

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