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Source 7-foot-1-inch NBA champion Luke Kornet learns from setbacks and sufferings — anchored by adoration and the Mass. Luke Kornet left Vanderbilt University in 2017 with high hopes. He was the school’s all-time record holder in blocks (210) and was the NCAA’s all-time recor...

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Source One of the benefits of enjoying a Christian life is the contemplation prayer brings. It is critical to set aside time for daily reflection and prayer and bring clarity to our purpose in this life – to glorify God in all we do. Our actions need to be designed to express our love fo...

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Source July 22: Saint Mary Magdalene—Feast First Century Patron Saint of pharmacists, contemplatives, converts, glovemakers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumers, reformed prostitutes, tanners, women Invoked against sexual temptations Pre-Co...

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Source On July 26 the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the parents of the Virgin Mary, Saints Joachim and Anne. The couple's faith and perseverance brought them through the sorrow of childlessness, to the joy of conceiving and raising the immaculate and sinless woman who would give birth to...

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Source Facts Feastday: July 31 Patron: Dioceses of San Sebastian and Bilbao, Biscay & Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, Society of Jesus, soldiers, Educators and Education. Birth: 1491 Death: 1556 Beatified: July 27, 1609 by Paul V Canonized: M...

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Source COMMENTARY: These marvelous books offer a convincing correction to secularist culture’s nonsensical narrative about how we became who we are. George Weigel Commentaries July 10, 2024 A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far away), Baltimore’s St. Paul Latin High School ha...

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Source On July 14, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be canonized. Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri lived a life of holiness and virtue, despite obstacles and opposition within her tribe. Kateri was born in Auriesvill...

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Source July 6 marks the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young virgin and martyr whose life is an example of purity and mercy for all Christians. St. Maria Goretti is best known for her commitment to purity and the courageous defence of her faith at the young age of eleven that made her willi...

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Source As we celebrate our nation’s birth on July 4, it’s a good time to ask Our Lady, Immaculately Conceived, Patroness of the United States of America, to intercede for us, all of us, from sea to shining sea. She is our mother, after all — mother for all of us: those on the ...

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Source Quote: When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God ent...

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