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JUNE 21 Fourth Sunday After Pentecost Saint Aloysius Gonzaga -Father’s Day-Summer Solstice-Yoga   Matthew, Chapter 10, verse 28 And do not be AFRAID of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.   We must be resilient in our faith to resist the devil and the suffering he inflicts by his influence on weak and sinful men. John McCain in his book Character is Destiny [1] points to the 16 th President of the United States as a man who demonstrates for us the characteristic of RESILIENCE. Resilience is the ability to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens. Abraham Lincoln had known loss and grief all his life yet rather that than succumb to defeat; he somehow, always found a way to rise back up. He was inarguably a man of action. Although he was known to have chronic depression he never yielded and in some way resurrected from his melancholic states thin...

Smoke in this Life not the Next The Small Fire Half a glass of wine for steadiness. A cheap cigar for honesty. Maria d’Oignies for the flame that purifies. She teaches that holiness is built from small, steady offerings — the kind a man can make in the quiet of his own evening. Let the wine remind you of restraint, the cigar of simplicity, and her life of the fire God can kindle in an ordinary heart. Reflection Question: What small, steady offering is God asking me to place on the fire tonight? June 20 Satur day Third Week after Pentecost Kouign Amann 2 Chronicles, Chapter 19, Verse 9 He gave them this command: “Thus you shall act in the FEAR of the LORD, with fidelity and with an undivided heart. Via the Gospel, the Lord Jesus gives a penetrating analysis of the state of the sinner and some very sobering advice to us would-be saints on maintaining an undivided heart. Delusion, Dissipation, Death [1] We look first to the description of a sinner. Jesus said to his di...