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  NOVEMBER — MONTH 7 WITH JESUS Exterior Defender: St. Vitus — Joy Under Persecution   Auxiliary Defender: St. Hubert — Conversion of the Hunter’s Heart   Sacred Heart Virtue: Perseverance in the Father’s Will Phase II — The Strengthening Continues NOVEMBER 1 — FIRST SATURDAY WITH THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY (ALL SAINTS) Mary Forms Readiness for Perseverance “Readiness is the beginning of perseverance.” All Saints places the entire victorious Church before the heart — men and women whose obedience became courage, whose courage became perseverance, whose perseverance became glory. Mary teaches the heart to obey before fear speaks, before hesitation rises, before excuses form. She forms the interior stance that makes perseverance possible. Your work today: Pray the Joyful Mysteries with the intention: “Mary, make my heart ready for God.” Choose one saint whose obedience strengthens you. Ask that saint to train your readiness. Prayer: “Immaculate Heart of Mary, make my rea...

  SMOKE IN THIS LIFE, NOT THE NEXT Sat, Oct 31 — All Hallows’ Eve Cigar: Dark Maduro Pour: Wild Turkey 101 Reflection: Which saint calls you to courage? All Hallows’ Eve arrives on the threshold of the Church Triumphant and the Church Suffering, stripping away the trivial costumes of the world to reveal the stark geography of eternity. It demands a courage that refuses to flinch before the realities of death, judgment, and the holy fires that lie beyond. Father François Xavier Schouppe preserves Lady Arundel’s account of Father John Cornelius—the English Jesuit who would soon earn his own martyr’s crown. After offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Cornelius was shaken by a piercing sight: a vast forest engulfed in sheets of flame, within which the soul of Lord Stourton wept bitterly over his wasted, compromised years at court. Stripped of his titles and worldly prestige, the nobleman could only cry out in the agony of Job: "Have pity on me! Have pity on me, at le...