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Sunday, October 25, 2026------22nd S. af. P.

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Smoke in this life, not the next. Sun, Oct 25 — Twenty‑Second Sunday after Pentecost The Abundance That Reveals the Wound Cigar: Medium‑bodied blend  Pour: Buffalo Trace Reflection: Notice the abundance. October 25 stands in the quiet breadth of Ordinary Time, where the Church asks a man to stop rushing past the truth of his own soul. Yesterday you faced the pains that purify; today you face the reason they hurt. The poor souls in purgatory suffer not because God is harsh, but because God is generous. Their pain comes from abundance — the abundance of love they finally see, the abundance of truth they can no longer avoid, the abundance of holiness they were made for but resisted. The tradition teaches two causes of their suffering. The pain of loss is the ache of being held back from the Face they were created to behold. Ott reminds us they know they are God’s friends, and the separation cuts deeper precisely because their desire is pure. Aquinas sharpens the point: the more a ...
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Monday, November 2, 2026 All Souls Day

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Sunday, November 1, 2026--All Saints-First Saturday

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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...
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Saturday, October 31, 2026--All Hollows Eve-Holloween

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  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...
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