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Saint Peter Chanel

1803-1841

Feast Day: April 28

Patronage: Oceania

Saint Peter Chanel was born in France and ended his life as the protomartyr of Oceania. Peter was attracted to the missionary life and became a Marist priest and made the 10-month journey to Futuna Island in Oceania. With courage and patience, he learned the language and endeavored to convert the natives, whose chieftain had just banned cannibalism. When the chieftain's son asked to be baptized, persecution climaxed with St. Peter being clubbed to death. Within a year after his death, the whole island converted and has remained Catholic to this day.

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“It is love alone that gives worth to all things.”

— St. Teresa of Avila

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Worship for the Orthodox Church, is nothing else than 'heaven on earth'. The Holy Liturgy is something that embraces two worlds at once, for both in heaven and on earth the Liturgy is one and the same - one altar, one sacrifice, one presence. In every place of worship, however humble its outward appearance, as the faithful gather to perform the Eucharist, they are taken up into the 'heavenly places'; in every place of worship when the Holy Sacrifice is offered, not merely the local congregation are present, but the Church universal -- the saints, the angels, the Mother of God, and Christ himself. 'Now the celestial powers are present with us, and worship invisibly'. This we know, that God wells there among men.

-- Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church

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'Resurrection' by Mikhail Nesterov (c. 1892)

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Watch your heart during all your life — examine it, listen to it, and see what prevents its union with the most blessed Lord. Let this be for you the science of all sciences, and with God’s help, you will easily observe what estranges you from God, and what draws you towards Him and unites you to Him. It is the evil spirit more than anything that stands between our hearts and God; he estranges God from us by various passions, or by the desire of the flesh, by the desires of the eyes, and by worldly pride. + St. John of Kronstadt, My Life in Christ

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Psalm 32:3-7

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“‘Deo omnis gloria’ - ‘All glory to God.’ It is an empathetic confession of our nothingness. He, Jesus, is everything. We, without him, are worth nothing: Nothing. 

Our vainglory would be just that: vain glory; it would be sacrilegious theft; the ‘I’ should not appear anywhere.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “The Glory of God” from The Way, #780

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The Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit reveals the Son.