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SAINT JOAN OF ARC, VIRGIN Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in Lorraine on January 6, 1412, was elected by God to go to the aid of the future Charles VIII of France against the English. Accepted in the French army, at seventeen, trusting in Jesus and Mary, He guided her to the victories of Orleans and Patay, which allowed the consecration of Charles VIII in Reims. On the 24th of May 1430 she was captured by the Burgundians who sold her to the English allies. These, after a process - later invalidated by Callixtus III - burned her in Rouen on May 30, 1431. This warrior virgin, declared Venerable by Leo XIII on January 27, 1894, was beatified by St. Pius X on April 18, 1909 and canonized by Benedict XV on May 16, 1920. Pius XI elected her as patroness of the Catholic Youth for women.

P.s. Saint Augustine was the 28th

P.s. Saint Augustine was the 28th

Sancte Augustine, Episcope et Confessor, ora pro nobis!

The preaching of the celestial doctrine confirmed with many miracles, together with the example of life, he gained in this way the islanders, who led many of them to embrace the faith of Christ, and finally the same king, who received baptism together with a great number of his followers, with supreme joy of the queen Bertha his wife, who was Christian. Conferring once in the Christmas of the Lord the baptism to more than ten thousand people on the shores of the river passing York, it is narrated that all those who had some illness received together with the health of the soul also the one of the body. Ordained bishop in 596 by order of St. Gregory the Great, he established is See in Canterbury in the church of the Saviour that he himself had raised, and he posed there some monks that would help him in his work; moreover he built in the suburbs the monastery of St. Peter, which then also bore his name. In 601 the same Pope St. Gregory the Great he accorded him the use of the pallium, that raised him to the archiepiscopal and primatial dignity, with faculty of establishing in England the ecclesiastical hierarchy: and he also sent him a new handful of workers, namely Mellitus, Justus, Paulinus and Rufianus. Regulated the things of his church, Augustine reunited the synod of the bishops and doctors of the ancient Britons, for a long time discordant with the Roman Church on the celebration of Easter and other rites. But not having been able to induce them to cease the quarrel either with the authority of the Apostolic See or with miracles, with a prophetic spirit he predicted their ruin. Finally, after having endured many labours for Christ, famous for miracles, after having placed Mellitus in charge of the church in London, Justus in that of Rochester, Lawrence in his, he went to heaven on May 26, 604, reigning Aethelbert, and was buried in the monastery of San Pietro, which later became the burial of the archbishops of Canterbury and several kings. The English made him a fervent cult; and the Supreme Pontiff Leo XIII extended the cult to the whole Church to implore the return of England to the Roman Church, setting the feast on May 28th.

SAINT AUGUSTINE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Augustine, born in Rome the 13th of November 534, he was prior monk of the Benedictine Monastery of Sant’Andrea al Celio, when, in 597, he was sent by pope St. Gregory the Great in England with about forty monks of the same community, in order to convert to Christ the people. There was at that time in Kent the powerful king Aethelbert, who, having learned the reason for Augustine's arrival, invited him with his companions to Canterbury, the capital of his kingdom; and accorded him willingly to dwell there and preach there the Faith of Jesus Christ. Therefore, the holy man erected an oratory near Canterbury, where he resided for some time, and where he led an entirely apostolic kind of life with his companions.

From Challoner's Meditations: WHITSUN-MONDAY ON THE HAPPINESS OF HAVING THE HOLY GHOST IN THE SOUL. Consider first, how happy a guest the soul entertains when she has in her the Holy Ghost. He is called in Scripture the Paraclete, (a name that signifies both comforter and solicitor,) from the consolations and graces he imparts to the soul, to sweeten all her crosses and labours in her mortal pilgrimage, and to help her to overcome all difficulties and oppositions; and from his soliciting for her by the spirit of prayer, which he inspires, teaching her to pray, and as it were praying with her, and in her. He is called by excellence the gift of the Most High, as being the greatest gift that God can give; for what can he give greater than himself? A gift comprising all other gifts. He is called the living fountain, or the fountain of living water, springing up to everlasting life, refreshing the inward man, assuaging the heat of concupiscence, extinguishing all thirst after the things of this world, and watering the soul with a never-failing stream. of grace. He is called a fire, from the bright flames of love with which he inflames the soul. And he is called the unction of the soul, from sweetly diffusing himself through all the soul, and giving strength and vigour to it. O what can be wanting to a soul that entertains such a guest as this! Does she not, in some measure, anticipate the joy’s of heaven, having within her the king of heaven with all his graces. Consider 2ndly, the happy fruits which the presence of the Holy Ghost produces in the soul, as they are reckoned up by St. Paul, Gal. v. 22, 23. 1. Charity, or the love of God for his own infinite goodness’ sake, and the love of every neighbour in God and for God; a fruit so remarkable in the first Christians upon their receiving the Holy Ghost, that through their love of God they had all ‘but one heart and one soul,’ Acts iv. 32. 2. Joy, from the testimony of a good conscience, and from the sense of the presence of this divine guest, and the experience of his sweetness. 3. Peace with God and with our neighbours, and with ourselves; a peace not granted to the wicked. 4. Patience in supporting crosses and adversities, which this heavenly Spirit makes light and easy. 6. Benignity or kindness, in relieving the distressed. 6. Goodness or a willingness to impart all that is good to every neighbour. 7. Longanimity, or long-suffering and perseverance, without being wearied out with labour, in overcoming evil with good. 8. Mildness in restraining wrath, and bearing injuries. 9. Faith, or fidelity to all our engagements, both to God and our neighbours. 10. Modesty, or moderation in all things, regulating every motion both of soul and body. 11. Continency, or temperance in restraining all irregular inclinations; and, 12. Chastity, or purity in keeping both soul and body from the defilements of lust. O what happy fruits are these! O how happy is that soul in which the spirit of God produces all these fruits! O my soul, bring in this heavenly Spirit into thy inward house, and entertain him there, and all these fruits will be thine. Consider 3rdly, that as nothing can he more happy than to have the Holy Ghost in thy soul, so nothing can be more miserable than to be without this heavenly guest. Where the Spirit of God is not, there Satan is. Alas! can there be a greater misery than to be possessed by Satan? ‘If any man have not the Spirit of Christ,’ says the apostle, Rom. viii. 9, ‘he is none of his.’ If he be none of his, whose then must he be? or what share can he have in Christ or his kingdom? Oh! how true is that which the church sings at this time, in her address to this divine spirit, sine tuo numine, nihil est in homine, nihil est innoxium. That without this deity there is nothing in man, there is nothing that is innocent. O dread then the misery of being without him, and flee from all those evils that may draw him away from thee.

Today is the Feast of Pentecost. It's the one day of the year which especially honors the Holy Spirit. On this day 570 years ago, in 1453 A.D. Constantinople (the center of the Eastern "Orthodox" world) was completely overrun by Turkish Muslim invaders. It wasn't a coincidence that the "Orthodox" lost their capital & empire on the one feast day of year which specifically glorifies the Holy Spirit, after they dishonestly broke their solemn assent of agreement at the Council of Florence on the Filioque (that the Holy Spirit precedes from the Father & the Son) aside from them agreeing to accept other Catholic teachings & join the Catholic Church. For their spiritual rebellion & profound dishonesty, God allowed them to be subjugated by pagan savages. The "Orthodox" reject God's truth & His church — they are a series of rebel sects void of piety & charity. May more "Orthodox" come to the truth & be converted to the Catholic faith. Share this video: The Real History of "Orthodoxy" https://youtu.be/WCURDSRz6D0

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