9 July Optional Memorial Born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1439, Bl. Jane Scopelli began her religious life at home living as a Carmelite mantellata (member of a Carmelite lay confraternity, wearing the white cloak or mantella). In 1480, after the ...
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4 July Optional Memorial in the Italian provinces Mother M. Crocifissa Curcio was born on 30 January 1877 in Ispica (Rg), Italy. From the time of her adolescence she realised that she was called to follow Christ in a radical manner, ...
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Lifting the burden; lightening the load (Matthew 11:25-30) The Gospel today is a joyful, ecstatic outburst of feeling by Jesus. Matthew’s community must have been deeply troubled by the fact that the ‘learned and clever’ religious leaders of their day did ...
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Thursday, 06 July 2023 12:03 Each week Pope Francis meets with pilgrims from around the world in St. Peter’s Square. On June 7, he acknowledged the presence of the relics of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy ...
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