Memorial of St. Bonaventure, 1221-1274; served as General Minister of the Franciscan Order for 17 years; structured the Order through effective legislation; offered the friars and organized spirituality based on the vision and insights of St. Francis, combining practical aspects of life with doctrines of the Church
Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, 1656-1680; born in New York; suffered a smallpox epidemic which left her disfigured and half-blind; moved by the words of the Jesuit missionaries, and converted, baptized on Easter Sunday; traveled to a Christian Indian village near Montreal; took a vow of virginity and fasted for the conversion of her nation
Optional Memorial of St. Henry, 972-1024; German king and Holy Roman Emperor; a practical man of affairs; helped Pope Benedict VIII quell disturbances in Rome
Saint of the Day: St. Veronica; the woman who offered a cloth to Jesus so he could wipe his face on the way to His crucifixion; the image of His face was imprinted on the cloth; Veronica is not mentioned in scripture, but is known through tradition, and in the Sixth Station of the Cross
Memorial of St. Benedict, 480-547; became a hermit, and lived in a cave for three years; some monks wanted him to be their leader, but they disliked his strictness; he eventually built the monastery of Monte Cassino, and developed a rule of liturgical prayer, study, manual labor, and living together under a common abbot
Saint of the Day: St. Jeanne-Marie Kerguin, 1864-1900; born in France to a poor peasant family; joined the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1867; assigned first to Parish, then to Carthage in Northern Africa; went to China in 1899, and was executed in a crackdown on foreign missionaries during the Boxer Rebellion
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/8/22
Gospel: Matthew 10:16-23
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