Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Project BLACK MAMBA

Today is the optional memorial of Saint Jane Frances de Chantel, Religious, V.S.M. (1572-1641), foundress of the Visitation Sisters, formally the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary: Saint-link ūna, Saint-link duae, & Wikipedia-link; Wikipedia-link V.S.M.

Commentary: Quoth the bulletin:
Left a widow at twenty-eight, with four children, the broken-hearted baroness took a vow of chastity. Her mother, stepmother, sister, first two children, & now her husband had died. St. Francis de Sales became her spiritual director & she started the Congregation of the Visitation. St. Vincent de Paul served as her spiritual director after de Sales's death.
Scripture of the Day
Personal Reading
The Second Letter to the Corinthians, chapter thirteen (of thirteen).

Mass Readings
The Book of Deuteronomy, chapter thirty-four, verses one thru twelve;
Psalm Sixty-six, verses one thru three(A), five, eight, sixteen & seventeen;
The Gospel according to Matthew, chapter eighteen, verses fifteen thru twenty.

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