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'Tis the Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum, "time through the year"): Wikipedia-link.

Commentary: Wayback Machine '21 & Wayback Machine '19.

Saints of the Day
'Tis the festival of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, T.O.P. (1901-1925, the "Man of the Eight Beatitudes;" A.K.A. Girolamo).

Commentary: Blessed Pier Giorgio is scheduled to be canonized, recognized as Saint Pier Giorgio, in 2025, a jubilee year, should the world perdure.

Saint Quote o' the Day

"Jesus comes to me every morning in Communion, & I return the visit by going to serve the poor."
—Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassatti, T.O.P. (1901-1925, feast: 4 July)

Papal Quote o' the Day

"Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having ghe right to do what we ought."
—Pope Saint John Paul II the Great (1920-2005, r. 1978-2005; feast: 22 October)