Dryness and Refreshment 🫖
Check out this art that gave us so much peace!
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Nichole Lanthier
Original Catholic Art
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O Saint Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him in my name and kiss his fine head for me and ask him to return the Kiss when I draw my dying breath.
Saint Joseph, Patron of departed souls – pray for us. Amen.
Painting of St. Joseph and the infant Jesus by Nichole Lanthier.
Does your prayer feel dry this Lent? This podcast might help you out!
Dryness in prayer: What is it? Why does it happen, and how to deal with it. Fr. Jack talks all about dryness and St. Theresa of Avila's explanation of 'the Four Waters' of prayer.
“When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, 'Do you want to be well?' The sick man answered him, 'Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me.' Jesus said to him, 'Rise, take up your mat, and walk.' Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.”
– Jn 5:6-9
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Today's Saints - Sts. Armogastes and Saturus of Africa
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Katherine I Rabenstein
Author of Saints of the Day
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Armogastes and Saturus were orthodox Catholics and high officers at the palace of the Vandal king Genseric. When the king returned from Italy in 457, he enacted and enforced a more stringent penal code against the Catholics. Armogastes was stripped of his honors and cruelly tortured. As occurred with many other saints, his tormentors had a difficult time. No sooner had his tied him up with cords than they would break--repeatedly--each time Armogastes lifted his eyes to heaven. Finally, they hanged him upside-down by one foot. But the saint remained nonplussed, so Prince Theodoric ordered that he be beheaded. An Arian priest advised against it, saying that he should not be killed "lest the Romans should venerate them as martyrs." Therefore, he was sent to work in the mines of Byzacena from where he was condemned to work the remainder of his life as a cowherd near Carthage, Tunisia.
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A.M.D.G.