Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
September 27, 1696 – August 1, 1787
Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, scholastic philosopher and theologian, and founder of the Redemptorists, an influential religious congregation. He was canonized in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI. Pope Pius IX proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church in 1871.
Today is the Feast day of St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists. He was a remarkable lawyer who became a priest after losing a court case through a very simple mistake. He had won his previous 40 or so cases. He saw a great need to reach out to the rural parishes that were often without priests due to lack of money. He began a very effective parish mission ministry, for which the Redemptorists are still well known. Let us pray for the success of these missions in deepening parishes in their faith. (Kerygma)
HUMILITY
Humility has been regarded by the Saints as the basis and guardian of all virtues.
GOD'S WILL
If I wish to please God, I must do His Will and not my own.
BEG AND PRAY
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
REPENTANCE
There is no repentance for the angels after their fall, just as there is no repentance for men after death. -- St. John Damascene, De fide orthodoxa. 2, 4
FEAST : August 1, August 2 (General Roman Calendar)
PATRONAGE : arthritis, confessors, moralists, theologians, vocations; Naples (co-patron)
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August 2, 2014 - 8:30AM
August 1, 2014 - 6:17AM
December 27, 2012 - 6:07AM
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