This Day in Province History: June 23, 1901
Prior Provincial John Fedigan blessed the new monastery at Villanova, whose construction had been a matter of controversy, dubbed Fedigan’s Folly.
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JUNE 22 – SAINT PAULINUS OF NOLA
“What you do with those who beg from you is what God will do with his beggar. You are filled and you are empty. Fill your empty neighbor from your fullness, so that your emptiness may be filled from God’s fullness.”
Sermon 56, 9
This Day in Province History: June 22, 1920
The Definitory approved drafting a resolution of congratulations to the newly elected Prior General, Tommaso Giachetti, and of appreciation of his nomination of Charles Mary Driscoll as Assistant General.
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JUNE 21 – SAINT LOUIS GONZAGA
“That fear by which you fear being cast into hell with the devil is not yet chaste, since it does not come from love of God but from fear of punishment. But when you fear God in the sense that you do not wish to lose him, you embrace him, and you desire to enjoy him.”
Sermon on 1 John 9, 5
This Day in Province History: June 21, 1796
Fr. Matthew Carr wrote to the Prior General requesting the formal establishment of the Order in the United States, with permission to receive novices and to admit candidates to religious profession.
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JUNE 20 – SAINT HECTOR
“Just from the fact that you try to avoid evil, you improve yourself, and you begin to desire what is good.”
Sermon on 1 John 9, 5
This Day in Province History: June 20, 1994
Possibly the largest Provincial Chapter in the history of the Order, and the first to gather all friars with active voice, convened at Villanova with 240 friars in attendance.
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JUNE 19 – SAINT ROMUALD
“Lord, my God, how great you are, and yet you make your home in the humble of heart! It is you who lift up the downtrodden, and you who are their grandeur.”
Confessions 11, 31
This Day in Province History: June 19, 1878
Fr. Pacifico Antonio Neno was elected Prior Provincial on this day in 1878, to succeed Thomas Galberry who had been named bishop of Hartford, Connecticut.
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JUNE 18 – SAINT GREGORY BARBARIGO
“This is the rule of love: the good that we desire for ourselves we desire for our neighbor also; and the evil that we are unwilling to undergo we wish to prevent from happening to our neighbor.”
On True Religion 87
