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SEPTEMBER 25 – SAINT VINCENT STRAMBI
“What you procure for yourself you must also obtain for your neighbor, so that he also may love God with a perfect love. You do not love your neighbor as yourself unless you try to lead him to the same good towards which you are striving. It is a question of a good which does not grow smaller because everybody is searching for it with you.”
On the Customs of the Catholic Church, 49
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SEPTEMBER 24 – SAINT GERARD SAGREDO
“Do not put your leisure ahead of the needs of the Church. If there had not been good ministers who had decided to help her when she gave birth, we would not have found a way to be born.”
Letter 48, 2
This Day in Province History: September 24, 1926
Cascia Hall in Tulsa, Oklahoma opened on this day in 1926, with an enrollment of 25 students. The care of souls with fixed parish limits was part of the original agreement with the bishop, Francis C. Kelley.
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SEPTEMBER 23 – SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA
“One must especially bear this in mind: let no one think that he can reach happiness and the God he loves if he looks down on his neighbor.”
On the Customs of the Catholic Church 51
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SEPTEMBER 22 – BLESSED JOSEPHINE OF THE PURIFICATION
“Their martyrs have gone ahead of us, they tower over us like giants. If we are not capable of following them in action, let us follow them in affection; if not in glory, then certainly in joy and gladness; if not in merit, then in desire; if not in suffering, then in fellow feeling; if not in excellence, then in our close relationship with them.”
Sermon 273, 1.2.7.9.
This Day in Province History: September 22, 1947
Archbishop Richard Cushing dedicated “the Augustinian College of Merrimack Valley” in the presence of the Prior General, Joseph Hickey, and provincial and founder, Mortimer Sullivan. Fr. Vincent McQuade was its first president.
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SEPTEMBER 21 – SAINT MATTHEW
“The more you progress in charity the more you will resemble God, and the more you will begin to experience him.”
On Psalm 99, 5
This Day in Province History: September 21, 1922
Malvern Preparatory School formally opened its doors to the enrollment of students. It was the successor of St. Nicholas of Tolentine Academy on the campus of Villanova College.
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SEPTEMBER 20 – SAINT ANDREW KIM TAE-GON & COMPANIONS
“Be like God, through piety, and love him in your thoughts! And since you know that his invisible attributes are seen and understood through created things, observe and admire creatures while seeking their creator. If you are unlike him, you will be reject; if you are like him, you will rejoice.”
On Psalm 99, 6
This Day in Province History: September 20, 1942
This date marked the opening of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Villanova College, including a Solemn Pontifical Mass offered by Cardinal Denis Dougherty with 8 bishops and several hundred priests, religious sisters and 2,000 faithful in attendance.