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SEPTEMBER 18 – SAINT JOHN MACIAS
“Man would like to reach the delights of the beauty of perfect wisdom in a moment, but this does not happen in the land of mortal beings.”
Against Faustus XII, 52
This Day in Province History: September 18, 1954
On this date, Prior General, Engelbert Eberhard, wrote to Provincial Secretary, Henry Greenlee, offering personal condolences at the sudden death of Prior Provincial, Joseph Dougherty, and two weeks later he appointed Greenlee Rector Provincial.
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SEPTEMBER 17 – SAINT ROBERT BELLARMINE
“Love God without seeking a return. Bring as many as you can to him, as many as ought to possess him. He will not be insufficient. You will never divide him in parts. Each and every one will possess and hold him in his entirety.”
On the Psalms 72, 34
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SEPTEMBER 16 – SAINTS CORNELIUS AND CYPRIAN
“Let us strive to rejoice in the true inheritance which belongs to all rather than in what is just our own, so that those who live, as the apostle puts it, may live no longer just for themselves, but for him who died and rose again for all.”
Letter 140, 68
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SEPTEMBER 15 – SAINT VITUS
“If there is in you a well-ordered charity, you will know how to put the greater need before the lesser and allow yourself to be guided by mercy, so that the poor may be evangelized, so that the Lord’s abundant harvest may not be swallowed up by the birds of heaven because of a lack of laborers.”
Letter 243, 8
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SEPTEMBER 14 – EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
“The cross of Christ is a great lampstand. Whoever wishes to shine mustn’t be ashamed of this wooden lampstand … Let the world be crucified to you, crucify yourselves to the world. What does that mean? Don’t look to the world for happiness; hold yourselves back from the happiness of the world … If the good things of the world don’t corrupt you, if the bad things of the world don’t corrupt you, the world has been crucified to you, you have been crucified to the world. Glory in the lampstand.”
Sermon 289, 6
Audience with Pope Francis and Participants in the General Chapter of the Order of St. Augustine
On Sept. 13 at 10:20 am in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Francis received in an Audience the Participants in the General Chapter of the Order of St. Augustine.
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SEPTEMBER 13 – SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
“The love of spiritual beauty can be of such a nature that in it I do not envy others. Rather, I wish to multiply its lovers so that they may aspire to it with me, search for it with me, possess it with me and enjoy it with me. They will be so much the more friends for me insofar as our beloved is more fully shared by all of us.”
Soliloquies 1, 13, 22
This Day in Province History: September 13, 1899
Augustinian Academy opened its doors to 13 boys, the first enrollments of the new school established at Austin Place, Staten Island, in the building that had formerly belong to the Visitation Nuns.
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SEPTEMBER 12 – BLESSED THOMAS ZUMARRAGA
“God wants you to pray so that you may experience desire, itself a gift from him, and thus, having this desire satisfied by him, you will not take for granted what he gives.”
Sermon 56, 3, 4