This Day in Province History: September 12, 1949
Fr. Thomas McLeod blessed the finished mission chapel of Our Mother of Consolation Church, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, known as St. Mary’s in Flourtown, which when established as an independent parish in 1953, would be renamed St. Genevieve.
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SEPTEMBER 11 – SAINT VINCENT OF LEON
“To possess something, which is given without being consumed, and not to share it with others, means not to possess it in the right way.”
On Christian Doctrine 1, 1
This Day in Province History: September 11, 1912
Fr. Charles M. Driscoll, former prior provincial, attended the opening of the Eucharistic Congress this day in Vienna, Austria, as the personal representative of Thomas M. A. Burke, bishop of Albany, New York.
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SEPTEMBER 10 – SAINT NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINO, O.S.A.
“When we cherish a constant desire along with the practice of faith, hope, and love, we ‘pray always’ … For the effect of our prayer will be in proportion to the fervor of the desire which goes into its making.”
Letter 130, 9, 18
This Day in Province History: September 10, 1899
Apostolic Delegate Sebastiano Martinelli, O.S.A. presided at the blessing and opening of the chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Staten Island, a new foundation for the province in the Archdiocese of New York.
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SEPTEMBER 9 – SAINT PETER CLAVER
“If the burden of apostolic ministry is not imposed on us, we should employ our freedom from business in the quest for truth and its contemplation, while if it is laid upon us, it is to be undertaken because of the compulsion of love.”
The City of God 19, 19
This Day in Province History: September 9, 1963
Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts, opened its doors on this day with an enrollment of 191 pupils, freshmen and sophomores, and with a staff of 8 friars and 2 lay teachers.
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SEPTEMBER 8 – SAINT EUSEBIUS
“All our toil in this life consists in purifying the eye of the heart in order to be able to see God. If seeing God is our whole task it follows that the stages of the spiritual life follow the very same lines as purification and contemplation, and contemplation, in fact, turns out to be the supreme and transcendent reward of the double toil involved in purification.”
The Measure of the Soul 33, 74
This Day in Province History: September 8, 1898
Prior General Tomas Rodriguez approved Fr. John Fedigan’s request to send American friars to Cuba to re-establish a presence in Havana, and to see to recovering former foundations of the Order in that country following the end of the Spanish-Cuban-American War.
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SEPTEMBER 7 – SAINT EUSTACE
“It is difficult to discern Christ in the midst of the crowd. Our soul has need of solitude; if the soul is attentive, God allows himself to be seen. The crowd is noisy; to see God silence is necessary.”
On the Gospel of John 17, 11