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July 15th - Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey
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July 15th - Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey
(also known as Nanette)
Born at Jallanges, Burgundy, France, on November 10, 1779; died Paris, France, July 15, 1851; beatified in 1950. Anne Marie was the fifth of ten children of a wealthy farmer, Balthazar Javouhey, and his wife, Claudine. She grew up during the terror of the French Revolution. She received her First Communion about a week before the Constituent Assembly in Paris that moved to confiscate all Church property and required that clergy swear an oath of allegiance to the secular state. Practicing priests who refused to take the oath were considered to be criminals; those who took it, including four of 135 bishops and about half the priests, were excommunicated. Throughout her teen years she became accustomed to hiding and caring for persecuted priests. She would keep watch as they said Mass.
At an early age, she decided that she wanted to devote her life to the poor and the education of children. When the persecution had ended, she took the veil. At a convent in Besançon in 1800, she had a vision of Negro children, which was to influence her later life. After failing to adjust to life in several convents, she and eight companions founded the Institute of Saint Joseph of Cluny at Cabillon in 1805.
They were clothed by the bishop of Autun in 1807. Seven years later (1812), they purchased a friary and moved the congregation to Cluny. The Sisters of Saint Joseph gained renown for their successful teaching methods. Fired with apostolic zeal, she sent her nuns to work in far distant regions. She heroically labored for several years (1828-1832) in French Guyana. In 1834, she was again sent their, this time by the French government to educate 600 Guyanan slaves who were to be emancipated. She finally left French Guyana in 1843 and spent her remaining years establishing new house in Tahiti, Madagascar, and elsewhere (Benedictines, Delaney).
Saint Quotes:
"Look not to the light but rather to the raging fire that carries the soul to God with intense fervor and glowing love."
"Thorns and cross and nails and lance,
Wounds, our rich inheritance . . .
May these all our spirits fill,
And with love's devotion thrill . . .
Christ, by coward hands betrayed,
Christ, for us a captive made,
Christ upon the bitter tree,
Slain for man--all praise to thee."
--Saint Bonaventure
Saint Quote:
"Meditation on Christ in His humanity is corporeal in deed, in fact, but spiritual in mind. . . . By adopting this habit, you will steady your mind, be trained to virtues, and receive strength of soul....Let meditation of Christ's life be your one and only aim, your rest, your food, your desire, your study."
--St. Bonaventure
Bible Quote
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. (Galatians 1:8-9)
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Covetousness
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also... No man can serve
two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or
else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and mammon" (Matthew 6:19-21, 24).
"Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
earth" (Colossians 3:1-2).
"Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
increase in riches" (Psalm 73:12).
"He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the
word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful" (Matthew 13:22).
"He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent" (Proverbs
28:20).
"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith" (1 Timothy 6:10).
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any
man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John
2:15).
(also known as Nanette)
Born at Jallanges, Burgundy, France, on November 10, 1779; died Paris, France, July 15, 1851; beatified in 1950. Anne Marie was the fifth of ten children of a wealthy farmer, Balthazar Javouhey, and his wife, Claudine. She grew up during the terror of the French Revolution. She received her First Communion about a week before the Constituent Assembly in Paris that moved to confiscate all Church property and required that clergy swear an oath of allegiance to the secular state. Practicing priests who refused to take the oath were considered to be criminals; those who took it, including four of 135 bishops and about half the priests, were excommunicated. Throughout her teen years she became accustomed to hiding and caring for persecuted priests. She would keep watch as they said Mass.
At an early age, she decided that she wanted to devote her life to the poor and the education of children. When the persecution had ended, she took the veil. At a convent in Besançon in 1800, she had a vision of Negro children, which was to influence her later life. After failing to adjust to life in several convents, she and eight companions founded the Institute of Saint Joseph of Cluny at Cabillon in 1805.
They were clothed by the bishop of Autun in 1807. Seven years later (1812), they purchased a friary and moved the congregation to Cluny. The Sisters of Saint Joseph gained renown for their successful teaching methods. Fired with apostolic zeal, she sent her nuns to work in far distant regions. She heroically labored for several years (1828-1832) in French Guyana. In 1834, she was again sent their, this time by the French government to educate 600 Guyanan slaves who were to be emancipated. She finally left French Guyana in 1843 and spent her remaining years establishing new house in Tahiti, Madagascar, and elsewhere (Benedictines, Delaney).
Saint Quotes:
"Look not to the light but rather to the raging fire that carries the soul to God with intense fervor and glowing love."
"Thorns and cross and nails and lance,
Wounds, our rich inheritance . . .
May these all our spirits fill,
And with love's devotion thrill . . .
Christ, by coward hands betrayed,
Christ, for us a captive made,
Christ upon the bitter tree,
Slain for man--all praise to thee."
--Saint Bonaventure
Saint Quote:
"Meditation on Christ in His humanity is corporeal in deed, in fact, but spiritual in mind. . . . By adopting this habit, you will steady your mind, be trained to virtues, and receive strength of soul....Let meditation of Christ's life be your one and only aim, your rest, your food, your desire, your study."
--St. Bonaventure
Bible Quote
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema. As we said before, so now I say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema. (Galatians 1:8-9)
<><><><>
Covetousness
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up
for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also... No man can serve
two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or
else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and mammon" (Matthew 6:19-21, 24).
"Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
earth" (Colossians 3:1-2).
"Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they
increase in riches" (Psalm 73:12).
"He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the
word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches,
choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful" (Matthew 13:22).
"He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent" (Proverbs
28:20).
"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith" (1 Timothy 6:10).
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any
man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John
2:15).
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