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The service of the poor is to be preferred to all else

The service of the poor is to be preferred to all else, and to be
performed without delay. If at a time set aside for prayer, medicine
or help has to be brought to some poor man, go and do what has to be
done with an easy mind, offering it up to God as a prayer. Do not be
put out by uneasiness or a sense of sin because of prayers interrupted
by the service of the poor: for God is not neglected if prayers are
put aside, if God's work is interrupted in order that another such
work may be completed. Therefore, when you leave prayer to help some
poor man, remember this--that the work has been done for God. Charity
takes precedence over any rules, everything ought to tend to it above
all; since it is itself a great lady, what it orders should be carried
out. Let us show our service to the poor, then, with renewed ardor in
our hearts, seeking out above all any abandoned people, since they are
given to us as lords and patrons.
--St Vincent de Paul:

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30 July – Saint María de Jesús Sacramentado Venegas de La Torre
Also known as
María de Jesús Sacramentado
María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament
Mary of the Blessed Sacrament Venegas de la Torre
Nati (childhood nickname)

(1868-1959)
Religious Nun and Founder of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus of Guadalajara of which she is the Patron and of Nurses – Born
María Natividad Venegas de la Torre on 8 September 1868 in La Tapona,
Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, Mexico and died on 30 July 1959 in Guadalajara,
Jalisco, Mexico of natural causes, aged 90.

María de Jesús Sacramentado – María de Jesús Sacramentado Venegas de
la Torre, was born in a town in the municipality of Zapotlanejo,
Jalisco (Mexico) on 8 September 1868, baptised with the name of María
Natividad. The life of the young María Natividad was developed in a
climate of simplicity, without extraordinary events, her childhood and
adolescence with the nuances that life gives. At the age of 19, she
was orphaned and lived thereafter in the care of a paternal aunt.
María Natividad felt a strong attraction towards religious life and on
8 December 1989, she entered the flourishing Association of Daughters
of Mary, in her native town.

On 8 December 1905 she attended some Spiritual Exercises and as a
result of these, she decided to be part of the group of “Daughters of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus”, who cared for the sick in the Hospital of
the Sacred Heart, newly founded by Canon Don Atenógenes Silva and
Alvarez Tostado. She distinguished herself by her humility,
simplicity, affable relationship with the sisters, the sick and people
in general, this immense charity drunk from the source of the Divine
Heart of Jesus, whom she loved, in whom she always waited and whose
devotion sought to instill in all.

She manifested a special treatment for the bishops and priests,
attending them with true love, respect and obedience, seeing in them
the prolongation of Christ High and Eternal Priest. In the year of
1912 she was elected as the new Prioress, which position she held
until 25 January 1921 when, at the first canonical elections, she was
elected Superior General, shortly after, she wrote the Constitutions
that would govern the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, these
were approved in 1930, thus recognising the new Institute.

On 30 July 1959, she gave her soul to the Creator, full of peace,
after receiving sacramental aid. The miracle recognised for her
Canonisation concerned Mr Anastasio Ledezma Mora, who was taken to the
Hospital of the Sacred Heart to undergo a surgical operation. After
anesthesia, a cardiac arrest was manifested, which gradually increased
until it ended in a complete arrest of the heart and arteries.
Immediately, resuscitation therapies were tried, although in vain, so
the patient fell into a deep coma.

The medical nurses who were in the operating room, as well as the wife
of the sick and the sisters (Daughters of the Sacred Heart), invoked
the intercession of María of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. After 10
or 12 minutes, his heartbeat was restored to normal, amazing the
doctors especially as the patient suffered no damage to the brain. A
few days later he underwent a hemicolectomy with definitive colostomy
without any complications and left the hospital after recuperation, a
perfectly well man….Vatican.va

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Saint Quote:
If you wish to find a short and compendious method, which contains in
itself all other means, and is most efficacious for overcoming every
temptation and difficulty, and for acquiring perfection, it is the
exercise of the presence of God.
-- St. Basil

Bible Quote:
He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory: but he that
seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true, and there is no
injustice in him. (John 7:18) DRB


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O God of Our Life
By St Augustine (354-430)
Father & Doctor of the Church

O God of our life,
there are days when the burdens we carry
chafe our shoulders and weigh us down,
when the road seems dreary and endless,
the skies grey and threatening,
when our lives have no music in them
and our hearts are lonely
and our souls have lost their courage.
Flood the path with light,
run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise,
tune our hearts to brave music,
give us the sense of comradeship,
with heroes and Saints of every age
and so quicken our spirits,
that we may be able to encourage, the souls of all,
who journey with us on the road of life,
to Your honour and glory.
Amen
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