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Saint Joseph Cafasso
Jan 15, 1811 - Jun 23, 1860
Feast Day: June 23
Patronage: Prison Chaplains, Italian prisons, prisoners, captives
Saint Joseph Cafasso was an Italian peasant that had a spinal disability but that didn’t hold him back from becoming a priest and moral theology professor to seminarians. He actively opposed Jansenism and state intrusions into church affairs. He became the Rector of The Insitute of St. Francis, forming and educating his students, one being St. John Bosco. He’s called the “Priest of the Gallows” and a “Social Saint” for his work with prisoners and the poor.
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Holidays 6.23
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Alan Turing Day
Asian Corpsetwt Day [Every 23rd]
Bexit Referendum Day (UK)
Cadets Day (UK)
Coast Guard Auxiliary Day (US)
Cosmic Patience Day
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Dandruff Dance Day
Dzień Ojca (Father's Day; Poland)
Father’s Day (Nicaragua)
Festival of the Purple Void
Grand Duke's Birthday (Luxembourg)
Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)
HHT Global Awareness Day
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
International Dravet Syndrome Awareness Day
International Olympic Day
International Widows Day (UN)
International Women in Engineering Day
Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)
Jurassic Plebiscite Commemoration (Jura, Switzerland)
Let It Go Day
Low Pressure Headache Awareness Day
Luxembourgish National Day
Mule Day (French Republic)
National Belly Button Day
National Columnists Day
National Day (Egypt)
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
National Family Owned and Operated Businesses Day
National Hydration Day
National Pink Day
National Soil Health Day
National Tantra Education Day
Okinawa Memorial Day
Pink Flamingo Day
Poop Out Early Day
Public Service Day (UN)
Runner’s Selfie Day
Sankt Hans Aften (Denmark, Estonia, Norway)
SAT Math Day
Sonic the Hedgehog Day
SOS Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day
Tiki Tiki Tiki Day
Time to Let Go
Triumph Over Adversity Day
Typewriter Day
Voidupuha (or Jaaniõhtu; a.k.a. Victory Day, Estonia)
World Female Ranger Day
World Handball Day
World Olympic Day
World Whistleblower Day
XLH Awareness Day
Zamboni Day
Ziua Suveranităţii (Statehood Day; Moldova)
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Rum Day
National Detroit-Style Pizza Day
National Pecan Sandies Day
National Porridge Day
4th Friday in June
ARRL Field Day begins (American Radio Relay League) [4th Friday & Saturday]
International Rosé Day (France) [4th Friday]
National Parma Violefs Day (UK) [4th Friday]
Take Your Dog To Work Day [Friday after 3rd Sunday]
Independence Days
Jura Canton Independence Day (Switzerland)
Skhodnya (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Statehood Day (Ziua Suveranităţii); Moldova)
Feast Days
Æthelthryth (a.k.a. Ethelreda or Audry) of Ely (Christian; Saint)
Agrippina (Christian; Saint)
Ancient Druidic Midsummer Baal
Anubis Ceremony (Ancient Egypt)
Baldur’s Day (Pagan)
Bob Marley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Don John of Austria (Positivist; Saint)
Frank Bolle (Artology)
Jorė (Ancient Latvian Festival to Thundergod Perkūnas)
Joseph Cafasso (Christian; Saint)
Juan Toucan (Muppetism)
Kupala (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Marie (a.k.a. Mary) of Oignies (Christian; Saint)
Parrot Pondering Day (Pastafarian)
Rousalii (Celebrating the Romanian Goddesses)
St. John's Eve [and 1st Day of Midsummer celebrations] (a.k.a. ...
Bonfires St. John's (Spain)
Drăgaica Fair ends (Buzău, Romania)
Festa de São João do Porto begins (Porto)
Golowan Festival begins (Cornwall, UK)
Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
Jāņi (Latvia)
Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
Līgo (Latvia)
Midsummer Eve (Denmark, Finland, Sweden)
Noc Świętojańska (Poland)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Premieres
Alice Gets Stage Struck (Disney Cartoon; 1925)
Batman (Film; 1989)
The Bear (TV Series; 2022)
Beaucoups of Blues, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1970)
Buddy’s Bearcats (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)
The Big Sick (Film; 2017)
Carolina, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2022)
Chain of Fools, recorded by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)
Chicken Run (Animated Aardman Film; 2000)
Click (Film; 2006)
Coming Home, by Leon Bridges (Album; 2015)
Copacabana (UK Musical Play; 1994)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia, by Charlie Daniels (Song; 1979)
Dope, by BTS (Song; 2015)
Emotional Rescue, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1980)
The Enchanted Tiki Room (Disneyland Attraction; 1963)
GLOW (TV Series; 2017)
The Happiest Millionaire (Film; 1967
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Film; 1989)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, by John Bellairs (Mystery Novel; 1973)
Kelly’s Heroes (Film; 1970)
Knight and Day (Film; 2010)
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1971)
Murder by Death (Film; 1976)
My Sharona, by The Knack (Song;1978)
No Hard Feelings (Film; 2023)
Octopussy and the Living Daylights, by Ian Fleming (Short Story Collection; 1959) [James Bond #14]
Old (Film; 2021)
Pocahontas (Animated Disney Film; 1995)
Red Octopus, by Jefferson Starship (Album; 1975)
A Shot in the Dark (Film; 1964)
Suits (TV Series; 2011)
Sweet Caroline, by Neil Diamond (Song; 1969)
The Tracks of My Tears, by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Song; 1965)
Tugboat Granny (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)
Tummy Trouble (Roger Rabbit Cartoon; 1989)
Von Ryan’s Express (Film; 1965)
Wilfred (TV Series; 2011)
Today’s Name Days
Edeltraud, Marion, Ortrud (Austria)
Josip, Marija (Croatia)
Zdeňka (Czech Republic)
Paulinus (Denmark)
Kalev, Malev, Malvo (Estonia)
Aadolf, Aatto, Aatu (Finland)
Audrey (France)
Edeltraud, Marion, Ortrud (Germany)
Agrippina, Aristoklis, Loulou (Greece)
Zoltán (Hungary)
Alice, Agrippina, Lanfranco (Italy)
Līga, Ligita, Ligonis (Latvia)
Arvydas, Vaida, Vanda, Zenonas (Lithuania)
Eldrid, Elfrid (Norway)
Agrypina, Albin, Bazyli, Józef, Piotr, Prosper, Wanda, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)
Agripina (România)
Alexandra, Antonina (Russia)
Sidónia (Slovakia)
José, Zenón (Spain)
Adolf, Alice (Sweden)
Audra, Audrey, Dashawn, Deshawn, Elton, Ethel, Josiah, Josias, Shaina, Shania, Shaun, Shauna, Shawn, Shawna, Shayna, Shayne, Shonda (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 174 of 2024; 191 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 25 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 6 (Ren-Zi)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 4 Tammuz 5783
Islamic: 4 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444
J Cal: 24 Sol; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 10 June 2023
Moon: 26%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 6 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Don John of Austria]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 3 of 94)
Zodiac: Cancer (Day 3 of 31)
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Holidays 6.23
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Alan Turing Day
Asian Corpsetwt Day [Every 23rd]
Bexit Referendum Day (UK)
Cadets Day (UK)
Coast Guard Auxiliary Day (US)
Cosmic Patience Day
Dancing Day (Elder Scrolls)
Dandruff Dance Day
Dzień Ojca (Father's Day; Poland)
Father’s Day (Nicaragua)
Festival of the Purple Void
Grand Duke's Birthday (Luxembourg)
Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)
HHT Global Awareness Day
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
International Dravet Syndrome Awareness Day
International Olympic Day
International Widows Day (UN)
International Women in Engineering Day
Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)
Jurassic Plebiscite Commemoration (Jura, Switzerland)
Let It Go Day
Low Pressure Headache Awareness Day
Luxembourgish National Day
Mule Day (French Republic)
National Belly Button Day
National Columnists Day
National Day (Egypt)
National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
National Family Owned and Operated Businesses Day
National Hydration Day
National Pink Day
National Soil Health Day
National Tantra Education Day
Okinawa Memorial Day
Pink Flamingo Day
Poop Out Early Day
Public Service Day (UN)
Runner’s Selfie Day
Sankt Hans Aften (Denmark, Estonia, Norway)
SAT Math Day
Sonic the Hedgehog Day
SOS Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day
Tiki Tiki Tiki Day
Time to Let Go
Triumph Over Adversity Day
Typewriter Day
Voidupuha (or Jaaniõhtu; a.k.a. Victory Day, Estonia)
World Female Ranger Day
World Handball Day
World Olympic Day
World Whistleblower Day
XLH Awareness Day
Zamboni Day
Ziua Suveranităţii (Statehood Day; Moldova)
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Rum Day
National Detroit-Style Pizza Day
National Pecan Sandies Day
National Porridge Day
4th Friday in June
ARRL Field Day begins (American Radio Relay League) [4th Friday & Saturday]
International Rosé Day (France) [4th Friday]
National Parma Violefs Day (UK) [4th Friday]
Take Your Dog To Work Day [Friday after 3rd Sunday]
Independence Days
Jura Canton Independence Day (Switzerland)
Skhodnya (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]
Statehood Day (Ziua Suveranităţii); Moldova)
Feast Days
Æthelthryth (a.k.a. Ethelreda or Audry) of Ely (Christian; Saint)
Agrippina (Christian; Saint)
Ancient Druidic Midsummer Baal
Anubis Ceremony (Ancient Egypt)
Baldur’s Day (Pagan)
Bob Marley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Don John of Austria (Positivist; Saint)
Frank Bolle (Artology)
Jorė (Ancient Latvian Festival to Thundergod Perkūnas)
Joseph Cafasso (Christian; Saint)
Juan Toucan (Muppetism)
Kupala (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Marie (a.k.a. Mary) of Oignies (Christian; Saint)
Parrot Pondering Day (Pastafarian)
Rousalii (Celebrating the Romanian Goddesses)
St. John's Eve [and 1st Day of Midsummer celebrations] (a.k.a. ...
Bonfires St. John's (Spain)
Drăgaica Fair ends (Buzău, Romania)
Festa de São João do Porto begins (Porto)
Golowan Festival begins (Cornwall, UK)
Jaaniõhtu (Estonia)
Jāņi (Latvia)
Kupala Night (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
Līgo (Latvia)
Midsummer Eve (Denmark, Finland, Sweden)
Noc Świętojańska (Poland)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Premieres
Alice Gets Stage Struck (Disney Cartoon; 1925)
Batman (Film; 1989)
The Bear (TV Series; 2022)
Beaucoups of Blues, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1970)
Buddy’s Bearcats (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)
The Big Sick (Film; 2017)
Carolina, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2022)
Chain of Fools, recorded by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)
Chicken Run (Animated Aardman Film; 2000)
Click (Film; 2006)
Coming Home, by Leon Bridges (Album; 2015)
Copacabana (UK Musical Play; 1994)
The Devil Went Down to Georgia, by Charlie Daniels (Song; 1979)
Dope, by BTS (Song; 2015)
Emotional Rescue, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1980)
The Enchanted Tiki Room (Disneyland Attraction; 1963)
GLOW (TV Series; 2017)
The Happiest Millionaire (Film; 1967
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Film; 1989)
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, by John Bellairs (Mystery Novel; 1973)
Kelly’s Heroes (Film; 1970)
Knight and Day (Film; 2010)
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1971)
Murder by Death (Film; 1976)
My Sharona, by The Knack (Song;1978)
No Hard Feelings (Film; 2023)
Octopussy and the Living Daylights, by Ian Fleming (Short Story Collection; 1959) [James Bond #14]
Old (Film; 2021)
Pocahontas (Animated Disney Film; 1995)
Red Octopus, by Jefferson Starship (Album; 1975)
A Shot in the Dark (Film; 1964)
Suits (TV Series; 2011)
Sweet Caroline, by Neil Diamond (Song; 1969)
The Tracks of My Tears, by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Song; 1965)
Tugboat Granny (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)
Tummy Trouble (Roger Rabbit Cartoon; 1989)
Von Ryan’s Express (Film; 1965)
Wilfred (TV Series; 2011)
Today’s Name Days
Edeltraud, Marion, Ortrud (Austria)
Josip, Marija (Croatia)
Zdeňka (Czech Republic)
Paulinus (Denmark)
Kalev, Malev, Malvo (Estonia)
Aadolf, Aatto, Aatu (Finland)
Audrey (France)
Edeltraud, Marion, Ortrud (Germany)
Agrippina, Aristoklis, Loulou (Greece)
Zoltán (Hungary)
Alice, Agrippina, Lanfranco (Italy)
Līga, Ligita, Ligonis (Latvia)
Arvydas, Vaida, Vanda, Zenonas (Lithuania)
Eldrid, Elfrid (Norway)
Agrypina, Albin, Bazyli, Józef, Piotr, Prosper, Wanda, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)
Agripina (România)
Alexandra, Antonina (Russia)
Sidónia (Slovakia)
José, Zenón (Spain)
Adolf, Alice (Sweden)
Audra, Audrey, Dashawn, Deshawn, Elton, Ethel, Josiah, Josias, Shaina, Shania, Shaun, Shauna, Shawn, Shawna, Shayna, Shayne, Shonda (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 174 of 2024; 191 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 25 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 12 of 28]
Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 6 (Ren-Zi)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 4 Tammuz 5783
Islamic: 4 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444
J Cal: 24 Sol; Threesday [24 of 30]
Julian: 10 June 2023
Moon: 26%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 6 Charlemagne (7th Month) [Don John of Austria]
Runic Half Month: Dag (Day) [Day 14 of 15]
Season: Summer (Day 3 of 94)
Zodiac: Cancer (Day 3 of 31)
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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR June 23
St. Thomas Garnet, 1608 A.D. English Jesuit martyr. A nephew of the Jesuit Henry Garnet, he was born in Southwark, England, and studied for the priesthood at St. Omer, France, and Valladolid, Spain. Initially ordained as a secular priest, he joined the Jesuits in 1604 and worked to advance the Catholic cause in Warwick until his arrest in 1606. He was exiled after months of torture but returned in 1607 and was soon arrested. He was hanged at Tyburn. Beatified in 1929, he was canonized in 1970 and is included among the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
St. Agrippina, Roman Catholic Martyr. Martyr, whose shrine is venerated as a site of miracles. Agrippina is believed to have come from a good Roman family. She was caught up in the persecutions instituted by Emperor Valerian or Diocletian and was beheaded or scourged. Her body was taken to Mineo, Sicily, by three devout Christian women. The gravesite became a popular pilgrimage destination, noted for miracles through Agrippina's intercession. Feastday: June 23
ST. JOSEPH CAFASSO, PRIEST OF TURIN-Pope Benedict XVI described St Joseph Cafasso as a “formation teacher of parish and diocesan priests, indeed of holy priests such as St John Bosco.” Other priests of his time founded religious institutes; St Joseph Cafasso’s “foundation” instead was a “school of priestly life and holiness.”June 23
Saint Ethelreda (Audrey), 679 A.D. Around 640, there was an English princess named Ethelreda, but she was known as Audrey. She married once, but was widowed after three years, and it was said that the marriage was never consummated. She had taken a perpetual vow of virginity, but married again, this time for reasons of state. Her young husband soon grew tired of living as brother and sister and began to make advances on her. She continually refused. He eventually attempted to bribe the local bishop, Saint Wilfrid of York, to release Audrey from her vows.
Saint Wilfrid refused, and helped Audrey escape. She fled south, with her husband following. They reached a promontory known as Colbert's Head, where a heaven sent seven day high tide separated the two. Eventually, Audrey's husband left and married someone more willing, while Audrey took the veil, and founded the great abbey of Ely, where she lived an austere life. She eventually died of an enormous and unsightly tumor on her neck, which she gratefully accepted as Divine retribution for all the necklaces she had worn in her early years. Throughout the Middle Ages, a festival, "St. Audrey's Fair", was held at Ely on her feast day. The exceptional shodiness of the merchandise, especially the neckerchiefs, contributed to the English language the word "tawdry", a corruption of "Saint Audrey."
St. Moelray, 493 A.D. Abbot of Nendrum Monastery, installed by St. Patrick. A native of Ireland, Moelray, also called Moeliai, instructed Sts. Finian and Colman.
St. Peter of Juilly, 1136 A.D. Benedictine monk and preacher. Originally from England, he became a friend of St. Stephen Harding and was his companion at Molesme. Later, he was named confessor and chaplain to the nuns of Juilly les Nonnais who were under the care of St. Humbeline, sister of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Peter also possessed a reputation for being a brilliant preacher and a miracle worker.
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“We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.”
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Heaven is filled with converted sinners of all kinds, and there is room for more.
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We were born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.
—St. Joseph Cafasso
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Cast a look round the world, just observe the manner of living, of speaking, and you will see immediately whether the evil of sin is known in the world or whether any attention is paid to it. Not to speak of those who live decidedly irreligious and wicked lives, how few are those who pass for good and who approach the sacraments are aware of the great evil that sin is, and the great ruin it brings with it. It must necessarily happen that, on account of this certainly culpable ignorance in which most men live, an enormous number will come to be damned, because no sin is pardoned which is not detested, and it is impossible to detest sin properly if it is not known as such.
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We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more..
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“A single word from him –a look, a smile, his very presence –sufficed to dispel melancholy,drive away temptationand produce holy resolution in the soul.”
St John Bosco, writing about St Joseph
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Happy Feast Day
Saint Joseph Cafasso
Jan 15, 1811 - Jun 23, 1860
Feast Day: June 23
Patronage: Prison Chaplains, Italian prisons, prisoners, captives
Saint Joseph Cafasso was an Italian peasant that had a spinal disability but that didn’t hold him back from becoming a priest and moral theology professor to seminarians. He actively opposed Jansenism and state intrusions into church affairs. He became the Rector of The Insitute of St. Francis, forming and educating his students, one being St. John Bosco. He’s called the “Priest of the Gallows” and a “Social Saint” for his work with prisoners and the poor.
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St. Joseph Cafasso - Information on the Saint of the Day - Vatican News
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Saint John Bosco, Confessor - January 31, 2021
Saint John Bosco, considered one of the greatest saints of modern times, was born in a Piedmontese village in 1815. When he was 2 years old he lost his father, a humble peasant farmer, and he was brought up by his saintly Tertiary mother, Margaret. It was no doubt due to her example and influence that John too joined the Third Order of St. Francis.
John’s early years were spent as a shepherd and he received his first instruction at the hands of the parish priest. He possessed a ready wit, a retentive memory, and as years passed his appetite for study grew stronger. Owing to the poverty of the home, however, he was often obliged to turn from his books to the field, but the desire of what he had to give up never left him. In 1835 he entered the seminary at Chieri and after six years of study was ordained priest on the eve of Trinity Sunday by Archbishop Franzoni of Turin.
Not long after his ordination to the priesthood in June, 1841, he established what he called a Festive Oratory, a kind of Sunday school and recreation center for boys, in Turin. His mother came to be his housekeeper and mother of the Oratory. Two more Oratories in the same city followed. When Father John Bosco’s mother did in 1856, the Oratories housed 150 resident boys; and there were four Latin classes and four workshops, one of them a printing press. Ten young priests assisted Father John in his work. Father John was also much in demand as a preacher; and he spent half of his nights in writing popular books in order to provide good reading.
On the eighth of December, 1841, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, while Don Bosco was vesting for Mass, the sacristan drove from the Church a ragged urchin because he refused to serve Mass. Don Bosco heard his cries and recalled him, and in the friendship which sprang up between the priest and Bartolomeo Garelli was sown the first seed of the “Oratory”, so called, no doubt, after the example of St. Philip Neri and because prayer was its prominent feature.
Don Bosco entered eagerly upon the task of instructing this first pupil of the streets; companions soon joined Bartolomeo, all drawn by a kindness they had never known, and in February, 1842, the Oratory numbered twenty boys, in March of the same year, thirty, and in March, 1846, four hundred.
As the number of boys increased, the question of a suitable meeting-place presented itself. In good weather walks were taken on Sundays and Holy Days to spots in the country about Turin where lunch was eaten, and realizing the charm which music held for the untamed spirits of his disciples Don Bosco organized a band for which some old brass instruments were procured. In the autumn of 1844 he was appointed assistant chaplain to the Rifugio, where Don Borel entered enthusiastically into his work. With the approval of Archbishop Franzoni, two rooms were secured adjoining the Rifugio and converted into a chapel, which was dedicated to St. Francis de Sales. The members of the Oratory now gathered at the Rifugio, and numbers of boys from the surrounding district applied for admission. It was about this time (1845) that Don Bosco began his night schools and with the closing of the factories the boys flocked to his rooms where he and Don Borel instructed them in rudimentary branches.
St John Bosco’s confessor and spiritual director was the Tertiary priest Saint Joseph Cafasso; and Father John too gained the reputation of being a saint. Miracles, mostly of healing, were attributed to him. By his kindness and sympathy and his marvelous power of reading the thoughts of his boys, he exercised a profound influence upon his charges. He was able to rule them with apparent indulgence and absence of punishment, something the educationists of the day could not understand. When necessary, he was known to bilocate even to distant places to help care for his boys.
In 1854 St John Bosco founded the religious order of Salesians, so called in honor of St Francis de Sales. Its members devote themselves to the education of poor boys. The new society grew rapidly. Father John lived to see 38 houses established in the Old World and 26 in the New World. Today it is one of the largest orders of men in the Church.
Don Bosco’s method of study knew nothing of punishment. Observance of rules was obtained by instilling a trueduty, by removing assiduously all occasions for disobedience, and by allowing no effort towards virtue, how trivial soever it might be, to pass unappreciated. He held that the teacher should be father, adviser, and friend, and he was the first to adopt the preventive method. Of punishment he said: “As far as possible avoid punishing . . . . try to gain love before inspiring fear.” And in 1887 he wrote: “I do not remember to have used formal punishment; and with God’s grace I have always obtained, and from apparently hopeless children, not alone what duty exacted, but what my wish simply expressed.”
In one of his books he has discussed the causes of weakness of character, and derives them largely from a misdirected kindness in the rearing of children. Parents have only succeeded in producing an affectionate, perfected, intelligent animal. The chief object should be to form the will and to temper the character. In all his pupils Don Bosco tried to cultivate a taste for music, believing it to be a powerful and refining influence. “Instruction”, he said, “is but an accessory, like a game; knowledge never makes a man because it does not directly touch the heart. It gives more power in the exercise of good or evil; but alone it is an indifferent weapon, wanting guidance.”
He always studied, too, the aptitudes and vocations of his pupils, and to an almost supernatural quickness and clearness of insight into the hearts of children must be ascribed to no small part of his success. In his rules he wrote: “Frequent Confession, frequent Communion, daily Mass: these are the pillars which should sustain the whole edifice of education.” Don Bosco was an indefatigable confessor, devoting days to the work among his children. He recognized that gentleness and persuasion alone were not enough to bring to the task of education. He thoroughly believed in play as a means of arousing childish curiosity—–more than this, he places it among his first recommendations, and for the rest he adopted St. Philip Neri’s words: “Do as you wish, I do not care so long as you do not sin.”
The holy priest, who was everywhere acclaimed as a saint and wonder worker, gathered funds for the church in Italy and France; and somehow he succeeded where others had failed. But in doing so he wore himself out.
On January 31, 1888, he was called to his reward. Forty thousand persons came to pay their respects as his body lay in state in the church at Turin; and his funeral resembled a triumphal procession.
St. John Bosco was canonized in 1934.
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765PRO Idols and its Saints
I have so much time to end this month because tomorrow in my home country, it’s September. Which means that some Christmas songs will play in malls. Oh, and I manage to pull it out through so here are the girls from 765PRO!
1/21 - Takane Shijou
St. Agnes: Virgin and martyr and is one of seven women who, along with the Blessed Virgin, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is depicted in art with a lamb, evoking her name which resembles the Latin word for 'lamb', agnus, an is shown holding a palm, symbolzing her martyrdom. Although that she is the patron saint of girls and chastity, she had two major shrines in Rome - the Sant'Agnese fuori le mura (Saint Agnes Outside the Walls) and Sant'Agnese in Agone. It is customary on her feast day for two lambs to be brought from the Trappist abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome to the Sant'Agnese in Agone church to be blessed by the Pope. And on Holy Thursday, they are shorn, and from the wool is woven the pallium which the pope gives to a newly consecrated metropolitan archbishop as a sign of his jurisdiction and his union with the pope.
2/25 - Chihaya Kisaragi
St. Donatus of Zadar: Also known as 'Donato of Zara', he is a Dalmatian saint who became a bishop and a diplomat for the Dalmatian city-state of Zadar (Zara). He is mentioned in Frankish annals from 805 as an ambassador of the Dalmatian cities to Charlemagne in Thionville and is credited for initiating either construction or expansion of the Church of the Holy Trinity.
3/25 - Yayoi Takatsuki
St. Dismas the Repentant Thief: In the Holy Bible's New Testament, he is one of two unnamed thieves in the Gospel of Luke. He describes him asking Jesus to 'remember him' when Jesus will have 'come into' his kingdom (Lk 23:39-43). Officially venerated by the Catholic Church, he is the patron saint of prisoners (especially the condemned) and San Dimas, Mexico.
4/3 - Haruka Amami
St. Luigi Scrosoppi: Italian priest from the Oratorians and is known as the founder of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Cajetan of Thiene. Luigi gave himself tirelessly to fundraising, and was soon running an organisation which accommodated 100 boarders and 230 day pupils in a building which became known as the House of the Destitute. Canonized as a saint by Pope St. John Paul II in 2001, he was appointed the patron saint of footballers by Bishop Alois Schwarz at a church service in the Austrian parish of Pörtschach on August 22, 2010.
5/5 - Iori Minase
St. Aventinus of Tours: Honored by the Church, he was a hermit and a close friend of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Living the life as a hermit in Tours before being ordained a deacon and subsequently accompanied him to the Synod of Tours in 1163. He settled in Touraine after the archbishop’s martyrdom in 1170, where he remained and spend his final years until his death.
5/22 - The Futami Twins (Ami and Mami)
St. Rita of Cascia: Italian widow and nun from the Augustinian order and is famously known for her monicker, 'The Saint of the Impossible'. Various miracles are attributed to her intercession, and she is often portrayed with a bleeding wound on her forehead, which is understood to indicate a partial stigmata. In May 1900, Pope Leo XIII canonized her as a saint and she was bestowed the title of Patroness of Impossible Causes, while in many Catholic countries, Rita came to be known as the patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women. Her incorrupt body remains in the Basilica of Santa Rita da Cascia.
6/23 - Ritsuko Akizuki
St. Joseph Cafasso: Italian priest who was a significant social reformer and was one of the so-called 'Social Saints' who emerged during that particular era. Joseph is known as the 'Priest of the Gallows' due to his extensive work with those prisoners who were condemned to death. His major shrine can be found at Santuario della Consolata in Turin, and is canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XII in June 1947.
7/19 - Azusa Miura
St. Arsenius of Corfu: Also known as 'Arsenius of Kerkyra', he is one of the principal patron saints of Corfu alongside Spyridon, Born in Constantinople to the Jewish faith, he became a Christian and is Corfu's first bishop.
8/29 - Makoto Kikuchi
The Passion of St. John the Baptist: Known as ’The Beheading of the Forerunner’ and ’Decollation of Saint John the Baptist’, is a event in the Bible and it’s a holy day that is observed by Christian churches. According to the Gospel of Mark (6:14-27), it commemorates the martyrdom by beheading John on the orders of Herod Antipas through the vengeful request of his step-daughter Salome and her mother Herodias on the king’s birthday.
10/10 - Hibiki Ganaha
St. Cerbonius: Populonian bishop who lived in the time of the Barbarian invasion. Gregory the Great praises him in Book XI of his Dialogues. Another tradition states that Cerbonius was a native of North Africa who was the son of Christian parents. Ordained a priest by Regulus, though not the same one as in the Scottish Legend. One of the saint's attributes was a bear licking his feet, because during Totila's invasion of Tuscany, he was ordered to be killed by a wild bear, the bear remained petrified before him. It stood on two legs and opened its jaws wide. Then, it fell back on its paws and licked the feet of the saint.
11/23 - Miki Hoshii
Pope St. Clement I: 4th successor of St. Peter and is along with Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of Smyrna, he is one of the Apostolic Fathers. Clement was imprisoned under Emperor Trajan according to tradition and is executed by being tied to an anchor and thrown in the sea. He is recognized as a saint in many Christian churches and is considered a patron saint of mariners and stone-cutters.
12/24 - Yukiho Hagiwara
Christmas Eve: The day before Christmas. It is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day. Together, both days are considered one of the most culturally significant celebrations in Christendom and Western society. The idea of Jesus being born at night is reflected in the fact that Christmas Eve is referred to as Heilige Nacht (Holy Night) in German, Nochebuena (the Good Night) in Spanish and similarly in other expressions of Christmas spirituality, such as the song ’Silent Night, Holy Night’.
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Sino nga ba si Don Bosco?
Noong unang panahon, mayroong isang batang lalaki na ipinanganak noong Agosto 16, 1815, sa isang lugar na tinatawag na I Becchi, sa Piemonte, isang bahay sa probinsya malapit sa nayon ng Castelnuovo, sa rehiyon ng Asti. Ang Piemonte ay isa pa ring independiyenteng Kaharian at sa panahong iyon ay hindi pa nabuo ng Italya ang Estado ngayon, ang kabisera nito ay Turin.
Ang kaniyang pangalan ay si San Giovanni Melchior Bosco. Noong siya ay siyam na taong gulang siya ay nagkaroon ng isang panaginip na nakaapekto sa kanya sa natitirang bahagi ng kanyang buhay. Sa panaginip ay nakita niya ang kanyang sarili sa isang bukid, malapit sa kanyang bahay, at may ilang mga bata na naglalaro at nagsasaya. Ngunit kabilang sa kanila ay may ilang nag-iinsulto at nag-aaway sa isa't isa. Lumapit si John sa kanila at sinubukang kontrolin ang sitwasyon, at nagsimulang sumigaw at parusahan ang mga maling pag-uugali. Biglang nagpakita si Hesus sa anyo ng isang magandang lalaki at sinabi sa kanya:
"Hindi sa pamamagitan ng pagpaparusa, sa pamamagitan lamang ng pagmamahal at pagtitiyaga - iyon ang gagawing sa iyo at sila ay magiging iyong mga kaibigan. Pagkatapos ay maturuan mo sila kung paano makatakas sa kasalanan at kung paano kumilos nang may kabanalan.”
Si Bosco ay inorden bilang pari (1841) sa Turin at, naimpluwensyahan ni St. Joseph Cafasso, nagsimulang magtrabaho upang maibsan ang kalagayan ng mga batang lalaki na dumating upang maghanap ng trabaho sa lungsod. Nagtatrabaho sa hiniram na lugar, binigyan ng Bosco ang mga lalaki ng edukasyon, pagtuturo sa relihiyon, at libangan; kalaunan ay pinamunuan niya ang isang malaking establisyimento na naglalaman ng isang paaralan ng gramatika, isang teknikal na paaralan, at isang simbahan, lahat ay binuo sa pamamagitan ng kanyang mga pagsisikap. Nakamit din niya ang isang lokal na reputasyon bilang isang tanyag na mangangaral. Sa Turin siya at ang 22 kasama ay nagtatag ng Kapisanan ng St. Francis de Sales (kilala rin bilang mga Salesian ng Don Bosco) noong 1859, at bago siya mamatay ay kumalat ito sa England, France, Spain, at South America. Kasama ni St. Mary Mazzarello itinatag niya ang Daughters of Our Lady Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco) noong 1872, isang kongregasyon ng mga madre na nakatuon sa katulad na gawain sa mga batang babae.
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