St. Titus Brandsma taught us by example that "love means reaching out to someone, even an enemy." This quote from Father John Malley, O.Carm. at the beatification Mass still rings true today.
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St. Titus Brandsma was beatified on this day in 1985; we’ve translated an excerpt from St. John Paul II’s homily on his “inspiring motive and driving force,” the “commandment of love taken to extremes.”
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The Gospel spoke today about the love of enemies, that ability to reach out to those who persecute. Titus had that opportunity and lived it out so well. He had the ability to say, “You must love him, but perhaps not all the time, not all day, not at each moment.”
Reports of favors received can be sent to the Vice-Postulation for the cause of Père Jacques at the address we provide at the bottom of the prayer
Certainly, such heroism cannot be improvised.
I met Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, known in the camp as Edith Stein, in the transit camp at Amersfoort
God is eternal silence; God dwells in silence
Père Jacques of Jesus was the French Carmelite whose bravery during Nazi occupation inspired the film, 'Au Revoir, Les Enfants'
"Oh, that this day we might realize the value God has placed on the suffering He sends: He, the All-Good."
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