The saints who live among us | SouthCoastToday.com.

August 14, 2010 12:00 AM

NEW BEDFORD — Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton wrote, “Oh my God! You see what a barren and desolate place this world is —- send us saints!”

The answer to his prayers, our city is blessed by the good works of saints.

Walk along our streets, and you’ll see Mother Teresa’s nuns in their white and striped-blue habits, ministering in our neighborhoods.

Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta sent her order, the Missionaries of Charity, to New Bedford, and on June 14, 1995, she visited the city, worshipped at the Church of St. Lawrence Martyr and touched the lives of countless SouthCoast residents.

Dressed in simple gray robes with sandaled feet, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate reach out to this city’s homeless and forgotten, and offer spiritual guidance to a constant stream of strangers who wander through the doors of Our Lady’s Chapel in downtown New Bedford. More …

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Fr Josemaria gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Aug 21, 2020, the memorial of St. Pius X, on how this saint gave a great pastoral example that is so apt for our times where he renewed belief in the Eucharist by renewing our appreciation of the priesthood and visa verse. As St. Mother Teresa put it: Priests give us Jesus. No priests, no Eucharist.

Ave Maria!

Mass: St. Pius X
Readings: Friday in the 20th Week in Ordinary Time – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/082120.cfm
1st: eze 37:1-14
Resp: psa 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Gsp: mat 22:34-40

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