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   "Who but God alone can forgive sins?"   
      
   «Child, your sins are forgiven.» By these words Christ wished to be   
   acknowledged as God even while concealing himself from people's eyes   
   in the appearance of a man. He was likened to the prophets because of   
   his demonstrations of power and his miracles, and yet it was due to   
   him and to his own power that they, too, had worked their miracles. To   
   bestow forgiveness for sins is not in human power; it is the sign that   
   distinguishes God. So it was in this way that Jesus began to reveal   
   his divinity in human hearts--and this made the Pharisees mad with   
   rage. They replied: «This man is blaspheming! Who but God alone can   
   forgive sins?»   
   Oh you Pharisee! You think yourself knowledgeable but you are only an   
   ignoramus! You think you are honoring God but you fail to recognise   
   him! You think you are bearing witness but you are bearing the blows!   
   If God is truly he who forgives sins, why do you not admit to Christ's   
   divinity? Since he is able to bestow forgiveness on a single sin   
   therefore it is he who wipes out the sins of the whole world: «See the   
   Lamb of God! This is he who takes away the sin of the world» (Jn   
   1,29). Listen to him so that you may be able to grasp his divinity,   
   for he has entered into the depths of your being. Behold him: he has   
   reached to the deep places of your thoughts. Understand the one who   
   exposes the secret intentions of your heart.   
   --Saint Peter Chrysologus, Doctor of the Church Sermon 50 ; PL 52, 339   
      
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   July 18th - St. Theneva of Glasgow   
   (also known as Dwynwen, Thaney, Thenaw, Thenog, Thenova)   
      
   7th century.   
      
    Saint Theneva was a British princess, daughter of a   
   British prince, Lothus (from whom the province of Lothian was called).   
   When it was discovered that she had conceived out of wedlock, she was   
   thrown from a cliff. Unharmed at the bottom, she was then set adrift   
   in a boat on the Firth of Forth. It was expected that she would die at   
   sea, but God had other plans for the young woman.   
      
   She landed at Culross, where she was sheltered by Saint Serf and gave   
   birth to Saint Kentigern, named Mongo ("darling") by his   
   foster-father, Serf. Kentigerm remained with Saint Serf until he   
   reached manhood.   
      
   Saint Theneva gave her name to Saint Enoch's Square and Railway   
   Station in Glasgow, Scotland, where she is co-patron together with   
   her son (Benedictines, Delaney).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Our actions have a tongue of their own; they have an eloquence of   
   their own, even when the tongue is silent. For deeds prove the lover   
   more than words.   
   --Saint Cyril of Jerusalem   
      
   Bible Quote   
   50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig   
   tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these.” 51 And   
   he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven   
   opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of   
   man.”  (John 1: 50-51)  RSVCE   
      
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   Oratio ad Sanctum Ioseph Ante Missam (Prayer to St. Joseph before Mass)   
      
   O Blessed Joseph, happy man, to whom it was given not only to see and to   
   hear that God Whom many kings longed to see, and saw not, to hear, and   
   heard not; but also to carry Him in your arms, to embrace Him, to clothe   
   Him, and guard and defend Him.   
      
   V. Pray for us, O Blessed Joseph.   
   R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.   
      
     O God, Who has given us a royal priesthood, we beseech Thee, that as   
   Blessed Joseph was found worthy to touch with his hands, and to bear in his   
   arms, Thine only-begotten Son, born of the Virgin Mary, so may we be made   
   fit, by cleanness of heart and blamelessness of life, to minister at Thy   
   holy altar; may we, this day, with reverent devotion partake of the Sacred   
   Body and Blood of Thine Only-begotten Son, and may we in the world to come   
   be accounted worthy of receiving an everlasting reward. Through the same   
   Christ our Lord. Amen.   
      
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