From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   July 15th - Bl. Anne Marie Javouhey   
   (also known as Nanette)   
      
   Born at Jallanges, Burgundy, France, on November 10, 1779; died Paris,   
   France,   
   July 15, 1851; beatified in 1950. Anne Marie was the fifth of ten children   
   of a   
   wealthy farmer, Balthazar Javouhey, and his wife, Claudine. She grew up   
   during   
   the terror of the French Revolution. She received her First Communion about   
   a   
   week before the Constituent Assembly in Paris that moved to confiscate all   
   Church property and required that clergy swear an oath of allegiance to the   
   secular state. Practicing priests who refused to take the oath were   
   considered   
   to be criminals; those who took it, including four of 135 bishops and about   
   half   
   the priests, were excommunicated. Throughout her teen years she became   
   accustomed to hiding and caring for persecuted priests. She would keep watch   
   as   
   they said Mass.   
      
   At an early age, she decided that she wanted to devote her life to the poor   
   and   
   the education of children. When the persecution had ended, she took the   
   veil. At   
   a convent in Besançon in 1800, she had a vision of Negro children, which was   
   to   
   influence her later life. After failing to adjust to life in several   
   convents,   
   she and eight companions founded the Institute of Saint Joseph of Cluny at   
   Cabillon in 1805.   
      
   They were clothed by the bishop of Autun in 1807. Seven years later (1812),   
   they   
   purchased a friary and moved the congregation to Cluny. The Sisters of Saint   
   Joseph gained renown for their successful teaching methods. Fired with   
   apostolic   
   zeal, she sent her nuns to work in far distant regions. She heroically   
   labored   
   for several years (1828-1832) in French Guyana. In 1834, she was again sent   
   their, this time by the French government to educate 600 Guyanan slaves who   
   were   
   to be emancipated. She finally left French Guyana in 1843 and spent her   
   remaining years establishing new house in Tahiti, Madagascar, and elsewhere   
   (Benedictines, Delaney).   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks   
   about reforming himself.   
   -St. Peter of Alcantara   
      
   Bible Quote   
   But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach a gospel to you besides that   
   which we have preached to you, let him be anathema.  As we said before, so   
   now I   
   say again: If any one preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have   
   received, let him be anathema. (Galatians 1:8-9)   
      
      
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   Prayer for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit   
      
   Holy Spirit, divine Consoler, I adore You as my true God, with God the   
   Father and God the Son.  I adore You and unite myself to the adoration You   
   receive from the angels and saints.   
   I give You my heart and I offer my ardent thanksgiving for all the grace   
   which You never cease to bestow on me.   
      
   O Giver of all supernatural gifts, who filled the soul of the Blessed Virgin   
   Mary, Mother of God, with such immense favors, I beg You to visit me with   
   Your grace and Your love and to grant me the gift of holy fear, so that it   
   may act on me as a check to prevent me from falling back into my past sins,   
   for which I beg pardon.   
      
   Grant me the gift of piety, so that I may serve You for the future with   
   increased fervor, follow with more promptness Your holy inspirations, and   
   observe your divine precepts with greater fidelity.   
      
   Grant me the gift of knowledge, so that I may know the things of God and,   
   enlightened by Your holy teaching, may walk, without deviation, in the path   
   of eternal salvation.   
      
   Grant me the gift of fortitude, so that I may overcome courageously all the   
   assaults of the devil, and all the dangers of this world which threaten the   
   salvation of my soul.   
      
   Grant me the gift of counsel, so that I may choose what is more conducive to   
   my spiritual advancement and may discover the wiles and snares of the   
   tempter.   
      
   Grant me the gift of understanding, so that I may apprehend the divine   
   mysteries and by contemplation of heavenly things detach my thoughts and   
   affections from the vain things of this miserable world.   
      
   Grant me the gift of wisdom, so that I may rightly direct all my actions,   
   referring them to God as my last end; so that, having loved Him and served   
   Him in this life, I may have the happiness of possessing Him eternally in   
   the next. Amen.   
   -St. Alphonsus Liguori   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)