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   September 21st - Sts. Chastan & Imbert   
      
     A native of Aix-en-Provence, France, Laurence Imbert joined the Paris   
   Foreign   
   Missionary Society and was sent to China in 1825. He worked there as a   
   missionary for twelve years and was named titular bishop of Capsa. In 1837,   
   he   
   was sent to Korea and entered the country secretly, as Christianity was   
   forbidden there. He was successful in his missionary activities, but in 1839   
   a   
   wave of violent persecutions of the Christians swept the country. In the   
   hope of   
   ending the persecution of native Christians, he, Fr. Philibert Maubant, and   
   Fr.   
   James Honore' Chastan, who had preceded him into Korea, surrendered to the   
   authorities. They were bastinadoed and then beheaded at Seoul on September   
   21.   
   During the same persecution, John Ri was bastinadoed and suffered martyrdom,   
   and   
   Agatha Kim was hanged from a cross by her arms and hair, driven over rough   
   country in a cart, and then stripped and beheaded. In 1925, Laurence and his   
   companions and many others, eighty-one in all, who had been executed for   
   their   
   faith, were beatified as the Martyrs of Korea. They were canonized by Pope   
   John   
   Paul II in 1984. Their feast day is September 21.   
      
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    Today is the Feast of St. Matthew the apostle.  He was at first a publican   
   of   
   the toll station of Capharnaum.  Known for their disreputable and extorting   
   behavior, these men were seen as the greatest sinners by the Jews.  Matthew   
   acknowledged the kind condescension of our Lord to himself and others as   
   sinners, and joined our Lord at first command.  Matthew wrote the first in   
   canonical order of the Synoptic Gospels, and preached in Palestine and   
   Ethiopia   
   before being killed while offering Mass in AD 60.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The Christian life is a continuation and completion of the life of Christ in   
   us. We should be so many Christs here on earth, continuing His life and His   
   works, laboring and suffering in a holy and divine manner in the spirit of   
   Jesus.   
   -Saint John Eudes   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the strong. I Cor.   
   1:27   
      
      
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   Prayers Honoring the 7 Times Jesus Spilled His Precious Blood for   
   Us, as Revealed by Our Lady to St. Bridget, and Approved by Pope   
   Clement XII   
      
   Our Lord made these promises to anyone who recited/prayed these   
   Prayers for 12 entire years**:   
      
   1. The soul who prays them will suffer no Purgatory.   
   2. The soul who prays them will be accepted among the Martyrs as   
   though he had spilled his blood for his faith.   
   3. The soul who prays them can choose three others whom Jesus will   
   then keep in a state of grace sufficient to become holy.   
   4. No one in the four successive generations of the soul who prays   
   them will be lost.   
   5. The soul who prays them will be made conscious of his death one   
   month in advance.   
      
   ** If the soul praying these prayers dies before the entire 12 years   
   of prayers have been completed, the Lord will accept them as having   
   been prayed in their entirety, because the intention of the soul was   
   to complete them as directed.   
      
   If a day or a few days are missed due to a valid reason, they can be   
   made up for later, at the soul's earliest opportunity.   
      
      
   The 12 Year Prayers:   
      
   O Jesus, now I wish to pray the Lord's Prayer seven times in unity   
   with the love with which You sanctified this prayer in Your Heart.   
   Take it from my lips into Your Divine Heart. Improve and complete it   
   so much that it brings as much honor and joy to the Trinity as You   
   granted it on earth with this prayer. May these pour upon Your Holy   
   Humanity in Glorification to Your Painful Wounds and the Precious   
   Blood that You spilled from them.   
      
   Pray 1 Our Father, 1 Hail Mary before each prayer   
      
   First Prayer: The Circumcision   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine   
   Heart of Jesus, I offer You the first wounds, the first pains, and   
   the first Bloodshed as atonement for my and all of humanity's sins   
   of youth, as protection against the first mortal sin, especially   
   among my relatives.   
      
   Second Prayer: The Suffering on the Mount of Olives   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine   
   Heart of Jesus, I offer You the terrifying suffering of Jesus' Heart   
   on the Mount of Olives and every drop of His Bloody Sweat as   
   atonement for my and all of humanity's sins of the heart, as   
   protection against such sins and for the spreading of Divine and   
   brotherly Love.   
      
   Third Prayer: The Flogging   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine   
   Heart of Jesus, I offer You the many thousands of Wounds, the   
   gruesome Pains, and the Precious Blood of the Flogging as atonement   
   for my and all of humanity's sins of the Flesh, as protection   
   against such sins and the preservation of innocence, especially   
   among my relatives.   
      
   Fourth Prayer: The Crowning of Thorns   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine   
   Heart of Jesus, I offer You the Wounds, the Pains, and the Precious   
   Blood of Jesus' Holy Head from the Crowning with Thorns as atonement   
   for my and all of humanity's sins of the Spirit, as protection   
   against such sins and the spreading of Christ's kingdom here on   
   earth.   
      
   Fifth Prayer: The Carrying of the Cross   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine   
   Heart of Jesus, I offer You the Sufferings on the way of the Cross,   
   especially His Holy Wound on His Shoulder and its Precious Blood as   
   atonement for my and all of humanity's rebellion against the Cross,   
   every grumbling against Your Holy Arrangements and all other sins of   
   the tongue, as protection against such sins and for true love of the   
   Cross.   
      
   Sixth Prayer: The Crucifixion   
      
   Eternal Father, through Mary's unblemished hands and the Divine   
   Heart of Jesus, I offer You Your Son on the Cross, His Nailing and   
   Raising, His Wounds on the Hands and Feet and the three streams of   
   His Precious Blood that poured forth from these for us, His extreme   
   tortures of the Body and Soul, His precious Death and its non-   
   bleeding Renewal in all Holy Masses on earth as atonement for all   
   wounds against vows and regulations within the Orders, as reparation   
   for my and all of the world's sins, for the sick and the dying, for   
   all holy priests and laymen, for the Holy Father's intentions toward   
   the restoration of Christian families, for the strengthening of   
   Faith, for our country and unity among all nations in Christ and His   
   Church, as well as for the Diaspora.   
      
   Seventh Prayer: The Piercing of Jesus' Side   
      
   Eternal Father, accept as worthy, for the needs of the Holy Church   
   and as atonement for the sins of all Mankind, the Precious Blood and   
   Water which poured forth from the Wound of Jesus' Divine Heart.   
   Be gracious and merciful toward us. Blood of Christ, the last precious   
      
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