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   -- Isaiah 29:15 –   
      
   Woe to you that are deep of heart,   
   to hide your counsel from the Lord:   
   and their works are in the dark, and they say:   
   Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?  [Isaiah 29:15] DRB   
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   How strange that so many people think they can hide from God. In Psalm   
   139 we learn that God has examined us and knows everything about us.   
   Would you be embarrassed if your best friends knew your personal   
   thoughts? Remember that God knows all of them. Take some time today,   
   get alone with God and read Psalm 139 to him   
      
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   June 17th - St. Albert Chmielowski, Servant of the Poor.   
   (Also known as Adam Chmielowski; Brat Albert; Brother Albert; Brother   
   of Our Lord; Brother of Our God; Our God's Brother)   
      
   St. Albert was born Adam Chmielowski on Aug. 20, 1845, at Igolomia in   
   the Miechów district of southern Poland.   
      
   18 years later, he took part in the failed uprisings against the   
   Russian occupation. While he was in prison, Albert's left leg was   
   amputated. Eventually, he was allowed to return to Poland, where he   
   studied agriculture, before switching to art - and, for a year,   
   engineering.   
      
   He was a successful artist, but 10 years after his first exhibition,   
   Albert decided that he was called to religious life. However, within   
   six months of joining the Jesuits, he suffered a nervous breakdown and   
   left them to become a Franciscan tertiary.   
      
   As a third order or secular Franciscan, Albert worked first in the   
   country before moving to Cracow in 1884. Gradually, he gave up his art   
   in favor of helping the poor, particularly the homeless.   
      
   In 1887, he followed the example of Rafal Kalinowski, who had become a   
   Carmelite friar. He adopted both the name Albert and a simple habit. A   
   year later, he made vows before Card. Albin Dunajewski, the Archbishop   
   of Cracow, who also had been active in the uprising against Russia.   
      
   Thus, he began the Albertine Brothers, who were followed after three   
   years by the Albertine Sisters. Both congregations opened houses that   
   still exist to help the poor and homeless.   
      
   Albert died on Christmas in 1916. His funeral was attended by the   
   mayor, the bishop and large numbers of ordinary citizens.   
      
   In 1938, in honor of his contributions to his country, the president   
   of Poland awarded Albert the country's highest honor - the Grand   
   Ribbon of the Order of Poland Restituta.   
      
   Pope John Paul beatified Albert on June 22, 1983, during a visit to   
   Poland. He canonized him on Nov. 12,1989. We celebrate his feast on   
   June 17.   
      
   His life reminds us that, no matter how many things we do in life, our   
   primary call is to serve Jesus in one another.   
      
   Source: Butler's Lives of the Saints   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it   
   better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.   
   --St. Augustine   
      
   Bible quote:   
   With what difficulty will they who trust in riches enter the kingdom   
   of God!  (Mark 10:24)   
      
      
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   Special Prayer : to Our Blessed Mary--Queen of Angels   
      
   August Queen of heaven, sovereign Mistress of the Angels,   
   who did receive from the beginning the mission and power to   
   crush the serpent's head. We beseech thee to send thy holy   
   angels, that under thy command and by thy power they may   
   pursue the evil spirits, encounter them on every side, resist   
   their bold attacks, and drive them hence into the abyss of woe.   
      
   · Most Holy Mother, send thy angels to defend us and   
   drive the cruel enemy from us. Amen.   
   · O good and tender Mother! Thou shall ever be our Love   
   and our Hope.   
   · Holy Angels and Archangels, keep and defend us.   
   Amen.   
   · Jesus, Mary, Joseph,--I love you--save souls!   
      
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