Sunday, July 7
ST. PANTÆNUS, Father of the Church
Reflection.—Have a care that none lead you astray by a false philosophy, says St. Paul, for philosophy without religion is a vain thing.
Monday, July 8
ST. ELIZABETH OF PORTUGAL
Reflection.—In the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar St. Elizabeth daily found strength to bear with sweetness suspicion and cruelty; and by that same Holy Sacrifice her innocence was proved. What succor do we forfeit by neglect of daily Mass!
Tuesday, July 9
ST. EPHREM, Deacon
Reflection.—Humility is the path which leads to abiding peace and brings us near to the consolations of God.
Wednesday, July 10
THE SEVEN BROTHERS, Martyrs, and ST. FELICITAS, their Mother
Reflection.—What afflictions do parents daily meet with from the disorders into which their children fall through their own bad example or neglect! Let them imitate the earnestness of St. Felicitas in forming to perfect virtue the tender souls which God hath committed to their charge, and with this Saint they will have the greatest of all comforts in them, and will by His grace count as many Saints in their family as they are blessed with children.
Thursday, July 11
ST. JAMES, Bishop
In his youth, entering the world, he trembled at the sight of its vices and the slippery path of its pleasures, and he thought it the safer part to strengthen himself in retirement, that he might afterward be the better able to stand his ground in the field. He accordingly chose the highest mountain for his abode, sheltering himself in a cave in the winter, and the rest of the year living in the woods, continually exposed to the open air.
Friday, July 12
ST. JOHN GUALBERT
Reflection.—The heroic act which merited for St. John Gualbert his conversion was the forgiveness of his enemy. Let us imitate him in this virtue, resolving never to revenge ourselves in deed, in word, or in thought.
Saturday, July 13
ST. EUGENIUS, Bishop
Reflection.—Alms shall be a great confidence before the Most High God to them that give it. Water quencheth a flaming fire, and alms resisteth sin.
(Lives of Saints by Alban Butler)
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