YOUR CROSS IS YOURS
"The Everlasting god has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity
the cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart.
This cross that He now sends to you,
He has considered with His all-knowing eyes,
understood with His
divine mind,
tested with His wise justice,
warmed with His loving arms and
weighed with His own hands
to see that it is not one inch too large nor one ounce too heavy for you.
He has blessed it with His Holy Name,
anointed it with His grace,
perfumed it with His consolation,
taken one last glance at you and your courage,
and then sent it to you from heaven,
a special greeting from God to you,
an alms of the all-merciful love of God."
~ St. Francis DeSales
Feast day: January 24
Patron of Catholic writers, the Catholic press, the deaf, journalists, adult education
Birth: August 21, 1567
Death: December 28, 1622
Beatified: January 8, 1661, by Pope Alexander VII
Canonized: April 19, 1665, by Pope Alexander VII
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