Aug 26 – Feria / S Teresa of Jesus Jornet Ibars

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It's a Feria, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: "Confession: Source of Light", today's news from the Church: "The Archbishop of Bourges on the Consecrations of July 1st (Part 2)", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today: "Confession: Source of Light" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumptionhttps://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption "The Archbishop of Bourges on the Consecrations of July 1st (Part 2)" (FSSPX.news) https://fsspx.news/en/news/archbishop-bourges-consecrations-july-1st-part-2-60595 The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press) https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop Please support our new project, the Archbishop Lefebvre Biography Audiobook: Learn more:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Wp4MQdK2oDonate:https://sspx.gifts/audiobook Saint Teresa of Jesus Jornet Ibars found her vocation by noticing a group of people that almost everyone else had forgotten. The elderly poor. She was born in 1843 in a small village in Catalonia, Spain, into a large Catholic farming family. Teresa was intelligent, practical, and deeply religious, but figuring out what God wanted from her took time. She trained as a teacher and worked in education. She considered religious life and even spent time with the Poor Clares, but poor health forced her to leave. For a while, nothing seemed to fit. Then she met a priest named Saturnino López Novoa. He had become deeply concerned about elderly men and women who had reached the end of their lives with no family, no money, and nowhere to go. In nineteenth-century Spain, there was very little public assistance for someone in that situation. If your family couldn't care for you, old age could become frighteningly lonely. Teresa immediately understood the need. In 1873, she and a small group of women opened a home in Valencia and founded the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderl