Monday the 17th: Saint of the Week

 

St. John Eudes (OM), Priest

Dates:  August 19                                11/14/1601-8/19/1680    

Place:  born in Ri, Normandy, France; died in Caen, Normandy, France

Importance:  founded Sisters of the Good Shepherd/Sisters of our Lady of Charity  (work with prostitutes); author of liturgical devotion to Sacred and Immaculate Hearts; also founded Congregation of Jesus and Mary, which works for the education and sanctification of priests

Name means:  God is gracious; gift of God

Food/Symbol:  hearts of Jesus and Mary

 Prayer:  “Father, you chose the priest John Eudes to preach the infinite riches of Christ.  By his teaching and example help us to know you better and live faithfully in the light of the gospel.  Grant this…Amen.”

  Quotes:  “You belong to the Son of God, but more than that, you ought to be in him as the members are in the heard.  All that is in you must be incorporated into him.  There will be no true life for you except in him, for he is the one source of true life.  Apart from him you will find only death and destruction.  Let him be the only source of your movements, of the actions and strength of your life.”

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.

The air that we breathe, the bread that we eat, the heart which throbs in our bosoms, are not more necessary for man that he may live as a human being, than is prayer for the Christian that he may live as a Christian.

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head. 

 (picture from https://anastpaul.com/2022/08/19/saint-of-the-day-19-august-st-john-eudes-1601-1680-confessor/)