Read entire reflection online >>> October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest—USA Optional Memorial 1819–1867 Invoked against cancer Beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 9, 2000 Liturgical Color: White Quote: Every offering has value only insofar as one snatches it away from one’s own benefit and dedicates it to God through this self-conquest. One loves and gives precisely because one loves, and because one considers what is given as a good, as a treasure. Love of creatures must be subordinated to the love of God, whom one is pledged to love above all things. Time, in which we have found nothing to offer up to God, is lost for eternity. If it is only the duties of our vocation that we fulfill with dedication to the will of God; if it is the sweat of our faces that, in resignation, we wipe from our brow without murmuring; if it is suffering, temptations, difficulties with our fellowmen – everything we can present to God as an offering and can, through them, become like Jesus his Son. Where the sacrifice is great and manifold, there, in the same proportion, is the hope of glory more deeply and more securely grounded in the heart of him who makes it.  ~From the Letters of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos Prayer: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, God called you to be a priest, and you fulfilled your priestly duties with extraordinary zeal. You touched one soul at a time, leaving a legacy of converted hearts. Please pray for me, that I will strive to live a life of exceptional holiness throughout the ordinary moments of my life, seeking to touch every soul I encounter every day. Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, pray for me. Jesus, I trust in You. Source of content: mycatholic.life Copyright © 2024 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed. Images: Featured via Redemptorists