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SAINT FEAST DAY 1 AUGUST: ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI

 

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SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI, BISHOP AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH


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Saint Alphonsus Liguori was born in 1696 in Naples. A lawyer who became a priest, St Alphonsus founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (the Redemptorists). He was a fervent preacher, and a moral theologian of eminence, who opposed the rigours of Jansenism. He was much in demand as a confessor, seeking to win back the sinful by gentle and direct appeal to the Gospel. He wrote many works of devotion which became very popular. He was made bishop of Sant’ Agata dei Gotti, but after thirteen years returned to his congregation. He died in 1787.

PRAYER:

Father,

you constantly build up your Church

by the lives of your saints.

Give us grace to follow Saint Alphonsus

in his loving concern for the salvation of men,

and so come to share his reward in heaven.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

God, for ever and ever.

Amen.

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SAINT ALPHONSUS' ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:

"At Nocera-de-Pagani, St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, bishop of St. Agatha of the Goths, and founder of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, distinguished by his zeal for the salvation of souls, by his writings, his preaching, and his example. He was inscribed on the calendar of the saints by pope Gregory XVI., in the year 1839, the fifty-second after his happy death, and was declared Doctor of the Universal Church by Pius IX., according to a decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites."

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