Morning Prayer - MONDAY, 24 Oct 2022

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - October 24, 2022 | Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time / Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop

"Your word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in the truth." - John 17:13

Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Claret (1807-1870), bishop. After becoming a priest he spent several years preaching to the people throughout Catalonia and also in the Canary Islands. Returning to Spain, he established the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and founded a great religious library and publishing house in Barcelona which published millions of cheap copies of ancient and modern Catholic works. In 1851 the Pope appointed him Bishop of Santiago de Cuba. The diocese was in a terrible state and everything needed reform and renewal. He reorganized the seminary, enforced clerical discipline, and regularized thousands of marriages. He built a hospital and many schools. This was not done without opposition and he was the subject of fifteen assassination attempts.

Recalled to Spain in 1857 by Queen Isabella II to act as her confessor, he did further great work for the Church. His health began to fail, and he died at the Cistercian abbey at Fontfroide.

St. Anthony Mary Claret, pray for us!

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