Welcome to our daily Rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Today is the feast day of Blessed Salanas Casey.

He is one of my favorite soon to be Saints

because he spent most of his time in Detroit and he's a

saint of the 20th century so he's not that long ago and I used to love to go down to the Franciscan Monastery in downtown Detroit and go to the tomb of Father Salanas.

But I love him even more for his motto. So let's begin in the

name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

Now Salanas Casey was born November 25, 1870 and grew up in Wisconsin. He entered the Franciscans there in 1894,

but even though the seminary, as I said was in Wisconsin,

everything was taught in Latin and German.

Two languages Casey could not grasp.

And because of his difficulty with these new languages, the heads of the seminary concluded that

he was not very intelligent.

So when they ordained him, they would not grant him permission to preach public homilies or hear confessions.

Now he was allowed to pray mass privately and do the duties of other Franciscan brothers, but that was it.

That's very humiliating.

And even more humbling was that they made him the door man at the monastery. So Casey was

very misunderstood because he was actually very intelligent and one could say that he was treated unjustly.

Now faced was something he could not change he had two options.

He could be angry and quit and leave or he could

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