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Today is Friday, September 30th, 2020.

Today is also the feast day of perhaps the grumpiest saint that we have as Catholics.

And his name is Saint Jerome. He lived in the late 300th. In the early years when it was

legal to be Christian in the Roman Empire, he did many things. He actually discovered the place where

Jesus was born and lived in that cave for a while. But what we know him for most today is that he translated the Bible

into Latin. And this translation allowed the Bible to be more accessible by more people.

And his work was so good. He was so brilliant in his translation, that it became the standard,

the translation that was used for many hundreds of years. Now, we, of course, are our final

day of September. So I hope that our club members are really striving to get these

challenges done. So today join me once for the final time to pray the morning offering, which I hope is very nearly memorized.

Name of the Father's Son, Holy Spirit, amen.

O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day,

for all the intentions of your sacred heart and union with the holy sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world,

for the salvation of souls, the reparation of sins, the reunion of all Christians,

and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father this month.

Amen.

So this week we have been talking about fear of the Lord, which is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

We talked about how this is a fear of damaging God's loving presence in our life,

how it leads to wonder and awe and obedience of

His commandments, and also how the increase of this gift in our lives will lead us to avoid sin more.

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