Daily Devotional: Jan 29 – S. Francis de Sales
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Today is Wednesday, January 29, 2025, The Feast of St. Francis de Sales, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor, a 3rd class feast, with the color of white. In this episode: The meditation: “How to Pray the Rosary by St. Francis de Sales,” a preview of the Sermon: “Life Is a Contest of Love Between God and Us,” today’s news from the Church: “Several Million Pilgrims to Venerate Saint Francis Xavier,” and today’s thought from the Archbishop.
Sources Used Today:
- The Works of St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (Angelus Press)
- “Cardinal Sarah Vigorously Defends the Traditional Mass” (FSSPX.news)
- The Spiritual Life- Archbishop Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional. |
| 0:04.6 | Today's Wednesday, January 29th, 2025, the Feast of St. Francis to Sales, Bishop, |
| 0:10.0 | confessor, and doctor, a third-class feast with the color of white. |
| 0:13.3 | In this episode, The Meditation, How to Pray the Rosary, by St. Francis to Sales, a preview of the sermon. |
| 0:18.9 | Today's news from the church about millions of pilgrims |
| 0:21.1 | venerating St. Francis Xavier in India, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev. |
| 0:27.6 | But first the call act of today's Mass. |
| 0:30.4 | O God, who for the salvation of souls willed that blessed Francis, thy confessor and bishop, |
| 0:36.0 | should become all things to all men, |
| 0:38.1 | mercifully grant that we, inspired by the sweetness of thy love, guided by his teachings, |
| 0:42.8 | and aided by his merits, may attain the joys of everlasting life. |
| 0:48.3 | So imagine being groomed for a big legal career throughout your entire childhood and |
| 0:53.0 | adolescence, only then to tell your dad, |
| 0:55.9 | actually, I want to be a priest. |
| 0:57.9 | Well, that's what St. Francis DeSales did in 16th century France. |
| 1:01.7 | His dad, not thrilled, but Francis gently and persistently convinced him, and gentle, turned out to be the perfect word to describe this future saint. |
| 1:10.8 | Once he was ordained, Francis became a priest in a region dominated by Calvinism. |
| 1:15.7 | Instead of fiery debates, he used kindness, simple preaching, and little pamphlets to explain |
| 1:21.7 | the Catholic faith. And it worked. People came back to the church in droves. By the age of 35, he was named Bishop of Geneva, |
| 1:29.6 | but he never stopped being close to the people. He preached, heard confessions, and even taught |
| 1:34.5 | little kids their catechism. Francis believed holiness wasn't just for monks or nuns. It was for everyone. |
| 1:41.8 | He famously said, a spoonful of honey attracts more flies than a barrel full of |
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