Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional for Sunday, May 18th, 2025.

It's the fourth Sunday after Easter, second class with the color of white.

In this episode, The Meditation, Living the Risen Life.

Today's news from the church, Polish bishops worn against school curriculum,

and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. But first the collect of today's Mass.

O God, of whom it cometh that the minds of thy faithful people be all of one will,

grant unto the same thy people, that they may love the

thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise, that so, amid the sundry

and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be

found.

Today is also the feast, traditionally, ofys are to be found.

Today is also the feast, traditionally, of St. Venetius.

And at just 15 years old, Venetius of Camerino was already making waves, and not the kind that fade quietly.

This teenager had a fearless love for Christ, and in the year 250, during a brutal Roman persecution,

that love was put to the ultimate test. He was dragged before a judge and ordered to deny his

faith. He refused. So they whipped him. Still, he stood firm. They tried smoke, fire, even tossing

him into a furnace. But each time, according to the

tradition of the church, an angel came to his rescue. People began to notice, including the judge's own

secretary who witnessed an angel appear and boldly declared his own belief in Christ. That man and his

family were baptized and then, like Vanansius, embraced martyrdom.

As for Vanansius, his tormentors didn't give up. They shattered his jaw, threw him to lions,

dragged him through thorns. Nothing worked. I mean, besides, the lions wouldn't touch him.

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