Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Wednesday, May 21st, 2025.

It's a Faria, fourth class with a color of white. In this episode, The Meditation,

as I have loved you, Dying to Self Part 2. Today's news from the church, an editorial on the

conclave, a preview of today's sermon, Do It Yourself Catholicism, and today's news from the Church, an editorial on the conclave, a preview of today's sermon,

Do-It-Yerself Catholicism, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefevre.

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 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.

So, imagine this, a crumbling stone tower on the southern coast of France, near modern-day

Nice. Inside, a man named Hospitius, living alone, wrapped in an iron chain, eating

little more than bread and wild roots. Why? Because Hospitius wanted to live like the desert hermits of Egypt, close to God,

and far from the distractions of the world. For years, he lived this hidden life in prayer and penance.

During Lent, he got even stricter, surviving on only roots, fasting, and on deep contemplation. His holiness, though,

was anything but quiet. Hospitius became known for his spiritual wisdom, prophetic insight,

and even miracles. When the Lombards, barbarian invaders from the north, swept through the region,

they came across his tower and assumed he was some

kind of a chained-up criminal. Hospitius didn't argue. In humility, he only answered,

I am a sinner and unworthy to live. One soldier raised his arm to kill him for no reason other than

sport, but his arm froze in place. Only when Hospitius made the sign of the cross

did the man regain movement. That encounter changed the soldier's life. He converted on the spot

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