{"id":3443,"date":"2012-11-30T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/in-my-gallery-of-heavenly-hero\/"},"modified":"2012-11-30T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T20:00:02","slug":"in-my-gallery-of-heavenly-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/in-my-gallery-of-heavenly-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Gallery of Heavenly Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

December 1st is the dies natalis<\/em> of four holy priests who figure in my personal gallery of heavenly heroes.
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\nSaint Ralph Sherwin, Priest and Martyr, (1550-1 December, 1581)
\nSaint Edmund Campion, Priest and Martyr (1540-1 December 1581)<\/strong>
\nSaint Ralph Sherwin<\/a> and Saint Edmund Campion<\/a> were both martyred for the Catholic faith at Tyburn under Elizabeth I on 1 December, 1581.
\nThe last words of Saint Ralph Sherwin were: Iesu, Iesu, Iesu, esto mihi Iesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, be to me a Jesus.<\/em> For many souls this invocation has been a means to the ceaseless prayer of the heart.
\nThe invocation is inscribed above the altar in the crypt chapel of Tyburn Convent of the Benedictine Adorers of the Sacred Heart<\/a> in London.
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\nBlessed Charles de Jésus (de Foucauld), Priest and Martyr (1858-1 December 1916)<\/strong>
\nBlessed Charles de Jésus<\/a><\/a>, the hermit of the Sahara, was martyred on 1 December 1916. The Prayer of Abandonment<\/em> of Blessed Charles of Jesus has helped souls the world over to walk in the path of confidence and spiritual childhood.
\nFather,
\nI abandon myself into your hands;
\ndo with me what you will.
\nWhatever you may do, I thank you:
\nI am ready for all, I accept all.
\nLet only your will be done in me,
\nand in all your creatures –
\nI wish no more than this, O Lord.
\nInto your hands I commend my soul:
\nI offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
\nfor I love you, Lord, and so need to give myself,
\nto surrender myself into your hands without reserve,
\nand with boundless confidence,
\nfor you are my Father. <\/em>
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\nThe Servant of God Jean-Edouard Lamy, Priest (1853-1 December 1931)<\/strong>
\nPère Lamy<\/a>, a priest greatly devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the founder of the Cistercian-inspired Congregation of the Servants of Jesus and Mary<\/a>, died on 1 December 1931. Père Lamy touched countless souls, among them the French Catholic author Julian Green, and Jacques and Raïssa Maritain. Père Lamy used to say:
\nThe Blessed Virgin can bring down the mercy of God on almost anything. What matters is to go on praying. The Blessed Virgin offers our prayers to God. She touches them up. She makes them into something pleasing. She gilds them when they are only wretched tin pots. She is a rag-picker, divinely clever. . . . Prayer even made without great attention is none the less prayer and our holy Mother finishes off what is lacking. . . . She is busy perpetually lessening our weakness before the face of God. What works in her is her kindness, her charity. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 1st is the dies natalis of four holy priests who figure in my personal gallery of heavenly heroes. Saint Ralph Sherwin, Priest and Martyr, (1550-1 December, 1581) Saint Edmund Campion, Priest and Martyr (1540-1 December 1581) Saint Ralph Sherwin and Saint Edmund Campion were both martyred for the Catholic faith at Tyburn under Elizabeth <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Tx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}