Today the Traditional Catholic Church also celebrates the Feast of Holy, Saint John Of Matha, Confessor. He who was born in Provence, France. With his countryman, his life was one long service of self sacrifice for the glory of God and doing good for his neighbors. As a child, his only goal was to serve the poor, and he often told them he had come into the world for no other end but to wash their feet. He studied at Paris with such distinction that his teachers advised him to become a priest, in order that his talents might give more help to others, for this, Saint John gladly sacrificed his high rank and other worldly pleasures. At his first Mass an angel appeared to him, clad in white, with a red and blue cross on his breast, and his hands reposing on the heads of a Christian and a Moorish captive. To ascertain what this signified, Saint John went to Saint Felix of Valois, a holy hermit living near Meaux, under his direction he led a life of extreme penance. The angel again appeared, then they went to Rome, to learn the will of God from the lips of the Sovereign Pontiff, who told them to devote themselves to the redemption of captives. Doing this service they founded the Order of the Holy Trinity. The religious fasted every day, they gathered alms throughout Europe and took them to Barbary, to redeem the Christian slaves. They devoted their services to the sick and prisoners in all countries. The charity of Saint John in devoting his life to the redemption of captives was visibly blessed by God. On his second return from Tunis he brought back one hundred and twenty liberated slaves. But the Moors attacked him at sea, they over powered his vessel, it was destroyed, with all on board, by taking away the rudder and sails, and leaving it to the mercy of the winds. Saint John tied his cloak to the mast, and prayed, saying, “Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered. O Lord, Thou wilt save the humble, and wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.” Suddenly the wind filled the small sail, and, without guidance, carried the ship safely in a few days to Ostia, the port of Rome, three hundred leagues from Tunis. Saint John of Matha, by the mercy of the Lord, faithfully passed away at Rome in the year 1213.
Reflection: Let us never forget that our blessed Lord bade us love our neighbor not only as ourselves, but as He loved us, Who afterwards sacrificed Himself for us. 🤔️
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