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“When lived with fidelity and perseverance,” marriage and family life “strengthens love and enables the vocation to holiness that is possessed by each individual person and expressed in conjugal and family relationships. In this sense, Christian family life is a vocation and a way to holiness, an expression of the ‘most attractive face of the church.'” – National Catholic Reporter, May 17, 2019
April 12, 1972 – “Rather than bemoan the fate he saw approaching, he worked night and day to dictate to assistants all that Christ had taught him. For days on end, he went with only two hours of sleep. The words they wrote down described the glory of God, the power of Christ’s resurrection, the proofs of God’s existence, and Christ’s righteousness for believers… On this day, April 12, 1972 Nee completed twenty years in prison, five years more than his maximum sentence.” – Christianity.com, May 10, 2010
February 1, 1900 – “‘Beware of divisions,’ he wrote on this day, February 1, 1900. ‘One thing the children of the world can always understand, if they do not understand doctrine; that thing is angry quarreling and controversy. Be at peace among yourselves.'” – Christianity.com, May 3, 2010
dies March 4, 1583 – “More than once he covered some beggar or another by stripping off his own cloak. On Sundays he fed everyone in his parish at his own expense. When he founded a grammar school, he personally defrayed the cost of attendance for poorer lads. Many from his school proceeded to university.” – Christianity.com, May 3, 2010