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Feast Days - August
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Book of Numbers 11:4b-15.
The foreign elements among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, "Would that we had meat for food!
We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
But now we are famished; we see nothing before us but this manna."
Manna was like coriander seed and had the appearance of bdellium.
When they had gone about and gathered it up, the people would grind it between … [Altro]

August 1 SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI Bishop and Doctor of the Church
(1696-1787)
Saint Alphonsus was born of noble parents near Naples, in 1696. His spiritual formation was entrusted to the Oratorian Fathers of that city, and from his boyhood Alphonsus was known as a very devout little Brother of the Minor Oratory. At the early age of sixteen he became a doctor in civil law; and entering this career with ardor, he met great success and renown. A mistake, however, by which he lost an important case, … [Altro]