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 City of Venice (Venezia)
The time of your life!
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Authorities in Venice have unveiled plans to connect the famous and historic island city with its mainland neighbour Mestre with an eight-kilometre underwater metro line.
The vaporetti water buses that carry most of the human traffic between the island and the mainland are described as "bursting".
Special Note:
We direct travelers to our travel insurance provider, and point out that U.S. insurance plans seldom cover health costs outside the U.S., nor do Medicare and Medicaid.
Blessed James Salomone
Memorial 31 May
Died 1314
Saint Jerome Emiliani
Memorial 8 February
Patronage abandoned people; orphans; Taos Indian Pueblo
Died 1537
I urge you to persevere in your love for Christ and your faithful observance of the law of Christ.
Our Goal is God, the source of all good. As we say in our prayer, we are to place our trust in God and in no one else. In his kindness, our Lord wished to strengthen your faith, for without it, as the evangelist points out, Christ could not have performed many of his miracles. He also wished to listen to your prayer, and so he ordained that you experience poverty, distress, abandonment, weariness and scorn.
God alone knows the reasons for all this, yet we can recognize three causes. In the first place, our blessed Lord is tell young that he desires to include you among his beloved sons, provided that you remain steadfast in his ways, for this is the way he treats his friends and makes them holy.
The second reason is that he is asking you to grow continuously in your confidence in him alone and not in others.
Now there is a third reason. God wishes to test you like gold in the furnace. The dross is consumed by the fire, but the pure gold remains and its value increases. It is in this manner than God acts with his good servant, who puts his hope in him and remains unshaken in times of distress. God raises him up and, in return for the things he has left out of love for God, he repays him a hundredfold in this life and with eternal life hereafter.
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and for ever in the next.
-from a letter to his brothers by Saint Jerome Emiliani
Blessed John Morosini
Memorial 5 February
Died 1012
Saint Magnus
Memorial 6 October
Died c.660
Saint Mark the Evangelist
Memorial 25 April
Patronage against impenitence; barristers
relics at Venice, Italy
cousin to Saint Barnabas,
Died 68
Pope Saint Pius X
Memorial 21 August
Patronage first communicants, pilgrims
Died 1914
Papal Ascension
elected 4 August 1903
installed 9 August 1903
My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help. I can do all in Him who strengthens me. His Power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it will be mine. His Wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel, I shall not be deceived. His Goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed in Him, I shall not be abandoned.
in St. Mark's
Saint Titus
Memorial 26 January
Patronage Crete
Died c.96
Disciple of Saint Paul the Apostle. Recipient of a canonical letter from Saint Paul. First bishop of the Church in Crete.
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