TO LIVE BY ST. BONAVENTURE CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE #72 JUNE 2017 We Thank God for Blessed Leonard Kimura. While in injured in the abduction she did prison they preached the faith to manage to escape and rejoined the our Fathers! non – Christian prisoners, not Augustinians. wasting any opportunity to spread June is a very popular month for students because it heralds the end the Gospel. She had an advocate in Blessed Jordan of Saxony who met with her of the school year and the beginning On November 18, 1619 Blessed of summer holidays. family and persuaded them that the Andrew was burned alive along way to keep close to their daughter On June 18th we honour our with Blessed Leonard Kimura. would be to build a Dominican beloved fathers on Father’s Day. Let The feast day of this courageous . In 1222 they helped her us also honour our spiritual father’s martyr is June 1st. found the monastery of St. Agnes in here at St. Bonaventure, Father Bologna, Italy where she remained David and Father William and make Blessed Diana until her death on January 9th, it a point of thanking them for their 1236. She was beatified on August service to us! Blessed 8th, 1888 by Pope Leo XIII. Her feast day is June 9th. We also celebrate the feast of the Diana was born in the Sacred Heart on June 12th and the Although she did not initially have year 1201 feast of the Immaculate Heart of family support for her choice to join near Mary on June 13th. a religious order she persevered. If Bologna, any of you find yourselves in this Italy. Her Blessed Andrew situation you could pray to Blessed parents Tokuan Diane for strength and wisdom. were This was born in the Japanese apparently We wish a happy feast day to all city of Nagasaki in the late 1500’s. very those who celebrate their Saint’s He was a Christian Japanese wealthy day in June. May your patron layman and was arrested by landowners and she was reported to saints watch over you and guide authorities because he refused to have been a beautiful, intelligent denounce his Catholic faith and also and happy young woman. She was you as you strive to be good people for sheltering Catholic missionaries. greatly influenced by the preaching like them. He was a very strong and brave of Blessed Reginald and as a result man who was not afraid to stand up joined the Dominicans. Her family for his faith, no matter what the was not very happy about this and cost. He was imprisoned for close to subsequently had her abducted and three years with his brother in law, brought home! Although she was

ST. JULIANA At the age of fifteen Juliana refused her later, she is considered to be the family's plan for marriage. She became foundress of the Servite nuns. She died FALCONIERI a Servite Tertiary (a religious) in 1341 at the age of seventy-one and a year later, although she continued to was canonized by Pope Clement XII in Juliana Falconieri was born 1270 to a live at home until 1304 when her 1737. wealthy Florentine family. Her father mother died. died when she was very young and so she was raised by mother and an uncle Immediately thereafter Juliana gathered Did you know… named Alexis who was one of the together a group of women dedicated to prayer and good works. Later she wrote founders of the Servites. (Members of She was so modest that she the , preach the gospel and rules to live by and was appointed never used a mirror or gazed the propogation of devotion to the superiorness of the group. Mother of God with special reference to Since her rule was approved by Pope upon the face of a man during her sorrows.) Martin V one hundred and twenty years her whole life. St. Justin Justin was a man consistently JUST FOR FUN searching for something. Some sort Across of truth he could 2. This saint joined the believe in. Dominicans? 5. This saint was burned Justin alive? always 6. Bl. Andrew was born in? escaped to a 9. St. Juliana's refused her quiet and family's plan of ____? 10. Bl. Diana's family built secluded this to stay close to her? spot by the 11. This month we celebrate sea to find the ____ Heart of Mary. solace. So 12. This saint is also known as "St. ___ the Martyr". sure that he was isolated, he was shocked one Down day to find an old man following 1. This saint was from a wealthy Florentine family. him. 3. Bl. Andrew Tokuan was The old man was not searching for ____ for three years. 4. Bl. Diana's family had her truth but for some of his family. _____ and brought home Nonetheless they began a from the Dominicans. discussion in which Justin 7. This month we celebrate identified himself as a philologian, a the ____ Heart of Jesus. 8. Bl. Andrew Tokuan died lover of reason. The old man one of these? challenged him -- why was he not a lover of truth, a lover of deeds. But Justin believed differently. He Rusticus, sentenced him he asked Justin told him that reason led to had been one of those outsiders -- Justin, "If you are killed do you truth, and philosophy led to not someone looking for trouble, suppose you will go to heaven?" happiness. Perhaps the old man but someone earnestly searching Justin said, "I do not suppose it, but sensed this for he asked for Justin's for the truth. The truth had been I know and am fully persuaded of definition of philosophy and of hidden from him by this fear of it.” happiness. theirs. And he believed there were Justin and his fellow martyrs were many others like him. He now Inflamed by this conversation, beheaded in the year 165 and went believed Christians had an Justin sought out the Scriptures to be with the Truth Justin had obligation to speak about and to and came to love the words of longed for all his life. He is often witness to others about their faith. Christ! Why hadn't Justin know known as Justin Martyr and his So he took his new found faith to about Christianity. People at that works are still available. the people. time kept their beliefs secret. They were so afraid that outsiders would This layman became the first great Feast Days to Remember trample on their sacred faith and apologist for Christianity and St. Justin & Bl. Andrew opened the gates of light for so desecrate their mysteries that they Tokuan wouldn't tell anyone about their many others. beliefs. Just before the Roman prefect, Jun 1 Bl. Diana PRAYER OF ST. JUSTIN Jun 9 O God, who through the Cross Through our Lord Jesus Sacred Heart of Jesus wondrously taught Saint Justin Christ, your Son, who lives Jun 12 the Martyr the surpassing and reigns with you in the Immaulate Heart of Mary knowledge of Jesus Christ, unity of the Holy Spirit, one Jun 13 grant us, through his God, for ever and ever. Father’s Day intercession, that, having Amen. Jun 18 rejected deception and error, we may become steadfast in the St. Juliana Falconieri faith. Jun 19