Dayly Knightly Newsletter – July 2016
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Catholic Heroes
This issue of Dayly Knightly takes inspiration from a number of Catholic lay heroes and the Catholic saints, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and St. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast days occur on July 31st and August 14th every year, respectfully. Most Catholics would know or have heard about various Catholic saints espe- cially well-known celebrated saints but less would be aware of lay Catholic heroes. In highlighting the latter, Dayly Knighly wishes to underline the fact that lay people too can just as easily aspire to sainthood and the sixteen people listed in this issue give witness to this. Readers looking for inspiration are encouraged to learn more about Catholic lay heroes and no better place to start would be to check rst with Pier Giorgio Frassati.
Divine Mercy
Divine Mercy has been a special topic in this ‘Year of Mercy’, yet it seems many Catholic are not very familiar with its meaning and signi cance. Fr. William Casey, recently, gave a retreat in June 2016 devoted completely to Divine Mercy where he provides a memorable and refreshing Church’s view on the special communion of Polish Sister Faustina with God through his insightful overview of her diary. Fr. Casey’s retreat presentation and homilies can be viewed in this issue of Dayly Knightly.
Science and Reason
The secular world continues its aim to drive Catholocism from the public square including from the elds of science, education and the culture of life. It has, it seems, wilfully forgotten that Western civilisation owes much of its development to the in uence nad guidance of the Catholc church. In particular, the works, theology and philosopy of 12th century Saint Thomas Aquinas has been and continues to be a dominant force of thought in the West for over 750 years including in the areas of science, reason and evolution.
Martyrs
Once again, we see the increasing menace of ISIS which has in July included a truck attack in Nice, France and the martyrdom of Fr. Jacques Hamel in Rouen, France. The tragic and barbaric deaths of the people in these attacks underline that it is they who are the real martyrs and not those who perpertrated the murders. Long after the passing of these murderers, the world will have forgotten them but will still remem- ber true martyrs like Fr. Hamel and the 21 Christians martyred last year in Libya by ISIS. Christianity is facing persecution today both from the hands of terrorists and Godless secular states bent on a dictatorship of relativism. We as Christians need to unite, raise up, defend our faith and look at these times as our opportuni- ty to stand heroically with Christ. We have to be prepared to die to ourselves in this battle though. However, we are in good company for we have our past generations of Catholic heroes and saints, all the way back to the rst years of the early church 2000 years ago, to give us encouragement and inspiration.
