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July 3, 2022

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3 July 2022

Ordinary Form
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Isaiah 66,10-14c
Psalm 66,1-3.4-5.6-7.16.20
Galatians 6,14-18
Luke 10,1-12.17-20

Extraordinary Form
4th Sunday after Pentecost

Romans 8,18-23
Psalm 78,9.10
Psalm 9,5.10
Luke 5,1-11

6 July 2022
St. Maria Goretti

Dearly beloved youth, young men and women, who are the special object of the love of Jesus and of us: Tell me, are you resolved to resist firmly, with the help of divine grace, against every attempt made to violate your chastity?

You fathers and mothers: Tell me, in the presence of this vast multitude, and before the image of this young virgin who by her inviolate candor has stolen your hearts… in the presence of her mother who educated her to martyrdom and who, as much as she felt the bitterness of the outrage, is now moved with emotion as she invokes her:

Tell me, are you ready to assume the solemn duty laid upon you to watch, as far as in you lies, over your sons and daughters, to preserve and defend them against so many dangers that surround them, and to keep them always far away from places where they might learn the practices of impiety and of moral perversion?

Finally, all of you who are intently listening to our words, know that above the unhealthy marshes and filth of the world, stretches an immense heaven of beauty. It is the heaven which fascinated little Maria; the heaven to which she longed to ascend by the only road that leads there, which is, religion, the love of Christ, and the heroic observance of his Commandments.

We greet you, O beautiful and lovable saint! Martyr on earth and angelic in heaven, look down from your glory on this people, which loves you, which venerates, glorifies and exalts you. On your forehead you bear the full brilliant and victorious name of Christ. In your virginal countenance may be read the strength of your love and the constancy of your fidelity to your Divine Spouse. As His bride espoused in blood, you have traced in yourself His own image.

To you, therefore, powerful intercessor with the Lamb of God, we entrust these our sons and daughters who are present here, and those countless others who are united with us in spirit. For while they admire your heroism, they are even more desirous of imitating your strength of faith and your inviolate purity of conduct. Fathers and mothers have recourse to you, asking you to help them in their task of education. In you, through our hand, the children and the young people will find a safe refuge, trusting that they shall be protected from every contamination, and be able to walk the highways of life with that serenity of spirit and deep joy which is the heritage of those who are pure of heart. Amen.

From the homily of His Holiness Pope Pius XII Mass for the Canonization of St. Maria Goretti, 24 June 1950