AUGUST 10: THE CELIBATE KOREAN COUPLE
Blessed Jo Suk Petrus and Blessed Kwon Cheon-rye Teresa
Married Laypersons and Martyrs
Died: 1819
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They were a Korean married couple and martyrs. They lived their marriage while remaining celibate, dedicating themselves to prayer, preaching the Gospel, and charity towards those poorer than them. When Petrus was arrested for being a Catholic, his wife voluntarily followed him. After repeated torture, the two remained strong in their faith until they were beheaded.

•"It is to be kept in mind that the object of the home is to
build up manhood and womanhood.
This work of training belongs to the parents and cannot be transferred."•

•"Lord, Help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help.
Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness, long-suffering, and the willingness to bear all things. Take my old emotional habits, mindsets, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self-protective stance, and make me patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled. I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment. Only You can transform me." - The Power of a Praying Wife•

A SERVANT OF WOUNDED WOMEN
Venerable Adele Bonolis
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Today is the death anniversary of Ven. Adele Bonolis. She was an Italian layperson. She became a teacher of Religion in high school. She had special attention to women victims of prostitution and women wounded by life who are discarded and isolated. Her ministry also extended to other categories of women "at risk“ like former prisoners and mentally ill women. She continued her ministry even if she had intestinal tumor.

Never again 😭

Henlo 🤗

🥛 Microplastics in Baby Feeding Bottles

New research from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam shows that how milk is stored and fed matters as much as what’s inside it.
• Breast milk itself is safe — but when it’s pumped and stored in plastic bottles, microplastics leach into it.
• Infant formula, often mixed and fed in plastic bottles, showed the highest concentrations of microplastics.
• Glass bottles carried far less risk, highlighting that it’s the plastic contact that contaminates the milk.

Babies are being exposed to plastic particles from the very first meals of their lives — not because of what they drink, but because of what it’s stored in.

The takeaway: if you want to minimize exposure, choose glass over plastic.


https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-science/more-about/research-into-microplastics-in-breast-milk-formula-and-baby-bottles

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Women in male dominated fields 💅

A CHILD WHO CHOSE CHRIST OVER SWEETS
Servant of God Catharina Iwanaga Mori
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Today is the death anniversary of the Servant of God Catharina Iwanaga Mori. She was a Japanese 5-year-old child who is being considered for beatification as a martyr. She was imprisoned during the time of Christian persecution in Japan. One day, a soldier offered to give her sweet cookies if she said she hated Christ. Though she was hungry, she replied, "Oh, no. Then I cannot go to heaven. There are much sweeter cookies in heaven."

Men are called to Sainthood. Happy White Pill Sunday!

Article: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266415/pope-declares-carlo-acutis-and-pier-giorgio-frassati-saints

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