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Fr. Christopher Etheridge, IVE Originally preached for the Feast of the North American Martyrs  Priests, seminarians, and novices of the Institute of the Incarnate Word after Mass on the Feast of St. Isaac Jogues and Companion Martyrs. In a letter to Fr. Jerome Lalemant three years before his martyrdom, St. Isaac Jogues asks Lalemant to pray to God that He “may give me a generous constancy to persevere in his love and in his service. This is what I should like to have more than anything else.”[1]
It’s important to see why Jogues longed for a generous constancy.
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Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time  Seminarians of the Institute of the Incarnate Word profess final vows at a solemn Mass in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. Today’s first reading and Gospel remind us of the great dignity of our vocations as religious called to give up all things in order to serve Christ. In the first reading from Sirach, we heard that “to the penitent God provides a way back.” Every vocation is a “way back to God,” the path by which we return to Him once we forsake the attachments and attractions of the world. Precisely in this we see “how great [is] the mercy of the Lord, his forgiveness of those who return to him!”
Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer, IVE Originally preached on the Feast of the Presentation  Fr. Etheridge is greeted by his mother after his ordination in May 2016. A seminarian recently mentioned how difficult it was for Blessed Miguel Pro to accept his sister’s entrance into religious life; he had a quote from the blessed that read, “Heaven must be beautiful, because it costs so much.” Unless we have a sibling or a close relative who is a religious, we don’t really realize how difficult it is to have a family member enter religious life.
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