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It's a Feria, 4th Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: "Temperance", today's news from the Church: "Zaitzkofen: Five New Priests for the Church", a preview of the Sermon: "Understanding Charity can Change your Life", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

Sources Used Today:

• "Temperance" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "Zaitzkofen: Five New Priests for the Church" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/zaitzkofen-five-new-priests-church-59891
  
  
• "Understanding Charity can Change your Life" (SSPX Sermons)
  • SSPX YouTube: Sermons Playlist
  • Listen & Subscribe: SSPX Sermons Podcast
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint Maria Goretti is one of the youngest canonized saints in the Church, but her story is not childish. It is serious, heartbreaking, and deeply powerful.

She was born in 1890 into a poor farming family in Italy. Life was hard from the beginning. Her father died when Maria was still young, leaving her mother to support the family through exhausting work in the fields. Maria helped at home, cared for her younger siblings, cooked, cleaned, and tried to keep the household together.

She was only eleven years old.

The tragedy of her life came in 1902, when a young man named Alessandro Serenelli attacked her. Maria resisted him, not out of hatred, but because she understood that what he wanted was a grave sin. In his rage, Alessandro stabbed her repeatedly.

Maria was taken to the hospital, where she suffered terribly. Before she died, she forgave Alessandro and said she wanted him with her one day in heaven.

That is the part of her story that stops you cold.

Maria’s martyrdom is often described as a witness to purity, and it is. But it is also a witness to forgiveness. She did not pretend evil was harmless. She did not excuse the crime. But with extraordinary grace, she refused to let hatred have the final word.

Alessandro was sentenced to prison. For years, he remained h