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It's the Feast of S Camillus de Lellis, 3rd Class, with the color of White. In this episode: the meditation: "Enlightened Obedience", today's news from the Church: "The Fraternity of Saint Peter Against the Consecrations", 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:

• "Enlightened Obedience" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "The Fraternity of Saint Peter Against the Consecrations" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/fraternity-saint-peter-against-consecrations-59843
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint Camillus de Lellis is proof that God can completely rewrite a life. If you had met him as a young man, "future saint" is probably the last thing you would have guessed.

He was born in 1550 in the Kingdom of Naples and grew into an enormous man, standing well over six feet tall at a time when that was highly unusual. He followed his father into military life and became a soldier, but he also developed a serious gambling addiction. More than once he gambled away everything he owned. At one point, he was so destitute that he had to take work as a laborer on a Capuchin construction project simply to survive.

That was where God got hold of him.

One day, while reflecting on his wasted life, Camillus experienced a profound conversion. He later said it felt as though a veil had been lifted from his eyes. He abandoned his old way of life and resolved to dedicate himself entirely to Christ.

There was one problem.

For years, Camillus had suffered from a painful wound on his leg that never fully healed. It forced him into hospitals repeatedly, and in those days hospitals were often miserable places. Patients were crowded together, cleanliness was poor, and many of the sick were treated more like burdens than human beings.

Camillus looked around and thought, There has to be a better way.

He believed that every sick person should be cared for as though Christ Himself were lying in the bed.

That simple conviction changed everything.