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It's the Feast of XI Sun after Pentecost, 2nd Class, with the color of Green. In this episode: the meditation: "The Healing of the Deaf-Mute", today's news from the Church: "The Apostolate in Africa – SOS Africa No. 23", 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:

• "The Healing of the Deaf-Mute" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption
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• "The Apostolate in Africa – SOS Africa No. 23" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/apostolate-africa-sos-africa-no-23-60421
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint Nathy of Achonry is one of those early Irish saints whose life is partly hidden behind fifteen centuries of history. We don't have a long biography or a collection of his writings. What we do have is something interesting: the memory of a teacher whose influence lasted far longer than anyone could have expected.

Nathy lived in Ireland during the sixth century, the remarkable age when monasteries were appearing across the island and Ireland was becoming one of the great centers of Christian learning in Europe.

He became closely associated with Saint Finian of Clonard, one of the great teachers of early Irish monasticism. Finian's school attracted an extraordinary group of students, including several men who would later become famous saints themselves. Nathy belonged to that world of monks who treated learning, prayer, and missionary work as parts of the same vocation.

Eventually, he established himself in western Ireland at a place called Achonry in County Sligo.

And here's an interesting detail.

The Irish name for Achonry is Achadh Conaire, usually understood as "the field of Conaire." What began as a small monastic settlement eventually became important enough that an entire Catholic diocese grew around it. The Diocese of Achonry still exists today, more than fourteen hundred years after Nathy's community first took root there.

That gives us some sense of what these early Irish monasteries actually accomplished.

They weren't simply quiet places where a handful of monks disappeared from the world. They became schools, churches, workshops, farms, libraries, and missiona