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It's the Feast of St. John Eudes, 3rd Class, with the color of White. In this episode: the meditation: "Charity: A Virtue That Acts", today's news from the Church: "Bishop Schneider: The SSPX Provides the Church a Historic Service", 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:

• "Charity: A Virtue That Acts" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "Bishop Schneider: The SSPX Provides the Church a Historic Service" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/bishop-schneider-sspx-provides-church-historic-service-60603
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint John Eudes was one of the great missionary priests of seventeenth-century France, but his most lasting contribution came from something Catholics today take almost for granted: devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

He was born in Normandy in 1601 and entered the priesthood during a difficult period for the Church in France. Many Catholics received very little religious instruction, and the formation of priests could be uneven at best.

John decided to go where the people were.

For decades, he traveled through towns and villages preaching parish missions. These weren't quick Sunday sermons. A mission might last several weeks, with preaching, catechism, confessions, and instruction filling the day. Thousands sometimes attended, and John could spend hours in the confessional afterward.

Then the plague arrived.

When an epidemic struck Normandy, John volunteered to care for the sick. He knew that returning each evening to his religious community might expose the other priests, so according to tradition, he lived for a time in a large barrel or cask in a field outside town.

It's an odd image.

One of France's great future saints finishing a day of ministry to plague victims and going home to sleep in a barrel.

But it tells you something about him.

John also became convinced that