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It's the Feast of Ember Sat of Sept, 2nd Class, with the color of Violet. In this episode: the meditation: "Purity of Intention", today's news from the Church: "The SSPX Renews the Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary", 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:

• "Purity of Intention" — From the Assumption to Advent
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "The SSPX Renews the Consecration of Germany to the Immaculate Heart of Mary" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/sspx-renews-consecration-germany-immaculate-heart-mary-61222
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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The North American Martyrs were eight French Jesuit missionaries who entered seventeenth-century North America knowing that the work might kill them.

For several of them, it did so in extraordinarily brutal ways.

The best known are Saints Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, and their six companions. They worked primarily among Indigenous peoples in what is now Canada and the northeastern United States, especially the Wendat, or Huron. Their mission unfolded amid warfare, epidemics, and fierce conflict among Native nations, so their story is inseparable from a very complicated period of North American history.

Brébeuf arrived in New France in 1625.

He threw himself into learning the Wendat language and culture. He became so fluent that he compiled dictionaries and translated prayers and catechetical material. The famous Christmas hymn known today as the Huron Carol is traditionally attributed to him, originally composed in the Wendat language.

Isaac Jogues had an even stranger story.

In 1642, he was captured by Mohawk warriors, tortured, and held captive for months. Several of his fingers were mutilated, creating a serious problem for a priest because Church law at the time normally required intact hands for celebrating Mass.

Eventually Jogues escaped.

He made it back to France.

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