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It's the Feast of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, 3rd Class, with the color of White. In this episode: the meditation: "Faith in the Angels", today's news from the Church: "Liquid Magisterium", a preview of this week's episode of The SSPX Podcast: "The Roman Catechism: Who Belongs to the Church?", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org

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• "Faith in the Angels" — From the Assumption to Advent
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/from-trinity-sunday-to-the-assumption
  
  
• "Liquid Magisterium" (FSSPX.news)
  • https://fsspx.news/en/news/liquid-magisterium-61534
  
  
• The SSPX Podcast: "The Roman Catechism: Who Belongs to the Church?" (SSPX Podcast)
  • View on YouTube
  • Listen & Subscribe on SSPXpodcast.com
  
  
• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)
  • https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop
  
  

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Saint Richard Gwyn was a Welsh schoolteacher who had a remarkable talent for getting under the skin of the authorities. He was intelligent, stubborn, deeply Catholic, and apparently had a sense of humor that even imprisonment couldn't take away.

He was born around 1537 in Montgomeryshire, Wales, and received an excellent education, studying at Oxford and Cambridge. Eventually he returned to Wales, married a woman named Catherine, and became a schoolteacher. Together they raised a family while England and Wales were undergoing enormous religious changes.

Under Queen Elizabeth I, attendance at Protestant services was compulsory, and Catholics who refused could face heavy fines and imprisonment.

Richard refused.

He believed the Catholic Mass and the authority of the Pope were worth defending, even when doing so threatened his livelihood and his family.

Eventually, he was arrested.

The authorities tried several ways to make him conform. On one occasion, Richard was taken to a Protestant church and placed in front of the pulpit so he would have to listen to the sermon.

Richard had other ideas.

According to the traditional accounts, he began rattling his chains so loudly that nobody could hear the preacher.

When ordered to stop, he reportedly replied that he was making noise because he didn't want to hear what was being preached.

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