Fall 2013 - Episode 2: Think Vocation, Vocation, and Vocation

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St Agnes Feast Day is January 21st.

Virgin and Martyer. Agnes was just twelve years of age when she was killed, during the persecutions under Emperor Diocletian around the year 305. In the past, her feast day was the occasion for the blessing of lambs, whose wool was used by the nuns of Saint Agnes in Rome to weave the palliums of archbishops.

Her attributes are the lamb and the martyr’s branch of palm. She is the subject of universal devotion.

Protector: Virgins, betrothed women (she chose Christ as her betrothed) and gardeners, since virginity is symbolized as a closed garden, the hortus conclusus.

Name: Agnes is of Greek origin and means “pure, chaste.”

Janet's Homework Assignment

1) Read Vatican II documents on vocations (Church in the Modern World)

2) Read Matthew 25: Parable of the Talents

3) Read God’s Bucket List by Teresa Tomeo

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Consider praying the Divine Office on a daily basis. The Divine Office provides psalms and prayers to be prayed at different times of the day. See www.divineoffice.org.