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Mass Readings: April 22

First:	Acts 4:8-12
Resp:	Psalm 118:1,8-9,21-23,26,28-29
Second:	1 John 3:1-2
Gospel:	John 10:11-18

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Bl. Maria Gabriella (1914-1939)
After a rebellious but loyal youth, Maria joined a Trappestine monastery. She soon dedicated her short life to praying for Christian Unity. She died of tuberculosis just 15 months later.

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God's will whatever it may be, this is my joy, my happiness, my peace.

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Life in Christ: Catechism #2223

Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgment, and self-mastery – the preconditions of all true freedom. Parents should teach their children to subordinate the "material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones." Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them.

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