June 24: Nativity of John the Baptist

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This is our life’s work: that Christ should come to fill the whole of our existence. Oportet ileum crescere … Then our joy will know no bounds. In the measure in which Christ, through knowledge and love, penetrates more and more into our poor lives, so will our joy overflow. ~Fr. Francis Fernandez Carvajal, In Conversation with God