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Father Michael Bies stands outside the entrance to St. Marys Catholic Church in Pontiac. The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY

Stacy and Bo Govea of Kansas hold Mary Ellen, left, and Mary Elizabeth at St. Mark's Hospital, their "home" since April. Twins weighed 1 pound at birth.

Dozens of people visit St. Lucy's grotto every day, bringing empty milk jugs, water bottles and other vessels to fill. They believe the water works miracles. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

for the feast day of St. Benedict.....

IN ORDER TO OBTAIN GRACES THROUGH THE INTERCESSION OF ST. THERESA OF THE CHILD JESUS.

15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: The firstborn... That is, first begotten; as the Evangelist declares, the only begotten of his Father: hence, St. Chrysostom explains firstborn, not first created, as he was not created at all, but born of his Father before all ages; that is, coeval with the Father and with the Holy Ghost. 16 For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers. All things were created by him and in him. 17 And he is before all: and by him all things consist. http://www.newadvent.org/bible/col001.htm