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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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CONTROL OF PASSION

A person's sensitive and imaginative life and activity under control and ruled by reason. This means exemption from the sway of concupiscence, which makes the practice of virtue difficult. Passions controlled make one's lower faculties subservient to reason, the body to the soul's demands, and the will subject to God.

Fri19 September
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Friday of the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Januarius, Bishop & Martyr; Ember Friday

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Today is the Optional Memorial of St. Januarius (d. 304). Very little is known about this martyr saint. He was Bishop of Benevento in Campania. He died near Naples, about the year 304, martyred under the persecution of Emperor Diocletian. Around the year 400 the relics of St. Januarius were moved to Naples,…

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