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   Pope Saint Leo the Great on the Transfiguration   
      
   This marvel of the transfiguration contains another lesson for   
   the apostles, to strengthen them and lead them into the fullness   
    of knowledge. Moses and Elijah, the law and the prophets,    
   appeared with the Lord in conversation with him. This was in order    
   to fulfill exactly, through the presence of these five men, the text   
   which says: Before two or three witnesses every word is ratified.   
   What word could be more firmly established, more securely based,    
   than the word which is proclaimed by the trumpets of both old and   
    new testaments, sounding in harmony, and by the utterances of   
    ancient prophecy and the teaching of the Gospel,    
   In full agreement with each other?   
      
   The writings of the two testaments support each other.    
   The radiance of the transfiguration reveals clearly and unmistakably   
   the one who had been promised by signs foretelling him under the    
   veils of mystery. As Saint John says: The law was given through Moses,    
   grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. In him the promise made    
   through the shadows of prophecy stands revealed, along with the full    
   meaning of the precepts of the law. He is the one who teaches the    
   truth of the prophecy through his presence, and makes obedience    
   to the commandments possible through grace.   
      
   In the preaching of the holy Gospel all should receive a strengthening   
    of their faith. No one should be ashamed of the cross of Christ,    
   through which the world has been redeemed.   
   -- Pope Saint Leo the Great   
      
      
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   June 3rd - St. Kevin   
      
     IT is related of St. Kevin that after he had been seven years at   
   Glendalough, a weariness of life came over him, and a longing to bear the   
   voice of man once more. Then Satan came to him in the form of an angel, bright   
   and beautiful, and persuaded him    
   that he should quit the valley and travel abroad and see the world, while yet   
   his youth was left to him. And St. Kevin was near yielding to the words of the   
   tempter, when fortunately St. Munna came by that way, and he at once saw   
   through the trick, and    
   showed to St. Kevin that the advice was from the devil, and not from God. And   
   St. Kevin promised St. Munna that he would never leave the valley till his   
   death. However, God, not willing that the saint should eat his heart away in   
   idleness, bade him build    
   a monastery on the east of the lake, the place where the resurrection was to   
   be; and he sent his angel to show him the exact spot.   
      
     But St. Kevin, when he saw the place so wild and rude, could not help   
   telling the friendly angel that it was very rugged and difficult to build on;   
   and the stones were heavy and hard to be moved. Then the angel, to prevent any   
   difficulty in the    
   building, rendered the stones light and easy to move, and so the work of   
   building went on to the glory of God; and St. Kevin rejoiced in the task set   
   before him.   
      
     And the monk who tells the story adds, that from that day in all the place   
   which the angel appointed for the building, there is now no stone that cannot   
   be lightly moved and easily worked all through the valley of Glendalough.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   No tongue can express the greatness of the love which Jesus Christ bears to   
   our souls.   
   He did not wish that between Him and His servants there should be any other   
   pledge    
   than himself, to keep alive the remembrance of Him.    
   -- Saint Peter of Alcantara   
      
   Bible Quote   
   Now when the apostles, who were in Jerusalem, had heard that Samaria   
   had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. Who,    
   when they were come, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost.    
   For he was not as yet come upon any of them; but they were only baptized in the   
   name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands upon them,    
   and they received the Holy Ghost.  (Acts 8:14-17)   
      
      
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   THE CROSS BENEATH THE ROSES   
      
   Hidden from all eyes, but only known to Thee,   
   A treasure brought with suffering,   
   With sorrow and with glee--   
   Covered with the fragrance of Heavenly perfume;   
   Nurtured with a confidence that Heaven would be soon;   
   Carried through the years along with care and grace;   
   Fostered by the memory of His beloved face.   
   Lighter than a cloud, softer than the flower,   
   The Cross beneath the roses   
   Was surely Heaven's power!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)