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   Christ the fruit of the faithful   
      
   "You see that Mary did not doubt but believed and therefore obtained   
   the fruit of faith. 'Blessed … are you who have believed.' But you   
   also are blessed who have heard and believed. For a soul that has   
   believed has both conceived and bears the Word of God and declares his   
   works. Let the soul of Mary be in each of you, so that it magnifies   
   the Lord. Let the spirit of Mary be in each of you, so that it   
   rejoices in God (Luke 1:46-47). She is the one mother of Christ   
   according to the flesh, yet Christ is the Fruit of all according to   
   faith. Every soul receives the Word of God, provided that, undefiiled   
   and unstained by vices, it guards its purity with inviolate modesty.   
    by Ambrose of Milan (339-397 A.D)(excerpt from  EXPOSITION OF THE   
   GOSPEL OF LUKE 2.26)   
      
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   August 26th – St. Bregwin of Canterbury, Bishop   
   (Also known as Bregowine)   
      
   Died 765. The 12th archbishop of Canterbury (761-765), Bregwin's   
   "vita" was written by Eadmer. According to this, he was a Continental   
   Saxon who went to England to receive his education at the abbey-school   
   run by Saint Theodore (f.d. September 19). He received the pallium   
   from Pope Saint Paul I (f.d. June 28). As archbishop he tried to   
   recover Cookham Abbey in Berkshire from King Cynewulf of Wessex and he   
   convened a synod.   
      
   Like his predecessor Saint Cuthbert (f.d. March 20), he was buried in   
   the baptistery of Canterbury cathedral, rather than in the abbey   
   church of Saint Augustine, which had been traditional. When the   
   baptistery was destroyed in 1067 by fire, Bregwin's relics were placed   
   in a vault over the north transept with those of the other archbishops   
   buried there.   
      
   An attempt was made to translate Bregwin's body c. 1121 by a German   
   monk named Lambert to a monastery he was planning to build. Later   
   Bregwin's relics were moved to the altar of Saint Gregory in the south   
   transept of the cathedral, which was the occasion of the short "vita"   
   by Eadmer.   
      
   His letters to Saint Lullus (f.d. October 16) at Mainz can still be   
   read. One of them refers to their friendship made during a visit to   
   Rome, indicates regret that war had led to the loss of contact, and   
   refers to a reliquary he was sending as a gift. His death has been   
   cited as August 24 or 26 depending on the calendar used (Benedictines,   
   Farmer).   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The happiness of man on earth, my children, is to be very good; those   
   who are very good bless the good God, they love Him, they glorify Him,   
   and do all their works with joy and love, because they know that we   
   are in this world for no other end than to serve and love the good   
   God.   
   --St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars   
      
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   Litany in Honor of the Holy Cross; drawn from the Imitation of Christ by   
   Thomas A Kempis, 1380-1471.   
      
   The word of the Cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to   
   us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1 Cor. 1:18)   
      
   Antiphon: God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord   
   Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to   
   the world. (Gal. 6:14)   
      
   Jesus has many who love His Kingdom in heaven, but few who bear   
   His Cross. He has many who desire comfort, but few who desire   
   suffering. He finds many to share His feast, but few His fasting.   
   All desire to rejoice with Him, but few are willing to suffer for His   
   sake.   
   —- Ant.   
      
   Why do you fear to take up the Cross, which is the road to the   
   Kingdom? In the Cross is salvation and life, protection against our   
   enemies, infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of   
   mind, joy of spirit, excellence of virtue, perfection of holiness.   
   There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the   
   Cross.   
   —- Ant.   
      
   Take up the Cross, therefore, and follow Jesus, and go forward   
   into eternal life. Christ has gone before you, bearing His Cross; He   
   died for you on the Cross, that you also may bear your cross, and   
   desire to die on the Cross with Him. For if you die with Him, you   
   will also live with Him. And if you share his sufferings, you will   
   also share His glory.   
   —- Ant.   
      
   See how in the Cross all things consist, and in dying on it all   
   things depend. There is no other way to life and to true inner peace,   
   than the way of the Cross. Go where you will, seek what you will; you   
   will find no higher way above nor safer way below than the road of the   
   Holy Cross.   
   —- Ant.   
      
   The Cross always stands ready, and everywhere awaits you. You   
   cannot escape it, wherever you flee; for wherever you go, you bear   
   yourself, and always find yourself. Look up or down, without you or   
   within, and everywhere you will find the Cross. And everywhere you   
   must have patience, if you wish to attain inner peace, and win an   
   eternal crown.   
   —- Ant.   
      
   Let us pray:   
      
   Lord Jesus Christ, strengthen us to follow Thee not only to the   
   Breaking of Thy Body, but also to the drinking of the Blood of Thy Passion.   
   Help us to love Thee, for Thine own sake, and not for the sake of comfort   
   for ourselves. Make us worthy to suffer for Thy name, Jesus, our   
   Crucified and risen Lord and Saviour, now and forever. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)