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    -- Psalm 100:4-5 --   
      
   Enter his gates with thanksgiving,   
       and his courts with praise!   
       Give thanks to him, bless his name!   
   5 For the Lord is good;   
       his steadfast love endures for ever,   
       and his faithfulness to all generations.   RSVCE   
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   Thankfulness is the joyful and humble response of a heart that has   
   been transformed by grace. Does gratitude characterize your thoughts   
   of God? Thankfulness is a good test of  your faith. Its absence   
   demonstrates that your faith is more lip service than experiential   
   knowledge. Your days, whether easy or difficult, should be filled with   
   thanksgiving because while life changes drastically, your God remains   
   the same forever. He is constant--constantly good, loving and   
   faithful.   
      
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   October 9th - St. Sabinus   
   (Also known as St. Savin)   
   5th v.   
      
   This saint is venerated as the apostle of the Lavedan, that district   
   of the Pyrenees at one end of which is situated the town of Lourdes.   
   According to his legend he was born at Barcelona and brought up by his   
   widowed mother, who when he became a young man sent him to the care of   
   his uncle Eutilius at Poitiers. Being appointed tutor to his young   
   cousin, Savin (Sabinus) so impressed him by his religious example and   
   inspiring words that the youth secretly left home and went to the   
   great monastery at Ligugé. Eutilius and his wife besought Savin to use   
   his influence with their son to induce him to return home. But he   
   refused, quoting the words of our Lord that He must be loved even more   
   than father and mother, and furthermore announced his intention of   
   becoming a monk at Ligugé himself.   
      
   St. Savin eventually left there with the object of becoming a   
   solitary. He walked to Tarbes and from thence made his way to the   
   place in the Lavedan then called Palatium Aemilianum, where there was   
   a monastery. The abbot, Fronimius, showed him a place a little way off   
   in the mountains well suited to his design. Here St. Savin built   
   himself a cell, which he afterwards exchanged for a pit in the ground,   
   saying that everyone should expiate his sins in the way and the   
   measure that seems to himself called for. This in reply to Fronimius,   
   who on one of his frequent visits to the hermit expressed the opinion   
   that his austerities were becoming exaggerated. Savin preached to the   
   peasants of the neighbourhood by his mouth and by the example of his   
   kindly and penitential spirit, and many and remarkable was the   
   miracles with which they credited him. For example, a farmer having   
   roughly stopped him from crossing his land to reach a spring, he   
   struck water from the rocks with his staff; and one night, having no   
   dry tinder, he lit his candle by the flames from his own heart! He   
   wore only one garment, summer and winter, and that lasted him for   
   thirteen years.   
      
   St. Savin was forewarned of his death and sent a message to the   
   monastery, and he was surrounded by clergy, monks and devoted people   
   when his peaceful end came. His body was enshrined in the abbey   
   church, which was afterwards called St. Savin’s, and the name extended   
   to the adjacent village, Saint-Savin-de-Tarbes.   
      
   No reliance can be placed upon the short text of uncertain date   
   printed in the Acta Sanctorum, October, vol. iv (cf. Mabillon, Annales   
   Benedictini, vol. i, p.575); even the century in which the hermit   
   lived is a matter of pure conjecture the above time-heading follows A.   
   Poncelet. It is characteristic of the methods of a certain type of   
   hagiographer that out of these scanty materials a writer in the   
   so-called Petits Bollandistes has evolved a biography of seven closely   
   printed pages (over 4,500 words) in which he speaks with the same   
   detail and definiteness of statement as he might have used in   
   providing a summary of the career of Napoleon I.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   No matter how good food is, if poison is mixed with it, it may cause   
   the death of him who eats it. So it is with conversation. A single bad   
   word, an evil action, an unbecoming joke, is often enough to harm one   
   or more young listeners, and may later cause them to lose God's grace.   
   --St. John Bosco   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not   
   been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not   
   I, but the grace of God with me:  For whether I or they, so we preach:   
   and so you have believed.  [1Co 15:10-11] DRB   
      
      
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   O Most Holy God   
      
   O most Holy God, I adore Thee, through the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar,   
   and I offer Thee, through the holy hands of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, all   
   the consecrated Hosts on our Altars as a sacrifice of expiation, reparation,   
   and atonement for all the sacrileges, profanations, impieties, blasphemies,   
   and crimes committed against Thee throughout the universe. - Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)