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   The Upright of Heart   
      
       "Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish   
   what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will to your own   
   but correct your will to that of God.   
       The will of God is a rule of conduct. By it you have the means of   
   being converted and of correcting your evil ways."   
   --St. Augustine--Commentary on Psalm 93, 18   
      
   Prayer: Put to flight my foolishness, Lord, that I may know you. Show   
   me the road I must travel that I may see you. Thus aided, I hope I   
   shall do all you have commanded me.   
   --St. Augustine--Soliloquies 1, 1   
      
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   April 6th - Saint Celestine I, Pope   
      
   (Died 432)   
      
   Saint Celestine was a native of Rome, a relative of the emperor   
   Valentinian, and at the death of Pope Saint Boniface in September 422,   
   he was chosen to succeed him, by the consent of the entire city.   
      
   His first official act was to confirm the condemnation of an African   
   bishop who had been convicted of grave crimes. He wrote also to the   
   bishops of the provinces of Vienne and Narbonne in Gaul to correct   
   several abuses which had followed upon errors in doctrine. He   
   stipulated, among other things, that absolution or reconciliation   
   should never be refused to any dying sinner who sincerely asked it;   
   for repentance depends not so much on time as on the heart, which can   
   be changed in a moment when God so wills.   
      
   Saint Celestine assembled a synod at Rome in 430, by which the   
   writings of Nestorius were examined, and the heresiarch’s obstinate   
   errors in maintaining in Christ two persons, a divine and a human,   
   were condemned. The Pope pronounced sentence of excommunication   
   against Nestorius, and deposed him. Being informed that in Great   
   Britain, the seeds of the Pelagian heresy, denying the necessity of   
   grace, were spreading, Saint Celestine sent there Saint Germanus of   
   Auxerre, whose zeal and ministry happily prevented the threatening   
   danger.   
      
   He also sent Saint Palladius, a Roman, to preach the Faith to the   
   Scots, both in North Britain and in Ireland. Many authors of the life   
   of Saint Patrick say that he, too, received his commission to preach   
   to the Irish from Saint Celestine, in 431. This holy Pope died on the   
   1st of August, in 432, having reigned almost ten years.   
      
   Reflection. Vigilance is truly necessary in those to whom the care of   
   souls has been confided. “Blessed are the servants whom the Lord at   
   His coming shall find watching.” (Luke 12:37)   
      
   Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on   
   Butler’s Lives of the Saints and other sources by John Gilmary Shea   
   (Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way   
   He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and   
   imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule,   
   neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any   
   way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given   
   me by the Lord.   
   --St. Francis of Assisi, The Mirror of Perfection   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death; stay you   
   here, and watch. And when he was gone forward a little, he fell flat   
   on the ground; and he prayed, that if it might be, the hour might pass   
   from him. (Mark 14:34-35)   
      
      
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   Jesus began His ministry by being hungry,   
   Yet He is the Bread of Life.   
   Jesus ended His earthly ministry by being thirsty,   
   Yet He is the Living Water.   
   Jesus was weary,   
   Yet He is our rest.   
   Jesus paid tribute,   
   Yet He is the King.   
   Jesus was accused of having a demon,   
   Yet He cast out demons.   
   Jesus wept,   
   Yet He wipes away our tears.   
   Jesus was sold for thirty pieces of silver,   
   Yet He redeemed the world.   
   Jesus was brought as a lamb to the slaughter,   
   Yet He is the Good Shepherd.   
   Jesus died,   
   Yet by His death He destroyed the power of death.   
      
   *Written by Gregory of Nazasazus    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)