From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   Don't forget the presence of Christ   
      
   When you have to listen to abuse, that means you are being buffeted by   
   the wind; when your anger is roused, you are being tossed by the   
   waves. So when the winds blow and the waves mount high, the boat is in   
   danger, your heart is imperiled, your heart is taking a battering. On   
   hearing yourself insulted, you long to retaliate; but the joy of   
   revenge brings with it another kind of misfortune—shipwreck. Why is   
   this? Because Christ is asleep in you. What do I mean? I mean you have   
   forgotten his presence. Rouse him, then; remember him, let him keep   
   watch within you, pay heed to him. Now what was your desire? You   
   wanted to get your own back. You have forgotten that when Christ was   
   being crucified he said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what   
   they do. Christ, the sleeper in your heart, had no desire for   
   vengeance in his. Rouse him, then, call him to mind.   
   --Augustine of Hippo:   
      
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   May 15th - Blessed Andrew Abellon   
      
   Born at Saint Maximin, France, in 1375; died at Aix-en-Provence on May   
   15, 1450; cultus confirmed in 1902. Blessed Andrew was born near the   
   world-famous shrine of Mary Magdalen. His entire life was centered   
   around the shrine, and it is greatly due to his efforts that devotion   
   to the great penitential has become so well established.   
      
   As a young man, Andrew may have heard the stirring sermons of Saint   
   Vincent Ferrer, who was at that time preaching in France. Perhaps the   
   purity and penitential zeal for which this great preacher was renowned   
   gave the young Andrew the pattern for his own life. He soon   
   demonstrated his choice of purity and penance by joining the   
   Dominicans in his home town. After a happy and holy novitiate, he made   
   his profession and was ordained. In a few years, a preacher and a   
   guide for souls, he turned his attention to the neglected shrine of   
   Saint Mary Magdalen.   
      
   This rugged and penitential region of France had been honored from the   
   time of the Apostles as the chosen retreat for Mary Magdalen, who did   
   penance there for the sins of her youth. From earliest days, it had   
   been a place of pilgrimage, but had no definite arrangements for the   
   care of pilgrims, nor any way of supplying their spiritual needs. In   
   Blessed Andrew's time, Dominican fathers from Saint-Maximin had taken   
   over the spiritual care of the pilgrims as a mission work, but without   
   financial help, and in the face of great trials.   
      
   Seeing the need of a permanent foundation at the shrine, Andrew set   
   about creating one. He interested the queen in his project, and   
   obtained enough money from her to build a monastery, which was a gem   
   of architecture as well as a source of spiritual power. Andrew had   
   studied art before his entry into the order, and he used his talents   
   in building, beautifully and permanently, whatever he was called upon   
   to do.   
      
   A lover of great beauty in the physical order, Andrew was the same in   
   the spiritual. He was famous as a confessor, and his wise government   
   as prior gave help to the spiritual growth of the new convent. A   
   practical man as well as deeply spiritual, Andrew established two   
   mills near the shrine that would provide the people with a means of   
   earning a living while remaining there. Quite naturally, a priest who   
   interested himself in the welfare of the people to this extent could   
   hope for great influence with them, and this he had, both at Saint   
   Maximin and at Aix, where an altarpiece he painted may still be seen.   
      
   After his death, Blessed Andrew was buried in the Church of the   
   Magdalen. His tomb soon became a place of pilgrimage; his help   
   especially was sought in the cure of fevers (Benedictines, Dominicans,   
   Dorcy).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   God, in his promises to hear our prayers, is desirous to bestow   
   Himself upon us; if you find anything better than Him, ask it; but if   
   you ask anything beneath Him, you put an affront upon Him, and hurt   
   yourself by preferring to Him a creature which He framed: Pray in the   
   spirit and sentiment of love, in which the royal prophet said to Him,   
   'Thou, O Lord, are my portion.' Let others choose to themselves   
   portions among creatures, for my part, You are my portion, You alone I   
   have chosen for my whole inheritance.   
   --Saint Augustine (Austin) of Canterbury   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same charity,   
   being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment. Let nothing be done   
   through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each   
   esteem others better than themselves: Each one not considering the   
   things that are his own, but those that are other men's.  [Philippians   
   2:2-4] DRB   
      
      
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   O Jesus King Most Wonderful:   
   From The Raccolta   
      
   O Jesus, King most wonderful,   
   Thou Conqueror renowned!   
   Thou Sweetness most ineffable,   
   In Whom all joys are found!   
      
   When once Thou visitest the heart,   
   Then truth begins to shine;   
   The earthly vanities depart;   
   Then kindles love Divine.   
      
   O Jesus, Light of all below!   
   Thou Fount of life and fire,   
   Surpassing all the joys we know,   
   And all we can desire!   
      
   May every heart confess Thy Name,   
   And ever Thee adore;   
   And seeking Thee, itself inflame   
   To seek Thee more and more.   
      
   Thee may our tongues forever bless;   
   Thee may we love alone;   
   And ever in our lives express   
   The image of Thine Own. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)