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   So do not start worrying   
      
       “So do not start worrying:  Where will my food come from?  Or my   
   drink?  Or my clothes?   These are the things the pagans are always   
   concerned about.  Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these   
   things.  Instead be concerned about everything else with the Kingdom   
   of God and with what He required of you and He will provide You with   
   all those other things.   So do not worry about tomorrow;  it will   
   have enough worries of its own.  There is no need to add to the   
   trouble each day brings.”… (Mt. 6:31-34)   
      
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   May 29th - Saint Maximinus, Bishop of Trier   
      
   d. 349.   
      
   From the works of St. Athanasius and St. Hilary, and from the   
   councils. See Tillem. t. 7, p. 248. Rivet Hist Lit. Fr. t. 1, and   
   Calmet Hist. Lor. t. 1.   
      
   St. Maximinus was one of those pastors whom God raised in the most   
   dangerous times to support his church. He was born at Poitiers, nobly   
   descended, and related to Maxentius, bishop of that city before St.   
   Hilary. The reputation of the sanctity of St. Agritius, bishop of   
   Trier, drew him young to that city, and after a most virtuous   
   education, he was admitted to holy orders, and, upon the death of   
   Agritius, chosen his successor in 332.   
      
    When St. Athanasius was banished to Trier in 336, St. Maximinus   
   received him, not as a person disgraced, but as a most glorious   
   confessor of Christ, and thought it a great happiness to enjoy the   
   company of so illustrious a saint. St. Athanasius stayed with him two   
   years; and his works bear evidence to the indefatigable vigilance,   
   heroic courage, and exemplary virtue of our saint, who was before that   
   time famous for the gift of miracles.   
      
   St. Paul, bishop of Constantinople, being banished by Constantius,   
   found also a retreat at Triers, and in St. Maximinus a powerful   
   protector. Our saint, by his counsels, cautioned the emperor Constans   
   against the intrigues and snares of the Arians, and on every occasion   
   discovered their artifice, and opposed their faction. He was one of   
   the most illustrious defenders of the Catholic faith in the council of   
   Sardica in 347, and had the honor to be ranked by the Arians with St.   
   Athanasius, in an excommunication which they pretended to fulminate   
   against them at Philippopolis.   
      
   St. Maximinus is said to have died in Poitou in 349, having made a   
   journey thither to see his relations. He was buried near Poitiers; but   
   his body was afterwards translated to Triers on the day which is now   
   devoted to his memory. St. Maximinus, by protecting and harboring   
   saints, received himself the recompense of a saint.   
      
   Saint Jerome describes him as "one of the most courageous bishops of   
   his time" (Benedictines, White).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "And should you ever hear a sister [someone] speak ill of others, be   
   careful neither to encourage her uncharitableness nor to appear   
   pleased with her language; otherwise you will partake of her guilt.   
   You should either reprove her, or change the subject of conversation,   
   or withdraw from her, or at least pay no attention to her.   
   Your words must be full of charity, so as to cover as much as possible   
   the defects of others, or at least to excuse their intention, if their   
   actions be inexcusable."   
   --St. Alphonsus de Liguori (Doctor, 1696-1787)--"The True Spouse of   
   Jesus Christ"   
      
   Bible Quotes:   
   "Hast thou heard a word against thy neighbour? let it die within thee,   
   trusting that it will not burst thee"  (Ecclesiasticus 19:10)   
      
   "Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good,   
   to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the   
   hearers"  (Ephesians 4:29)   
      
      
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   --Hymn by Saint Bede the Venerable   
      
   A hymn of glory let us sing;   
   New songs throughout the world shall ring:   
   Christ, by a road before untrod,   
   Now rises to the throne of God.   
      
   The holy apostolic band   
   Upon the Mount of Olives stand;   
   And with his followers they see   
   Their Lord's ascending majesty.   
      
   To them the angels drawing nigh,   
   "Why stand and gaze upon the sky?   
   This is the Savior," thus they say;   
   "This is his glorious triumph day. "   
      
   Again shall ye behold him so   
   As ye today have seen him go,   
   In glorious pomp ascending high,   
   Up to the portals of the sky."   
      
   O risen Christ, ascended Lord,   
   All praise to thee let earth accord,   
   Who art, while endless ages run,   
   With Father and with Spirit one.   
      
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