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   Welcoming the Lord Jesus with expectant faith and humility   
      
      "When the Lord promised to go to the centurion's house to heal his   
   servant, the centurion answered, 'Lord, I am not worthy to have you   
   come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be   
   healed.' By viewing himself as unworthy, he showed himself worthy for   
   Christ to come not merely into his house but also into his heart. He   
   would not have said this with such great faith and humility if he had   
   not already welcomed in his heart the One who came into his house. It   
   would have been no great joy for the Lord Jesus to enter into his   
   house and not to enter his heart. For the Master of humility both by   
   word and example sat down also in the house of a certain proud   
   Pharisee, Simon, and though he sat down in his house, there was no   
   place in his heart. For in his heart the Son of Man could not lay his   
   head" (Matthew 8:20).   
   --St. Augustine--(excerpt from SERMON 62.1)   
      
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   July 9th – Saint Paulina do Coração Agonizante de Jesus   
   Also known as Amabile Lucia Visintainer, Pauline of the Agonizing   
   Heart of Jesus, Pauline Visintainer   
      
   Amabile Visintainer, called by God to be the foundress of the   
   congregation of the sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Brazil was   
   born in Trent (Vigolo Vattaro) Italy on the 16th day of December 1865.   
   She was the daughter of Napoleon Visintainer and Anna Piaezer.   
      
   When she was ten years of age she emigrated with her family to Brazil,   
   South America and the family became established in the state of Santa   
   Catarina, The Visintainer family along with many of their Italian   
   countrymen and women established a new life in New Trent, Vigolo,   
   Brazil.   
      
   Amabile grew up as a true, loving daughter of her family. She was   
   known even at a youthful age for her piety and charity. From an early   
   age she spoke of giving her life to God, she had very little   
   intellectual education, but a great love for the Holy Catholic Faith   
   and for the suffering and poor. She had a few of her companions nurse   
   the sick and abandoned. On July 12, 1890 Amabile and her companions   
   decided with the advise of a missionary, Father Louse Rossi, to band   
   together and live as a spiritual community. In fact it was Father   
   Rossi who became the first spiritual director of the little group of   
   girls who wanted to devote their lives to god by helping the infirm,   
   teaching religion to the children and feeding the poor. A small house   
   was purchased by the Community of New Trent and the young girls began   
   a schedule of spiritual living.   
      
   Father Rossi, a Jesuit priest, encouraged the young women to live in   
   Christ and with the help of this holy priest they began to grow.   
   Amabile, moved by the grace of God, dedicated her little band of women   
   to the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady.   
      
   In 1895 Father Rossi and Amabile, seeing the need for a more formal   
   and secure grouping of the young women coming to them, decided to   
   establish with the permission of the Church, a congregation with   
   Amabile as the Superior. Bishop Jose de Camargo Barros, the bishop of   
   Curitiba, sensing God's divine plan, approved the plan and forwarded   
   the request to Rome.On the 7th day of December 1865, Amabile and   
   companions (Virgina Nicolidi and Theresa Maoli) pronounced their   
   religious vows. Amabile chose the name Sister Pauline of the Agonizing   
   Heart of Jesus, Virgina, Sister Matilde of the Immaculate Conception   
   and Theresa, Sister Inez of St. Joseph.   
      
   In 1903 the growing community transferred the Mother-house to San   
   Paulo, Ipiranga, where Mother Pauline was able to direct the   
   establishment of five provinces in Brazil. In 1909 a new Superior   
   General was elected (Mother Vincent Bottamedi) one of the sisters from   
   New Trent who began in the early years with Mother Pauline. Mother   
   Pauline traveled to each of her houses and knew each sister   
   personally. She was greatly loved and honored as Mother Foundress. She   
   worked unceasingly and constantly proclaimed to her sisters fidelity   
   to the vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience.   
      
   Persevering in her holy call and resigning to God the remainder of   
   life, she lived in contemplation and prayer until her 77th year when   
   on July 9, 1942, God her Lord, her King, her Love, called her home to   
   His Kingdom. Shortly after her death, many began to actively seek her   
   intercession in prayer. Many favors and prayers have been fulfilled.   
   Especially do we seek vocations to the sisterhood and the healing of   
   the sick for whom Mother Pauline had so great a love.   
      
   Three relics were made on her beatification. One was given to Pope   
   John Paul II, one is in the convent where Mother Pauline lived, and   
   one was given to Albert Visintainer and his family of Mount Carmel,   
   PA, USA. It is a bone of one of her fingers. St. Pauline Visintainer's   
   first class relic can be seen at St. Pauline Visintainer Center,   
   Kulpmont, PA Saturdays and Sundays 12:00 Noon - 6:00 PM.   
      
   http://www.saintpaulinecenter.org/bio.htm   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Do not reason about afflictions and contradictions, but receive them   
   with patience and sweetness, feeling that it is enough to know that   
   they come from the hand of God.   
   --St. Francis de Sales   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness   
   for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and   
   sweet for bitter!  (Isa 5:20)   
      
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   Prayer   
   "Lord Jesus, your word is power and life. May I never doubt your love   
   and mercy, and the power of your word that sets us free, and brings   
   healing and restoration to body, mind, heart, and spirit."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)