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   -- Proverbs 29:1 –   
      
   A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes   
   will suddenly be destroyed without remedy. NIV   
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   Making the same mistake over and over is an invitation to disaster.   
   Eventually people have to face the consequences of refusing to learn.   
   If their mistake is refusing God's invitations or rejecting his   
   commands, the consequences will be especially serious. In the end, God   
   may have to turn them away. May sure you are not stiff-necked.   
      
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   March 4th - St. Casimir   
   St. Casimir, prince of Poland, was born in the royal palace at Krakow   
   on October 3, 1458.   
      
   When the King went to Lithuania to arrange affairs there, Casimir was   
   placed in charge of Poland and from 1481 to 1483 administered the   
   State with great prudence and justice. About this time his father   
   tried to arrange a marriage for him with the daughter of Frederick   
   III, but Casimir preferred to remain single. Shortly afterward he fell   
   sick, and died at the court of Grodno on March 3, 1484. He is the   
   patron saint of Poland and Lithuania.   
      
      
   Comments of the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira:   
      
   I would like to emphasize that St. Casimir lived in the royal court of   
   his parents, Casimir IV the Great and Queen Elizabeth of Habsburg, to   
   point out that he lived his life at court and became a saint there.   
      
   Sometimes, because of a certain erroneous vision of sanctity, one is   
   led to think that only persons in the religious life – priests, monks   
   and nuns – can become saints. According to this mentality, it is so   
   rare for a layperson to become a saint that one who does so should be   
   considered an exception to the rule, a kind of miracle. However a lay   
   saint is not an exception to the rule; it is the normal accomplishment   
   of the plan of Divine Providence for lay persons.   
      
   The fact that St. Casimir became a saint living in a royal court shows   
   that the court was a place where one can live and be a saint. In this   
   sense, it constitutes a kind of eulogy to the ambience in which he   
   lived. This fact refutes the revolutionary propaganda that says that   
   the courts were necessarily corrupt. Frequently, as we can verify on   
   our calendar, there were saints who were kings and queens, saints who   
   were princes and princesses, and saints who were nobles. Very often   
   sanctity perfumed the courts. Therefore, those courts, instead of   
   being seats of moral corruption and perdition, were often places where   
   sanctity throve, flourished, and exerted a considerable influence.   
      
   In this sense, the ambience of court in many ways realized the ideal   
   of Christian Civilization. What should an ideal court be in a   
   Christian Civilization? The king is an earthly image of God, and his   
   court should be an image of the heavenly court. In an ideal Catholic   
   court, the saintly king would be surrounded by courtesans who should   
   be images of the angels and saints before God thrice holy. Now, the   
   fact that this ideal has been partially realized at certain times in   
   History is something that should fill us with joy. These examples show   
   that the Catholic courts were good, and they also demonstrate how the   
   revolutionary propaganda lies when it talks about the courts.   
      
   Someone could object and say that in one thousand years of History,   
   anyone can find anything to prove a thesis. Therefore, just because   
   many saints can be found in the courts, this does not prove what I   
   said   
      
   I can answer this objection. First, the argument is not true. If it   
   were true, we should have a proportional number of saints in the   
   governments and representative houses of the liberal republican   
   system. This system has been established almost everywhere since the   
   American and French Revolutions – for more than 200 years. We do not   
   find saints, however, flourishing in these political ambiences, but   
   quite the opposite.   
      
   Second, according to the laws of History, normally great virtue or   
   great vice does not appear isolated. It appears, to use a metaphor,   
   like a mountain peak on a whole chain of mountains. That means that if   
   you have a saint in one place, surrounding him you normally have a   
   number of people who are very good Catholics even though they are not   
   saints, a greater number of upright people, and a multitude of just   
   decent people. Sanctity is the greatest fruit of a whole social group   
   that aspires to follow Our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, by showing   
   that many saints existed in the Catholic courts of times past, we   
   demonstrate that those ambiences were compatible with sanctity and   
   good on many levels. So, the saints who lived in those courts were not   
   just exceptional cases, but reflections of the whole.   
      
   I think that St. Casimir is pleased that we are remembering these   
   points about him. I hope and pray that from his heavenly throne he   
   will protect us in our counter-revolutionary fight.   
      
   See Images at:   
   http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j010sdSt.Casimir3-4.htm   
      
      
      
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   Memorare   
   Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that   
   any one who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy   
   intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I fly   
   unto thee, O Virgin of virgins my Mother; to thee do I come, before   
   thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful; O Mother of they Word Incarnate,   
   despise not my petitions, but in thy clemency hear and answer me.   
   Amen.   
      
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   Mary, Mother of the Unborn   
      
   Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much, I beg you to spare the   
   life of the unborn child that I have spiritually adopted who is in   
   danger of abortion. ( Fulton J. Sheen )   
      
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