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   How can we overcome envy?   
      
   With the love that God has put into our hearts through the gift of the   
   Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). The Holy Spirit purifies our heart and frees   
   us from our disordered passions, such as envy, jealously, greed, and   
   bitterness. God's love is a generous and selfless love which is wholly   
   oriented towards our good. The love that God places in our hearts   
   seeks the highest good of our neighbor. God's love purifies and frees   
   us from all envy and jealousy--and it compels us to give generously,   
   especially to those who lack what they need.   
      
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   May 31st - Blessed Nicolas Barré   
      
   Bl. Nicolas Barre was born in Amiens, France, on 21 October 1621.   
   Educated by the Jesuits, he joined the Minims of St Francis of Paola   
   at the age of 19. While still a deacon he was asked to teach   
   philosophy, and after ordination he became a theology teacher while   
   continuing as preacher and as director of the famous library at the   
   convent of Place Royale, Paris.   
      
   After falling ill, he was sent to the friary in Amiens and then to   
   Rouen, where he carried out his apostolate mainly with the Third Order   
   of Minims. Here he first met the young women who were to join him in   
   the popular missions as teachers in the "Little Charitable Schools"   
   for poor children. He had been praying and reflecting on this project   
   for 15 years. In his view, the root cause of all social evils was the   
   lack of education and training for young people.   
      
   He began a movement offering popular education. The little charitable   
   schools multiplied in the parishes, where first women and then men   
   were called upon by the parish priest or Bishop. The "trade schools"   
   soon developed, enabling young people earn some income.   
      
   Gradually, he felt drawn by the Holy Spirit to suggest to both the men   
   and women teachers that they form their own community, without vows or   
   cloister, for the purpose of educating ordinary people. Called by   
   Canon Roland to Rheims, then to Lisieux and later to other towns in   
   France, "the Charitable Teachers" gave rise to several foundations   
   inspired by the same apostolic spirit. Nicolas Barre was consulted   
   several times by the young John Baptist de la Salle, thus playing a   
   decisive role in the foundation of the Brothers of the Christian   
   Schools.   
      
   As the number of teachers increased, Nicolas Barre was also spiritual   
   director to many people, especially those suffering interior trials.   
   With extraordinary discernment, he taught them the way of abandonment   
   in faith that he had learned from his own experience. His wisdom and   
   holiness became so famous that it was often said that "hopeless cases   
   must be sent to Fr Barre".   
      
   Nicolas Barre tirelessly sought to lead both the people he directed   
   and the charitable teachers to the prayer of the heart inspired by   
   contemplation of the inexpressible mystery of God, who out of love   
   became man and "even a little child". Nicolas Barre, the spiritual   
   master, was both an apostle and a mystic and expressed this   
   magnificently in his Spiritual Canticle, a mystical poem of   
   abandonment to God. His life was marked by the message and charism of   
   St Francis of Paola: humility, charity and evangelical penance, which   
   bore fruit in the education and formation of youth, fostering each   
   individual's growth in their journey of faith. He died in Paris on 31   
   May 1686.   
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   Saint Quote:   
   Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its   
   Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.   
   -- Saint Catherine of Siena   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man   
   love the world,   
    the charity of the Father is not in him.  (1 John 2:15) DRB   
      
      
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   O Mother and Handmaid of God   
   By St Methodius (c 815 – 885)   
   (Brother of St Cyril)   
      
   Your name, O Mother of God,   
   is replete with all graces and Divine blessings.   
   You have contained Him who cannot be contained,   
   and nourished Him who nourishes all creatures.   
   He who fills heaven and earth   
   and is the Lord of all,   
   was pleased to be in need of you,   
   for it was you who clothed Him with that flesh   
   which He did not have before.   
   Rejoice, then, O Mother and Handmaid of God!   
   Rejoice, because you have made Him a debtor   
   who gives being to all creatures.   
   We are all debtors to God   
   but He is a debtor to you.   
   That is why, O most holy Mother of God,   
   you possess more goodness   
   and greater charity, than all the other Saints   
   and have freer access to God than any of them,   
   for you are His Mother.   
   Be mindful of us, we beg you, in our miseries,   
   for we celebrate your glories   
   and know how great is your goodness.   
   Amen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)