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   Of the love of solitude and silence  [I]   
      
   Seek a suitable time for thy meditation, and think frequently of the   
   mercies of God to thee.  Leave curious questions.  Study such matters   
   as bring thee sorrow for sin rather than amusement.  If thou withdraw   
   thyself from trifling conversation and idle goings about, as well as   
   from novelties and gossip, thou shalt find thy time sufficient and apt   
   for good meditation.  The greatest saints used to avoid as far as they   
   could the company of men, and chose to live in secret with God.   
   --Thomas à Kempis ---Imitation of Christ Bk 1, Ch 20   
      
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   22 October – Saint Mary Salome   
      
    (First Century)   
   Disciple of Jesus, wife of Zebedee and Mother of Saints James and   
   John, Apostles. She appears briefly in the canonical gospels and in   
   apocryphal writings. She is named by Mark as present at the   
   Crucifixion and as one of the women who found Jesus’s tomb empty.   
   Interpretation has further identified her with other women who are   
   mentioned but not named in the canonical gospels. In particular, she   
   is identified as the wife of Zebedee, the mother of James and John,   
   two of the Twelve apostles. In medieval tradition Salome (as Mary   
   Salome) was counted as one of the Three Marys who were daughters of   
   Saint Anne, so making her the sister or half-sister of Mary, the   
   Blessed Virgin Mother of Jesus.  Patronage – Veroli, Italy.   
      
   Like the Jewish greeting “Shalom” and the Arab “Salaam,” Salome is   
   based on an Aramaic word meaning health and peace. It would be hard to   
   think of a more fitting name for a mother.   
      
   It is quite probable that Salome was the sister of the Blessed Virgin   
   and it is certain that she was the wife of Zebedee and the mother of   
   James the Greater and John the Evangelist (Matthew 20:20; 27:56). In   
   the Gospel of St Matthew (20:20ff) it is written:  “Then the mother of   
   the sons of Zebedee approached Him with her sons and did Him homage,   
   wishing to ask Him for something.  He said to her, ‘What do you wish?’   
   She answered Him, ‘Command that these two sons of mine sit, one at   
   Your right and the other at Your left, in Your kingdom.”   
      
   Salome was one of the women who followed Jesus and served him (Mark   
   15:41), witnessed His Crucifixion and death at Calvary (Matt. 27:56;   
   Mark 15:40) and who brought spices to embalm Him on Easter morning   
   (Mark 16:1ff) (Delaney, Encyclopedia). Legend says that after the   
   Resurrection she went to Veroli, Italy and spent the rest of her life   
   there spreading the Good News.   
      
   In art, Mary Salome is shown with her two sainted children (James and   
   John) in her arms. Occasionally Mary Salome is present at the Nativity   
   because there is a legend that the doubting Salome was a midwife, who   
   came, unbelieving, to the stable at Bethlehem and was converted (cf.   
   Jameson, Legends of the Madonna).  Sometimes Mary Salome together with   
   Mary Cleophas support the Virgin at the Crucifixion or they are   
   present with Mary Magdalene at the Resurrection.   
      
   see   
   https://anastpaul.com/2019/10   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   There would be no need for sermons, if our lives were shining; there   
   would be no need for words, if we bore witness with our deeds. There   
   would be no pagans, if we were true Christians.   
   --Saint John Chrysostom   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And it came to pass, whilst he was at table with them, he took bread,   
   and blessed, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened,   
   and they knew him: and he vanished out of their sight.  (Luke   
   24:30-31)   
      
      
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   Prayer Against Envy   
      
   O my God, Thou so lovest the world that Thou gaveth Thy only begotten   
   Son so that all who believe in Thee might not perish, but may have   
   eternal life. Thou maketh the sun rise upon the good and the bad, and   
   Thou raineth upon the just and the unjust. Yet I am filled with   
   jealousy while others prosper. I want everything to come to me, and I   
   am saddened by my neighbor's least good fortune! O what inhuman   
   malice! O infernal poison! Forgive, o most loving Father what up to   
   this point has been my sin. Gentle is Thy mercy. From the depths of   
   that mercy, grant that henceforth I may be robed in kindness as a   
   chosen one of God. May I also, above all, strive to have charity,   
   which is the bond of perfection. (Col. 3:14)   
      
   Ant. Remember not, Lord, my offenses, nor the offenses of my fathers,   
   nor takest Thou vengeance upon them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)