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   Rash Judgment   
      
   St. Augustine says: "The malicious judgment does not injure the person   
   who is judged, but falls upon him who is guilty of the rash judgment."   
      
   But what does this temerity or presumption consist of? The Holy Father   
   tells us that the presumptuous man arrogates to himself what belongs   
   to God alone. For God is the Infallible Judge of the thoughts, words   
   and deeds of men. He has reserved this judgment to Himself. "It is a   
   sign of the greatest malice," says St. Chrysostom, "for mortal man to   
   take upon himself the power, rights and office which the Lord has   
   reserved to Himself." Do you think that this perversity will go   
   unpunished? Listen to the words of St. Dorothy: "There is nothing   
   which draws down the wrath of the Almighty, and imperils man more   
   certainly, than rash and malicious judgment." Why so? I stated the   
   reason above, but the venerable Didacus Stella repeats it: "Because   
   the man who judges rashly, is bold and presumptuous enough to assume   
   to himself the power belonging to God, and usurps the authority of the   
   Supreme Ruler."   
      
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   March 18th - St. Salvator of Horta   
   (1520-1567)   
      
   A reputation for holiness does have some drawbacks. Public recognition   
   can be a nuisance at times--as the confreres of Salvator found out.   
      
   Salvator was born during Spain’s Golden Age. Art, politics and wealth   
   were flourishing. So was religion. Ignatius of Loyola founded the   
   Society of Jesus in 1540.   
      
   Salvator’s parents were poor. At the age of 21 he entered the   
   Franciscans as a brother and was soon known for his asceticism,   
   humility and simplicity.   
      
   As cook, porter and later the official beggar for the friars in   
   Tortosa, he became well known for his charity. He healed the sick with   
   the Sign of the Cross. When crowds of sick people began coming to the   
   friary to see Salvator, the friars transferred him to Horta. Again the   
   sick flocked to ask his intercession; one person estimated that two   
   thousand people a week came to see Salvator. He told them to examine   
   their consciences, to go to confession and to receive Holy Communion   
   worthily. He refused to pray for those who would not receive those   
   sacraments.   
      
   The public attention given to Salvator was relentless. The crowds   
   would sometimes tear off pieces of his habit as relics. Two years   
   before his death, Salvator was moved again, this time to Cagliari on   
   the island of Sardinia. He died at Cagliari saying, "Into your hands,   
   O Lord, I commend my spirit." He was canonized in 1938.   
      
   Comment:   
      
       Medical science is now seeing more clearly the relation of some   
   diseases to one’s emotional and spiritual life. In Healing Life’s   
   Hurts, Matthew and Dennis Linn report that sometimes people experience   
   relief from illness only when they have decided to forgive others.   
   Salvator prayed that people might be healed, and many were. Surely not   
   all diseases can be treated this way; medical help should not be   
   abandoned. But notice that Salvator urged his petitioners to   
   reestablish their priorities in life before they asked for healing.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   When death comes, and we stand before God, no king can command Him, no   
   authority can restrain Him, no riches can hire Him to wait past his   
   appointed time even one moment of an hour. Therefore let us speak what   
   we are bound to speak and do the deeds we are called to do. No empty   
   time is allowed to any of us.   
   -- Saint Thomas More   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and   
   such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain”; whereas   
   you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist   
   that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to   
   say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that.”   
   As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.   
   Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is   
   sin.  [James 4:13-17]   
      
      
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   Prayer to the Queen of Carmel   
      
   O glorious Virgin Mary! Queen of Carmel, Mother of God and of poor   
   sinners; special Protectress of all those who wear thy holy Scapular,   
   I supplicate thee, by the glory that has been accorded thee by the   
   Incarnate Word in choosing thee for His Mother, to obtain for me the   
   pardon of my sins, amendment of my life, salvation of my soul,   
   consolation in my pains, and in particular the grace I now ask,   
   provided it be conformable to the will of thy divine Son. Amen   
      
   O Queen, who art the beauty of Carmel, pray for us.   
      
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