From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   All nature serves for our instruction   
      
      "All nature serves the Word of God for our instruction. Through all   
   the turning points of the year, as if through the four Gospels, we   
   learn from the unceasing trumpet both what we should preach and what   
   we should do... What is there through which the truth does not speak   
   to us? Its voice is heard in the day, it is heard in the night, and   
   the beauty of all things, established by the work of one God, does not   
   cease to put into the ears of our hearts a ruling order, to let us see   
   the 'invisible things of God through those which have been made   
   intelligible to us,' and it is subject not to the creatures but to the   
   Creator of all things."   
    by Leo the Great, 400-461 A.D.(excerpt from Sermon 19,2)   
      
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   May 13th - Our Lady of Fatima   
      
   Much has been written concerning the six famous apparitions of the   
   Blessed Virgin Mary in a little town in Portugal between May 13 and   
   October 13, 1917. Later it would be said, and rightly so, that   
   everything She predicted there to the three little shepherds has been   
   fulfilled point by point. The story is too long to tell in detail in a   
   few words, and indeed it is not over yet.   
      
   Our Lady of Fatima was sent to warn the 20th century that humanity had   
   not followed the path that had been indicated to it by her Son;   
   humanity had not developed as God intended, and the time of the last   
   and worst enemy was fast approaching. She said that if Her requests   
   for prayer and penance were not heard, Communism would spread its   
   errors all over the earth. She appealed to the Apostles of the Latter   
   Times to come forth, those who lived in humility, poverty and contempt   
   for the world, repeating what She had already said at La Salette,   
   France, in greater detail in 1846.   
      
   During the final apparition on October 13th, She appeared as Our Lady   
   of Mount Carmel, accompanied by Saint Joseph and the divine Child.   
   Through Lucy of Fatima, Mary had promised a miracle to convince   
   doubters of the reality of Her presence and the Will of God She had   
   conveyed by Her words, and She fulfilled that promise. On October 13,   
   1917, the great Miracle of the Sun occurred, witnessed by all who were   
   present at Fatima, an international crowd of 70,000 spectators. The   
   sun whirled about and seemed to be plunging down as it sent off   
   multicolored rays; many cried out that it was the end of the world.   
      
   A large shrine was built at Fatima, and in the 1940’s more than a   
   thousand miracles had already been duly confirmed there. The famous   
   “Secret of Fatima,” part of which was disclosed by the Vatican to   
   certain heads of State in 1963, still remains largely a secret for   
   most of the people who have been waiting for it since 1960, the year   
   that the Virgin said it was to be made public.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
    Believe me, the writing of pious books, the composing of the   
   sublimest poetry; all that   
   does not equal the smallest act of self-denial   
   —St Therese of Lisiuex   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in   
   virtue, knowledge: And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence,   
   patience: and in patience, godliness: And in godliness, love of   
   brotherhood: and in love of brotherhood, charity. For if these things   
   be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor   
   unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he that hath   
   not these things with him is blind and groping, having forgotten that   
   he was purged from his old sins.  [2 Pe. 1:5-9] DRB   
      
      
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   A Prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, by Blessed Miguel Pro, S.J.:   
      
   Does our life become from day to day more painful, more   
   oppressive, more replete with sufferings? Blessed be He a   
   thousand times who desires it so. If life be harder, love   
   makes it also stronger, and only this love, grounded on   
   suffering, can carry the Cross of my Lord, Jesus Christ."   
      
   "I believe, O Lord, but strengthen my faith...Heart of Jesus, I   
   love Thee, but increase my love. Heart of Jesus, I trust in   
   Thee, but give greater vigor to my confidence. Heart of Jesus,   
   I give my heart to Thee, but so enclose it in Thee that it may   
   never be separated from Thee. Heart of Jesus, I am all Thine,   
   but take care of my promise so that I may be able to put it in   
   practice even unto the complete sacrifice of my life."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)