From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   On Obedience and Discipline:  (II)   
      
   Everyone gladly does whatever he most likes, and likes best those who   
   think as he does; but if God is to dwell among us we must sometimes   
   yield our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise that he   
   knows all things? So do not place too much reliance on the rightness   
   of your own view but be ready to consider the views of others. If your   
   opinion is sound, and you forego it for the love of God and follow   
   that of another, you will win great merit. I have often heard that is   
   safer to accept advice than to give it. It may even come about that   
   each of two opinions is good; but to refuse to come to an agreement   
   with others when reason or occasion demand it is a sign of pride and   
   obstinacy.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 1, Ch 9   
      
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   13 July – Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos   
      
   (1845-1926)   
    Priest, Defender of the Poor, children, the sick and the rural   
   communities – born on 14 October 1845 at Yarumal, Diocese of   
   Antioquía, Colombia and died on 13 July 1926 at Angostura, Antioquia,   
   Colombia of natural causes.  Fr Mariano had a great devotion to the   
   Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin’s Most Holy Rosary.   
   Patronages – against cancer, of Rural labourers. Blessed Mariano was   
   the first Colombian to be Beatified.   
      
   Mariano de Jesús Euse Hoyos was born on 14 October 1845 as the eldest   
   of seven children to Pedro Euse and Rosalía de Hoyos Echeverri during   
   an uncertain period of anti-religious sentiment. He was Baptised on 15   
   October and received the Sacrament of Confirmation in 1847. His   
   great-grandfather Pedro Euse hailed from France.   
      
   In 1860 he entered the College of Saint Joseph of Marinilla where he   
   studied mathematics and passed all his studies with excellent results.   
   From the age of sixteen in 1861, he harboured the desire of becoming a   
   Priest and was then entrusted to the care of his Priest uncle Firmino   
   Hoyos – the Parish Priest of Girardota – and received from him a   
   cultural and spiritual formation. He commenced his studies for the   
   Priesthood on 3 February 1869 at a new Seminary opened in Mendellin   
   and was Ordained on 14 July 1872. He began his clerical career as a   
   curate to his uncle until his uncle died in January 1875 when he was   
   transferred to Yarumal in 1876.   
      
   In 1878 he was assigned as a Parish Priest in Angostura and spent the   
   remainder of his life there. It was there that he became well aware of   
   the parish difficulties such as the construction of an appropriate   
   parish church. He became well noted for being a simple and effective   
   preacher and tended to the social and spiritual needs of the poor of   
   the region with a particular emphasis on rural labourers; he often   
   called the poor “Christ’s nobles.” His particular Parish was in an   
   area that civil war often plagued – in which neither side favoured the   
   faith – so he had to several times hide in caves in the area to escape   
   the fighting. The Priest also encouraged popular devotions such as the   
   Sacred Heart and encouraged recitation of the Holy Rosary amongst   
   families.   
      
   He became bedridden in mid-June 1926 with a serious infection and   
   later died in the first few hours of 13 July 1926. He had been   
   stricken – on 12 July – with enteritis. He said on his deathbed:  “I   
   have already lived long enough. Now my greatest desire is to be united   
   to my Jesus.   
      
   Pope John Paul II granted his final approval to the cure of Fr Rafael   
   Gildardo Velez Saldarriaga (born 1912) from Medellin, as being a   
   credible miracle on 26 March 1999 and Beatified Father Mariano on 9   
   April 2000.   
      
   Father Mariano knew how to integrate himself totally in the life of   
   the people, sharing in the sorrows and joys of all. For all of them he   
   was a diligent Father, teacher and trustworthy counsellor and a   
   faithful witness of Christ’s love among them.  The poor, whom he   
   called ‘Christ’s nobles,’ were his favourites. He never hesitated to   
   use his own goods to alleviate the penury and indigence of the   
   weakest. He frequently visited the sick and was available at all times   
   of the day and night to help them. He took care of children and youth   
   with infinite gentleness and simplicity to lead them on the road of   
   good habits and prudence. – Vatican Information Office   
      
   https://anastpaul.com/2020/07/13/   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   A great help to you always be a great love for, and unlimited   
   confidence in, Our Blessed Lady, Help of Christians, Mother of God,   
   and your Mother also. She says to you: "Whoever is little, let him   
   come to me." If you will love her, she will shower on you many graces   
   in this life, and be an assurance to you of Heaven   
   --St. John Bosco   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave   
   to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they   
   are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together,   
   let no man put asunder.  (Matt. 19:5-6)   
      
      
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   Prayer   
      
   Almighty and everlasting God, we thank thee for thy servant   
   Silas, whom thou didst call to preach the Gospel to the   
   peoples of Turkey, Greece and Macedonia. Raise up, we   
   beseech thee, in this and every land evangelists and   
   heralds of thy kingdom, that thy Church may proclaim the   
   unsearchable riches of our Savior Jesus Christ; who liveth   
   and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God,   
   now and for ever.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)