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   The Proving of a True Lover(7)   
      
     (The Voice of Christ)   
      
   MY CHILD, you are not yet a brave and wise lover. Fight like a good   
   soldier and if you sometimes fall through weakness, rise again with   
   greater strength than before, trusting in My most abundant grace. But   
   beware of vain complacency and pride. For many are led into error   
   through these faults and sometimes fall into almost perpetual   
   blindness. Let the fall of these, who proudly presume on self, be a   
   warning to you and a constant incentive to humility.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Book 3, Chapter 6   
      
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   October 14th – St. Justus, Bishop of Lyons   
      
   Memorials   
   2 September   
   14 October   
      
   Justus was born in the Vivarais, and whilst he served the church of   
   Vienne as deacon he was advanced to the see of Lyons. His zeal made   
   him severe in reproving everything that deserved reproof, and his   
   attachment to discipline and good order was displayed at the Synod of   
   Valence in the year 374. A council being assembled at Aquileia in 381,   
   St. Justus with two other bishops from Gaul assisted at it. The chief   
   affairs there debated regarded the Arians, and St. Ambrose, who was   
   present, procured the deposition of two Arian bishops. He had a   
   particular respect for St. Justus, as appears from two letters which   
   he addressed to him concerning certain biblical questions.   
      
   It happened that at Lyons a man, who had stabbed some persons in the   
   street, took sanctuary in the church and St. Justus delivered him into   
   the hands of magistrate’s officer upon a promise that the prisoner’s   
   life should be spared. Notwithstanding this he was despatched by the   
   populace. The good bishop was apprehensive that he had been accessory   
   to his death and was by that disqualified for the ministry of the   
   altar. Having long desired to serve God in retirement, it is said that   
   he made use of this as a pretext to resign the pastoral charge. The   
   opposition of his flock seemed an obstacle, but his journey to   
   Aquileia afforded him an opportunity. On his return he stole from his   
   friends in the night, and at Marseilles took ship with a lector of his   
   church, named Viator, and sailed to Alexandria.   
      
      He lived unknown in a monastery in Egypt, until he was discovered   
   by one who came from Gaul to visit monasteries in the Thebald, and the   
   church of Lyons sent a priest called Antiochus to urge him to return   
   but he was not to be prevailed upon. Antiochus (who succeeded Justus   
   in his see and is himself venerated as a saint, on October 15)   
   determined to bear him company in his solitude, and the saint shortly   
   after died in his arms about the year 390. His body was soon after   
   translated to Lyons and buried in the church of the Machabees, which   
   afterwards bore his name. His minister St. Viator survived him only a   
   few weeks, and is named in the Roman Martyrology on October 21, and   
   translation of their bodies together on September 2.   
      
   Alban Butler states that the village of Saint Just in Cornwall takes   
   its name from Justus of Lyons. This seems to be a guess, and a poor   
   one: there are two Cornish Saint Justs, in Roseland and in Penwith,   
   but their eponyms have not been identified.   
      
   An early Latin life of St. Justus is printed in the Acta Sanctorum,   
   September, vol. i (under September 2), and there seems no reason to   
   doubt that it is in the main reliable. The fact that Justus is   
   mentioned on five different days in the Hieronymianum, (see CMH., pp.   
   566-567) may be taken as satisfactory proof of the interest which his   
   cultus inspired. Sidonius Apollinaris in a letter gives a description   
   of the enthusiasm with which crowds flocked to the shrine on his   
   feast-day. Consult also Duchesne, Fastes Épiscopaux , vol. ii, p. 162   
   Coville, Recherches sur l’histoire de Lyon (1928), pp. 441-445 and   
   Leclercq, DAC., vol. x, cc.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   She is the eldest daughter of the Great King. If you enjoy her favor,   
   she will introduce you to the Monarch of the Universe. No one has so   
   great an interest with Him than Mary, who was the occasion of His   
   coming down from Heaven to become man for the redemtion of mankind.   
   --St. John the Almoner   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   "The surviving remnant of the House of Judah will bring forth new   
   roots below and fruits above; for a remnant will issue from Jerusalem,   
   and survivors from Mount Zion. Yahweh Sabaoth's jealous love will   
   accomplish this."  [Isaiah 37:31-32]   
      
      
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   Invocation to Jesus   
      
   Oh Jesus, Miriam's Son   
   And Son of Utmost Light and Sun,   
   Thou who gave up the Supreme Patrimony of Love,   
   Thou who came down to earth for us,   
   Thou on the Cross for those you loved,   
   Thou, Purest essence, the Only one, the Almighty,   
   Thou who listen to those who pray you   
   With Faith and deep Love,   
   Turn your glance to those who cannot pray too   
   And give them Faith, Love and Christian Charity,   
   Let all of us call ourselves brothers.   
   Bless us who invoke you, humbly prostrated to Your Feet,   
   Thou almighty Jesus, great and munificent.   
   Save the world looking at You   
   with growing anxiety.   
      
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