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   whatever is done will be safe and valid.”--Letter to the Smyrnaeans 8,   
   J.R. Willis translation.   
      
   It is from the word katholikos (“according to the whole”) that the   
   word catholic comes. When Ignatius wrote the Letter to the Smyrnaeans   
   in about the year 107 and used the word catholic, he used it as if it   
   were a word already in use to describe the Church. This has led many   
   scholars to conclude that the appellation Catholic Church with its   
   ecclesial connotation may have been in use as early as the last   
   quarter of the 1st century. On the Eucharist, he wrote in his letter   
   to the Smyrnaeans:   
      
   “Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions on the grace of Jesus   
   Christ which has come to us, and see how contrary their opinions are   
   to the mind of God … They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer   
   because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our   
   Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which that   
   Father, in his goodness, raised up again. They who deny the gift of   
   God are perishing in their disputes.”--Letter to the Smyrnaeans   
   6:2–7:1   
      
   by Matthew   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "If we had taken you at such a time," said the heretics to St.   
   Dominic, "what would you have done?" The Saint replied: "I would have   
   asked you not to kill me all at once, but to have cut off my limbs,   
   one by one, and to have placed them before my eyes, and then to have   
   tom out my eyes, and left me so to perish."   
   --St. Dominic   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And he said to them: You are they who justify yourselves before men,   
   but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is high to men, is an   
   abomination before God.  (Luke 16:15)   
      
      
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   To the Holy Archangel Who Strengthened Our Lord in His Agony   
      
   I salute thee, holy Angel who didst comfort my Jesus in His   
   agony, and with thee I praise the most holy Trinity for having   
   chosen thee from among all the holy Angels to comfort and   
   strengthen Him who is the comfort and strength of all that   
   are in affliction. By the honor thou didst enjoy and by the   
   obedience, humility and love wherewith thou didst assist the   
   sacred Humanity of Jesus, my Savior, when He was fainting   
   for very sorrow at seeing the sins of the world and   
   especially my sins, I beseech thee to obtain for me perfect   
   sorrow for my sins; deign to strengthen me In the afflictions   
   that now overwhelm me, and in all the other trials, to which I   
   shall be exposed henceforth and, in particular, when I find   
   myself in my final agony. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)