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   Time of Mercy   
      
   Now is the time of mercy, for us to correct ourselves. The time for   
   judgement has not yet come. There is no need to despair.   
      
   Because of our human, pardonable, and more trivial sins, God has   
   established in the Church set times for requesting mercy. We have a   
   daily medicine in our saying "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our   
   debtors," so that we may share in the Body and Blood of Christ."   
   --St. Augustine--Sermon 17, 5   
      
   Prayer: O Lord, give us your Christ; let us know and see him--and rejoice.   
   --St. Augustine--Commentary on the Psalm 84, 9   
      
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   3 May – Saint Stanislaw Kazimierczyk CRL   
   Also known as Louis Scholtis, Louis Soltys, Stanislas Kazimierz,   
   Stanislaw Kazimierczyk   
      
   (1433–1489) aged 55   
    Priest of the Canons Regular of the Lateran--Apostle of the Holy   
   Eucharist and of the poor, of Confession, famed Preacher, ascetic,   
   mystic.   
      
   Stanisław Sołtys was born 27 September 1433 in Kraków to Maciej Sołtys   
   and Jadwiga. His parents had long wanted a child and he was born on   
   exactly the same date that the remains of Saint Stanisłaus  (1030–   
   1079), Patron of Poland, were being moved. His parents were members of   
   the Brotherhood of the Blessed Sacrament.   
      
   He received his education from the Canons Regular of the Lateran at   
   their school, not far from his home, which was attached to their   
   convent and to the local parish church of the Corpus Christi, that the   
   order administered. He went onto receive doctorates in theological   
   studies and in his philosophical studies from the Jagiellonian   
   University in Kraków. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1451.   
      
   The successful completion of his studies in 1456 saw him enter the   
   Canons Regular of the Lateran and thus became a novice. He took the   
   religious name of Stanisław Kazimierczyk after the patron of Poland.   
      
   He was ordained as a priest in 1456 and was then named as the   
   vice-prior of the order despite being a new priest and not having   
   experience. He was also made the novice master in charge of new   
   candidates to the order. He dedicated himself to the care of the ill   
   and the poor and was noted for the deep devotion of the Holy Mass. He   
   developed a reputation for great spiritual insight as a confessor. It   
   was his allure as a preacher and confessor that saw people seek him   
   out to preach and hear their confessions. He preached in strong   
   defence of the doctrine of the Real Presence in the Eucharist against   
   the preachings of the Polish followers of John Wycliffe and Jan Hus.   
   It was due to this, that he gained the title “Apostle of the Blessed   
   Sacrament”. Saint John Cantius (1390-1473)--a colleague of his at the   
   Jagiellonian and a major scientist of the period, was a close friend   
   of his.   
      
   He slept little and often slept on the ground more as a penitential   
   act. On one occasion he went to visit the tomb of his patron when he   
   saw the Mother of God with the Infant Jesus in her arms, Saint   
   Stanisław and other saints were around her. He often delivered his   
   sermons in German as well as his native Polish. King John I Albert   
   once attributed an 8 September 1487 battle win against the Ottoman   
   Empire to him.   
      
   He died on 3 May 1489 and immediately was acclaimed a saint by all who   
   knew him and those to whom he ministered. He had fallen quite ill   
   during Lent and requested anointing. He put his hands on his   
   conferees’ heads to bless them and to bid them farewell and died with   
   his hands upraised to entrust his soul to God.   
      
   The faithful referred to him often as “Blessed” despite the fact that   
   he had not been beatified but was called this due to his great   
   reputation for personal holiness--in the 1500s this title was recorded   
   as being given. His remains were moved in 1632 after the priest Martin   
   Kłoczyński commissioned a splendid altar in his honour to house the   
   remains--a total of 176 purported miracles were reported to have taken   
   place in the first year since his death.   
      
   The Canons Regular of the Lateran made several requests to the pope to   
   seek beatification in 1773 but no cause was ever initiated. The   
   Cardinal Archbishop of Kraków Karol Józef Wojtyła (the future St Pope   
   John Paul II) asked the order, in 1971, to collect existing documents   
   and evidence on the life of the late priest and set up a historical   
   commission to aid them in this on 15 December 1972. The beatification   
   process launched under Pope John Paul II on 14 October 1986 and the   
   priest was titled as a Servant of God once the Congregation for the   
   Causes of Saints (CCS) issued the official nihil obstat to the cause.   
   St John Paul II both named him as Venerable upon the confirmation of   
   his heroic virtue and approved his longstanding “cultus” which allowed   
   for the pope to preside over the Beatification on 18 June 1993 as a   
   solemnisation of that “cultus”.   
      
   Pope Benedict XVI approved a miracle on 19 December 2009 and on 19   
   February 2010 confirmed the date for Canonisation. He Canonised him on   
   17 October 2010 in Saint Peter’s Square. Patronage--of Preachers.   
      
   see   
   https://anastpaul.com/2019/05/03/   
      
      
   “Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you   
   still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.   
   How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? …” -John 14:9   
      
   REFLECTION – “In the Church, I know of only one image, that is, the   
   image of the unseen God. God has said about this image, “Let us make   
   man [humankind] in our image.” Of this image it is written that Christ   
   is the “effulgence of the glory and impress of His hypostasis.” In   
   that image, I perceive the Father, as the Lord Jesus Himself has said,   
   “The one who has seen me has seen the Father.” For this image is not   
   separated from the Father, which indeed, has taught me the unity of   
   the Trinity, saying, “I and the Father are one” and again, “All things   
   whatever the Father has are mine.” [In this image, also perceive] the   
   Holy Spirit, seeing that the Spirit is Christ’s and has received of   
   Christ, as it is written, “He shall receive of mine and shall announce   
   it to you.”   
    – St Ambrose (340-397)(Sermon Against Auxentius, 32)   
      
      
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   O Most Holy God   
      
   O most Holy God, I adore Thee, through the Adorable   
   Sacrament of the Altar, and I offer Thee, through the holy   
   hands of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, all the consecrated   
   Hosts on our Altars as a sacrifice of expiation, reparation,   
   and atonement for all the sacrileges, profanations,   
   impieties, blasphemies, and crimes committed against   
      
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