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   Peace, Love, and Perseverance   
      
   It was as if you opened to me the heart in your most sacred body. I   
   seemed to see it directly before my eyes. You told me to drink from   
   this fountain, inviting me, that is, to draw the waters of my   
   salvation from your wellsprings, my Savior. I was most eager that   
   streams of faith, hope, and love should flow into me from that source.   
   I was thirsting for poverty, chastity, obedience. I asked to be made   
   wholly clean by you, to be clothed by you, to be made resplendent by   
   you.   
      
   So, after daring to approach your most loving heart, and to plunge my   
   thirst into it, I received a promise from you of a garment made of   
   three parts: these were to cover my soul in its nakedness, and to   
   belong especially to my religious profession. They were peace, love,   
   and perseverance. Protected by this garment of salvation, I was   
   confident that I would lack nothing but all would succeed and give you   
   glory.   
   --St Peter Canisius from his writings describing his profound   
   spiritual experience   
      
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   June 25th - St. Moloc, Bishop and Confessor   
      
   HE was a Scotsman, and a zealous assistant of St. Boniface of Ross in   
   his apostolic labours, in the 7th century, of which mention is made on   
   the 14th of March. The relics of St. Moloc were kept with great   
   veneration at Murlach. When Sweno, the Danish king, sent out of   
   England a barbarous army under the conduct of Olas and Enet, king   
   Malcolm II. After having been at first discomfited by them, overcame   
   them in a 2nd battle near Murlach, which victory he ascribed to the   
   intercession of the Blessed Virgin and St. Moloc, which with his whole   
   army he had earnestly implored. In thanksgiving he founded at Murlach,   
   in 1010, an abbey under their joint invocation, together with a   
   stately cathedral church which he adorned with an episcopal see,   
   though this was afterwards translated to Aberdeen.   
      
   The Danes in two other engagements were entirely routed by this   
   religious prince, who perpetuated the memory of the former of these   
   victories by building a 2nd monastery under the patronage of the   
   Blessed Virgin Mary in the town of Brechin, near which the battle was   
   fought, and by raising an obelisk on the spot, still standing in a   
   village called Cuin, from the name of a Danish general who was there   
   slain. For a memorial of his last victory he erected on the place   
   where it was gained a third abbey called Deir, in the county of   
   Buchan, which soon after adopted the Cistercian rule, and flourished   
   till the change of religion in 1550.   
      
   The name of St. Moloc was famous all over Scotland, especially in the   
   counties of Argyle and Ross. A considerable portion of his relics was   
   honoured in a famous church which still bears his name at Lismore in   
   Argyleshire. On him see Boëtius, l. 9; Hist. Lesley, l. 5, and King.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   An innumerable company of angels, and the spirits of the just;   
   --we dwell under their shadow; we are baptized into their fellowship;   
    we are allotted their guardianship;   
   we are remembered, as we trust, in their prayers.   
   We dwell in the very presence and court of God himself,   
   and of his eternal Son our Savior, who died for us, and rose again,   
    and now intercedes for us before the throne.   
   We have privileges surely far greater than Elisha's;   
   But of the same kind. Angels are among us,   
   and are powerful to do anything.   
   And they do wonders for the believing,   
   which the world knows nothing about.   
   According to our faith, so it is done unto us.   
   Only believe, and all things are ours. We shall have clear and   
   deeply-seeded convictions in our minds of the reality of the invisible world,   
   though we cannot communicate them to others,   
   or explain how we came to have them.   
   --St. John Henry Newman   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Save us, O Lord, our God: and gather us from among nations: That we may give   
   thanks to thy holy name, and may glory in thy praise.  (Psalms 105:47)   
      
      
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   The Serenity Prayer   
      
   God grant me the serenity   
   to accept the things I cannot change;   
   courage to change the things I can;   
   and wisdom to know the difference.   
      
   Although known most widely in its abbreviated form above,   
   the entire prayer reads as follows:   
      
   Full Original Serenity Prayer   
   by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)   
      
   God, give us grace to accept with serenity   
   the things that cannot be changed,   
   Courage to change the things   
   which should be changed,   
   and the Wisdom to distinguish   
   the one from the other.   
      
   Living one day at a time,   
   Enjoying one moment at a time,   
   Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,   
   Taking, as Jesus did,   
   This sinful world as it is,   
   Not as I would have it,   
   Trusting that You will make all things right,   
   If I surrender to Your will,   
   So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,   
   And supremely happy with You forever in the next.   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)