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   God's eternal quest   
      
    God's eternal quest must be the tracking down of souls. You should   
   join Him in His quest. Through briers, through waste places, through   
   glades, up mountain heights, down into valleys. God leads you. But   
   ever with His leadership goes your helping hand. Glorious to follow   
   where the Leader goes. You are seeking lost sheep. You are bringing   
   the good news into places where it has not been known before. You may   
   not know which soul you will help, but you can leave all results to   
   God. Just go with Him in His eternal quest for souls.   
      
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   9 July – Blessed Giovanna Scopelli O.Carm   
      
    Virgin, Mystic, Italian Religious of the Carmelites and established   
   her own Convent as its first Prioress. She was known, during her   
   lifetime as a miracle-worker with many coming to her to ask for her   
   assistance and prayers. Born in 1428 at Reggio d’ Emilia, Italy and   
   died in 1491 of natural causes, aged 63. Also known as – Jane   
   Scopelli, Joan Scopelli, Giovanna of of Reggio Her body is incorrupt.   
      
   Giovanna Scopelli was born in 1428 in Reggio Emilia to Simone and   
   Caterina Scopelli. From her childhood she felt a strong attraction to   
   the religious life though her parents disapproved of this vocation and   
   forbade her to pursue it. Scopelli submitted to this and so led her   
   austere and pious life at home until the death of her parents around   
   1480, when she then decided to form the Carmelite Convent of Santa   
   Maria del Popolo while in the process of her Novitiate.   
      
   Giovanna took on the task of looking for a suitable place, when a   
   widow offered herself, two daughters and her home. They lived together   
   from 1480 until 1484, meanwhile Giovanna was looking for a place   
   which could serve as a Monastery. Giovanna set her eyes on the Church   
   of St Bernard, which belonged to the Humiliati Friars. With the   
   support of the Bishop, Philip Zoboli, she obtained it from the Friars’   
   General on his way through Reggio. The beginnings of the new Monastery   
   dates from 1485, with the name changed from that of St Bernard to that   
   of St Mary of the People (afterwards called of the White Sisters). The   
   inevitable financial difficulties at the beginning were surmounted   
   through the help of a certain Christopher Zoboli. Under Joan’s   
   direction more than twenty religious made up the new community, which   
   was entrusted to the care of the Mantuan Congregation of Carmelites   
   and, for which, in 1487, the Carmelites provided a Confessor.   
      
   She refused all endowments and gifts – and urged her fellow religious   
   to do the same thing – unless such gifts were given as alms with no   
   conditions attached to them. In 1487 a Priest was assigned to them as   
   their Confessor. The nuns became known as “The White Nuns.”   
      
   God gifted Giovanna with extraordinary charisms. She herself fostered   
   a deep Marian piety (she venerated the Blessed Virgin with a special   
   devotion of her own, called the Tunic of Our Lady – mainly a frequent   
   repetition of Hail Marys and was animated by an intense spirit of   
   penance.   
      
   She died on 9 July1491;. Her cult began the following year, with the   
   exhumation of her incorrupt body. In 1500 a public judgement was   
   passed on her life, her virtues and her miracles. During the years   
   1767-70 the Diocesan process for the recognition of the cult was held,   
   which met with the approval of Pope Clement XIV on 24 August 1771.   
   After the suppression of the Monastery by the secular powers and of   
   the Church of the Carmelite nuns in 1797, the body of the Blessed was   
   transferred to the Cathedral in the year 1803.   
      
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   Saint Quote:   
   ...How often we come to church with no idea of what to do or what to   
   ask for. And yet, whenever we go to any human being, we know well   
   enough why we go. And still worse, there are some who seem to speak to   
   the good God like this: "I will only say a couple of things to you,   
   and then I will be rid of you." I often think that when we come to   
   adore the Lord, we would receive everything we ask for, if we would   
   ask with living faith and with a pure heart.”   
   --Saint John Mary Vianney from his catechetical instructions   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart. Rejoice, ye   
   just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.   
   (Psalms 97:11-12)  DRB   
      
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   O good Jesus, hide me within Thy wounds.   
      
   Behold, O good and sweetest Jesus, before Thy Face I   
   humbly kneel, and with the greatest fervour of my soul I pray   
   and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments   
   of faith, hope, and charity, with true contrition for my sins and   
   a most firm purpose of amendment, whilst I contemplate with   
   great sorrow and affection Thy five wounds and ponder them   
   over in my mind, having before my eyes the words which long   
   ago David the prophet spoke in Thy own person concerning   
   Thee, O good Jesus: "They have pierced My hands and My   
   feet, they have numbered all My bones."   
      
   Grant, O Lord Jesus Christ, that we who devoutly cherish   
   Thy wounds, having them impressed on our hearts, may   
   honour them by our actions and our life. Glory be to the   
   Father, etc., five times.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)