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   Eternal Joys   
      
   "All the good deeds of our present life, however many they may appear   
   to be, are few in comparison with our eternal recompense. The faithful   
   servant is put in charge of many things after overcoming all the   
   troubles brought him by perishable things. He glories in the eternal   
   joys of his heavenly dwelling. He is brought completely into the joy   
   of his master when he is taken into his eternal home and joined to the   
   company of angels. His inner joy at his gift is such that there is no   
   longer any external perishable thing that can cause him sorrow."   
    by Gregory the Great (540-604 AD)(excerpt from FORTY GOSPEL HOMILIES 9.2)   
      
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   11 September – Saint Elijah Speleota OSBM   
      
   (863-960)   
   Basilian Monk and Hermit, Spiritual adviser. Born as Elia Bozzetta in   
   863 in Reggio Calabria, Italy and died on 11 September 960 at the   
   Aulon Monastery in Calabria, Italy of natural causes. Also known as –   
   Elijah Bozzetta, Elijah Espeleota, Elia…   
      
   The Roman Martyrology states of him today “In the Monastery of Aulinas   
   in Calabria, Saint Elia, known as the Speleota, a distinguished   
   scholar of the hermit and cenobitic life.”   
      
   Elijah was born to the wealthy nobility, the son of Peitro Bozzetta   
   and Leonzia de Leontini. At age 18, to avoid an arranged marriage and   
   answer a call to religious life, Elijah left home to become a pilgrim   
   to Rome.   
      
   He became a Basilian Monk at Grottaferrata outside Rome. He returned   
   briefly to Reggio Calabria, whereater he and a fellow Monk named   
   Arsenio, travelled to Patras, Greece for further study.   
      
   When Elijah returned to Italy, he withdrew from populated areas to   
   live as a Hermit in a cave near Melicuccà, Italy with two fellow   
   Monks, Cosma and Vitale – the word Speleota is Greek for “inhabitant   
   of caves.”   
      
   Word of their wisdom and holiness soon spread and pilgrims regularly   
   visited the caves for spiritual direction and advice.   
      
   On 11 September 960, when he was already 97 years old, Elijah died. He   
   was buried in the tomb that he had dug in the cave with his own hands.   
   There, his body remained buried until 2 August 1747 when his bones   
   were discovered., as attested by the public deed drawn up by the   
   notary Fantoni Carmelo. On 12 August of that year, Antonio Germanò, a   
   seriously ill young man from Melicuccà, was instantly cured at the   
   mere sight of the bones of Saint Elijah.   
      
   see   
   https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/11/   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
    We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business   
   unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the   
   Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us   
   in putting together what we have heard in church.   
   --John Chrysostom   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Bear ye one another's burdens: and so you shall fulfil the law of   
   Christ. For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is   
   nothing, he deceiveth himself.  [Galatians 6:2-3] DRB   
      
      
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   PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES   
      
   Lord, I am yours,   
   and I must belong to no one but you.   
   My soul is yours,   
   and must live only by you.   
   My will is yours,   
   and must love only for you.   
   I must love you as my first cause,   
   since I am from you.   
   I must love you as my end and rest,   
   since I am for you.   
   I must love you more than my own being,   
   since my being subsists by you.   
   I must love you more than myself,   
   since I am all yours and all in you.   
      
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)