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   Awakening the Christ asleep within you   
      
   "When you have to listen to abuse, that means you are being buffeted   
   by the wind. When your anger is roused, you are being tossed by the   
   waves. So when the winds blow and the waves mount high, the boat is in   
   danger, your heart is imperiled, your heart is taking a battering. On   
   hearing yourself insulted, you long to retaliate; but the joy of   
   revenge brings with it another kind of misfortune--shipwreck. Why is   
   this? Because Christ is asleep in you. What do I mean? I mean you have   
   forgotten his presence. Rouse him, then; remember him, let him keep   
   watch within you, pay heed to him... A temptation arises: it is the   
   wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the sea. This is the   
   moment to awaken Christ and let him remind you of those words: 'Who   
   can this be? Even the winds and the sea obey him."   
   --St. Augustine--(excerpt from Sermons 63:1-3)   
      
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       • October 28th - SS. Anastasia and Cyril, Martyrs   
      
   CARDINAL BARONIUS added the following entry to the Roman Martyrology   
   under this date “At Rome, the passion of the holy martyrs Anastasia   
   the Elder, a virgin, and Cyril. This same virgin during the   
   persecution of Valerian was bound with fetters by the prefect Probus,   
   smitten with blows and tortured with fire and scourges; and as she   
   continued unmoved in the confession of Christ her breasts were cut   
   off, her nails torn out, her teeth broken, her hands and feet hacked   
   away. Then she was beheaded and, beautified with the jewels of so many   
   sufferings, she passed to her Bridegroom. Cyril brought her water when   
   she asked therefor, and received martyrdom for his reward.”   
      
   Traditions of the Church of Rome know nothing of these martyrs, who   
   were first venerated in the East. Their Greek passio says that St   
   Anastasia was a maiden of patrician birth, twenty years old, who lived   
   in a community of consecrated virgins. Soldiers of the prefect broke   
   into the house, carried her off, and brought her before Probus, who   
   ordered that she be stripped naked. On her protesting that this would   
   shame him more than it would her, she was maltreated as the   
   martyrology sets out. Her body was afterwards translated to   
   Constantinople.   
      
   The passio exists both in Greek and in Latin. Both texts are printed   
   in the Acta Sanctorum, October, vol. xii. J. P. Kirsch seems inclined   
   to think that the only historical martyr was the widow who suffered at   
   Sirmium (December 25), but that, as her feast was kept on a different   
   date in the East, some Greek hagiographer thought it well to invent a   
   new story of a virgin bearing the same name, which he embellished with   
   the fantastic details recounted above. See Lexikon für Theologie und   
   Kirche, vol. i (1930), c. 389.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The garden of the Lord, brethren, includes-- yes, it truly includes--   
   includes not only the roses of martyrs but also the lilies of virgins,   
   and the ivy of married people, and the violets of widows. There is   
   absolutely no kind of human beings, my dearly beloved, who need to   
   despair of their vocation; Christ suffered for all. It was very truly   
   written about him: who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the   
   acknowledgement of the truth.   
   -- Saint Augustine of Hippo   
      
   Bible Quote   
   1 He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep   
   the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power   
   exceedingly. 2 For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the   
   pride of Israel: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have   
   marred their vine branches.  (Nahum 2:1-2)   
      
      
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   Canticle Philippians 2   
      
   Christ, God's servant   
      
   Jesus Christ, although he shared God’s nature,   
   did not try to seize equality with God for himself;   
   but emptied himself, took on the form of a slave,   
   and became like a man – not in appearance only,   
   for he humbled himself by accepting death – even death on a cross.   
   For this, God has raised him high,   
   and given him the name that is above every name,   
   so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bend,   
   in heaven, on earth, and under the earth,   
   and every tongue will proclaim “Jesus Christ is Lord”,   
    to the glory of God the Father.   
      
   Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,   
    as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,   
    world without end.   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)