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   God is the only teacher   
      
       "As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our   
   pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and   
   it demands good students, not ones who play truant. In this school we   
   learn something every day. We learn something from commandments,   
   something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things   
   are remedies for our wounds and materials for study."   
      
   Are you an eager student of God's word and do you listen to it with   
   faith and obedience?   
      
   "Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may listen to your   
   word attentively and obey it joyfully."   
   --St. Augustine--   
      
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   23 March – Blessed Pietro of Gubbio OSA   
      
   (Died c 1306)   
    Priest and Friar of the Order of Hermits of St Augustine, Lawyer,   
   noted Preacher, Envoy for the Order, Miracle-worker. Born in the early   
   13th century in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy and died between 1306 and 1322   
   in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy of natural causes. Also known as Peter of   
   Gubbio. Additional Memorial – 29 October (The Augustinians).   
      
   Pietro of the noble Ghigenzi family, was born in the first half of the   
   13th century. He studied law first in Italy and then in Paris.   
      
   At about the age of forty, Pietro came to know the Augustinians and   
   was drawn to them, wanting to put himself and his law practice at the   
   disposal of the Church. He joined the Augustinians of his hometown who   
   had come to Gubbio from the hermitage of Brettino (Fano).   
      
   As a Friar, he won the respect of his confreres and was entrusted with   
   various duties of responsibility. He was chosen and sent by the Prior   
   General to visit the Monasteries of France. Pietro that he traveled   
   bare-footed and met all his brother Augustinians in that way as a sign   
   of humility. He left a deep impression for his holiness of life, zeal   
   for the Rule, his patience with Augustinian brothers who had trouble   
   living up to the Rule, and as a miracle worker.   
      
   He is described by the Anonymous Florentine, a writer of the  century,   
   as “a man of great patience and prayer, who ended his life in the   
   peace of the Lord and is renowned for many miracles.”   
      
   Pietro spent his later years as a prayerful Friar in the Gubbio   
   Monastery where he had begun.   
      
   He died sometime between 1306 and 1322 and was venerated from the time   
   of his death. His remains were buried in the common grave of Friars in   
   the centre of the Choir area in the Augustinian Church in Gubbio.   
      
   One day, soon after his burial, the Friars were in the Choir, singing   
   the Te Deum and they heard a voice from the tomb that responded: Te   
   Dominum confitemur! – ‘Lord, we thank you! ‘ The frightened brothers   
   opened the tomb and found the body of Blessed Peter on his knees,   
   looking up and hands crossed on his chest.   
      
   Pietro’s relics are still enshrined in the Augustinian Church, where   
   the veneration of this gentle, humble Friar were immediately and are   
   still the subject of pilgrimages.   
   Pope Pius IX Beatified Blessed Pietro in 1874.   
      
   https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/23/   
      
      
   “Hypocrites, well did Isaias prophesy of you, saying, ‘This people   
   honours me with their lips but their heart is far from Me and in vain   
   do they worship Me, teaching as doctrine, the precepts of men.’ ” –   
   Matthew 15:7   
      
   … But why did the first Law, written with the Finger of God (Ex   
   31:18), not give us the essential assistance of grace? Because it was   
   written on tablets of stone, not the tablets of flesh, that are our   
   hearts (2 Cor 3:3) ….   
   It is the Holy Spirit Who writes “the Law of the Spirit of life” not   
   on stone but in the heart; this Law of the Spirit of life that is in   
   Jesus Christ in Whom the Passover has been celebrated in truth (1 Cor   
   5:7-8), has delivered you from the law of sin and death. Do you want   
   to have proof of the manifest and certain difference separating the   
   Old Testament from the New? … Hear what the Lord spoke by the mouth of   
   one of the prophets. … ”I will place my law within them and write it   
   upon their hearts” (Jr 31:33). So if God’s Law is written in your   
   heart, it does not bring forth fear [as at Sinai] but pours a secret   
   sweetness into your soul.”   
    – St Augustine (354-430) Bishop of Hippo, Father and Doctor of the   
   Church (Sermon 155, 6 ).   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If   
   you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy   
   without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs   
   of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make   
   them buy it.   
   --St. Thomas of Villanova   
      
   Quote:   
   Woe to the person whose reputation is greater than his works.   
   --Abba Silvanas   
      
      
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   How we, each of us, should wash one another's feet   
      
   If I then being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also   
   ought to wash one another's feet  [John xiii. 14]   
      
      Our Lord wishes that His disciples shall imitate His example. He   
   says therefore, If I, who am the greater, being your master and the   
   Lord, have washed your feet, you also, all the more who are the less,   
   who are disciples, slaves even, ought to wash one another's feet.   
   Whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister . ..   
    Even as the Son of Man is not come to be ministered unto, but to   
   minister (Matt. xx. 26-28).   
      We can also say that in this one act Our Lord showed all the works   
   of mercy. He who gives bread to the hungry, washes his feet, as also   
   does the man who harbours the harbourless or he who clothes the naked.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)