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   > God is the only teacher    "As Christians, our task is to make daily   
   progress toward God. Ourpilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the   
   only teacher, andit demands good students, not ones who play truant. In this   
   school welearn something every    
   day. We learn something from commandments,something from examples, and   
   something from sacraments. These thingsare remedies for our wounds and   
   materials for study."Are you an eager student of God's word and do you listen   
   to it withfaith and obedience?"   
   Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may listen to yourword   
   attentively and obey it joyfully."--St. Augustine--============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 early13th   
   century in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy and died between 1306 and 1322in Gubbio,   
   Umbria, Italy of natural causes. Also known as Peter ofGubbio. Additional   
   Memorial ? 29 October (The    
   Augustinians).Pietro of the noble Ghigenzi family, was born in the first half   
   of the13th century. He studied law first in Italy and then in Paris.At about   
   the age of forty, Pietro came to know the Augustinians andwas drawn to them,   
   wanting to put himself    
   and his law practice at thedisposal of the Church. He joined the Augustinians   
   of his hometown whohad come to Gubbio from the hermitage of Brettino (Fano).As   
   a Friar, he won the respect of his confreres and was entrusted withvarious   
   duties of    
   responsibility. He was chosen and sent by the PriorGeneral to visit the   
   Monasteries of France. Pietro that he traveledbare-footed and met all his   
   brother Augustinians in that way as a signof humility. He left a deep   
   impression for his holiness of life,    
   zealfor the Rule, his patience with Augustinian brothers who had troubleliving   
   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    
   thepeace of the Lord and is renowned for many miracles.?Pietro spent his later   
   years as a prayerful Friar in the GubbioMonastery where he had begun.He died   
   sometime between 1306 and 1322 and was venerated from the timeof his death.   
   His remains were    
   buried in the common grave of Friars inthe centre of the Choir area in the   
   Augustinian Church in Gubbio.One day, soon after his burial, the Friars were   
   in the Choir, singingthe Te Deum and they heard a voice from the tomb that   
   responded: TeDominum    
   confitemur! ? ?Lord, we thank you! ? The frightened brothersopened 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,   
   wherethe veneration of    
   this gentle, humble Friar were immediately and arestill 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 peoplehonours me with their lips    
   but their heart is far from Me and in vaindo 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 (Ex31:18), not give us the essential assistance   
   of grace? Because it    
   waswritten on tablets of stone, not the tablets of flesh, that are ourhearts   
   (2 Cor 3:3) ?.It is the Holy Spirit Who writes ?the Law of the Spirit of life?   
   noton stone but in the heart; this Law of the Spirit of life that is inJesus   
   Christ in Whom the    
   Passover has been celebrated in truth (1 Cor5:7-8), has delivered you from the   
   law of sin and death. Do you wantto have proof of the manifest and certain   
   difference separating theOld Testament from the New? ? Hear what the Lord   
   spoke by the mouth ofone    
   of the prophets. ? ?I will place my law within them and write itupon their   
   hearts? (Jr 31:33). So if God?s Law is written in yourheart, it does not bring   
   forth fear [as at Sinai] but pours a secretsweetness into your soul.? ? St   
   Augustine (354-430)    
   Bishop of Hippo, Father and Doctor of theChurch (Sermon 155, 6 ).Saint   
   Quote:If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. Ifyou   
   wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needywithout waiting   
   for them to ask you.    
   Especially anticipate the needsof those who are ashamed to beg. To make them   
   ask for alms is to makethem buy it.--St. Thomas of VillanovaQuote:Woe to the   
   person whose reputation is greater than his works.--Abba Silvanas<><><><>How   
   we, each of us, should    
   wash one another's feetIf I then being your Lord and Master, have washed your   
   feet; you alsoought to wash one another's feet  [John xiii. 14]   Our Lord   
   wishes that His disciples shall imitate His example. Hesays therefore, If I,   
   who am the greater,    
   being your master and theLord, 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 tominister (Matt. xx. 26-28).   We can   
   also say that in   
      
   God is not the only teacher.   
   --   
   Daniel   
      
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