From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   On Enduring Injuries and the Proof of Patience [3]   
      
      You are not truly patient if you will only endure what you think   
   fit, and only from those whom you like. A truly patient man does not   
   consider by whom he is tried, whether by his superior, his equal, or   
   his inferior; whether by a good and holy man, or by a perverse and   
   wicked person. But however great or frequent the trial that besets   
   him, and by whatever agency it comes, he accepts it gladly as from the   
   hand of God, and counts it all gain.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3, Ch 19   
      
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   20 May – St Austregisilus of Bourges   
      
   Bishop of Bourges from 612 to 624. Priest, Monk, Abbot Born in c 551   
   in Bourges, France and died in 624 of natural causes. Patronage –   
   Bourges, France. Also known as – Aoustrille, Austregesilio, Outril,   
   Outrille.   
      
   Austregisilus was born of noble but not very wealthy parents in   
   Bourges and when he was about 24, he was sent to live at the Court of   
   King Saint Guntram (died c 592).   
      
   There, according to his Vita, he was falsely accused of forging an   
   authorisation for one of the Courtiers and was ordered to fight a duel   
   to prove his innocence. By Divine intervention, it is reported, his   
   slanderer was kicked to death by his own horse on the morning of the   
   ordeal. Austregisilus then left the Court, became a Monk and a Priest    
   and was appointed Abbot of St Nicetius Monastery in Lyon.   
      
   He was Consecrated Bishop of Bourges on 13 February 612. In October   
   614 he attended a Synod which met at Paris and his name appears eighth   
   in the list of 79 Bishops who signed the Decrees.   
      
   He is reported to have granted a hermitage at Bourges to St Amandus,   
   who became his disciple and later became the zealous and effective   
   missionary to Flanders, known as the “Apostle of Belgium.” He Ordained   
   St Sulpitius the Pious as cleric of his Church, then Deacon and Priest   
   and appointed him Director of his Episcopal school and finally his   
   successor as Bishop of Bourges. The French villages of Saint-Outrille   
   and Saint-Aoustrille are named after him.   
      
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   “And everyone who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father,   
   or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for My Name’s sake, shall   
   receive a hundredfold and shall possess life everlasting.” – Matthew   
   19:29   
      
   REFLECTION – “Seek for nothing, desiring to enter for love of Jesus,   
   with detachment, emptiness and poverty in everything in this world.   
   You will never have to do with necessities greater than those to which   
   you made your heart yield itself – for the poor in spirit are most   
   happy and joyful in a state of privation and he who has set his heart   
   on nothing, finds satisfaction everywhere.   
   The poor in spirit (Mt 5:3) give generously all they have and their   
   pleasure consists in being thus deprived of everything for God’s sake   
   and out of love to their neighbour … Not only do temporal goods – the   
   delights and tastes of the senses – hinder and thwart the way of God   
   but spiritual delights and consolations also, if sought for or clung   
   to eagerly, disturb the way of virtue.”   
   – St John of the Cross (1542-1591) Carmelite, Doctor of the Church   
   (Spiritual maxims, nos. 352, 355,356, 364; 1693 edition).   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   7 For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not   
   received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou   
   hadst not received it? [1 Corinthians 4:7] DRV   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and   
   direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to   
   be our teachers and guides.   
   -- Saint Thomas Aquinas   
      
      
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   Prayer To Saint Michael For Powerful Aid   
      
   Glorious Prince of the heavenly hosts   
   and victor over rebellious spirits,   
   be mindful of me who am so weak and sinful   
   and yet so prone to pride and ambition.   
   Lend me, I pray,   
   thy powerful aid in every temptation and difficulty,   
   and above all do not forsake me   
   in my last struggle with the powers of evil.   
      
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)