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   Why do you delay?   
      
   Why do you delay, why are you afraid? Believe, give praise, and   
   receive. Let humility be bold, let modesty be confident. This is no   
   time for virginal simplicity to forget prudence. In this matter alone,   
   O prudent Virgin, do not fear to be presumptuous. Though modest   
   silence is pleasing, dutiful speech is now more necessary. Open your   
   heart to faith, O blessed Virgin, your lips to praise, your womb to   
   the Creator. See, the desired of all nations is at your door, knocking   
   to enter. If he should pass by because of your delay, in sorrow you   
   would begin to seek him afresh, the One whom your soul loves. Arise,   
   hasten, open. Arise in faith, hasten in devotion, open in praise and   
   thanksgiving. Behold the handmaid of the Lord, she says, be it done to   
   me according to your word.   
   -- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux from a homily   
      
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   May 2nd - St. Waldebert, abbot   
      
   AMONGST the successors of St. Columban in the monastery of Luxeuil the   
   most famous during his life and the most revered after his death was   
   St. Waldebert (Walbert, Gaubert), the third abbot. This is partly due   
   to the fact that his long rule coincided with the most glorious period   
   of the abbey’s history and partly to the numerous miracles attributed   
   to the saint. Objects he had touched—notably his wooden drinking   
   bowl—were long venerated for their healing properties, and in the   
   tenth century Anso, a Luxeuil monk, wrote a book about the wonders the   
   saint had wrought.   
      
   Waldebert was a young Frankish nobleman, who in military attire   
   appeared at Luxeuil to ask admittance of the abbot, St. Eustace, and   
   when he laid aside his weapons to receive the habit they were   
   suspended from the roof of the church, where they remained for   
   centuries. He proved so exemplary a monk that he obtained permission   
   to lead the eremitic life about three miles from the abbey. After the   
   death of St. Eustace and the refusal of St. Gall to become his   
   successor, the brethren chose St. Waldebert as their superior. For   
   forty years he ruled them wisely and well. Under his government the   
   Rule of St. Columban was superseded by that of St. Benedict, and he   
   obtained for Luxeuil from Pope John IV the privilege, already conceded   
   to Lérins and Agaunum, of being free from episcopal control. He had   
   bestowed his own estates upon the abbey, which was also enriched   
   during his lifetime by many benefactions. Such assistance was indeed   
   needed, because Luxeuil itself could not contain or support all who   
   sought to enter it; parties of monks were continually being sent out   
   from it to found fresh houses in other parts of France. Even over   
   nunneries St. Waldebert was called to exercise control, and it was   
   with his help that St. Salaberga founded her great convent at Laon.   
   The holy abbot died about the year 665.   
      
   An account of the life and miracles of St. Waldebert was written 300   
   years after his death by Abbot Anso; this has been printed by   
   Mabillon, and in the Acta Sanctorum, May, vol. i. See also J. B.   
   Clerc, Ermitage et vie de S. Valbert (1861); H. Baumont, Etude   
   historique sur Luxeuil (1896); J. Poinsotte. Les Abbé, de Luxeuil   
   (1900).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little. Remember that he of   
   whom you are speaking is   
   your brother, and, as he is in the way of salvation, God can make him   
   a Saint, in spite of his present weakness.`   
   -- St. Thomas of Villanova   
      
   Bible Quote   
   But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 18 For not he who   
   commendeth himself, is approved, but he, whom God commendeth. (2 Cor.   
   10:17-18) DRV   
      
      
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   Prayer:   
      
   Permit us, O Jesus,   
   to dedicate to you each member of our family.   
   Accept each one of us,   
   and may every beat of our hearts   
   be an act of love for you.   
   By the power of your Blood,   
   may we be strengthened   
   and sustained in our daily difficulties.   
   May we be a sign, to each other   
   and to all with whom we come in contact,   
   of your life in us.   
      
   Bless our home, dear Jesus.   
   Bless our joys and sufferings.   
   Bless every moment of our lives   
   and especially the moment of our death.   
   After living for the glory of your Blood one earth,   
   may we have the joy of praising you eternally in heaven.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)