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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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   June 1st - St. Peter of Pisa   
      
   [Founder of the Hermits of St. Jerome.]   
      
    HE was born at Pisa in 1355, whilst his father, Peter Gambacorta   
   enjoyed the sovereign authority in that commonwealth. Being 25 years   
   old, he privately left his father’s court, disguised in the habit of a   
   poor penitent, and retired to Montebello, an agreeable solitude in   
   Umbria. He begged his subsistence in the neighbouring village, and, in   
   1380, found means to build a church, and 12 cells for so many   
   companions who had joined him. He chose St. Jerome for the patron of   
   his congregation, because that father having visited the hermitages of   
   all Egypt and Syria, selected out of each what seemed to him the most   
   perfect in every exercise. Peter prescribed to his monks four Lents in   
   the year, and to fast on all Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; to   
   continue in prayer two hours after Matins, at night, &c. As to   
   himself, his whole time was devoted to the exercises of prayer, and   
   his life was most austere. F. Sajanello relates many miracles   
   performed by him, and gives an edifying account of his eminent   
   virtues. His congregation was approved by Martin V. in 1421.   
      
   His father and two brothers being assassinated by their secretary in   
   1393, he was tempted to leave his desert to do justice to his family   
   and country: but by redoubling his fervour in his holy exercises, he   
   overcame that suggestion of the devil. He died in 1435, being 80 years   
   old: was styled blessed by Pius V. and Clement VIII., and a solemn   
   decree of his beatification was published by Innocent XII. in 1693.   
   His congregation is much spread in Italy. The Order of St. Jerome of   
   Fiesoli instituted by the Ven. Charles of Montegraneli, a noble   
   Florentin, was united to it by Clement IX. in 1668. There are also   
   hermits of St. Jerome in Spain, of a like institute. They follow the   
   rule of the hermits of St. Austin; but adopt certain constitutions   
   gathered from the works of St. Jerome.   
      
   See Helyot, and Historica Monumenta Ordinis S. Hieronymi Congr.; B.   
   Petri de Pisis, auctore Jo. Baptista Sajanello, ej. Ordinis. Patavini   
   Collegii Doctore Theologo, Venetiis, anno 1758, t. 1; also his life,   
   written about the year 1500, published by the Bollandists on the 14th   
   of June, and many other authors quoted by Benedict XIV. l. 2, de   
   Canoniz. c. 24, p. 239.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives,   
   when we look back upon the great number of instructions   
   and examples afforded by God and the Saints for our perfection,   
   and so carelessly received by us! If this end were to come to you today,   
   how would you be pleased with the life you have led this year?"   
   --St. Francis de Sales   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human: and God is   
   faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you   
   are able, but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be   
   able to bear it. (1 Cor. 10:13) DRB   
      
      
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   Sing to the Lord a new song   
      
   My dear brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, fruit of the true   
   faith and holy seed of heaven, all you who have been born again in   
   Christ and whose life is from above, listen to me; or rather, listen   
   to the Holy Spirit saying through me:   
      Sing to the Lord a new song. Look, you tell me, I am singing. Yes   
   indeed, you are singing; you are singing clearly, I can hear you. But   
   make sure that your life does not contradict your words. Sing with   
   your voices, your hearts, your lips, and your lives:   
      Sing to the Lord a new song. Now it is your unquestioned desire to   
   sing of him whom you love, but you ask me how to sing his praises. You   
   have heard the words:   
      Sing to the Lord a new song, and you wish to know what praises to   
   sing. The answer is: His praise is in the assembly of the saints; it   
   is in the singers themselves. If you desire to praise him, then love   
   what you express. Live good lives, and you yourselves will be his   
   praise.   
   --St. Augustine of Hippo   
      
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