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   Merit Absolution   
      
   When anyone has really given up his sins, he must not be content   
   simply with bewailing them. He must also give up, leave far behind,   
   and fly from anything which is capable of leading him in the direction   
   of them again. In other words, my dear brethren, we must be ready to   
   suffer anything rather than fall back into those sins which we have   
   just confessed. People should be able to see a complete change in us;   
   otherwise we have not merited Absolution, and it could even be   
   possible that we have indeed committed sacrilege. Alas, that there are   
   few in whom this change is apparent after having received Absolution!   
   .... Dear God, what sacrileges are committed! .... If in every thirty   
   Absolutions there were but one genuine case, how soon would the world   
   be converted! Those people do not merit Absolution, then, who do not   
   give sufficient signs of contrition. Alas, how many times, because   
   they are sent away, do they not come back any more! This, of course,   
   is because they have no real urge to be converted, for if they truly   
   had, very far from leaving their Confession until another Easter, they   
   would be working with all their hearts to change their lives and to   
   return to make their peace with God.   
   From Sermons from the Curè de Ars   
      
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   3 June – Saint Adam of Guglionesi OSB   
      
   (c 990-1072)   
   Confessor, Benedictine Monk, Abbot, Social Reformer, Peace-maker and   
   may have been a Priest. Hermit. Born in c 990 in Petazio (modern   
   Petacciato), Italy and, died in 1072 in the Saint Paul Monastery in   
   Petacciato, Italy of natural causes. Patronage – Guglionesi, Italy,   
   Also known as – Adam the Abbot, Adamo Abate, Adamo… Adão…   
      
   Unfortunately, despite the fact that St Adam is the Patron Saint of   
   the industrious Town of Guglionesi in the Province of Campobasso in   
   Molise, the texts in hagiography say almost nothing about him. The   
   only certain information that we have of this Saint, defined as a   
   ‘Confessor,’ is the date of the translation of his relics which took   
   place in Guglionesi, on 3 June 1102.   
      
   The Bollandists (Society of Belgian Jesuits that in 1600, co-ordinated   
   by Jean Bolland, from whom they took their name, compiled the ‘Acta   
   Sanctorum’) report this event of the translation of the relics. But   
   they give no further information regarding the time in which our Saint   
   lived, the holiness of his life, the activity carried out by the holy   
   ‘confessor.’ Confessor, a term that initially also included Martyrs,   
   then was reserved for Saints and Blessed who, although not Martyrs,   
   have testified (confessed) by their lives, in word and deed, their   
   faith in Christ the Saviour.   
      
   Elsewhere it is recorded that Adam was the Abbot of the Monastery of   
   Santa Maria in the Italian Tremiti Islands. He attended the Council of   
   Melfi on 21 August 1059.   
      
   Adam worked zealously to unify the people of southern Italy in order   
   to reduce inter-city warring. In 1071, after many years of toil, he   
   retired to spend his remaining months as a prayerful Hermit, at the   
   Monastery of Saint Paul in Petacciato, Italy, where he died.   
   The Bollandists do record the story of his relics. They say that, for   
   a long time, his tomb was kept about a mile from the Town and that the   
   Archpriest Benedict of Guglionesi, had a vision, wherein an Angel   
   instructed him to arrange for the translation of the relics to the   
   City of Guglionesi.   
      
   This transfer of the relics took place on the night of 2 June 1102,   
   with the participation of Bishops, Priests and armed men. Legend says   
   that the oxen pulling the transport cart became thirsty, pawed the   
   road with one hoof and springs erupted from the ground. The next day   
   they were enshrined and in 1153 they were re-enshrined re-enshrined in   
   a gilded bronze bust Reliquary.   
      
   In 1456, on the night of the Feast of Corpus Christi, St Adam’s relics   
   were stolen by French supporters of King Charles VIII and taken to   
   Campobasso, Italy where they planned to melt the Reliquary for the   
   precious metal but, the presence of the relics made them hesitate. The   
   City was miraculously besieged by storms until they returned the   
   Reliquary to Guglionesi! An additional Memorial is celebrated on the   
   2nd Sunday in October to mark this return of the stolen relics.   
      
   https://anastpaul.com/2022/06/03/   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to   
   gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads   
   to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine   
   commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make   
   straight the way of the Lord.   
   --St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Doctor of the Church   
      
   Bible Quote:   
    ... "Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave   
   you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread   
   from heaven. For the bread of God is that which cometh down from   
   heaven and giveth life to the world. They said therefore unto him:   
   Lord, give us always this bread. And Jesus said to them: I am the   
   bread of life. He that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that   
   believeth in me shall never thirst. But I said unto you that you also   
   have seen me, and you believe not."  [John 6:32-36]  DRB   
      
      
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   Prayers and Passages of St. Alphonsus De Liguori   
      
   He who prays is certain to be saved; while he who prays not is certain   
   to be damned. All the saints were saved, and came to be saints by   
   praying; all the accursed souls in hell were lost through neglect of   
   prayer; if they had prayed, it is certain that they would not have   
   been lost. And this will be one of the greatest occasions of their   
   anguish in hell, the thought that they might have saved themselves so   
   easily; that they had only to beg God to help them, but that now the   
   time is past when this could avail them   
      (from The Necessity of Prayer).   
      
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