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   The Mother of the Gentiles   
      
   "After our Lord departed from the Jews, he came into the regions of   
   Tyre and Sidon. He left the Jews behind and came to the Gentiles.   
   Those whom he had left behind remained in ruin; those to whom he came   
   obtained salvation in their alienation. And a woman came out of that   
   territory and cried, saying to him, 'Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of   
   David!' O great mystery! The Lord came out from the Jews, and the   
   woman came out from her Gentile territory. He left the Jews behind,   
   and the woman left behind idolatry and an impious lifestyle. What they   
   had lost, she found. The one whom they had denied in the law, she   
   professed through her faith. This woman is the mother of the Gentiles,   
   and she knew Christ through faith. Thus on behalf of her daughter (the   
   Gentile people) she entreated the Lord. The daughter had been led   
   astray by idolatry and sin and was severely possessed by a demon."   
   (excerpt from INTERPRETATION OF THE GOSPELS 58), by Epiphanius the   
   Latin (late 5th century)   
      
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   September 26th – Bl. Dalmatius Moner   
   d. 1341   
      
   The life of this confessor of the order of Friars Preachers was passed   
   in the obscurity of his cell and the quiet discharge of his ordinary   
   duties; he was concerned in no public affairs whether of an   
   ecclesiastical or secular nature. He belonged by birth to the village   
   of Santa Columba in Catalonia and was eventually sent to the   
   University of Montpellier. Here he had to struggle hard lest he be   
   drawn into the disorderly life led by so many of the students; with   
   the aid of grace he triumphed and, after finishing his studies, was   
   accepted by the Dominicans at Gerona. Bl. Dalmatius was then   
   twenty-five and after profession was employed for many years in   
   teaching, and became master of the novices. To those prescribed by his   
   rule he added voluntary mortifications, such as abstaining from drink   
   for three weeks on end and sleeping in an old chair, and he loved to   
   pray out of doors in places where the beauty of nature spoke to him of   
   the glory of God. It is said that one day, when Brother Dalmatius was   
   missing and another friar was sent to find him, he was found to he   
   literally caught up in ecstasy, and three people saw him gently   
   floating down to the ground. The lessons of his office say that he was   
   familiarly known as “the brother who talks with the angels”; but with   
   women he would not talk at all, except over his shoulder. We are told   
   that his personal appearance was somewhat unattractive.   
      
   It was a great desire of Bl. Dalmatius to end his days at La Sainte   
   Baume, where the legend of Provence says thirty years were spent by   
   St. Mary Magdalen, patroness of the Dominican Order, to whom he had an   
   intense devotion. This was not to be, but he was allowed to hollow out   
   for himself a cave in the friary grounds at Gerona and he lived in   
   that uncomfortable place for four years, leaving it only to go to   
   choir, chapter and refectory. Bl. Dalmatius died on September 24,   
   1341, and his cultus was confirmed in 1721.   
      
   The Bollandists, writing of Bl. Dalmatius in the Acta Sanctorum,   
   September, vol. vi, were unable to procure the original Latin life of   
   this holy ascetic which they knew had been compiled by his   
   contemporary and fellow religious, the famous inquisitor, Nicholas   
   Eymeric. They therefore reproduced in Latin the Spanish translation,   
   or rather adaptation, of the original, which had been made by Francis   
   Diego for his history of the Aragon province of the Friars Preachers.   
   In the early years, however, of the present century a copy of   
   Eymeric's work was identified and it was edited by Fr van Ortroy in   
   the Analecta Bollandiana, vol. xxxi (1912), pp. 49-81. This memoir is   
   extremely interesting because we have evidence that, unlike most   
   hagiographical documents, it was written within ten years of the death   
   of its subject.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will   
   be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear   
   its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do   
   nothing that can give greater glory to God, or be more profitable for   
   your soul, than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the   
   favorite devotion of the saints.   
   --St. Peter Julian Eymard:   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   He said, 'Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the   
   Holy Ghost … thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God'  (Acts 5:34).   
      
      
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   THE DEVIL'S BEATITUDES   
      
   Blessed are those who are too tired, too busy, too distracted to spend   
   an hour once a week with their fellow Christians - they are my best   
   workers.   
      
   Blessed are those Christians who wait to be asked and expect to be   
   thanked - I can use them.   
      
   Blessed are the touchy who stop going to church -- they are my   
   missionaries.   
      
   Blessed are the trouble makers -- they shall be called my children.   
      
   Blessed are the complainers - I'm all ears to them.   
      
   Blessed are those who are bored with the minister's mannerisms and   
   mistakes -- for they get nothing out of his sermons.   
      
   Blessed is the church member who expects to be invited to his own   
   church -- for he is a part of the problem instead of the solution.   
      
   Blessed are those who gossip -- for they shall cause strife and   
   divisions that please me.   
      
   Blessed are those who are easily offended -- for they will soon get   
   angry and quit.   
      
   Blessed are those who do not give their offering to carry on God's   
   work -- for they are my helpers.   
      
   Blessed is he who professes to love God but hates his brother and   
   sister -- for he shall be with me forever.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)