From: hildegard8@excite.com   
      
   December 18th - St. Winebald   
      
   Winebald is one of those amazing English missionaries who evangelized   
   Europe, leaving behind a flourishing Catholicism and a number of monasteries   
   and laying the beginnings of Christianity in what is now Germany, France,   
   Holland, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg.   
      
   St. Winebald was the son of a West Saxon nobleman, St. Richard, and the   
   brother of St. Willibald. With his father and brother he made a pilgrimage   
   to Rome in 721. His father died in Italy, and Winebald remained in Rome for   
   further study, like his countrymen before him, St. Wilfrid and St. Benedict   
   Biscop. He returned to England and brought back to Rome some of his   
   relatives to begin a monastic life in the holy city.   
      
   When St. Boniface came to Rome in 739, he recruited Winebald for the German   
   missions, ordained him a priest, and put him in charge of churches in   
   Germany and Bavaria. His brother, Willibald, who was now bishop of   
   Eichstatt, asked Winebald to found a monastery for the training of priests   
   and as a center of learning. Their sister, St. Walburga, came from England   
   to found a convent, and both the monastery and the convent were founded at   
   Heidenheim.   
      
   He established the rule of St. Benedict in his monastery, and Heidenheim   
   became an important center of learning in the missionary territory. Because   
   of illness, Winebald was not able to carry on the missionary work that he   
   desired and yearned to end his days at Monte Cassino.   
      
   In 761, Winebald visited St. Boniface's shrine at Fulda and on the way home   
   to Heidenheim became very sick. When he reached Heidenheim, he became weaker   
   and weaker and after giving his monks a few last words he died on December   
   18, 761. His tomb became a local shrine and the site of pilgrimages.   
      
   Thought for the Day: St. Winebald was strongly influenced by his father, St.   
   Richard, and his brother, St. Willibald. Sometimes sanctity runs in the   
   family, and the encouragement that the family members receive from one   
   another is a large part of their holiness. Let us keep in mind that those we   
   associate with have a powerful influence on our personality and character.   
      
   Taken from "The One Year Book of Saints" by Rev. Clifford Stevens published   
   by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.,   
   Huntington, IN 46750.   
      
      
   Quote:   
   The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks   
   about reforming himself.   
   -St. Peter of Alcantara   
      
   Bible Quotes   
   17 And the world passeth away, and the concupiscence thereof: but he that   
   doth the will of God, abideth for ever.   (1 John 2:17)   
      
   Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals   
   come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh. Mat 18:7   
      
      
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   Prayer for the Suffering Poor Souls:   
      
   Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord,   
   and let perpetual light shine upon them,   
   and may they rest in peace. Amen.   
    (50 times)   
      
   O wounds of our most holy Jesus, which cost Him so much   
   sorrow and blood, O wounds most honorable, which were   
   the source of his endless love for us, please have mercy on   
   the poor suffering souls in That cost Him so much suffering;   
   Purgatory, and also have mercy on me, a wretched sinner.   
      
   Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord,   
   and let perpetual light shine upon them,   
   and may they rest in peace. Amen.   
    (50 times)   
      
   O Holy Souls, Which have passes from  this world   
   into Purgatory, and are awaited eagerly in Heaven,   
   pray for me and ask for all the graces I need, and   
   for which I beg the Divine Majesty   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)