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   December 28th - St. Anthony of Lerins   
      
   Saint Anthony of Lerins was born in Valeria in Lower Pannonia (in what is   
   now   
   the area between Austria/Hungary/Croatia) during the time of the barbarian   
   invasions. When Anthony was eight, his father entrusted his care to Saint   
   Severinus, the apostle of Noricum (lower Austria). Anthony spent his youth   
   in a   
   monastery founded by Severinus at Faviana, and witnessed Odoacer(1) march on   
   Rome.   
      
   Severinus died in 482 and at that time Anthony went on to the care of his   
   uncle,   
   Constantius the bishop of Lorch in Bavaria. Soon after Anthony retired to   
   the   
   monastery, and in 488 went with some other Romans out of Noricum into Italy.   
   He   
   was at this time about twenty years old.   
      
   Anthony settled under the guidance of the monk Marius, on Lake Como, in   
   northern   
   Italy. Marius thought much of our saint, and wished him to be ordained to   
   aid in   
   continuing the work, but Anthony desired the solitary life. With this   
   decision   
   Anthony joined two hermits at the other end of the lake, near the tomb of   
   St.   
   Felix. Here he lived in a cave, prayed much and cultivated his garden.   
   However,   
   this recluse was visited often.   
      
   These distractions caused much consternation for the saint, because it broke   
   his   
   pattern of life and the acclaim his visitors heaped upon him made the saint   
   worry about becoming vain. Anthony decided to venture over the Alps, where   
   he   
   settled with some other monks in southern Gaul at Lerins. Saint Anthony of   
   Lerins died there in 520, revered for both his virtue and numerous miracles.   
      
   (1) Odoacer was a Germanic warrior who worked his way up through the ranks   
   of   
   the Roman army. When the western emperor Julius Nepos was overthrown by the   
   Roman general Orestes, Odoacer defeated Orestes, deposed and exiled   
   Orestes''   
   son   
   Romulus Augustus, and refused to acknowledge any new western emperor,   
   officially   
   putting an end to the Western Roman Empire in 476. He styled himself King of   
   Italy and conquered parts of present-day Croatia and Austria.   
      
      
   Quote:   
   As the Lord knows for what we all are adapted, He gives to all their   
   positions   
   as He sees to be most for His glory, for their salvation, and the good of   
   their   
   neighbors. Our mistake, then, is in not submitting ourselves totally to   
   whatever He wishes to do with us.   
   -St. Teresa   
      
   Bible Quote   
   4 What man of you that hath an hundred sheep: and if he shall lose one of   
   them,   
   doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which was   
   lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, lay it upon his   
   shoulders,   
   rejoicing: (Luke 15:4-5)   
      
      
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   Hymn to the Holy Ghost   
      
   Come, Holy Ghost, Creator come, From Thy bright heavenly   
   throne; Come take possession of our souls And make them   
   all Thine own.   
      
   Thou who art called the Paraclete, Best gift of God above;   
   The living spring, the living fire, Sweet unction and true love.   
      
   Thou who art sevenfold in Thy grace, Finger of God''s right   
   hand; His promise, teaching little ones To speak and   
   understand.   
      
   O guide our minds with Thy blest light With love our hearts   
   inflame; And with Thy strength which ne'er decays Confirm   
   our mortal frame.   
      
   Far from us drive our hellish foe, True peace unto us bring;   
   And through all perils lead us safe, Beneath Thy sacred wing.   
      
   Through Thee may we the Father know; Through Thee the   
   eternal Son, And Thee the Spirit of them both; Thrice blessed   
   three in one.   
      
   Now to the Father and the Son, Who rose from death, be   
   glory given, With Thee O holy Comforter, Henceforth by all in   
   earth and heaven. Amen.   
      
   V. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created   
   R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.   
      
   LET US PRAY:   
      
   O GOD, who didst teach the hearts of Thy faithful by the light   
   of Thy Holy Spirit, grant us by the same Spirit, to have a right   
   judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy   
   comfort, through Jesus Christ our Lord.   
      
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)