From: hildegard8@excite.com   
      
   March 6th - Saint Eleutherius, Abbot   
   (d.  ca. 585)   
      
   A wonderful simplicity and spirit of compunction were the distinguishing   
   virtues   
   of this holy sixth century abbot. He was elected to preside Saint Mark's   
   monastery near Spoleto, and favored by God with the gift of miracles.   
      
   A child who was confided to the monastery, to be educated there after having   
   been delivered by the Abbot from a diabolical possession, appeared to   
   everyone   
   to be entirely exempt from further molestations. And Saint Eleutherius   
   chanced   
   to say one day: "Since the child is among the servants of God, the devil   
   dares   
   not approach him." These words seemed to savor of vanity, and thereupon the   
   devil again entered into and tormented the child. The Abbot humbly confessed   
   his   
   fault and undertook a fast, in which the entire community joined, until the   
   child was again freed from the tyranny of the fiend.   
      
   Saint Gregory the Great, finding himself unable to fast on Holy Saturday on   
   account of extreme weakness, called for this Saint, who was in Rome at the   
   time,   
   to offer up prayers to God for him that he might join the faithful in the   
   solemn   
   practice of that day's penances. Saint Eleutherius prayed with many tears,   
   and   
   the Pope, when they came out of the church, felt suddenly strengthened and   
   able   
   to accomplish the fast as he desired. The same Pope, remarking that the   
   Abbot   
   was said to have raised a dead man to life, added: "He was so simple a man,   
   one   
   of such great penance, that we must not doubt that Almighty God granted much   
   to   
   his tears and his humility!" After resigning his abbacy, Saint Eleutherius   
   died   
   in Rome in Saint Andrew's monastery, about the year 585.   
      
   Reflection: "Be not seen by men as fasting, but by thy Father who is in   
   heaven;   
   and thy Father, who sees in secret, will reward thee." (Cf. Matt. 6:16-18)   
      
   Sources: Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, by Abbé L. Jaud   
   (Mame:   
   Tours, 1950); Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on   
   Butler's Lives of the Saints and other sources by John Gilmary Shea   
   (Benziger   
   Brothers: New York, 1894).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "It is a common doctrine of the Saints that one of the principal means of   
   leading a good and exemplary life is modesty and custody of the eyes. For,   
   as   
   there is nothing so adapted to preserve devotion in a soul, and to cause   
   compunction and edification in others, as this modesty, so there is nothing   
   which so much exposes a person to relaxation and scandals as its opposite"   
   -St. Alphonsus Rodriguez   
      
   In his life of St. Bernard, Surius relates that when Pope Innocent III went   
   with   
   his Cardinals to visit Clairvaux, the Saint, with all his monks, came out to   
   meet him, but with such a modest and. composed exterior as moved to   
   compunction   
   the Cardinals and the Pope himself; for they were astonished that on such a   
   festival, and such an unusual and solemn occasion of rejoicing, they all   
   kept   
   their eyes cast down and fastened upon the ground without turning them in   
   any   
   direction, and that while all were gazing at them, they looked at no one. He   
   also tells, of St. Bernard, that he practiced custody of the eyes to such a   
   degree that after a year's novitiate he did not know how the ceiling of his   
   cell   
   was made, whether it was arched or flat; that he always believed there was   
   one   
   window in the church, while there were three; that he walked, one day, with   
   his   
   companions on the shore of a lake, without knowing it was there, so that   
   when   
   they were speaking of the lake in the evening, he asked where they had seen   
   it.   
      
   (Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints". February - Humility)   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   28. Jesus therefore said to them: When you shall have lifted up the Son of   
   man,   
   then shall you know, that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as   
   the   
   Father hath taught me, these things I speak: 29. And he that sent me, is   
   with   
   me, and he hath not left me alone: for I do always the things that please   
   him.   
   30. When he spoke these things, many believed in him. (John 8:28-30)   
      
      
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   Christ King of Glory (Christus Vincit)   
      
   Christ Lord of glory, Christ Prince of nations, Christ our King of kings!   
   Christ Jesus, hear us.   
   Perpetual safety and welfare to the Church of God.   
      
   Redeemer, Savior; Assist and strengthen her.   
   O Mary blessed Mother;  Assist and strengthen her.   
   Joseph holy guardian;  Assist and strengthen her.   
   Blessed Michael patron;  Assist and strengthen her.   
   Blessed Saint Patrick;  Assist and strengthen her.   
      
   All repeat: Christ Lord of glory, Christ Prince of nations, Christ our King   
   of kings!   
      
   Christ Jesus hear us. Life and health and blessings to Pope John Paul II our   
   Holy Father. Redeemer Savior, assist and strengthen him.   
      
   Blessed Peter, assist and strengthen him. King of kings.   
      
   Blessed Paul, assist and strengthen him. Christ our King, Christ our hope.   
      
   All repeat: Christ Lord of glory, Christ Prince of nations, Christ our King   
   of kings!   
      
   Jesus our glory, Fountain of grace and all mercy. Source of all our   
   blessing. Defender in battle, Strong arm of our God invincible. Our   
   stronghold and our exaltation. Our captain leader who has won our salvation.   
   Christ Jesus, our life and light eternal. To Him only is victory all praise   
   and jubilation. Through all the endless ages of eternity.  - Amen.   
      
   Abundance of good things be ours. The peace of Christ be ours. Redeemed by   
   the blood of Jesus. Proclaim our joy. May His holy kingdom come. Praise be   
   to our God - Amen.   
      
   Ejaculations   
      
   In thy conception, O Virgin Mary, thou wast immaculate; pray for us to the   
   Father, whose Son, Jesus Christ conceived of the Holy Ghost, thou didst   
   bring forth. - Amen.   
      
   From the Lamb of God Prayer Book   
      
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