From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   May 2nd - St. Ultan of Péronne, OSB Abbot B (AC)   
    (Also known as Ultan of Fosse)   
      
   Died at Péronne, c. 686. Ultan, an Irish monk like his brothers Saints   
   Fursey   
   and Foillan, went with them on a missionary journey to East Anglia. There,   
   with   
   Fursey, he founded a monastery in Burgh Castle, a Roman fort near Yarmouth,   
   but   
   later migrated to France after a pilgrimage to Rome. There he administered   
   the   
   Abbey of Saint-Quentin, which had been built for Fursey. Then he escaped the   
   raiding Mercians by moving into Belgium. His brother Foillan built and   
   became   
   abbot of Fosses Monastery on land given to him by Blessed Itta and her   
   daughter   
   Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. During this time Ultan was chaplain to   
   Gertrude's   
   convent and taught them liturgy, Scripture, and chant. Ultan later succeeded   
   his   
   brother Fursey in ministering to pilgrims as abbot of Fosses.   
      
   He inherited Foillan's abbacy at Péronne, where he died. Foillan's official   
   feast day is the date of Ultan's vision of his martyrdom, although his   
   relics   
   were not recovered for about two months thereafter. Ultan is mentioned in   
   the   
   vita of Saint Amatus, who had been unjustly banished by Theodoric: "Amatus   
   found   
   refuge in Fursey's monastery at Péronne of which Ultan was abbot at the time   
   and   
   rejoiced in the tranquility of his retirement."   
      
   Ultan was buried in Fosses Abbey, which became a celebrated Irish monastery,   
   as   
   did Péronne. A chapel dedicated to Saint Brigid of Kildare overlooks the   
   town of   
   Fosses (Attwater, Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson, D'Arcy, Daniel-Rops,   
   Delaney, Fitzpatrick, Gougaud, Montague, Tommasini).   
      
      
   Quote:   
   For you should have kept before your eyes the warnings which Our   
   predecessors   
   have constantly given, namely, that, if the sacred books are permitted   
   everywhere without discrimination in the vulgar tongue, more damage will   
   arise   
   from this than advantage.... Since in vernacular speech we notice very   
   frequent   
   interchanges, varieties, and changes, surely by an unrestrained license of   
   Biblical versions that changelessness which is proper to the divine   
   testimony   
   would be utterly destroyed, and faith itself would waver, when, especially,   
   from   
   the meaning of one syllable sometimes an understanding about the truth of a   
   dogma is formed.   
   -Pope Pius VII (1800-1823)   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   7 But to every one of us is given grace, according to the measure of the   
   giving   
   of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith: Ascending on high, he led captivity   
   captive; he   
   gave gifts to men. (Ephesians 4:7-8)   
      
      
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   The Fellowship of the Unashamed   
   (Romans 1:16)    The Fellowship of the Unashamed   
      
      
   I am a part of the "Fellowship of the Unashamed"  The die   
   has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has   
   been made. I am a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won't look back,   
   let up, slow down, back away or be still. My past is redeemed,   
   my present makes sense, and my future is secure. I am   
   finished and done with low living, sight-walking, small   
   planning, smooth knees, colorless dreams, tame visions,   
   mundane talking, chintzy giving and dwarfed goals!   
      
   I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position,   
   promotions, plaudits or popularity. I don't have to be right,   
   first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded or rewarded. I now   
   live by presence, lean by faith, love by patience, lift by prayer   
   and labor by power.   
      
      
   My pace is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is   
   narrow, my way is rough, my companions few, my Guide   
   reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised,   
   deterred, lured away, turned back, diluted or delayed. I will   
   not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of   
   adversity, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the   
   pool of popularity or meander in the maze of mediocrity.   
   I won't give up, back up, let up or shut up until I've preached   
   up, prayed up, paid up, stored up and stayed up for the cause   
   of Christ.   
      
      
   I am a disciple of Jesus Christ.  I must go until He returns,   
   give until I drop, preach until all know and work until He   
   comes.   
      
   And when He comes to get His own, He will have no problem   
   recognizing me. My banner will be clear, I am part of the   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)