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   July 4th - St. Ulric of Augsburg B (RM)   
    (Also known as Uldaricus, Udalric)   
      
   Born at Augsburg, Germany, in 890; died at Saint Gall, Switzerland, 973;   
   canonized by Pope John XV in 993. At the age of seven, Ulric was sent to the   
   Benedictine Saint Gall Abbey to be educated. He also had the advantage of   
   education at the hands of his uncle Saint Adalbero, bishop of Augsburg, whom   
   he   
   succeeded in 923. During his 50 years bishop of Augsburg, Ulric took   
   conspicuous   
   part in ecclesiastical and secular affairs and labored zealously for the   
   good of   
   his flock.   
      
   He protected his people against the invading Magyars. After the horrors of   
   plundering, he led its inhabitants in the task of rebuilding the city and   
   its   
   cathedral. In his old age, he retired to Saint Gall, named his nephew as his   
   coadjutor and successor, and was accused of nepotism for his action.   
      
   He was the first person recorded to have been canonized by a pope after an   
   account of his life and miracles was submitted to the holy father at a   
   council   
   in Rome. A letter against clerical celibacy ascribed to Saint Ulric has been   
   shown to be a later forgery (Attwater, Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia).   
      
   In art, Saint Ulrich is depicted as (1) a bishop enthroned and holding a   
   fish;   
   (2) at dinner with Saint Wolfgang, Saint Ulrich rewards a messenger with a   
   goose   
   leg, which turns into a fish on Friday morning; (3) giving a fish or garment   
   to   
   a beggar; (4) often with Saint Afra his co-patron of Augsburg; (5) riding   
   through the river on his horse as his companion sinks; or (6) with a cross   
   given   
   to him by an angel. Ulrich is the patron of weavers. He is invoked for a   
   happy   
   birth and peaceful death and against birth pangs, fever, frenzy, mice,   
   moles,   
   and faintness (Roeder).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The nothing keeps silent, the nothing does not want to be, the nothing   
   suffers   
   all. The nothing does not impose itself, the nothing does not command with   
   authority, and finally, the nothing in the creature is practical humility.   
   -Saint Angela of the Cross Guerrero   
      
   Bible quote:   
   But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by   
   Christ   
   Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish,   
   strengthen, settle you.  (1 Peter 5:10 )   
      
      
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   On this Independence Day, a prayer composed by John Carroll,   
   Archbishop of Baltimore, which is suitable after Mass, for our   
   government and the United States:   
      
   We pray Thee, O almighty and eternal God, who through Jesus   
   Christ hast revealed Thy glory to the nations, to preserve the   
   works of Thy mercy; that Thy Church, being spread through   
   the whole world, may continue, with unchanging faith, in the   
   confession of Thy name.   
      
   We pray Thee, O God of might, wisdom, and justice, through   
   whom authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and judgment   
   decreed,   
   assist, with Thy Holy Spirit of counsel and fortitude, the President of the   
   United States, that his administration be conducted in righteousness, and be   
   eminently useful to Thy people over whom he presides, by encouraging due   
   respect   
   for virtue and religion; by a faithful execution of the laws in justice and   
   mercy; and by restraining vice and immorality.  Let the light of Thy divine   
   wisdom direct the deliberations of the Congress, and shine forth in all the   
   proceedings and laws framed for our rule and government; so that they may   
   tend   
   to the preservation of peace, the promotion of national happiness, the   
   increase   
   of industry, sobriety, and useful knowledge, and may perpetuate to us the   
   blessings of equal liberty.   
      
   We pray for his excellency, the governor of this state, for the   
   members of the Assembly, for all judges, magistrates, and   
   other officers who are appointed to guard our political welfare;   
   that they may be enabled, by Thy powerful protection, to   
   discharge the respective duties of their stations with honesty   
   and ability.   
      
   We recommend likewise to Thy unbounded mercy all our   
   brethren and fellow-citizens, throughout the United States, that   
   they may be blessed in the knowledge, and sanctified in the   
   observance of Thy most holy Law; that they may be preserved   
   in union and in that peace which the world cannot give; and,   
   after enjoying the blessings of this life, be admitted to those   
   which are eternal. Amen.   
      
      
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   Adoramus Te (We Adore Thee)   
      
   We adore Thee, most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here and in all Thy churches   
   that are in the whole world, and we bless Thee; because by Thy Holy Cross   
   Thou hast redeemed the World. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)