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   August 7th - St. Cajetan of Thienna, Founder   
      
   Saint Cajetan was born in 1480 at Vicenza near Venice in Italy, of the pious   
   and   
   noble family by the name of Thienna. His great-uncle, who bore the same name as   
   himself and was a Canon of Padua, was considered to be the prince of the   
   theologians of his century; and several prelates and cardinals, as well as   
   governors of Milan and Naples, were of the same line. His parents dedicated   
   Cajetan to our Blessed Lady. From childhood he was remarked for his obedience,   
   his temperance, and his charity towards the poor.   
      
   A distinguished student, a veritable model for all his peers, he desired a   
   higher perfection and left his native town, where he was in honor, to seek   
   obscurity in Rome. There, however, Pope Julius II, perceiving his merit, named   
   him an apostolic protonotary, a high office. He joined a certain Congregation   
   or   
   Confraternity known as that of Divine Love and, working with its members,   
   introduced frequent Communion in their midst, and elsewhere through their   
   influence. The Pope saw to his ordination, and he then offered many fervent   
   Masses. About that time, on Christmas Eve at the Church of Saint Mary Major,*   
   when he entered the church he saw the Holy Mother; She came to him and placed   
   Her divine Infant in his arms. It was also Saint Cajetan who later would   
   introduce the Forty Hours' Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, as an antidote   
   to   
   the heresy of Calvin.   
      
   He returned to Vicenza when his mother died, and began to seek out the sick   
   poor   
   and transport them to the Hospital of the Incurables or of Mercy, with which he   
   had united the Congregation of Divine Love, established in that city also. He   
   served the sick in the hospital himself. He placed himself under the direction   
   of a holy Dominican priest, Father John Baptist de Crema, who not long   
   afterwards told him he should go to Venice. His obedience was perfect in this   
   sacrifice, which cost not only himself but those in his hospital many tears. At   
   Venice too, he was needed in a hospital; and the Venetians in those days of   
   luxury and license, soon reformed what was not correct in their conduct to   
   follow his holy examples.   
      
   To renew the lives of the clergy, in 1524, with Paul Caraffa, then Bishop of   
   Theata or Chieti in the kingdom of Naples, who later would become Pope Paul IV,   
   and with two other fervent Christians, Saint Cajetan founded the first group of   
   Regular Clerics, since known as Theatines. All had deeply regretted the state   
   of   
   the Church at that time, and with ardor they devoted themselves to preaching,   
   to   
   the administration of the sacraments and the careful execution of the Church's   
   rites and ceremonies.   
      
   When the Germans, under Constable Bourbon, sacked Rome, Saint Cajetan was   
   barbarously scourged to extort from him imaginary riches; his only wealth was   
   his good works, which he had long since securely stored in heaven. When the   
   Saint was on his deathbed, resigned to the Will of God, happy to suffer to   
   satisfy his love, and eager for death to attain to life, he again beheld the   
   Mother of God, radiant with splendor and surrounded by ministering seraphim.   
   Turning Her countenance full of majesty and sweetness upon him, She said,   
   "Cajetan, My Son calls you. Let us go in peace." Worn out with toil and   
   sickness, he went to his reward in 1547.   
      
   Reflection: Imitate Saint Cajetan's devotion to our Blessed Lady, by invoking   
   Her aid before every work.   
      
   Sources: Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud   
   et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 9; 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   
   However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not   
   indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled,   
   seeing   
   himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.   
   -St Vincent de Paul   
      
   Bible Quotes:   
   If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray,   
   and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from   
   heaven,   
   and will forgive their sins, and will heal their land."  (2 Chronicles 7:14) "   
      
   Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they   
   may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two   
   or three have gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst."   
   (Matthew 18:19,20)   
      
      
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   Indulgenced Prayers   
      
   O saving Victim, opening wide   
   The gate of heaven to man below,   
   Our foes press on from every side;   
   Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.   
      
   To Thy great Name be endless praise,   
   Immortal Godhead, one in three;   
   Oh, grant us endless length of days   
   In our true native land with Thee.   
   Amen.   
      
   Blessed is He Who cometh in the Name of the Lord:   
    Hosanna in the highest.   
      
   Jesu, bread of life, protect us;   
   Shepherd kind, do not reject us;   
   In Thy happy fold collect us,   
   And partakers of the bliss elect us,   
   Which shall never see an end.   
      
   Thou, the wisest and the mightiest,   
   Who us here with food delightest,   
   Seat us at Thy banquet brightest   
   With the blessed Thou invitest   
   An eternal feast to spend.   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)