From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   September 11th - St. Paphnutius   
      
   Paphnutius was a common name among the monks of the Egyptian desert. The   
   Paphnutius we remember today was a 4th century monk of the Egyptian desert.   
   Nothing is known of his early life except that he spent several years under   
   the direction of St. Antony of the Desert (January 17th). Paphnutius was   
   esteemed by all for his great simplicity and holiness of life. He was   
   consecrated bishop of the Upper Thebaid and during the persecution of   
   Diocletian, he suffered severe physical injury and was forced into slave   
   labor in the mines.   
      
   When peace was once again restored, Paphnutius returned to his diocese and   
   was very zealous in the defence of the faith against the Arian heresy and   
   the condemnation of anthropomorphism. He attended the General Council of the   
   Church held at Nicea in 325. It was probably because of his influence, that   
   the question of celibacy was left to the prudent consideration of the   
   individual clergyman who had been married prior to ordination.   
      
   Paphnutius always remained in close union with St. Athanasius, Patriarch, as   
   well as the other orthodox prelates. In 335 he attended the Council of Tyre   
   which was attended by many Arian clergy. At this meeting he became very   
   upset when he saw the Jerusalem bishop, Maximus, who also had suffered under   
   the Diocletian persecution, sitting among the Arians.   
      
   Taking Maximus aside, Paphnutius remonstrated with him because he could not   
   bear to see one who had suffered so much in defense of the faith allowing   
   himself to be swayed by those who had come to condemn St. Athanasius, the   
   staunchest supporter of the true Faith. Maximus was overcome with remorse   
   for his lapse and never again deserted the faith. Paphnutius courageously   
   read aloud to the assembly, the letter of the Patriarch, Theophilus of   
   Alexandria. This letter strongly condemned the anthropomorphist   
   heresy.(Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to   
   inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena)   
      
   Paphnutius was about ninety years old when he was visited by John Cassian in   
   395. The date of his death is unknown, and some of the details of his life   
   may have been confused with others by the same name. However, reference is   
   made to him in the "Life of St. Antony," by Athanasius, and also by other   
   Desert and early Church Fathers. He was a man of integrity and courage with   
   a very intense love for God.   
      
      
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   Padre Pio Quotations   
      
   These have been taken from his writing and his oral teachings. They are   
   instructions, admonitions, and advice. We, his spiritual children, will find   
   a flavor and harmony of things newly rediscovered. They are echoes and   
   heartbeats of faithfulness and love. They are shadows of the hopes and joys   
   and sorrows Padre Pio laid down at the foot of the cross on his own personal   
   Golgotha.   
      
      
   "Do not disturb your soul at the sad spectacle of human injustice .... One   
   day you will see the inevitable triumph of Divine justice over it."   
      
   "The pivot of perfection is love; he who lives in love lives in God, because   
   God is love, as the Apostle says."   
      
   "To fail in charity is like wounding God in the apple of His eye. What is   
   more delicate than the pupil of the eye? To fail in charity is like failing   
   against nature."   
      
   "Try always to advance more in charity; enlarge your heart with confidence   
   for the divine gifts which the Holy Spirit is anxious to pour into it."   
      
   "God can reject everything in a creature conceived in sin and of which it   
   bears the indelible impression inherited from Adam. But He can absolutely   
   not reject the sincere desire to love Him."   
      
   "Charity is the queen of virtues. As the pearls are held together by the   
   thread, thus the virtues are held together by charity; as the pearls fall   
   when the thread breaks, thus virtues are lost if charity diminishes."   
      
   "Humility and charity go hand in hand. The one glorifies, the other   
   sanctifies."   
      
   "The time spent for the glory of God and the salvation of souls is never   
   spent badly."   
      
   "Where there is no obedience, there is no virtue; where there is no virtue,   
   there is no good. Where good is wanting, there is no love; where there is no   
   love, God is absent; where God is absent, there is no heaven."   
      
   "Obey promptly! Do not consider the age or merit of the person. And in order   
   to succeed, imagine you are obeying the Lord."   
      
      
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   Little Office of the Holy Angels   
      
   AT NONE   
      
   Antiphon:   
   God hath given His Angels charge of thee, that they keep thee in all thy   
   ways. Amen.   
      
   O God, incline unto my aid.   
   O Lord, make haste to help me.   
      
   Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,   
   as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,   
   world without end. Amen.   
   Alleluia.   
      
   HYMN   
      
   Angel of peace! come, Michael, to our aid,   
   Thou who didst once chase discord from the sky;   
   Come, calm those boisterous passions that have made   
   Such havoc here as they have made on high;   
   Drive strife and rancor to their kindred gloom,   
   To Hell, their fitting, their eternal tomb.   
      
   Antiphon:   
   O holy Angels, our Guardians, defend us in the combat, that we perish not in   
   the dreadful judgment.   
   V. In sight of Thy Angels I will sing to Thee, my God.   
   R. I will adore at Thy holy temple, and confess to Thy name.   
      
   PRAYER   
      
   O God, Who, with unspeakable providence, hast vouchsafed to appoint Thy holy   
   Angels to be our Guardians   
   grant to Thy humble suppliants to be always defended by their protection,   
   and to enjoy their everlasting society through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Our   
   Lord, Who liveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen.   
      
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