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   October 3rd - Sts. Ewald and Ewald   
      
   Today we celebrate the feasts of two saints named Ewald who also happened to   
   be   
   brothers. According to the "History of the Church" by St. Bede these   
   brothers   
   lived in the 7th century. One was known as Black Ewald because of his dark   
   hair,   
   the other White Ewald because of his blond hair.   
      
   Both brothers were priests and spent some time in Ireland studying   
   Scripture.   
   While one had a greater knowledge and understanding of the Scriptures they   
   were   
   both very fervent in their faith and desirous of spreading the Word of God.   
   When   
   St. Willibrord first began evangelizing in Friesland, the two brothers   
   followed   
   his example and went to the Old Saxons of Westphalia.   
      
   They arrived in Germany about the year 694 and spent several days with a   
   local   
   official. So strong and impressive was their faith, that many of the pagans   
   feared that the brothers would convert their Chief and these men did not   
   want to   
   lose their gods and festival practices.   
      
   Heuualdi et Heualdi (translated into Anglo-Saxon as Ewald and Ewald) were   
   killed   
   before they could make contact with the Chief. According to tradition their   
   bodies were thrown in the river but an English monk, Tilmon miraculously   
   found   
   them (Nightly over their bodies shone a bright light, visible for a long   
   time,   
   which revealed where they were and how great was their merit) and buried   
   them.   
   When the Chief learned of this, he was furiously angry with their murderers   
   and   
   killed them and burned their village.   
      
   Because of their faith and courage in going to a barbarian land where   
   martyrdom   
   was a very real possibility, the brothers are honored today as martyrs and   
   are   
   the patrons of Westphalia.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   This is how the present life of man on Earth, King, appears to me in   
   comparison   
   with that time which is unknown to us. You are sitting feasting with your   
   ealdormen and thegns in winter time. The fire is burning on the hearth in   
   the   
   middle of the hall and all inside is warm, while outside the wintry storms   
   of   
   rain and snow are raging - and a sparrow flies swiftly through the hall. It   
   enters in at one door and quickly flies out through the other. For the few   
   moments it is inside, the storm and wintry tempest cannot touch it, but   
   after   
   the briefest moment of calm, it flits from your sight, out of the wintry   
   storm   
   and into it again. So this life of man appears but for a moment. What   
   follows   
   or, indeed, what went before, we know not at all.   
   --Saint Paulinus of York, speaking in Northumbria   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see.  And ask for the old   
   paths,   
   which is the good way, and walk ye in it, and you shall find refreshment for   
   your souls.  Jeremias 6:16   
      
      
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   Prayer to Mary as Queen of the Most Holy Rosary and other   
   titles, written by venerable Pope Pius XII, and promulgated by the   
   Secretary of State on Nov. 17, 1942. I am sure he was inspired to pen the   
   prayer in response to the second world war, but it seems as much necessary   
   now in this time of "peace."   
      
   Queen of the most holy Rosary, help of Christians, refuge of the human   
   race, victorious in all the battles of God, we prostrate ourselves in   
   supplication before thy throne, in the sure hope of obtaining mercy and of   
   receiving grace and timely aid in our present calamities, not through any   
   merits of our own on which we do not rely, but only through the immense   
   goodness of thy mother's Heart. In thee and in thy Immaculate Heart, at   
   this grave hour of human history, do we put our trust; to thee we   
   consecrate ourselves, not only with all of Holy Church, which is the   
   mystical body of thy Son Jesus, and which is suffering in so many of her   
   members, being subjected to manifold tribulations and persecutions, but   
   also with the whole world, torn by discords, agitated with hatred, the   
   victim of its own iniquities. Be thou moved by the sight of such material   
   and moral degradation, such sorrows, such anguish, so many tormented souls   
   in danger of eternal loss! Do thou, O Mother of mercy, obtain for us from   
   God a Christ-like reconciliation of the nations, as well as those graces   
   which can convert the souls of men in an instant, those graces which   
   prepare the way and make certain the long desired coming of peace on   
   earth. O Queen of peace, pray for us, and grant peace unto the world in   
   the truth, the justice, and the charity of Christ. Above all, give us   
   peace in our hearts, so that the kingdom of God may spread its borders in   
   the tranquillity of order. Accord thy protection to unbelievers and to all   
   those who lie within the shadow of death; cause the Sun of Truth to rise   
   upon them; may they be enabled to join with us in repeating before the   
   Saviour of the world; "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to   
   men of good will." Give peace to the nations that are separated from us by   
   error or discord, and in a special manner to those peoples who profess a   
   singular devotion toward thee; bring them back to Christ's one fold, under   
   the one true Shepherd. Obtain full freedom for the holy church of God;   
   defend her from her enemies; check the ever-increasing torrent of   
   immorality; arouse in the faithful a love of purity, a practical Christian   
   life, and an apostolic zeal, so that the multitude of those who serve God   
   may increase in merit and in number. Finally, even as the Church and all   
   mankind were once consecrated to the Heart of thy Son Jesus, because He was   
   for all those who put their hope in Him an inexhaustible source of victory   
   and salvation, so in like manner do we consecrate ourselves forever to thee   
   also and to thy Immaculate Heart, O Mother of us and Queen of the world;   
   may thy love and patronage hasten the day when the kingdom of God shall be   
   victorious and all the nations, at peace with God and with one another,   
   shall call thee blessed and intone with thee, from the rising of the sun to   
   its going down, the everlasting "Magnificat" of glory, of love, of   
   gratitude to the Heart of Jesus, in which alone we can find truth, life,   
   and peace. Amen.   
      
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