From: trudie.Miller@cox.net   
      
   July 19th - St. John Plessington   
      
   ST. John PLESSINGTON was the young son of Robert Plessington of Dimples Hall,   
   near Garstang in the county of Lancashire, and of Alice daughter of Laurence   
   Rawstone of Newhall in the county of Cheshire. His father suffered much for his   
   loyalty to the Catholic Faith during the civil wars.   
      
   John was sent to a private school directed by the Jesuit priests in Scarisbrick   
   Hall, and adopted the alias of Scarisbrick upon entering the Royal College of   
   St. Alban at VALLADOLID on the 18th of November 1660.   
      
   In the same City, in the Church of María Magdalena, he received his Minor   
   orders   
   and the Diaconate. In Segovia, on the 25th of March 1662, he was ordained a   
   priest, and later returned to England.   
      
   He made his missionary work mainly in Holywell and around Chester, being housed   
   with the Massey family in Puddington Hall.   
      
   There, during the agitation resulting from the discovery of the "Oates   
   Conspiracy" against Parliament, he was accused in Chester of being a priest.   
   Incarcerated for nine weeks, he was then drawn, hung, stripped and quartered   
   near Chester on the 19th of July 1679.   
      
   According to a local tradition, his dismembered body was sent to Puddington   
   Hall, to be exhibited in the four corners of the house, but the people of the   
   locality would not permit it. Therefore, they laid them in an oak table in the   
   entrance of the house. Finally, they were buried in the cemetery of Burton.   
      
   He was solemnly canonized by the Pope Paul VI on the 25th of October 1970.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole   
   way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you start at every little pain.   
   -St. Elizabeth Ann Seton   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And who shall be able to think of the day of his coming? and who shall stand to   
   see him? for he is like a refining fire, and like the fuller's herb:    
   (Malachias   
   3:2)   
      
      
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   An Act of Reparation   
      
   O Good Jesus, in gratitude for Your many graces, and in sorrow for many   
   abuses of these graces, I wish at this moment, both for myself, ever   
   ungrateful, and for the world, ever criminal, to make an Act of Solemn   
   Reparation. Listen then, O merciful Savior of our souls, listen to these   
   acts of faith, to these expressions of sorrow:   
      
   For the irreverence we have committed in the House of God.   
     .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For our careless and distracted attendance at Mass   
     .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For our lack of preparation before, and poor thanksgiving after Holy   
   Communion   
    .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For our failure to cooperate with Your daily graces   
     .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For our sins of pride, sensuality of our entire life   
     .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For our bad example and the sins we have caused in others.   
     .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For our tragic indifference to Your words of Holy Scripture and to the words   
   of our Holy Father the Pope.   
     .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For the deplorable untruths of heresy, for all deserters and apostates   
    .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For the pleasure seeking and money mad profaners of the Lord's Day   
   .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For the sacrilegious treatment of Your Churches and Altars.   
     .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For the diabolical agents of hell, ever seeking whom they may devour   
    .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   For the heartbreaking outrages committed by those who should be Your   
   greatest consolation.   
    .I wish to make reparation.   
      
   "O Love neglected! O Goodness but too little known."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)