From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   March 28th - St. Tutilo   
      
   When St. Gall, the companion of St. Columbanus, died in Switzerland in 640,   
   a   
   monastery was built over the place of his burial. This became the famous   
   monastery of St. Gall, one of the most influential monasteries of the Middle   
   Ages and the center of music, art, and learning throughout that period.   
   About the middle of the ninth century, returning from a visit to Rome, an   
   Irishman named Moengul stopped off at the abbey and decided to stay, along   
   with   
   a number of Irish companions, among them Tuathal, or Tutilo. Moengul was   
   given   
   charge of the abbey schools and he became the teacher of Tutilo, Notker, and   
   Radpert, who were distinguished for their reaming and their artistic skills.   
   Tutilo, in particular, was a universal genius: musician, poet, painter,   
   sculptor, builder, goldsmith, head of the monastic school, and composer.   
      
   He was part of the abbey at its greatest, and the influence of Gall spread   
   throughout Europe. The Gregorian chant manuscripts from the monastery of St.   
   Gall, many of them undoubtedly the work of St. Tutilo, are considered among   
   the   
   most authentic and were studied carefully when the monks of Solesmes were   
   restoring the tradition of Gregorian chant to the Catholic Church. The   
   scribes   
   of St. Gall supplied most of the monasteries of Europe with manuscript books   
   of   
   Gregorian chant, all of them priceless works of the art of illumination.   
   Proof   
   of the Irish influence at St. Gall is a large collection of Irish   
   manuscripts at   
   the abbey dating from the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries.   
      
   Tutilo was known to be handsome, eloquent, and quick-witted, who brought   
   something of the Irish love of learning and the arts to St. Gall. He died in   
   915   
   at the height of the abbey's influence, remembered as a great teacher, a   
   dedicated monk, and a competent scholar.   
      
   Thought for the Day: Beauty is one of the names of God, and we often forget   
   that   
   the cultivation of beauty can give glory to God. "O Lord, I have loved the   
   beauty of Your house and the place where Your glory dwells." St. Tutilo   
   loved   
   God deeply and expressed it in a thousand beautiful ways, leading many   
   people to   
   God. Beautiful things can lift our minds to God.   
      
   Taken from "The One Year Book of Saints" by Rev. Clifford Stevens published   
   by   
   Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Division, Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.,   
   Huntington, IN   
   46750.   
      
      
   Quote:   
   "Do not be always wanting everything to turn out as you think it   
   should, but rather as God pleases, then you will be undisturbed and   
   thankful in your prayer."   
   -Abba Nilus   
      
   Bible Quotes:   
   The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man   
   having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he   
   hath,   
   and buyeth that field.  (Matthew 13:44)   
      
    The good soil represents honest, good-hearted people. They listen to God's   
   words and cling to them and steadily spread them to others who also soon   
   believe."   (Luke 8:15)   
      
      
   <><><><>   
   The fifth glorious mystery prayer of the Eucharistic Rosary,   
   to be offered before the Blessed Sacrament:   
      
   The Crowning of Mary in Heaven, offered for perseverance   
   unto a happy death will merit a crown of eternal glory.   
      
   Divine Son of Mary, to make Thy holy Mother partaker of   
   Thy own glory, Thou hast crowned her queen of heaven and   
   earth and appointed her our advocate and the living channel   
   of Thy graces.  From the Eucharist not less than from heaven,   
   Thou willest that every grace shall reach us through her   
   maternal hands.   
      
   O Jesus, we adore Thee in Thy unspeakable glory, of which   
   Thou hast made Thy Mother partake with Thee, and we beg   
   Thee, through the intercession, a great confidence in her   
   powerful protection and great earnestness in imitating her   
   virtues; in particular her purity, humility, and fidelity to grace.   
      
   Imprimatur:  + John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York,   
   Sept 19, 1908.   
      
      
   <><><><>   
   Prayer of Saint Gertrude   
      
   Eternal Father, I offer thee the most Precious Blood of Your Divine Son,   
   Jesus Christ, in union with the Masses said today,   
   for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory,   
   for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the Universal Church,   
   those in my own home and within my family.   
      
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)