From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   June 17th - St. Emily de Vialar V (RM)   
      
   Born at Gaillac (near Albi), Languedoc, France, in 1797; died at Marseilles   
   in   
   1856; canonized in August 14, 1951; feast day formerly on August 24.   
      
   "Quietly to trust in God is better than trying to safeguard material   
   interests-I   
   learned that by bitter experience."   
   -Mother Emily de Vialar   
      
   Emily, daughter of Baron James de Vialar and Antoinette de Portal, studied   
   in   
   Paris. She and her father were estranged after the death of her mother   
   because   
   she refused to marry. He was a dominating, violent-tempered man who once   
   went so   
   far as to throw a decanter at her when she persisted to resist his demands   
   that   
   she marry. He was further antagonized when she began to teach abandoned and   
   poor   
   children and to care for the sick and destitute in his home. Nevertheless,   
   from   
   the age of 15 until she was 35, Emily looked after her cantankerous father   
   and   
   ministered to the children and the needy on his estate in Gaillac.   
      
   Her services were especially needed in France at that time. Although the   
   worst   
   excesses of the French Revolution were over, the Church had been stripped of   
   many temporal possessions and Christian schools had been almost entirely   
   suppressed. Thus, God called Emily and her contemporary, Saint Madeleine   
   Sophie   
   Barat, to fill the void.   
      
   Emily was sustained by her faith during this difficult period, and God   
   favored   
   her with a vision of his body bearing the stigmata. When her grandmother   
   died in   
   1832 and left her a fortune, Emily bought a house at Gaillac. With the   
   assistance of her spiritual director, Abbé Mercier, she and three companions   
   began a congregation. Within three months of moving into their new home,   
   their   
   number grew to 12, and with the permission of Archbishop de Gauly of Albi   
   they   
   took the habit and constituted themselves as the Congregation of Sisters of   
   Saint Joseph of the Apparition (Matthew 1:18-20). In 1835, the congregation   
   numbered 18 and their rule was formally approved. They dedicated themselves   
   to   
   the care of the sick and needy and the education of young children in France   
   and   
   abroad. That same year they were invited to open a house in Algeria.   
      
   Emily traveled constantly, and the congregation soon spread all over the   
   Near   
   East-Algeria, Tunisia, Greece, Malta, Jerusalem, and the Balkans. Due to a   
   jurisdictional dispute with Bishop Dupuch of Algiers Emily was   
   excommunicated in   
   1842. Although the dispute was decided in her favor, it forced the closing   
   of   
   the house in Algiers. On her return to Gaillac in 1845, she found the   
   organization in chaos and its existence threatened by lawsuits due to   
   financial   
   mismanagement by a trustee and quarrels among the nuns. She moved the   
   motherhouse to Toulouse (and in 1854 to Marseilles).   
      
   Emily herself was often the victim of doubts and spiritual anxieties.   
   Despite   
   these and other obstacles the order flourished. Emily may have had inner   
   trials,   
   but she was also capable, intelligent, and adamant on matters that concerned   
   the   
   well-being of her order. Church dignitaries questioned her long journeys;   
   others   
   criticized the elegance of their habits, but Emily was too busy founding new   
   houses. By the time of her death, there were 40 houses around the world,   
   from   
   Europe to Burma and Australia (Attwater, Delaney, Encyclopedia).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   According to the divine plan, action must be fed with prayer. The interior   
   life   
   is the wellspring of the apostolate. Do not believe in the slogan, 'The   
   priest   
   is sanctified in sanctifying others' - it's an illusion. The real formula   
   is,   
   'Sanctify yourself so as to sanctify others.'   
   -Blessed Edward Joannes Maria Poppe   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall   
   receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love   
   him.   
   (James 1:12)   
      
      
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   THANK-YOU LORD   
      
   I thank you O Lord   
   for bringing me to the light   
   of another day with all   
   its blessing and graces.   
   Grant that I may   
   yet attain to the height of   
   perfection to which   
   You would lead me.   
   Repair for me also,   
   I entreat You,   
   the harm I have done   
   to the souls of others.   
   Through Christ, our Lord.   
      
      
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   A prayer to the Sacred Heart:   
      
   O most Holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore Thee, I love   
   Thee, and with lively sorrow for my sins, I offer Thee this poor heart of   
   mine.   
   Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to Thy will.  Grant, good   
   Jesus, that I may live in Thee and for Thee.  Protect me in the midst of   
   danger;   
   comfort me in my afflictions; give me health of body, assistance in my   
   temporal   
   knees, Thy blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death.  Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)