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   July 3rd - Saint Heliodorus, Bishop of Altino   
      
   (d. 390)   
      
   Saint Heliodorus was born at Dalmatia, a Roman Province northeast of the   
   Adriatic Sea, which was also the native land of Saint Jerome. He soon sought   
   out   
   that great Doctor, not only to follow his advice in matters relating to   
   Christian perfection, but also to profit by his deep learning. The life of a   
   recluse held great attractions for him, but to enter a monastery it would   
   have   
   been necessary to leave his spiritual master and director, a sacrifice he   
   was   
   not prepared to make. He therefore remained in the world, though not part of   
   it,   
   and following the example of the holy anchorites, passed his time in prayer   
   and   
   devout reading. He accompanied Saint Jerome on his voyage to the Holy Land,   
   visiting the various churches of the Orient, and remained with him for a   
   time,   
   but a desire to revisit his native land and to see his parents once more   
   drew   
   him back to Dalmatia. Saint Jerome tried to persuade him to remain with him,   
   and   
   Heliodorus was intending to return, as soon as he had fulfilled the duties   
   he   
   owed his parents.   
      
   Finding his absence had grown prolonged, and fearing that love for his   
   family   
   and attachment to worldly things might lure him from his vocation, Saint   
   Jerome   
   wrote him an earnest letter. He exhorted his good disciple to break entirely   
   with the world and to consecrate himself to the service of God. But the   
   Lord,   
   who disposes all things, had a mission of activity reserved for His servant.   
   After the death of his mother, Heliodorus went to Italy and soon was   
   remarked   
   for his eminent piety. He was made Bishop of Altino, and became one of the   
   most   
   distinguished prelates of an age fruitful in great men. He sustained the   
   Catholic faith against the Arian heresy, assisting at the Council of Aquilea   
   in   
   northeastern Italy, called for that purpose in 381. Saint Jerome never   
   forgot   
   his former student, and in one of his letters testifies that he was a bishop   
   who   
   lived in his episcopal dignity with as much fervor and regularity as in a   
   monastery. Saint Heliodorus died about the year 390.   
      
   Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on   
   Butler's   
   Lives of the Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger   
   Brothers:   
   New York, 1894).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   He who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps.   
   -Pope St. Gregory the Great   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you shall receive it, and it   
   shall   
   come to you.  (Mark 11:24)   
      
      
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   The Fiery Prayer for Apostles of the Latter Times   
   By St. Louis Marie Grignon de Montfort   
      
   St. Louis de Montfort statue, St. Peter's Basilicat. Louis composed this   
   prayer   
   asking for apostles of the latter times. These fiery words are certainly   
   applicable to our days, when the need for these apostles is as urgent as it   
   was   
   in St. Louis' time.   
      
   The division into days and subtitles has been added to make it easier to   
   pray.   
      
   1st Day   
   "To Raise Up Men of Thy Right Hand"   
      
   Remember, O Lord, remember Thy congregation which Thou did possess from the   
   beginning and think of from all eternity. It was held in Thy Almighty hand   
   when,   
   by a word, Thou didst create the world out of nothing. It was hidden in Thy   
   heart when Thy Divine Son, dying on the Cross, consecrated it by His death   
   and   
   confided it, as a precious treasure, to the care of His most dear Mother:   
   Remember Thy congregation, which Thou hast possessed from the beginning (Ps.   
   73:2).   
      
   Accomplish, O Lord, Thy merciful designs; raise up the men of Thy right   
   hand,   
   such men as Thou hast shown in prophetic vision to some of Thy greatest   
   servants - to St. Francis of Paola, to St. Vincent Ferrer, to St. Catherine   
   of   
   Siena, and to many other noble souls during the last two centuries.   
      
   Remember, O Lord: O Almighty God, vouchsafe to remember this Company,   
   applying   
   to it all the might of Thy arm, which has no limits, to create, to produce   
   and   
   to bring it to perfection.   
      
   Great God, Thou Who out of the very stones can raise up children to Abraham,   
   in   
   the might of Thy Godhead say but one word to provide good laborers for Thy   
   harvest and missionaries for Thy Church.   
      
   Remember, O Lord: God of infinite goodness, remember Thy mercies of old and,   
   through this mercy, remember this congregation. Remember Thy repeated   
   promises   
   that Thou has made to us by Thy Prophets and by Thine Own Son to grant us   
   all   
   our lawful requests. Remember the prayers that have been offered To Thee by   
   Thy   
   servants for this end for so many centuries. Let their wishes, their sighs,   
   their tears, and the blood that they have shed for Thee come into Thy   
   presence   
   and earnestly implore Thy mercy. But, above all, remember Thy Dear Son: Look   
   on   
   the face of Thy Christ (Ps. 83:10). Contemplate His agony, His shame and   
   confusion, His loving complaint in the Gar- den of Olives, when He said:   
   What   
   profit is there in My Blood? (Ps. 29:10).   
      
   His cruel death, His Blood that poured forth cries out for mercy so that, by   
   means of this congregation, His Kingdom may be established upon the ruins of   
   that of His enemies.   
      
   Remember, O Lord: Remember, O Lord, this community in the effects of Thy   
   justice. It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated Thy law (Ps.   
   118:126).   
   It is time to do what Thou has promised: Thy Divine Law is transgressed. Thy   
   Gospel is ignored, Thy religion abandoned. Torrents of iniquity overwhelm   
   the   
   world, carrying away even Thy servants; the whole earth has become desolate;   
   impiety is enthroned; Thy sanctuary is profaned, and abomination has reached   
   even into the holy place.   
      
   Will Thou suffer this any longer, just Lord, God of vengeance? Will the end   
   of   
   all be like that of Sodom and Gomorrah? Will Thou be forever silent? Must   
   not   
   Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven? Must not Thy Kingdom come?   
   Hast   
   Thou not given to some of Thy friends a prophetic glimpse of the future   
   renovation of Thy Church? Are not the Jews to be converted to the Truth? Is   
   not   
   this what Thy Church is awaiting? Do not all the Saints in heaven cry out to   
   Thee: Avenge Thyself? Do not all the just on earth say to Thee: Amen. Come,   
   O   
   Lord, for the time is at hand (Apoc. 22:20). Do not all creatures, even the   
   most   
   insensible, moan under the weight of the numberless sins of Babylon and call   
   for   
   Thy coming to reestablish all things? For we know that every creature   
   groaneth   
   (Rom. 8:22)   
      
   See whole prayer at:   
   http://www.themontfortacademy.org/Pages/FieryPrayerDay1.htm   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)