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   March 24th - St. Caimin of Lough Derg, Abbot (AC)   
   (Also known as Camin or Cammin of Inniskeltra)   
      
   Died 653; in some places his feast is celebrated on March 25. The Irish   
   Saint Caimin was half-brother to King Guaire of Connaught and Cumian Fada,   
   and himself a distinguished scholar. But he retired from the vanities of the   
   world to live as a hermit on Inish-Keltra (Caltra) in Lough Derg near   
   Galway. Although Saint Columba of Terryglass had founded a monastery on the   
   island a century earlier, Saint Caimin is the reason the people call it   
   "Holy Island" after many disciples were drawn there because of his   
   reputation for holiness. Later in life he founded a monastery and church,   
   named Tempul-Cammin, on the island of the Seven Churches.   
      
   The monastery on Inish-Keltra thrived through 1010 (when its last recorded   
   abbot died) despite its being in the direct path of the Danish invaders. The   
   abbey was plundered c. 836 and again in 922. Brian Boru restored the church   
   c. 1009. Now, however, only ruins recall the grandeur of Inish-Keltra's   
   past: the 80-foot tall round tower, early grave markers, and ivy-covered   
   church ruins.   
      
   Saint Caimin was a fellow-worker with Saint Senan. A fragment of the Psalter   
   of Saint Caimin, claimed by some to have been copied by his own hand, still   
   exists in the Franciscan library at Killiney, County Dublin. He is also   
   credited with authorship of the Commentary on the Hebrew Text of the Psalms   
   (Benedictines, D'Arcy, Healy, Husenbeth, Montague, Muirhead, Neeson).   
      
      
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   Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself.  (Matthew 16:24)   
      
   "Make it your constant effort to mortify and trample underfoot your own   
   will, to such a degree as not to satisfy it in anything, if It be possible.   
   Be careful, therefore, to desire and rejoice that it may be often crossed;   
   and when you see anyone oppose it either in temporal or spiritual things,   
   follow his will rather than your own, if only his be good, even though your   
   own be better. For, contending with another, by lessening your humility,   
   tranquillity, and peace, will always inflict upon you a loss greater than   
   the advantage brought by any exercise of virtue performed through your own   
   will, in opposition to another's" -St. Vincent Ferrer   
      
   St. Catherine of Genoa practiced this. She loved to submit her preference to   
   that of others, in all things; and if a wish to pursue any course arose in   
   her own mind, it was sufficient to make her avoid it.   
      
    When Father Thomas Sanchez would go to his Superiors to make a request, he   
   used first to ask God, if it might be according to His pleasure, to move   
   their hearts to refuse it.   
      
   (Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints".  March - Mortification)   
      
   Bible Quote   
   Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.   
   And the Jews wondered, saying: How doth this man know letters, having never   
   learned? 16 Jesus answered them, and said: My doctrine is not mine, but his   
   that sent me.  (John 7:14-16)   
      
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   THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SOULS   
   FROM THE PURGATORIAN MANUAL   
    (Imprimatur 1946)   
      
      
   26th Day   
      
   BY DELIVERING THE SOULS FROM PURGATORY WE PROMOTE THE HONOR OF GOD   
      
        According to St. Paul, the Apostle, the honor and glory of God should   
   be the principal motive of all our actions: "Whether you eat or drink, or   
   whatsoever else you do; do all things for the glory of God" (I. Cor. x. 31.)   
   "The glorification of God" ought to be our special aim in our works, most   
   particularly in our acts of charity for the dead; and justly so, for, by   
   delivering these holy souls, we lead them to Heaven, where alone God is   
   perfectly known, loved, and glorified.   
      
        If St. Teresa and other saints have declared their readiness to suffer   
   all tortures imaginable for the promotion of God's glory in a single degree,   
   what should not we do and suffer for the deliverance of these souls from the   
   flames of Purgatory, since by doing so we increase His glory by millions of   
   degrees, and not for one moment only, but for eternity!   
      
   Prayer: Increase, O Lord! Thy honor and glory, that all created beings may   
   praise Thy mercy forever, because Thou hast shown clemency towards the souls   
   who love Thee and ardently desire to behold Thee. Comfort them, then, O   
   Lord! Let them behold Thy face in the land of the blessed, where they shall   
   honor, praise, and glorify Thee, world without end. Amen.   
      
   Special Intercession: Pray for the souls, who, while on earth, promoted the   
   glory of God.   
      
   Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon   
   them; may they rest in peace. Amen.  (Three times)   
      
   Practice: Make a good intention before every work which you perform.   
      
   Invocation: My Jesus, mercy!   
      
   See entire 31day prayer at:   
   http://www.faithfuldeparted.net/prayers.htmlh   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)