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   May 7th - St. Agostino Roscelli (AC)   
      
   Born at Casarza Ligure, Italy, July 27, 1818; died May 7, 1902; beatified   
   May 7, 1995. Canonized   
   10 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II   
      
   Agostino Roscelli was not blessed with worldly wealth or rank. Instead God   
   gave him virtuous parents, intelligence, and supportive friends. Surrounded   
   by the silence of the mountains as he watched his family's sheep, Agostino's   
   soul was opened to prayer and his heart drew close to God. But it was not   
   until a parish mission in May 1835 (age 16) that he recognized he was being   
   called to the priesthood. Most peasants would have found it impossible to   
   answer that call without divine and human intervention; however, Agostino's   
   vocation was supported by his own prayer life and the financial aid of   
   generous people.   
      
   Following his studies at Genoa, Roscelli was ordained in 1846. His first   
   appointment was in the parish of Saint Martin d'Albaro. Eight years later he   
   was given the care of the parish Church of Consolation, where he spent   
   endless hours hearing confessions.   
      
   In Genoa he established a residential school to train young women without   
   families, who were in danger of starvation or falling into prostitution   
   because they had no support. In 1876, he founded the Institute of Sisters of   
   the Immaculata to run this and other residential centers he had established.   
      
   In addition to this work of charity, in 1874, Father Agostino was appointed   
   chaplain of the provincial orphanage. While continuing this work for 22   
   years, he also served as prison chaplain, wherein he cared particularly for   
   those condemned to death (L'Osservatore Romano).   
      
      
   Pope John Paul II at the canonization of St Agostino Roscelli:   
      
   3. With affection I turn now to you, pilgims from various regions to   
   participate in the canonization of St Agostino Roscelli, founder of the   
   "Sisters of the Immaculate". I greet the Archbishop of Genova, Cardinal   
   Dionigi Tettamanzi, Cardinal Giovanni Canestri, the Bishop of Chiavari, the   
   clergy, men and women religious, and the faithful. The new saint exercised   
   his priesthood with great dedication, carrying out an apostolate that was   
   productive of good. He followed the model of an austere evangelical life, in   
   which he was outstanding in the love of God and neighbour. The indivisible   
   love of God and neighbour constitutes the fundamental and distinguishing   
   characteristic of his spirituality, in which action and contemplation feed   
   each other. He loved to repeat: "Prayer helps to act well, and action, done   
   as it should be done, helps to pray well".   
      
   I am happy to remember the words of my venerated Predecessor John Paul I,   
   when he was Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, caught the ascetical features of St   
   Agostino Roscelli: "He knew how to join together in the best way the   
   business of modern life with a deep interior life" (cf. Litt. Post., p. 16,   
   n. 14). The spiritual stature of the "poor priest", as he liked to call   
   himself, released a prophetic force capable of arousing and charming even   
   today. In a simple way, he re-presented the Gospel values that one must   
   recover and live with conviction at the start of the third millennium: the   
   value of humility and sobriety, of silence and the sense of the presence of   
   God which directs history, of prayer and of a charity which never says,   
   that's enough, because it is as immense as is the God from whom it comes.   
      
   St Agostino Roscelli reminds his spiritual daughters and all believers that   
   the results of pastoral action do not depend mostly on our own strength, but   
   on the help of God, to whom we must always turn in prayer.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The best perfection is to do ordinary things in a perfect manner.  Constant   
   fidelity in little things is a great and heroic virtue.   
   -St. Bonaventure   
      
   Bible Quote   
   1 And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all   
   together in one place: 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of   
   a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.   
   3 And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat   
   upon every one of them:   
   (Acts 2:1-3)   
      
      
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   Four Obligations of Mass   
      
   Honor & Praise Our Lord   
      
   O my God, I adore You, and acknowledge You as my Lord, and Master of my   
   soul. I protest that all I am, and all I have, are willingly acknowledged by   
   me to be from You. And since Your supreme majesty deserves infinite honor   
   and homage, while I am but a poor, helpless being, utterly incapable of   
   paying so great a debt, I offer up to You the humiliation and the homage   
   which Jesus renders to You on the altar. That which Jesus does I purpose   
   also to do. I humble, I abase myself, together with Him, before Your   
   Majesty. I adore You with the same humiliation which Jesus practices, and   
   rejoice and am glad that blessed Jesus should give to my behalf,   
   infinite honor and homage. - Amen.   
      
      
   Beg Forgiveness for Our Sins   
      
   Behold, my God, this traitor who has so many times rebelled against You. I   
   am pierced with grief, how I deplore and detest my heavy sins, while I offer   
   for them that same satisfaction which Jesus offers on the altar. I offer to   
   You all the merits of Jesus, all Jesus himself, God and man, Who now, as an   
   unbloody Victim, pleads anew for me, His bloody sacrifice on the cross. I   
   offer all that He does on that altar as my Mediator and Advocate, imploring   
   You to pardon me through His most Precious Blood. I unite myself with the   
   cry of that loving Blood, and I ask You to have mercy on me for my sins, so   
   grievous and so many. The Blood of Jesus cries for mercy; my pierced heart   
   cries for mercy!   
      
   Dear God, if my tears do not move You, let the groans of my Jesus move You;   
   that mercy which He obtained for the whole human race on the cross, why   
   shouldn't He obtain it for me on this altar? Yes; I hope that, in virtue of   
   that most Precious Blood, You will pardon all my most grievous   
   transgressions, for which I shall persevere in weeping to the last breath of   
   my life. - Amen.   
      
      
   Thanksgiving   
      
   See me, my most beloved God, laden with the blessings, both general and   
   particular, which You choose to give me in time, and to store up for me in   
   eternity. I know that Your mercies toward me have been and are infinite, but   
   yet I am ready to repay You all, even to the last cent.   
      
   I thank and repay You by this most Precious Body, this Divine Blood, this   
   Innocent Victim, which I present to You by the hands of Your priest. I am   
   certain that this offering which I make is sufficient to repay all the gifts   
   You have given to me. This gift of infinite value is by itself worth all the   
   gifts which I have received, which I receive now, and am yet to receive from   
   You.   
      
      
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