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   June 12th - St. Odulf   
      
   The most successful of the missionaries who helped St. Frederick to complete   
   the   
   evangelization of Friesland was undoubtedly St. Odulf; churches dedicated to   
   him   
   are still to be found in Holland and Belgium. He was born at Oorschot in   
   North   
   Brabant, and after his ordination he had charge of his native town; but   
   after   
   wards he transferred to Utrecht, where he attracted the favourable notice of   
   St.   
   Frederick, bishop of the diocese. His eloquence as a preacher as well as his   
   learning induced Frederick to send him to Friesland, the inhabitants of   
   which   
   were only partially converted. There St. Odulf spent many years labouring   
   with   
   great fruit. According to the old chronicler he converted his hearers by   
   reiterated instructions-preaching to the people and leading them into the   
   way of   
   truth through frequent admonitions, arguments, and rebukes, "until the men   
   who   
   had formerly been, as it were, ferocious wolves, had been transformed by   
   sound   
   doctrine into peaceable sheep". Although he worked in all parts of the   
   Zaanland,   
   his headquarters were at Stavoren; there he had his church, and there he   
   founded   
   a monastery. In spite of invitations to return to his own country, he   
   persevered   
   in his missionary work until he was very old. He then returned to Utrecht,   
   where   
   he died about the year 855. His body disappeared from its shrine, probably   
   in a   
   raid by the Northmen, and seems to have been taken to England and to have   
   found   
   a resting-place at Evesham Abbey, in the year 1034.   
      
   At the beginning of the thirteenth century, a most unpleasant story was some   
   how   
   copied into an English manuscript (Rawlinson A 287, in the Bodleian) which   
   contains the Chronicle of Evesham. It is there narrated that St. Odulf when   
   in   
   Friesland, and himself in the act of offering Mass at Eastertide, was   
   admonished   
   by an angel to make all haste and go aboard a ship, because his friend St.   
   Frederick had fallen into a terrible sin, but was nevertheless purporting to   
   offer the Holy Sacrifice. The ship was wafted to Utrecht with inconceivable   
   rapidity, and Odulf was in time to warn his friend, to hear his confession,   
   and   
   to celebrate Mass in his stead. Then Frederick disappeared for ten years to   
   do   
   strenuous penance, and St. Odulf meanwhile took his place as bishop. At the   
   end   
   of the ten years, Frederick, now a model of every virtue, resumed his   
   episcopal   
   duties and in the end died famous for the miracles he had wrought. There is   
   not,   
   of course, a shadow of foundation for this in sober history, but the   
   insertion   
   of such a piece of scandal affords a curious illustration of the medieval   
   tendency to cherish every story which chronicled the failings of the great.   
      
   The not very reliable life of St. Odulf printed in the Acta Sanctorum; June,   
   vol. iii, has also been partly edited in Pertz, MGH., Scriptores, vol. xv,   
   pp.   
   356-358. See also Macray, Chronicle of Evesham (Rolls Series), pp. 313-320;   
   and   
   Stanton, English Menology, pp. 265-267.   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Hence we must say that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs   
   divine help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act. But he does   
   not   
   need a new light added to his natural light, in order to know the truth in   
   all   
   things, but only in some that surpasses his natural knowledge.   
   --Saint Thomas Aquinas   
      
   Bible Quote   
   1 But the souls of the just are in the hand of God, and the torment of death   
   shall not touch them. 2 In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and   
   their   
   departure was taken for misery: 3 And their going away from us, for utter   
   destruction: but they are in peace.  (Wisdom 3:1-3)   
      
      
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   Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart From The Raccolta   
      
   I, N... N ... give myself and consecrate to the Sacred Heart of our Lord   
   Jesus   
   Christ, my person and my life, my actions, pains and sufferings, so that I   
   may   
   be unwilling to make use of any part of my being, save to honor, love and   
   glorify the Sacred Heart.   
      
   This is my unchanging purpose, namely, to be all His, and to do all things   
   for   
   the love of Him, at the same time renouncing with all my heart whatever is   
   displeasing to Him.   
      
   I therefore take Thee, O Sacred Heart, to be the only object of my love, the   
   guardian of my life, my assurance of salvation, the remedy of my weakness   
   and   
   inconstancy, the atonement for all the faults of my life and my sure refuge   
   at   
   the hour of death.   
      
   Be then, O Heart of goodness, my justification before God Thy Father, and   
   turn   
   away from me the strokes of His righteous anger. O Heart of love, I put all   
   my   
   confidence in Thee, for I fear everything from my own wickedness and   
   frailty,   
   but I hope for all things from Thy goodness and bounty.   
      
   Do Thou consume in me all that can displease Thee or resist Thy holy will;   
   let   
   Thy pure love imprint Thee so deeply upon my heart, that I shall nevermore   
   be   
   able to forget Thee or to be separated from Thee; may I obtain from all Thy   
   loving kindness the grace of having my name written in Thee, for in Thee I   
   desire to place all my happiness and all my glory, living and dying in very   
   bondage to Thee.   
      
   Written by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)