From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   June 8th - Bl. Pacifico of Cerano   
      
   Born at Novara in Piedmont in the year 1424. His parents died when he was   
   very   
   young, and he was educated in the Benedictine abbey of his native city. He   
   then   
   took the habit in the Franciscan convent of the strict observance, being   
   about   
   twenty-one years of age, and he became one of the most learned ecclesiastics   
   of   
   his time. After his ordination he laboured chiefly as a preacher in Italy,   
   conducting many successful missions between the years 1452 and 1471. His   
   evangelistic work was interrupted by a visit to Sardinia, where he went with   
   a   
   commission from Pope Sixtus IV to redress certain disorders and   
   irregularities   
   that had crept into the church. He was induced to write a treatise on moral   
   theology, which was published in Milan in 1475 and was long regarded as the   
   standard work on that subject, though aiming at simple explanations,   
   intelligible to all. He entitled it "Sometta di Pacifica Coscienza", but it   
   was   
   commonly known as "Somma Pacifica." He resumed his mission work, labouring   
   chiefly in the north of Italy and using as his headquarters the convent of   
   Vigevano which he had founded in the diocese of Novara.   
      
       In 1480 came another summons to go to Sardinia, this time as visitor and   
   commissary general for the convents of the strict observance, and also as   
   apostolic nuncio charged by Pope Sixtus IV to proclaim a crusade against   
   Mohammed II. The order arrived when he was preaching at Cerano. He knew that   
   he   
   had not long to live, and in his farewell address he said: "I ask you to do   
   me   
   this favour- that when you hear of my death, you will have my poor wretched   
   remains brought back to my native land, so that I may be buried in this dear   
   church which I have built in honour of the Blessed Virgin." He went to   
   Sardinia,   
   but had scarcely begun to preach the crusade when he was taken ill. He died   
   at   
   Sassari on June 4, 1482. In compliance with his request his body was taken   
   back   
   to Cerano, where a church was afterwards built in his honour. The cult of   
   Bl.   
   Pacifico was confirmed in 1745.   
      
   An account of Bl. Pacifico is furnished in an appendix to the June volume i   
   of   
   the Acta Sanctorum. He is also prominent in Wadding's Scnptores, and in the   
   Annales Ordinis Minorum, vol. xiv. See further, the Miscellanea Franciscana,   
   vols. iii and vii, and Leon's Auréole Séraphique (Eng. trans.), vol. ii, pp.   
   352-355. Small separate lives have been published by M. Cazzola and by   
   another   
   writer, who remains anonymous.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   We live poverty by filling the hours of the day usefully, doing everything   
   as   
   well as we can, and living little details of order, punctuality and good   
   humor.   
   --St. Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer   
      
   Bible Quote   
   And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our   
   hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us.  (Romans 5:5)   
      
      
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   Thirty-Three Salutations To the Sacred Heart   
      
   HAIL, Heart of my Jesus--save me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Savior--deliver me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Judge--pardon me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Spouse--love me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Master--teach me!   
   Hail, Heart of my King--crown me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Benefactor--enrich me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Pastor--keep me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Friend--caress me!   
   Hail, Heart of the Infant Jesus--attract me!   
   Hail, Heart of Jesus dying on the Cross--atone for me!   
   Hail, Heart of Jesus in all its Conditions--give Thyself to me!   
   Hail, Heart of my Brother--remain with me!   
   Hail, Heart of incomparable Goodness--forgive me!   
   Hail, Heart most Glorious--shine forth in me!   
   Hail, Heart most Amiable--inflame me!   
   Hail, Heart most Charitable--work in me!   
   Hail, Heart most Merciful--answer for me!   
   Hail, Heart most Humble--repose in me!   
   Hail, Heart most Patient--bear with me!   
   Hail, Heart most Faithful--make satisfaction for me!   
   Hail, Heart most Adorable and most Worthy--bless me!   
   Hail, Heart most Peaceful--calm me!   
   Hail, Heart most Desirable and most Beautiful--delight me!   
   Hail, Heart most Illustrious and most Perfect--ennoble me!   
   Hail, Heart most Holy, Balm most Precious--preserve and sanctify me!   
   Hail, Heart most Holy and most Salutary--reform me!   
   Hail, Heart most Blessed, true Physician and Remedy for all our ills--heal   
   me!   
   Hail, Heart of Jesus, Consolation of the afflicted--comfort me!   
   Hail, Heart most loving, ardent Furnace burning with Love--consume me!   
   Hail, Heart of Jesus, Model of Perfection--enlighten me!   
   Hail, Divine Heart, Source of all Happiness--strengthen me!   
   Hail, Heart of eternal Benediction--call me to Thee!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)