From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   The Comforter is with us in our troubles   
      
      "He is called the Comforter because he comforts and encourages us   
   and helps our infirmities. We do not know what we should pray for as   
   we should, but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us, with   
   groanings that cannot be uttered (Romans 8:26), that is, he makes   
   intercession to God. Very often, someone has been outraged and   
   dishonored unjustly for the sake of Christ. Martyrdom is at hand;   
   tortures on every side, and fire, and sword, and savage beasts and the   
   pit. But the Holy Spirit softly whispers to him, 'Wait on the Lord'   
   (Psalm 27:14). What is now happening to you is a small matter; the   
   reward will be great. Suffer a little while, and you will be with   
   angels forever. 'The sufferings of this present time are not worth   
   comparing to the glory that shall be revealed in us' (Romans 8:18). He   
   portrays to the person the kingdom of heaven. He gives him a glimpse   
   of the paradise of delight."   
    by Cyril of Jerusalem, (excerpt from CATECHETICAL LECTURES 16.20)   
      
      
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   June 7th -  St. Antony Gianelli, Bishop of Bobbio   
   [Founder of the missioners of St. Alphonsus and the sisters of St.   
   Mary Dell' Orto ]   
   d. 846   
      
   ANTONY GIANELLI was born in the diocese of Genoa in 1789 of a   
   middle-class family. As a youth he was conspicuous for his gentle   
   docility and industry and for the promise of more than ordinary   
   intellectual gifts. A generous benefactress made it possible for him   
   to pursue his studies at Genoa, and there, entering the ecclesiastical   
   seminary, he so distinguished himself that when still only a subdeacon   
   he was allowed to preach and attracted great crowds by his eloquence.   
   By special dispensation he was ordained priest in 1812 before he had   
   reached the canonical age.   
      
   Though employed in important educational work he still found time to   
   deliver sermons and give missions resulting in a great harvest of   
   souls, as well as to discharge the functions of an ordinary parish   
   priest, his confessional being at all times besieged by penitents.   
   Before he was forty he had organized two religious congregations, the   
   one of priests who were known as the Missioners of St. Alphonsus   
   Liguori, the other of women living under rule whose activities in   
   teaching poor children and nursing the sick were dedicated in honour   
   of Santa Maria dell' Orto ("of the Garden"). These sisters are now   
   well known in Italy and they have houses in other parts of Europe as   
   well as in America and Asia. Meanwhile, in the year (1838, St. Antony   
   was appointed bishop of Bobbio, and in that office he gave an   
   extraordinary example of virtue, prudence and firm government. He   
   died, all too soon, in 1846, and he was canonized in 1951.   
      
   There are Italian biographies by L. Bodino (1924) and L. Sanguinetti   
   (1925); this last is an illustrated volume of nearly six hundred   
   pages. The decree of beatification is printed in the Acta Apostolicae   
   Sedis, vol. xvii (1925), pp. 176-179. The saint's canonization was the   
   occasion of further biographies.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
    "God, indeed, who has predestined us to adoption as his sons, has   
   conformed us to the glorious Body of Christ.  So then you who have   
   become sharers in Christ are appropriately called 'Christs.'" Cyril of   
   Jerusalem: Catechism mystogogia 3,1   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How   
   unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!   
   34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord,   
   or who has been his counselor?”  [Romans 11:33-34]   
      
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   A MOTHER'S PRAYER TO THE GUARDIAN ANGEL OF HER CHILDREN   
      
   I humbly salute you, O you faithful, heavenly Friends of   
   my children! I give you heartfelt thanks for all the love and   
   goodness you show them. At some future day I shall, with   
   thanks more worthy than I can now give, repay your care   
   for them, and before the whole heavenly court   
   acknowledge their indebtedness to your guidance and   
   protection. Continue to watch over them. Provide for all   
   their needs of body and soul. Pray, likewise, for me, for my   
   husband, and my whole family, that we may all one day   
   rejoice in your blessed company. Amen.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)