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   Beware of false prophets   
      
      "Jesus reminded them of what happened to their ancestors who were   
   attracted to false prophets. The same dangers are now faced as those   
   that occurred in earlier days. He reminded them of the experience of   
   their ancestors so that they would not despair at the multitude of   
   troubles that would mount up on this way that is narrow and   
   constricted. He reminded them that it is necessary to walk in a way   
   that goes contrary to the common opinion. One must guard oneself not   
   only against pigs and dogs but those other, more elusive creatures:   
   the wolves. They were going to face inward anxieties as well as   
   outward difficulties, but they are not to despair. 'Therefore do not   
   be thrown into confusion,' Jesus says in effect, 'for nothing will   
   happen that is new or strange. Remember that the ancient adversary is   
   forever introducing deception as if true.'"   
   by John Chrysostom (excerpt from THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, HOMILY 23.6)   
      
      
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   July 3rd - Saint Heliodorus, Bishop of Altino   
   (d. 390)   
      
   Saint Heliodorus was born at Dalmatia, a Roman Province northeast of   
   the Adriatic Sea, which was also the native land of Saint Jerome. He   
   soon sought out that great Doctor, not only to follow his advice in   
   matters relating to Christian perfection, but also to profit by his   
   deep learning. The life of a recluse held great attractions for him,   
   but to enter a monastery it would have been necessary to leave his   
   spiritual master and director, a sacrifice he was not prepared to   
   make. He therefore remained in the world, though not part of it, and   
   following the example of the holy anchorites, passed his time in   
   prayer and devout reading. He accompanied Saint Jerome on his voyage   
   to the Holy Land, visiting the various churches of the Orient, and   
   remained with him for a time, but a desire to revisit his native land   
   and to see his parents once more drew him back to Dalmatia. Saint   
   Jerome tried to persuade him to remain with him, and Heliodorus was   
   intending to return, as soon as he had fulfilled the duties he owed   
   his parents.   
      
   Finding his absence had grown prolonged, and fearing that love for his   
   family and attachment to worldly things might lure him from his   
   vocation, Saint Jerome wrote him an earnest letter. He exhorted his   
   good disciple to break entirely with the world and to consecrate   
   himself to the service of God. But the Lord, who disposes all things,   
   had a mission of activity reserved for His servant. After the death of   
   his mother, Heliodorus went to Italy and soon was remarked for his   
   eminent piety. He was made Bishop of Altino, and became one of the   
   most distinguished prelates of an age fruitful in great men. He   
   sustained the Catholic faith against the Arian heresy, assisting at   
   the Council of Aquilea in northeastern Italy, called for that purpose   
   in 381. Saint Jerome never forgot his former student, and in one of   
   his letters testifies that he was a bishop who lived in his episcopal   
   dignity with as much fervor and regularity as in a monastery. Saint   
   Heliodorus died about the year 390.   
      
   Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on   
   Butler’s Lives of the Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea   
   (Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   He who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps.   
   --Pope St. Gregory the Great   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you shall receive it, and   
   it shall come to you.  (Mark 11:24)   
      
      
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      Thomas, the apostle   
      
       How admirable the insight of the man! He touches a man and calls   
   him God. One thing he touched; another he believed. If he had written   
   a thousand books, he would not have given as much help to the Church.   
   How openly, how faithfully, how clearly he calls Christ God! Most   
   useful and most necessary to the Church of God indeed to utter that   
   word. A word by which many and most powerful heresies were extirpated   
   from the Church. Peter had been praised because he had said: You are   
   the Messiah, the Son of the living God. Thomas exclaimed more   
   explicitly: My Lord and my God. He thereby professed both natures in   
   Christ.   
      You became a believer because you saw me. Blest are they who have   
   not seen and have believed. Those words are a great consolation for us   
   every time we say, every time we proclaim: O blessed eyes! O blessed   
   times! O blessed ages, which deserved to witness and examine such   
   great mysteries! This is true, for the Lord said: Blest are the eyes   
   that see what you see, but he also said: Blest are they who have not   
   seen and have believed. The first gave more consolation; the latter   
   was more meritorious. Seeing increases gladness, but faith without   
   seeing gives greater glorification.   
   --Thomas of Villanova, O.S.A.:   
      
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