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   To such belongs the Kingdom   
      
       "Why did the disciples keep the children back? Not because of the   
   children's wickedness but because it was not the right time. They did   
   not want the Lord to be tired by the great crowd. To them he said,   
   'Let the children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such   
   belongs the kingdom of heaven.' For children are ignorant of   
   wickedness. They do not know how to return evil for evil or how to do   
   someone an injury. They do not know how to be lustful or to fornicate   
   or to rob. What they hear, they believe. They love their parents with   
   complete affection. Therefore, beloved, the Lord instructs us that   
   what they are by the gift of nature, we should become by the fear of   
   God, a holy way of life and love of the heavenly kingdom--for unless   
   we are alien to all sin just like children, we cannot come to the   
   Savior."   
    by Epiphanius the Latin (excerpt from INTERPRETATION OF THE GOSPELS 25)   
      
      
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   August 30th – SS. Felix and Adauctus   
      
   St. Felix was a holy priest in Rome, no less happy in his life and   
   virtue than in his name. Being apprehended in the beginning of   
   Diocletian's persecution, he was put to the torture, which he suffered   
   with constancy, and was condemned to lose his head.  As he was going   
   to execution he was met by a stranger, who, being a Christian, was so   
   moved at the sight of the martyr and the glory to which he was   
   hastening that he cried out aloud, "I confess the same law which this   
   man professes; I confess the same Jesus Christ; and I also will lay   
   down my life in His cause The magistrates hearing this, caused him   
   forthwith to be seized, and the martyrs -were both beheaded together.   
   The name of this stranger not being known, he was called by Christians   
   Adauctus, i.e. the one added, because he was joined to Felix in   
   martyrdom.   
      
     This story, with sundry legendary embellishments, is derived from an   
   inscription of Pope St. Damasus, which ran: "O how truly and rightly   
   named Felix, happy, you who, with faith untouched and despising the   
   prince of this world, have confessed Christ and sought the heavenly   
   kingdom.  Know ye also, brethren, the truly precious faith by which   
   Adauctus too hastened, a victor, to Heaven."  The priest Verus, at the   
   command of his ruler Damasus, restored the tomb, adorning the   
   thresholds of the saints."  SS. Felix and Adauctus were buried in the   
   cemetery of Commodilla on the Ostian Way, where a church built over   
   their tomb was uncovered in 1905.   
      
     As Felix and Adauctus, in cemetery of Commodilla on the Ostian Way"   
   are registered in the Depositio martyrum of 354, we have a solid   
   guarantee for their early cultus, which is further confirmed by the   
   Leonine sacramentary and many other records. See the Analecta   
   Bollandiana, vol. xvi (1897), pp. 17-43, and the discussions by de   
   Rossi, Wilpert, Marucchi, Bonavenia, etc., to which Delehaye gives   
   references in CMH., pp. 476-478. The passio is in the Acta Sanctorum,   
   August, vol. vi.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Let the sufferings of your Divine Redeemer be deeply impressed on your   
   heart, and be assured that He, the Good Shepherd, will conduct you as   
   a cherished lamb to His divine fold. And what is the fold of this   
   amiable Shepherd? It is the bosom of His heavenly Father.   
   --St. Paul of the Cross   
      
   Bible Quote   
   As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are   
   the fruit of honour and riches. 24 I am the mother of fair love, and   
   of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. 25 In me is all grace of   
   the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.   
   (Sir 24:23-25) DRB   
      
      
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   LADY IN THE LIGHT   
      
   Crystalline brilliance of light so endowed,   
   To Mary, our Mother, for Her heavenly shroud,   
   Love's own white fire, a fire that heals,   
   The souls She will come to when answering appeals.   
   The stars of divinity set in Her crown,   
   Send shimmering stardust to earthly abounds;   
   Soft velvet whispers that need no translation,   
   To carry Her message to souls of all nations.   
   This is the aura that streams from above,   
   Sent forth from the heavens and the Father of love.   
   Soft velvet whispers that need no translation,   
   To carry Her message to souls of all nations.   
   This is the aura that streams from above,   
   Sent forth from the heavens and the Father of love   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)