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   Resurrected Bodies   
      
   "The bodies of the righteous at the resurrection will need neither any   
   fruit to preserve them from dying of disease or the wasting decay of   
   old age nor any bodily nourishment to prevent hunger and thirst. For   
   they will be endowed with such a sure and inviolable gift of   
   immortality that they will not eat because they have to, but only if   
   they want to. Not the power but the necessity of eating and drinking   
   shall be taken away from them... just like our Savior after his   
   resurrection took meat and drink with his disciples, with spiritual   
   but still real flesh, not for the sake of nourishment, but in an   
   exercise of his power."   
   --St. Augustine--(excerpt from City of God 13.22)   
      
      
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   April 9th - Blessed Antony of Pavoni   
      
   Memorial 9 April   
   3 February (Dominicans)   
      
   Born in Savigliano, Italy, in 1326; died in Turino, Italy, in 1374;   
   beatified in 1868. Antony was obviously martyred for the faith, yet it   
   took more than 500 years before he was even beatified. He is still not   
   canonized.   
      
   Antony grew up to be a pious, intelligent youth. At 15, he was   
   received into the monastery of Savigliano, was ordained in 1351, and   
   almost immediately was engaged in combatting the heresies of the   
   Lombards.   
      
   Pope Urban V, in 1360, appointed him inquisitor-general of Lombardy   
   and Genoa, making him one of the youngest men ever to hold that   
   office. It was a difficult and dangerous job for a young priest of 34.   
   Besides being practically a death sentence to any man who held the   
   office, it carried with it the necessity of arguing with the men most   
   learned in a twisted and subtle heresy.   
      
   Antony worked untiringly in his native city, and his apostolate lasted   
   14 years. During this time, he accomplished a great deal by his   
   preaching, and even more by his example of Christian virtue. He was   
   elected prior of Savigliano, in 1368, and given the task of building a   
   new abbey. This he accomplished without any criticism of its luxury--a   
   charge that heretics were always anxious to make against any Catholic   
   builders.   
      
   The consistent poverty of Antony's life was a reproach to the   
   heretics, who had always been able to gain ground with the poor by   
   pointing out the wealth of religious houses. He went among the poor   
   and let them see that he was one of them. This so discomfited the   
   heretics that they decided they must kill him. He was preaching in a   
   little village near Turin when they caught him.   
      
   The martyrdom occurred in the Easter octave. On the Saturday after   
   Easter, he asked the barber to do a good job on his tonsure because he   
   was going to a wedding. Puzzled, the barber complied. On the Sunday   
   after Easter, as he finished preaching a vigorous sermon against   
   heresy at Brichera, seven heretics fell upon him with their daggers,   
   and he hurried off to the promised "wedding." He was buried in the   
   Dominican church at Savigliano, where his tomb was a place of   
   pilgrimage until 1827. At that time the relics were transferred to the   
   Dominican church of Racconigi (Benedictines, Dorcy).   
      
   Oddly enough, this Dominican Antony takes after his Franciscan   
   namesake. He is also invoked to find lost articles (Dorcy).   
      
   Reflection: Endeavor so to act as you would wish to have acted when   
   you stand before the Judge of your eternity. This is the rule of the   
   Saints, and the only safe rule for all.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   When I am in Heaven, where everything is possible, I will cling to the   
   mantle of the Mother of God and I will not turn my eyes from you. But   
   do not forget what this poor old man has said to you.   
   --Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo from his deathbed   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the   
   right side, clothed with a white robe: and they were astonished. 6 Who   
   saith to them: Be not affrighted; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was   
   crucified: he is risen, he is not here, behold the place where they   
   laid him.  (Mark 16:5-6)   
      
      
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   Prayer To Our Sorrowful Mother   
      
   O Mother of Sorrows, thou, who beneath the Cross of Jesus were given   
   to us as our Mother, look down with pity on us, thy children, who weep   
   and mourn in this valley of tears. By that sword of sorrow which   
   pierced thy Heart when thou looked upon the Face of thy dead Son,   
   obtain for us that comfort we so sorely need in our sufferings.   
      
   Thou were given to us our Mother in the hour of thy greatest grief   
   that thou might be mindful of our frailty and the evils that press   
   upon us. Without thy aid, O Sorrowful Mother, we cannot gain the   
   victory in this struggle against flesh and blood. Therefore, we seek   
   thy help, O Queen of Sorrows, lest we fall prey to the wiles of the   
   enemy. We are orphans in need of the guiding hand of our Mother amid   
   the dangers that threaten our destruction. Thou whose grief was   
   boundless as the sea, grant us by the memory of those sorrows the   
   strength to be victorious.   
      
   Intercede further, O Mother of Sorrows, for us and all who are near   
   and dear to us, that we may ever do the Will of thy Son, and may   
   direct all our actions to His honor, and to the furtherance of   
   devotion to thy sorrows. Amen.   
      
   Virgin Most Sorrowful, pray for us.   
      
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