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   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, 430-543 A.D.(excerpt from CATECHETICAL LECTURES 16.20)   
      
      
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   May 10th - St. Catald of Taranto (Tarentum), Bishop   
    (Also known as Cataldus, Cathaluds, Cattaldo, Cathal)   
      
   Born in Munster, Ireland, 7th century. Saint Catald was a pupil, then   
   the headmaster of the monastic school of Lismore in Waterford after   
   the death of its founder, Saint Carthage. Upon his return from a   
   pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he was shipwrecked at Taranto in southern   
   Italy and chosen by the people as their bishop. He is the titular of   
   Taranto's cathedral and the principal patron of the diocese. This   
   epitaph is given under an image of Saint Catald in Rome:   
      
   Me tulit Hiberne, Solyme traxere, Tarentum Nunc tenet: huic ritus,   
   dogmata, jura dedi.   
      
   This has been loosely translated as: Hibernia gave me birth: thence   
   wafted over, I sought the sacred Solymean shore. To thee Tarentum,   
   holy rites I gave, Precepts divine; and thou to me a grave.   
      
   It is odd that an Irishman, should be so honoured throughout Italy,   
   Malta, and France, but have almost no recognition in his homeland. His   
   Irish origins were discovered only two or three centuries after his   
   death, when his relics were recovered during the renovation of the   
   cathedral of Taranto. A small golden cross, of 7th- or 8th- century   
   Irish workmanship, was with the relics. Further investigations   
   identified him with Cathal, the teacher of Lismore.   
      
   Veneration to Catald spread, especially in southern Italy, after the   
   May 10, 1017, translation of his relics when the cathedral was being   
   rebuilt following its destruction at the hands of Saracens in 927.   
   Four remarkable cures occurred as the relics were moved to the new   
   cathedral. When his coffin was open at that time, a pastoral staff of   
   Irish workmanship was found with the inscription Cathaldus Rachau.   
   There is a town of San Cataldo in Sicily and another on the southeast   
   coast of Italy (Benedictines, D'Arcy, Farmer, Husenbeth, Kenney,   
   Montague, Neeson, Tommasini).   
      
   Saint Catald is depicted in art as an early Christian bishop with a   
   mitre and pallium in a 12th century mosaic at Palermo (Roeder). He is   
   the subject of a painting on the 8th pillar of the nave on the left in   
   the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem (D'Arcy, Montague). There   
   are also 12th-century mosaics in Palermo and Monreale depicting the   
   saint (Farmer). Catald is invoked against plagues, drought, and storms   
   (Farmer).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   The garden of the Lord, brethren, includes-- yes, it truly includes--   
   includes not only the roses of martyrs but also the lilies of virgins,   
   and the ivy of married people, and the violets of widows. There is   
   absolutely no kind of human beings, my dearly beloved, who need to   
   despair of their vocation; Christ suffered for all. It was very truly   
   written about him: who wishes all men to be saved, and to come to the   
   acknowledgement of the truth.   
   -- Saint Augustine of Hippo   
      
   Bible Quote   
   I had many things to write unto thee: but I would not by ink and pen   
   write to thee. 14 But I hope speedily to see thee, and we will speak   
   mouth to mouth. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Salute the   
   friends by name. (3 John 1:13-14)   
      
      
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   Prayer for Charity:   
      
   O my Jesus, Thou who art very Love,   
   enkindle in my heart that Divine Fire   
   which consumes the Saints and transforms them into Thee.   
   O Lord our God,   
   we offer Thee our hearts   
   united in the strongest and most sincere love of brotherhood;   
   we pray that Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament   
   may be the daily food of our souls and bodies;   
   that Jesus may be established as the center of our affections,   
   even as He was for Mary and Joseph.   
   Finally, O Lord, may sin never disturb our union on earth;   
   and may we be eternally united in heaven with Thee   
   and Mary and Joseph and with all Thy Saints.   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)