From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   My Visit In Heaven   
      
   I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We   
   walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.   
      
   My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, "This   
   is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer   
   are received." I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy   
   with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper   
   sheets and scraps from people all over the world.   
      
   Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second   
   section. The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and   
   Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for   
   are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them."   
      
   I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working   
   hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and   
   were being packaged for delivery to Earth.   
      
   Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the   
   door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was   
   seated there, idle, doing nothing.   
      
   "This is the Acknowledgment Section, " my angel friend quietly   
   admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed. "How is it that there's no work   
   going on here?" I asked. "So sad," the angel sighed.   
   "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send   
   back acknowledgments.   
      
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   November 5th - St. Bertilla, Virgin   
   d. 705?   
      
   ST BERTILLA (Bertila is the more correct form) was born in the   
   territory of Soissons. As she grew up she learned the deceits of the   
   world, and earnestly desired to re­nounce it. She was encouraged in   
   her resolution by St. Ouen, Bishop of Rouen, and her parents sent her   
   to Jouarre, a monastery near Meaux, founded not long before under the   
   Rule of St. Columban. St. Bertilla was received with joy in this   
   community and trained up in the strictest practice of monastic   
   perfection. Though yet young, her prudence and tact were remarkable,   
   and the care of strangers, of the sick, and of the children that were   
   educated in the monastery was successively committed to her.   
      
   When St. Bathildis, the English wife of Clovis II, refounded the abbey   
   of Chelles, she asked the abbess of Jouarre to furnish this community   
   with a small colony of her most experienced and virtuous nuns.   
   Bertilla was sent at the head of this company, and was appointed first   
   abbess of Chelles. The reputation of the saint and the discipline   
   which she established in this house attracted a number of foreign   
   vocations, among them Hereswitha, widow of Ethelhere, King of the East   
   Angles and sister to St. Hilda. The widowed Queen Bathildis herself,   
   as soon as her son Clotaire was of age to govern, retired hither. She   
   took the religious habit from the hands of St. Bertilla c. 665 and   
   obeyed her as if she had been the last sister in the house, rather   
   than its sovereign and foundress. But the holy abbess, who saw two   
   queens every day at her feet, seemed the most humble and the most   
   fervent among her sisters, and showed by her conduct that no one   
   commands well who has not first learned, and is not always ready, to   
   obey well. In her old age, far from abating her fervour, St. Bertilla   
   strove to redouble it both in her penances and in her devotions, and   
   she died beloved by all, after having governed Chelles for forty-six   
   years.   
      
   There is a short Latin life, probably compiled about the year 800, but   
   based upon authentic materials of earlier date. It has been critically   
   edited both by A. Poncelet in the Acta Sanctorum, November, vol. iii,   
   and by W. Levison in MGH., Scriptores Merov., vol. vi.  Something is   
   also said of St. Bertilla in the exceptionally trustworthy Merovingian   
   Life of St. Bathildis. Father Poncelet shows that, owing to a mistake   
   of Bede; certain erroneous deductions have been drawn regarding the   
   chronology.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a   
   crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not   
   only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to   
   forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater   
   Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is   
   calling down vengeance on himself.   
   --St. Philip   
      
   Bible Quote   
   For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: but   
   from him that hath not, that also which he seemeth to have shall be   
   taken away. 30 And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the   
   exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.   
   (Matt 25:29-30)   
      
      
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   The Canticle of Zachariah or Benedictus   
      
   Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel. He has come to His people   
   to set them free. He has raised up for us a mighty Savior, born of   
   the house of His servant David.   
      
   Through His holy prophets He promised of old that He would save   
   us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us.   
      
   He promised to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His   
   holy covenant.   
      
   This was the oath He swore to our father Abraham: to set us free   
   from the hands of our enemies, free to worship Him without fear,   
   holy and righteous in His sight all the days of our life.   
      
   You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High; for you   
   will go before the Lord to prepare His way, to give His people   
   knowledge of salvation by the forgiveness of their sins.   
      
   In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall   
   break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the   
   shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace   
   (Luke 1:68- 79).   
      
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