From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
    -- 2 Corinthians 7:10 –    
      
   10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and   
   brings no regret, but worldly grief produces death.  RSVCE   
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      "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation" refers to   
   sorrow for our sins that results in changed behavior. Many people are   
   sorry only for the effects of their sins or for being caught ("worldly   
   sorrow").   
      Compare Peter's remorse and repentance with Judas' bitterness and   
   act of suicide. Both disowned Christ. One repented and was restored to   
   faith and service; the other took his own life.   
      
      
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   November 26th - St. Leonard of Port Maurice   
    (also known as Leonard Casanuova)   
      
   Born at Porto Maurizio, Liguria, Italy, December 20, 1676; died in   
   Rome, on November 26, 1751; beatified in 1796; canonized in 1867.   
   Captain Dominic Casanuova had his son baptized Paul Jerome Casanuova.   
   Throughout his life, the future Saint Leonard thanked God for giving   
   him such an excellent father. At the age of 13, Paul Jerome was sent   
   to the Jesuit Roman College. His uncle Augustine, with whom he was   
   living, wanted him to become a physician. Paul studied medicine, but   
   when he refused his uncle's wish that he become a doctor and announced   
   he had other plans, Augustine disowned him.   
      
   He joined the Franciscans of the Strict Observance at Ponticelli in   
   1697, taking the name Leonard, continued his studies at the Observant   
   Saint Bonaventure's on the Palatine in Rome, and was ordained there in   
   1703. For five years, Leonard had to stop preaching because he was   
   spitting blood. When healing continued to elude him even in the mild   
   climate of Liguria, he vowed that he would devote his entire life to   
   the conversion of sinners, if God would make him well again.   
      
   He recovered and, in 1709, he went to the San Francesco del Monte   
   monastery in Florence and from there preached all over Tuscany with   
   tremendous effect for the next 44 years. He became guardian of San   
   Francesco, founded a retreat for religious at nearby Incontro, where   
   the friars retired twice a year to practice the eremitical life.   
      
   In 1730, Leonard was appoint guardian of Saint Bonaventure's in Rome.   
   He spent the next six years conducting missions around Rome, preaching   
   to soldiers, sailors, convicts, and galley-slaves in addition to   
   conducting parochial missions. His contemporary, Saint Alphonsus   
   Liguori, said Leonard was the finest missioner of his day. In 1736, he   
   was released from this position to continue his evangelization in   
   Umbria, Genoa, and the Marches of Ancona. His missions now attracted   
   such huge crowds that they were often held in the open air.   
      
   Leonard is primarily responsible for the popularity of the Stations of   
   the Cross devotion, of which he was an ardent promoter (reputedly   
   setting up almost 600 Stations throughout Italy, even in the Colosseum   
   in Rome), and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, the Sacred Heart, and   
   the Immaculate Conception.   
      
   Leonard served for a time as spiritual director of Clementina   
   Sobieska, wife of the "Old Pretender" to the English throne, King   
   James III, whose son Cardinal Henry of York promoted the friar's   
   canonization.   
      
   In 1744, Leonard was sent to Corsica by Pope Benedict XIV to preach   
   and to restore peace there but he was unsuccessful, because the   
   Corsicans felt he was more a political tool of the Genoese who ruled   
   the island than a missionary. (Schamoni says that he helped to   
   reconcile the Corsicans to one another, and Attwater notes that his   
   success was ephemeral--as soon as he left the island, the people fell   
   back into discord.) This mission lasted only six months before the   
   Genoese government sent a ship to rescue Leonard.   
      
   He returned to Rome from the discouraging missionary tour in 1749 to   
   prepare the Romans for the holy year. For two weeks Leonard preached   
   in the Piazza Navona, which ironically had once been the hippodrome of   
   Emperor Domitian. He had to promise Pope Benedict XIV, who held him in   
   high esteem and himself attended his sermons, that he would die in   
   Rome.   
      
   When he was preaching a mission in the holy father's native city of   
   Bologna in 1751, Leonard had a premonition that he would soon die.   
   Completely exhausted from his arduous work and severer mortifications,   
   he returned to Rome and died at Saint Bonaventure the night he   
   arrived.   
      
   In addition to his oral evangelization, Leonard was a prolific   
   ascetical writer. His printed works--mostly letters and sermons--fill   
   13 volumes. His most famous work is “Resolutions”. He is the patron of   
   parish missions and popular missionaries (Attwater, Attwater 2,   
   Benedictines, Coulson, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Farmer, Schamoni,   
   White).   
      
      
   Quote:   
    St. Leonard once said, "If the Lord at the moment of my death   
   reproves me for being too kind to sinners, I will answer, 'My dear   
   Jesus, if it is a fault to be too kind to sinners, it is a fault I   
   learned from you, for you never scolded anyone who came to you seeking   
   mercy'"   
   -- (Leonard Foley, O. F. M., St. Leonard of Port Maurice, p. 9).   
      
   Bible Quote:   
    And I will shew wonders in the heaven above, and signs on the earth   
   beneath: blood and fire, and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned   
   into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and manifest   
   day of the Lord come. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall   
   call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. [Acts 2:19-21] DRB   
      
      
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   Plea to the Everlasting God for the Unborn    
      
   Lord God, our Eternal Father, we come to Thy Throne full of    
   awe and reverence at Thy saving power. Through our Savior    
   Jesus Christ, we beg Thee to help us stop the widespread    
   slaughter of unborn babies in our land. May our love for our    
   innocent brothers and sisters closely resemble the love that    
   exists in the Holy Family. Help us provide all human life with    
   protection under our civil laws. We know that through the    
   intercession of our Mother Mary, chosen Spouse of the Holy    
   Spirit, our request will be granted. Amen.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)