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   How we should Bless God in all Trouble [I]   
      
   THE DISCIPLE.   
      Blessed be Thy holy Name forever, O Lord. (1 Peter 1:3) I know that   
   it is by Thy will that temptation and trouble come upon me. I cannot   
   escape it, but must needs come to Thee for help, that it may be turned   
   to my good. Lord, I am tormented and uneasy in mind, and my present   
   troubles weigh heavy on me. Most loving Father, what may I say? I am   
   in dire straits. Save me from this hour. (John 12:27) Yet it is for   
   Thy glory that I have been brought to this hour, and that I may learn   
   that Thee alone can deliver me from the depths of my humiliation. Of   
   Thy goodness, deliver me, O Lord (Ps. 37:40) For what can I do,   
   helpless as I am; and where can I go without Thine aid? Give me   
   patience, Lord, even in this trial. Grant me help, and I shall fear   
   nothing, however hard pressed I may be.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ, Bk 3, Ch 29   
      
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   February 26th - Saint Paula of St. Joseph of Calasanz   
      
   Saint Paula grew up in a large and pious family in a Spanish fishing   
   village. When Paula's father died she was only 10 years old. She   
   helped her mother to raise the family, working as a lace-maker and   
   seamstress, and expended herself to help the other children of the   
   parish as well. Paula pursued the vocation of a single lay woman,   
   privately devoted to God, for many years of her adult life. At the age   
   of thirty, with the help of a friend, she opened a school for girls in   
   Gerona, Spain. Her ideal was to provide not only a good education but   
   a strong moral foundation as well. The school prospered, and she found   
   herself able to found a women's college in 1842 and another school in   
   1846. She then entered religious life by founding the Daughters of   
   Mary (Pious School Sisters) and taking at that time the name Paula of   
   Saint Joseph of Calasanz. The religious congregation was to lead and   
   staff the schools of her founding.   
      
   St Paula had a vision of hope and love for the children she served,   
   and led her daughters forward under the motto "Piety and Letters" the   
   slogan of St Joseph of Calasanz. Her vision of hope and possibility   
   for women and all children is as vibrant and important today as it was   
   when she first founded her congregation. Today there are more than 800   
   Sisters of the Pious Schools, teaching on four continents. The 112   
   communities of the order educate over 30,000 students, in 19 nations.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   In all our thoughts and actions we ought to remember the presence of   
   God, and account all lost in which we think not of Him.   
   -- St. Bernard   
      
   Bible Quote   
   And the centurion, making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that   
   thou shouldst enter under my roof; but only say the word, and my   
   servant shall be healed. For I also am a man subject to authority,   
   having under me soldiers; and I say to this, Go, and he goeth, and to   
   another Come, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth   
   it. And Jesus hearing this, marveled; and said to them that followed   
   him. Amen I say to you, I have not found so great faith in Israel.   
   (Matt 8:8-10) DRB   
      
      
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    Hail Mary of Gold   
      
   Hail Mary, White Lily of the Glorious and always-serene Trinity.   
      
   Hail brilliant Rose of the Garden of heavenly delights:   
   O you, by whom God wanted to be born and by whose   
   milk the King of Heaven wanted to be nourished!   
   Nourish our souls with effusions of divine grace. Amen!   
      
   At the hour when the soul which has thus greeted me   
   quits the body I will appear to them in such splendid   
   beauty that they'll taste, to their great consolation,   
   something of the joys of Paradise.   
      
   The Blessed Virgin to St. Gertrude the Great   
   (Revelations book III, chapter XVIII)   
      
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