From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   On Enduring Injuries and the Proof of Patience:   
      
      You are not truly patient if you will only endure what you think   
   fit, and only from those whom you like. A truly patient man does not   
   consider by whom he is tried, whether by his superior, his equal, or   
   his inferior; whether by a good and holy man, or by a perverse and   
   wicked person. But however great or frequent the trial that besets   
   him, and by whatever agency it comes, he accepts it gladly as from the   
   hand of God, and counts it all gain.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3, Ch 19   
      
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   April 18th – St. Laserian of Leighlin B   
   (Also known as Laisren, Molaisse, Lamliss)   
      
   Born in Ireland; died April 18, c. 639. Probably identical to Saint   
   Lamliss, Saint Laserian was the grandson of King Aidan of Scotland,   
   nephew of Saint Blane, and son of Cairel and Blitha. This noble Ulster   
   couple entrusted the education of their precious son to Saint Murin at   
   Iona. He is said to have travelled to Rome, where he was ordained to   
   the priesthood by Saint Gregory the Great. Returning to Ireland, he   
   settled near Saint Goban's abbey in Carlow, built a cell, and gathered   
   disciples around himself. He succeeded Goban as abbot of the monastery   
   of Leighlin and is said to have founded Inishmurray in County Sligo.   
      
   At the national synod in March 630, held in the White Fields, he,   
   Cummian of Clonfert, and others advocated abandoning the Irish method   
   of calculating Easter in deference to the Roman tradition. Because of   
   the opposition to the change offered by such luminaries as Saint   
   Munnu, a delegation with Laserian at its head was sent to Rome to   
   investigate the question more fully.   
      
   As a result of the delegation's report, all of Ireland, except   
   Columba's monasteries, adopted the new reckoning for Easter in 633. An   
   additional outcome was Laserian's consecration as bishop (either   
   without a particular see or of Leighlin—this is disputed) and   
   appointment by Pope Honorius I as apostolic legate to Ireland, where   
   he strenuously upheld the Roman observance. (Leighlin was folded into   
   the diocese of Kildare in 1678, during the penal period following the   
   Reformation.)   
      
   Laserian returned to Ireland with the relics of Saint Aidan of Ferns.   
   In the 11th century an intricately wrought shrine with blue glass   
   insets and particolored enamel work was designed for the relics.   
   Stokes details the beauty of the surviving portions of the piece   
   which now resides in the National Museum. "Of an original 21 saints   
   arranged in three rows, 11 figures and three pairs of feet survive.   
   Three nuns in uniform habits with their hair hanging in long curls.   
   Eight male figures are in varied dress and various postures, one with   
   a sword, one 'standing in sorrow his cheek resting in his hand.'"   
      
   According to one legend, Saint Laserian voluntarily offered himself as   
   a victim soul. He accepted illness caused by 30 diseases   
   simultaneously in order to expiate his sins and avoid purgatory after   
   death. His current cultus is partially indebted to this legend.   
      
   In 1330, at a synod held at Dublin, the feasts of Saints Patrick,   
   Laserian, and Bridget were enumerated among the double festivals to be   
   kept throughout the province of Dublin. His cultus center on   
   Inishmurray, where there are notable monastic ruins and a series of   
   praying-stations. He is also venerated in Scotland, where a cave   
   hermitage bearing his name survives on Holy Island in Lamlash Bay, off   
   Arran (Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson, D'Arcy, Farmer, Husenbeth,   
   Kenney, Montague, Muirhead, Porter, Stokes).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "Those who have arrived at perfection, and especially true   
   contemplatives, do not ask the Lord to free them from trials and   
   temptations. They rather desire and value them as woridlings value   
   gold and jewels, for they know that these are to make them rich"   
   --St. Teresa   
      
   St. Catherine of Genoa once said in the midst of extreme pain and   
   severe torture: "O Lord! it is thirty-six years since Thou first   
   gavest me spiritual light, and ever since, I have desired nothing but   
   sufferings, interior and exterior."   
      
   ("A Year with the Saints".  April - Patience)   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the place   
   where the Lord was laid. (Matthew 28:6)   
      
      
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   St. Theresa’s Prayer to the Holy Face   
      
   O Jesus, Who in Thy bitter Passion didst become "the most abject of   
   men, a man of sorrows," I venerate Thy Sacred Face whereon there once   
   did shine the beauty and sweetness of the Godhead ... but now it has   
   become for me as if it were the Face of a leper! Nevertheless, under   
   those disfigured features, I recognize Thy Infinite Love and I am   
   consumed with the desire to love Thee and make Thee loved by all men.   
      
   The tears which well up abundantly in Thy Sacred Eyes appear to me as   
   so many precious pearls that I love to gather up, in order to purchase   
   the souls of poor sinners by means of their infinite value. O Jesus,   
   Whose adorable Face ravished my heart, I implore Thee to fix deep   
   within me Thy Divine Image and to set me on fire with Thy Love, that I   
   may be found worthy to come to the contemplation of Thy glorious Face   
   in Heaven. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)