From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   Who wants to be last?   
      
      Who wants to be last? Everyone seeks honors and esteem to be   
   respected due to power and money or intellect or even their holiness.   
   No one has been given an award for their great humility. (Aw gee whiz   
   shucks fellas!) Who respects the poor and the indigent? Who honors   
   the servant and the laborer?   
      Humility is the queen of virtues. Humility allows us to see and   
   judge honestly and correctly. The model of humility is the person of   
   Jesus Christ, who emptied himself, taking the form of a servant,   
   who humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a   
   cross (Phil. 2:7-8).   
      The Lord gives grace to those who seek him humbly. Do you want to be   
   a servant as Jesus served?   
      
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   June 1st - Bl. John Pelingotto   
   (Also known as John Pelino Goto, Giovanni Pelino Goto)   
      
   d. 1304   
      
   JOHN PELINGOTTO was the son of a prosperous merchant of Urbino, but he   
   himself from childhood cared nothing for the things of this world. He   
   became a Franciscan tertiary and would have retired into a hermitage   
   had it not been for the determined opposition of his parents; out of   
   regard for their wishes he remained at home, where he lived a life of   
   prayer and austerity. For a time he shut himself up and never went out   
   except to church. Then, in obedience to a call to serve our Lord in   
   His suffering members, he emerged from his retreat. During the rest of   
   his life he went about tending the sick and seeking out the destitute   
   poor to whom he gave the greater portion of his own food and the   
   clothes off his back. To the mortification of his family he would   
   sally forth in a garment made of sacking and old pieces. Regarding   
   himself as the vilest of creatures he used odd means of attracting the   
   contempt of his fellow men.   
      
   Once on Passion Sunday he went to the cathedral with a rope tied round   
   his neck, like a criminal, but, as he knelt in prayer in the Lady   
   chapel he fell into an ecstasy which lasted many hours, and from which   
   he was roused with difficulty. On another occasion, when it was   
   bitterly cold, he made his way to the market-place and spent the day   
   amid a crowd of beggars and rogues, exposed to public derision, until   
   at last, more dead than alive, he was discovered and rescued by his   
   parents. In spite of all his efforts, John came to be venerated in his   
   own city as a holy man who was also a prophet and a wonder-worker, and   
   when, four years before his death, he went to Rome for the jubilee   
   with two fellow tertiaries, he was saluted by a complete stranger as   
   "the saint from Urbino".   
      
   There is a life by a contemporary, which has been printed in the Acta   
   Sanctorum, June, vol. i; but see also the Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum   
   for 1918 and 1919, and Wadding, Annales Ord. Min., vol. vi, pp. 38-42.   
   The cultus of Bl. John Pelingotto was confirmed in 1918. The official   
   decree, which contains a biographical summary, will be found in the   
   Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol. x (1918), pp. 513-516.   
      
      
   Bible Quote:   
   "But when the kindness and love of God our Savior for humanity were   
   revealed, it was not because of any upright actions we had done   
   ourselves; it was for no reason except his own faithful love that he   
   saved us, by means of the cleansing water of rebirth and renewal in   
   the Holy Spirit, which he has so generously poured over us through   
   Jesus Christ our Savior; so that, justified by his grace, we should   
   become heirs in hope of eternal life.  This is doctrine that you can   
   rely on."  [Titus 3:4-8]   
      
      
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   PRAYER FOR DAILY NEGLECTS   
      
   Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Sacred Heart of Jesus,   
   with all its Love, all its Sufferings and all its Merits.   
      
   First - To expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during   
   all my life.   
      
   GLORY BE...   
      
   Second - To purify the good I have done badly this day and during all my life.   
      
   GLORY BE...   
      
   Third - To supply for the good I ought to have done,   
   and that I have neglected this day and during all my life.   
      
   GLORY BE...   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)