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   Fear is the curse of the world   
      
      Fear is the curse of the world. Many are our fears. Fear is   
   everywhere. I must fight fear as I would a plague. I must turn it out   
   of my life. There is no room for fear in the heart in which God   
   dwells. Fear cannot exist where true love is or where faith abides. So   
   I must have no fear. Fear is evil, but "perfect love casteth out all   
   fear." Fear destroys hope and hope is necessary for all of humanity.   
    -- Twenty-Four Hours a Day   
      
      
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   June 23rd - Bl. Thomas Garnet, Martyr   
   (A.D. 1608)   
      
   THOMAS GARNET was the nephew of the famous Jesuit, Father Henry   
   Garnet, and the son of Mr Richard Garnet, a faithful Catholic who had   
   been a distinguished fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His early   
   education Thomas received at Horsham Grammar School, but at the age of   
   16 or 17 he was sent across the Channel to the newly opened College of   
   St Omer. In January 1595 he and several of the other students set sail   
   for Spain, but not till 14 months later, after many adventures which   
   included a term of imprisonment in England, did he succeed in reaching   
   his destination-the English Jesuit college at Valladolid. There, at   
   the close of his theological course, he was ordained priest. He was   
   then sent on the English Mission with Bl. Mark Barkworth. His manner   
   of life for the next six years he described in a few words in his   
   evidence when on trial: "I wandered from place to place to recover   
   souls which had gone astray and were in error as to the knowledge of   
   the true Catholic Church."   
      
   He was arrested near Warwick shortly after the discovery of the   
   Gunpowder Plot, and was imprisoned first in the Gatehouse and then at   
   Newgate. Because he had been staying in the house of Mr Ambrose   
   Rookwood, who was implicated in the conspiracy, and because he was so   
   closely related to Father Henry Garnet, it was hoped that important   
   information could be extracted from him, but neither threats of the   
   rack nor the strictest cross-examination could elicit any   
   incriminating admission. After eight or nine months spent in a damp'   
   cell with no better bed than the bare ground, he was deported to   
   Flanders with some forty-six other priests. While still in England Bl.   
   Thomas had been admitted to the Society of Jesus by his uncle, and he   
   now proceeded to Louvain for his novitiate. The following year, in   
   September, he returned to England. Six weeks later he was betrayed by   
   an apostate priest and rearrested.   
      
   At the Old Bailey he was charged with high treason on the ground that   
   he had been made a priest by authority derived from Rome and that he   
   had returned to England in defiance of the law. His priesthood he   
   neither admitted nor denied, but he firmly refused to take the new   
   oath of supremacy. On the evidence of three witnesses who declared   
   that when he was in the Tower he had signed himself Thomas Garnet,   
   Priest, he was declared guilty and was condemned to death. On the   
   scaffold he proclaimed himself a priest and a Jesuit, explaining that   
   he had not acknowledged this at his trial lest he should be his own   
   accuser or oblige his judges to condemn him- against their   
   consciences. The Earl of Essex and others tried up to the last to   
   persuade him to save his life by taking the oath, and when the end   
   came and the cart was drawn away they would not allow him to be cut   
   down until it was certain that he was quite dead.   
      
   Plenty of information regarding Bl. Thomas Garnet is available in   
   Foley, REPSJ., vol. ii, PP. 475-505. See also Challoner, MMP., pp.   
   296-299; Pollen, Acts of English Martyrs, p. 176; and Testore, Il   
   Primato spirituale di Pietro (1929), pp. 328-332.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   A little drop of simple obedience is worth a million times more than a   
   whole vase of the choicest contemplation.   
   -- Saint Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi   
      
   Bible Quote:   
    And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body   
   and after that have no more that they can do. But I will shew you whom   
   you shall fear: Fear ye him who, after he hath killed, hath power to   
   cast into hell. Yea, I say to you: Fear him.  [Luke 12:4-5] DRB   
      
      
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   Prayers in honor of St. Joseph for the agonized:   
      
   Eternal Father, by Thy love for St. Joseph, whom Thou didst   
   select from all men to represent Thee upon earth,   
   have mercy on us and on the dying.   
   Our Father...Hail Mary...Glory be...   
      
   Eternal Divine Son, by Thy love for St. Joseph, who was Thy   
   faithful guardian upon earth, have mercy on us and on the dying.   
   Our Father...Hail Mary...Glory be ...   
      
   Eternal Divine Spirit, by Thy love for St. Joseph, who so   
   carefully watched over Mary, Thy beloved spouse,   
   have mercy on us and on the dying.   
   Our Father...Hail Mary...Glory be...   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)