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   Envy follows pride   
      
   Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See,   
   envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride,   
   sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we   
   envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we   
   should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the   
   esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are   
   our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our   
   superiors, because they are above us.   
   --Saint John Vianney   
      
      
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   August 30th - St. Pammachius   
      
   PAMMACHIUS was distinguished alike as a saint, a Roman citizen, a man   
   of learning, and a friend of St. Jerome, with whom he had studied in   
   his youth and maintained correspondence all his life.  He belonged to   
   the house of the Furii and was a senator; in 385 he married Paulina,   
   the second daughter of St. Paula, that other great friend of St.   
   Jerome.  Pammachius was probably one of the religious men who   
   denounced to Pope St. Siricius a certain Jovinian, who maintained   
   among other errors that all sins and their punishments are equal; he   
   certainly sent copies of the heretic's writings to Jerome, who replied   
   to them in a long treatise.  This reply did not meet with the entire   
   approval of St. Pammachius: he found its language too strong (a   
   failing to which Jerome was very inclined) and that it contained   
   exaggerated praise of virginity and depreciation of marriage; so he   
   wrote and told him so, and St. Jerome replied in two letters, thanking   
   him for his interest and defending what he had written.  Jovinian was   
   condemned in a synod at Rome and by St. Ambrose at Milan, and nothing   
   more is heard of him; St. Jerome wrote a few years later that he had   
   "belched rather than breathed out his life amidst pheasants and pork."   
      
    In 397 the wife of St. Pammachius died, and in a letter of sympathy   
   St. Paulinus of Nola wrote to him: "Your wife is now a pledge and an   
   intercessor for you with Jesus Christ. She now obtains for you as many   
   blessings in Heaven as you have offered her treasures from hence: not   
   honouring her memory with fruitless tears only, but making her a   
   partner of your charities.  She is honoured by your virtues; she is   
   fed by the bread you have given to the poor"...St. Jerome wrote in the   
   same strain.   
      
    Pammachius devoted the rest of his life to study and works of   
   charity.  Together with St. Fabiola he built at Porto a large hospice   
   to shelter pilgrims coming to Rome, especially the poor and the sick;   
   this was the first institution of its kind, technically called a   
   xenodochium, in the west, and received the hearty praise of St.   
   Jerome; Pammachius and Fabiola spent much time thereat, personally   
   looking after their guests. The site of this building was discovered   
   and its plan laid bare. In his devotion to the suffering Pammachius   
   was following in the footsteps of his dead wife Paulina, and the   
   blind, the incapacitated and the moneyless were declared by St. Jerome   
   to be her heirs; he never went out into the streets but they flocked   
   around him, knowing well that they would not be turned away.   
      
    St. Pammachius was greatly disturbed by the bitter controversy   
   between Jerome and Rufinus; he wrote to him urging that he should   
   undertake the translation of Origen's De principiis, and gave Jerome   
   very useful help in his controversial writings: but abate the   
   imprudence of expression of much of them he could not.  He also wrote   
   to the people living on his estates in Numidia urging them to abandon   
   the Donatist schism and return to the Church, and this action drew a   
   letter of thanks from St. Augustine at Hippo in 401.   
      
    Pammachius had a church in his house on the Coelian hill,   
   consequently called titulus Pammachii  its site is now occupied by the   
   Passionist church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, beneath which remains of   
   the original house have been found.  St. Pammachius died in 410 at the   
   time Alaric and the Goths captured Rome; he is often stated to have   
   been a priest but this does not seem to have been so.   
     A fairly complete account of Pammachius, compiled by Father John   
   Pien, is printed in the Acta Sanctorum, August, vol. vi.   See also   
   lives of St. Jerome.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Those engaged in spiritual warfare practice self-control in   
   everything, and do not desist until the Lord destroys all "seed from   
   Babylon”   
   --St. Mark the Ascetic   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit. And there   
   are diversities of ministries. but the same Lord. And there are   
   diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all.   
   (1 Corinthians 12:4-6)  DRB   
      
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   Short Prayers   
      
   O saving Victim, opening wide   
   The gate of heaven to man below,   
   Our foes press on from every side;   
   Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.   
      
   To Thy great Name be endless praise,   
   Immortal Godhead, one in three;   
   Oh, grant us endless length of days   
   In our true native land with Thee.   
   Amen.   
      
   Blessed is He Who cometh in the Name of the Lord:   
    Hosanna in the highest.   
      
   Jesu, bread of life, protect us;   
   Shepherd king, do not reject us;   
   In Thy happy fold collect us,   
   And partakers of the bliss elect us,   
   Which shall never see an end.   
      
   Thou, the wisest and the mightiest,   
   Who us here with food delightest,   
   Seat us at Thy banquet brightest   
   With the blessed Thou invitest   
   An eternal feast to spend.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)