From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   On the Teaching of Truth  (I)   
      
   Happy the man who is instructed by Truth itself, not by signs and   
   passing words (Num 12:8), but as It is in itself. Our own conjectures   
   and observations often mislead us, and we discover little. Of what   
   value are lengthy controversies on deep and obscure matters, when it   
   is not by our knowledge of such things that we shall at length be   
   judged? It is supreme folly to neglect things that are useful and   
   vital, and deliberately turn to curious and harmful things. Truly, we   
   have eyes and see not (Jer. 5:21; John 12:40; Rom 11:8): for what   
   concern to us are such things as genera and species?   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 1, Ch 3   
      
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   October 7th – St. Artaldus, Bishop of Belley   
   (Also known as Arthaud)   
      
   d. 1206   
      
   ARTALDTUS was born in the castle of Sothonod in Savoy. At the age of   
   eighteen he went to the court of Duke Amadeus III, but a year or two   
   after he became a Carthusian at Fortes. After many years, being a   
   priest and an experienced and holy religious, he was sent by the prior   
   of the Grande Chartreuse to found a charterhouse near his home, in a   
   valley in the Valromey significantly called “The Cemetery”; here   
   Artaldus established himself with six of his brethren from Fortes. The   
   community was no sooner well settled down than their buildings were   
   destroyed by fire, and St. Artaldus had to begin all over again. He   
   chose a fresh site, on the Arvières River, and his second foundation   
   was soon built and occupied. But a Carthusian cell could not contain   
   the ever-increasing reputation of Artaldus: like his master St. Bruno,   
   he was consulted by the pope, and when he was well over eighty he was   
   called from his monastery to be bishop of Belley, in spite of his   
   vehement and reasonable protests. However, after less than two years   
   of episcopate his resignation was accepted, and he thankfully returned   
   to Arvières, where he lived in peace for the rest of his days.   
      
   During his last years he was visited by St. Hugh of Lincoln, who had   
   come into France, and who, while he was prior of the charterhouse of   
   Witham, had induced Henry II to become a benefactor of Arvières. The   
   Magna vita of St Hugh records a gentle rebuke administered by Hugh   
   when Artaldus asked him for political news in the presence of a   
   community who had turned their backs upon the world to give themselves   
   entirely to God. The cultus of St. Artaldus, called simply Blessed by   
   the Carthusians, was confirmed for the diocese of Belley in 1834. He   
   was 105 years old when he died.   
      
   There is a short medieval life in the Acta Sanctorum, October, vol.   
   iii, but a fuller account is obtainable from Dom Le Couteulx, Annales   
   Ordinis Cartusiensis, vols. ii and iii.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen   
   for the Cross.   
   -- Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   And I will give them one heart, and will put a new spirit in their   
   bowels: and I will take away the stony heart out of their flesh, and   
   will give them a heart of flesh:   
   That they may walk in my commandments, and keep my judgments, and do   
   them: and that they may be my people, and I may be their God. (Ezech.   
   11:19-20) DRB   
      
      
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   A Prayer for Life   
      
   O God, our Creator, all life is in Your hands from conception until death.   
   Help us to cherish our children and to reverence the awesome privilege of   
   our share in creation. May all people live and die in dignity and love.   
      
   Bless all those who defend the rights of the unborn, the handicapped, and   
   the aged. Enlighten and be merciful toward those who fail to love, and give   
   them peace. Let freedom be tempered by responsibility, integrity, and   
   morality. - Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)