From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   The permanent thing   
      
   Buildings may fail and fall. They eventually deteriorate and fall   
   victim to time and the abuse of men.    
   Look at the mighty pyramids, they do not shine with   
   their former glory for their marble was stolen to build mosques.   
   The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans to   
   control the Jews and to honor the pagan gods only.   
   Even St. John Lateran Basilica was destroyed by fire twice    
   before the present building was constructed.   
   It has become the symbol of the religious freedom that ended   
   persecution of Christians. The permanent thing Jesus left behind    
   was the love he felt for the human heart.   
   We are His holy temples and the church is our symbol.   
      
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   November 1st - Blessed Conradin of Brescia, OP   
      
   Born at Bornato (near Brescia), Italy; died 1429. During the time of   
   the Western Schism, Conradin was born to staunch Catholics of nobility   
   and wealth. His parents provided their children with a thoroughly   
   Catholic education and upbringing, which paid dividends in the lives   
   of their offspring. Conradin studied civil and canon law at the   
   University of Padua, where he became acquainted with the Dominicans.   
   He was professed a Dominican in 1413, finished his studies, was   
   ordained, and became a model friar just as he was formerly a model   
   student of purity and charity.   
      
   After being chosen prior of his friary in Brescia at a young age, he   
   was appointed prior of the larger house at Bologna, sent there to   
   restore primitive observance of the Rule of Saint Dominic. It was a   
   difficult task because plague and schism had infected the order, the   
   country, and the Church. Few were entering religious life, so even the   
   most idealistic felt it might be good to rewrite the rule to relax the   
   discipline and shorten the training period to keep the novitiate   
   alive. Conradin held the line and continued to enforce the primitive   
   form of the rule.   
      
   Twice Conradin was imprisoned for defending the pope. Plague had   
   stricken Bologna forcefully during Conradin's abbacy. The situation   
   was especially bleak for Bologna, which was under a published papal   
   interdict because the populace had rebelled against papal authority.   
   The interdict was ignored by most. Conradin tried to sway the people   
   to repentance before it was too late, hoping that the interdict might   
   be lifted. The Bolognese refused to listen, even as they were dying of   
   the plague. Tired of his hounding, Conradin was captured, badly   
   beaten, and imprisoned. Later, the prior prevailed and the city   
   submitted to the pope.   
      
   In recognition of his work as mediator, Pope Martin V intended to name   
   Conradin a cardinal, but the prior refused. In 1429, when a fresh   
   outbreak of the plague called all the friars once more to the streets   
   to assist the dying, Conradin also fell victim to the disease   
   (Benedictines, Dorcy).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a   
   medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.   
   -- Saint Augustine of Hippo   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them.  Not every one that   
   saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but   
   he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter   
   into the kingdom of heaven.  [Matthew 7:20-21 ]  DRB   
      
      
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    Lord, teach me to know the obstacles   
      
      'Lord, teach me to know the obstacles that,   
    consciously or unconsciously, I am placing in the   
    way of Thy grace in me. Give me the strength   
    to put them aside, and if I am negligent therein,   
    vouchsafe Thyself to remove them, howsoever   
    I may suffer thereby. What wouldst Thou have   
    me to do for Thee this day, my God? Show me   
    what it is in me that displeaseth Thee. Teach me   
    rightly to value the Precious Blood which Thou   
    didst shed for me, of the sacramental or spiritual   
    communion by which we are enabled to drink   
    that Blood from the wound of Thy most loving   
    Heart.   
      'Make me, O Lord, to grow in love of Thee.   
    Grant that our inner conversation may never   
    cease; that I may never separate myself from   
    Thee; that I may receive all that Thou dost deign   
    to give me; and that I may not stand in the way   
    of the grace which through me should be   
    poured out upon other souls to give them light   
    and life.'    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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