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   The Love of Solitude and Silence  (3)   
      
      No man appears in safety before the public eye unless he first   
   relishes obscurity. No man is safe in speaking unless he loves to be   
   silent. No man rules safely unless he is willing to be ruled. No man   
   commands safely unless he has learned well how to obey. No man   
   rejoices safely unless he has within him the testimony of a good   
   conscience.   
      More than this, the security of the saints was always enveloped in   
   the fear of God, nor were they less cautious and humble because they   
   were conspicuous for great virtues and graces. The security of the   
   wicked, on the contrary, springs from pride and presumption, and will   
   end in their own deception.   
   --Thomas à Kempis, From the Imitation of Christ, Chapter 20   
      
      
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   March 3rd – St. Anselm of Nonantola, Abbot   
      
   WHEN the Langobard King Aistulf was reigning in Italy, he was greatly   
   assisted in his military campaigns by his brother-in-law, Anselm, Duke   
   of Friuli. The duke was not only a valiant soldier but also an ardent   
   Christian, and founded first a monastery with a hospital at Fanano in   
   the province of Modena and then a larger abbey twenty miles further   
   south at Nonantola.   
      
   Desirous of consecrating himself entirely to God,   
   he then went to Rome, where he was clothed with the habit of St   
   Benedict and appointed abbot over the new community. He also received   
   from Pope Stephen III permission to remove to Nonantola the body of   
   Pope St. Silvester; and as Aistulf enriched the abbey with gifts and   
   granted it many privileges it became very celebrated throughout all   
   Italy. Abbot Anselm came to rule over more than one thousand monks,   
   besides having charge of a great hospital and hospice for the sick and   
   for pilgrims. This he had built near the monastery and dedicated it in   
   honour of St. Ambrose.    
      
   After the death of Aistulf, his successor   
   Desiderius banished the holy abbot to Monte Cassino, where he remained   
   for 7 years, but Charlemagne restored him to Nonantola, where he died   
   in a good old age, after having spent fifty years in religion.   
      
   The short Latin life of St. Anselm, which has been several times   
   printed (e.g. by Mabillon, by Muratori, and in MCH.), was edited with   
   much illustrative matter by P. Bartolotti in 1892, Antica vita di S.   
   Anselmo di Nonantola.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Mildness is a virtue, in which principally consists nobility of soul.   
   And for this reason it is that lovers of the world often fail in   
   mildness, because they are not possessed of that nobility, or only in   
   a very scanty and imperfect degree. If they are not the first to use   
   insulting and uncourteous terms, at least when they are attacked by   
   others they resent it with the utmost indignation, giving in return   
   language doubly abusive, and thus showing by their vengeance that they   
   have an ignoble disposition. The servants of God, on the other hand,   
   whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and   
   peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.   
   --St. Thomas Aquinas   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Not every one who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of   
   heaven; but he who does the Will of My Father in heaven shall enter   
   the kingdom of heaven.  (Matthew 7:21)   
      
      
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   A hymn-prayer to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, suitable for Mass:   
      
   Very Bread, good Shepherd, tend us,   
   Jesu, of Thy love befriend us,   
   Thou refresh us, Thou defend us,   
   Thine eternal goodness send us,   
   In the land of life to see.   
      
   Thou Who all things canst and knowest,   
   Who on earth such food bestowest,   
   Grant us with Thy Saints, though lowest,   
   Where the heavenly feast Thou shewest,   
   Fellow-heirs and guests to be. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)