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   Heed the truth of the Gospel   
      
   "The apostles are ordered to watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees   
   and Sadducees. They are warned not to be involved in the disputes of   
   the Jews. The works of the law are now to be viewed in the light of   
   faith. They are forewarned that they, into whose time and age the   
   truth had appeared incarnate, should judge nothing except which lies   
   within the position of hope in likeness of the truth that is revealed.   
   They are warned against allowing the doctrine of the Pharisees, who   
   are unaware of Christ, to corrupt the effectiveness of the truth of   
   the gospel."   
   --by Hilary of Poitiers (315-367 AD)(excerpt from commentary ON Matthew. 16.3)   
      
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   12 April – Blessed Angelo Carletti  OFM   
   Also known as   
   Angelo of Chiavasso   
   Angelus…   
   Antonio…   
      
   (1411-1495)   
    Religious Priest, Theologian, Teacher, Writer.   
      
   Antonio Carletti was born in 1411 to a noble family of Chivasso,   
   Italy, near Turin. He attended the University of Bologna, where he   
   received the degree of Doctor of Civil and Canon Law and served as a   
   magistrate in the Court of Chiavasso. He was appointed to the Senate   
   by the Marquis of Monferrato Gian Giacomo. It was probably at the age   
   of 30 that he entered the Order of Friars Minor at Santa Maria del   
   Monte in Genoa, taking the name Angelo. There he met Francesco della   
   Rovere, who was later to become Pope Sixtus IV.   
      
   In 1467 he accompanied Fra Pietro da Napoli, who had been charged by   
   the Vicar General to reorder the Franciscan province of Austria.   
      
   In 1472 he was chosen to fill the office of Vicar-General of that   
   branch of the Order then known as the Cismontane Observance, founded   
   by Bernadine of Siena. He held that office again in 1478, in 1485 and   
   in 1490. He founded the monasteries of Saluzzo, Mondovì and Pinerolo   
   and preached in Mantua, Genoa, Cuneo, Susa, Monferrato and Turin at   
   the court of Charles I, Duke of Savoy. He also served as a spiritual   
   counselor for Catherine of Genoa and Blessed Paola Gambara.   
      
   In 1480 the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II took possession of Otranto   
   and threatened to overrun and lay waste the area. Angelo was appointed   
   Apostolic Nuncio by Pope Sixtus IV and commissioned to preach a   
   crusade against the invaders. While the residents of Otranto held out   
   under siege, Mehmed II died and the Turkish forces retired from the   
   Italian peninsula.   
      
   Again, in 1491, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio and Commissary by   
   Innocent VIII, conjointly with the Bishop of Mauriana, and reached a   
   peaceful agreement between Catholics and Waldensians.   
      
   In theology he is considered a major adherent of Scotism. His works   
   are given by Wadding in the latter’s “Scriptores Ordinis Minorum”. The   
   most noted of these is the “Summa de Casibus Conscientiae”, called   
   after him the “Summa Angelica”. The first edition of di Chivasso’s   
   “Summa Angelica” appeared in the year 1486 and from that year to the   
   year 1520 it went through 31 editions, 25 of which are preserved in   
   the Royal Library at Munich.   
      
   The “Summa” is divided into 659 articles arranged in alphabetical   
   order and forming what would now be called a dictionary of moral   
   theology. The most important of these articles is the one entitled   
   “Interrogationes in Confessione”. It serves, in a way, as a dictionary   
   of moral theology and was found very useful for confessors. Judging   
   the character of the work of Bl. Angelo as a theologian from this, his   
   most important contribution to moral theology, one is impressed with   
   the gravity and fairness that characterized his opinions throughout.   
   The “Summa” is a valuable guide in matters of conscience and   
   approaches closely, in the treatment of the various articles, to   
   casuistic theology as this science is now understood, hence the title   
   of the work, “Summa de Casibus Conscientiae”.   
      
   Martin Luther considered it a symbol of Catholic orthodoxy and had it   
   publicly burned in the public square outside Wittenberg’s Elster Gate   
   on December 10, 1520 together with the Bull of Excommunication Exsurge   
   Domine, the Code of Canon Law and the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas.   
      
   Angelo Carletti di Chivasso died on April 11, 1495 at the convent of   
   St. Anthony at Cuneo. On April 14, 1753, Pope Benedict XIII beatified   
   Angelo Carletti,[6] giving official approval to the cult that had for   
   long been paid to Angelo, especially by the people of Chivasso and   
   Coni. The latter chose him as their special patron.  He is celebrated   
   in his native Chivasso, with an traditional country fair and prayer.   
      
   From Anastpaul April 2017   
      
   Thought for the Day – 12 April   
   Talented people like Blessed Angelo of Chivasso see the stupidity of   
   most personal ambition that seeks to lord it over others;  rather,   
   talents and gifts should be for the service of others, for enriching   
   and benefiting their lives. How often do we put others down in order   
   to make ourselves look better than they? We must recognise that this   
   attitude is the exact opposite of the words of the Beatitudes, the   
   words of Christ and if we seek such a path, we have a great deal of   
   work to do!   
   Bl Angelo of Chivasso, pray for us!   
      
   Quote of the Day – 12 April   
   “The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast   
   off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must   
   be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all   
   things.”   
   --St. John of the Cross   
      
      
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   Our Lord’s Passion   
   St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) Doctor of the Church   
      
   In Your hour of holy sadness   
   could I share with You, what gladness   
   should Your Cross to me be showing.   
   Gladness past all thought of knowing,   
   bowed beneath Your Cross to die!   
   Blessed Jesus, thanks I render   
   that in bitter death, so tender,   
   You now hear Your supplicant calling,   
   Save me Lord and keep from falling   
   from You,   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)