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   On the Corruption of Nature and the Efficacy of Divine Grace [I]   
      
   THE DISCIPLE.   
    O Lord my God, Thou have created me in Thy own image and likeness.   
   Grant me this great grace, so necessary to my salvation, that I may   
   conquer the base elements of my nature, (Rom.7:23) that drag me down   
   into sin and perdition. Within my being I can feel the power of sin   
   contending against the rule of my mind, leading me away an obedient   
   slave to all kinds of sensuality. I cannot resist its onslaughts,   
   unless Thy most holy grace is poured glowing into my heart to help me.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3 Ch 55   
      
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   April 21st - Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury   
   (1034-1109)   
      
   Saint Anselm was a native of Piedmont. When as a boy of 15 he was   
   forbidden to enter religion after the death of his good Christian   
   mother, for a time he lost the fervor she had imparted to him. He left   
   home and went to study in various schools in France; at length his   
   vocation revived, and he became a monk at Bec in Normandy, where he   
   had been studying under the renowned Abbot Lanfranc.   
      
   The fame of his sanctity in this cloister led King William Rufus of   
   England, when dangerously ill, to take him for his confessor and   
   afterwards to name him to the vacant see of Canterbury to replace his   
   own former master, Lanfranc, who had been appointed there before him.   
   He was consecrated in December, 1093. Then began the strife which   
   characterized Saint Anselm’s episcopate. The king, when restored to   
   health, lapsed into his former sins, continued to plunder the Church   
   lands, scorned the archbishop’s rebukes, and forbade him to go to Rome   
   for the pallium.   
      
   Finally the king sent envoys to Rome for the pallium; a legate   
   returned with them to England, bearing it. The Archbishop received the   
   pallium not from the king’s hand, as William would have required, but   
   from that of the papal legate. For Saint Anselm’s defense of the   
   Pope’s supremacy in a Council at Rockingham, called in March of 1095,   
   the worldly prelates did not scruple to call him a traitor. The Saint   
   rose, and with calm dignity exclaimed, “If any man pretends that I   
   violate my faith to my king because I will not reject the authority of   
   the Holy See of Rome, let him stand, and in the name of God I will   
   answer him as I ought.” No one took up the challenge; and to the   
   disappointment of the king, the barons sided with the Saint, for they   
   respected his courage and saw that his cause was their own. During a   
   time he spent in Rome and France, canons were passed in Rome against   
   the practice of lay investiture, and a decree of excommunication was   
   issued against offenders.   
      
   When William Rufus died, another strife began with William’s   
   successor, Henry I. This sovereign claimed the right of investing   
   prelates with the ring and crozier, symbols of the spiritual   
   jurisdiction which belongs to the Church alone. Rather than yield, the   
   archbishop went into exile, until at last the king was obliged to   
   submit to the aging but inflexible prelate.   
      
   In the midst of his harassing cares, Saint Anselm found time for   
   writings which have made him celebrated as the father of scholastic   
   theology, while in metaphysics and in science he had few equals. He is   
   yet more famous for his devotion to our Blessed Mother, whose Feast of   
   the Immaculate Conception he was the first to establish in the West.   
   He died in 1109.   
      
   Source: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "O Lord our God,   
   grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart;   
   that, so desiring, we may seek,   
   and, seeking, find Thee;   
   and so finding Thee, may love Thee;   
   and loving Thee, may hate those sins   
   from which Thou hast redeemed. Amen."   
   --Saint Anselm   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his   
   angels: and then will he render to every man according to his works.   
   (Matthew 16:27) DRB   
      
      
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   An act of love, to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament (with   
   Psalm passages):   
      
   Good Jesus, I love Thee.  I love Thee with my whole heart   
   and above all things.  Thou knowest that I love Thee, but I   
   wish to love Thee daily more and more, and to do what is   
   most pleasing to Thee.   
      
   "My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God...For   
   the sparrow hath found herself a house and the turtle a nest   
   for herself...Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my   
   God," there Thou dost bid me peace in Thy Body and Blood.   
      
   "What have I in heaven?  And besides Thee what do I desire   
   upon earth? Thou art the God of my heart, and the God that   
   is my portion forever..."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)