From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   Advance into battle without hesitation   
      
   "...advance into battle without hesitation. Should you be visited by the   
   troubling thought of the hatred and undying malice, which the enemies   
   harbor against you, and of the innumerable hosts of the demons, think on   
   the other hand of the infinitely greater power of God and of His love for   
   you, as well as of the incomparably greater hosts of heavenly angels and   
   the prayers of saints. They all fight secretly for us and with us against   
   our enemies."   
   --Lorenzo Scupoli, Unseen Warfare--Chapter 15.   
      
   <<>><<>><<>>   
   May 20th – Saint Austregisilus of Bourges   
   Also known as   
   Aoustrille   
   Outril   
   Outrille   
      
   d. 624   
   AT the court of King Guntramnus at Chalon-sur-Saône, the youth   
   Austregisilus, who was the son of an impoverished nobleman of Bourges,   
   bore a high reputation. He did not, however, escape the tongue of   
   calumny, and was sentenced to face his accuser in ordeal by battle in   
   order to clear himself of a serious charge. The death of his opponent   
   by a fall from his horse just before the fight was regarded as a   
   special intervention of Providence. It confirmed Austregisilus in an   
   intention which he had previously formed of retiring from the world;   
   for when the king urged him to marry he had replied, "If I had a good   
   wife I should be afraid of losing her; if a bad one, I should be   
   better with none". Austregisilus was ordained priest by his friend St.   
   Aetherius, who also nominated him abbot of Saint-Nizier at Lyons. As a   
   superior he gained a reputation for wisdom and miracles. In 612 he was   
   elected bishop of Bourges and presided in this his native city until   
   his death, twelve years later. Amongst his disciples was St. Amandus,   
   who as a young man came to Bourges and lived in a cell near the   
   cathedral under the direction of the bishop.   
      
   The life printed in the Acta Sanctorum, May, vol. v, has also been   
   critically edited in MGH, Scriptores Merov., vol. iv, pp. 188-208. B.   
   Krusch considers that the writer’s claim to be a contemporary is   
   fictitious, and that the text was really compiled a couple of   
   centuries later. See also Duchesne, Fastes Épiscopaux, vol. i, p. 29.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "When we violated the commandments of Him who in baptism regenerates   
   us, we separated ourselves from God and lost our conscious awareness   
   of Him and our union with Him. Sundered from that union and estranged   
   from God, the intellect is led captive everywhere; and it cannot   
   regain its stability unless it submits to God and is stilled by Him,   
   joyfully uniting with Him through unceasing and diligent prayer."   
   --St. Gregory of Nazianzen.   
      
   Bible Quote   
   The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, of all things which Jesus   
   began to do and to teach, Until the day on which, giving commandments   
   by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up.   
   To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many   
   proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom   
   of God.  (Acts 1:1-3)   
      
      
   <><><><>   
   Sighing for the Holy Spirit   
      
   O MILDEST Comforter, Holy Spirit, come to me. My soul sighs for Thee!   
   My heart thirsts for Thee! Thou alone canst satisfy my longing; Thou   
   alone canst make me happy. Despise not, O Divine Bridegroom, the   
   dwelling of my poor heart.   
      
   My heart, alas, is unclean, but Thou canst purify it.   
    My heart is dark, but Thou canst illuminate it.   
    My heart is wicked, but Thou canst penetrate it with love.   
    My heart is sad, but Thou canst comfort it.   
    My heart is weak, but Thou canst strengthen it.   
    My heart is cold, but Thou canst inflame it.   
      
    My heart clings to earth, but Thou canst fill it with heavenly desires.   
      
    My heart is full of sin, but Thou canst adorn it with all virtues.   
    My heart is inconstant and wayward, but Thou canst make it docile.   
      
   Come then, O Holy Spirit, Thou Father of the poor,   
   come and fill me with Thy love. Amen.   
      
   Father, Father, send us the promised Paraclete,   
   through Jesus Christ Our Lord.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)