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   Seek to grow spiritually   
      
      The world doesn't need super men or women, but supernatural people.   
   People who will turn the self out of their lives and let Divine Power   
   work through them. Let inspiration take the place of aspiration. Seek   
   to grow spiritually, rather than to acquire fame and riches. Our chief   
   ambition should be to be used by God. The Divine Force is sufficient   
   for all the spiritual work in the world. God only needs the   
   instruments for His use. His instruments can remake the world.   
      
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   June 5th - St. Dorotheus of Tyre, Martyr   
   d. 362?   
      
   THE martyr St. Dorotheus, commemorated on June 5 in the Roman   
   Martyrology, was a priest of Tyre, and, according to some authorities,   
   bishop of the diocese. In the reign of Diocletian, after suffering   
   much for the faith in his own city, he was driven into exile. A lull   
   in the persecution enabled him to return to his flock and he attended   
   the Council of Nicaea in 325.   
      
   A man of learning, well versed in Greek and Latin, he is reported to   
   have been the author of several books. The accession of Julian the   
   Apostate brought a renewal of persecution, and he withdrew once more   
   to Odyssopolis in Thrace, the present Bulgarian port of Varna. Even   
   there he was not left in peace. He was arrested and so cruelly beaten   
   that he died of his injuries at the age, it is said, of 107. He is not   
   to be identified with his namesake, Dorotheus, superintendent of the   
   Tyrian dye-works, who was martyred during the reign of Diocletian, and   
   whose feast falls, in the Roman Martyrology, on September 9.   
      
   As a matter of fact, Dorotheus was a common appellation, and the   
   Greeks honour several holy men of the name, though they seem to have   
   confused their history. Of these no less than three, besides the   
   subject of the above memoir, discussed by the Bollandists, are   
   assigned to June 5, though none of them seem to have any association   
   with this date. Two of them, moreover, seem never to have had any   
   cultus. These are Dorotheus the Theban, of whom Palladius gives an   
   account in the second chapter of his Lausiac History; and the   
   Archimandrite Dorotheus, a monk of Gaza (cf. St. Dositheus, February   
   23), whose ascetical writings were so highly esteemed by Abbot de   
   Rance that he had them translated into French for his Trappists. The   
   fourth Dorotheus is noticed herein on January 5, the day on which he   
   is celebrated by the Greeks.   
      
   This is the only Dorotheus commemorated on this day in the Roman   
   Martyrology. Though his story is to be found in Theophanes,   
   Chronographia, it would seem to be entirely apocryphal. It may   
   possibly have been suggested to some fabricator by the references in   
   Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., bk vii, ch. xxxii; bk viii, ch. vi) to a   
   learned Dorotheus who was living in Syria in his time, and who had   
   been made superintendent of the Tyrian dye-works. But the whole matter   
   of identification is quite hopeless. Under the name of this supposed   
   Dorotheus of Tyre, certain writings were current concerning the   
   Prophets, Apostles, and the seventy-two Disciples. See DTC., vol. iv   
   (1911), cc. 1786-1788; and T. Schermann, Propheten-und   
   Apostellegenden.    
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Prayer is to our soul what rain is to the soil. Fertilize the soil   
   ever so richly,   
   it will remain barren unless fed by frequent rains.   
   -- St John Vianney   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how   
   shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out   
   and trampled underfoot by men.  (Matthew 5:13)   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
      
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   Prayer to Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Sickness   
      
   Mother of Perpetual Help, you know how much I suffer because of my   
   sickness. Not only my body but my soul is also affected. I do not even have   
   the strength to pray as I should. Nothing gives me any relief. Even the   
   visits and compassion of my friends bring me no comfort. My courage is   
   beginning to fail; impatience and sadness are having their effect on me.   
   Most tender and loving Mother, in my feelings of distress, I put all my   
   trust in you. Your compassionate heart will surely have pity on me.   
   Merciful Mother, do not forget your devoted, afflicted child's (here   
   mention your sickness). Ask your Son, Jesus, to give me the courage and   
   strength to accept my sickness as the will of God and to bear it with   
   patience and resignation. If it is God's will, intercede for me in   
   recovering my former good health; but if it is God's will that I continue   
   to suffer, or, that this sickness should lead me to a better life, I am   
   perfectly resigned. Loving Mother, I am confident you will obtain the   
   grace to do whatever God asks for me. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)