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   Acquiring Patience in the Fight Against Concupiscence  [2]   
      
      Do you think that men of the world have no suffering, or perhaps   
   but little? Ask even those who enjoy the most delights and you will   
   learn otherwise. “But,” you will say, “they enjoy many pleasures and   
   follow their own wishes; therefore they do not feel their troubles   
   very much.” Granted that they do have whatever they wish, how long do   
   you think it will last? Behold, they who prosper in the world shall   
   perish as smoke, and there shall be no memory of their past joys. Even   
   in this life they do not find rest in these pleasures without   
   bitterness, weariness, and fear. For they often receive the penalty of   
   sorrow from the very thing whence they believe their happiness comes.   
   And it is just. Since they seek and follow after pleasures without   
   reason, they should not enjoy them without shame and bitterness.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3 Ch 12   
      
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   June 25th - St. Moloc, Bishop and Confessor   
      
   HE was a Scotsman, and a zealous assistant of St. Boniface of Ross in   
   his apostolic labours, in the 7th century, of which mention is made on   
   the 14th of March. The relics of St. Moloc were kept with great   
   veneration at Murlach. When Sweno, the Danish king, sent out of   
   England a barbarous army under the conduct of Olas and Enet, king   
   Malcolm II. after having been at first discomfited by them, overcame   
   them in a 2nd battle near Murlach, which victory he ascribed to the   
   intercession of the Blessed Virgin and St. Moloc, which with his whole   
   army he had earnestly implored. In thanksgiving he founded at Murlach,   
   in 1010, an abbey under their joint invocation, together with a   
   stately cathedral church which he adorned with an episcopal see,   
   though this was afterwards translated to Aberdeen.   
      
   The Danes in two other engagements were entirely routed by this   
   religious prince, who perpetuated the memory of the former of these   
   victories by building a 2nd monastery under the patronage of the   
   Blessed Virgin Mary in the town of Brechin, near which the battle was   
   fought, and by raising an obelisk on the spot, still standing in a   
   village called Cuin, from the name of a Danish general who was there   
   slain. For a memorial of his last victory he erected on the place   
   where it was gained a third abbey called Deir, in the county of   
   Buchan, which soon after adopted the Cistercian rule, and flourished   
   till the change of religion in 1550.   
      
   The name of St. Moloc was famous over all Scotland, especially in the   
   counties of Argyle and Ross. A considerable portion of his relics was   
   honoured in a famous church which still bears his name at Lismore in   
   Argyleshire. On him see Boëtius, l. 9; Hist. Lesley, l. 5, and King.   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   "If, devout soul, it is your will to please God and live a life of   
   serenity in this world, unite yourself always and in all things to the   
   divine will. Reflect that all the sins of your past wicked life   
   happened because you wandered from the path of God's will. For the   
   future, embrace God's good pleasure and say to him in every happening:   
   "Yea, Father, for so it hath seemed good in thy sight." "   
   --St Alphonsus de Liguori   
      
   Bible Quote   
   Let your spirits be renewed so that you can put on the new self that   
   has been created in God's way, in the goodness and holiness of the   
   truth.  (Ephesians 4:23-24)   
      
      
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   Let your light shine   
      
      Christ is the true light which enlightens every person who comes   
   into the world. This light shines in the darkness, but the darkness   
   has not received the light. No one receives this light but those who   
   are poor in spirit and have stripped themselves of self-love and   
   self-will.   
      Dear, dear children, you must strive after this, sparing no effort   
   of body or soul, so that you may taste this, so that this light may   
   shine in the depths of your souls, so that you may come back to your   
   true source, where this true light shines. Do all that you can, do   
   more than you can, to long and to pray that this may come to you. Do   
   everything in your power, and ask those who love God to help you.   
   Cling to those who cling to God, so that they may draw you with them   
   to God. And may our loving God himself help us to this end.   
   --John Tauler   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)