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   Divine providence   
      
   Divine providence often allows even good men to be expelled from the   
   Christian community....  By their patient endurance of such injury and   
   disgrace for the peace of the Church..., they will give man a lesson   
   in true affliction, in the really genuine charity, which God's service   
   calls for.  The object of such men is to return when the gale has   
   blown itself out; but if this is not possible because the storm   
   continues, or is more likely to break out more furiously than ever if   
   they go back, they cling to their determination ... and are prepared   
   ... to defend to the death the faith which they know is preached in   
   the Catholic Church, and to support it by their loyal testimony.  The   
   Father sees these men in secret, and rewards them in secret.   
   --St. Augustine   
      
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   August 27th – St. Caesarius of Arles, Bishop, Confessor   
      
   Caesarius of Arles was the first bishop in western Europe to receive   
   the pallium from a pope. He was born at Châlons, Burgundy, France   
   (then Gaul), in 470 or 471, of a French-Roman family. He entered the   
   monastery of Lérins in his youth but ill health forced him to leave   
   the community soon after. His uncle, Æonus, bishop of Arles, took him   
   into his monastery and ordained him deacon and priest. When Æonus died   
   in 502 or 503, Caesarius was unanimously chosen to succeed him. In   
   505, King Alaric II of the Visigoths accused Caesarius of treason. He   
   had come to believe that Caesarius intended to deliver Arles to the   
   Burgundians, and without putting him on trial had him exiled to   
   Bordeaux. He soon relented and allowed Cæsarius to return to Arles.   
      
    In 506, Caesarius called the Council of Agde and promulgated the   
   famous adaptation of the Roman Law known as the “Breviarium Alarici,”   
   which eventually became the civil code of Gaul. Following a siege in   
   508, the Ostrogoths occupied Arles and King Theodoric, son of Alaric,   
   suspecting Caesarius of having plotted with the besieging Franks and   
   Burgundians, had him deported again. Caesarius was still in exile in   
   513 when Theodoric summoned him to Ravenna and pardoned him. Caesarius   
   then went to Rome where Pope St. Symmachus (r. 498–514) gave him the   
   pallium, confirmed him as metropolitan, and (in 514) personally   
   renewed his appointment as vicar of the Apostolic See in Gaul.   
   Caesarius used his office to update and strengthen various aspects of   
   church doctrine. In 529 he presided over the Second Council of Orange,   
   the confirmation of whose decrees by Pope Boniface II (r. 530–532) in   
   531 made them authoritative in the Universal Church.   
      
   Caesarius brought the Divine Office into local parishes and introduced   
   monastic reforms, placing his sister St. Caesaria as abbess of a   
   convent he founded. He was known as a great preacher, with a strong   
   mystic bent. In the many sermons that have come down to us he   
   inveighed at length against the main vices of his day--adultery and   
   concubinage, drunkenness, neglect of the mass, love of landed wealth,   
   and the numerous pagan practices still in vogue. When the Franks   
   captured Arles in 536, Caesarius was once more forced to flee.   
   However, he was later able to return to his see, and died there on   
   August 27, 543. His name was entered in the Roman Martyrology. Today,   
   he is venerated especially in Arles. In art, Caesarius is depicted as   
   a bishop led by people with candles.   
      
      
   Bible Quote:   
   God Accuses Israel   
   4 Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel;   
   for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.   
   There is no faithfulness or kindness,   
   and no knowledge of God in the land;  [Hosea 4:1]  RSVCE   
      
   Saint Quote:   
   How can a man say he believes in Christ if he doesn't do what Christ   
   commanded him to do?   
   --St. Cyprian of Carthage   
      
      
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   Chaplet of the Adorable Sacrament   
   Begin with an Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of   
   the Holy Father.   
      
   Next, using a rosary, pray the following on the Our Father beads:   
      
   "Lord Jesus, I offer You my sorrow for the many sacrileges committed   
   against You and the indifference shown You in the Holy Sacrament of   
   the Altar."   
      
   Then on the Hail Mary beads pray: "Jesus, I adore You in the most   
   Blessed Sacrament." At the end of the rosary conclude with this   
   prayer:   
      
   "Holy Mother Mary, please present this prayer to your son, Jesus, and   
   bring consolation to His Sacred Heart. Please give Him my thanks for   
   His divine presence in the Blessed Sacrament. He has treated us with   
   mercy and love by staying with us. May my life be my thanksgiving   
   prayer to Him. Jesus, I trust in You.   
    Amen.   
      
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