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   Ceaseless activity is not God's plan for your life   
      
    Ceaseless activity is not God's plan for your life. Times of   
   withdrawal for renewed strength are always necessary. Wait for the   
   faintest tremor of fear and stop all work, everything, and rest before   
   God until you are strong again. Deal in the same way with all tired   
   feelings. Then you need rest of body and renewal of spirit force.   
   Saint Paul said: "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me."   
   This does not mean that you are to do all things and then rely on God   
   to find strength. It means that you are to do the things you believe   
   God wants you to do and only then can you rely on His supply of power.   
      
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   November 27th – St. Virgil of Salzburg, OSB B (RM)   
    (also known as Feargal, Fearghal, Fergal, Virgilius)   
      
   Born in Ireland; died in Salzburg, Austria, November 27, c. 781-784;   
   canonized 1233 by Pope Gregory IX.   
   Virgil was an Irish monk, possibly of Aghaboe, who went abroad about   
   740 intending to visit Palestine. With him were Dobdagrec, later abbot   
   of a monastery at Chiemsee, and Sidonius, afterwards bishop of Passau.   
   His learning and ability attracted the attention of Blessed Pepin the   
   Short, who kept him at the Merovingian court for two years. About 743,   
   Pepin sent Virgil with letters of recommendation to his   
   brother-in-law, Duke Odilo of Bavaria, who, c. 745, appointed Virgil   
   abbot of Saint Peter's Monastery at Salzburg, with jurisdiction over   
   the local Christians, while Dobdagrec served its episcopal functions.   
      
   Instead of visiting Palestine he remained in Bavaria to help Saint   
   Rupert, the apostle of Austria. For 40 years he labored to convert   
   Teutons and Slavs, founded monasteries, churches, and schools. (In   
   774, the council of Bavaria issued its first pronouncement on the   
   establishment of schools.)   
      
   Virgil appears to have been a somewhat difficult character and he   
   incurred the strong disapproval of Saint Boniface, who seems to have   
   detested him. (Perhaps because of differences in the interpretations   
   of Roman observance or jurisdiction, or because Virgil succeeded John   
   whom Boniface had as abbot of Saint Peter's, or just personal   
   differences.) Boniface twice delegated him to Rome. On the first   
   occasion Pope Saint Zachary decided in Virgil's favor. Through   
   carelessness or ignorance, a priest had used incorrect Latin wording   
   during a baptism. Virgil and Sidonius ruled that the baptism was valid   
   and need not be repeated; Boniface of Mainz disagreed. Zachary was   
   surprised that Boniface should have questioned it and issued a   
   statement to that effect.   
      
   The other case concerned Virgil's cosmological speculations and their   
   implications, which, as reported to Zachary by Boniface, the pope   
   found very shocking. In 748, the pope directed Boniface to convene a   
   council to investigate the questionable views, but the council was   
   never convened. The incident has been the subject of much discussion   
   and has been used and exaggerated for polemical purposes, but in fact   
   it is far from clear what Virgil's ideas really were. It appears that   
   Virgil postulated that the world was round and that people might be   
   living in what would now be called the Antipodes. He was both a man of   
   learning and a successful missionary, and even after his cosmological   
   views were called into question, he was consecrated bishop of the see   
   of Salzburg (c. 766), whose cathedral he rebuilt.   
      
   Saint Virgil brought relics and the veneration of Saints Brigid and   
   Samthann of Clonbroney to the areas he evangelized. In fact, Saint   
   Samthann, who may have provided Virgil with his early education, is   
   better known in Austria than in her homeland.   
      
   Among his other good works, Virgil sent fourteen missionary monks   
   headed by Saint Modestus into the province of Carinthia, of which he   
   is venerated as the evangelizer. He baptized two successive dukes of   
   Carinthia at Salzburg (Chetimar and Vetune). His influence is revealed   
   by the issuance during the time of duke Chetimar of a Carinthian coin,   
   an old Salzburg rubentaler, with the images of Saint Rupert, who built   
   Saint Peter's monastery, and Virgil. He fell ill and died soon after   
   making a visitation in Carinthia, going as far as the place where the   
   Dravo River meets the Danube.   
      
   His feast is kept throughout Ireland, although he is buried at St.   
   Peter's in Salzburg. Virgil is widely venerated in southern Germany,   
   Austria, Yugoslavia, and northern Italy (Attwater, Attwater 2,   
   Benedictines, Coulson, D'Arcy, Encyclopedia, Farmer, Fitzpatrick,   
   Gougaud, Healy, Husenbeth, Kenney, Montague).   
      
   Sometimes he is paired with Saint Rupertus in artwork (Roeder). Virgil   
   is the patron of Salzburg, Austria (Farmer).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   What has a person to fear who lives in the arms and bosom of God?   
   --St. Paul of the Cross   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.  (James   
   1:19)   
      
      
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   How Christ Speaks Inwardly to a Faithful Soul  [I]   
      
   'I will hear what the Lord God speaks within me.'(Ps. 85:8) Blessed is   
   the soul that hears the Lord speaking within it, (I Sam. 3:9) and   
   receives comfort from His Word. Blessed are the ears that hear the   
   still, small voice of God, (I Kings 19:12) and disregard the whispers   
   of the world. Blessed are the ears that listen to Truth teaching   
   inwardly, and not to the voices of the world. Blessed are the eyes   
   that are closed to outward things, but are open to inward things.   
   Blessed are those who enter deeply into inner things and daily prepare   
   themselves to receive the secrets of heaven. Blessed are those who   
   strive to devote themselves wholly to God, and free themselves from   
   all the entanglements of the world. Consider these things, O my soul,   
   and shut fast the doors against the desires of the senses, that you   
   may hear what the Lord your God speaks within you.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3 Ch 1   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)