From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   Happiness   
      
   "Since happiness is nothing but the enjoyment of the Supreme Good, and   
   since the Supreme Good is above us, we cannot be happy unless we rise   
   beyond ourselves. Since we cannot reach above ourselves in our own   
   strength, we must be helped by supernatural strength, lifted up by a   
   higher power that stoops to raise us. However much we structure our   
   inner lives and make progress, it does us no good unless our efforts   
   are accompanied by help from on high. Divine aid is available for   
   those who seek it with a devout and humble heart; this is done by   
   fervent prayer. Prayer is, therefore, the source and origin of every   
   upward journey toward God. Let us each, then, turn to prayer and say   
   to our Lord God: 'Lead me, O Lord, on your path, that I may walk in   
   your truth.'"   
   --[From St. Bonaventure:]   
      
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   June 3rd - St. Genesius, Bishop and Confessor   
      
   FROM his infancy he was a model of innocence and piety, and despising   
   in his youth the honours which great riches and high birth insured to   
   him in the world, he chose to serve God in the lowest rank among the   
   clergy of the diocese of Auvergne, in which province his family was   
   one of the most distinguished. Against his inclinations he was   
   promoted to the dignity of archdeacon, in which his example was to the   
   clergy under his care, a spur to the perfect spirit and practice of   
   all Christian virtues. Austere to himself he treated his own body as   
   an enemy, to prevent its rebelling against the spirit. His charity to   
   the poor seemed to have no bounds. The respect with which he performed   
   the sacred functions, inspired all the assistants with awe and   
   devotion.   
      
   God usually employs the ministry of saints to form others to perfect   
   sanctity. The holy archdeacon was the instrument which he made use of   
   to sow by his grace the seeds of virtue in the heart of St. Prix of   
   Clermont, whose education was intrusted by his parents to the care of   
   St. Genesius. But the master preceded him in the episcopal chair of   
   Auvergne or of Clermont, to which St. Genesius was promoted upon the   
   death of Proculus in 656, and he was ordained by compulsion by the   
   bishops of the province. He extirpated the seeds of the Novatian   
   heresy and of that of Jovinian; spared nothing to make chastity,   
   charity, and all virtues flourish in his flock, and to furnish   
   perpetual examples of the perfect evangelical spirit, he founded the   
   great abbey of Manlieu, in Latin Magnus Locus, now of the Order of St.   
   Bennet, in a borough of the same name.   
      
   He founded a great hospital at Clermont, and died about the year 662.   
   He was buried in the church which he had built under the title of St.   
   Symphorian, the martyr of Autun, though it long since bears the name   
   of St. Genesius. In the diocese of Clermont, and in the Gallican   
   Martyrologies he is honoured on the 3rd of June.   
      
   See his life in John Savaron, in Origen. Claromont. et de SS.   
   Ecclesiis Monast. Claromont; also Branche, in Vies des SS. d’Auvergne,   
   Gallia Christ. Nova, &c.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Labor without stopping; do all the good works you can while you still   
   have the time.   
   --Saint John of God   
      
   Bible Quote:   
    Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is   
   near.  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his   
   thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on   
   him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive. For my thoughts   
   are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.  For as   
   the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above   
   your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts. [Isa 55:6-9 ] DRB   
      
      
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   Your Will Alone   
   By St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)   
      
   Oversee, O my God, my life,   
   that I may do what You ask of me;   
   allow me to see and permit me to do   
   whatever is fitting and profitable to my soul.   
   Lead me not, O Lord my God,   
   into excessive wealth or want,   
   lest I put my trust in riches,   
   or despair in misery.   
   Let me take no joy or sorrow,   
   save in what would lead me   
   to You or from You.   
   Let me delight only in pleasing You   
   and fear only displeasing You.   
   O Lord, let all passing things   
   seem worthless to me   
   and let everything eternal, become my treasure.   
   May I despise any joy apart from You   
   and seek nothing that is without You.   
   Make carrying the burdens   
   for You my relaxation, O Lord   
   and rest without You, itself a burden.   
   Amen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)