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   To Avoid Dissensions   
      
   To avoid dissensions we should be ever on our guard, more especially   
   with those who drive us to argue with them, with those who vex and   
   irritate us, and who say things likely to excite us to anger. When we   
   find ourselves in company with quarrelsome, eccentric individuals,   
   people who openly and unblushingly say the most shocking things,   
   difficult to put up with, we should take refuge in silence, and the   
   wisest plan is not to reply to people whose behavior is so   
   preposterous. Those who insult us and treat us contumeliously are   
   anxious for a spiteful and sarcastic reply: the silence we then affect   
   disheartens them, and they cannot avoid showing their vexation; they   
   do all they can to provoke us and to elicit a reply, but the best way   
   to baffle them is to say nothing, refuse to argue with them, and to   
   leave them to chew the cud of their hasty anger. This method of   
   bringing down their pride disarms them, and shows them plainly that we   
   slight and despise them.   
   -- Saint Ambrose of Milan   
      
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   June 7th – St. Willibald (Willebald) of Eichstätt B (RM)   
      
   Born in Wessex, October 21, c. 700; died on July 7, 786; canonized 938   
   by Pope Leo VII; feast day formerly on July 7. The life of St.   
   Willibald had been despaired of as a child and he had been cured, so   
   it was believed, by being placed at the foot of a market cross where   
   his royal parents had prayed and made a vow that if his life were   
   spared it should be dedicated to the service of God. As a result, when   
   five years old, he was placed for education in Waltham Monastery in   
   Hampshire.   
      
   In 721, he accompanied his father, King St. Richard of the West   
   Saxons, and brother, St. Winebald, to Rome and the Holy Land. Richard   
   died at Lucca in Italy. At some point Willibald was arrested at Emessa   
   as a spy and imprisoned at Constantinople for two years. After an   
   absence of six years, during which he visited many lauras,   
   monasteries, and hermitages, Willibald settled in the great monastery   
   of Monte Cassino, where he assisted St. Petronax in its restoration.   
   During his ten years there, Willibald was appointed sacristan, dean   
   and, for eight years, porter.   
      
   While on a visit to Rome in 740, he met Pope St. Gregory III, who sent   
   him to Germany to join his uncle (or cousin) St. Boniface in his   
   missionary labors. Soon after his arrival, Boniface ordained him   
   priest (741) and then consecrated him bishop of Eichstätt in Franconia   
   (742). It was a hard and rough task in a barbarous land, for it was   
   pioneering work demanding great qualities of energy and evangelism.   
      
   During that period he lived in the Heidenheim Abbey ruled by his   
   brother, St. Winebald, and afterwards by his sister, St. Walburga.   
   There he found a welcome retreat from the cares of his work, but was   
   no less diligent in his pastoral oversight. "The field which had been   
   so arid and barren soon flourished as a very vineyard of the Lord."   
      
   For over 50 years he labored for God in a foreign land and no story of   
   missionary enterprise is more exhilarating than that of this faithful   
   prince, who, whether as porter of a monastery or bishop of a diocese,   
   served the needs of men and to the glory of God. And thus these three   
   children of the good Saxon King Richard came to be numbered among the   
   saints.   
      
   Willibald was the first known Englishman to visit the Holy Land. The   
   account of his wanderings, Hodoeporicon, is the earliest known English   
   travelogue. It was dictated from his memories and recorded by a nun at   
   Heidesheim (Attwater, Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Gill).   
      
   St. Willibald is depicted in art holding two arrows. Sometimes he may   
   be shown (1) with a crown at his feet as he talks to a woodsman who   
   fells a tree; (2) in infancy as he is dedicated by his parents at the   
   foot of the cross; (3) as a pilgrim with his father and brother; (4)   
   receiving the mitre from the pope; (5) with the words fides, spes,   
   charitas on his cloak or arm; (6) with a broken glass; or (7)   
   directing the building of a church (Roeder).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   When I am in Heaven, where everything is possible, I will cling to the   
   mantle of the Mother of God and I will not turn my eyes from you. But   
   do not forget what this poor old man has said to you.   
   --St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo from his deathbed   
      
   Bible Quote:   
    When you are invited, go and take the last place.  (Luke 14:10)   
      
      
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   To Christ in His Passion   
      
   Let us all with one voice cry, Lord, have mercy.   
   Thou who wert led as a sheep to be crucified, Lord, have mercy.   
   Thou who from the Cross didst look down upon Thy Mother and Thy disciple,   
   look with pity from heaven upon us, Lord, have mercy.   
   Thou who by shedding Thy blood hast redeemed the world, Lord, have mercy.   
   Thou who didst commend Thy spirit to the Father, Lord, have mercy.   
   Make us by Thy Cross to obtain forgiveness, Lord, have mercy.   
      
   Christ, the only-begotten Son of the unbegotten Father, who this day west   
   slain for us, the innocent for the ungodly, remember the price of Thy Blood   
   And blot out the sins of all Thy people; and as Thou west pleased to endure   
   for us reproaches, spitting, bonds, blows, the scourge, the Cross, the   
   nails, the bitter cup, death, the spear, and lastly burial, vouchsafe to us   
   wretched ones, for whom Thou didst suffer this, the infinite blessedness of   
   the heavenly kingdom, that we who bow down in reverence for Thy Passion may   
   be raised up to things heavenly in the joys of Thy resurrection. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)