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   On Offering Ourselves wholly to God [V]   
      
   I offer Thee also all the holy aspirations of devout persons; the   
   needs of my parents, friends, brothers, sisters, and all who are dear   
   to me; and the needs of all who have desired or asked me to pray and   
   offer the Eucharist for them and theirs, whether living or departed. I   
   pray that all these may enjoy the assistance of Thy grace, the aid of   
   Thy comfort, protection from dangers, and deliverance from pains to   
   come; and that, freed from all evils, they may offer glad praise and   
   thanks to Thee.   
   --Thomas à Kempis--Imitation of Christ Book 4 Ch.9   
      
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   1 September – Saint Lupus of Sens   
      
    (Died 623)   
    Bishop of Sens, Priest, Monk at Lérins – where he undertook whatever   
   was required, doing the lowliest duties with great love, Confessor and   
   Missionary – born near Orleans, Gaul (in modern France) and died in   
   623 in Brienon-sur-Armançon, Yonne, France of natural causes. He was   
   renowned for his love of music and his generosity to the poor.   
   Patronages – against epilepsy, of epileptics. He is also known as St   
   Loup de Sens, Loup de Naud, Leu, Lowe, Lupo.   
      
   Lupus was the son of Betton, Count of Tonnerre, “Blessed Betto,” a   
   member of the royal house of the Kingdom of Burgundy. Early in his   
   childhood he displayed a great love of Christ and His Church. His two   
   saintly maternal uncles, Saint Austremius, Bishop of Orleans and Saint   
   Aunarius, Bishop of Auxerre, both arranged his education and eventual   
   Ordination.   
      
   St Lupus was so greatly loved and his holiness so highly esteemed that   
   in 609, when the Bishop of Sens died, the King, at the request of the   
   people, appointed the saintly Lupus to replace him. Tradition leaves   
   us this wonderful miracle of St Lupus – whilst celebrating Mass,   
   during the Consecration, a jewel descended from heaven into the   
   elevated chalice.   
      
   When Lupus hesitated to acknowledge Clotaire II as the rightful ruler   
   of Burgundy and insisted that the will of God exceeds the will of   
   rulers, Clotaire used the excuse of slander about Lupo and a woman to   
   exile him to Ansenne, a predominently pagan area. Lupus evangelised   
   the people of the area, converting many, including the region’s   
   governor. When Lupus’ replacement in Burgundy, the politically   
   ambitious Monk Monegisil, was killed during a riot, the people   
   demanded the return of their rightful Bishop. Clotaire recalled Lupus   
   and punished those who had spoken against him. He returned   
   triumphantly to Sens, stopping in Paris for the Council of 614.   
      
   He was buried in the Monastery of Sainte-Colombe-lès-Sens, which he   
   had founded in Sens. In 853 his relics were transferred to the new   
   Church dedicated to him. His cult was of special renown during the   
   Middle Ages.   
      
   Among the many Churches and Monasteries dedicated to him in France are   
   Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles in Paris (1235), Saint-Loup of Naud (Provins),   
   and Saint-Loup of Esserent, near Senlis.   
      
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   Saint Quote:   
   Perfection does not consist in not seeing the World, but in not having   
   a taste or relish for it. In a word, the perfection of charity is the   
   perfection of life; for the life of our soul is charity. The primitive   
   Christians lived in the world in body but not in heart, and were   
   nevertheless very perfect.   
   -- St. Francis of Sales   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Religion pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to keep   
   oneself unspotted from this world.  (James 1:27)   
      
      
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   Good Advice   
      
   A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all   
   impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest   
   in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and   
   keep you from brooding over what displeases you.   
   --Joseph Rickaby   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)