From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   On the Wedding Garment   
      
      Then the king said to the waiters: Bind his hands and feet, and   
   cast him into the exterior darkness: there shall be weeping and   
   gnashing of teeth.   
      
      The man without a wedding garment is a figure of the unrepentent   
   sinner in mortal sin who stands before God without the wedding garment   
   of sanctifying grace. The binding of his hands and feet and casting   
   into the exterior darkness represents God punishing the sinner and   
   condemning him to hell.  [Matt 22: 13]   
      
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   November 6th – St. Winnoc, Abbot   
   d. 717?   
      
   WINNOC was probably of British origin. When a young man he, with 3   
   companions, came to the newly founded monastery of St. Peter at Sithiu   
   (Saint-Omer).  He was so edified with the fervour of the monks and the   
   wisdom of their abbot, St. Bertin that he and his companions agreed to   
   take the habit together. Soon, as the chronicler of the monastery   
   testifies, St. Winnoc shone like a morning star among the hundred and   
   fifty monks who inhabited that sanctuary.   
      
   When it was judged proper to found a new monastery in a remoter part   
   of the country of the Morini, for the instruction and example of the   
   inhabitants of that part, Heremar, a man who had lately embraced the   
   faith, bestowed on St. Bertin some land at Wormhout, near Dunkirk,   
   very convenient for that purpose. Bertin sent thither his four British   
   monks to found the new monastery. St. Winnoc and his brethren worked   
   tirelessly in building their church and cells, together with a   
   hospital for the sick, and the place soon became an important   
   missionary centre. Many miracles were attributed to Winnoc, who was   
   always foremost in the service of his monastic brethren and his   
   heathen neighbours. Even in his old age he ground corn for the poor of   
   his community, turning the hand-mill himself without any assistance.   
   When others were astonished that he should have strength enough to do   
   constantly such hard labour, they looked through a chink into the barn   
   and saw the quern turning without being touched, which they ascribed   
   to a miracle.   
      
   St. Winnoc died on November 6, the year, according to the 14th-century   
   tradition, being 717. Count Baldwin IV built and founded at Bergues an   
   abbey, which he peopled with a colony from Sithiu and enriched with   
   the relics of St. Winnoc. The lands of the monastery of Wormhout were   
   settled upon this house, and the town bears the name of   
   Bergues-Saint-Winnoc.   
      
   In curious contrast to St. Illtud, St. Winnoc, though his direct   
   connection with Great Britain is very slight, is commemorated in   
   nearly all the English calendars of the 10th and 11th centuries (see   
   those edited for the Henry Bradshaw Society by F. Wormald in 1934).   
   What is more, his name is mentioned and the miracle of the corn   
   grinding described in detail in the Old-English martyrology of c. 850.   
   Three Latin lives of St. Winnoc have been printed in the Acta   
   Sanctorum, November, vol. iii, but only the first, which may have been   
   written as early as the eighth century, is of much account, the other   
   two being obviously based upon this. This first life has also been   
   edited by Levison in MGH., Scriptores Merov., vol. v. See also Van der   
   Essen, Étude critique sur les Saints méroving., pp. 402 seq. Flahault,   
   Le culte de St. Winnoc a Wormhout (1903) and Duine, Memento, p. 64.   
   St. Winnoc is apparently the titular of Saint Winnow in Cornwall, and   
   in an excellent monograph (1940) Canon Doble gives reasons for   
   thinking he was a Welshman who founded this Cornish church and   
   subsequently came to Sithiu, no doubt via Brittany.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Those who lived according to the old order of things have come to a   
   new hope, no longer keeping the sabbath, but the Lord's Day, in which   
   our life is blessed by him and by his death.   
    --Saint Ignatius of Antioch   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   But he that heareth and doth not is like to a man building his house   
   upon the earth without a foundation: against which the stream beat   
   vehemently. And immediately it fell: and the ruin of that house was   
   great.  (Luke 6:49) DRB   
      
      
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   Daily Thoughts and Prayers for Our Beloved Dead   
      
   "Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because   
   the hand of the Lord hath touched me" Job. 19-21.   
      
   SIXTH DAY   
      
   The Souls in Purgatory are powerless to help themselves. They cannot   
   do penance, nor offer satisfaction, nor gain indulgences, nor receive   
   the Sacraments. They cannot pray for themselves. We, who are still on   
   earth, can share with them the Graces which God so generously and   
   abundantly gives us.   
      
   Prayer:  Our Father, Three Hail Marys, Gloria, De Profundis.   
      
   De Profundis   
      
      Out of the depths, I have cried to Thee,   
   O Lord, Lord, hear my voice.   
      Let Thine ears be attentive to the   
   voice of my supplication.   
      If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark my iniquities,   
   O Lord, who shall stand it?   
      For with Thee there is merciful   
   forgiveness: and by reason of Thy   
   law I have waited for Thee, O Lord.   
   My soul hath relied on His word; my soul   
   hath hoped in the Lord.   
      From the morning watch even until   
   night; let Israel hope in the Lord.   
   Because with the Lord there is mercy;   
   And with Him plenteous redemption.   
      And He shall redeem Israel from   
   all its iniquities.   
      Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,   
   And let perpetual light shine upon them:   
      May they rest in peace. Amen.   
      
   Most beloved Jesus, by the merits of Thy five wounds, hear the pleas   
   and release from the torments of Purgatory the faithful soul that did   
   the most good on earth. Place it today at Thy heavenly throne that it   
   may join in honoring Thee and in guiding me to live according to its   
   dictates.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)