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   Judge from justice, forgive from grace   
      
   "Do not judge, that is, unjustly, so that you may not be judged, with   
   regard to injustice. With the judgment that you judge shall you be   
   judged (Matthew 7:2). This is like the phrase 'Forgive, and it will be   
   forgiven you.' For once someone has judged in accordance with justice,   
   he should forgive in accordance with grace, so that when he himself is   
   judged in accordance with justice, he may be worthy of forgiveness   
   through grace. Alternatively, it was on account of the judges, those   
   who seek vengeance for themselves, that he said, 'Do not condemn.'   
   That is, do not seek vengeance for yourselves. Or, do not judge, from   
   appearances and opinion and then condemn, but admonish and advise."   
   --by Ephrem the Syrian (excerpt from COMMENTARY ON TATIAN’S DIATESSARON   
   6.18B)   
      
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   March 26th – St. Macartin of Clogher, Bishop   
    (also known as Macartan, MacCartan, Maccarthen)   
      
   Died c. 505; feast day formerly March 24. Saint Macartin (in Irish is   
   Aedh mac Carthin) was an early disciple and companion of Saint Patrick   
   during the latter's missions into pagan territory. He is said to have   
   been consecrated bishop of Clogher in Tyrone by Patrick in 454. It is   
   said that Saint Brigid, Macartin's niece, was present at the founding   
   of the see.   
      
   Macartin is also one of the earliest Irish saints to be known as a   
   miracle-worker. His holiness is revealed not so much by any vita,   
   which are non-existent, but by the high veneration in which he is   
   held. Saint Bede records that the earth was taken from his grave as   
   holy relics. His Office is the only one to survive from an Irish   
   source.   
      
   A reliquary, called the Great Shrine of Saint Mac Cairthinn, which was   
   designed to contain relics of the True Cross as well as his bones, has   
   been altered over the centuries but still survives as the "Domnach   
   Airgid" in the National Museum. It's inner yew box was given to   
   Macartin by Patrick together with the latter's episcopal staff and   
   Bible.   
      
   The Cloch-Oir (Golden Stone), from which this ancient diocese takes   
   its name, was a sacred ceremonial stone to the druids, It was given to   
   Macartin by an old pagan noble, who had harassed Macartin in every   
   possible way until the saint's patient love won the local ruler to the   
   faith. The stone is still preserved and the noble's son, Tighernach of   
   Clones, succeeded Macartin as bishop (Benedictines, D'Arcy, Farmer,   
   Healy, Kenney, Montague, Muirhead, Needham).   
      
      
   Quote:   
   May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make   
   a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim   
   cannot be done.   
    (Franciscan blessing)   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall   
   be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be clean dried   
   up, and his right eye utterly darkened.  (Zech 11:17)   
      
      
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   "Take heed not to foster thy own judgment, for, without doubt, it will   
   inebriate thee; as there is no difference between an intoxicated man   
   and one full of his own opinion, and one is no more capable of   
   reasoning than the other"   
   --St. Francis de Sales   
      
   The blessed Alexander Sauli, a Corsican bishop, always asked others   
   advice in the affairs of his diocese, not trusting his own opinion.   
   He considered himself ignorant and totally unfit for the duties of his   
   office, though he had been a famous professor of theology and director   
   of St. Charles, and had even been called the ideal of bishops.   
      
   ("A Year with the Saints".  March - Mortification)   
      
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