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   On Forsaking Creatures to Find the Creator [IV]   
      
   Alas, after a short meditation we break off, and do not make a strict   
   examination of our lives. We do not consider where our affections   
   really lie, nor are we grieved at the sinfulness of our whole life.   
   Yet it was because of the wickedness of men that the Flood came upon   
   the earth.(Gen.6:12) When our inner inclinations are corrupted, the   
   actions that spring from them are also corrupted. And this is a sign   
   of our lack of inner strength; for from a pure heart alone springs   
   the fruit of a holy life.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ, Bk 3, Ch 31   
      
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   June 11th – St. Paula Frassinetti, Virgin, Foundress   
   d. 1882   
      
   After the French Revolution and the flood of impiety it had let loose   
   over Europe, the need of Christian education became everywhere more   
   clearly understood by those who had the cause of God at heart. We find   
   then a considerable number of religious institutes devoted to this   
   work growing up everywhere during the first half of the nineteenth   
   century, many of them being founded by earnest and saintly souls who   
   seem to have been divinely guided in their efforts to meet a most   
   crying need. Such a valiant woman was Paula Frassinetti, the sister of   
   a priest well known as the author of a number of devotional books and   
   himself a very ardent apostolic worker. Paula was born at Genoa on   
   March 3, 1809. Her health in early life was very frail and in the hope   
   that a change of air would prove beneficial, she joined her brother   
   who was then parish priest of Quinto.   
      
   There she undertook to instruct poor children and in a short time it   
   was apparent that she had found her true vocation. She felt inspired   
   to gather others round her and to found an institute which should be   
   devoted entirely to such work. She had many difficulties to encounter,   
   complete lack of resources being not the least of the obstacles in her   
   path. But her tact, self-sacrifice and ardent devotion--she often   
   spent the best part of the night in prayer--triumphed in the end. The   
   Sisters of St. Dorothy--for this was the name by which the   
   congregation was known--spread and multiplied not only in many parts   
   of Italy, but also beyond seas in Portugal and in Brazil. The   
   institute was formally approved by the Holy See in 1863.   
      
    St. Paula was credited with a wonderful insight into character and   
   with a knowledge of the secrets of hearts. After a series of strokes and   
   worn out with incessant labours, she died very peacefully in the Lord   
   on June 11, 1882.   
      
   See the decree of beatification in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, vol.   
   xxii (1930), pp. 316-319, and also the Analecta Ecclesiastica for   
   1907. There is an Italian life, by A. Capecelatro (1901), and one in   
   English by J. Unfreville, published in U.S.A. c. 1944, called A   
   Foundress in the Nineteenth Century.   
      
   Her brother was a parish priest in the city, and she assisted him by   
   teaching poor children in their parish. From this humble beginning in   
   1834 began the Congregation of St. Dorothy, which soon spread across   
   Italy and then to the Americas. Beatified in 1930, she was canonized   
   in 1984.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   He who truly loves God prays entirely without distraction, and he who   
   prays entirely without distraction loves God truly. But he whose   
   intellect is fixed on any worldly thing does not pray without   
   distraction, and consequently he does not love God.   
   --St. Maximos the Confessor   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving   
   to that which is good, Loving one another with the charity of   
   brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.  [Romans 12:9-10] DRB   
      
      
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   Daily Offering to the Sacred Heart   
   By St Therese of the Child Jesus of Lisieux (1873-1897)   
   Doctor of the Church   
      
   O my God!   
   I offer You all my actions of this day   
   for the intentions and for the glory   
   of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.   
   I desire to sanctify   
   every beat of my heart,   
   my every thought,   
   my simplest works,   
   by uniting them   
   to His infinite merits   
   and I wish to make reparation for my sins   
   by casting them into the furnace   
   of His Merciful Love.   
   O my God! I ask of You for myself   
   and for those whom I hold dear,   
   the grace to fulfil perfectly   
   Your Holy Will,   
   to accept for love of You   
   the joys and sorrows of this passing life,   
   so that we may one day be united together   
   in heaven for all Eternity.   
   Amen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)