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   Love Reaches Out   
      
      "Moreover, this is the rule of love: the good that we desire for   
   ourselves we desire for our neighbor also; and the evil that we are   
   unwilling to undergo we wish to prevent from happening to our   
   neighbor.   
      All who love God will have such a desire toward everybody."   
   --St. Augustine--True Religion 87   
      
   Prayer: O Lord, my God, let my soul praise you that it may love you.   
   Let it recount to you your mercies that it may praise you for them   
   all.   
   --St. Augustine--Confessions 5, 17   
      
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   December 22nd - Bl. Jutta of Diessenberg, Virgin   
   d. 1136   
      
   Bl. Jutta was sister to Count Meginhard of Spanheim, and she led the   
   life of a recluse in a small house next to the monastery founded by   
   St. Disibod on the Diessenberg. She was the “noble woman” to whom was   
   confided the care of St. Hildegard, when she was a child, and it was   
   Jutta who first taught her Latin,  to read and to sing. Other   
   disciples came to her, and these were formed into a community over   
   which she presided as prioress for some twenty years. “This woman”,   
   says St. Hildegard, “overflowed with the grace of God like a river fed   
   by many streams. Watching, fasting, and other works of penance gave no   
   rest to her body till the day that a happy death set her free from   
   this mortal life. God has given testimony to her holiness by many   
   startling miracles.” The relics of Bl. Jutta drew crowds of pilgrims   
   to the Diessenberg, and their forthcoming removal was one of the   
   grounds of the opposition of the monks to St. Hildegard’s transference   
   of her community to Bingen.   
      
   No life of Bl. Jutta seems to have been printed, but a manuscript   
   account is in existence copied from the great legendarium of the   
   Augustinian canons of Bödeken. See the Analecta Bollandiana, vol.   
   xxvii (1908), p. 341; and also J. May, Die hl. Hildegard (1911).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very   
   ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by   
   the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing   
   out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means   
   of the successions of the bishops. For it is a matter of necessity   
   that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its   
   preeminent authority, that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as   
   the apostolic tradition has been preserved continuously by those   
   [faithful men] who exist everywhere.   
   --St. Irenaeus, (A.D. 180)   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me and I   
   give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither   
   shall any man pluck them out of my hand." (John 10:27)   
      
      
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   Saint Alphonsus Liguori, from The Redeeming Love of Christ   
      
   God says to each of us: "Give me your heart, that is, your will." We,   
   in turn, cannot offer anything more precious than to say: "Lord, take   
   possession of us; we give our whole will to you; make us understand   
   what it is that you desire of us, and we will perform it."   
      
   If we would give full satisfaction to the heart of God, we must bring   
   our own will in everything into conformity with his; and not only into   
   conformity, but into uniformity also, as regards all that God ordains.   
   Conformity signifies the joining of our own will to the will of God;   
   but uniformity signifies, further, our making of the divine and our   
   own will one will only, so that we desire nothing but what God   
   desires, and his will becomes ours. This is the sum and substance of   
   that perfection to which we ought to be ever aspiring; this is what   
   must be the aim of all we do, and of all our desires, meditations and   
   prayers. For this we must invoke the assistance of all our patron   
   saints and our guardian angels, and, above all, of our divine mother   
   Mary, who was the most perfect saint, because she embraced most   
   perfectly the divine will.   
      
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