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   Eternity will be ours when faith sees   
      
    "We are distanced from eternity to the extent that we are changeable.   
   But eternal life is promised to us through the truth. Our faith,   
   however, stands as far apart from the clear knowledge of the truth as   
   mortality does from eternity. At the present we put faith in things   
   done in time on our account, and by that faith itself we are cleansed.   
   In this way, when we have come to sight, as truth follows faith, so   
   eternity may follow on mortality. Our faith will become truth, then,   
   when we have attained to that which is promised to us who believe. And   
   that which is promised to us is eternal life. And the Truth - not that   
   which shall come to be according to how our faith shall be, but that   
   truth that always exists because eternity is in it - the Truth then   
   has said, 'And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only   
   true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.' When our faith sees   
   and comes to be truth, then eternity shall possess our now changed   
   mortality."   
   --St. Augustine--(excerpt from ON THE TRINITY 4.18.24.34)   
      
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   June 10th - Bl. Henry of Treviso   
      
   d. 1315   
   Henry of Treviso, or San Rigo as he is often called in Italy, was born   
   at Bolzano in the Trentino. His parents were very poor, and he never   
   learnt to read or write. He went as a young man to Treviso, where he   
   supported himself as a day labourer, secretly giving away to the poor   
   whatever he could save from his scanty wages. Throughout his whole   
   life his one object was the service of God. He heard Mass daily,   
   frequently making his communion, and every day he went to   
   confession—not from scrupulosity, but to preserve the utmost purity of   
   conscience. All the time that was not employed in labour and in   
   necessary duties he spent in devotion, either at church or in private;   
   the penitential instruments he used for the discipline of his body   
   were preserved after his death in the cathedral. Men marvelled at his   
   extraordinary equanimity, which nothing could ever ruffle. Foolish   
   people and children sometimes mocked or molested the shabby, thick-set   
   little man, with his sunken eyes, long nose, and crooked mouth, but he   
   never resented their treatment or replied to it, except to pray for   
   them.   
      
   When he could no longer work, a citizen called James Castagnolis gave   
   him a room in his house and, when necessary, food. Usually, however,   
   Bl. Henry subsisted on the alms of the charitable, which he shared   
   with beggars, never holding anything over from one day to the next.   
   Even extreme bodily weakness in ad­vancing age could not keep him from   
   God’s house and from visiting all the churches within walking distance   
   of Treviso. He died on June 10, 1315. His little room was immediately   
   thronged with visitors eager to venerate him and to secure some   
   fragment of his possessions, which consisted of a hair-shirt, a wooden   
   log which had been his pillow, and some cords and straw that had   
   served as his bed. Extra­ordinary scenes were witnessed after his body   
   had been removed to the cathedral. The people broke into the basilica   
   at night, and the bishop and the podestà, roused from their sleep,   
   were obliged to go and protect the body by putting a wooden palisade   
   round it. No fewer than 276 miracles, said to have been wrought by his   
   relics, were recorded within a few days of Bl. Henry’s death by the   
   notaries appointed by the magistrates: they occupy thirty-two closely   
   printed columns of the Acta Sanctorum. The cultus of Bl. Henry was   
   confirmed by Pope Benedict XIV.   
      
   A life of Bl. Henry, by his contemporary Bishop Pierdomenico de Baone,   
   has been printed by the Bollandists, June, vol. ii. See also R. degli   
   Azzoni Avogaro, Memorie del Beato Enrico (2 vols., 1760); A. Tschöll   
   (1887); Austria Sancta, Die Heiligen und Seligen Tirols, vol. ii   
   (1910), pp. 41 seq. ; and II B. Enrico . . . (Treviso, 1915).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   Intimacy with the Lord is not a matter of physical kinship; rather, it   
   is achieved by cheerful readiness to do the will of God.   
   --St. Basil the Great   
      
   Bible quote   
   Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand;   
   and meted out heaven with a span;   
   and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure,   
   and weighed the mountains in scales,   
   and the hills in a balance?  [Isaiah 40:12]   
      
      
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   A Prayer for a Pure Heart and Heavenly Wisdom   
      
   Strengthen me, O Lord God, by the grace of Your Holy Spirit.(Ps.   
   51:12) Grant me inward power and strength (Eph.3:16) and empty my   
   heart of all profitless anxiety and care.(Matt.5:34) Let me never be   
   drawn away from You by desire for anything else, whether noble or   
   base, but help me to realize that all things are passing, and myself   
   with them. Nothing in this world is lasting, and everything in this   
   life is uncertain, troubling to the spirit (Eccles.1:14; 2:11) How   
   wise is the man who knows these truths! Grant me heavenly wisdom, O   
   Lord, that above all else I may learn to search for and discover You;   
   to know and love You; and to see all things as they really are and as   
   You in Thy wisdom have ordered them. May I prudently avoid those who   
   flatter me, and deal patiently with those who oppose me. True wisdom   
   cannot be swayed by every wordy argument, (Eph.4:14) and pays no   
   regard to the cunning flatteries of evil men. Only thus shall we go   
   forward steadily on the road on which we have set out.   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3, Ch 27   
      
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