- 2 Samuel 22:17-20 -
"He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
he drew me out of deep waters.
He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from my foes, who were too strong for me.
They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the LORD was my sup****t.
He brought me out into a spacious place;
he rescued me because he delighted in me."
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Your needs are not too much for God. He holds all the earth in his
control. He
sustains all of life. It is not a frustration or difficulty for Him to
care for
you. He will give to you in abundance. He wants to provide for you. YOU
ARE
RESCUED.
- Pearls From Heaven, Mary Grace Birkhead
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April 28th - Sts Pollio of Pannonia & Comp., Martyrs
Died April 27, c. 304. We have the passio of Saint Pollio, a lector of the
Church of Cybalae in Pannonia (Hungary), who was burnt alive under
Diocletian.
Governor Probus had already killed the priest Saint Montanus at Singidon,
Bishop
Saint Irenaeus at Sirmium, and others. On the day the governor arrived at
the
town of Cibales, Pollio was arrested. The lector Pollio, a man of great
virtue
and a lively faith, was presented to Probus as he alighted from his
chariot and
accused of irreligious speech and action. Probus asked his name. "I am
Pollio,
the chief of the readers.
Probus: "Of what readers?"
Pollio: "Why, of those who read the word of God to the people."
Probus: "I suppose you mean by that name a set of men who find ways and
means to
impose on the credulity of fickle and silly women, and persuade them to
observe
chastity, and refrain from marriage."
Pollio: "Those are the fickle and foolish who abandon their Creator to
follow
your superstitions; while our hearers are so steady in the profession of
the
truths they have imbibed from our lectures, that no torments prevail with
them
to transgress the precepts of the eternal King."
Probus: "Of what king, and of what precepts do you speak?"
Pollio: "I mean the holy precepts of the eternal King, Jesus Christ."
Probus: "What do those precepts teach?"
Pollio: "They inculcate the belief and adoration of one only God, who
causes
thunder in the heavens; and they teach that what is made of wood or stone,
deserves not to be called God. They correct sinners, animate and
strengthen the
good in virtue: teach virgins to attain to the perfection of their state,
and
the married to live up to the rules of conjugal chastity: they teach
masters to
command with mildness and moderation slaves to submit with love and
affection,
subjects to obey all in power in ail things that are just; in a word, they
teach
us to honor parents, requite our friends, forgive our enemies, exercise
hospitality to strangers, assist the poor, to be just, kind, and
charitable to
all men; to believe a happy immortality prepared for those who despise the
momentary death which you have power to inflict."
Probus: "Of what felicity is a man capable after death?"
Pollio: "There is no comparison between the happiness of this and the next
life.
The fleeting comforts of this mortal suite deserve not the name of goods,
when
compared with the permanent joys of eternity."
Probus: "This is foreign to our purpose; let us come to the point of the
edict."
Pollio: "What is the pur****t of it?"
Probus: "That you must sacrifice to the gods."
Pollio: "Sacrifice I will not, let what will be the consequence; for it is
written: He that shall sacrifice to devils, and not to God, shall be
exterminated."
Probus: "Then you must resolve to die."
Pollio: "My resolution is fixed: do what you are commanded."
Probus then condemned him to be burnt alive; and the sentence was
immediately
executed a mile outside town (Attwater2, Benedictines, Husenbeth).
From:
http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0427.shtml
Saint Quote:
The first requirement of salvation is to keep the standard of the True
Faith.
-Pope St. Adrian II (867-872)
Bible Quote
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was
hungry.
And the tempter coming said to him: If thou be the Son of God, command
that
these stones be made bread. Who answered and said: It is written, Not in
bread
alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of
God.
(Matthew 4:2-4)
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PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
O Virgin Mary, our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, glory of the Christian
people, joy of the universal Church, salvation of the world; pray for us,
and awaken in all the faithful devotion to the Holy Eucharist in order
that
they render themselves worthy to receive it daily.
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Here, Lord Jesus, art Thou both Shepherd and Green Pasture.
He has left His faithful His very Body for food and His very Blood for
drink, nourishment for them under the appearance of bread and wine, and an
abiding memorial of His noble engagement. O how precious then, how
marvelous, how health-giving, how well-appointed His banquet! Nothing more
precious, for in the Lord's Supper the food put before us is not the flesh
of bulls and goats, as in olden times, but Christ Himself, our very God.
Roman Breviary, Feast of Corpus Christi, Lesson at Matins. (St. Thomas
Aquinas, 13th cent.)
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