- Deuteronomy 6:4-9 -
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your
God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
These
commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress
them
on
your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk
along
the
road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your
hands
and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your
houses
and
on your gates.
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This passage helps us relate the Word of God to our daily lives. We are to
love
God, think constantly about his commandments, teach his commandments to
our
children, and live each day by the guidelines in his Word. God emphasized
the
im****tance of parents teaching the Bible to their children. The Bible
provides
so many op****tunities for object lessons and practical teaching. Eternal
truths
are most effectively learned in the loving environment of a God-fearing
home.
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May 17th - Saint Restituta (Santa Restituta di Teniza)
? - 304
Biography
She was said to be born at Hippo Diarrhytus (today known as Bizerte,
Tunisia)
and became a martyr under Diocletian. The exact place and time of her
martyrdom
lacks precise historical data. She is sometimes considered one of the
Martyrs of
Abitina, a group of North African martyrs that includes Dativus,
Saturninus,
and
others.
Legend
A later medieval legend, recounted by Pietro Suddiacono in the 10th
century
and
similar to legends associated with Saints Devota, Reparata, and Torpes of
Pisa,
states that after being horribly tortured, Restituta was placed in a
blazing
boat loaded with oakum and resin. Restituta was unharmed by the fire, and
asked
for aid from God. God sent an angel to guide her boat to the island of
Aenaria
(present-day Ischia), and she landed at the present-day site of San
Montano.
The
legend further states that a local Christian woman named Lucina had dreamt
of
the angel and the boat. When she walked to the beach, she found the
resplendent
and incorrupt body of Restituta, who was now dead. Lucina gathered the
population together and the saint was solemnly buried at the foot of Monte
Vico
in Lacco Ameno, where a paleochristian basilica was dedicated to her, and
is
now
the site of a sanctuary dedicated to her.
Veneration
However, the spread of her cult from North Africa to Italy is historically
associated with the expulsion of Catholics from North Africa by Genseric,
king
of the Vandals, who followed the Arian sect. Her relics may have been
brought to
Naples in the fifth century by Gaudiosus of Naples when he was exiled from
North
Africa.
A church, Santa Restituta, was built in her honour in Naples in the sixth
century.
The church was then incor****ated into the Cathedral of Naples built on the
same
site in the 13th century.
She is the patron saint of Lacco Ameno. She is especially venerated on the
island of Ischia and at Lacco Ameno, where she is celebrated in a
three-day
celebration running from May 16 to May 18.
A crypt associated with Restituta can be found at Cagliari, in the
neighborhood
of Stampace.
Lamartine, inspired by the legend of the saint, composed in 1842 "Le lis
du
golfe de Santa Restituta dans l'ěle d'Ischia."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Quote:
That We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative
especially by
the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the
Church's open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in
her
very
bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open. We
allude,
Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, and, what is
much
more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, animated by a false
zeal
for the Church, lacking the solid safeguards of philosophy and theology,
nay
more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies
of
the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as
reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack,
assail
all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the Person
of
the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious audacity, they degrade to the
condition of a simple and ordinary mall.
--Saint Pope Pius X
Bible quote:
The Father loves Me, because I lay down My life... No one takes it from
Me,
but
I lay it down of Myself. (John 10:17-18)
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An Act of Abandonment To Divine Providence
0 sovereign goodness of the sovereign Providence of my God!
I abandon myself forever to Thy arms.
Whether gentle or severe,
lead me henceforth whither Thou wilt;
I will not regard the way through which Thou wilt have me pass,
but keep my eyes fixed upon Thee,
my God, who guidest me.
My soul finds no rest without the arms
and the bosom of this heavenly Providence,
my true Mother, my strength and my rampart.
Therefore I resolve with Thy Divine assistance,
0 my Saviour,
to follow Thy desires and Thy ordinances,
without regarding or examining why Thou dost this rather than that;
but I will blindly follow Thee
according to Thy Divine will,
without seeking my own inclinations.
Hence I am determined to leave all to Thee,
taking no part therein save by keeping myself in peace in Thy arms,
desiring nothing except as Thou incitest me to desire,
to will, to wish.
I offer Thee this desire, 0 my God,
beseeching Thee to bless it;
I undertake all it includes,
relying on Thy goodness,
liberality, and mercy,
with entire confidence in Thee,
distrust of myself,
and knowledge of my infinite misery and infirmity.
Amen!
(By Saint Jane Frances De Chantal.)
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