- Philippians 4:19 -
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches
in
Christ Jesus.
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We can trust that God will always meet our needs. We must remember,
however,
the difference between our wants and our needs. Most people want to feel
good and avoid discomfort and pain. We may not get all that we want. By
trusting in Christ, out attitudes and appetites can change from wanting
everything to accepting his provision and power to live for him.
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May 7th - St. Agostino Roscelli (AC)
Born at Casarza Ligure, Italy, July 27, 1818; died May 7, 1902; beatified
May 7, 1995. Canonized
10 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II
Agostino Roscelli was not blessed with worldly wealth or rank. Instead God
gave him virtuous parents, intelligence, and sup****tive friends.
Surrounded
by the silence of the mountains as he watched his family's sheep,
Agostino's
soul was opened to prayer and his heart drew close to God. But it was not
until a parish mission in May 1835 (age 16) that he recognized he was
being
called to the priesthood. Most peasants would have found it impossible to
answer that call without divine and human intervention; however,
Agostino's
vocation was sup****ted by his own prayer life and the financial aid of
generous people.
Following his studies at Genoa, Roscelli was ordained in 1846. His first
appointment was in the parish of Saint Martin d'Albaro. Eight years later
he
was given the care of the parish Church of Consolation, where he spent
endless hours hearing confessions.
In Genoa he established a residential school to train young women without
families, who were in danger of starvation or falling into prostitution
because they had no sup****t. In 1876, he founded the Institute of Sisters
of
the Immaculata to run this and other residential centers he had
established.
In addition to this work of charity, in 1874, Father Agostino was
appointed
chaplain of the provincial orphanage. While continuing this work for 22
years, he also served as prison chaplain, wherein he cared particularly
for
those condemned to death (L'Osservatore Romano).
Pope John Paul II at the canonization of St Agostino Roscelli:
3. With affection I turn now to you, pilgims from various regions to
participate in the canonization of St Agostino Roscelli, founder of the
"Sisters of the Immaculate". I greet the Archbishop of Genova, Cardinal
Dionigi Tettamanzi, Cardinal Giovanni Canestri, the Bishop of Chiavari,
the
clergy, men and women religious, and the faithful. The new saint exercised
his priesthood with great dedication, carrying out an apostolate that was
productive of good. He followed the model of an austere evangelical life,
in
which he was outstanding in the love of God and neighbour. The indivisible
love of God and neighbour constitutes the fundamental and distingui****ng
characteristic of his spirituality, in which action and contemplation feed
each other. He loved to repeat: "Prayer helps to act well, and action,
done
as it should be done, helps to pray well".
I am happy to remember the words of my venerated Predecessor John Paul I,
when he was Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, caught the ascetical features of St
Agostino Roscelli: "He knew how to join together in the best way the
business of modern life with a deep interior life" (cf. Litt. Post., p.
16,
n. 14). The spiritual stature of the "poor priest", as he liked to call
himself, released a prophetic force capable of arousing and charming even
today. In a simple way, he re-presented the Gospel values that one must
recover and live with conviction at the start of the third millennium: the
value of humility and sobriety, of silence and the sense of the presence
of
God which directs history, of prayer and of a charity which never says,
that's enough, because it is as immense as is the God from whom it comes.
St Agostino Roscelli reminds his spiritual daughters and all believers
that
the results of pastoral action do not depend mostly on our own strength,
but
on the help of God, to whom we must always turn in prayer.
Saint Quote:
The best perfection is to do ordinary things in a perfect manner.
Constant
fidelity in little things is a great and heroic virtue.
-St. Bonaventure
Bible Quote
1 And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all
together in one place: 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as
of
a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were
sitting.
3 And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat
upon every one of them:
(Acts 2:1-3)
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Canticle 1 Timothy 3
The mystery and glory of Christ
Praise the Lord, all you nations!
He was manifested in flesh, justified in spirit - praise the Lord, all you
nations!
He was seen by the angels, he was preached to the nations - praise the
Lord,
all
you nations!
The world believed in him, he was taken up in glory - praise the Lord, all
you
nations!
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end.
Amen.
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