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Angels--Their Sorrows
Can real sorrow ever invade the ranks of the Holy Angels? Never. Not a
single pang of disappointment, or regret, or anxiety, or sadness, or
self-reproach can ever enter into their sinless souls. They were fixed
in unalterable joy, when they were confirmed in grace and admitted to
the Beatific Vision. Their perfect union with the Divine will prevents
them from regretting anything that God permits. One day there will be,
through God's mercy, no more sorrow for me.
But how is it that we speak of our Guardian Angels as shedding tears
over our sins and turning away his face in sorrow and disgust, and
lamenting over our ingratitude? These phrases are intended to express
what would be the effect of our misdoings upon the Angels if they were
capable of suffering. Alas! how many of our actions are of a nature to
cause sorrow to those who love us best! How many caused the most
poignant grief to the Sacred Heart of Jesus when He was on earth! How
many times, moreover, have we grieved our parents and friends, the
guides of our youth, and those who have watched over us!
Yet we can in this sense cause them sorrow, in that when we disobey
God's holy inspirations. we deprive them of the additional joy they
would have taken in our obedience. We rob them of the happiness we
might have bestowed on them. This loss to them is but a shadow of the
loss we ourselves suffer by each willful act of disobedience to grace.
by the Rev. R.F. Clarke, S.J.
<<>><<>><<>>
29 March – Saint Eustachio of Naples
(3rd Century) the Seventh Bishop of Naples.
Died in the mid-3rd-Century in Naples, Italy of natural causes, Also
known as – Eustasio, Eustatius. Additional Memorial – 10 May in
Naples.
The Roman Martyology states: “In Naples, commemoration of Saint
Eustasio, Bishop.”
In the list of Bishops of the Archdiocese of Naples, Eustachio is
included in Seventh place, after St Agrippino and before St Efebo. We
know very little, only that he lived in the first half of the third
century and before 343, the year in which the ninth Bishop, Fortunatus
is historically documented.
According to the Catalogus, Eustachio governed the Diocese for
seventeen years during the Pontificates of Pope Anterus and Pope
Fabian.
It is reported that his remains were transferred, in the 9th century,
to the main Altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Portanova.
The urn containing the body of Eustachio was found in 1616 and
Archbishop Decio Carafa decided to extend the cult to the entire
Diocese.
In the month of September of the year 1884, the canonical recognition
of the relics was carried out and after this, on 18 December 1884,
Pope Leo XIII confirmed the cult paid ab immemorial, to Saint
Eustachio.
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/29/
Holiness
“We need Saints to recall our wayward and corrupt society to the path
of truth, justice and charity.
We should pray to God to send us Saints who will reform the world by
living the Gospel and making it live for others.
Above all, we should endeavour to become holy ourselves.
To achieve this, we do not have to put on sack-cloth, go into the
de4sert, or shut ourselves up in a Monastery.
Each of us can become a saint in his own home and in whatever position
God has allotted him.
All we have to do is obey God’s Will in everything, love Him above
everything, love our neighbour as ourselves, avoid sin and aim at what
is good.
We can and should, do all this with the help of God.”
by Antonio Cardinal Bacci
PART ONE:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/07/19/thought-for-the-day-19-july-holiness/
PART TWO:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/29/thought-for-the-day-29-march-holiness/
Saint Quote:
See my children; the treasure of a Christian is not on the earth, it
is in Heaven. Well, our thoughts ought to be where our treasure is. Man
has a beautiful occupation, that of praying and loving.You pray, you
love --that is the happiness of man upon the earth.
--St. Catherine of Genoa
Bible Quote:
The innumerable evils resulting from haste prompts Ecclesiasticus to
say: “A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity” (Ecclus.
20:7).
It is also for this reason that Isaiah gives the following warnings:
“. . . and it shall bud without perfect ripeness and the sprigs
thereof shall be cut off with pruning hooks: an what is left shall be
cut away and shaken out. And they shall be left together to the birds
of the mountains and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be
upon them all summer, and the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them” (Isa. 18:5-6).
Can real sorrow ever invade the ranks of the Holy Angels? Never. Not a
single pang of disappointment, or regret, or anxiety, or sadness, or
self-reproach can ever enter into their sinless souls. They were fixed
in unalterable joy, when they were confirmed in grace and admitted to
the Beatific Vision. Their perfect union with the Divine will prevents
them from regretting anything that God permits. One day there will be,
through God's mercy, no more sorrow for me.
But how is it that we speak of our Guardian Angels as shedding tears
over our sins and turning away his face in sorrow and disgust, and
lamenting over our ingratitude? These phrases are intended to express
what would be the effect of our misdoings upon the Angels if they were
capable of suffering. Alas! how many of our actions are of a nature to
cause sorrow to those who love us best! How many caused the most
poignant grief to the Sacred Heart of Jesus when He was on earth! How
many times, moreover, have we grieved our parents and friends, the
guides of our youth, and those who have watched over us!
Yet we can in this sense cause them sorrow, in that when we disobey
God's holy inspirations. we deprive them of the additional joy they
would have taken in our obedience. We rob them of the happiness we
might have bestowed on them. This loss to them is but a shadow of the
loss we ourselves suffer by each willful act of disobedience to grace.
by the Rev. R.F. Clarke, S.J.
<<>><<>><<>>
29 March – Saint Eustachio of Naples
(3rd Century) the Seventh Bishop of Naples.
Died in the mid-3rd-Century in Naples, Italy of natural causes, Also
known as – Eustasio, Eustatius. Additional Memorial – 10 May in
Naples.
The Roman Martyology states: “In Naples, commemoration of Saint
Eustasio, Bishop.”
In the list of Bishops of the Archdiocese of Naples, Eustachio is
included in Seventh place, after St Agrippino and before St Efebo. We
know very little, only that he lived in the first half of the third
century and before 343, the year in which the ninth Bishop, Fortunatus
is historically documented.
According to the Catalogus, Eustachio governed the Diocese for
seventeen years during the Pontificates of Pope Anterus and Pope
Fabian.
It is reported that his remains were transferred, in the 9th century,
to the main Altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Portanova.
The urn containing the body of Eustachio was found in 1616 and
Archbishop Decio Carafa decided to extend the cult to the entire
Diocese.
In the month of September of the year 1884, the canonical recognition
of the relics was carried out and after this, on 18 December 1884,
Pope Leo XIII confirmed the cult paid ab immemorial, to Saint
Eustachio.
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/29/
Holiness
“We need Saints to recall our wayward and corrupt society to the path
of truth, justice and charity.
We should pray to God to send us Saints who will reform the world by
living the Gospel and making it live for others.
Above all, we should endeavour to become holy ourselves.
To achieve this, we do not have to put on sack-cloth, go into the
de4sert, or shut ourselves up in a Monastery.
Each of us can become a saint in his own home and in whatever position
God has allotted him.
All we have to do is obey God’s Will in everything, love Him above
everything, love our neighbour as ourselves, avoid sin and aim at what
is good.
We can and should, do all this with the help of God.”
by Antonio Cardinal Bacci
PART ONE:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/07/19/thought-for-the-day-19-july-holiness/
PART TWO:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/03/29/thought-for-the-day-29-march-holiness/
Saint Quote:
See my children; the treasure of a Christian is not on the earth, it
is in Heaven. Well, our thoughts ought to be where our treasure is. Man
has a beautiful occupation, that of praying and loving.You pray, you
love --that is the happiness of man upon the earth.
--St. Catherine of Genoa
Bible Quote:
The innumerable evils resulting from haste prompts Ecclesiasticus to
say: “A wise man will hold his peace till he see opportunity” (Ecclus.
20:7).
It is also for this reason that Isaiah gives the following warnings:
“. . . and it shall bud without perfect ripeness and the sprigs
thereof shall be cut off with pruning hooks: an what is left shall be
cut away and shaken out. And they shall be left together to the birds
of the mountains and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be
upon them all summer, and the beasts of the earth shall winter upon
them” (Isa. 18:5-6).
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