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Nov 6, 2022, 2:31:54 AM11/6/22
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Apply thy whole mind to know Jesus
Apply thy whole mind to know Jesus Christ, thy whole heart to love
Him, and all thy care to follow Him, since for this alone thou art a
Christian. What difficulty canst thou have in loving a Man God, who
assumed humanity only for love of thee and for thy salvation! Be then
resolved to study and to contemplate Him in all His actions, to
penetrate into His designs, to enter into His dispositions and the
purport of His mysteries; and endeavor to do, to suffer, and to live
as He did; for the whole merit of a Christian in this life consists in
conformity in all things with Jesus Christ; and, in the next, it will
constitute his never-ending happiness. If he endeavor to participate
here in the humble and suffering life of his Redeemer, he will
hereafter partake of His glorious immortality.
--Thomas à Kempis, From the Imitation of Christ
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• November 6th - St. Illtud
(Also known as ILLTYD )
(450?-525?)
St. Illtud was popular among the very ancient Celts, but there are few
dependable sources about his life story.
A 7th-century life of St. Samson of Brittany, France, is the first to
make mention of him. Its author says that Illtud was a brilliant
disciple of St. Germain, the noted bishop of Auxerre, in north central
France, who also ordained him to the priesthood.
Whether Illtud was a native of Brittany in France or a Briton from
Wales is obscure. The first biography of Illtud himself, written
around 1140, represents him as the son of a prominent Briton, and a
cousin of the famous King Arthur. This untrustworthy account says that
as a young man he married a lady named Trynihid, and became a soldier
in Wales. Hence he is sometimes referred to as “Illtud the Knight.”
But shocked by the hunting death of a friend, he was inspired to leave
his wife and become a hermit. (A matrimonial detail, which, like the
accounts of a number of his miracles, is dubious.)
What is certain is that Illtud helped pioneer the monastic life in
Wales by founding a monastery at what is now Llantwit Major in
Glamorgan, the southernmost county in Wales. This became the first
great Welsh monastic school. Taught there, besides theology, were the
Scriptures, philosophy, poetry and rhetoric, grammar and arithmetic.
Abbot Illtud was also a master of the manual arts. In keeping with the
monastic tradition of agriculture, he developed and taught to his
monks and to farmers in general an improved method of plowing.
It is related that when there was a famine in French Brittany, Abbot
Illtud organized a fleet of boats to carry grain to the hungry
Bretons. This sounds very plausible, especially since there are many
churches and places named after him in Brittany.
One legend says that in his old age, St. Illtud went back yet again to
Armorican (French) Brittany, whose people are, of course, Celts
closely linked with the Celtic Britons and the Welsh. There, the
narrator asserts, the Abbot died at Dol (a town that figured, we will
recall, in the famous “D-Day” invasion of World War II). It seems more
likely, however, that he died at Llantwit in Wales. The life of Samson
says so; and a ninth-century cross at Llantwit bears the names of
“Iltet, Samson and Ebisar.”
One medieval Welsh document names Illtud, in his knightly days, as one
of the triumvirate (the others were named Cadoc and Peredur) to whom
King Arthur gave custody of the Holy Grail. On this basis, some
scholars have tried to identify Knight Illtud with Sir Galahad. But
here we move into the mists of Camelot, where there is more fancy than
fact.
It is sufficient for us to know, for certain, that St. Illtud was a
bright, charitable monastic leader, deeply revered and today still
remembered for his holiness among the Celts of Wales and of Armorica.
–Father Robert
Saint Quote:
Disengage thyself a while from earthly care, and give thyself for a
time to think of God, and to repose a little in Him. Then, having
closed the door of thy senses, say with the affection of thy soul: O
Lord, behold I am in quest of Thy lovely Countenance; teach Thy poor
servant how to find it.
-- St. Augustine
Bible Quote:
"Do not let your hand be stretched out to receive and closed when it
is time to give." [Sirach 4:31]
Apply thy whole mind to know Jesus Christ, thy whole heart to love
Him, and all thy care to follow Him, since for this alone thou art a
Christian. What difficulty canst thou have in loving a Man God, who
assumed humanity only for love of thee and for thy salvation! Be then
resolved to study and to contemplate Him in all His actions, to
penetrate into His designs, to enter into His dispositions and the
purport of His mysteries; and endeavor to do, to suffer, and to live
as He did; for the whole merit of a Christian in this life consists in
conformity in all things with Jesus Christ; and, in the next, it will
constitute his never-ending happiness. If he endeavor to participate
here in the humble and suffering life of his Redeemer, he will
hereafter partake of His glorious immortality.
--Thomas à Kempis, From the Imitation of Christ
<<>><<>><<>>
• November 6th - St. Illtud
(Also known as ILLTYD )
(450?-525?)
St. Illtud was popular among the very ancient Celts, but there are few
dependable sources about his life story.
A 7th-century life of St. Samson of Brittany, France, is the first to
make mention of him. Its author says that Illtud was a brilliant
disciple of St. Germain, the noted bishop of Auxerre, in north central
France, who also ordained him to the priesthood.
Whether Illtud was a native of Brittany in France or a Briton from
Wales is obscure. The first biography of Illtud himself, written
around 1140, represents him as the son of a prominent Briton, and a
cousin of the famous King Arthur. This untrustworthy account says that
as a young man he married a lady named Trynihid, and became a soldier
in Wales. Hence he is sometimes referred to as “Illtud the Knight.”
But shocked by the hunting death of a friend, he was inspired to leave
his wife and become a hermit. (A matrimonial detail, which, like the
accounts of a number of his miracles, is dubious.)
What is certain is that Illtud helped pioneer the monastic life in
Wales by founding a monastery at what is now Llantwit Major in
Glamorgan, the southernmost county in Wales. This became the first
great Welsh monastic school. Taught there, besides theology, were the
Scriptures, philosophy, poetry and rhetoric, grammar and arithmetic.
Abbot Illtud was also a master of the manual arts. In keeping with the
monastic tradition of agriculture, he developed and taught to his
monks and to farmers in general an improved method of plowing.
It is related that when there was a famine in French Brittany, Abbot
Illtud organized a fleet of boats to carry grain to the hungry
Bretons. This sounds very plausible, especially since there are many
churches and places named after him in Brittany.
One legend says that in his old age, St. Illtud went back yet again to
Armorican (French) Brittany, whose people are, of course, Celts
closely linked with the Celtic Britons and the Welsh. There, the
narrator asserts, the Abbot died at Dol (a town that figured, we will
recall, in the famous “D-Day” invasion of World War II). It seems more
likely, however, that he died at Llantwit in Wales. The life of Samson
says so; and a ninth-century cross at Llantwit bears the names of
“Iltet, Samson and Ebisar.”
One medieval Welsh document names Illtud, in his knightly days, as one
of the triumvirate (the others were named Cadoc and Peredur) to whom
King Arthur gave custody of the Holy Grail. On this basis, some
scholars have tried to identify Knight Illtud with Sir Galahad. But
here we move into the mists of Camelot, where there is more fancy than
fact.
It is sufficient for us to know, for certain, that St. Illtud was a
bright, charitable monastic leader, deeply revered and today still
remembered for his holiness among the Celts of Wales and of Armorica.
–Father Robert
Saint Quote:
Disengage thyself a while from earthly care, and give thyself for a
time to think of God, and to repose a little in Him. Then, having
closed the door of thy senses, say with the affection of thy soul: O
Lord, behold I am in quest of Thy lovely Countenance; teach Thy poor
servant how to find it.
-- St. Augustine
Bible Quote:
"Do not let your hand be stretched out to receive and closed when it
is time to give." [Sirach 4:31]
weedy
Nov 6, 2022, 2:43:15 AM11/6/22
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