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The Joy of a Good Conscience (4)
It is characteristic of a humble soul always to do good and to think
little of itself. It is a mark of great purity and deep faith to look
for no consolation in created things. The man who desires no
justification from without has clearly entrusted himself to God: “For
not he who commendeth himself is approved,” says St. Paul, “but he
whom God commendeth.” (2 Cor. 10:18.)
To walk with God interiorly, to be free from any external
affection--this is the state of the inward man.
--Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Book 2, Chapter 6
<<>><<>><<>>
3 May – Saint Ansfrid of Utrecht
Bishop, Count of Huy and the sword-bearer and Knight for Otto I, Holy
Roman Emperor. He became Bishop of Utrecht in 995. He appears to have
been the son or grandson of Lambert, a nobleman of the Maasgau, the
area where he later founded the Abbeys of Thorn and Heiligenberg and
to have been related to various important contemporaries including the
royal family. Born in c 940 in the Brabant region of the Netherlands
and died on 3 May 1010 in Amersfoort, Netherlands of natural causes.
Patronage – Amersfoort. He is also known as Ansfridus, Ansfried,
Ansfrido.
The principal source of information regarding Ansfrid is the De
diversitatem temporum by the Benedictine Albert of Metz, written
around 1022. Ansfrid had the same name as a paternal uncle, Ansfrid
the elder, a Count who held 15 counties. The young Ansfrid studied
secular and clerical subjects under another paternal uncle, Robert,
Archbishop of Trier, before attending the Cathedral school at Cologne.
In 961, Otto I took Ansfrid into his personal service and made him his
swordbearer. When Otto was in Rome the following year to be crowned
Holy Roman Emperor, he directed Ansfrid to keep close at hand ,with
the sword as a precaution against any unforeseen eventualities.
Because of his Christian commitment, he was highly respected and an
important Knight of the Emperor’s circle, holding rich possessions
along the Meuse, in Brabant and Gelderland. Possibly all or some of
his counties were inherited from his paternal uncle of the same name.
As Count, he had considerable success in suppressing piracy and armed
robbery. In 985, Otto III granted Ansfrid the right to mint coins at
Medemblik, on the north-south shipping route through the Vlie, as well
as, the income from tolls and tax collecting.
He was married to Heresuint or Hilsondis. They had one child,
Benedicta. He founded a Romanesque Abbey Church on his wife’s estate
at Thorn under the patronage of St Michael. The Abbey itself had a
double cloister that housed both man and women religious. Ansfrid
planned it as a place of retirement for himself and his family after
he left public service. His wife was to be the first Abbess but she
died on her way there and Benedicta, their daughter, took her place.
After his wife’s death, Ansfrid desired to retire and become a Monk.
However, in 995, Emperor Otto III and Bishop Notker of Liège persuaded
the reluctant Ansfrid to assume the then vacant See of Utrecht.
Ansfrid objected that as he had borne weapons as a Knight, he was
unworthy of the office but the Emperor prevailed. The elderly Count
laid down his sword on the Altar of St Mary in Aachen and was Ordained
Priest and Consecrated as the 18th Bishop of Utrecht, in the same
ceremony. Bishop Ansfrid never took a commission in the royal army, in
contrast to Notker and the Bishop of Cologne.
In 1006 Bishop Ansfrid founded the Abbey of Heiligenberg, also under
the patronage of St Michael. Toward the end of his life he became
increasingly weakened through fasting and retired there as a Monk,
caring for the sick, although almost blind himself.
Upon his death, during the funeral, the faithful of Heiligenberg took
possession of his body, while the people of Utrecht were extinguishing
a not coincidental fire. The Abbess of Thorn mediated and Ansfrid was
buried in the Cathedral of Saint Martin in Utrecht.
https://anastpaul.com/2021/05/03/
“Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you
still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? …” -John 14:9
REFLECTION – “In the Church, I know of only one image, that is, the
image of the unseen God. God has said about this image, “Let us make
man [humankind] in our image.” Of this image it is written that Christ
is the “effulgence of the glory and impress of His hypostasis.” In
that image, I perceive the Father, as the Lord Jesus Himself has said,
“The one who has seen me has seen the Father.” For this image is not
separated from the Father, which indeed, has taught me the unity of
the Trinity, saying, “I and the Father are one” and again, “All things
whatever the Father has are mine.” [In this image, also perceive] the
Holy Spirit, seeing that the Spirit is Christ’s and has received of
Christ, as it is written, “He shall receive of mine and shall announce
it to you.”
– St Ambrose (340-397)(Sermon Against Auxentius, 32)
Saint Quote:
My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for
accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give
ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his
work by our shortcomings
--St. Isaac Jogues
Bible Quote:
Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same charity,
being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment. Let nothing be done
through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each
esteem others better than themselves: Each one not considering the
things that are his own, but those that are other men's. [Philippians
2:2-4] DRB
<><><><>
Prayer--Goffine's Devout Instructions
How lovely, O God, are Thy tabernacles! My soul longeth and fainteth
for Thy courts, O living God, Who art the crown and reward of the
saints, and repayest their sufferings and sorrows in this world with
eternal joy. How blessed are all they who, in this life, have served
Thee faithfully! They behold Thee and the Lamb of God face to face;
they bear Thy name on their foreheads, and reign with Thee forever. We
therefore beseech Thee, O God, through their intercessor, to grant us
Thy grace to serve Thee after their example, in sanctity and justice;
to follow them in poverty, humility, meekness, repentance, in ardent
longing for all virtues, in peace-making and patience, and one day,
like them, to share in the joys of heaven. Amen.
It is characteristic of a humble soul always to do good and to think
little of itself. It is a mark of great purity and deep faith to look
for no consolation in created things. The man who desires no
justification from without has clearly entrusted himself to God: “For
not he who commendeth himself is approved,” says St. Paul, “but he
whom God commendeth.” (2 Cor. 10:18.)
To walk with God interiorly, to be free from any external
affection--this is the state of the inward man.
--Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Book 2, Chapter 6
<<>><<>><<>>
3 May – Saint Ansfrid of Utrecht
Bishop, Count of Huy and the sword-bearer and Knight for Otto I, Holy
Roman Emperor. He became Bishop of Utrecht in 995. He appears to have
been the son or grandson of Lambert, a nobleman of the Maasgau, the
area where he later founded the Abbeys of Thorn and Heiligenberg and
to have been related to various important contemporaries including the
royal family. Born in c 940 in the Brabant region of the Netherlands
and died on 3 May 1010 in Amersfoort, Netherlands of natural causes.
Patronage – Amersfoort. He is also known as Ansfridus, Ansfried,
Ansfrido.
The principal source of information regarding Ansfrid is the De
diversitatem temporum by the Benedictine Albert of Metz, written
around 1022. Ansfrid had the same name as a paternal uncle, Ansfrid
the elder, a Count who held 15 counties. The young Ansfrid studied
secular and clerical subjects under another paternal uncle, Robert,
Archbishop of Trier, before attending the Cathedral school at Cologne.
In 961, Otto I took Ansfrid into his personal service and made him his
swordbearer. When Otto was in Rome the following year to be crowned
Holy Roman Emperor, he directed Ansfrid to keep close at hand ,with
the sword as a precaution against any unforeseen eventualities.
Because of his Christian commitment, he was highly respected and an
important Knight of the Emperor’s circle, holding rich possessions
along the Meuse, in Brabant and Gelderland. Possibly all or some of
his counties were inherited from his paternal uncle of the same name.
As Count, he had considerable success in suppressing piracy and armed
robbery. In 985, Otto III granted Ansfrid the right to mint coins at
Medemblik, on the north-south shipping route through the Vlie, as well
as, the income from tolls and tax collecting.
He was married to Heresuint or Hilsondis. They had one child,
Benedicta. He founded a Romanesque Abbey Church on his wife’s estate
at Thorn under the patronage of St Michael. The Abbey itself had a
double cloister that housed both man and women religious. Ansfrid
planned it as a place of retirement for himself and his family after
he left public service. His wife was to be the first Abbess but she
died on her way there and Benedicta, their daughter, took her place.
After his wife’s death, Ansfrid desired to retire and become a Monk.
However, in 995, Emperor Otto III and Bishop Notker of Liège persuaded
the reluctant Ansfrid to assume the then vacant See of Utrecht.
Ansfrid objected that as he had borne weapons as a Knight, he was
unworthy of the office but the Emperor prevailed. The elderly Count
laid down his sword on the Altar of St Mary in Aachen and was Ordained
Priest and Consecrated as the 18th Bishop of Utrecht, in the same
ceremony. Bishop Ansfrid never took a commission in the royal army, in
contrast to Notker and the Bishop of Cologne.
In 1006 Bishop Ansfrid founded the Abbey of Heiligenberg, also under
the patronage of St Michael. Toward the end of his life he became
increasingly weakened through fasting and retired there as a Monk,
caring for the sick, although almost blind himself.
Upon his death, during the funeral, the faithful of Heiligenberg took
possession of his body, while the people of Utrecht were extinguishing
a not coincidental fire. The Abbess of Thorn mediated and Ansfrid was
buried in the Cathedral of Saint Martin in Utrecht.
https://anastpaul.com/2021/05/03/
“Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you
still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? …” -John 14:9
REFLECTION – “In the Church, I know of only one image, that is, the
image of the unseen God. God has said about this image, “Let us make
man [humankind] in our image.” Of this image it is written that Christ
is the “effulgence of the glory and impress of His hypostasis.” In
that image, I perceive the Father, as the Lord Jesus Himself has said,
“The one who has seen me has seen the Father.” For this image is not
separated from the Father, which indeed, has taught me the unity of
the Trinity, saying, “I and the Father are one” and again, “All things
whatever the Father has are mine.” [In this image, also perceive] the
Holy Spirit, seeing that the Spirit is Christ’s and has received of
Christ, as it is written, “He shall receive of mine and shall announce
it to you.”
– St Ambrose (340-397)(Sermon Against Auxentius, 32)
Saint Quote:
My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for
accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give
ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his
work by our shortcomings
--St. Isaac Jogues
Bible Quote:
Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same charity,
being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment. Let nothing be done
through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each
esteem others better than themselves: Each one not considering the
things that are his own, but those that are other men's. [Philippians
2:2-4] DRB
<><><><>
Prayer--Goffine's Devout Instructions
How lovely, O God, are Thy tabernacles! My soul longeth and fainteth
for Thy courts, O living God, Who art the crown and reward of the
saints, and repayest their sufferings and sorrows in this world with
eternal joy. How blessed are all they who, in this life, have served
Thee faithfully! They behold Thee and the Lamb of God face to face;
they bear Thy name on their foreheads, and reign with Thee forever. We
therefore beseech Thee, O God, through their intercessor, to grant us
Thy grace to serve Thee after their example, in sanctity and justice;
to follow them in poverty, humility, meekness, repentance, in ardent
longing for all virtues, in peace-making and patience, and one day,
like them, to share in the joys of heaven. Amen.
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