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On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Weedy wrote:
> One Goal
> We know we are traveling together. If our pace is slow, go on ahead of us. We > won't envy you but rather will seek to catch up with you. However, if you 
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> goal, and we are all anxious to reach it—some at a slow pace and others at a 
> fast pace. St. Augustine-- Sermon on a New Canticle 4, 4
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The Church at Rome in Augustine's time was a different church to what it is today. Leaders have added teachings that are not in the New Testament 
from the early Fourth century to the mid 20th Century. 

Those additions may be found on websites of 
Heresies of the Roman Catholic Church. 



    
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> Prayer. Let everyone's sighs be uttered in longing for Christ. He should be the object of our desire since he, he all-beautiful One, loves repulsive people so that he might make them beautiful. Let us run to him and cry out for him.
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> January 9th – Sts. Julian, Martyr and Basilissa
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> Saint Julian and Saint Basilissa, though married, lived by mutual consent in perpetual chastity. They sanctified themselves by the most perfect exercises of an ascetic life, and employed their revenues in relieving the poor and the sick. For this purpose they converted their house into a kind of hospital, in which they sheltered up to a thousand poor people. Basilissa attended the women in separate lodgings, and Julian, who for his charity is known as the Hospitaler, cared for the men.
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> Egypt, where they lived, was in those days blessed with persons who, either in the cities or in the deserts, devoted themselves to the most perfect exercises of charity, penance, and mortification. Conversions were numerous, and persecutions by furious pagans followed as the numbers of Christians increased. Basilissa, after having survived seven of those, died in peace, foretelling to her husband that he would die a martyr. Julian lived afterwards for a number of years, but eventually received the crown of a glorious martyrdom in 313. His interrogation and his tortures were accompanied by astonishing prodigies and numerous conversions.
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> With him died thirty-one other persons, including a priest named Anthony, a new Christian named Anastasius, Celsus, the seven-year-old son of the judge who sentenced Julian, Marcianilla, the mother of Celsus, who when she came to visit her son was won over to the faith, and many other Christians. Spared by fire and wild beasts, Saint Julian finally was decapitated. His tomb became illustrious by many great miracles, including the cure of ten lepers on the same day.
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> Many churches and hospitals, in both the East and in the West, bear the name of one or another of these martyrs. Four churches at Rome and three in Paris are dedicated to Saint Julian.
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> Reflection. God often rewards men for works that are pleasing in His sight by giving them grace and opportunity to do other works higher still. Such was the case for Saint Julian, whose posthumous miracles attained prodigious numbers.
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> Sources: Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on Butler’s Lives of the Saints and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894); Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 2.
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> "Sometimes, my heart becomes heavy and the task appears insoluble if I measure my own human imperfection and inadequacy against the greatness of the obligation and the weight of the responsibility. If a generation must pay the highest price, death, for its short life, we look for the answer in ourselves in vain. We find it only in Him in whose hand we are safe in life and in death. We never know what problems are waiting to test the power and strength of our souls.... Man's ways lie in obscurity. But even darkness is not without light. Hope and faith, which always hasten ahead of us, already have a presentiment of the breaking of a new dawn. If we know that the best thing in us, the soul, is immortal, then we also know that we shall meet each other again".
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> --Blessed Nikolaus Gross
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> Bible Quote:
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>  Unless you see signs and wonders, you do not believe.  (John 4:4)
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> The Most Holy Name of Jesus
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>  is our Strength insuperable.
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> "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be Saved."--Rom. x. 13:
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> (Hymn of Thomas a Kempis)
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> In Christ's dear Name with courage bear
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> Whatever ills betide;
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> For worldly good is oft a snare,
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> And fills the heart with pride.
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> What seems a loss will often prove
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> To be our truest gain;
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> And pains endured with patient love
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> A jewelled crown obtain.
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> Brief is this life, and brief its pain,
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> But long the bliss to come;
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> And trials borne for Christ attain
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> A place with martyrdom.
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> The Christian soul by patience grows
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> More perfect day by day,
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> And brighter still and brighter glows
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> With Heaven's eternal ray.