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User: "Trudie"
Date: 21 Jan 2008 10:27:59 AM
Object: - Romans 10:9-15 -
- Romans 10:9-15 -
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in
your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is
with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your
mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone who
trusts in him will never be put to shame." For there is no difference
between Jew and Gentile - the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses
all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will
be saved."
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how
can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they
hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they
are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring
good news!"
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We must take God's great message of salvation to others so that they can
respond to the Good News. How will your loved ones and neighbors hear it
unless someone tells them? Is God calling you to take a part in making his
message known in your community? Think of one person who needs to hear the
Good News, and think of something you can do to help him or her hear it.
Then take that step as soon as possible.
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January 21st - St. Meinrad, OSB Hermit
(Also known as Maynard, Meginrat)
Born at Solgen (Sulichgau near Wurtemberg), Swabia; died at Einsiedeln,
Switzerland, c. 861-63. The abbey of Saint Meinrad at Einsiedeln near Lake
Zurich takes its name from this saint. It's interesting that several sources
(who may have copied from each other or another single source) say that
Saint Meinrad was born of the noble Hohenzollern family. Farmer reports that
his parents were free peasants. In either case, he was educated, professed,
and ordained at the abbey of Reichenau, Switzerland. He had some teaching
assignment near the upper lake of Zurich. Meinrad's soul, however, longed
for solitude, and to devote itself to contemplation. He looked for and found
the perfect place in a forest. With the permission of his superiors, about
829, Meinrad went to live as a hermit at the place. Like many hermits before
him, Meinrad practiced austerity. Word of his holiness spread and attracted
many visitors. So many that he found it necessary to move to a remoter spot,
where the abbey was built 40 years after his death.
On January 21, 861, courteously received two visitors, whom he fed and
provided shelter although he knew them to be ruffians. They were robbers who
murdered Meinrad with clubs upon finding he had no tangible treasure.
Because Meinrad was a holy man, he was regarded as a martyr. The thieves
were found, judged, and executed. Meinrad's body was enshrined at Reichenau,
where it was venerated.
Beginning about 900 with Blessed Benno, a succession of solitaries occupied
his hermitage (which is what the name 'Einseideln' means), and eventually,
in the 10th century, a regular Benedictine monastery was established there.
It became a great monastery and pilgrimage center that has an unbroken
history of over 1,000 years. The statue of the Blessed Virgin in the huge
church is said to have belonged to Meinrad himself. He is the patron of
Einsiedeln (Switzerland) and Swabia (Germany) (Attwater, Attwater2,
Benedictines, Coulson, Encyclopedia, Farmer, Walsh).
In art Saint Meinrad is generally grouped with Saint Benedict, holding a
club and ciborium. Sometimes he may be pictured (1) beaten to death with
clubs by two men; (2) as a monk with a tau staff going into the wilderness;
(3) with two ravens near him, or pursuing his murderers; or (4) eating fish
with a widow (Roeder).
Saint Quote:
The greater is our love of God, the more meritorious are our actions. God
does not regard the greatness of the work, but the love wherewith it is
preformed.
-St. Francis de Sales
Bible Quote
28 The mind of the just studieth obedience: the mouth of the wicked over
floweth with evils
(Proverbs 15:28)
Today is also the feast of St. Agnes. She suffered martyrdom at age
thirteen rather than surrender her virginity. She was thus beheaded in AD
304, and is laudably invoked in the Commemoration of the Canon of the Mass.
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Canticle Isaiah 45
All peoples, turn to the Lord
In truth you are a hidden God, the God and Saviour of Israel.
They were dismayed and ashamed, all the makers of idols, all of them fled in
dismay.
Israel has been saved by the Lord, saved for ever; you will not be dismayed
or ashamed, to the end of time.
For thus says the Lord, the God who made the heavens, who made the earth,
shaped it, set it firm - he did not make it to be empty, but to be full of
life - "I am the Lord, there is no other.
"I have not spoken secretly, in some dark corner of the earth. I have not
said to the children of Jacob, 'seek me in vain'. I am the Lord who speaks
justice, who proclaims uprightness.
"Gather together, come, approach me all of you who have been rescued from
the Gentiles.
They were ignorant, who raised up wooden idols and begged favours of a god
without power.
Announce it - come, ponder it together - who was saying this from the
beginning, who foretold this from the start?
Am I not the Lord? Is there any other God but me?
Do you seek a just God who will save you? There is no other.
"Turn to me and you will be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God,
there is no other.
"I have sworn by my own being, I have decreed a judgement that will not be
revoked; for every knee will bend to me, every tongue swear by my name."
"Only in the Lord," they will say, "are there justice and strength!"
All who resisted him will come to him, and be dismayed; but in the Lord all
descendants of Israel will receive justice and glory.
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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