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Topic: Religions > Bible
User: "Hildi"
Date: 23 Jun 2006 10:44:09 AM
Object: Proverbs 1:28-33
Bible Verse
-- Proverbs 1:28-33 --
"Then they will call to me but I will not answer;
they will look for me but will not find me.
Since they hated knowledge
and did not choose to fear the LORD,
since they would not accept my advice
and spurned my rebuke,
they will eat the fruit of their ways
and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
but whoever listens to me will live in safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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Many proverbs point out that the "fruit of their ways" will be the consequences
people will experience in this life. Faced with either choosing God's wisdom or
persisting in rebellious independence, many decide to go it alone. The problems
such people create for themselves will destroy them. Don't ignore God's advice
even if it is painful for the present. It will keep you from greater pain in the
future.
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June 23rd - St. Etheldreda (Audrey)
(D. 679 A.D.)
St. Etheldreda became the most popular of Anglo-Saxon women saints. She
lived in the early era of the Germanic invasion of Britain. It was a rough age,
but she was an excellent illustration of how these pagan invaders, once
Christianized, could reach Christian perfection.
Etheldreda (or Aethelthryth in Anglo-Saxon) was daughter of Anna, king of
the East Angles. Her parents must have been devout Catholics (or perhaps
converts), for of their seven children, the five daughters came to be venerated
as saints: Etheldreda. Sexburga, Ethelburga, Sethrid and Withburga. Indeed,
after the king tied, their mother Hereswytha entered the convent in Paris.
Especially for a royal family that was a pretty good record, even though today's
parents are not likely to choose the names of these five sainted women for their
daughters!
Etheldreda showed an early desire to become a nun. But her father, for
dynastic reasons, wanted her to marry Tonbert, prince of the South Gyrwas, aged
16. She consented, but apparently on the understanding that they would live as
brother and sister. Tonbert died soon after, leaving his widow free to take the
veil. But now her uncle Ethelwold asked her to marry Egfrid, son of King Oswy of
Northumberland. She agreed, but on the same virginal understanding as before.
Egfrid went along, and even allowed her to become a nun for a period.
Eventually, however, he demanded that she return to him as a full-fledged
spouse. Rather than forfeit her calling, Etheldreda, though by now queen, took
flight to her property, the "Island of Ely." St. Wilfrid, Bishop of York,
defended her choice against King Egfrid.
Liberated, Queen Eltheldreda, around 672, founded at Ely a "double
monastery" (one building for nuns, one for monks). She did a good job as abbess
of both monastic houses. She lived austerely, spent her nights mostly in prayer,
and worked to promote holiness among her people. As respect for her grew, her
influence increased. Women of the highest nobility sought her counsel and
entrusted to her the education of their children. She also had the gift of
prophecy. Most notable of her prophecies was that of her own death by plague,
and the exact number of her monks and nuns who would be carried off by the same
epidemic. She died June 23, 679. When her body was disinterred 16 years later,
it was found incorrupt.
Reports of her miracles brought countless pilgrims to the shrine of the
queenly abbess. As usually happens, the shopkeepers at Ely began to sell
religious items and other souvenirs to those who visited the tomb. Now the name
of the saint had been simplified to St. Audrey. This name became popularly
applied to the souvenirs on sale at Ely: "St. Audrey stuff." From this evolved
the expression "tawdry stuff." Thus another word was added to the language:
"tawdry," meaning cheap and gaudy.
During the English Reformation, the government decreed the destruction of
all sorts of "superstitions" in England. This included the bodies of saints.
Fortunately, one hand of Audrey, incorrupt, was preserved. It is now venerated
in the Catholic parish Church of St. Etheldreda in Ely. In London there had been
a Chapel of St. Etheldreda from the 13th century on. This came into Catholic
hands in 1873, and it remains the only pre-Reformation church building in London
used for Catholic worship.
It was no fault of St. Audrey that her name should have been attached to
cheap and gaudy ornaments. There was nothing personally cheap or gaudy about
this queenly and gifted Anglo-Saxon nun. She was a genuine jewel!
This Version Taken From:
http://www.stthomasirondequoit.com/SaintsAlive/
Quote
We therefore grossly deceive ourselves in not allotting more time to the study
of divine truths. It is not enough barely to believe them, and let our thoughts
now and then glance upon them: that knowledge which shows us heaven, will not
bring us to the possession of it, and will deserve punishments, not rewards, if
it remain slight, weak, and superficial. By serious and frequent meditation it
must be concocted, digested, and turned into the nourishment of our affections,
before it can be powerful and operative enough to change them, and produce the
necessary fruit in our lives. For this all the saints affected solitude and
retreats from the noise and hurry of the world, as much as their circumstances
allowed them.
-St. Apollinaris
Bible Quote
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself
in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and
ground of the truth. (1 Tim 3:15)
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Prayer to Invite the Blessed Virgin Mary
to be Present at our Death
Most Holy Virgin Mary, by the love and fidelity with which thy Divine
Son, when fastened to the Cross, confided thee to Saint John, I confide to
thee my soul, my body, my thoughts, words, actions and life, especially the
end thereof--that moment which will decide my fate for eternity.
As thou didst invite thy Son to thy most holy death, so I also invite
thee to mine, entreating thee to be present there-at, in the name of the
love with which thou didst assist at the death of thy Jesus. By the tears
thou didst shed at seeing Him incline His head and expire in such torments,
vouchsafe in thy maternal bounty, to watch beside me and the members of my
family, and leave us not until thou hast introduced us into paradise.
Amen.
Taken from: The Precious Blood & Mother PrayerBook
(pp 81-82)
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