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Topic: Religions > Bible
User: "Trudie"
Date: 16 Dec 2006 11:51:21 AM
Object: Romans 8:26-27
Bible Verse
- Romans 8:26-27 -
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know
what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with
groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the
mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in
accordance with God's will.
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Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you. You only know what I need. You
know me better than I know myself. O Father, give your child what he himself
knows not how to ask. Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.
- Archbishop Francois Fenelon
December 16th - St. Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli
Saint Eusebius was born of a noble family on the island of Sardinia, where
his father is said to have died in prison for the Faith. He was brought up
in Rome in the practice of piety, and studied in Vercelli, a city of
Piedmont. Eusebius was ordained a priest there, and served the Church of
Vercelli with such zeal that when the episcopal chair became vacant he was
unanimously chosen, by both clergy and people, to fill it.
The holy bishop saw that the best and principal means to labor effectually
for the edification and sanctification of his people was to have a zealous
clergy. Saint Ambrose assures us that he was the first bishop who in the
West united the monastic life with the clerical, living and having his
clergy live almost like the monks of the East in the deserts. They shared a
common life of prayer and penance, in a single residence, that of the
bishop, as did the clergy of Saint Augustine in his African see. Saint
Eusebius was very careful to instruct his flock in the maxims of the Gospel.
The force of the truth which he preached, together with his example, brought
many sinners to a change of life.
When a Council was held in Italy, under the influence of the Emperor
Constans and the Arian heretics, with the intention of condemning Saint
Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, Saint Eusebius courageously resisted the
heretics. He attempted to have all present sign the Nicene Creed, but the
paper was torn out of his hands and his pen was broken. With Saint Dionysus
of Milan, he refused to sign the condemnation of the bishop of Alexandria.
The Emperor therefore had him banished to Scythopolis in Palestine with
Saint Dionysus of Milan, then to Cappadocia, where Saint Dionysus died; and
finally he was taken to the Upper Thebaid in Egypt, where he suffered
grievously. The Arians of these places loaded him with outrages and treated
him cruelly, and Saint Eusebius confounded them wherever they were.
At the death of Constans in 361, he was permitted to return to his diocese,
where he continued to combat Arianism, concertedly with Saint Hilarion of
Poitiers. He has been called a martyr in two panegyrics appended to the
works of Saint Ambrose. Two of his letters, written from his dungeons, are
still extant, the only ones of his writings which have survived. One is
addressed to his church, the other to the bishop of Elvira to encourage him
to oppose a fallen heretic and not fear the power of princes. He died in
about the year 370. His relics are in a shrine in the Cathedral of Vercelli.
Quote:
"If you wish for a method brief and compendious, one which contains in
itself all other methods and is most efficacious in conquering all
temptations and difficulties, and acquiring perfection, this is the exercise
of the presence of God"
-St. Basil
A priest who was an intimate friend of the same St. Basil suffered
many severe temptations and many grievous threats from Julian the Apostate,
but always held his ground firmly against them. He himself assigned this
reason for his victory: "It was because:" he said, "in all that time, so far
as I remember, the Divine Presence never escaped my mind"
Joseph, when solicited to evil, replied, "How shall I do this under the
eye of God?" And Susanna said, "It is better for me to fall into your hands
without fault, than to sin in the sight of God"
St. Ephrem being solicited to sin by a woman of evil life, professed
his readiness, provided the scene of their transgression should be the
public square. But when the woman objected to this condition on account of
the shame it would involve, "Then" replied the Saint, "you fear shame before
the eyes of men, and do you not fear it before the angels of God?" By this
consideration, he brought about her conversion.
When Tais learned that God beheld her in the commission of sin, she
resisted a thousand temptations and became a Saint.
(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints". January - Perfection)
Bible Quote
Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the
Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord, so is
it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. (Job 1:21)
PSALM 128
[1] Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
[2] For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and
it shall be well with thee.
[3] Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy
children like olive plants round about thy table
[4] Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
[5] The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of
Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
[6] Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
God of Abraham speaking about "Christmas" trees.
Jeremiah 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of
Israel:
2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at
the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the
forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with
hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne,
because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither
also is it in them to do good.
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