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Does anyone know where I can get an email about the Saint who’s feast day we are celebrating? Like a Saint-of-the-day e-mail or something.

I’d like to add this to family prayer time.

Thanks.
 
mark_a said:
Does anyone know where I can get an email about the Saint who’s feast day we are celebrating? Like a Saint-of-the-day e-mail or something.

I’d like to add this to family prayer time.

Thanks.
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If you weant a daily e-mail which delivers the Celtic and Old English Saints of the Day, up until circa 1100, subcribe to

groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints
Today (24 January) is the commemoration of St. Manchan of Lemonaghan
See groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints/message/2181
 
From Paramedicgirl’s link we can read this beautiful commentary on today’s Saint Francis de Sales … a Doctor of the Church whose wriltings have been referred to many times in this forum.
He practiced his own axiom, “A spoonful of honey attracts more flies than a barrelful of vinegar.”
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Francis tells us: “The person who possesses Christian meekness is affectionate and tender towards everyone: he is disposed to forgive and excuse the frailties of others; the goodness of his heart appears in a sweet affability that influences his words and actions, presents every object to his view in the most charitable and pleasing light.”
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And these insights into his character from the encyclical of Pope Pius XI:
He was in the habit, too, of reproaching with evangelical frankness the vices of the people and of unmasking the hypocrisy which tried to simulate virtue and piety. Although he was more respectful than possibly anyone else toward his sovereigns, he never for an instant stooped to flatter their passions or to bow down before their haughty pretensions.
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  1. One would err, however, if he imagined that such a character as St. Francis de Sales possessed was a gift of nature, bestowed on him by the grace of God “with the blessing of meekness,” as we so often read to have been the case of other blessed souls. On the contrary, Francis naturally was hot tempered and easily aroused to anger. Since he had vowed to take as his model Jesus Who has said, “Learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart” so, by means of constant watchfulness over himself and of violence to his own will, he succeeded in learning how to curb and to control to such an extent the promptings of nature that he became a living likeness of the God of Peace and Meekness.
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This fact is proven amply by the testimony of the physicians who prepared his body for burial for when, as we read, they embalmed the body, they found his bile turned into stone which had been broken up into the smallest imaginable particles. They knew from this strange occurrence what terrible efforts it must have cost our Saint, over a period of** fifty years**, to conquer his naturally irritable temper.
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St. Francis de Sales, pray for us who honor you on your feast day, now and forever. Amen!
 
mark_a said:
Does anyone know where I can get an email about the Saint who’s feast day we are celebrating? Like a Saint-of-the-day e-mail or something.

I’d like to add this to family prayer time.

Thanks.
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I really like this blog from a fellow CAF poster.
mortuummundo.blogspot.com/

It’s not quite an E-mail but it’s easy to click on.
 
Joysong said:
From Paramedicgirl’s link we can read this beautiful commentary on today’s Saint Francis de Sales … a Doctor of the Church whose wriltings have been referred to many times in this forum.
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  	 				He practiced his own axiom, “A spoonful of honey attracts more flies than a barrelful of vinegar.”
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Wow, these are somethings that you should be reflecting on, huh?

Especially this…" They knew from this strange occurrence what terrible efforts it must have cost our Saint, over a period of** fifty years**, to conquer his naturally irritable temper. "

Bet you have not a single stone!!! ;)😉
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Thank you, my old comrade,

I noted how many times you and the quartet honored me by stating that my posts were full of sugar. That tells me I’m on the right track, without a need to advert to Bombayist tactics to get my point across. :cool:

And concluding your nastiness with double wink does not mask the meaning of your post as innocent jest.
 
And concluding your nastiness with double wink does not mask the meaning of your post as innocent jest.
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and using your “sweetness” does not mask the nastiness that is directed at certain posters!
 
Marian Carroll:
Those who continue to carry over grievances, thread after thread, high five each other when a good “barb” is thrown, etc. need to leave the thread
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Mark a,

Apparently these people believe they are free to hijack other threads. My deep apologies.

Let’s get back to a fruitful discussion and leave the barbs for the T.C. forum
 
Joysong said:
Mark a,

Apparently these people believe they are free to hijack other threads. My deep apologies.

Let’s get back to a fruitful discussion and leave the barbs for the T.C. forum
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Joy…
I do believe that post you quoted from is from another thread…thank you for copying and pasting it into this one;)
Yes lets leave the barbs, “sweetness”, grievances from other threads and all else at the door!🙂
 
Joysong said:
Mark a,

Apparently these people believe they are free to hijack other threads. My deep apologies.

Let’s get back to a fruitful discussion and leave the barbs for the T.C. forum
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Mark asked for E-mail Saint of the Day and you lifted from a blog to backhandedly insult the blogger.

Let’s be really honest here. How about a truce for the sake of the poster here. We need an e-mail for Mark.

Mark, here is a Homily of the day by email.
catholicexchange.com/church_today/message.asp?sec_id=3&message_id
Maybe if you hunt around the site, you can find a Saint of the Day too!
 
Karin said:
and using your “sweetness” does not mask the nastiness that is directed at certain posters!
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It’s too bad that Joysong used my link to the Saint of the Day to attempt to mask an insult towards me. Very childish, indeed. And the reference to Dr. Bombay was for what??

Sugar coated insults are not what St. Frances de Sales was recommending when he made that now famous statement.

There’s also another saying, Forgive and Forget. Not sure who said it first, but they are

Words to live by…
 
I merely quoted your link, to let others see the beautiful reference posted there on today’s saint, which happens to be one of my very favorites. If you were a regular in Spirituality, you would know how many times I have referred others to his works. The other link was on that I saw on CCF and thought it was worth repeating here for the benefit of those who do not know of him.

Your rash judgment is appalling, for you do not know my motivation whatsoever!

Three down, one to go … (quartet about to fulfill its mission – High five!)
 
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