Subj : June 3rd - St. Genesius, Bishop and Confessor
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From : rich
Date : Tue Jun 02 2020 09:48:35

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

June 3rd - St. Genesius, Bishop and Confessor

FROM his infancy he was a model of innocence and piety, and despising
in his youth the honours which great riches and high birth insured to
him in the world, he chose to serve God in the lowest rank among the
clergy of the diocese of Auvergne, in which province his family was
one of the most distinguished. Against his inclinations he was
promoted to the dignity of archdeacon, in which his example was to the
clergy under his care, a spur to the perfect spirit and practice of
all Christian virtues. Austere to himself he treated his own body as
an enemy, to prevent its rebelling against the spirit. His charity to
the poor seemed to have no bounds. The respect with which he performed
the sacred functions, inspired all the assistants with awe and
devotion.

God usually employs the ministry of saints to form others to perfect
sanctity. The holy archdeacon was the instrument which he made use of
to sow by his grace the seeds of virtue in the heart of St. Prix of
Clermont, whose education was intrusted by his parents to the care of
St. Genesius. But the master preceded him in the episcopal chair of
Auvergne or of Clermont, to which St. Genesius was promoted upon the
death of Proculus in 656, and he was ordained by compulsion by the
bishops of the province. He extirpated the seeds of the Novatian
heresy and of that of Jovinian; spared nothing to make chastity,
charity, and all virtues flourish in his flock, and to furnish
perpetual examples of the perfect evangelical spirit, he founded the
great abbey of Manlieu, in Latin Magnus Locus, now of the Order of St.
Bennet, in a borough of the same name.

He founded a great hospital at Clermont, and died about the year 662.
He was buried in the church which he had built under the title of St.
Symphorian, the martyr of Autun, though it long since bears the name
of St. Genesius. In the diocese of Clermont, and in the Gallican
Martyrologies he is honoured on the 3rd of June.

See his life in John Savaron, in Origen. Claromont. et de SS.
Ecclesiis Monast. Claromont; also Branche, in Vies des SS. d'Auverg=
ne,
Gallia Christ. Nova, &c.


Saint Quote:
Labor without stopping; do all the good works you can while you still
have the time.
--Saint John of God

Bible Quote:
=C2 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is
near.=C2  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his
thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on
him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive. For my thoughts
are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.=C2  For as
the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above
your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts. [Isa 55:6-9 ] DRB


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PRAYER IN TIME OF ILLNESS

=C2  =C2  Lord Jesus, you came into the world
=C2  =C2  to heal our infirmities
=C2  =C2  and to endure our sufferings.
=C2  =C2  You went about healing all
=C2  =C2  and bringing comfort
=C2  =C2  to those in pain and need.
=C2  =C2  We come before you now
=C2  =C2  in this time of illness
=C2  =C2  asking that you may be the source
=C2  =C2  of our strength in body,
=C2  =C2  courage in spirit
=C2  =C2  and patience in pain.
=C2  =C2  May we join ourselves more closely
=C2  =C2  to you on the cross
=C2  =C2  and in your suffering
=C2  =C2  that through them
=C2  =C2  we may draw our patience and hope.
=C2  =C2  Assist us and restore us to health
=C2  =C2  so that united more closely
=C2  =C2  to your family, the Church,
=C2  =C2  we may give praise and honour to your name.
=C2  =C2  Amen.

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