Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?June_8th_=E2=80=93_St=2E_Melania_the_Elder?= To : All From : rich Date : Sun Jun 07 2020 09:12:05 From: rich June 8th =E2=80=93 St. Melania the Elder (Christian religious leader, religious community founder Melania is known as "the Elder" to distinguish her from her granddaughter who is known as Melania the Younger. Melania was born in Spain and, married at fourteen, moved with her husband to the suburbs of Rome.=C2 She was widowed at 22: the same illness that took her husband also took two of her sons and left her with one living son, with whom she moved to Rome. There, she became a Christian and, when her son was ten, placed him with a guardian and set off for Alexandria where she joined other Christian desert ascetics.=C2 She began to associate with monks of the Arian party--those who believed that God the Son, Christ, had been created after God the Father.=C2 When the Arians were banished from Egypt, she left with them. After some adventures, Melania came to Jerusalem, where she founded a monastery. Rufinus, a scholar she'd met in Alexandria, joined her there. Jerome and Paula were among those who stayed at the monastery of Melania and Rufinus. Rufinus was a scholar of the third century theologian Origen, and Melania also studied the writings of Origen, many of which Rufinus translated from Greek to Latin. Origen's writings questioned the doctrine of eternal damnation and doctrines of bodily resurrection. When Origen's teachings were condemned, Rufinus refused to renounce them, and so Jerome also condemned Rufinus. While Melania's association with Rufinus tarnished her own religious reputation, she was not herself condemned--but because of her association with heresy, even those Christian writers who knew of her omitted her from their historical accounts or the church's history. Melania founded more monasteries and promoted theological tolerance and the unity of Christianity. On a visit to Rome to see her son, she also influenced his daughter, Melania. Known as Melania the Younger, she too took up a religious calling. Melania the Elder visited Bishop Augustine of Hippo on her return to Palestine about 404 CE.=C2 She died in Jerusalem about 410. Saint Quote: No one's body is polluted so as to endanger the soul if it has not pleased the mind. If you were to lift my hand to your idol and so make me offer against my will, I would still be guiltless in the sight of the true God, who judges according to the will and knows all things. If now, against my will, you cause me to be polluted, a twofold purity will be gloriously imputed to me. You cannot bend my will to your purpose; whatever you do to my body, that cannot happen to me. -- Saint Lucy of Syracuse Bible Quote: Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit. And there are diversities of operations, but the same God, who worketh all in all. And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit.=C2 [1 Cor 12:4-7] (DRB) <><><><> O Heart of Jesus, All Love By St John Henry Newman (1801-1890) O Heart of Jesus all love, I offer You these humble prayers for myself and for all those, who unite themselves with me in spirit to adore You. O holiest Heart of Jesus most lovely, I intend to renew and to offer to You, these acts of adoration and these prayers, for myself, a wretched sinner and for all those, who are associated with me in Your adoration, through all moments which I breath, even to the end of my life. I recommend to You, O my Jesus, Holy Church, Your dear spouse and our true Mother, all just souls and all poor sinners, the afflicted, the dying and all mankind. Let not Your Blood be shed for them in vain. Finally, deign to apply it in relief of the souls in Purgatory and of these in particular Amen --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .