Subj : August 4th - Saint Lua of Limerick To : All From : rich Date : Mon Aug 03 2020 10:27:25 From: rich August 4th - Saint Lua of Limerick (also known as Molua, Luanus, Lugid, Lughaidh) Memorial 4 August 25 June (Scotland) d. 608 Lua was the son of Carthach, of the Hy Fidhgente of Limerick county, and his mother came from Ossory. When a lad he was employed as a herdboy till, as his late vita tells us, having distinguished himself by miracles, he was sent to be a monk under St. Comgall at Bangor. He was ordained priest and in time sent by his abbot to establish monasteries elsewhere. The most important of them was at Clonfertmulloe, now called Kyle, in the Slievebloom mountains between Leix and Offaly, which had a very large community. He is said to have gone to Rome (=E2=80=9CUnless I see Rome I shall soon die=E2=80=9D), and ta= ken the opportunity to submit to Pope St. Gregory the Great the rule he had drawn up for his monasteries; it was, like all Celtic monastic rules, extremely arduous and the pope said of it that, =E2=80=9CThe holy man who d= rew up this rule has laid a hedge round his family which reaches to Heaven=E2=80=9D. St. Lua's Well St. Lua is one of the patron saints of Ardagh, there is a well dedicated to him in his honour. It has been said that in older times people used to wash their clothes at this well. A woman washed clothes in the well and it dried up for three years. The parish priest of Ardagh brought the water back there again. White thorn trees grow longside the well, the water remained fresh there for many years. It has been said that years ago that St. Patrick when passing through Ardagh had put a curse on the well, and who ever would drink from the well would die. St. Lua changed the curse and to this day people visit the well on his feast day on the 4th of August. =C2 On his death-bed St. Lua addressed his monks and said, =E2=80=9CDeare= st brethren, cultivate your land industriously, that you may have a sufficiency of food, drink and clothing; for where there is sufficient, there is stability; where is stability, there is true religion; and the end of true religion is life everlasting=E2=80=9D: =E2=80= =9CRerum Novarum=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9C Quadragesimo anno=E2=80=9D in a nut-shell. L= ua, we are told, never killed any living thing, and when he died the birds wept. There is some confusion between this Lua and other saints of the same name. Killaloe (Cill da Lua) may get its name from this Lua or from another who was called =E2=80=9Cthe Leper=E2=80=9D, or they may both be the= same person. There are three Latin recensions of the Life of St. Lua; one has been printed in the Acta Sanctorum, August, vol. i; another in De Smedt'= s edition of the Codex Salmanticensis, and the third by C. Plummer in VSH., vol. ii, pp. 206-225. A. P. Forbes in KSS. (pp. 409-411) repudiates any identity between St. Moloc (June 25) and St. Lua. <><><> Troparion of St. Lugid Tone 4 Renowned for thy virtuous life/ and thy zeal as a founder of monasteries,/ pray O Father Lugid, that God will raise up monastics in our day/ to instruct and guide the faithful in their struggles/ that many souls may be saved. Quote: Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God. --Thomas =C3 Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ Bible Quote: You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.=C2 (John 15:16)=C2 DRB <><><><> I love You, O my God I love You, O my God. My only desire is to love You, until the last breath of my life. I love You, O infinitely loveable God and I prefer to die loving You, rather than to live for an instant without You. I love You, O my God and I desire only to go to heaven, to have the happiness of loving You perfectly. I love You, O my God and my only fear is to go to hell because one will never have the sweet solace of loving You there. O my God, if my tongue cannot say at all times that I love You, at least I want my heart to repeat it to You as many times as I breathe. Ah! Do me the grace: to suffer while loving You, to love You while suffering. And, that when I die: I not only will love You but experience it in my heart. I beg You that the closer I come to my final end, You will increase and perfect my love for You. Amen --St John Vianney (1786-1859) --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .