Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?July_7th_=E2=80=93_St=2E_Maolruain_of_Tallaght?= To : All From : rich Date : Fri Jul 06 2018 10:12:54 From: rich July 7th =E2=80=93 St. Maolruain of Tallaght (also known as Maelruain) Died 792. "Labor in piety is the most excellent work of all. The kingdom of heaven in granted to him who directs study, him who studies, and him who supports the student." --Saint Maolruain. Saint Maolruain was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Tallaght in County Wicklow, Ireland, on land donated by King Cellach mac Dunchada of Leinster in 774. Tallaght Abbey became the mother house of the Culdee movement, which Maolruain co-founded with Saint Oengus. The Culdee movement, intended to regularize the rules of Irish monasticism according to traditional ascetical practices, was codified in several of the saint's writings: The teaching of Maelruain, Rule of the Celi-D=C3=A9, and The monastery of Tallaght. These promoted both for both the ascetic and the intellectual life, promoted community prayer with repetitions of the Psalter and genuflections, insisted upon stability and enclosure, and called for clerical and monastic celibacy. In typical Irish fashion, the Culdee movement was marked by extremism. Women were discussed as "men's guardian devils." Ascetic practices included total abstinence from alcohol. Sundays were observed like the Jewish sabbath. Vigils in cold water or with the arms extended in cruciform and self-flagellation were recommended. Fortunately or not, the movement failed because it lacked all constitutional means of making the reform permanent, although it called for tithes from the laity to support it. Like other Irish reformers, Maolruain emphasized spiritual direction and confession of sins by establishing rules for both. Tallaght's devotional life was marked by special veneration of both its patrons: the Blessed Virgin and Saint Michael the Archangel. Intellectual and manual work were integral to life at Tallaght. There are, Maolruain wrote, "three profitable things in the day: prayer, labor, and study, or it may be teaching or writing or sewing clothes or any profitable work that a monk may do, so that none may be idle." Maolruain, with Oengus, was also the compiler of the Martyrology named after that place. The movement led to the production of the Stowe Missal, formerly enshrined, which is a unique record of early Irish liturgical practices. A church was built in 1829 on the medieval remains of Maolruain's abbey. The locals maintained a long-standing custom of processing house-to-house, dancing jigs and drinking, on his feast, until it was suppressed by the Dominicans in 1856 (Benedictines, Farmer, Montague). Saint Quote: Christ made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve. --Saint Agnes of Rome Bible quote: Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, [till] wine inflameth them! (Isa 5:11) <><><><> Salutatio ad Dominum Iesum Christum (Salutation to the Lord Jesus Christ), a prayer to the Body and Blood of Christ. Body of Christ, Hail! Of the holy Virgin born, Living flesh, Deity entire, true man! Hail! true salvation, strength, life, redemption of the world, May Thy right Hand free us from all evil. Blood of Christ, Hail, Heaven's most holy libation, River of salvation washing away our crimes. Hail, Blood! floweth from the Wound of Christ's Side, River of salvation, hung on the Cross, Hail! by St. Anselm, Doctor of the Church --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .