Subj : September 22nd - St. Dinooth of Bangor
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From : rich
Date : Fri Sep 21 2018 10:11:45

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

September 22nd - St. Dinooth of Bangor
(Also known as Iscoed (Dinothus, Dunawd, Dunod)

Founder and first Abbot of Bangor Iscoed (Flintshire). He flourished
between 500 and 542. He was originally a North British chieftain
driven by reverses of fortune into Wales.

In conjunction with his three sons, Deiniol, Cynwyl, and Gwarthan, and
under the patronage of Cyngen, Prince of Powys, he founded the
monastery of Bangor on the Dee, which must not be confounded with
Bangor in Carnarvonshire, founded by St. Deiniol in 514, and
afterwards a cathedral city. The community at Bangor was very
numerous, and the laus perennis was established there. The Triads say
there were 2400 monks, who in turn, 100 each hour, sang the Divine
Service day and night.

More is known of this famous monastery than of its founder. He is
mentioned by Bede (Hist. Eccl., ii. 2) in connection with the second
conference at Augustine's Oak, but no authority is given for the
statement, and there are arguments against its correctness. The
Conference was probably held in 602 or 603, at which time St. Dinooth
would have been far advanced in years, and the journey from North
Wales to the Lower Severn would have been a difficult one for an aged
man. It is true that delegates from Bangor attended the conference
which was convened by St. Augustine to raise the moral and spiritual
condition of the British clergy, to wean them from their old method of
computing Easter, to which they clung with great tenacity, and to
induce them to co-operate with him in converting the Anglo-Saxons.

The document purporting to be St. Dinooth's "Answer" (printed in
Haddan and Stubbs, Councils of Gt. Britain and Ireland, i, 122) is the
sole ground for connecting his name with this conference at
Augustine's Oak; but it is extremely doubtful whether the "Answer" has
anything to do with this conference at all. St. Augustine's name is
not mentioned in it, neither is there any allusion to the
evangelization of the English. It contains merely a firm repudiation
of papal authority and an assertion of the supremacy of "the Bishop of
Caerleon upon Usk" over the British Church. Some time before the
supposed date of the document St. David had transferred the primatial
See of Wales to Menevia.

What is more authentic, however, is the fact that in consequence of
the British delegates' refusal to agree to St. Augustine's proposals
he prophesied their destruction by the English. In 613, when the monks
of Bangor were praying for the success of their countrymen in battle
against the army of Ethelfrid of Northumbria, twelve hundred of them
were slain, being mistaken for combatants. The monastery itself was
probably burnt about sixty years later (Haddan and Stubbs, i, 125),
and extensive ruins remained for several centuries, which are
described by William of Malmesbury, Camden, and Leland.

Sources: ========
Rees, Lives of Cambro-British Saints (Llandovery, 1853).
Hole, Dictionary of Christ. Biog.
These Lives are archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints


Saint Quote:
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the
service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
-- Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen

Bible Quote:
"He who guards his mouth preserves his life, But he who opens wide his
lips shall have destruction."   (Proverbs 13:3)


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Letting Go

Dear Lord,
I give You my opinions,
which are doubtful at best.
I give You all contention,
which robs my mind of rest.

I give You my anxiety,
of what I say and do.
The fear of what they think of me!
I fix my eyes on you.

Oh make me simple and sincere
spontaneous and kind.
Help me to live each moment
leaving yesterday behind.

Please take my resentments,
unforgiveness in my soul.
And heal my memories Jesus,
I place You in control.

I want to see the good things,
the way that people try.
For who is trying harder
and failing more than I.

Lord fill me with Your presence,
make me meek and resigned.
Help me to take a "back seat",
and let other people shine.

Let me be lost in You my Lord,
that all may come and see,
the power of a love so great,
could change some one like me.
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