Subj : September 3rd - St. Remaclus
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From : rich
Date : Sat Sep 02 2017 10:03:02

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

September 3rd - St. Remaclus, Bishop of Maestricht, Confessor

THIS holy pastor, who was a native of Aquitain, leaving the court of
king Clotaire, passed some time in the study of the holy scriptures
under St. Sulpitius of Bourges, and was appointed by St. Eligius first
abbot of the monastery and seminary which he founded at Solignac, two
leagues from Limoges, in the year 631. Our saint was afterwards
obliged to take upon him the government of the abbey of Cougnon, in
the duchy of Luxemburg; but was soon after called to the court of king
Sigebert, who, in 645, had succeeded his father, Dagobert I. in
Australia, leaving all the rest of France to his younger brother,
Clovis II. Both these brothers were religious, and their reigns
peaceable. Sigebert made use of the advice of St. Remaclus in founding
the royal abbey of Stabuletum, now called Stavelo, in the Ardennes, in
the bishopric of Maestricht and duchy of Limburg. The same prince
founded the abbey of Malmandurium, now called Malmedi, also in the
forest of Ardenne. The direction of both these foundations was
committed to St. Remaclus, till upon the resignation of St. Armand, in
650, he was chosen bishop of Maestricht, [1] in which charge he
laboured with great humility and zeal in preaching to his flock, and
relieving the poor.

Sighing under the weight of exterior employs, and fearing he should,
amidst them, forget himself, he procured the consent of his clergy and
of king Childeric II. to resign his see to St. Theodard, and to retire
to Stavelo, which design he carried into execution in 662. The
reputation of his sanctity moved many noblemen and others to embrace a
penitential monastic state under his direction in that house. Remaclus
walked before them in the narrow paths of true Christian perfection,
encouraging them, both by words and example, to fervour in all
religious exercises. He remitted nothing in his austerities on account
of his old age, but rather strove continually to redouble his pace as
he drew nearer to the end of his course, lest, by sloth in the end, he
should forfeit his crown. In his last moments he strongly exhorted his
religious brethren to the love and practice of perfect self-denial,
obedience, holy poverty, patience in painful employments and labours,
assiduity in holy meditation and prayer, the most profound humility,
and constant peace and union. He died about the year 664, and was
buried at Stavelo. His body is still preserved there, and the church,
when rebuilt by St. Poppo in 1040, was dedicated to God under the
patronage of St. Remaclus. One arm was given to the abbey of Solignac,
in 1268; and some small portions of his relics to the churches of
Paterborn and Bamberg.

See his life, compiled by a monk of Stavelo, about the year 850,
extant in Mabillon. (Act. Bened. p. 494.) A second life, wrote in the
following century by Heriger, abbot of Laubs; and The Triumph of St.
Remaclus, in two books, compiled by Geoffrey, prior of Stevelo, in
1070, with an account of many miracles; also a MS. life of this saint,
wrote by Thietmar, abbot of Gemblours, in 1100. See likewise Le
Cointe, Annales Eccl. Franc. ad. ann, 662, Mir=C3=A6us, Fleury, l. 38, n.
58.

Note 1. See Thomassin, Diss. Eccles. part 2, l. 2, c. 52.


Saint Quote:
Conquering the tongue is better than fasting on bread and water!!
--St. John of the Cross

Bible Quote:
I remind you to stir into flame the gift of God that you have through
the imposition of
my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of
power and love
and self-control. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord,
nor of me, a
prisoner for his sake; but bear your share of the hardship for the
gospel with the
strength that comes from God. =E2=80=94 St. Paul in his second letter to
Timothy (2 Tim 1:6-8)


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The beginning of a new life 

The knowledge that Christ is the passover lamb who was sacrificed for
us should make us regard the moment of his immolation as the beginning
of our own lives. As far as we are concerned, Christ's immolation on
our behalf takes place when we become aware of his grace and
understand the life conferred on us by this sacrifice. Having once
understood it, we should enter upon this new life with all eagerness
and never return to the old one, which is now at an end. As scripture
says: We have died to sin=E2=80=94how then can we continue to live in it?
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