Subj : =?UTF-8?B?LS0gMSBUaW1vdGh5IDY6Ni04IOKAkw==?= To : All From : rich Date : Wed Jul 03 2019 09:37:04 From: rich -- 1 Timothy 6:6-8 =E2=80=93 But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out. But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.=C2 DRB = =C2 Contentment is a stranger to most of us. We spend ourselves gathering goods, scrambling after promotions, and juggling to include one more handful. Eventually, we will collapse with full hands and empty hearts. The wealthiest man, King Solomon, wrote, "Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind" (Ecclesiastes 4:6). Perhaps we would do well to listen. What could you do with one free hand? A content heart keeps a free hand. <<>><<>><<>> July 4th =E2=80=93 St. Ulric ST. ULRIC was born at Augsburg in 890, and was educated in the abbey of St. Gall. St. Wiborada, a recluse who lived near that monastery, is said to have foretold that he would one day be a bishop, and would meet with severe trials, though the young man was so delicate that others who knew him judged he could never live long. Regularity and temperance preserved a life and strengthened a constitution which the excessive tenderness of parents and care of physicians would probably have worn out: a thing which Cardinal Lugo shows by several instances to have often happened in austere religious orders. When he had made progress in his studies his father removed him to Augsburg, where he placed him under the care of his uncle St. Adalbero, bishop of that city; and in due course Ulric himself was raised to the see. The Magyars had lately pillaged the country, murdered his old friend Wiborada, plundered Augsburg, and burnt the cathedral. The new bishop, not to lose time, built for the present a small church, in which he assembled the people, who in their distress stood in extreme need of instruction, comfort, and relief, all which they found abundantly in Ulric, who devoted himself, so far as his other obligations would allow, entirely to his spiritual functions. He rose every morning at three o'clock to assist at Matins and Lauds, and only left the church after noon; then he went to the hospital, where he comforted the sick and every day washed the feet of twelve poor people, giving to each of them liberal alms. The rest of the day he employed in instructing, preaching, visiting and discharging all the duties of a vigilant pastor. He made every year the visit of his whole diocese. During his last years the saint earnestly desired to resign his bishopric and retire to the monastery of St. Gall, and with this object appointed his nephew Adalbero in his place; this was judged to be an uncanonical act, for which he had to answer before a synod at Ingelheim. In his last illness Ulric caused himself to be laid on ashes strewed on the floor in the form of a cross, and thus he died amidst the prayers of his clergy on July 4, 973. Miracles were recorded at his tomb, and he was canonized by Pope John XV in 993, the first solemn canonization by a pope of which there is record. Abundant materials are available for the life of St. Ulric. The most important is the biography by the provost Gerhard, a contemporary, printed in the Acta Sanctorum, July, vol. ii, and in MGH., Scriptores, vol. iv. There is also a life by Berno, abbot of Reichenau (in Migne, PL., cxlii, 1183-1204), as well as other early sources. St. Ulric seems to have left no writings; a letter against clerical celibacy attributed to him is admittedly a forgery belonging to the period of the Libelli de Lite (see The Month, March, 1908, pp. 311-313) : this letter was exploited by the Reformers. A German translation of it was printed and circulated in 1521, and an English version appeared in London about 1550. There are several modern lives in German, e.g, those of Ramer, Stutzle, and U. Schmid (1904). Saint Quote: Strive, then, to your utmost to be present every day at this holy Celebration, in order that with the priest you may offer the Sacrifice of your Redeemer on behalf of yourself, and the whole Church, to God the Father. --St. Francis de Sales: Bible Quote: 11 let him turn away from evil and do right; let him seek peace and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.=E2=80=9D=C2 1 Pe= ter 3:11-12 <><><><> Prayer Grant me Thy grace, most merciful Jesus, that it may be with me and labour with me and continue with me unto the end. Grant me always to will and desire that which is most acceptable to Thee and which pleaseth Thee best. Let Thy Will be mine, and let my will always follow Thine and agree perfectly with it. Let me always will or not will the same with Thee; and let me not be able to will or not to will otherwise than as Thou willest or willest not. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .