Subj : January 11th - Blessed William Carter To : All From : rich Date : Wed Jan 10 2018 09:07:48 From: rich January 11th - Blessed William Carter (1548-1584) A layman all his life, born into Elizabethan London, William Carter entered the printing business at an early age. For many years he served as apprentice to well-known Catholic printers, one of whom served a prison sentence for persisting in the Catholic faith. William himself served time in prison following his arrest for =E2=80=9Cprinting le= wd [i.e., Catholic] pamphlets=E2=80=9D as well as possessing books upholding Catholicism. But even more, he offended public officials by publishing works that aimed to keep Catholics firm in their faith. Officials who searched his house found various vestments and suspect books, and even managed to extract information from William's distraught wife. Over the nex= t 18 months William remained in prison, suffering torture and learning of his wife's death. He was eventually charged with printing and publishing one thousand copies of the Treatise of Schisme written by Dr. Gregory Martin, which was fallaciously alleged to be intended to incite violence by Catholics due to a paragraph in the pamphlet where confidence was expressed that the Catholic Hope would triumph, and pious Judith would slay Holofernes =E2=80=93 a reference to a well known, at that time, Old English poem about Judith of Bethulia, inspired, of course, by the Book of Judith in the Old Testament, in which the Jewess heroine beheads the enemy general. This was interpreted as an incitement to slay the queen, though it obviously had no such meaning. The pamphlet was accused of having been written by a traitor and addressed to traitors. While William calmly placed his trust in God, the jury met for only 15 minutes before reaching a verdict of =E2=80=9Cguilty.=E2=80=9D William, who= made his final confession to a priest who was being tried alongside him, was hanged, drawn and quartered the following day: January 11, 1584. He was 35 yrs old. This was the customary punishment for =E2=80=9Ctraitors=E2= =80=9D to an earthly crown and faithful servants of the Divine Crown. William gave his life for his efforts to encourage his brothers and sisters to keep up the struggle, to keep the faith. Saint Quote: Do you desire to study to your advantage? Let devotion accompany all your studies, and study less to make yourself learned than to become a saint. Consult God more than your books, and ask him, with humility, to make you understand what you read. Study fatigues and drains the mind and heart. Go from time to time to refresh them at the feet of Jesus Christ under his cross. Some moments of repose in his sacred wounds give fresh vigor and new lights. Interrupt your application by short, but fervent and ejaculatory prayers: never begin or end your study but by prayer. Science is a gift of the Father of lights; do not therefore consider it as barely the work of your own mind or industry. --Saint Vincent Ferrer Bible Quote: "For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God." (Romans 8:6-8) <><><><> Sea of Sorrow Oh! on what a sea of sorrow Was the Virgin-Mother cast, When her eyes with tears o'erflowing Gazed upon her Son aghast, From the bloodstained gibbet taken, Dying in her arms at last. In her bitter desolation, His sweet mouth, His bosom too, Then His riven side beloved, Then each hand, both wounded through, Then His feet, with blood encrimsoned, Her maternal tears bedew. She, a hundred times and over, Strains Him closely to her breast Heart to Heart, arms enfolding, Are His wounds on her impressed: Thus, in sorrow's very kisses, Melts her anguished soul to rest. Oh, dear Mother! we beseech thee, By the tears thine eyes have shed, By the cruel death of Jesus And His wounds' right royal red, Make our hearts o'erflow with sorrow From thy heart's deep fountainhead. To the Father, Son, and Spirit, Now we bend on equal knee: Glory, sempiternal glory, To the Most High Trinity; Yea! perpetual praise and honor Now and through all ages be. --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .