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2023-03-23 08:17:30 UTC
God is the only teacher
"As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our
pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and
it demands good students, not ones who play truant. In this school we
learn something every day. We learn something from commandments,
something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things
are remedies for our wounds and materials for study."
Are you an eager student of God's word and do you listen to it with
faith and obedience?
"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may listen to your
word attentively and obey it joyfully."
--St. Augustine--
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23 March – Blessed Pietro of Gubbio OSA
(Died c 1306)
Priest and Friar of the Order of Hermits of St Augustine, Lawyer,
noted Preacher, Envoy for the Order, Miracle-worker. Born in the early
13th century in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy and died between 1306 and 1322
in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy of natural causes. Also known as Peter of
Gubbio. Additional Memorial – 29 October (The Augustinians).
Pietro of the noble Ghigenzi family, was born in the first half of the
13th century. He studied law first in Italy and then in Paris.
At about the age of forty, Pietro came to know the Augustinians and
was drawn to them, wanting to put himself and his law practice at the
disposal of the Church. He joined the Augustinians of his hometown who
had come to Gubbio from the hermitage of Brettino (Fano).
As a Friar, he won the respect of his confreres and was entrusted with
various duties of responsibility. He was chosen and sent by the Prior
General to visit the Monasteries of France. Pietro that he traveled
bare-footed and met all his brother Augustinians in that way as a sign
of humility. He left a deep impression for his holiness of life, zeal
for the Rule, his patience with Augustinian brothers who had trouble
living up to the Rule, and as a miracle worker.
He is described by the Anonymous Florentine, a writer of the century,
as “a man of great patience and prayer, who ended his life in the
peace of the Lord and is renowned for many miracles.”
Pietro spent his later years as a prayerful Friar in the Gubbio
Monastery where he had begun.
He died sometime between 1306 and 1322 and was venerated from the time
of his death. His remains were buried in the common grave of Friars in
the centre of the Choir area in the Augustinian Church in Gubbio.
One day, soon after his burial, the Friars were in the Choir, singing
the Te Deum and they heard a voice from the tomb that responded: Te
Dominum confitemur! – ‘Lord, we thank you! ‘ The frightened brothers
opened the tomb and found the body of Blessed Peter on his knees,
looking up and hands crossed on his chest.
Pietro’s relics are still enshrined in the Augustinian Church, where
the veneration of this gentle, humble Friar were immediately and are
still the subject of pilgrimages.
Pope Pius IX Beatified Blessed Pietro in 1874.
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/23/
“Hypocrites, well did Isaias prophesy of you, saying, ‘This people
honours me with their lips but their heart is far from Me and in vain
do they worship Me, teaching as doctrine, the precepts of men.’ ” –
Matthew 15:7
… But why did the first Law, written with the Finger of God (Ex
31:18), not give us the essential assistance of grace? Because it was
written on tablets of stone, not the tablets of flesh, that are our
hearts (2 Cor 3:3) ….
It is the Holy Spirit Who writes “the Law of the Spirit of life” not
on stone but in the heart; this Law of the Spirit of life that is in
Jesus Christ in Whom the Passover has been celebrated in truth (1 Cor
5:7-8), has delivered you from the law of sin and death. Do you want
to have proof of the manifest and certain difference separating the
Old Testament from the New? … Hear what the Lord spoke by the mouth of
one of the prophets. … ”I will place my law within them and write it
upon their hearts” (Jr 31:33). So if God’s Law is written in your
heart, it does not bring forth fear [as at Sinai] but pours a secret
sweetness into your soul.”
– St Augustine (354-430) Bishop of Hippo, Father and Doctor of the
Church (Sermon 155, 6 ).
Saint Quote:
If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If
you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy
without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs
of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make
them buy it.
--St. Thomas of Villanova
Quote:
Woe to the person whose reputation is greater than his works.
--Abba Silvanas
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How we, each of us, should wash one another's feet
If I then being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also
ought to wash one another's feet [John xiii. 14]
Our Lord wishes that His disciples shall imitate His example. He
says therefore, If I, who am the greater, being your master and the
Lord, have washed your feet, you also, all the more who are the less,
who are disciples, slaves even, ought to wash one another's feet.
Whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister . ..
Even as the Son of Man is not come to be ministered unto, but to
minister (Matt. xx. 26-28).
We can also say that in this one act Our Lord showed all the works
of mercy. He who gives bread to the hungry, washes his feet, as also
does the man who harbours the harbourless or he who clothes the naked.
"As Christians, our task is to make daily progress toward God. Our
pilgrimage on earth is a school in which God is the only teacher, and
it demands good students, not ones who play truant. In this school we
learn something every day. We learn something from commandments,
something from examples, and something from sacraments. These things
are remedies for our wounds and materials for study."
Are you an eager student of God's word and do you listen to it with
faith and obedience?
"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may listen to your
word attentively and obey it joyfully."
--St. Augustine--
============
23 March – Blessed Pietro of Gubbio OSA
(Died c 1306)
Priest and Friar of the Order of Hermits of St Augustine, Lawyer,
noted Preacher, Envoy for the Order, Miracle-worker. Born in the early
13th century in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy and died between 1306 and 1322
in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy of natural causes. Also known as Peter of
Gubbio. Additional Memorial – 29 October (The Augustinians).
Pietro of the noble Ghigenzi family, was born in the first half of the
13th century. He studied law first in Italy and then in Paris.
At about the age of forty, Pietro came to know the Augustinians and
was drawn to them, wanting to put himself and his law practice at the
disposal of the Church. He joined the Augustinians of his hometown who
had come to Gubbio from the hermitage of Brettino (Fano).
As a Friar, he won the respect of his confreres and was entrusted with
various duties of responsibility. He was chosen and sent by the Prior
General to visit the Monasteries of France. Pietro that he traveled
bare-footed and met all his brother Augustinians in that way as a sign
of humility. He left a deep impression for his holiness of life, zeal
for the Rule, his patience with Augustinian brothers who had trouble
living up to the Rule, and as a miracle worker.
He is described by the Anonymous Florentine, a writer of the century,
as “a man of great patience and prayer, who ended his life in the
peace of the Lord and is renowned for many miracles.”
Pietro spent his later years as a prayerful Friar in the Gubbio
Monastery where he had begun.
He died sometime between 1306 and 1322 and was venerated from the time
of his death. His remains were buried in the common grave of Friars in
the centre of the Choir area in the Augustinian Church in Gubbio.
One day, soon after his burial, the Friars were in the Choir, singing
the Te Deum and they heard a voice from the tomb that responded: Te
Dominum confitemur! – ‘Lord, we thank you! ‘ The frightened brothers
opened the tomb and found the body of Blessed Peter on his knees,
looking up and hands crossed on his chest.
Pietro’s relics are still enshrined in the Augustinian Church, where
the veneration of this gentle, humble Friar were immediately and are
still the subject of pilgrimages.
Pope Pius IX Beatified Blessed Pietro in 1874.
https://anastpaul.com/2022/03/23/
“Hypocrites, well did Isaias prophesy of you, saying, ‘This people
honours me with their lips but their heart is far from Me and in vain
do they worship Me, teaching as doctrine, the precepts of men.’ ” –
Matthew 15:7
… But why did the first Law, written with the Finger of God (Ex
31:18), not give us the essential assistance of grace? Because it was
written on tablets of stone, not the tablets of flesh, that are our
hearts (2 Cor 3:3) ….
It is the Holy Spirit Who writes “the Law of the Spirit of life” not
on stone but in the heart; this Law of the Spirit of life that is in
Jesus Christ in Whom the Passover has been celebrated in truth (1 Cor
5:7-8), has delivered you from the law of sin and death. Do you want
to have proof of the manifest and certain difference separating the
Old Testament from the New? … Hear what the Lord spoke by the mouth of
one of the prophets. … ”I will place my law within them and write it
upon their hearts” (Jr 31:33). So if God’s Law is written in your
heart, it does not bring forth fear [as at Sinai] but pours a secret
sweetness into your soul.”
– St Augustine (354-430) Bishop of Hippo, Father and Doctor of the
Church (Sermon 155, 6 ).
Saint Quote:
If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If
you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy
without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs
of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make
them buy it.
--St. Thomas of Villanova
Quote:
Woe to the person whose reputation is greater than his works.
--Abba Silvanas
<><><><>
How we, each of us, should wash one another's feet
If I then being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also
ought to wash one another's feet [John xiii. 14]
Our Lord wishes that His disciples shall imitate His example. He
says therefore, If I, who am the greater, being your master and the
Lord, have washed your feet, you also, all the more who are the less,
who are disciples, slaves even, ought to wash one another's feet.
Whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister . ..
Even as the Son of Man is not come to be ministered unto, but to
minister (Matt. xx. 26-28).
We can also say that in this one act Our Lord showed all the works
of mercy. He who gives bread to the hungry, washes his feet, as also
does the man who harbours the harbourless or he who clothes the naked.