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Offline TxTrad

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"My daily thought"
« on: February 05, 2018, 01:33:05 PM »
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  • These really help me, perhaps they will help you, too.  From my old missal.

    Feb 5 -- feast of st. Agatha
    Oh, how wise was that holy soul that said: "My mind is solidly established in and grounded upon Christ!" [St. Agatha]  Were it but so with me, human fear would not so easily give me anxiety, nor the arrows of men's words move me.


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    Re: "My daily thought"
    « Reply #1 on: February 05, 2018, 11:36:41 PM »
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  • St. Dorothy, (i.e., the gift of God), a virgin from Caesarea in Cappadocia, allegedly suffered a martyr's death under Diocletian. Her relics are honored in a church dedicated to her honor in the Trastevere section of Rome. (On the door of St. Dorothy's Church the names of those who had not received holy Communion during Easter time used to be posted.) Her feast was introduced into the Roman calendar during the Middle Ages.
    A very edifying story is related in connection with her name. As Dorothy was being led to execution because of her faith in Christ, she prayed, "I thank You, O Lover of souls, for having called me to Your paradise." A certain Theophilus, an official of the Roman governor, jestingly retorted, "Farewell, bride of Christ, send me apples or roses from your Bridegroom's garden of bliss." Dorothy answered, "I most certainly will."
    While devoting herself to prayer during the few moments permitted before receiving the death stroke, she beheld a vision of a beautiful youth who carried three apples and three roses in a napkin. She said to him, "I implore you to take these to Theophilus." Soon the sword severed her neck, and her soul returned to God.
    As Theophilus was mockingly telling his friend of Dorothy's promise, a young man stood before him holding a linen in which were wrapped three beautiful apples and three magnificent roses.
    "See, the virgin Dorothy sends you these from the garden of her Bridegroom, even as she promised you." Highly astonished, for it was February and everything in nature was frozen, Theophilus received the gifts and cried out: "Truly indeed, Christ is God." And soon he too died a martyr's death for publicly confessing the faith.

    http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2018-02-06

    May our lives bring others to Christ.