ANGEL CADENCE

"ANGEL CADENCE"
~By Monique Nicole Fox~

Angels: one two three
watching over me

Angels: four five six
here, there, in the mix

Angels: seven eight nine
heavenly and divine
wonderful by design

Angels: ten twelve fourteen
On the scene
Doing their daily routine
Making life peaceful, calm and serene


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Weekly Meditation

What does God Think About Sexual Perversion?

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their
own
hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the
truth
of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the
Creator,
who is blessed for ever. Amen.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women
did
change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also
the
men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward
another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in
themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them
over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being
filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil
things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers,
without
natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are
worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Romans 1:24-32 KJV


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January 29th - St. Gildas

Surnamed the Wise; b. about 516; d. at Houat, Brittany, 570. Sometimes he is
called "Badonicus" because, as he tells us, his birth took place the year
the
Britons gained a famous victory over the Saxons at Mount Badon, near Bath,
Somersetshire (493 or 516). The biographies of Gildas exist-one written by
an
unknown Breton monk of the Abbey of Rhuys in the eleventh century, the other
by
Caradoc, a Welshman in the twelfth century. Both biographies contain
unchronological and misleading statements, which have led some critics to
reject
the lives as altogether valueless. Ussher, Ware, Bale, Pits, and Colgan
endeavour to adjust the discrepancies by contending that there were at least
two
saints named Gildas, hence their invention of such distinctive surnames as
"Albanicus", "Badonicus", "Hibernicus", "Historicus", etc. The more general
opinion, however, adopted by Lanigan, Leland, Healy, Stingfleet, Mabilon,
Bollandus, and O'Hanlon, is that there was but one St. Gildas. The
discrepancies
may be accounted for by the fact that the lives were drawn up in separate
countries, and several centuries after the saint existed. As to Caradoc's
statement that Gildas died at Glastonbury, O'Hanlon remarks that Glastonbury
appropriated more saints than Gildas (Lives of Irish Saints, I, 493).

Both narratives agree in several striking details, and may thus be
harmonized:
Gildas was born in Scotland on the banks of the Clyde (possibly at
Dumbarton),
of a noble British family. His father's name was Cau or Nau; his brother's,
Huel
or Cuil. He was educated in Wales under St. Iltut, and was a companion of
St.
Samson and St. Peter of Léon. Having embraced the monastic state, he passed
over
to Ireland, where he was advanced to the priesthood. He is said to have
lived
some time in Armagh, and then to have crossed to North Britain, his teaching
there being confirmed by miracles. On his return to Ireland, at the
invitation
of King Ainmire, he strengthened the faith of many, and built monasteries
and
churches. The Irish annalists associate him with David and Cadoc in giving a
special liturgy or Mass to the second order of Irish saints. He is said to
have
made a pilgrimage to Rome. On the homeward journey his love of solitude
caused
him to retire to the Isle of Houat, off Brittany, where he lived a life of
prayer, study and austerity. His place of retreat having become known, the
Bretons induced him to establish a monastery at Rhuys on the mainland
whither
multitudes flocked (Marius Sepet, "St. Gildas de Rhuys", Paris, s.d.). It
was at
Rhuys he wrote his famous epistle to the British kings. His relics were
venerated there till the tenth century, when they were carried for safety
into
Berry. In the eighteenth century they were said to be preserved in the
cathedral
of Vannes. He is the patron of several churches and monasteries in Brittany
and
elsewhere. His feast is locally observed on 29 January; another feast, 11
May,
commemorates the translation of his relics.

The authentic work of St. Gildas, "De excidio Britannae liber querulus", is
now
usually divided into three parts: (1) The preface; (2) A sketch of British
history from the Roman invasion to his own time; (3) An epistle of severe
invective addressed to five petty British kings-Constantine, Vortipor,
Cyneglas,
Cynan, and Maelgwn. In the same epistle he addresses and rebukes the clergy
whom
he accuses of sloth and simony. His writings are clearly the work of a man
of no
ordinary culture and sanctity, and indicate that the author was thoroughly
acquainted with the Sacred Scriptures.

Gildas is regarded as the earliest British historian and is quoted by Bede
and
Alcuin. Two MSS. copies of his writings are preserved in Cambridge
University
library.

See longer version found at:
http://www.cin.org/saints/gildas.html


Bible Quote:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with the lamps. And the bridegroom
tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made: Behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye
forth
to meet him.
(Matt 25:4-6)


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To the Eternal Father

Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and
impart to me the blessing which flows from this Sacrament; encompass me with
Your loving kindness and let this Holy Mystery bear fruit in me. I extol
Thee, almighty and all-merciful Father, I praise and magnify Thee for the
superabundant mercy wherewith Thou has had compassion on me, cleansed me
from sin and admitted me to participate in this sacred union with Thee. May
it avail for the remission of my past sins, as a remedy of those which still
cling to me, and preventive of all which I might commit in future, You Who
lives and reigns God for endless ages. - Amen.





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