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August 6th ' Saint Gislain of Luxemburg
(Also known as Schetzel, Scocelin, Jocelin, Schetzelon, Ghislain)
Memorial
6 August
11 August (Luxembourg)
Died 1141. Very little is known with certainty about Gislain, a
well-known saint in Luxembourg. He was raised in a pious household and
believed that he could grow in holiness only by withdrawing from the
world. He began his 15-year life as a hermit in Gr=C3=BCnewald Forest near Trier, Germany, where the locals can still identify the grotto near a
fountain named after him.
Escaping distractions is not always easy, even for a hermit. One day
snow fell overnight covering Gislain entirely=E2=80=94except for his face. =
A
freezing hare found that warm spot and settled comfortably on the
hermit's face. Gislain later reproached himself for allowing this
incident to distract him from his prayers.
He foraged for food when it was available and begged for it at the
local farmhouses during winter. The farmers came to know him and left
pieces of stale bread for the hermit, knowing that he would have
refused anything that was fresh. Out of respect for the life he had
chosen, they never tried to speak to him, nor to see him. It is said
that he would approach houses at night because he had no clothes
except a monk's cincture. Saint Bernard once brought him a tunic and
pair of shoes, which Gislain tried on to please the monk, but he soon
discarded them saying that he did not need them.
When he died, a chapel was built in his honor which drew pilgrims. The
water at his spring was blessed each year. In 1150, his body was
translated to Munster Abbey to make the pilgrimage more convenient.
The abbey was destroyed by Charles V in 1544, and it is believed
Gislain's relics were moved to the church of Our Lady at the castle of Luxembourg. Gislain is sometimes confused with another called Gezelin (Encyclopedia).
Saint Quote:
But I know it will be said that a priest ordained by authority derived
from the See of Rome is, by the Law of the Nation, to die as a
Traitor, but if that be so what must become of all the Clergymen of
the Church of England, for the first Protestant Bishops had their
Ordination from those of the Church of Rome, or not at all, as appears
by their own writers so that Ordination comes derivatively from those
now living.
-- Saint John Plessington, from the gallows as he was about to be martyred
Bible Quote
Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written, The Lord
thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.=C2 (Matthew
4:10)
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Act of Love before Holy Mass
O my God,
I love You with all my heart,
with all my soul, with all my strength
and with no other desire
than to be inseparably united to You.
It is through Your Divine Son
that this union is about to be realised within me.
In the eternal food I will receive,
I long to identify myself with Him,
that it will no longer be myself but He,
who lives in me
and when I have received Jesus within myself,
then I shall love and be loved by You,
in that same measure,
in which I am united to Him.
Hasten then, to give me Your Divine Son,
at the hands of Your priest,
that through Jesus,
I may unite myself forever to You,
O God the Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit.
Amen
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