• October 28th - SS. ANASTASIA AND CYRIL, MARTYRS

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    October 28th - SS. ANASTASIA AND CYRIL, MARTYRS

    CARDINAL BARONIUS added the following entry to the Roman Martyrology
    under this date =E2=80=9CAt Rome, the passion of the holy martyrs Anastasia
    the Elder, a virgin, and Cyril. This same virgin during the
    persecution of Valerian was bound with fetters by the prefect Probus,
    smitten with blows and tortured with fire and scourges; and as she
    continued unmoved in the confession of Christ her breasts were cut
    off, her nails torn out, her teeth broken, her hands and feet hacked
    away. Then she was beheaded and, beautified with the jewels of so many sufferings, she passed to her Bridegroom. Cyril brought her water when
    she asked therefor, and received martyrdom for his reward.=E2=80=9D

    Traditions of the Church of Rome know nothing of these martyrs, who
    were first venerated in the East. Their Greek passio says that St
    Anastasia was a maiden of patrician birth, twenty years old, who lived
    in a community of consecrated virgins. Soldiers of the prefect broke
    into the house, carried her off, and brought her before Probus, who
    ordered that she be stripped naked. On her protesting that this would
    shame him more than it would her, she was maltreated as the
    martyrology sets out. Her body was afterwards translated to
    Constantinople.

    The passio exists both in Greek and in Latin. Both texts are printed
    in the Acta Sanctorum, October, vol. xii. J. P. Kirsch seems inclined
    to think that the only historical martyr was the widow who suffered at
    Sirmium (December 25), but that, as her feast was kept on a different
    date in the East, some Greek hagiographer thought it well to invent a
    new story of a virgin bearing the same name, which he embellished with
    the fantastic details recounted above. See Lexikon f=C3=BCr Theologie und Kirche, vol. i (1930), c. 389.


    Saint Quote:
    God loves our neighbors so much that He gave His life for them; and He
    is glad even to have us leave Him to do them good.=C2 How grateful to
    Him, then, may we believe the services we render them!=C2 Ah, if we
    understood well how important is this virtue of the love of our
    neighbor, we should give ourselves entirely to the pursuit of it.
    --St. Teresa

    Bible Quote
    Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath
    not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. (Ecclesiasticus 31:8)


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    Oh Wondrous God, Oh Infinite Mercy
    By St Vincent Pallotti (1795-1850)

    My God, in every moment
    You nourish me with Your Wisdom
    and You destroy my ignorance.
    You nourish me
    with Your inaccessible Light
    and You destroy all my shadows.
    You nourish me
    with Your infinite Perfection
    and you destroy my life
    which is a monstrosity of imperfections.
    You nourish me with Your infinite Being
    and you destroy my brutish life,
    my loathsome self, a sinful man
    and by a miracle of Your Mercy,
    even though I have merited infinite times.
    to lose God forever, God Himself,
    with all of His Nature,
    Person and Attributes
    made Himself all mine,
    He becomes my nourishment
    and He nourishes me always,
    so as to transform me into Himself
    and make me one with Him.
    Therefore, I am all in God
    and God is all in me
    and with His eternal nature
    He brings me to all times
    and in His immensity,
    He brings me to all places
    and I experience myself as eternal
    and am immersed in Him.
    Oh Wondrous God, oh Infinite Mercy.
    Amen

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