• FIRST RULE--GOD'S WILL

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    FIRST RULE--GOD'S WILL

    WHATEVER leads away from God is contrary to the Will of God. Whatever
    attracts towards God is in accordance with the Divine Will. =E2=80=9CFor th=
    is
    is the Will of God, your sanctification.=E2=80=9D [I Thess. IV. 3]
    Therefore, if anyone detect any such thing in himself as to be
    constrained to confess that this business, this society, this trade,
    this way of living, does not make me more holy, but I am being led
    away from God, though gradually and by easy steps, it follows that
    neither that business, nor that society, nor that trade, nor that way
    of living, is according to the Divine Will.

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    13 December ' Blessed Giovanni Marinoni CR

    Priest of the Theatines of St Cajetan (1480-1547) (The Congregation of
    the Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence), renowned Preacher and
    spiritual director. Also known as John and Francesco Marinoni ' bor=
    n
    as Francesco Marinoni on 25 December 1490 at Venice, Italy and died on
    13 December 1562, aged 71, at Naples, Italy of natural causes.
    Patronage ' of Preachers.

    Blessed Giovanni was the third and youngest son of a noble family,
    originally of Bergamo but was born at Venice, in 1490. From his
    infancy it was his chief delight to be on his knees at the foot of the
    altar and to hear as many masses everyday as his employments permitted
    him.

    He usually studied before a crucifix and sanctified his studies by
    most frequent fervent acts of divine love. To beg of God the grace
    never to sully his baptismal innocence, he spent forty days in prayer
    and a rigorous fast in honour of the Immaculate Conception of the
    Mother of God.

    Having embraced an ecclesiastical state, he served among the clergy of
    St Pantaleon's church and, when he was ordained priest, became
    chaplain and afterwards superior of the hospital of incurables, in
    which charitable employ he was a comforting angel to all who were
    under his care.

    He was called to be the Canon in the celebrated church of St Mark,
    where his life was the edification of his colleagues and of the whole
    city. Out of a desire of serving God in a more perfect disengagement
    from earthly things, he decided to take the habit of the regular
    clerks called Theatines and made his profession in 1530, then taking
    the name =E2=80=9CGiovanni=E2=80=9D, on 29 May, at the age of 40. He was re= ceived into
    the Order by the Founders, St Cajetan and Cardinal Giovanni Pietro
    Carafa ' the future Pope Paul IV, the Bishop of Chieti or Theate, w=
    ho
    had instituted this order six years before.

    In August 1533 he left Venice for Naples at the request of Pope
    Clement VII and remained there to direct the faithful. He also made an
    attempt to strengthen the faith and to prevent unorthodox views from
    taking root. He was appointed as the Superior of the House of San
    Paolo Maggiore in April 1540 and served as the spiritual director of a Dominican convent. He also served as a spiritual adviser to Saint
    Andrew Avellino (1521-1608). Avellino made reference to Marinoni as a
    great saint.

    Pope Paul IV wanted to bestow upon him the Archbishopric of Naples but
    he refused it.
    Both by his prayers and sacrifices and by his exhortations in the
    pulpit and confessional, he was an instrument of salvation to many.

    His age and disease undermined him as he continued to work for others
    in Naples and the cholera epidemic that spread there, overcame him in
    1562 which led to his death on 13 December 1562. He was Beatified by a
    bull of Clement XIII on 5 December 1764, who granted to his order, an
    office in his honour to be celebrated on 13 December. On 27 June 2011
    Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree of heroic virtues and approved a
    miracle attributed to Blessed Giovanni's intercession and thus clea=
    red
    the way for his Canonisation cause.

    https://anastpaul.com/2019/12/


    Read about St Cajetan here: https://anastpaul.com/2017/08/07/saint-of-the-day-7-august-st-cajetan-found= er-of-the-theatine-order-the-father-of-providence/


    And St Andrew Avellino here: https://anastpaul.com/2018/11/10/saint-of-the-day-10-november-st-andrew-ave= llino-cr-1521-1608/


    Saint Quote:
    The Lord has called us from different nations, but we must be united
    with one heart and one soul. In the divine Heart of Jesus we will
    always meet one another and there we seek our strength to face the
    difficulties of life. May we be strengthened to practice the beautiful
    virtues of charity, humility and patience. Then our religious life
    will be the antechamber to Heaven.
    --Blessed Maria Elizabetta Hesselblad

    Bible Quote:
    But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in
    all manner of conversation holy: Because it is written: You shall be
    holy, for I am holy.=C2 (I Pet. 1:15-16) DRB


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    Advent Prayer ' God of Hope

    God of hope,
    who brought love into this world,
    be the love that dwells between us.
    God of hope,
    who brought peace into this world,
    be the peace that dwells between us.
    God of hope,
    who brought joy into this world,
    be the joy that dwells between us.
    God of hope,
    the rock we stand upon,
    be the centre, the focus of our lives
    always and particularly this Advent time.
    Through Him,
    who is our hope,
    our joy,
    our love,
    our peace,
    in union with the Holy Spirit,
    one God forever,
    amen.

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