• September 22nd - St. Dinooth of Bangor

    From rich@1:396/4 to All on Fri Sep 21 10:11:45 2018
    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    September 22nd - St. Dinooth of Bangor
    (Also known as Iscoed (Dinothus, Dunawd, Dunod)

    Founder and first Abbot of Bangor Iscoed (Flintshire). He flourished
    between 500 and 542. He was originally a North British chieftain
    driven by reverses of fortune into Wales.

    In conjunction with his three sons, Deiniol, Cynwyl, and Gwarthan, and
    under the patronage of Cyngen, Prince of Powys, he founded the
    monastery of Bangor on the Dee, which must not be confounded with
    Bangor in Carnarvonshire, founded by St. Deiniol in 514, and
    afterwards a cathedral city. The community at Bangor was very
    numerous, and the laus perennis was established there. The Triads say
    there were 2400 monks, who in turn, 100 each hour, sang the Divine
    Service day and night.

    More is known of this famous monastery than of its founder. He is
    mentioned by Bede (Hist. Eccl., ii. 2) in connection with the second
    conference at Augustine's Oak, but no authority is given for the
    statement, and there are arguments against its correctness. The
    Conference was probably held in 602 or 603, at which time St. Dinooth
    would have been far advanced in years, and the journey from North
    Wales to the Lower Severn would have been a difficult one for an aged
    man. It is true that delegates from Bangor attended the conference
    which was convened by St. Augustine to raise the moral and spiritual
    condition of the British clergy, to wean them from their old method of computing Easter, to which they clung with great tenacity, and to
    induce them to co-operate with him in converting the Anglo-Saxons.

    The document purporting to be St. Dinooth's "Answer" (printed in
    Haddan and Stubbs, Councils of Gt. Britain and Ireland, i, 122) is the
    sole ground for connecting his name with this conference at
    Augustine's Oak; but it is extremely doubtful whether the "Answer" has
    anything to do with this conference at all. St. Augustine's name is
    not mentioned in it, neither is there any allusion to the
    evangelization of the English. It contains merely a firm repudiation
    of papal authority and an assertion of the supremacy of "the Bishop of
    Caerleon upon Usk" over the British Church. Some time before the
    supposed date of the document St. David had transferred the primatial
    See of Wales to Menevia.

    What is more authentic, however, is the fact that in consequence of
    the British delegates' refusal to agree to St. Augustine's proposals
    he prophesied their destruction by the English. In 613, when the monks
    of Bangor were praying for the success of their countrymen in battle
    against the army of Ethelfrid of Northumbria, twelve hundred of them
    were slain, being mistaken for combatants. The monastery itself was
    probably burnt about sixty years later (Haddan and Stubbs, i, 125),
    and extensive ruins remained for several centuries, which are
    described by William of Malmesbury, Camden, and Leland.

    Sources: ========
    Rees, Lives of Cambro-British Saints (Llandovery, 1853).
    Hole, Dictionary of Christ. Biog.
    These Lives are archived at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/celt-saints


    Saint Quote:
    Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the
    service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
    -- Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen

    Bible Quote:
    "He who guards his mouth preserves his life, But he who opens wide his
    lips shall have destruction." (Proverbs 13:3)


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    Letting Go

    Dear Lord,
    I give You my opinions,
    which are doubtful at best.
    I give You all contention,
    which robs my mind of rest.

    I give You my anxiety,
    of what I say and do.
    The fear of what they think of me!
    I fix my eyes on you.

    Oh make me simple and sincere
    spontaneous and kind.
    Help me to live each moment
    leaving yesterday behind.

    Please take my resentments,
    unforgiveness in my soul.
    And heal my memories Jesus,
    I place You in control.

    I want to see the good things,
    the way that people try.
    For who is trying harder
    and failing more than I.

    Lord fill me with Your presence,
    make me meek and resigned.
    Help me to take a "back seat",
    and let other people shine.

    Let me be lost in You my Lord,
    that all may come and see,
    the power of a love so great,
    could change some one like me.
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