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December 13th - St. Jodoc (Josse) Confessor
Those Britons who, flying from the swords of the English-Saxons,
settled in Armorica in Gaul, upon the ruins of the Roman Empire. Here
they formed themselves into a little state on that coast till they
were obliged to receive the laws of the French. Judica=C3=ABl, customarily called Giguel, eldest son of Jutha=C3=ABl, became king of Brittany about
the year 630. This prince soon after renounced this perishable crown
to labor more securely for the acquisition of an incorruptible one,
and retired into the monastery of St. Meen, in the diocese of St.
Malo, where he lived in so great sanctity as to be honored after his
death with the title of the Blessed Judica=C3=ABl. When he resigned the
crown he offered it to his younger brother Jodoc, called by the French
Josse. But Jodoc had the same inclinations as his elder brother.
However, to consult the divine will, he shut himself up for 8 days in
the monastery of Lammamiont, in which he had been brought up, and
prayed night and day with many tears that God would direct him to
undertake what was most agreeable to him, and most conducive to his
divine honor and his own sanctification. He put an end to his
deliberation by receiving the clerical tonsure at the hands of the
bishop of Avranches, and joined a company of 11 pilgrims who proposed
to go to Rome.
They went first to Paris, and thence into Picardy in 636. Here Jodoc
was prevailed upon by Haymo, duke of Ponchieu, to settle on an estate
of his, which was at a sufficient distance from his own country, and
secure from the honors which there waited for him. Being promoted to
priest's orders, he served the duke's chapel 7 years, then retired
with only one disciple named Vurmare, into a woody solitude at Ray,
where he found a small spot of ground suitable for tillage, watered by
the river Authie. The duke built them a chapel and cells, in which the
hermits lived, gaining by the tillage of this land their meager
subsistence and a surplus for the poor. Their exercises were austere
penance, prayer, and contemplation. After 8 years thus spent here they
moved to Runiac, now called Villers-Saint-Josse, near the mouth of the
river Canche, where they built a chapel of wood in honor of St.
Martin. In this place they continued the same manner of life for
thirteen years. When Jodoc was bit by an adder, they again changed
their quarters. The good duke continued as their constant protector,
building them a hermitage, with two chapels of wood, in honor of
Saints Peter and Paul. The servants of God remained here except that
out of devotion to the princes of the apostles, and to the holy
martyrs, they made a penitential pilgrimage to Rome in 665. At their
return to Runinc they found their hermitage enlarged and adorned, and
a beautiful church of stone, which the good duke had erected in memory
of St. Martin, and on which he settled a appreciable estate. The duke
met them in person on the road, and conducted them to their
habitation. Jodoc finished here his penitential course in 669, and was
honored by miracles both before and after his death.
Winoc and Arnoc, two nephews of the saint, inherited his hermitage,
which became a famous monastery, and was one of those which
Charlemagne first bestowed on Alcuin in 792. It stands near the sea,
in the diocese of Amiens, follows the order of St. Benedict, and the
abbots enjoyed the privileges of a count. It is called St.
Josse-sur-mer. St. Jodoc is mentioned on this day in the Roman
Martyrology.
See the life of this saint written in the eighth century; Cave thinks
about the year 710. It is published with learned notes by Mabillon,
Act Ben. t. 2, p. 566 Gall. Chr. Nov. t. 10, pp. 1289, 1290.
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)=C2 DRB
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=C2 Daily Thoughts and Prayers for Our Beloved Dead
"Have pity on me, have pity on me, at least you my friends, because
the hand of the Lord hath touched me" Job. 19-21.
16th DAY
St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Corinthians (I Cor. 111:13-15), tells
us, "Every man's work shall be manifest, for the day of the Lord shall
declare it, because it shall be revealed in fire. And the fire shall
try every man's work of what sort it is. If a man's work burn, he
shall suffer loss; but he shall be saved, yet so as to fire."
Prayers:=C2 Our Father, Three Hail Marys, Gloria, De Profundis.
De Profundis
=C2 =C2 Out of the depths, I have cried to Thee,
O Lord, Lord, hear my voice.
=C2 =C2 Let Thine ears be attentive to the
voice of my supplication.
=C2 =C2 If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark my iniquities,
O Lord, who shall stand it?
=C2 =C2 For with Thee there is merciful
forgiveness: and by reason of Thy
law I have waited for Thee, O Lord.
My soul hath relied on His word;
my soul hath hoped in the Lord.
=C2 =C2 From the morning watch even until
night; let Israel hope in the Lord.
Because with the Lord there is mercy;
And with Him plenteous redemption.
=C2 =C2 And He shall redeem Israel from
all its iniquities.
=C2 =C2 Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
And let perpetual light shine upon them:
=C2 =C2 May they rest in peace. Amen.
O Lord Jesus, have mercy on the Souls in Purgatory who suffer because
of some slight human frailty. Deliver them from their agonies, that
they may forevermore praise and glorify Thee in Heaven. Amen.
See whole prayer at:
http://www.dailycatholic.org/deprofun.htm
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