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March 28th - St. Tutilo
Tutilo was born in the mid-9th century and was educated at the
Benedictine monastery of Saint-Gall in Switzerland. He was blessed
with tremendous intellectual abilities and talents. After schooling he
entered the monastery of St. Gall.
Tutilo was appointed head of the cloister school and has been
described as a handsome, quick-witted and eloquent teacher. He was a
talented poet and orator as well as an architect, mechanic, metal
worker, painter and sculptor.
He is perhaps best known for his musical talents. According to
tradition, he was an accomplished musician and was able to play and
teach all of the instruments in the monastery. He, and a fellow monk,
Bl. Notker Balbulus, are said to have written several Alleluia
versicles as well as many sequences. Although he is not the one
believed to have invented tropes, he wrote several.
Tutilo was also known for his artistic abilities as a painter and he
had several exhibits of his work, some of which are said to still be
seen in Constance, Metz, Saint-Gall and Mainz. Despite his popularity,
Tutilo strove to maintain a low profile and avoided publicity as much
as possible.
Unfortunately, of all the poetry and musical works that he is credited
with, only three brief elegies and one hymn have been printed. He died
about the year 915 and was buried in St. Catherine's Chapel which was
later named St. Tutilo's in his honor.
Reflection. It is in vain that we bear the name of Christians, or
pretend to follow Christ, if we do not carry well our crosses after
Him. It is in vain that we hope to share in His glory, and in His
kingdom, if we accept not the condition. We cannot arrive at heaven by
any other road but that followed by Christ, who bequeathed His cross
to all His elect as their portion and inheritance in this world.
Quote:
"Do not be always wanting everything to turn out as you think it
should, but rather as God pleases, then you will be undisturbed and
thankful in your prayer."
--Abba Nilus
Bible Quote:
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will
build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And
whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in
heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed
also in heaven.=C2 [Matt. 16: 18-20]
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Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself.=C2 (Matthew 16:24)
"The life of our flesh is the delight of sensuality; its death is to
take from it all sensible delight. The life of our judgment and our
will is to dispose of ourselves and what is ours, according to our own
views and wishes; their death, then, is to submit ourselves in all
things to the judgment and will of others. The life of the desire for
esteem and respect is to be well thought of by everyone; its death,
therefore, is to hide ourselves so as not to be known, by means of
continual acts of humility and self-abasement. Until one succeeds in
dying in this manner, he will never be a servant of God, nor will God
ever perfectly live in him"
--St. Mary Magdalen de' Pazzi
With great frankness this beautiful soul expressed to others so lofty
a sentiment, because she knew that it was precisely in this way that,
to her infinite profit, she had attained to the death of her own
flesh, her own judgment and will, and her own human respect; of her
own flesh, which she never ceased to treat with the greatest harshness
and rigor; of her own judgment and will, which she always strove to
keep subject to, and dependent upon, others; of her human respect, by
abhorring and avoiding constantly every occasion of being honored and
esteemed.
(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints".=C2 March - Mortification)
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