• October 17th - St. Nothelm, Archbishop Of Canterbury

    From rich@1:396/4 to All on Wed Oct 16 09:27:59 2019
    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    October 17th - St. Nothelm, Archbishop Of Canterbury
    d. 740

    Nothelm, whom St. Bede refers to as =E2=80=9Ca devout priest of the church =
    of
    London =E2=80=9C, succeeded St. Tatwin in the see of Canterbury in the year 734. Two years later he received the pallium from Pope St. Gregory
    III. He was consulted by St. Boniface from Germany and furnished him
    with a copy of the famous letter of instruction from Pope St. Gregory
    I to St. Augustine of Canterbury about how to deal with the English
    converts. But St. Nothelm's name is principally remembered for his
    part in the composition of St. Bede's Ecclesiastical History. In th=
    e
    preface thereto, addressed to King Ceolwulf, Bede says that his chief
    aid and authority for his work had been the learned abbot Albinus at Canterbury, who transmitted to him =E2=80=9Ceither by writing or by word of mouth of the same Nothelm, all that he thought worthy of memory that
    had been done in the province of Kent, or the adjacent parts, by the
    disciples of the blessed Pope Gregory, as he had learned them either
    from written records or the traditions of his ancestors.

    The said Nothelm afterwards went to Rome and, having with leave of the
    present Pope Gregory [III] searched into the archives of the holy
    Roman church, found there some letters of the blessed Pope Gregory and
    other popes. When he returned home he brought them to me, by the
    advice of the aforesaid most reverend father Albinus, to be inserted
    in my history. Thus . . . what was transacted in the church of
    Canterbury by the disciples of St. Gregory or their successors, and
    under which kings they happened, has been conveyed to us by Nothelm
    through the industry of abbot Albinus. They also partly informed me by
    what bishops and under what kings the provinces of the East and West
    Saxons, as well as of the East Angles and the Northumbrians, received
    the faith of Christ.=E2=80=9D

    Nothelm also wrote some observations on St. Bede's commentary on th=
    e
    books of Kings in the Bible, to which Bede replied in a personal
    letter.

    The saint is noticed in the Acts Sanctorum, October, vol. viii. We
    know little more than what Bede has told us: see Plummer's edition =
    and
    notes. But since the publication of the work of Dom S. Brechter, The
    Quellenl zur Angelsacksenmission Gregors des Grossen (1941), the
    authenticity of the alleged Responsiones of Pope Gregory to Augustine,
    and Nothelm's finding of them in the Roman archives, are subject to
    serious question: cf. Fr P. Grosjean in Analecta Bollandiana, vol. lx
    (1942), p. 287. Some scholars do not find Dom Brechter's arguments
    completely convincing.


    Saint Quote:
    Say nothing of this, give thanks to God, not to me. I am only a vessel
    of clay, a poor sinner.
    -- Saint Nicholas of Tolentino said to those whom he helped

    *Trivia note: Saint Nicholas of Tolentino was the first Augustinian to
    be canonized

    Bible Quote:
    And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your
    God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make
    the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning.
    And the floors shall be filled with wheat, and the presses shall
    overflow with wine and oil.=C2 (Joel 2:23-24)


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    To Jesus Abandoned:

    With Mary Immaculate, let us adore, thank, implore and console, the
    Most Beloved and Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
    O Divine Jesus, lonely tonight in so many Tabernacles, without visitor
    or worshipper, I offer Thee my poor heart. May its every throb be an
    act of love for Thee. Thou art always watching beneath the Sacramental
    Veils; in Thy love Thou dost never sleep and Thou art never weary of
    Thy vigil for sinners. O lonely Jesus, may the flame of my heart burn
    and beam always in company with Thee.
    O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine!
    All praise and all thanksgiving be every moment Thine!


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