From: rich <
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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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