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Saint William of Vercelli/Montevergine (June 25) mantheycalltom Jun 23, 2009 Abbot, Founder of the Congregation of Monte-Vergine (†1142) Saint William of Monte Vergine, born in Vercelli, a city of …More
Saint William of Vercelli/Montevergine (June 25)
mantheycalltom Jun 23, 2009 Abbot, Founder of the Congregation of Monte-Vergine (†1142)
Saint William of Monte Vergine, born in Vercelli, a city of Lombardy, lost his father and mother in his infancy and was brought up by a relative in great sentiments of piety. At fifteen years of age, having an earnest desire to lead a penitential life, he left his native region and made a long and austere pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin founded by Saint James at Saragossa. He would have made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but God made known to him that he was calling him to a solitary life, and he retired into the kingdom of Naples. There he chose for his abode an uninhabited mountain, and lived in perpetual contemplation and the exercises of rigorous penitential austerities. After a miracle of healing wrought by his prayers, he was discovered and his contemplation interrupted, so he decided to move to another mountain, where he built a very …More
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JUNE 25, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
LET IT BE DONE FOR YOU
June 25, 2011
Saturday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
Father Shawn Aaron, LC
Matthew 8:5-17
When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him and appealed
to him, saying, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed,
suffering dreadfully." He said to him, "I will come and cure him."
The Centurion said in reply, "Lord …More
JUNE 25, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI

LET IT BE DONE FOR YOU
June 25, 2011
Saturday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time
Father Shawn Aaron, LC
Matthew 8:5-17
When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him and appealed
to him, saying, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed,
suffering dreadfully." He said to him, "I will come and cure him."
The Centurion said in reply, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you
enter under my roof; only say the word and my servant will be healed.
For I too am a person subject to authority, with soldiers subject to
me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come
here,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him,
"Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith. I
say to you, many will come from the east and the west, and will
recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the banquet in the kingdom
of heaven, but the children of the kingdom will be driven out into
the outer darkness, where there will be wailing and grinding of
teeth." And Jesus said to the Centurion, "You may go; as you have
believed, let it be done for you." And at that very hour his servant
was healed. Jesus entered the house of Peter, and saw his
mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand, the
fever left her, and she rose and waited on him. When it was evening,
they brought him many who were possessed by demons, and he drove out
the spirits by a word and cured all the sick, to fulfill what had
been said by Isaiah the prophet: He took away our infirmities and
bore our diseases.
Introductory Prayer: Lord I believe in you. I believe that you walk
with me and accompany me with your power. I come before your holy
throne, the throne of your heart. I know you want to bless me today
with your friendship and to answer my prayers. Thank you for your
faithful, generous love.
Petition: Lord, increase my faith.
1. Humility Moves God's Heart: Not only does the Centurion have
great faith; he has great humility. His humility is not feigned, for
the circumstances are too grave for him to pretend to be humble,
especially as Jesus has already agreed to come heal his servant. Nor
is his humility the result of a low self-esteem, for there is
tremendous confidence in his dealing with Jesus. His is the humility
born of a faith that understands who Jesus is. It is the humility
that the Church invites us to share every time we approach Our Lord
during Communion at Mass: "Lord, you are far too great to come to me,
but thank you for coming for I will die without you."
2. When Jesus Heard This, He Was Amazed: Now this is amazing.
Consider what it would take to amaze Jesus. Yet here we have the
answer: Faith -- faith in his person, his power, his plan for our
lives. One day Jesus will rebuke Peter as Our Lord grasps his hand
to save him from sinking: "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"
(Matthew 14:31). The import of the question might be better seen if
stated differently: "What is there in me that would make you mistrust
me?" The answer is: Nothing. Any deficiency is in us, and this must
be sincerely resolved in prayer, especially by contemplating the
major truths of the faith: Jesus' incarnation, passion, death and
resurrection; the sacraments, especially baptism, confession and the
Eucharist. If Jesus is amazed by our faith, we can rightly deduce
that he is hurt by our lack of faith and trust in him.
3. It Happens According to Our Faith: Christ's comment is somewhat
similar to what we pray in the "Our Father": "Forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Here we are
saying, "Let my forgiveness of others be the standard by which I am
forgiven." By addressing the Centurion with these words, Jesus reveals
that our degree of faith is the standard by which we possess what we
ask for from God. In the First Eucharistic Prayer of the Mass we
pray: "You know how firmly we believe in you and dedicate ourselves
to you." This is both consoling and alarming. It is consoling in
that Christ knows the exact degree of our faith -- he knows the
sincerity of our heart. We do not have to explain ourselves to him.
It is alarming in that we also know that our faith is not always as
strong as it should be. Therefore, we want to repeat what a man once
said to Jesus: "I do believe, help my unbelief" (Mark 9:24).
Conversation with Christ: Dear Lord, you are worthy of all my faith.
Like the Centurion and the great saints, help me to focus my gaze on
you in faith, confident that what you ask of me is always for my
best. Mother Most Pure, make my heart only for Jesus.
Resolution: Today I will take a few minutes to read and reflect upon
Hebrews, Chapter 11.
meditation.regnumchristi.org
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SAINT WILLIAM of VERCELLI
Abbot, Founder of the Congregation of Monte-Vergine
(†1142)
Saint William of Monte Vergine, born in Vercelli, a city of Lombardy, lost his father and mother in his infancy and was brought up by a relative in great sentiments of piety. At fifteen years of age, having an earnest desire to lead a penitential life, he left his native region and made a long and austere pilgrimage …More
SAINT WILLIAM of VERCELLI
Abbot, Founder of the Congregation of Monte-Vergine
(†1142)
Saint William of Monte Vergine, born in Vercelli, a city of Lombardy, lost his father and mother in his infancy and was brought up by a relative in great sentiments of piety. At fifteen years of age, having an earnest desire to lead a penitential life, he left his native region and made a long and austere pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin founded by Saint James at Saragossa. He would have made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but God made known to him that he was calling him to a solitary life, and he retired into the kingdom of Naples. There he chose for his abode an uninhabited mountain, and lived in perpetual contemplation and the exercises of rigorous penitential austerities.
After a miracle of healing wrought by his prayers, he was discovered and his contemplation interrupted, so he decided to move to another mountain, where he built a very beautiful church in honor of Our Lady. With several former secular priests who joined him there, in 1119 he began the establishment of the Congregation of Monte Vergine, or Mount of the Virgin. This site is between Nola and Benevento in the same kingdom of Naples. These sons of Our Lady lived in great austerity. Seeing the progress in holiness of the good religious being formed there, the devil sowed division and criticism; but God drew good from the evil when Saint William went elsewhere and founded several more monasteries, both for men and women, in various places in the kingdom of Naples. He assisted the king of Naples, who greatly venerated him, to practice all the Christian virtues of a worthy sovereign, and the king in gratitude had a house of the Order built at Salerno opposite his palace, to have him near him more often.
When Saint William died on the 25th of June, 1142, he had not yet written a Rule for his religious; his second successor, Robert, fearing the dissolution of a community without constitutions, placed them under that of Saint Benedict, and is regarded as the first abbot of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte-Vergine. A portrait of the Virgin venerated there has been an unfailing source of holy compunction; pilgrims continue to visit it.
Sources: Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 7; Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on Butler’s Lives of the Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894).
SAINT PROSPER of AQUITAINE
Doctor of the Church
(†5th century)

Saint Prosper was born in the Roman province of Aquitaine in the year 403. He is known chiefly through his writings, which reveal that in his youth he had applied himself to all branches both of sacred and secular learning. Because of the purity and sanctity of his manners, the writers of his time testify that he was a holy and venerable man. By his labors in France against the semi-Pelagian heretics, he was a strong collaborator of Saint Augustine in Africa. He was in correspondence with the African doctor, who wrote two of his works to refute and give light to the semi-Pelagians: On the predestination of the Saints and On the gift of perseverance. The enemies of Saint Augustine turned against Saint Prosper also, publishing “fifteen errors” which they attributed to the latter, then sixteen propositions supposedly clarifying Augustine’s true sentiments, and spread them widely. The Saint with gentleness answered all these writings without acrid reprisals.
Saint Prosper, insofar as is known, was not an ecclesiastic; but being of great virtue and possessing extraordinary talents and learning, he dealt with delicate questions with remarkable insight. Saint Leo the Great, when chosen Pope in 440, invited him to Rome, made him his secretary, and employed him in the most important affairs of the Church. It was primarily Saint Prosper who finally crushed the Pelagian heresy definitively, when it was raising its head in the see of Peter. Its complete overthrow is said to be due to his zeal, learning, and unwearied endeavors. The date of his death remains uncertain, but he was still living in 455, the date at which his Chronicle concludes.
Sources: Les Petits Bollandistes: Vies des Saints, by Msgr. Paul Guérin (Bloud et Barral: Paris, 1882), Vol. 7; Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, a compilation based on Butler’s Lives of the Saints, and other sources by John Gilmary Shea (Benziger Brothers: New York, 1894).
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