Touchiness

Touchiness

It is not enough to stop at our natural affections. We must not spare
our sensitiveness, that excessive touchiness which reduces us to tears
at the slightest word or the least contradiction, at the mere
appearance, I do not say of contempt but of inattention or
indifference or coolness on the part of others. There are very few
Christians who have brought their sensitiveness completely under
control, who in the course of their ordinary day ask for nothing, take
exception to nothing and are indifferent to praise or blame. Alas!
people complain, and not without reason, that pious folk are actually
more sensitive, more difficult to get on with, take offence for this
rebuke, both for your own sake and for the honour of religion. Extreme
sensitiveness is an unfailing source of distress. Our peace of mind is
destroyed, we become suspicious of our neighbours, we look upon
everything with a resentful eye, charity is lessened, and we run the
risk of giving a fatal form to our feeling of resentment.

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16 July =E2=80=93 Blessed Ceslaus Odrowaz OP
Also known as
Ceslaus of Cracow
Ceslaus of Krakow
Ceslaus of Poland
Ceslaus of Wroclaw
Czeslaw

Memorials
15 July
17 July (Dominicans)
20 July (Wroclaw, Poland)
4 July on some calendars
16 July on some calendars

 (c 1184=E2=80=93 1242)
 (Brother of St Hyacinth =E2=80=93 Polish =E2=80=93 Jacek) Priest and Friar=
 of the
Order of Preachers/Dominicans, Confessor, Spiritual Advisor,
miracle-worker =E2=80=93 born as Czes=C5=82aw Odrowaz in Kamie=C5=84 =C5=9A=
l=C4=85ski in Silesia,
Poland and died in 1242 in Wroclaw, Poland of natural causes.
Patronage =E2=80=93 Wroclaw.
Born of the noble family of Odrow=C4=85=C5=BC in the town of Kamie=C5=84 =
=C5=9Al=C4=85ski in
Silesia, Poland, he is believed to have been Saint Hyacinth Odrow=C4=85=C5=
=BC=E2=80=99s
brother.

Having completed his philosophical studies in Prague, he went onto
study theology and jurisprudence at the University of Bologna and
possibly that of Paris. After being Ordained a Priest, in about 1218
he accompanied his uncle Ivo, Bishop of Cracow, to Rome. Hearing of
the great sanctity of Saint Dominic, who had recently been attributed
the miracle of resuscitating the nephew of Cardinal Stefano di Fossa
Nova who had been killed in a fall from his horse, Ceslaus, together
with St Hyacinth, sought admission into the Order of Friars Preachers.

In 1222, accompanied by a group of his fellow friars, he arrived in
Cracow whence he soon set off for Prague. It was there that he set up
the first Dominican Monastery. A few years later, Ceslaus was
appointed Abbot of a Priory in the Polish city of Wroc=C5=82aw.

At the feet of the Statue of Blessed Ceslaus above, you will see a dog
carrying a torch.  The dog is the symbol of the Dominicans.  It comes
from a play on words in Latin: =E2=80=9CDominicanus=E2=80=9D sounds like =
=E2=80=9CDomini
canis=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9Cdog of the Lord.=E2=80=9D A traditional s=
tory is that when St
Dominic=E2=80=99s mother was pregnant with him, she dreamed of a dog runnin=
g
around the whole world with a torch in its mouth. When her son became
the Founder of an Order of Preachers =E2=80=93 spreading the light of the
Gospel throughout the world =E2=80=93 this dream was looked on as prophetic=
.
And so the symbol of a dog carrying a torch has become a symbol of the
Dominican order.

A pious and generous man, Ceslaus became spiritual advisor to St
Hedwig of Silesia. In those days, Poland was plagued by numerous
attacks by the Tartars. In 1240 they laid siege to the city of Wroc=C5=82aw
and the townspeople naturally turned to Ceslaus, who had made a name
for himself as a holy man, for spiritual comfort and help. Ceslaus=E2=80=99
ardent prayers and outstanding moral courage miraculously averted the
fall of the city. Ceslaus remained in Wroclaw until his death in 1242.

He was raised to the altars by Pope Clement XI in 1713.  In 1963, Pope
Paul VI recognised Bl Ceslaus =E2=80=93 next to St John the Baptist =E2=80=
=93 as the
main Patron Saint of City of Wroc=C5=82aw.  In iconography, Bl Ceslaus is
portrayed with a ball (or column) of fire above his head, which
appeared during the siege of Wroclaw. The miracle horrified the
invaders and made them run away and subsequently retreat.

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Saint Quote:
A great help to you always be a great love for, and unlimited
confidence in, Our Blessed Lady, Help of Christians, Mother of God,
and your Mother also. She says to you: "Whoever is little, let him
come to me." If you will love her, she will shower on you many graces
in this life, and be an assurance to you of Heaven hereafter.
--St. John Bosco

Bible Quote:
For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave
to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they
are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together,
let no man put asunder.  (Matt. 19:5-6)


Entrusting Ourselves to God
=E2=80=9CIf a boat is running with the stream, it has little need of the pu=
ll
of the oars, nor of the guidance of the helm.
It=E2=80=99s passage is smooth and peaceful.
The same applies to those who place absolute confidence in God in
their journey through life.
...Why should I worry, when I know that whatever God has in store for
me, is for my own good?
...There is no need to be disturbed.
Everything must be accomplished for God, with God and in God and, with
complete abandonment to His will.=E2=80=9D
Antonio Cardinal Bacci


Bible Quote
=E2=80=9CI am the mother of fair love, and of fear,
and of knowledge, and of holy hope.
In me is all grace of the way and of the truth,
in me is all hope of life and of virtue.
Come over to me, all ye that desire me,
and be filled with my fruits.
For my spirit is sweet above honey,
and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb.
My memory is unto everlasting generations.=E2=80=9D  (Eccl. 24:24-28)