-- Philippians 3:7-9 --

 -- Philippians 3:7-9 --

But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for
Christ.  Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the
excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered
the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain
Christ. And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of
the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of
God: justice in faith.  [Php 3:7-9] DRB
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After Paul considered everything he had accomplished in his life, he
said that it was all "a loss" when compared with the greatness of
knowing Christ. This is a profound statement about values: a person's
relationship with Christ is more important than anything else. To know
Christ should be our ultimate goal. Consider your values. Do you place
anything above your relationship with Christ? If your priorities are
wrong, how will you reorder

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10 October =E2=80=93 Saint John of Bridlington OSA
Also known as
John Thwing
John of Thwing
John Twenge
John Thwing of Bridlington

Memorial
10 October
formerly 11 October
9 October among the Augustinian Canons Regular
1 December as one of the Martyrs of Oxford University
21 October on some calendars

Priest, Prior, miracle-worker. In his lifetime he enjoyed a reputation
for great holiness and for miraculous powers. John was commended for
the integrity of his life, his scholarship , his humility and his
quiet generosity. Born in 1319 at Thwing (near Bridlington),
Yorkshire, England and died on 10 October 1379 of natural causes.

The Roman Martyrology states: =E2=80=9CIn Bridlington in England, St John, =
a
Priest, who, Prior of the Monastery of the Canons Regular of St
Augustine, shone with prayer, austerity and meekness.=E2=80=9C

Born  in the village of Thwing on the Yorkshire Wolds, about nine
miles west of Bridlington, he was of the Yorkshire family Twenge,
which during the English Reformation would supply two Roman Catholic
Priest-martyrs and was also instrumental in establishing the Institute
of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Bar Convent, York. John was educated at
a school in the village from the age of five, completing his studies
at Oxford University. He then entered the Augustinian Canons Regular
community of Bridlington Priory. He carried out his duties with
humility and diligence, and was in turn Novice Master, almsgiver,
preacher and sub-prior. He became Canon of the Priory in 1346 and was
eventually elected Prior in 1356. John initially declined out of
humility but after being re-elected, probably in 1361, he took on the
duties of Prior in January 1362. He served as Prior for 17 years
before his death on 10 October 1379.

In his lifetime he enjoyed a reputation for great holiness and for
miraculous powers. On one occasion he changed water into wine. On
another, five seamen from Hartlepool in danger of shipwreck called
upon God in the name of His servant, John of Bridlington, whereupon
the Prior himself appeared to them in his Canonical habit and brought
them safely to shore. The men left their vessel at the harbour and
walked to the Monastery where they thanked John in person for saving
their lives.

=E2=80=9CThe Vision of William Staunton,=E2=80=9D recounts William=E2=80=99=
s visit to St
Patrick=E2=80=99s Purgatory where he sees both purgatory and the earthly
paradise and is conducted through the otherworld by St John of
Bridlington and St Ive.

After his death from natural causes, the fame of the miracles brought
by his intercession, spread rapidly through the land. Alexander
Neville, Archbishop of York, charged his suffragans and others, to
take evidence with a view to his Canonisation. Richard le Scrope,
Archbishop of York, assisted by the Bishops of Durham and Carlisle,
officiated at a solemn translation of his body on 11 March 1401. Pope,
Boniface IX, shortly afterwards Canonised him. The Canonisation had
been lost but the original Bull was unearthed in the Vatican archives
by T A Twemlow, who was engaged in research work there for the British
government.

At the English Reformation, Henry VIII was asked to spare the
magnificent Shrine of the Saint but it was destroyed in 1537. The nave
of the Church, restored in 1857, is all that now remains of
Bridlington Priory.

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=E2=80=9CYou lack one thing =E2=80=93 go, sell what you have and give to th=
e poor and
you will have treasure in heaven and come, follow me.=E2=80=9D=E2=80=A6Mark=
 10:21

REFLECTION =E2=80=93 =E2=80=9CThis, beloved, is the way in which we found o=
ur
salvation, Jesus Christ, the High Priest who offers our gifts, the
patron and helper in our weakness (Heb 10:20; 7:27; 4:15). It is
through Him, that we look straight at the heavens above. Through Him,
we see mirrored, God=E2=80=99s faultless and transcendent countenance. Thro=
ugh
Him, the eyes of our heart were opened. Through Him, our unintelligent
and darkened mind shoots up into the light=E2=80=A6.
Let us, therefore, reflect brethren, of what clay we were made, what
and who we were when we entered the world, out of what grave and
darkness, our Maker and Creator has brought us into the world, where
He has prepared His benefits before our birth. Since, then, we owe all
these blessings to Him, we are obliged to thank Him in every way.=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=A6 St Pope Clement I (c 35 =E2=80=93 c 99) =E2=80=93 Pope from c 90 =
to c 99 =E2=80=93 Letter to
the Corinthians, =C2=A7 36-38

Saint Quote:
The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us
with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.
--St. John Eudes

Bible Quote:
 For my people have done two evils. They have forsaken me, the
fountain of living water, and have digged to themselves cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13) DRV


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Jesu

Jesu, bread of life, protect us;
Shepherd King, do not reject us;
In Thy happy fold collect us,
And partakers of the bliss elect us,
Which shall never see an end.

Thou, the wisest and the mightiest,
Who us here with food delightest,
Seat us at Thy banquet brightest
With the blessed Thou invitest
An eternal feast to spend.