-- Psalm 55:22 --

-- Psalm 55:22 --

Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let the righteous fall.
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Every circumstance in life is lovingly sifted through the Lord's fingers
before reaching us. From His perspective, those things which are too heavy
for us are opportunities for dependence upon Him. God never intended for any
of us to carry a burden without him. He says to give it to him and he
promises to sustain us. Casting all your cares upon God means releasing them
fully into his control. You will no longer be free to manage and manipulate
the situation toward your desired outcome, but the freedom Christ offers
will release you from the burden's oppressive weight. He'll sustain you with
His peace as you trust Him.

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August 19th - St. Cumin, Bishop in Ireland

HE [1] was son to Fiachna, king of West Munster, and born in the year
592. He early embraced a monastic state, and after some years was made
abbot of Keltra, an isle in the lake Dergdarg, upon the river Shannon,
sixteen miles from Limerick. Bishop Usher, in his sylloge of ancient
Irish epistles, has favoured the public with an excellent letter of
St. Cumin to Segienus, the fourth abbot of Hy, who died in 651. The
purport is to persuade the monks of that house, whose authority bore
great sway in the Pictish and Irish churches, to join with the Roman
universal church as to the time of celebrating Easter, which
conformity he enforces with great strength of reasoning, and with
admirable charity, humility, and piety. (This epistle alone suffices
to give us a high idea of the learning, eloquence, and extraordinary
virtue of the author. In it, speaking of the relics of saints, he
testifies that he had been an eye-witness to several miraculous cures
wrought by them. [2]) But a veneration for the memory of St. Columban,
who by mistake had followed that practice, fixed them some time longer
in their erroneous computation of that festival. This difference,
however, was only in a point of discipline, nor did it amount to the
guilt of schism where it did not proceed to a breach of communion. The
councils of Arles and Nice had condemned the Quartodecimans, who
celebrated Easter with the Jews always on the 14th day of the first
moon after the spring equinox, which was to revive the Jewish
ceremonies; but the practice of the Scots and Irish receded from that
error, though not so much as to come up to the perfect standard of the
Nicene decree; for, whereas that council ordered Easter never to be
kept on the 14th day, that the Christian feast might never fall in
with that of the Jews, these remote monks, by some mistake, had
adopted a practice of keeping it on the Sunday, when it fell on the
14th day. Obstinacy might in the end render such a practice in some a
criminal disobedience; which simplicity easily excused in others. This
letter and zealous endeavours of St. Cumin, disposed many to inquire
into, and some time after to embrace, the discipline of the universal
church.

  St. Cumin was afterwards advanced to the episcopal dignity, and has
left us a hymn, and a collection of penitential canons, [3] in which
somethings are taken from the penitential of St. Columban; but the
true rite of observing Easter is confirmed. Ughelli informs us, [4]
that St. Cumin, resigning his bishopric in Ireland, retired to the
monastery of Bobbio, in Italy, where St. Columban had left this mortal
life in 615. He lived there in great sanctity twenty years, and died,
according to Usher, in 682, but according to the Annals of the Four
Masters in 661, the 12th of November. Luitprand, the most munificent
and pious king of the Lombards, who ascended the throne in 712,
erected a sumptuous monument to his memory at Bobbio. He is honoured
in Ireland and Italy on the 19th of August. See Usher, Antiqu. c. ult.
p. 503 and 539. Also Cave, Hist. Littér. ad an. 640, t. 1, p. 584.
Ceillier, t. 17, p. 659. Mabillon in Analectis, p. 17, Sir James Ware,
l. 1, de Scriptor Hib. p. 34.

Note 1. This Cumin, who was bishop of Cluain-ferta Brendain, is
surnamed Foda, or the Long; to distinguish him from another Cumin
surnamed Fionn, or the White, abbot of Hij, who, according to the Four
Masters, died the 24th of February, 668.
Note 2. Vidimus oculis nostria puellam cæcam omnino ad has reliquias
oculos aperientem, et paralyticum ambulantem, et multa dæmonia ejecta.
S. Cumin ep. ad Segienum abb. Hyens. ap. Usser. in Syll. Ep. Hybera.
ep. 11, p. 34.
Note 3. Lib. de Pœnit. mensura, Bibl. Patr. t. 12, p. 41.
Note 4. Ughelli, Italia sacra, t. 4.


Saint Quote:
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of
contemplation, who are so removed from the world that they have no
business on earth. They do not labour, but by contemplation alone they
already live in heaven.
--St. Anthony of Padua

Psalm 34:4-7 (RSVCE)
4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
  and delivered me from all my fears.
5 Look to him, and be radiant;
  so your[a] faces shall never be ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
  and saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of the Lord encamps
  around those who fear him, and delivers them.


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A hymn of praise, to our Blessed Mother:

Hail, Mother most pure!
Hail, Virgin renowned!
Hail, Queen with the stars,
As a diadem, crowned.

Above all the angels,
In glory untold,
Standing next to the King,
In a vesture of gold.

O Mother of mercy!
O Star of the wave!
O Hope of the guilty!
O Light of the grave!

Through thee may we come,
To the haven of rest;
And see heaven's King,
In the courts of the Blest!  Amen.