-- Proverbs 29:1 --

-- Proverbs 29:1 --

A man who remains stiff-necked after many rebukes
will suddenly be destroyed without remedy.
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Making the same mistake over and over is an invitation to disaster.
Eventually people have to face the consequences of refusing to learn.
If their mistake is refusing God's invitations or rejecting his
commands, the consequences will be especially serious. In the end, God
may have to turn them away. May sure you are not stiff-necked.

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March 4th - St. Casimir

St. Casimir, prince of Poland, was born in the royal palace at Krakow
on October 3, 1458.

When the King went to Lithuania to arrange affairs there, Casimir was
placed in charge of Poland and from 1481 to 1483 administered the
State with great prudence and justice. About this time his father
tried to arrange a marriage for him with the daughter of Frederick
III, but Casimir preferred to remain single. Shortly afterward he fell
sick, and died at the court of Grodno on March 3, 1484. He is the
patron saint of Poland and Lithuania.


Comments of the late Prof. Plinio Corr=C3=AAa de Oliveira: (died 1995)

I would like to emphasize that St. Casimir lived in the royal court of
his parents, Casimir IV the Great and Queen Elizabeth of Habsburg, to
point out that he lived his life at court and became a saint there.

Sometimes, because of a certain erroneous vision of sanctity, one is
led to think that only persons in the religious life =E2=80=93 priests, mon=
ks
and nuns =E2=80=93 can become saints. According to this mentality, it is so
rare for a layperson to become a saint that one who does so should be
considered an exception to the rule, a kind of miracle. However a lay
saint is not an exception to the rule; it is the normal accomplishment
of the plan of Divine Providence for lay persons.

The fact that St. Casimir became a saint living in a royal court shows
that the court was a place where one can live and be a saint. In this
sense, it constitutes a kind of eulogy to the ambience in which he
lived. This fact refutes the revolutionary propaganda that says that
the courts were necessarily corrupt. Frequently, as we can verify on
our calendar, there were saints who were kings and queens, saints who
were princes and princesses, and saints who were nobles. Very often
sanctity perfumed the courts. Therefore, those courts, instead of
being seats of moral corruption and perdition, were often places where
sanctity throve, flourished, and exerted a considerable influence.

In this sense, the ambience of court in many ways realized the ideal
of Christian Civilization. What should an ideal court be in a
Christian Civilization? The king is an earthly image of God, and his
court should be an image of the heavenly court. In an ideal Catholic
court, the saintly king would be surrounded by courtesans who should
be images of the angels and saints before God thrice holy. Now, the
fact that this ideal has been partially realized at certain times in
History is something that should fill us with joy. These examples show
that the Catholic courts were good, and they also demonstrate how the
revolutionary propaganda lies when it talks about the courts.

Someone could object and say that in one thousand years of History,
anyone can find anything to prove a thesis. Therefore, just because
many saints can be found in the courts, this does not prove what I
said

I can answer this objection. First, the argument is not true. If it
were true, we should have a proportional number of saints in the
governments and representative houses of the liberal republican
system. This system has been established almost everywhere since the
American and French Revolutions =E2=80=93 for more than 200 years. We do no=
t
find saints, however, flourishing in these political ambiences, but
quite the opposite.

Second, according to the laws of History, normally great virtue or
great vice does not appear isolated. It appears, to use a metaphor,
like a mountain peak on a whole chain of mountains. That means that if
you have a saint in one place, surrounding him you normally have a
number of people who are very good Catholics even though they are not
saints, a greater number of upright people, and a multitude of just
decent people. Sanctity is the greatest fruit of a whole social group
that aspires to follow Our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, by showing
that many saints existed in the Catholic courts of times past, we
demonstrate that those ambiences were compatible with sanctity and
good on many levels. So, the saints who lived in those courts were not
just exceptional cases, but reflections of the whole.

I think that St. Casimir is pleased that we are remembering these
points about him. I hope and pray that from his heavenly throne he
will protect us in our counter-revolutionary fight.

http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j010sdSt.Casimir3-4.htm


Bible Quote:
19 Where words are many, sin is not wanting;
but those who restrain their lips do well.
20 Choice silver is the tongue of the just;
the heart of the wicked is of little worth.
21 The lips of the just nourish many,
but fools die for want of sense.*  Proverbs 10:19-21:

* [10:21] The wise by their words maintain others in life whereas the
foolish cannot keep themselves from sin that leads to premature death.

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Sabbatum Sanctum
By Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

I look at You, my Lord Jesus
and think of Your most holy Body
and I keep it before me,
as a pledge of my own resurrection.
Though I die, as die I certainly shall,
nevertheless, I shall not forever die,
for I shall rise again.
O You, who are the Truth,
I know and believe with my whole heart,
that this very flesh of mine will rise again.
I know, base and odious as it is at present,
that it will one day, if I be worthy,
be raised incorruptible
and altogether beautiful and glorious.
This I know,
this by Your grace,
I will ever keep before me.
Amen