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Today's Saint

St. Charles of Sezze (1613-1670)

Charles thought that God was calling him to be a missionary in India, but he never got there. God had something better for this 17th-century successor to Brother Juniper.

Born in Sezze, southeast of Rome, Charles was inspired by the lives of Salvator Horta and Paschal Baylon to become a Franciscan; he did that in 1635. Charles tells us in his autobiography, "Our Lord put in my heart a determination to become a lay brother with a great desire to be poor and to beg alms for his love."

Charles served as cook, porter, sacristan, gardener and beggar at various friaries in Italy. In some ways, he was "an accident waiting to happen." He once started a huge fire in the kitchen when the oil in which he was frying onions burst into flames.

One story shows how thoroughly Charles adopted the spirit of St. Francis. The superior ordered Charles — then porter — to give food only to traveling friars who came to the door. Charles obeyed this direction; simultaneously the alms to the friars decreased. Charles convinced the superior the two facts were related. When the friars resumed giving goods to all who asked at the door, alms to the friars increased also.

At the direction of his confessor Charles wrote his autobiography, The Grandeurs of the Mercies of God. He also wrote several other spiritual books. He made good use of his various spiritual directors throughout the years; they helped him discern which of Charles’ ideas or ambitions were from God. Charles himself was sought out for spiritual advice. The dying Pope Clement IX called Charles to his bedside for a blessing.

Charles had a firm sense of God’s providence. Father Severino Gori has said, "By word and example he recalled in all the need of pursuing only that which is eternal" (Leonard Perotti, St. Charles of Sezze: An Autobiography, page 215).

He died at San Francesco a Ripa in Rome and was buried there. Pope John XXIII canonized him in 1959.

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Father Gori says that the autobiography of Charles "stands as a very strong refutation of the opinion, quite common among religious people, that saints are born saints, that they are privileged right from their first appearance on this earth. This is not so. Saints become saints in the usual way, due to the generous fidelity of their correspondence to divine grace. They had to fight just as we do, and more so, against their passions, the world and the devil" (St. Charles of Sezze: An Autobiography, page viii).

Carlosein:
ewo all because of woman

all because of wife

ebos:
Oby & Viee oya make una no kill me.

Ok, If una find me a wife - make una tell Carlosein say the babe na no go area so that him no go trespass because Carlosein eyes self no good. Oya, make una post the pic so that me go make my own pic available right now. Oya, pic, pic and pic. Again, if Carlosein come seize that one - abi una no fit bring another find babe? Haba! Abi make my head enter for am.?

How we go kill our dear ebos

This wan wey u dey ask for the pic, remember no b that time wey them dey use pic marry o.  We don enter civilization.   what about if we post d pic and u no kom like her or u like am and another person eyes com dey inside.  I think e better make u see am face to face to avoid snatching.

FINE MORNING AND DAY AHEAD TO EVERYONE

ebos:
Viee, u no fit get me for night at all.  phone them dey dey switch-off till 6am   So, nobody fit get opportunity come disturb my sleep.

Oby, see I no dey as u think o.  Even if na wife wey I don already mary better for another man and that my wife come say na him he want. Opari  - me go say no problem. Come be the one wey una wan bring for me.  That one go even better so that I go quick comot hand before another man go come shoot me for wetin I no dey drag with am.   Na my life be that - true talk.

your wife no go ever b like that.  But remember sey na for better and for worse.

If Carlosein say na that one him go want - no wahala afterall he is my brother and I will demand fro another one. There are many pretty girls in Naija. Just post the pic

and u come dey ask sey make them find u wife.  Which wan u dey?

If Carlosein say na that one him go want - no wahala afterall he is my brother and I will demand fro another one. There are many pretty girls in Naija. Just post the pic

Talk true Ebos, you sure sey na from your mind? what about if e come happen to b d very one wey u dey find.  You fit risk am?

ha!
Oby, did u hear see that?
ha! again
u never even marry d girl u don dey talk of oda fyn chicks for Nigeria?
and i knw chicks too dey lik ripe paw paw almost oyibo men
w need assurance say u go take this chick as your one and only abeg

my sister i wonder o. ebos na so e wan b?

really? do u use MTN?
abeg gv me your no

yawa don gas

you go still research the fact that fatima is a muslim name

Or better still he can research with d muslim and ask them all they know about Fatima, what it means.

Please, you guys should answer him now   He has not received any answer.  A certain Chairman wanted just 3 people to make comments before he could conclude and issue.  After 3 people made their comments, the chairman still asked again just 3 comments more.  Reason, they had not hit the points the Chairman wanted.

If the above answer is not answer, then what is it? Question?

hey holythug read replies above

yes my dear look above u and get d reply u need.

pele

eshe o

Oby, my sister, na good reason o - make I no come see double.     Remember, no be only Forex me I dey do.

still d reason no reach, u can't do business till midnite

what?

yes o and still is with God

What about you?

choosen

who are you asking?

assuran

i dey fine o my sister

Great to hear that, at least work no stress u, like e dey stress us at times

Make una pity me o. I dey get marathon loss o. My first trading for this year be give me close to 40k profit and the second day was also good but things come later change for bad. E dey unusual to me. I no fit understand at all. Dem come wipe everything even the new capital wey I use start for this year. Now, I wan deposit another money. Really mean wetin I dey talk. A lot of distractions here no be small. I never experience this kind thing before. I no come understand my own PH again o.

So, e be like say I go begin go for Holidays where me go dey alone. I say make I tell una because I go even disappear for Nairaland for a while, den I go resurface after me don recover and hit them back. Anytime from Monday, I fit begin my Holidays and me no go show face for Nairaland, but make una try carry the thread dey go ahead.

This wan no b reason y u go disappear for this thread o, because i no gree at all, at all.

My Chairman bin wan kill person here since morning.

Every body just dey run helter skelter money good o

i got to go now. Till tomorrow

Bye

That is how it is at times. Just take am easy.

Ebos na how u make profit we wan to dey hear and not loss abeg o.

Carlosein how u dey?

come o i never see lawyer for sometime now, hope no b as matter of too much housework.

So, Viee know the truth na him you wan go bring me wife wey wan change him mind because I dey run marathon loss. Abeg, post the pic of the person wey you say you don bring for Retired Chief ebos. Na fair or dark girl wan change mind? Make I know whether me go make amend or still stick to my decision

i no fit laugh viee sorry for am

@holythug

plz no disrespect, would just like to knw

once came across this
OUR LADY OF FATIMA
and i was made to bliv that FATIMA is a muslim name, can someone enlighten me plz

The Fatima the muslim pronounced is quite different.
Fátima is a place in Portugal where our Lady appeared to 3 shepherd children.

exactly!
also a lesson for those already married
how work now?

Work is fine not stressful like yesterday

fundamental attitude in married life

That was a wonderful and interesting post. Learning the techniques to prepare me ahead of mine

Lord, I know in my heart that only you and your will for me offer true happiness for my life. How often I have experienced the fleetingness and even deception of other hopes. Yet still my heart seeks myself, and misses opportunities to invest in you. Help me, Lord, to find everything I long for in you.

AMEN

Today's Saint

St. Berard and Companions (d. 1220)


Preaching the gospel is often dangerous work. Leaving one’s homeland and adjusting to new cultures, governments and languages is difficult enough; but martyrdom sometimes caps all the other sacrifices.

In 1219 with the blessing of St. Francis, Berard left Italy with Peter, Adjute, Accurs, Odo and Vitalis to preach in Morocco. En route in Spain Vitalis became sick and commanded the other friars to continue their mission without him.

They tried preaching in Seville, then in Muslim hands, but made no converts. They went on to Morocco where they preached in the marketplace. The friars were immediately apprehended and ordered to leave the country; they refused. When they began preaching again, an exasperated sultan ordered them executed. After enduring severe beatings and declining various bribes to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ, the friars were beheaded by the sultan himself on January 16, 1220.

These were the first Franciscan martyrs. When Francis heard of their deaths, he exclaimed, "Now I can truly say that I have five Friars Minor!" Their relics were brought to Portugal where they prompted a young Augustinian canon to join the Franciscans and set off for Morocco the next year. That young man was Anthony of Padua. These five martyrs were canonized in 1481.

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Before St. Francis, the Rules of religious orders made no mention of preaching to the Muslims. In the Rule of 1223, Francis wrote: "Those brothers who, by divine inspiration, desire to go among the Saracens and other nonbelievers should ask permission from their ministers provincial. But the ministers should not grant permission except to those whom they consider fit to be sent" (Chapter 12).

how work?

work dey, i dey push am small small

Carlosein i dey salute o

Una be my sisters now, so problem no fit dey between brothers and sisters.  Even if problem dey sey we be human, e go be minor one and we go settle it.  But I no tell u lie, fun still dey.  As for money, e be like say na free una charge   But, if una do good job , den payment fit dey,  e FIT be annually i.e and again if God make am possible. But e fit dey possible. Me I never know

we agree sef sey u bi our brother, but agree with me sey some business no dey identify brother or sister.
But make i see if Viee go fit agree to this term.  Viee may be we go sorry for am.  Wetin u think?   

Oby u see this kain foul play?
Already i don find his missing rip sef but as he dey talk now
e bi like say we go review d trms and conditions even further
besides d chick wey go ansa Mrs. Ebos na end of discussion
and we did it in record time, so d terms must change oooo

Ebos u hear am now, play ur ball well (settle us wit d pay) then u will see d potential Mrs Ebos viee i like u jo, u b correct business lady.

@viee

my sis ko easy o but i dey rough am
how body?

body dey my sis. Today work no easy make i no lie. Come o wetin ebos dey talk sef.