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Day's Saints

Elizabeth of Hungary
Aignan of Oreleans, Hermit

Gospel Lk 17:26-37

Jesus said to his disciples:
"As it was in the days of Noah,
so it will be in the days of the Son of Man;
they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage up to the day
that Noah entered the ark,
and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot:
they were eating, drinking, buying,
selling, planting, building;
on the day when Lot left Sodom,
fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all.
So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
On that day, someone who is on the housetop
and whose belongings are in the house
must not go down to get them,
and likewise one in the field
must not return to what was left behind.
Remember the wife of Lot.
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it,
but whoever loses it will save it.
I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed;
one will be taken, the other left.
And there will be two women grinding meal together;
one will be taken, the other left."
They said to him in reply, "Where, Lord?"
He said to them, "Where the body is,
there also the vultures will gather."

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Saint Aignan abandoned the things of the world and lived in a cave. Because he became holy, the Lord led him to manage the affairs of the world, and by his holy example, people were delivered from the scourge of the Huns.

Things may be taken away, but do not try to get them back if you want to live in peace. 

Acceptance of the Will of God and abandonment to His divine providence will assure you peace and rest, and shame or sin will not trouble, because the presence of the Lord will deter the enemy.

We are imperfect in both body and soul. If we seek to be perfected, we ought not to waste our time with considerations of the body, when the soul is more important. God provides what we need, and we need to use the grace to know how to manage our lives for the profit of the spirit. We believe in the resurrection of the body and union with the Lord; let us act as if we believed it.

When we pray the Rosary, we recite the Creed as an affirmation of the truth , and if we act as if we believe what we profess, we will not be prevented from uniting with our Lord.