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Today is the feast of the fascinating Saint Peter Damian, monk, theologian, bishop and doctor of the Church. He was a reluctant abbot of his community; by 1057 Stephen IX twisted Peter’s arm hard enough for him to give up his monastic desert and made him Cardinal-bishop of Ostia. Never could Peter give up church governance.<\/p>\n
One Peter’s biographers writes:<\/p>\n
“St. Peter Damian fought simony with great vigor, and equally vigorously upheld clerical celibacy; and as he supported a severely ascetical, semi-eremitical life for monks, so he was an encourager of common life for the secular clergy. He was a man of great vehemence in all he said and did; it has been said of him that “his genius was to exhort and impel to the heroic, to praise striking achievements and to record edifying examples…an extraordinary force burns in all that he wrote”. In spite of his severity, St. Peter Damian could treat penitents with mildness and indulgence where charity and prudence required it<\/strong>.” Not what you hear too often. We need confessors to be better of their craft: mild, charitable, smart, AND prudent! St Peter, helps us.<\/p>\n My friend J. Michael Thompson wrote this hymn for the feast.<\/p>\n 1. Preach the Word! Proclaim the Kingdom! 2. When sound teaching is deserted, 3. Bravely work in face of trials; 4. Thus Saint Peter, in his teaching, 5. Glory be to God the Father, J. Michael Thompson, Today is the feast of the fascinating Saint Peter Damian, monk, theologian, bishop and doctor of the Church. He was a reluctant abbot of his community; by 1057 Stephen IX twisted Peter’s arm hard enough for him to give up his monastic desert and made him Cardinal-bishop of Ostia. Never could Peter give up church … Continue reading St Peter Damian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32045],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37036,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37030\/revisions\/37036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhether welcome or disdained,
\nTell the world of Jesus\u2019 coming\u2014
\nPatiently proclaim His Name!<\/p>\n
\nWhen all novelties are sought,
\nWhen the Truth is scorned for fables,
\nThen this lesson must be brought:<\/p>\n
\nMake the Lord\u2019s Good News your life!
\nServe the Lord by serving others,
\nFaithful bide through ev\u2019ry strife.<\/p>\n
\nSought to follow Paul\u2019s command.
\nHearing him, we seek to follow,
\nHolding to the Master\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n
\nGlory be to God the Son,
\nGlory be to God the Spirit:
\nEver Three and ever One!<\/p>\n
\nCopyright \u00a9 2010,
\nWorld Library Publications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"