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    From rich@1:396/4 to All on Sat Apr 11 09:20:21 2020
    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    12 April =E2=80=93 Blessed Angelo Carletti OFM
    Also known as
    Angelo of Chiavasso
    Angelus=E2=80=A6
    Antonio=E2=80=A6

    (1411-1495)
    =C2 Religious Priest, Theologian, Teacher, Writer.

    Antonio Carletti was born in 1411 to a noble family of Chivasso,
    Italy, near Turin. He attended the University of Bologna, where he
    received the degree of Doctor of Civil and Canon Law and served as a
    magistrate in the Court of Chiavasso. He was appointed to the Senate
    by the Marquis of Monferrato Gian Giacomo. It was probably at the age
    of 30 that he entered the Order of Friars Minor at Santa Maria del
    Monte in Genoa, taking the name Angelo. There he met Francesco della
    Rovere, who was later to become Pope Sixtus IV.

    In 1467 he accompanied Fra Pietro da Napoli, who had been charged by
    the Vicar General to reorder the Franciscan province of Austria.

    In 1472 he was chosen to fill the office of Vicar-General of that
    branch of the Order then known as the Cismontane Observance, founded
    by Bernadine of Siena. He held that office again in 1478, in 1485 and
    in 1490. He founded the monasteries of Saluzzo, Mondov=C3=AC and Pinerolo
    and preached in Mantua, Genoa, Cuneo, Susa, Monferrato and Turin at
    the court of Charles I, Duke of Savoy. He also served as a spiritual
    counselor for Catherine of Genoa and Blessed Paola Gambara.

    In 1480 the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II took possession of Otranto
    and threatened to overrun and lay waste the area. Angelo was appointed Apostolic Nuncio by Pope Sixtus IV and commissioned to preach a
    crusade against the invaders. While the residents of Otranto held out
    under siege, Mehmed II died and the Turkish forces retired from the
    Italian peninsula.

    Again, in 1491, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio and Commissary by
    Innocent VIII, conjointly with the Bishop of Mauriana, and reached a
    peaceful agreement between Catholics and Waldensians.

    In theology he is considered a major adherent of Scotism. His works
    are given by Wadding in the latter's =E2=80=9CScriptores Ordinis Mi= norum=E2=80=9D. The
    most noted of these is the =E2=80=9CSumma de Casibus Conscientiae=E2=80=9D,=
    called
    after him the =E2=80=9CSumma Angelica=E2=80=9D. The first edition of di Chi= vasso's
    =E2=80=9CSumma Angelica=E2=80=9D appeared in the year 1486 and from that ye=
    ar to the
    year 1520 it went through 31 editions, 25 of which are preserved in
    the Royal Library at Munich.

    The =E2=80=9CSumma=E2=80=9D is divided into 659 articles arranged in alphab= etical
    order and forming what would now be called a dictionary of moral
    theology. The most important of these articles is the one entitled =E2=80=9CInterrogationes in Confessione=E2=80=9D. It serves, in a way, as a=
    dictionary
    of moral theology and was found very useful for confessors. Judging
    the character of the work of Bl. Angelo as a theologian from this, his
    most important contribution to moral theology, one is impressed with
    the gravity and fairness that characterized his opinions throughout.
    The =E2=80=9CSumma=E2=80=9D is a valuable guide in matters of conscience an=
    d
    approaches closely, in the treatment of the various articles, to
    casuistic theology as this science is now understood, hence the title
    of the work, =E2=80=9CSumma de Casibus Conscientiae=E2=80=9D.

    Martin Luther considered it a symbol of Catholic orthodoxy and had it
    publicly burned in the public square outside Wittenberg's Elster Ga=
    te
    on December 10, 1520 together with the Bull of Excommunication Exsurge
    Domine, the Code of Canon Law and the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas.

    Angelo Carletti di Chivasso died on April 11, 1495 at the convent of
    St. Anthony at Cuneo. On April 14, 1753, Pope Benedict XIII beatified
    Angelo Carletti,[6] giving official approval to the cult that had for
    long been paid to Angelo, especially by the people of Chivasso and
    Coni. The latter chose him as their special patron.=C2 He is celebrated
    in his native Chivasso, with an traditional country fair and prayer.

    From Anastpaul April 2017

    Thought for the Day =E2=80=93 12 April
    Talented people like Blessed Angelo of Chivasso see the stupidity of
    most personal ambition that seeks to lord it over others;=C2 rather,
    talents and gifts should be for the service of others, for enriching
    and benefiting their lives. How often do we put others down in order
    to make ourselves look better than they? We must recognise that this
    attitude is the exact opposite of the words of the Beatitudes, the
    words of Christ and if we seek such a path, we have a great deal of
    work to do!
    Bl Angelo of Chivasso, pray for us!

    Quote of the Day =E2=80=93 12 April
    =E2=80=9CThe road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must ca=
    st
    off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must
    be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.=E2=80=9D
    --St. John of the Cross


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    Our Lord's Passion
    St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) Doctor of the Church

    In Your hour of holy sadness
    could I share with You, what gladness
    should Your Cross to me be showing.
    Gladness past all thought of knowing,
    bowed beneath Your Cross to die!
    Blessed Jesus, thanks I render
    that in bitter death, so tender,
    You now hear Your supplicant calling,
    Save me Lord and keep from falling
    from You,
    when my hour is night.

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