Bienheureuse Jeanne de Toulouse
carmélite tertiaire ( 1286)
Originaire de Toulouse, elle fut acceptée comme tertiaire des carmélites par saint Simon Stock. C'est pourquoi elle est considérée comme la fondatrice du tiers-ordre du Carmel féminin. Elle voua son temps et son argent à la formation des frères carmes. Son culte fut confirmé en 1895.
À Toulouse, au XIVe siècle, la bienheureuse Jeanne, qui mena une vie de recluse près de l’église des Carmes de la ville.
Martyrologe romain
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Heiliger Guido von Pomposa
eigentlich: Wido
Gedenktag katholisch: 31. März
nicht gebotener Gedenktag im Bistum Speyer und Worms: 4. Mai
Name bedeutet: der Waldmann (althochdt. - romanisch)
Abt in Pomposa
* um 970 in Casamari bei Ravenna in Italien
† 31. März (?) 1046 in Borgo San Donnino, heute Fidenza bei Parma in Italien

Abt Guido von Pomposa
Guido sollte von seinem Vater zur Heirat bewogen werden, er aber floh nach Rom und wurde dort KlerikerEin Kleriker ist in der orthodoxen, katholischen, anglikanischen und altkatholischen Kirche ein geweihter Amtsträger, der eine der drei Stufen des Weihesakraments - Diakon, Priester oder Bischof - empfangen hat. Im Unterschied zu den Klerikern bezeichnet man die anderen Gläubigen als Laien. Angehörige von Ordensgemeinschaften gelten, wenn sie nicht zu Priestern geweiht sind, als Laien und in der Orthodoxie als eigener geistlicher Stand. In den protestantischen Kirchen gibt es keine Unterscheidung von Klerus und Laien.. Zurück in Ravenna schloss er sich einem Einsiedler namens Martinus an, lebte drei Jahre mit diesem auf einer Insel im Po und wurde dann Benediktinermönch in Pomposa und 998 dort Abt; das Amt übte er dann 48 Jahre lang aus. Sein Kloster errang unter seiner Führung hohen Ruf und wurde zu einem der berühmtesten Klöster in Norditalien. Auch sein Vater Albert und sein Bruder Gerhard wurden dort schließlich von ihm in den Orden aufgenommen. Petrus Damiani hielt sich zwei Jahre lang im Kloster auf, um die Mönche zu unterrichten.
Als Guido im Alter sein Amt niederlegte und wieder als Einsiedler leben wollte, rief ihn Kaiser Heinrich III. 1046 nach Piacenza, aber Guido erkrankte unterwegs und starb kurz vor dem Ziel.
Guido wurde zunächst in Parma bestattet; 1047 ließ Kaiser Heinrich III. Guidos Reliquien nach Speyer überführen; dort liegen diese heute in der ihm geweihten Kirche und im Magdalenenkloster.
www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienG/Guido_Wido_von_…

Monday of the Fourth week of Lent

Book of Isaiah 65:17-21.
Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight;
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;
No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed.
They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant;

Psalms 30(29):2.4.5-6.11-12a.13b.
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world;
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.

Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy name.
For his anger lasts but a moment;
a lifetime, his good will.

At nightfall, weeping enters in,
but with the dawn, rejoicing.

“Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me;
O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing;
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 4:43-54.
At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death.
Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left.
While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.
He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon."
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe.
(Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

Commentary of the day : The Imitation of Christ
"Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe?"
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Blessed Jane lived in the French town of Toulouse during the 13th century. A Carmelite monastery was founded in the same town in 1240 which exposed Jane to the Carmelite lifestyle and spirituality.
In 1265 when St. Simon Stock, a 13th century reformer of the Carmelites, was passing through Toulouse, Jane met him and requested to be affiliated with the Carmelites. Simon agreed and Jane became the first Third Order Carmelite.
Jane vowed herself to perpetual chastity and applied herself completely to the Carmelite Rule. In addition to many daily holy practices and penances, she reached out to the community and worked to help the sick and poor. One of Jane's primary missions was encouraging the boys of the town to help her serve the poor and help them discern whether or not they were called to be Carmelites.
Blessed Jane is considered to be a founder of the Carmelite tertiary order and is considered to be its first member.
She died in 1286.
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Balbina of Rome V (RM)
Died c. 130. The laus in the Roman Martyrology says: "At Rome, the birthday of Saint Balbina the Virgin, daughter of blessed Quirinus the martyr; she was baptized by Pope Alexander, and chose Christ as her Spouse in her virginity; after completing the course of this world she was buried on the Appian Way near her father." Later, her relics were enshrined in the church dedicated to her on the Aventine. Modern writers question the veracity of the laus (Attwater2, Benedictines). In art, Saint Balbina is portrayed with a chain in her hand or fetters near her. At times she may be shown kissing the chains of captives. She is invoked against scrofula (Roeder).

Benjamin the Deacon M (RM)
Died on March 31, c. 421. Yezdigerd (Isdegerdes), the king of Persia, put an end to the cruel persecution of Christians under his father Sapor (Shapur) II, and there followed 12 years of peace. Bishop Abdas then burned down the Pyraeum, or Temple of Fire, the chief object of worship of the Persians. The king threatened to destroy all Christian churches unless Abdas rebuilt it. The bishop refused, and the king put him to death and initiated a general persecution of Christians, which continued for forty years and intensified under his son Varanes. An account of the terrible cruelties was given by a contemporary, Theodoret (Ecclesiastical History).
Benjamin, a Persian deacon, was beaten and imprisoned for a year for preaching Christianity during the persecution. He was released at the request of the Emperor of Constantinople, who promised he would stop preaching to Varanes' courtiers. As soon as he was released, Benjamin again began proclaiming the Gospel, was arrested and tortured after he said that he would not be silent if again released.
At his trial, he asked the king what he would think of a subject who would renounce his allegiance and join in a war against him. The king ordered reeds thrust under his nails and into the most tender parts of his body and then withdrawn. After this was repeated several times, a knotted stake was inserted into his bowels to rend and tear him. He expired in terrible agony (Attwater2, Barr, Benedictines, Davies, Delaney, White).
He is depicted as a deacon with reeds thrust under his nails; sometimes impaled by knotted stake (Roeder).

Blessed Bonaventure Tornielli, OSM (AC)
(also known as Bonaventure of Forli)
Born at Forli in 1411; died 1491; cultus confirmed in 1911. Bonaventure became a Servite in 1448. At the order of Pope Sixtus IV, he preached continually throughout the papal states and southern Italy. He also served for several years at the vicar- general of the order, while continuing the work for which he was commissioned (Attwater2, Benedictines). Bonaventure is depicted in art as a Servite with a scourge and book. He may also be shown with a discipline and scroll with A penitenza. He is venerated at Forli (Roeder).

Daniel of Murano, OSB Cam. Hermit (AC)
Died 1411. Saint Daniel was a German merchant who became acquainted with the Camaldolese monks of Murano while travelling through Venice, Italy. He lived a hermit's life under their direction, but in his own house, and was wont to spend long periods with them. He was killed by robbers in his cell (Benedictines).

Blessed Guy of Vicogne, O Praem. (AC)
Died 1147. Guy founded the Premonstratensian abbey of Vicogne in the diocese of Arras, where he retired and was superior of the community (Benedictines).

Guy of Pomposa, OSB Abbot M (AC)
(also known as Guido, Guion, Wido, Witen, Wit)
Born near Ravenna, Italy; died 1046. San Guido's parents were proud of their son. He was extremely careful with his appearance and dress in order to please them, until the day he realized that it was a form of vanity. On the feast of Saint Apollinaris, the first bishop of Ravenna, Guy went into town, stripped off his finery, and traded them for the rags of the poor. His horrified parents then watched as he left on a pilgrimage to Rome thus dressed.
In Rome, he was tonsured and placed himself under the direction of a hermit, named Martin, who lived on an island in the Po River. After three years, Martin sent him to the monastery of Pomposa (near Ferrara), which was under Martin's direction together with that of Ferrara, to learn the monastic life in a large community. Thus, Guy began monastic life and became a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint Severus.
Later Guy was nominated by Martin and was confirmed by vote of the community as abbot of Ravenna, then of Pomposa near Ferrara. He loved sacred learning and, at his request, Saint Peter Damian delivered lectures on the Scriptures to his monks for two years. Saint Peter Damian later dedicated his book, De perfectione monachorum, to the holy abbot. During his forty years as abbot, Guy's reputation drew so many others to religious life, including his own father and brother, that the community doubled in size and another monastery had to be built to accommodate them all. Eventually, he delegated the administrative aspects of his office in order to concentrate on the spiritual, especially the direction of souls.
Three times annually he made a retreat in a hermitage three-miles from Ferrara, where he lived in silence, abstinence, fasting, and prayer. His devotions and austerities were heightened during Lent. Although he treated his own body severely, he was extraordinarily tender with his monks, who became devoted to him.
Towards the end of his life, Guy was fiercely, though unjustly, persecuted by Archbishop Heribert of Ravenna and retired again into solitude. His peace was broken, however, by an summons to Piacenza from Emperor Henry III, who had come to Italy and wished to consult the holy man whose reputation had reached the king's ears. Guy took leave of his brothers, saying that he would not see them again. He became ill at Borgo San Donnino (near Parma) and died within days. After his death, Parma and Pomposa vied for custody of his relics. The emperor settled the dispute by taking his remains to the Church of Saint John the Evangelist in Speyer, Germany, which was renamed Saint Guido-Stift. He is the patron of Speyer (Attwater2, Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth, Walsh).

Blessed Jane of Toulouse, OC Tert. (AC)
Born in Toulouse, France; died 1286; cultus confirmed in 1895. Saint Jane (Jeanne) was a Carmelite tertiary who was introduced to the order by Saint Simon Stock. She is venerated as the foundress of the Carmelite third order. She spent her time and substance on training young boy-candidates for the Carmelite Friars (Benedictines).

Machabeo of Armagh, Abbot (AC)
(also known as Gilda-Marchaibeo)
Born in Ireland, 1104; died 1174. Saint Machabeo was abbot of the monastery of SS. Peter and Paul in Armagh from 1134 until his death 40 years later (Benedictines).

Blessed Mary Mamala, Poor Clare Widow (AC)
Died 1453. A member of the Spanish family of the dukes of Medina- Sidonia, Saint Mary married Henry de Guzmán, and in her widowhood joined the Poor Clares of Seville (Benedictines).

Theodolus, Anesius, Felix, Cornelia & Comp. MM (RM)
Date unknown. Martyrs in Proconsular Africa (Benedictines).
www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0331.shtml