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SUMMARY:Saint Raymond of Peñafort
DESCRIPTION:Saint Raymond of Peñafort\nSaint of the Day for January 7\n(1175 – January 6\, 1275)\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nSaint Raymond of Peñafort’s Story\nSince Raymond lived into his hundredth year\, he had a chance to do many things. As a member of the Spanish nobility\, he had the resources and the education to get a good start in life. \nBy the time he was 20\, he was teaching philosophy. In his early 30s he earned a doctorate in both canon and civil law. At 41 he became a Dominican. Pope Gregory IX called him to Rome to work for him and to be his confessor. One of the things the pope asked him to do was to gather together all the decrees of popes and councils that had been made in 80 years since a similar collection by Gratian. Raymond compiled five books called the Decretals. They were looked upon as one of the best organized collections of Church law until the 1917 codification of canon law. \nEarlier\, Raymond had written for confessors a book of cases. It was called Summa de Casibus Poenitentiae. More than simply a list of sins and penances\, it discussed pertinent doctrines and laws of the Church that pertained to the problem or case brought to the confessor. \nAt the age of 60\, Raymond was appointed archbishop of Tarragona\, the capital of Aragon. He didn’t like the honor at all and ended up getting sick and resigning in two years. \nHe didn’t get to enjoy his peace long\, however\, because when he was 63 he was elected by his fellow Dominicans to be the head of the whole Order\, the successor of Saint Dominic. Raymond worked hard\, visited on foot all the Dominicans\, reorganized their constitutions and managed to put through a provision that a master general be allowed to resign. When the new constitutions were accepted\, Raymond\, then 65\, resigned. \nHe still had 35 years to oppose heresy and work for the conversion of the Moors in Spain. He convinced Saint Thomas Aquinas to write his work Against the Gentiles. \nIn his 100th year\, the Lord let Raymond retire. \n\nReflection\nRaymond was a lawyer\, a canonist. Legalism can suck the life out of genuine religion if it becomes too great a preoccupation with the letter of the law to the neglect of the spirit and purpose of the law. The law can become an end in itself\, so that the value the law was intended to promote is overlooked. But we must guard against going to the opposite extreme and seeing law as useless or something to be lightly regarded. Laws ideally state those things that are for the best interests of everyone and make sure the rights of all are safeguarded. From Raymond\, we can learn a respect for law as a means of serving the common good. \n\nSaint Raymond of Peñafort is the Patron Saint of:\nLawyers
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