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<b><span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">John Ogilvie _ March 10 1982 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-size: 19.0pt;">A Reading about St John Ogilvie <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Adapted from
Butlers Lives of the Saints (Thurston Edition</span><span style="color: #474646; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">1942) March</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">, </span></span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">pp. 179-184. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3060766603794550879" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">John Ogilvie
was born in 1579 near Keith in Banffshire. The Ogilvie family, like many
Scottish families at that time, </span><span style="color: #091c3b; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">w</span><span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">as partly Catholic and partly
Presbyterian, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cbbdbb; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.5pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">but John's father, though not
unfriendly to the old faith, brought his eldest son up <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">as a
Calvinist, and as such sent him at the age of thirteen to be educated on the
Continent</span><span style="color: #010000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">There John became interested in the religious controversies
which were popular in France. The best Catholic and Calvinist protagonists took
part in these disputations, which profoundly influenced the intellectual world.
John Ogilvie became confused and uncertain</span><span style="color: #010000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">but he came to fasten on two texts of
Scripture: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">"God
wills all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth," and,
"Come to me all you who suffer and are burdened</span><span style="color: #312b29; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">and I will
refresh you." He began to see that the Catholic Church embraced all kinds
of people and in her alone could be found men and women of every class. These
reflections and the testimony of the martyrs decided him. To belong to the
Church of the martyrs he became a Catholic and was received at the Scots
College in Louvain in 1596, at the age of seventeen</span><span style="color: #010000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0a0506; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">He spent the next three years in various educational
establishments. Six months of this period was spent with the Scottish Benedictines
at Ratisbon, studying the arts. Then at the age of twenty he went to a Jesuit
college; he later joined the Society of Jesus, was ordained priest and
eventually found his way, after repeated requests, back to his native Scotland.
He set to work trying to win back his fellow countrymen to the Catholic faith.
Most of his work was concentrated around Edinburgh, Glasgow and Renfrewshire.
But his time was short. His missionary efforts lasted for less than a year. It
was when he was attempting to meet someone who claimed to be interested in
becoming a Catholic that he was betrayed to archbishop Spottiswoode, a former
Presbyterian minister and who was now one of </span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">the King's most capable
lieutenants. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">For five
months John Ogilvie was subjected to continual harassment, humiliation,
interrogation and torture. He bore all of this with equanimity, courage and
even humour</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">His spirit could not be broken, and he was able to hold his own
in the involved religious and political questions they put to him in an attempt
to trap him</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">After his second trial John Ogilvie seems to have been treated
more kindly</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">. </span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">The heroism he had shown in prison had been reported far and
wide throughout the country, and even his keepers, including the archbishop,
hoped that he would recant and accept the royal supremacy. Soon, however, a
questionnaire was presented to him which came from King James himself, dealing
with the relations between Church and State. To these John Ogilvie could only
return answers which practically sealed his fate. Although his treatment in
prison grew more rigorous, he continued to write an account of his arrest and
experiences in prison which he had begun earlier, and he managed to smuggle the
sheets of paper to friends outside. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">John Ogilvie
was eventually sentenced to death for high treason. But even on the gallows he
was offered his freedom and honours ifhe would renounce his religion. "For
that, he said, "I am prepared to give even a hundred lives</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">" On this
day, therefore, the 10th of March, 1615, John Ogilvie was martyred for his
faith</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">.
</span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">Cornelius
a Lapide, the young professor who taught John Ogilvie in Louvain, wrote proudly
in later years that Ogilvie had been his catechumen but became a martyr worthy
to take his place with the martyrs of the early persecutions</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 15.5pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Adapted from Butlers Lives of the
Saints (Thurston Edition</span><span style="color: #474646; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">1942) March</span><span style="color: #020000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">, </span><span style="color: #0d080a; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">pp. 179-184. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>A Nigerian monk who spent the last 14 years of his life at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey is one step away from sainthood.</b></div>
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Father Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi was beautified by Pope John Paul II on 22 March 1998.</div>
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For the last 11 years hundreds of Catholics have gathered in Leicestershire in pilgrimage to Blessed Cyprian.</div>
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To be elevated to the state of saint, a second miracle must be proved.</div>
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<b>In the beginning</b></div>
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Iwene Tansi was born in 1903 at Igboazunu in Nigeria, later receiving the name of Michael at his baptism.</div>
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As a young man he worked as a teacher, before beginning the journey towards becoming a priest.</div>
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Tansi was ordained for the Onitsha diocese at the age of 34, and became a man of great prayer and personal sacrifice.</div>
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He arrived at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey near Coalville in 1950 ready to start follow a monastic life, joining a community of 71 people.</div>
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As Father Cyprian his daily life would have very similar to that which the monks follow today.</div>
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They monks wake early to attend the first church service of that day at 03:30, with seven following church visits before bed.</div>
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Manual labour would features heavily in their day. Fr Cyprian worked in the vegetable gardens and orchard which in his day stood on the site of the 2009 pilgrimage.</div>
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Father Anselm Stark has been at the monastery for 55 years, and knew Fr Cyprian personally.</div>
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"As a person he was very ordinary, very humble, obviously a great man of deep prayer and dedication.</div>
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"We didn't realise towards the end how sick he was, he never complained about anything. Of course when we got him into hospital it was too late."</div>
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Fr Cyprian died in the Leicester Royal Infirmary on 20 January 1964, at the age of 61.</div>
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At first he was buried in the monastery grounds, but in 1986 his remains were exhumed and returned to Nigeria.</div>
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When Cyprian's remains were taken back to Nigeria there was a big ceremony to welcome them back - lots of people wanted to go to Onitsha Cathedral - she insisted must go</div>
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In order for Blessed Cyprian to become a saint someone must have their prayers to him answered in a miraculous way that can be proved, such as a healing.</div>
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Fr Anselm says that it was at the welcoming ceremony at Onitsha Cathedral that Cyprian's miracle occurred.</div>
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A dying woman had begged her carers to allow her to attend the ceremony, despite their concerns for her health.</div>
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"When the coffin was brought up the aisle of the cathedral she put out her hand and touched it, and was instantly cured of her stomach cancer," says Fr Anselm.</div>
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In 1998 Cyprian was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Since then pilgrims have collected each year in Leicestershire to celebrate his life and pray for another miracle which could see Blessed Cyprian be raised to the state of a saint.</div>
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After a 10 year break, the 2009 event, including a mass and procession, returned to Mount Saint Bernard Abbey.</div>
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Hundreds of people from across the United Kingdom, many with Nigerian roots, took part.</div>
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Sister Bernadette said there was much to understand from Blessed Cyprian's work, "humility, patience, endurance, divine providence - the will of God".</div>
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"It means a lot to me, it is a day of prayer, a day of reflection, a day to look at Tansi's life and realise how we can emulate him as a fellow Nigerian." </div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After contemplating the divinely glorious vision he had
seen, the Prophet Ezekiel wrote a description of it full of unutterable mysteries. What he saw was the mystery of the soul that was to receive its Lord
and become his throne of glory. For the soul that is privileged to share in the
light of the Holy Spirit and is irradiated by the beauty of the unspeakable
glory of him who has prepared her to be his throne and dwelling is all light,
all face, all eye: there is no part of her that is not full of the spiritual
eyes of light. In other words, no part of her is darkened, but through and
through she has been made light and spirit; she is full of eyes all over, and
has no such thing as a back part but is face forward in every direction,
because the unutterable beauty of the glory of the light of Christ is mounted
and riding upon her. Christ drives, guides, carries and supports the soul,
gracing and adorning her with spiritual beauty: the Prophet says, <i>A</i> <i>human
hand was under the cherubim </i>because it is Christ who is carried by the soul
and is her guide.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The four living creatures that bore the chariot symbolise
the governing powers of the soul. For just as the eagle is the king of birds,
the lion of wild beasts, the bull of tame ones, and mankind of creatures in
general, so the soul also has its governing powers, which are the will, the
conscience, the mind, and the ability to love. By these the chariot of the soul
is controlled, and God rests on them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If, then, you have become a throne of God, and the heavenly
charioteer has mounted you, and your whole soul is a spiritual eye and has
become all light; and if you have been nourished with that food of the Spirit,
given living water to drink, and donned the raiment of ineffable light; if your
inner self is grounded in the experience and full assurance of all these
things, then indeed you already live the eternal life and your soul is
henceforth at rest with the Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On the other hand, if you have no awareness of any of these
things, then weep, mourn, and lament, because you have not yet obtained the
eternal spiritual riches; you have not yet received true life. Be distressed
at your poverty and pray to the Lord night and day because you have come to a
halt in the dreadful penury of sin. If only we were troubled by our poverty and
did not go on without a care as though we were completely satisfied! For one
who is deeply troubled and seeks and prays to the Lord unceasingly will soon be
delivered and gain heavenly riches. As the Lord said in his story about the
unjust judge and the widow: <i>How much more will God vindicate those who cry
to him night and day</i>? To him be glory and power forever. Amen</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">1:1 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the <u>heavens</u> were <u>opened</u>, and I saw <u>visions</u> of God. 2 In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s <u>captivity</u>, 3 the <u>word</u> of Yahweh came <u>expressly</u> to <u>Ezekiel</u> the <u>priest</u>, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the <u>river</u> Chebar; and the <u>hand</u> of Yahweh was there on him.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">4 I looked, and behold, a <u>stormy</u> wind came out of the <u>north</u>, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a <u>brightness </u>around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Out of its midst came the <u>likeness</u> of <u>four</u> living <u>creatures</u>. This was their appearance: they had the <u>likeness</u> of a man. 6 Everyone had <u>four</u> <u>faces</u>, and each one of them had four wings. 7 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they <u>sparkled</u> like burnished brass. 8 They had the hands of a <u>man </u>under their <u>wings</u> on their four sides; and the four of them had their faces and their wings thus: 9 their wings were joined one to another; they didn’t turn when they went; each one went straight forward. 10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a <u>man</u>; and the four of them had the face of a <u>lion</u> on the right side; and the four of them had the face of an <u>ox</u> on the left side; the four of them also had the face of an <u>eagle</u>. 11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies. 12 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn’t turn when they went. 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of <u>fire</u>, like the appearance of <u>torches</u>: the <u>fire</u> went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was <u>bright</u>, and out of the fire went forth <u>lightning</u>. 14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a <u>flash</u> of <u>lightning</u>.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, <u>one</u> wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for <u>each</u> of the four faces of it. 16 The appearance of the <u>wheels</u> and their work was like a beryl: and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a <u>wheel</u> within a <u>wheel</u>. 17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn’t turn when they went. 18 As for their <u>rims</u>, they were high and dreadful; and the four of them had their rims full of<u>eyes</u> all around. 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Wherever the <u>spirit</u> was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. 22 Over the<u>head</u> of the living creature there was the likeness of an <u>expanse</u>, like the awesome <u>crystal</u> to look on, stretched forth over their heads above. 23 Under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: each one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies. 24 When they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the <u>voice</u> of the <u>Almighty</u>, a noise of tumult like the noise of an army: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25 There was a voice above the expanse that was over their heads: when they stood, they let down their wings.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">26 Above the expanse that was over their heads was the <u>likeness</u> of a<u>throne</u>, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the <u>appearance</u> of a <u>man</u> on it above. 27 I saw as it were <u>glowing</u> metal, as the <u>appearance</u> of <u>fire</u> within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was <u>brightness</u> around him. 28 As the appearance of the <u>rainbow</u> that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the <u>brightness</u> all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. When I saw it, I <u>fell</u> on my <u>face</u>, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="line-height: 23.4px;">Observations</b><span style="line-height: 23.4px;">: 1:1-28 Ezekiel was in Babylon, among the exiles and out of the darkness comes light. He sees a vision that sounds like something out of one of the OT prophets. Oh, yeah, that's exactly what it is, described in earthly terms as the “appearances” of this and that. The four creatures are cherubim (10:1ff). The vision appears to be that of God's chariot or mobile throne, containing the fire of judgement in the midst, and glory all around. The description of the living creatures precludes this being an alien UFO. Consult any commentary for equally fantastic descriptions of what everything means. We'll focus on the more applicable points. Like Isaiah, Ezekiel gets a vision of God to strengthen him for his upcoming ministry to the Jews already in exile, and the ones that would be arriving after the temple and city would be destroyed. As we'll find out in the next chapter, Ezekiel would get the typical prophet's welcome, and would need a baseline reminder of the God whose word he would deliver.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Application</b>: The God we serve is not an idol made by man, nor man, nor animal, nor geographical phenomena, but the transcendent Creator who is above all, and served by all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Prayer</b>: Glorious God, You are awesome in Your might and majesty, and worthy of my humble service always. Amen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The patristic interpretation, which finds in the four living creatures the symbols of the four evangelists (an interpretation by no means constant or unvarying - the lion being sometimes identified with St Matthew, and the man with St. Mark, and conversely, while the ox and the eagle are uniformly assigned to St. Luke and St. John respectively), must be considered as the play of a devout imagination, but not as unfolding the meaning of either Ezekiel or St. John. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="p" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span> <span style="background-color: #fff0e6; color: #552200; font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: 700;">Cross References</span></span><div id="crf" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="crossverse" style="font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/4-7.htm" style="color: #0092f2; text-decoration: none;">Revelation 4:7</a></span><br />The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.</span></div>
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<span class="titletext" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/1.htm" style="color: #0092f2; text-decoration: none;">Pulpit Commentary</a></span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="cmt_sub_title" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Verse 10.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - </span><span class="cmt_word" style="color: #b34700; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the likeness,</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> etc. The Revised Version rightly strikes out the comma after "lion." The human face meets the prophet's gaze. On the right he sees the lion, on the left the ox, while the face of the eagle is behind. What did the symbols mean? <a name='more'></a></span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="note_emph" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The human face represents the thought that man, as made "after the image of God" (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-27.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Genesis 1:27</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">), is the highest symbol of the Eternal. So long as we remember that it is but a symbol, anthropomorphism is legitimate in thought, and appropriate in visions; though, like theriomorphism, it becomes perilous, and is therefore forbidden (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/20-4.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Exodus 20:4</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">;</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/4-17.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Deuteronomy 4:17</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) when it takes concrete form in metal or in stone. So Daniel (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/7-9.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Daniel 7:9, 13</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) sees the "Ancient of Days" and "one like unto a son of man;" and St. John's vision (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-13.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Revelation 1:13</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) represents the same symbolism. </span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="note_emph" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The lion had been the familiar emblem of sovereignty, both in the temple of Solomon (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/7-29.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">1 Kings 7:29</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) and in his palace (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/10-20.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">1 Kings 10:20</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/9-18.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">2 Chronicles 9:18, 19</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">). So, in </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/49-9.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Genesis 49:9</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, it is the symbol of the kingly power of Judah, and appears with a yet higher application in </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/5-5.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Revelation 5:5</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; while, on the other hand, it represents one of the great monarchies of the world in </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/7-4.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Daniel 7:4</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Its modern heraldic use in the arms of England and elsewhere presents yet another analogue. </span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="note_emph" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The ox had appeared, as here, so also in </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/7-25.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">1 Kings 7:25, 44</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, in company with the lion, notably in the twelve oxen that supported the "sea" or "laver" in the temple. Here also we have a kind of sovereignty - the natural symbol of a strength made subservient to human uses. Both the lion and the ox, as we have seen, may have become familiar to Ezekiel as a priest ministering in the temple or as an exile. </span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="note_emph" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The eagle was, in like manner, though not taking its place in the symbolism of the temple, the emblem of kingly power, and is so employed by Ezekiel himself in </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/17-3.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Ezekiel 17:3, 7</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; while in </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/daniel/7-4.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Daniel 7:4</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the lion has eagle's wings (comp. </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/8-1.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Hosea 8:1</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/46-11.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Isaiah 46:11</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">;</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/obadiah/1-4.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Obadiah 1:4</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/habakkuk/1-8.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Habakkuk 1:8</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">). In Assyrian sculpture Nisroch (the name is cognate with the Hebrew for "eagle," </span><span class="accented" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">nesher</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) appears as an eagle-headed human figure, and is always represented as contending with or conquering the lion and the bull (Layard, 'Nineveh,' 2:458, 459). The facts suggest the inference </span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="note_emph" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that Ezekiel may have seen this symbol; </span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="note_emph" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that over and above the general thought that all the powers of nature are subject to the government of God, there was also the more specific thought that the great kingdoms of the earth were but servants of his, to do his pleasure? The reproduction of the fourfold form, with the variation already noticed, in</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/4-7.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Revelation 4:7</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, is every way suggestive, and it is, at least, a natural inference that the symbols had acquired a new significance through the new truths that had been revealed to the seer of Patrons; that the human face may have connected itself with the thought of the Son of man who shared in the glory of the Father; the ox with that of his sacrifice; the lion with that of his sovereignty over Israel, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/5-5.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Revelation 5:5</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">); the eagle with that of his bearing his people as on eagles' wings, into the highest heavens (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/19-4.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Exodus 19:4</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/32-11.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Deuteronomy 32:11</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) The patristic interpretation, which finds in the four living creatures the symbols of the four evangelists (an interpretation by no means constant or unvarying - the lion being sometimes identified with St Matthew, and the man with St. Mark, and conversely, while the ox and the eagle are uniformly assigned to St. Luke and St. John respectively), must be considered as the play of a devout imagination, but not as unfolding the meaning of either Ezekiel or St. John. In the later Jewish tradition the four forms are assigned, taking Ezekiel's order, to the tribes of Reuben, Judah, Ephraim, and Dan, as the "standards" (</span><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/2-2.htm" style="color: #0092f2; font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Numbers 2:2</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) which they generally bore when encamped in the wilderness; but this is obviously outside the range of the prophet's thoughts. (Matthew Henry)</span><span class="p" style="font-family: Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-width: 108%;">Mary bore within herself the Light of
the world and is the cause of all consolation and of all joy. In this we may discover
a similarity between Mary and Queen Esther: for her own Jewish people Esther’s appearance
was 'the dawning of a day of light of gladness and joy and honour'. What gave the
Jews so great a cause for joy was to know that at the right hand of the greatest
of kings and most powerful of emperors they had as queen, Esther a Jewess. For the
Safety of her people, she was ready and willing to put her own life in jeopardy.
Because of her closeness to this powerful prince~ and so greatly did he love her
for her unmatched charm and the almost divine radiance of her beauty that there
was nothing that she could not achieve. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-width: 108%;">What a cause of joy it is for us, then,
to have Mary intimately present to the Sovereign King, close to almighty God, the
everlasting Ruler of all things. In the presence of the Divine Majesty, Mary is
infinitely more powerful than ever Esther was in the presence of Ahasuerus, indeed,
there is nothing that Mary cannot do from her place beside God. But that is not
all. The love Mary bears towards each one of us is not simply a love inspired by
belonging to the same nation - for she is indeed of our flesh <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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deep affection, true and heartfelt like that of parents for their children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-font-width: 108%;">And has not Mary also put her life in
danger for our sake when she was standing by the cross of Jesus'? Like Abraham in
total and overflowing generosity of spirit Mary truly sacrificed her Son to God
in spirit; with genuine love she offered him up for the salvation of the world.
She was 'standing by the cross of Jesus' strengthened and sustained by the
power of the Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is for the whole world to have such a patroness and advocate in the presence
of God the almighty! Since she is in his presence, there is nothing beyond her
power. no good thing for which she doesn't strive and desire to gain for us, with
her mother's care and love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-size: large;">BLESSED JOHN HENRY NEWMAN</span></b><i><span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', serif; letter-spacing: 0.1pt; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No Prophet commenced his labours with greater encouragement
than Jeremiah. A King had succeeded to the throne who was bringing back the
times of the man after God’s own heart. There had not been a son of David so
zealous as Josiah since David himself. The King, too, was young, at most twenty
years of age, in the beginning of his reformation. What might not be effected
in a course of years, however corrupt and degraded was the existing state of
his people?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whether or not, however, such hope of success encouraged
Jeremiah’s first exertions, very soon, in his case, this cheerful prospect was
overcast, and he was left to labour in the dark. His trials were very great,
even in Josiah’s reign; but when that pious King’s countenance was withdrawn on
his early death, he was exposed to persecution from every class of people. When
Jerusalem had been taken by the enemy, Jeremiah was forcibly carried down to
Egypt by people who at first pretended to reverence and consult him, and there
he came to his end – it is believed, a violent end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All of us live in a world which promises well, but does not
fulfil; it is in our nature to begin life thoughtlessly and joyously; to seek
great things in one way or other; to have vague notions of good to come; to
love the world, and to believe its promises, and seek satisfaction and
happiness from it. And, as it is our nature to hope, so it is our lot, as life
proceeds, to encounter disappointment. That disappointment in some shape or
other is the lot of man (that is, looking at our prospects apart from the next
world) is plain from the mere fact, if nothing else could be said, that we
begin life with health and end it with sickness; or in other words, that it <i>comes</i><i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.6pt; line-height: 130%;"> </span></i>to an <i>end</i>,<i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.6pt; line-height: 130%;"> </span></i>for an
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here then it is that God himself offers us his aid by his
Word, and in his Church. Left to ourselves, we seek good from the world, but
cannot find it; in youth we look forward, and in age we look back. It is well
we should be persuaded of these things betimes, to gain wisdom and to provide
for the evil day. Seek we great things? We must seek them where they really are
to be found, and in the way in which they are to be found; we must seek them as
he has set them before us, who came into the world to enable us to gain them.
We must be willing to give up present hope for future enjoyment, this world for
the unseen. Let us prepare for suffering and disappointment, which befit us as
sinners, and which are necessary for us as saints. Let us not turn away from
trial when God brings it on us, or play the coward in the fight of faith. <i>Watch,
stand fast in the faith, acquit yourselves like men, be strong</i>;<i><span style="letter-spacing: 0.6pt; line-height: 130%;"> </span></i>such
is Saint Paul’s exhortation. When affliction overtakes you, remember to accept
it as a means of improving your hearts, and pray God for his grace that it may
do so. Look disappointment in the face. <i>Take ... the prophets ... for an
example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy
who endure</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 130%;">Bl. John Henry Newman, <i>Parochial and Plain Sermons</i>, 8:127-8; <i>Word
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Dear Father Donald,<br />
I did so enjoy this excerpt of K Adams, and for me the key phrase on the Eucharist must be:<br />
<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;">Jesus shares with His disciples His most intimate possession, the most precious thing that He has, His own self, His personality as the God-man.</span></span>Thank you!<br />
With my love in Our Lord,<br />
William<br />
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt;">An
ethical code imposed from without can lead to a merely legalistic system of morality,
an adherence to the letter of the law at the expense of its spirit. These possibilities
were well understood by the Hebrew prophets. The greatest of them foresaw a time
when people would no longer be obeying God's law as in compliance to directives
from above; that law would not even have to be told them by others; it would be
known by people looking into their own hearts. <i>A time is coming, the Lord says, when I mean to ratify a new covenant with
the people of Israel and with the people of Judah </i>... <i>I will implant my law in their inmost thoughts,
engrave it in their hearts .</i>.. <i>There will be no need for neighbour to teach
neighbour, or brother to teach brother, the knowledge of the Lord. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
message of the New Testament points to a fulfilment of this promise. There is no
encouragement to an antinomian irresponsibility; what is indicated is an "exteriorization"
of God's law, with particular reference to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. <i>The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because
it neither sees him nor knows him. But you shall know him, because he shall
abide with you and shall be in you. </i>The <i>world </i>- that is to say,
the separative self, the conscious ego, entangled in its craving to preserve a
spurious identity in opposition to God - cannot know the spirit within. But as
soon as we yield to the continual pressure of God's grace, urging us to be ourselves,
we can realize his self-manifestation. <i>And
those who love me shall be loved by my Father; and I will love them and manifest
myself to them .</i>.. <i>Those who
love me will keep my word; and we will come to them and make our abode with </i>them.
The Spirit's presence declares itself by the Spirit's fruits, not merely by dictating
action. The Holy Spirit affects conduct at its source: modifying character by such
qualities as love, peace, joy, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
meekness, self-control. These being present, an external law would be superfluous.
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who live on the level of their lower nature have their outlook formed by it, and
that spells death; but + those who live
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt;">of the
spirit have a spiritual outlook, and that is life and peace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt;">V. In
Christ Jesus the life-giving law of the Spirit has freed you from the law of
sin and death. + Those who live ... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8064a2; mso-themecolor: accent4;">Graham, Aelred (1907-1984) Born in
Liverpool, he was educated at Saint Edward's College in that city, and entered Ampleforth
Abbey in 1930. He was professed the following year, and ordained priest in 1938
after his studies at Oxford where he took the degree S.T.L. at Blackfriars. On
his return to Ampleforth he taught dogmatic theology. In 1938 his first book, <i>The Love of God </i>appeared, and he also wrote
articles for learned reviews. In 1951 he was appointed prior of Portsmouth Priory
in Rhode Island, U.5.A. He is the author of <i>The Christ of Catholicism, The Final Victory, Catholicism and the World
Today, Christian Thought and Action, </i>and <i>Zen Catholicism. </i>During a three month visit to Japan in 1967, he
interviewed notable Buddhists in an a attempt to understand their religion. This
resulted in another book called: <i>Conversation:
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<tr style="background: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #1.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1953/01/15</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#transcript" style="color: #333333;">transcript</a> from Merton</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">This is just a note to thank you for the article you wrote about me in the <i>Atlantic</i>.</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3ASchool+of+Charity" style="color: #333333;">✓</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">[copy from published letters] <a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=6307&counter=1" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #2.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1953/02/05</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#HLS[x]" style="color: #333333;">HLS[x]</a> from Graham, Aelred / to Robert Giroux</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Many thanks for "The Sign of Jonas" which I am reading through with interest. It seems to confirm</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3A" style="color: #333333;"></a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=20063&counter=2" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #3.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1953/02/14</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#TLS[x]" style="color: #333333;">TLS[x]</a> to Merton</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Having just finished reading your "SIGN OF JONAS" (in my view by far the most attractive of all your</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3A" style="color: #333333;"></a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">[see Section 2 for original] <a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=18890&counter=3" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #4.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1953/03/03</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#TLS[x]" style="color: #333333;">TLS[x]</a> to Fox, James</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">A letter from a mutual friend of ours -- William J. McCormack, Jr., an alumnus of Portsmouth Priory</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3A" style="color: #333333;"></a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">[see Series 2 for orignal letter] <a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=18899&counter=4" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #5.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1963/04/17</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#HLS" style="color: #333333;">HLS</a> to Merton</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Your very kind and [...indecipherable...] message has just reached me. Only the other day I was</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3A" style="color: #333333;"></a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=6285&counter=5" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #6.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1963/04/24</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#transcript" style="color: #333333;">transcript</a> from Merton</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">As a matter of fact I went ahead and wrote a review. I liked the book so much and found so much</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3ASchool+of+Charity" style="color: #333333;">✓</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">[copy from published letters] <a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=6308&counter=6" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #7.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1963/04/26</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#TLS" style="color: #333333;">TLS</a> to Merton</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">What a magnanimous person you are! Thank you indeed for your letter, with its stream of intuitions,</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3A" style="color: #333333;"></a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=6286&counter=7" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #8.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1963/08/24</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#TLS" style="color: #333333;">TLS</a> to Merton</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Thank you for your kind letter of August 21. Seeing that he is so warmly commended by you I shall</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3A" style="color: #333333;"></a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=6287&counter=8" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px;"><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Series 1 #9.<br /><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=797#container" style="color: #333333;">«All Series«</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">1963/09/10</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/Types.aspx#TAL[c]" style="color: #333333;">TAL[c]</a> from Merton</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;">Thanks for your very good letter. I do not know whether Fr John of the Cross will get there,</td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti%3ASchool+of+Charity" style="color: #333333;">✓</a></td><td style="line-height: 18px; padding: 4px 8px;"><a href="http://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/z-d.aspx?ITEMid=6288&counter=9" style="color: #333333;">«detailed view»</a></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060766603794550879.post-22872363759095590232015-11-04T07:20:00.004+00:002015-11-04T20:09:11.064+00:00SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="rubrica" style="background-color: #fdfdd9; color: #dc2300;">SECOND READING iBreviary http://www.ibreviary.com/m/breviario.php?s=ufficio_delle_letture </span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><strong style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">From a sermon given during the last synod he attended, by Saint Charles, bishop</strong><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span class="rubrica" style="background-color: #fdfdd9; color: #dc2300;">(Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis 1599, 1177-1178)<br /><br /><em>Practice what you preach</em></span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">I admit that we are all weak, but if we want help, the Lord God has given us the means to find it easily. One priest may wish to lead a good, holy life, as he knows he should. He may wish to be chaste and to reflect heavenly virtues in the way he lives. Yet he does not resolve to use suitable means, such as penance, prayer, the avoidance of evil discussions and harmful and dangerous friendships. Another priest complains that as soon as he comes into church to pray the office or to celebrate Mass, a thousand thoughts fill his mind and distract him from God. But what was he doing in the sacristy before he came out for the office or for Mass? How did he prepare? What means did he use to collect his thoughts and to remain recollected?</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">Would you like me to teach you how to grow from virtue to virtue and how, if you are already recollected at prayer, you can be even more attentive next time, and so give God more pleasing worship? Listen, and I will tell you. <b>If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out</b>. Keep the stove tightly shut so that it will not lose its heat and grow cold. In other words, avoid distractions as well as you can. Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">If teaching and preaching is your job, then study diligently and apply yourself to whatever is necessary for doing the job well. Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">Are you in charge of a parish? If so, do not neglect the parish of your own soul, do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself. You have to be mindful of your people without becoming forgetful of yourself.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">My brothers, you must realize that for us churchmen nothing is more necessary than meditation. We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: </span><em style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">I will pray, and then I will understand.</em><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;"> When you administer the sacraments, meditate on what you are doing. When you celebrate Mass, reflect on the sacrifice you are offering. When you pray the office, think about the words you are saying and the Lord to whom you are speaking. When you take care of your people, meditate on how the Lord’s blood that has washed them clean so that </span><em style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">all that you do becomes a work of love.</em><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work: in meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in other men.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="rubrica" style="background-color: #fdfdd9; color: #dc2300;">RESPONSORY<br />1 Timothy 6:11; 4:11, 12, 6</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">Seek after integrity and holiness, faith and love, patience and gentleness.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span class="rubrica" style="background-color: #fdfdd9; color: #dc2300;">–</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;"> These are the things you must command and teach;</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">be an example to all who believe.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">If you give them this advice,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span class="rubrica" style="background-color: #fdfdd9; color: #dc2300;">–</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;"> These are the things you must command and teach;</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">be an example to all who believe.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span class="capolettera_piccolo rubrica" style="background-color: #fdfdd9; color: #dc2300;">CONCLUDING PRAYER</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><em style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">Let us pray.</em><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">Father,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">keep in your people the spirit</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">which filled Charles Borromeo.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">Let your Church be continually renewed</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">and show the image of Christ to the world</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">by being conformed to his likeness,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;">one God, for ever and ever.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdd9;" /><span class="rubrica" style="background-color: #fdfdd9; color: #dc2300;">–</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdd9;"> Amen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Among the great reformers of the troubled sixteenth century was Charles Borromeo, who, with St. Francis of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, and others, led the movement to combat the inroads of the Protestant Reformation. His father, Count Gilbert Borromeo, was a man of piety and ability, and his mother was a member of the famous Medici family of Milan, sister of Angelo de Medici, later to become Pope Pius IV. The second of two sons in a family of six children, Charles was born in the castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore, on October 2, 1538. He was so devout that at the age of twelve he received the tonsure. At this time his paternal uncle, Julius Caesar Borromeo, turned over to him the income from a rich Benedictine abbey, one of the ancient perquisites of this noble family. In spite of his youth, Charles had a sense of responsibility, and he made plain to his father that all revenues from the abbey beyond what was required to prepare him for a career in the Church belonged to the poor and could not be applied to secular use. To take such a scrupulous stand in a period of corruption and decadence was unusual, and most significant as an indication of Charles' integrity of character.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The young man attended the University of Pavia, where he applied himself to the study of civil and canon law. Due to a slight impediment of speech, he was regarded as slow; yet his thoroughness and industry more than compensated for the handicap, and his strict behaviour made him a model for his fellow students, who, in this era of the Renaissance, were for the most part pleasure-loving and dissipated. Charles now accepted a sufficient income from the abbey to meet the expenses of the kind of household a young nobleman was expected to maintain. By the time he took his doctor's degree at twenty-two his parents were dead and his elder brother, Frederick, was head of the family. Charles had no sooner returned home than the news came that his uncle, Cardinal Angelo de Medici, had been elected Pope Pius IV. A few months later the new Pope sent for his nephew to come to Rome, and within a very short time Charles was the recipient of such a wealth of honors, offices, and powers that he became a leading figure at the papal court. He was appointed cardinal-deacon and administrator of the see of Milan, although he was not to take up his work there for many years; he was named legate of Bologna, Romagna, and the March of Ancona; protector of Portugal, the Low Countries, and the Catholic cantons of Switzerland; supervisor of the Franciscan and Carmelite Orders, and of the Knights of Malta, and administrator of the papal states. The Pope's confidence in him was not misplaced, for Charles displayed great energy, ability, and diplomacy in fulfilling these various duties. Methodical and diligent, he learned how to despatch business affairs with speed and efficiency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Yet in spite of his heavy tasks, Charles found time for recreation in music and physical exercise. He had the many-sidedness which we associate with men of the Renaissance, and was deeply interested in the advancement of learning. He set up at the Vatican a literary academy of clergy and laymen, and some of the studies and talks growing out of it were published as <Noctes Vaticanae>, to which Charles himself was a contributor. It was the custom for one in his position to live in magnificent state, but splendid trappings meant nothing to him. He remained modest and humble in spirit, and wholly aloof from the worldly temptations of Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">When the Venerable Bartholomew de Martyribus, archbishop of Braga, came to Rome, Charles consulted him as to his future. "You know what it is," he is recorded as saying, "to be the nephew of a pope, and a beloved nephew; nor are you ignorant of what it is to live at the court of Rome. The dangers are infinite. What ought I to do, young as I am, and without experience? God has given me ardor for penance, and an earnest desire to prefer Him to all things; and I have some thought of going into a monastery, to live as if there were only God and myself in the world." The prelate advised Charles to stay on at Rome, where he was so greatly needed. This proved to be excellent counsel, for an even greater opportunity for service to the Church was to come to the young man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The Pope, soon after his election, announced the reassembling of the Council of Trent, which had been suspended ten years earlier, in 1552. Charles now devoted himself to plans for the resumption of deliberations, and was in attendance during the two years that the Council continued in session at Trent (Italian, Trento), a city of northern Italy. Its purpose was to conclude the work of formulating and codifying Church doctrine and to bring about a genuine reform of abuses. It defined original sin, decreed the perpetuity of the marital tie, pronounced anathema against those who rejected the invocation of saints or the veneration of relics, or who denied the existence of Purgatory or the validity of indulgences. It also dealt with episcopal jurisdiction, the education of seminarists, and discipline for the clergy. Some of the points proved so controversial that several times the Council almost broke up with its labors unfinished. Charles is credited with helping to heal the rifts and spurring the prelates and theologians on to the conclusion of their historic task. He is also conceded to have had a large share in drawing up the Tridentine Catechism. His training in diplomacy at the papal court had served him well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">While the Council of Trent was in session, Charles' elder brother died, and as head of the family Charles became proprietor of extensive land holdings. Since he was only in minor orders, people thought that he would now marry, but Charles remained true to the course he had marked out for himself. Yielding his family position to his Uncle Julius, he entered the priesthood in September, 1563. Three months later he became bishop of Milan, as well as cardinal-priest, with the title of St. Prassede. For a long time Charles had been concerned over the see of Milan, to which, years before, he had been appointed administrator. Catholics were falling away from the Church, chiefly because there had been no resident bishop at Milan for eighty years. The new bishop was welcomed with joy and he set to work vigorously to reform this important diocese. Soon he was called back to Rome to assist the Pope on his deathbed, at which Philip Neri, another future saint, was also present. The new Pope, Pius V, who was to follow in the noble tradition of his predecessor, urged Charles to remain with him for a time. Soon, however, with the Pope's blessing, he returned to Milan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Charles now concentrated his great abilities on the establishment of schools, seminaries, and convents. But more important than the improvement of the physical structures through which the Church must carry on its work was the need for reform of the priestly function itself. Throughout the region religious practices were profaned by grave abuses; the Sacrament was neglected, for many priests were both lazy and ignorant; the monasteries were relaxed in discipline and full of disorders. These widespread faults had been engendered in part by the decay of medieval society and in part by the revival of the ideas of pagan antiquity. By remonstrance and exhortation Charles worked to raise the level of spiritual life, and to put into effect the ecclesiastical changes indicated by the Council of Trent. He founded the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, with its Sunday Schools for the teaching of the Catechism to children. Historically these were the first Sunday Schools, and are. said to have numbered 740. He instituted a secular fraternity whose members, called the Oblates of St. Ambrose, pledged obedience to their bishop and were used by him in religious work in any manner he thought wise. The bishop's income from his family estates was considerable, and nearly all of it was turned over to an almoner for the relief of the poor; plate and other valuables were sold for the same purpose. In conformity with the decrees of the Council of Trent, the cathedral of Milan was cleared of its gorgeous tombs, banners, and arms. In his zeal for reform Charles came into conflict with the governor of the province and the senate, who feared the Church was encroaching upon the civil jurisdiction. The opposition to Charles and the complaints against him were carried to King Philip II of Spain, who had sovereignty over this part of Italy, and to the Pope; in the end Charles was completely exonerated. His days were filled with duties and cares; at night he would take off his bishop's robes, don a tattered old cassock, and pass the evening in study and prayer. He lived as simply as it was possible to do. One cold night when someone wanted to have his bed warmed, he said, "The best way not to find a bed cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is." However, he did not allow his rigorous self-discipline to weaken him for the work he had to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The almost inaccessible Alpine valleys lying in the northern part of his diocese had been virtually abandoned by the clergy. The bishop did not hesitate to undertake journeys to these remote valleys and mountain tops. He discussed theology with peasants and taught the Catechism to herdboys. Everywhere he preached and effected reforms, replacing unworthy priests by those who were zealous to restore the faith. In 1576 he successfully met another challenge. There was famine at Milan due to crop failures, and later came an outbreak of the plague. The city's trade fell off, and along with it the people's source of income. The governor and many members of the nobility fled the city, but the bishop remained, to organize the care of those who were stricken and to minister to the dying. He called together the superiors of all the religious communities in the diocese, and won their cooperation. He used up his own funds and went into debt to provide food for the hungry. Finally he wrote to the governor, and shamed him into coming back to his post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The bishop's reforms were opposed by the Humiliati (Brothers of Humility), a decayed penitential order which, although reduced to about 170 members, owned some ninety monasteries. Three of its priors hatched a plot to assassinate Charles, and he was actually fired upon while at evening prayers with his household. Charles refused to have the would-be assassin sought out and punished. The Humiliati at length submitted to the reform of their order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Many English Catholics had fled to Italy at this time because of the persecutions under Queen Elizabeth. The bishop had a Welshman, Dr. Griffith Roberts, as canon theologian, and an Englishman, Thomas Goldwell, as vicar-general. He carried about on his person a little picture of St. John Fisher, who, with St. Thomas More, had been martyred for the faith during the reign of Henry VIII. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Travels in his diocese, especially in the difficult Alpine country, had weakened the bishop's constitution. In 1584, during his annual retreat at Monte Varallo, he was stricken with ague, and on returning to Milan grew rapidly worse. After receiving the Last Sacraments, the beloved bishop died quietly on November 4, at the age of forty-six. Canonization followed in 1610. St. Charles Borromeo's sermons were published at Milan in the eighteenth century and have been widely translated. Two years after his death the Borromean League was formed in the Catholic cantons of Switzerland, for the expulsion of heretics. Contrary to his wishes, a memorial was erected in the Milan cathedral, where his body now rests, and at Arona, his birthplace, stands an impressive statue in his honor. For his piety, energy, and effectiveness this eminent churchman soon became known as a "second Ambrose." He is the patron of Lombardy; his emblems are the Holy Communion and a coat of arms bearing the word Humilitas.</span></div>
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Karl Adam Spirit of Catholicism pp 19_22<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chapter
II: Christ in the Church<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Intimate
union of the Church with Christ. Manifested in her dogma which </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">centres</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> round Christ, in her moral teaching which aims at making men like to Christ, in her
worship which is performed through Christ. The sacraments, especially the
<b>Sacrament of the Altar</b>, a working of Christ among His people. The same union of
the Church with Christ shown in her pastoral and teaching office, in her
sacramental doctrine, in her disciplinary authority. The whole structure
permeated and bound together by Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Pages
19-22) There is no two-fold morality in the Church, since there is but one
Christ to be formed. But the ways and manners in which men strive towards this
goal are infinitely various, as various as the human personalities which have
to mature and grow up to the stature of Christ. Very many of the faithful will
be able to form the image of Christ in themselves only in very vague and
general outline. Yet, just as nature at times sees fit to give of her best and
to manifest her superabundant power in some perfect types, even so the fullness
of Christ which works in the Church breaks out ever and again in this or that
saintly figure into brilliant radiance, in marvels of self- surrender, love,
purity, humility and devotion. Professor Merkle's book[3] may provide even
outsiders with some insight into the deep earnestness and heroic strength with
which the Church in every century of her existence has striven after the
realization of the image of Christ, after the translation of His spirit into
terms of flesh and blood, after the incarnation of Jesus in the individual man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And the
worship of the Church breathes the same spirit, and is as much interwoven with
Christ and full of Christ as is her morality. Just as every particular prayer
of the liturgy ends with the ancient Christian formula: "Per Christum
Dominum nostrum," so is every single act of worship, from the <b>Mass</b> down to
the least prayer, a memorial of Christ, an "anamnesis Christou". Nay,
more, the worship of the Church is not merely a filial remembrance of Christ,
but a continual participation by visible mysterious signs in Jesus and His
redemptive might, a refreshing touching of the hem of His garment, a liberating
handling of His sacred Wounds. That is the deepest purpose of the liturgy,
namely, to make the redeeming grace of Christ present, visible and fruitful as
a sacred and potent reality that fills the whole life of the Christian. In the
sacrament of Baptism—so the believer holds—the sacrificial blood of Christ
flows into the soul, purifies it from all the infirmity of original sin and
permeates it with its own sacred strength, in order that a new man may be born
thereof, the re-born man, the man who is an adopted son of God. In the
sacrament of Confirmation, Jesus sends His "Comforter," the Spirit of
constancy and divine faith, to the awakening religious consciousness, in order
to form the child of God into a soldier of God. In the sacrament of Penance
Jesus as the merciful Savior consoles the afflicted soul with the word of
peace: Go thy way, thy sins are forgiven thee. In the sacrament of the Last
Anointing the compassionate Samaritan approaches the sick-bed and pours new
courage and resignation into the sore heart. In the sacrament of Marriage He </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">en-grafts</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the love of man and wife on His own profound love for His people, for
the community, for the Church, on His own faithfulness unto death. And in the
priestly consecration by the imposition of hands, He transmits His messianic
might, the power of His mission, to the disciples whom He calls, in order that
He may by their means pursue without interruption His work of raising the new
men, the children of God, out of the kingdom of death. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sacraments are nought else than a visible guarantee, authenticated by the word
of Jesus and the usage of the apostles, that Jesus is working in the midst of
us. At all the important stages of our little life, in its heights and in its
depths, at the marriage-altar and the cradle, at the sick-bed, in all the
crises and shocks that may befall us, Jesus stands by us under the veils of <b>the
grace-giving sacrament as our Friend and Consoler</b>, as the Physician of soul and
body, as our </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Saviour</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">. St. Thomas Aquinas has described this intimate permeation
of the Christian's whole life by faith in the sacraments and in his Savior with
luminous power.[4] And Goethe, too, in the seventh book of the second part of
his "Dichtung und Wahrheit," speaks warmly of it, and he closes his
remarks with the significant words: "How is this truly spiritual whole
broken into pieces in Protestantism, a part of these symbols being declared apocryphal
and only a few admitted as canonical. How shall we be prepared to value some
highly when we are taught to be indifferent to the rest?" <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b>sacraments </b>which we have enumerated are not the deepest and holiest fact of
all. For so completely does <b>Jesus disclose Himself to His disciples</b>, so
profound is the action of His grace, that He gives Himself to them and enters
into them as a personal source of grace. Jesus shares with His disciples His
most intimate possession, the most precious thing that He has, His own self,
His personality as the God-man. <b>We eat His Flesh and drink His Blood. </b>So
greatly does Jesus love His community, that He permeates it, not merely with
His blessing and His might, but with his real Self, God and Man; He enters into
a real union of flesh and blood with it, and binds it to His being even as the
branch is bound to the vine. We are not left orphans in this world. Under the
forms of bread and wine the Master lives amid His disciples, the Bridegroom
with His bride, the Lord in the midst of His community, until that day when He
shall return in visible majesty on the clouds of heaven. <b>The Sacrament of the
Altar</b> is the strongest, profoundest, most intimate memorial of the Lord, until
He come again. And therefore we can never forget Jesus, though centuries and
millennia pass, and though nations and civilizations are ever perishing and
rising anew. And therefore there is no heart in the world, not even the heart
of father or mother, that is so loved by millions and millions, so truly and
loyally, so practically and devotedly, as is the Heart of Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see that in the sacraments, and especially in <b>the Sacrament of the Altar,</b> the
fundamental idea of the Church is most plainly represented, the idea, that is,
of the incorporation of the faithful in Christ. And therefore the Catholic can
only regard that criticism of the sacraments as superficial, which derives
them, not merely in this or that external detail, but in their proper content
and dominant meaning, from non-Christian conceptions and cults, as for instance
from the pagan mysteries. On the contrary the sacraments breathe the very
spirit of primitive Christianity. They, as instituted by Christ Himself, are
the truest expression and result of that original and central Christian belief
that the Christian should be inseparably united with Christ and should live in
Christ. In <b>Catholic sacramental devotion Christ</b> is faithfully affirmed and
experienced as the Lord of the community, as its invisible strength and
principle of activity. In the sacraments is expressed the fundamental nature of
the Church, the fact that Christ lives on in her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dogma, morality and worship are primary witnesses to the consciousness of the
Church that she is of supernatural stock, that she is the Body of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Born
at Lima, Peru, on November 9, 1579; died November 3, 1639; beatified in 1837;
canonized on May 5, 1962, by Pope John XXIII; feast day formerly November 5.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The medallion of Saint Martin de Porres is the work
of the Dominican priest and sculptor, Father Thomas McGlynn (1906–1977). Father
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a care that apparently was inexplicable
to the Spaniards--extending his love even to rats and mice, whose scavenging he
excused on the grounds that they were hungry. He kept cats and dogs at his
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">He is the patron saint of interracial relations (because of his
universal charity to all men), social justice, public education, and television
in Peru, Spanish trade unionists (due to injustices workers have suffered),
Peru's public health service, people of mixed race, and Italian barbers and
hairdressers (J. White).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Portrait of St. Martin de Porres, <abbr style="border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help;" title="circa">c.</abbr> 17th century, Monastery of Rosa of Santa Maria in Lima. This portrait was painted during his lifetime or very soon after his death, hence it is probably the most true to his appearance.</div>
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<b> The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam (1876-1966)</b><br />
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Chapter IX: The Catholicity of the Church</div>
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I became all things to all men, that I might save all (1 Cor. ix, 22).</div>
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Church Suffering and the Church Militant constitute in their relations a second
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entered into the night "wherein no man can work," the Suffering
Church cannot ripen to its final blessedness by any efforts of its own, but
only through the help of others—through the intercessory prayers and sacrifices
(suffragia) of those living members of the Body of Christ who being still in
this world are able in the grace of Christ to perform expiatory works. The
Church has from the earliest times faithfully guarded the words of Scripture (2
Macch. xii, 43 ff.) that "it is a holy and a wholesome thing to pray for
the dead that they may be loosed from their sins." The suppliant cry of
her liturgy: "Eternal rest give to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light
shine upon them," can be heard already in the Acts of the martyrdom of SS
Perpetua and Felicitas (A.D. 203) and is represented in numerous sepulchral
inscriptions of the most ancient period, while theologians and Fathers of the
Church, beginning with Tertullian, have supplied its substantial proof. The
theology of the schismatical Greek Church agrees with Latin theology in its
belief in the efficacy of prayers for the dead. So fundamental indeed and so
natural to man's hope and desire and love is this belief, that historians of
religion have discovered it among almost all non-Christian civilized peoples: a
striking illustration of Tertullian's saying that the human soul is naturally
Christian.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Catholic, therefore, is jealous to expiate and suffer for the "poor
souls," especially by offering the Eucharistic Sacrifice, wherein Christ's
infinite expiation on the Cross is sacramentally re-presented, and stimulating
and joining itself with the expiatory works of the faithful, passes to the
Church Suffering according to the measure determined by God's wisdom and mercy.
So the saying of St. Paul that the members of the Body of Christ "are
mutually careful one for another" (1 Cor. xii, 25) is nowhere more
comprehensively and luminously fulfilled than in the Church's suffrages for her
dead children. When, in the Memento of the Mass, in the presence of the sacred
Oblation and under the gaze so to speak of the Church Triumphant, she cries to
heaven: "Be mindful also, O Lord, of thy servants and handmaids .... who
have gone before us with the sign of faith and rest in the sleep of
peace," then truly heaven and earth greet each other, the Church
Triumphant, Suffering and Militant meet in a "holy kiss," and the
"whole" Christ with all His members celebrates a blessed love-feast
(agape), a memorial of their communion in love and joy and pain. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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now stands as one of the finest introductions to the Catholic faith</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></span><span class="st"><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> ...</span></span></span><span style="color: #545454; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relations between the Church of this world and the Church of the next are many
and various; scarcely less rich and fruitful is the loving and vital fellowship
that exists between the earthly members themselves of the Body of Christ. When
the Fathers, beginning with Nicetas, bishop of Remesiana at the commencement of
the fifth century, speak of the Communion of Saints, they are thinking
especially of this earthly fellowship, and it was this that St. Paul also had
specially in mind. It is the mysterious inner life of the Church, the
mysterious exchange and commerce in functions and graces between its members,
the mysterious process whereby the fellowship of Christ grows up organically
into a "holy temple in the Lord," into the habitation of God in the
Spirit (Eph. ii, 21-22)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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saints of the church as the little, every day saints of the church The ordinary
every day Christians who have fought the good fight and finished the course;
all those ordinary acquaintances of all of us who have gone before us and
become part of that great multitude in God's heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In order to join that great company they
didn't have to do any great and memorable deeds. But what they did have to do
is detailed for us in the list of the Beatitudes that Jesus spells out for us
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to give up absolutely everything like the great St Francis, but they did have
to be poor in spirit. Their hearts had to have some degree of freedom from
excessive desires for what we call the good things of life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Saints we celebrated today didn't have
to leave home and family and friends and go off to preach the gospel in foreign
lands like the twelve apostles or the great missionaries of Christian history;
like St Francis Xavier or St Columba., but they did have to have a great love
for their faith and a desire to share it with others, at least in their
prayers. That is surely the meaning of "Thy Kingdom come" in the Our
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Saints we celebrated today didn't have
to minister to lepers or the plague stricken like St Peter Damien, but they did
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Saints we celebrated today didn't have
to undergo the great interior trials and spiritual darkness of the great
mystics but they did have to practice perseverance in prayer and bear all the
many troubles and trials that are the way in which we all have our share in the
passion of Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Saints we celebrated today didn't have
to forgive great injuries and injustices like the Holy Martyr Stephen who
prayed for those who were stoning him to death. But they did have to be
merciful and forgiving in their own little ways. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Saints we celebrated today didn't have
to mediate between kings and, potentates like our own St 8ernrd, but they did
have to learn how to be peacemakers in their own little circle of family and
friends. And to be a peacemaker in such circumstances can sometimes make heroic
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Church Triumphant (eccles a triumphans).—Hosts of the redeemed are continually passing into heaven, whether directly, or mediately by the road of purification in the Suffering Church. They pass into the presence of the Lamb and of Him who sits upon the throne, in order face to face—and no longer in mere similitude and image—to contemplate the Trinity, in whose bosom are all possibilities and all realities, the unborn God from out of whose eternal wellspring of life all beings drink existence and strength, motion and beauty, truth and love. There is none there who has not been brought home by God's mercy alone. All are redeemed, from the highest seraph to the new- born child just sealed by the grace of baptism as it left the world. Delivered from all selfish limitations and raised above all earthly anxieties, they live, within that sphere of love which their life on earth has traced out for them, the great life of God. It is true life, no idle stagnation, but a continual activity of sense and mind and will. It is true that they can merit no longer, nor bear fruit now for the Kingdom of Heaven. For the Kingdom of Heaven is established and grace has finished its work. But <b>the life of glory is richer far than the life of grace</b>. The infinite spaces of the Being of God, in all Its width and depth, provide a source in which the soul seeks and finds the satisfaction of its most intimate yearnings. New possibilities continually reveal themselves, new vistas of truth, new springs of joy. Being incorporated in the most sacred Humanity of Jesus, the soul is joined in most mysterious intimacy to the Godhead Itself. It hears the heartbeats of God and feels the deep life that pulsates within the Divinity. The soul is set and lives at the center of all being, whence the sources of all life flow, where the meaning of all existence shines forth in the Triune God, where all power and all beauty, all peace and all blessedness, are become pure actuality and purest present, are made an eternal now.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3724" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Devotion to the most holy Virgin under the title of Mother of Holy Hope has been practiced in the Congregation of the Passion from the beginning. It was promoted in a special way by the great missionary, Father Thomas Struzzieri, who later became a bishop. He carried a picture of our Mother of Holy Hope with him on missions. This picture was reproduced and placed in the rooms of our religious so that they might be reminded to ask our Lady's assistance in their spiritual needs. The Blessed Virgin thus became the special model and support of our hope, and she remains so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3778">One of the titles rightly attributed to the Blessed Virgin Mary is that of Mother of Holy Hope.</b> Hope is that virtue which anchors the ship of our soul in the stormy sea of this troubled world. It is a comfort left to us after the fall of Adam, a support in our weakness which encourages us to practice the Christian virtues. Hope is defined by theologians as <b>a virtue planted in us by God</b> which enables us confidently to expect from God eternal life and the aids that lead to it. Since Mary possessed this virtue in an heroic degree, she is appropriately called <b>Mother of Holy Hope.</b></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3731"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Instead of looking to worldly patrons, as people generally do, Mary trusted solely in God. She desired nothing and sought nothing but eternal life and the way to reach it. The world and all those things that the children of Adam are deceived into admiring and desiring were to her as though not existing. For her, earth seemed to be a desert, so that even the angels marveled, if one may speak in that way, that she could be so complete a stranger to created things. They seemed to say: <b><i>"Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning upon her lover?"</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3737"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Although endowed with extraordinary graces and unstained by original sin, Mary never counted on any resource of her own. Rather, she knew that God is the author of every good thing and the source of all perfection. She confided in him amid the dangers of persecution while she was a fugitive from her own country. She hoped in him even when she saw her divine Son die on the cross and the apostles dispersed, and she hoped in him when enemies turned on the infant Church, the loving bride of her divine Son. Supported by this confidence, she remained firm in the midst of what seemed like disaster, and strengthened those who, in their discouragement and need, turned to her as to a mother. <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3736">She encouraged the weak, lifted up those who had fallen and urged the strong to ever greater trust.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> We must not think that Mary has resigned from such maternal service in our day. Certainly not! Even now, from that exalted throne where she reigns in glory, Mary reaches out a mother's hand to those who have failed. </span><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3792" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3791">She graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude, comforting them and giving them courage.</b> </i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She heartens the good, praying that they may be fearless and unconquerable in the adversities of life. She inspires pastors and inflames with love the flock they shepherd for Christ. </span><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_3743" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In a word, she never ceases to exercise her role as Mother of Holy Hope.</b></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446305496498_5548"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hope does not mean optimism. Optimism is easy: it consists in supposing that everything i s s ure to work out in the end, automatically. In a more analytical form, its conception of evil is of a certain transitional dislocation or disturbance, which will rectify itself, as it were a growing-pain. By this elimination of all that is tragic from the problem of evil, optimism would destroy the very nature of hope. To delude men into thinking that the remedy for human ills is in their own hands is actually to put them out of the way of salvation. One example of this fallacious optimism is the Marxist dogma that a change in the economic conditions of life suffices to transform mankind. But even apart from materialism, the same dangerous illusion recurs in other systems, for instance when the mere act of withdrawal from the world of the senses is proposed as the way for mankind to find itself and attain to the Absolute. </span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060766603794550879.post-61202167048640783882015-10-30T16:21:00.000+00:002015-10-30T16:21:11.703+00:00Sr. Patricia FMM. Tribute to Sr. Patricia from Wm.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i><u>Tribute to Sr. Patricia</u></i></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60384" style="font-family: Arial;"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60442"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60441">From:</span></b> William W....<br /><b>To:</b> nunrawdonald....<br /><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60444"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60443">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 29 October 2015, 15:04<br /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60743" style="font-size: small;"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60446"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60445">Subject:</span></b> Re: Tribute to Sr. Patricia</span></span><span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: small;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">No epitaph more poignant could have been written for your Sister Patricia than the prayer of devotion of Luisa spelling out a lifetime of experience of love lived in Our Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">And the skies revealing the jet stream told you standing there of the mystery of a life lived in Divine Love - heavenwards! for as the skies darkened at Our Saviour's death, the morning arose with light at his resurrection, and the bright skies received him... the Lord of Creation who is so evident in our world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">The leaves in our street are copiously falling, a carpet of wonder as Autumn tells us its message, a time for reflection, and your dear Sister resting in this mystery. </span></div>
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Date : 28/10/2015 - 05:33 (GMTST)<br />
<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60833">Subject : Litany of Love in iPad</span><br />
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Luisa P. - Litany of Love</div>
<ul class="yiv1209268729no-bullets" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60701" style="background-image: none; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px currentcolor; list-style: none; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60718" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#It-is-Love-that-runs-upon-the-wings-of-the-winds" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60720" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60719" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">85</span>It is Love that runs upon the wings of the winds;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60715" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#if-the-waters-murmur-I-extend-my-arms-to-you" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60717" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60716" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">86</span>if the waters murmur, I extend my arms to you;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60714" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#if-the-leaves-move-I-clasp-you-to-my-Heart" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60713" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60712" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">87</span>if the leaves move, I clasp you to my Heart;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60711" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#if-the-flower-gives-out-its-fragrance-I-cheer-you-with-Love" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60710" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60709" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">88</span>if the flower gives out its fragrance, I cheer you with Love.</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60706" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#All-Creation-in-mute-language-tells-you-in-chorus" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60708" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60707" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">89</span>All Creation, in mute language, tells you, in chorus:</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60703" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#From-you-alone-do-I-want-life-of-Love" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60705" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60704" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">90</span>‘From you alone do I want life of Love’.</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60700" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#Love-do-I-want-Love-I-desire-for-Love-I-beg-from-within-your-heart" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60699" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60698" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">91</span>Love do I want, Love I desire, for Love I beg from within your heart.</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#I-am-only-content-if-you-give-Me-love" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">92</span>I am only content if you give Me love."</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60918" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#My-Good-my-All-insatiable-Love" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">93</span>‘My Good, my All, insatiable Love,</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#if-You-want-Love-then-give-me-Love" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">94</span>if You want Love, then give me Love;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#if-You-want-me-happy-then-speak-to-Me-of-Love" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">95</span>if You want me happy, then speak to Me of Love;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60920" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#if-You-want-me-content-then-render-me-Love" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">96</span>if You want me content, then render me Love.</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#Love-invests-me-Love-makes-me-fly" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">97</span>Love invests me, Love makes me fly,</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#and-brings-me-to-the-Throne-of-my-Maker" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">98</span>and brings me to the Throne of my Maker.</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#Love-shows-me-the-uncreated-Wisdom" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">99</span>Love shows me the uncreated Wisdom,</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60922" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#It-leads-me-into-the-Eternal-Love" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">100</span>It leads me into the Eternal Love,</span></a></li>
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<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60924" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#I-will-love-You-for-all" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">103</span>I will love You for all,</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#I-will-love-You-with-all" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">104</span>I will love You with all,</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#I-will-love-You-in-all" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">105</span>I will love You in all.</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61310" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#Jesus-seal-me-completely-with-Love-inside-your-Heart" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">106</span>Jesus, seal me completely with Love inside your Heart;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61309" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#empty-my-veins-and-instead-of-blood-let-Love-flow-in-them" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">107</span>empty my veins, and instead of blood, let Love flow in them;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61072" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#take-away-my-breath-and-let-me-breathe-air-of-Love" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61071" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61070" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">108</span>take away my breath, and let me breathe air of Love;</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60927" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#burn-my-bones-and-flesh-and-weave-me-completely---completely-with-Love" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61074" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61073" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">109</span>burn my bones and flesh, and weave me completely - completely with Love.</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61069" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#May-Love-transform-me-may-Love-conform-me" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61068" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61067" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61308" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">110</span>May Love transform me, may Love conform me,</span></a></li>
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<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61154" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#may-Love-crucify-me" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61304" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61303" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61302" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">112</span>may Love crucify me,</span></a></li>
<li class="yiv1209268729header-level-1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_60929" style="background-image: none; border: 0px currentcolor; font-weight: bold; list-style: none url(http://luisapiccarreta.me/wp-content/themes/graphene/images/list-style-image.png); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://luisapiccarreta.me/prayers/divine-will-paryers-with-the-servant-of-god-luisa-piccarreta/love-2#and-make-me-all-similar-to-You" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61066" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61065" style="color: black;"><span class="yiv1209268729toc-np-number" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_61301" style="display: inline-block; padding-right: 15px;">113</span>and make me all similar to You.’</span></a></li>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45509" lang="IT" style="color: #2c2a2f; font-size: 16pt;">SR. <b class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45511">PATRICIA </b>MCGLYNN, F.M.M.</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45513" lang="IT" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45515"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45535" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">Patricia was born On 27</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45537" style="color: #2c2a2f; font-size: 14pt;">th </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45539" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">February, 1937 in Glasgow. She was 'sandwiched' between myself, Jo, and the baby, Christina, so we became known as the three 'wee ones' while Brendan, Noreen, Mary and James were the 'four big ones'</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45541" style="color: #2c2a2f; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45543" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">In 1939, Mum and the seven of us had to move to West Donegal to avoid being split up and sent to different parts of Scotland during the war. Dad had to stay in Scotland to work and to help in the war effort. We lived in a simple two roomed cottage in the beauty, peace and tranquillity of a small village, Ballykillduff, not far from the breathtaking Atlantic coast. It had two essentials - a Church and a Primary School. We spent 6 very happy years there before returning to Glasgow in 1945 to continue our education.<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45545"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45555" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">As I reflected on Patricia's life, the Scripture passage which came to mind was Phil. 3:10-15.<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45557"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45567" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">" All I want is to know Christ and to experience the power of His Resurrection, to share in His sufferings and become like Him in his death, in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to Life. I do not claim that I have already succeeded, or have already become perfect, I keep striving to win the prize for which Jesus Christ has already won me for Himself. Of course, my brothers, I do not think I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45569" style="color: #dfdcdf; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45571" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">me and do my best to reach what is ahead. So I run straight towards the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above."<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45573"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45583" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">For me this passage sums up Patricia's life and</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45585" style="color: #555255; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45587" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">her deepest desires and now- "IT IS FULFILLED", her </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45589" style="color: #c5c3c4; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45591" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">deepest desires have been granted. <o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45593"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45603" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">She was a lively, outgoing, high spirited lass but was also quick tempered and stubborn at times! She loved sports, games .athletics, dancing etc. I have a lovely photo of her proudly holding a silver cup she won in the championship High Jump at school. We never tired teasing her about an incident which happened when we were quite small.<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45605"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45615" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">"The local boys, including our 2 holy monks decided to collect stingy nettles and to chase the girls</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45617" style="color: #2c2a2f; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45619" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">We all scattered, helter skelter screaming - except one - our Patricia!! She bent down quickly started collecting pebbles and started pelting the boys with them! At this point they decided to give up and went away."<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45621"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45631" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">She had a beautiful voice and loved music and singing and was always the one who would lead us in song. When the Charisrnatic Renewal came much later, she was in her element. One day Mum realised that Patricia was missing and asked where she was. The answer was "Over the road with the Boyles entertaining them with singing and dancing!" While preparing for her First Holy Communion she was seen distributing 'Holy Communion' i.e. bread to a row of little friends! That </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45633" style="color: #c5c3c4; font-size: 14pt;">, </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45635" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">was a long time before Vatican II or mention of women's ordination.<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45637"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45647" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">As a late teenager, she was an enthusiastic member of the Legion of Mary and delighted in the opportunity to spread God's Word and to encourage people in their Faith. On finishing school, she helped Dad in his business for a few years before entering our Novitiate in Coldash in March 1957. After her First Profession, she did her Nurses Training in London and after her Final Vows, she was missioned to Pakistan</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45649" style="color: #2a2929; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45651" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">By nature Patricia was very caring and compassionate, so she was very happy nursing the poor in our Hospital, St Raphael's in Lyallpur and in St. Joseph’s Hospice for the seriously, physically handicapped of all ages. I believe these were among her happiest and most fulfilling years</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45653" style="color: #2a2929; font-size: 14pt;">.<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45655"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45665" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">Sadly after twenty years in Pakistan, she had to return to the Home Province due to health problems. A new battle began, not a "battle with the boys" but a battle with ill health due to 'Bipolar' and depression which she faced with the same courage and determination. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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She was determined to remain faithful to her life of prayer, the active Apostolate and the living out of her "Ecce and Fiat" - come what may! This was evident especially in her' years in Aberdeen. Helen, a good friend from there gave a beautiful testimony during the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the "three wee ones" in Nunraw Abbey in 2008. I don't remember her exact words but they went something like this:<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45667"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45671" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">"Patricia is a great Missionary. She regularly visits the elderly and helps them in many ways. She is active in our Parish, is a woman of prayer and is a great inspiration for all of us. She is not afraid to reach out to people, even strangers, if she thinks they are in need and often invites them to our Charismatic prayer. We love her</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45673" style="color: #2a2929; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45675" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">We treasure her</span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45677" style="color: #2a2929; font-size: 14pt;">. </span><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45679" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">We need her. Please Sisters, whoever your superiors are, tell them not to move Patricia but to leave her with us in Aberdeen."<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45681"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45691" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">She did remain for a few more years but a time came when she needed care so she moved to our Rush Community four years ago and was very happy to do so - feeling she was COMING HOME. Only God knows how much she has suffered from her illness but a big consolation is that she was always surrounded by LOVE. She died very peacefully on Tuesday is" October. Deo Gratias. MAY SHE REST IN PEACE. </span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45697" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">I can imagine Patricia saying to me now:- "Too many words Jo! It's not like you! Please say the words I want you to say for me, the ones I was not able to speak these past months, the ones I longed to say but could only express with my eyes or a smile!"<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45699"></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45729" style="color: #000001; font-size: 14pt;">A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO MY INCREDIBLE CARERS AND STAFF here in St Joseph's for you’re never failing thoughtfulness, your unbounded love and tender care and compassion Words cannot express how much I love you all! I will certainly continue to pray for you all in Heaven".<o:p class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446113186932_45731"></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u>Monastic Lectionary of the Divine Office,</u></span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2f2b2c; font-size: 14.0pt;">T</span><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">HI</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c; font-size: 14.0pt;">RT</span><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">I</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c; font-size: 14.0pt;">ET</span><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">H WEEK IN ORD</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c; font-size: 14.0pt;">I</span><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">NARY TIME <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The Lord of History www.answersaboutfaith.com </span></div>
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26/10/2015 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fir</span></i><i><span style="color: #2f2b2c; font-size: 14.0pt;">s</span></i><i><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">t Reading <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jeremiah
27:1</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c; font-size: 14.0pt;">-</span><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">15 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <i><span style="color: #100c0d;">R</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">es</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">pon</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">s</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">or</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y </span></i><span style="color: #100c0d;">Is </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">5</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">5</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">:</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">8</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">-</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">9; <i>f</i></span><i><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">er </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">2</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">7</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">:5 <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #100c0d;">M</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">thought</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">s </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">ar</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">not </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">our thou</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">g</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">hts</span><span style="color: #504c4e;">, </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">nor ar</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e y</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">our wa</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">s m</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">w</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">ays, says </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">the L</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">o</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">r</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">d. </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">+</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">As </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">th</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">hea</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">ve</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">n</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">s are </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">high abov</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e
</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">th</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e ea</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">rth</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">, so a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">r</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e my w</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">a</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">ys </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">high a</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">bove
yo</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">ur wa</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">ys a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">nd m</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">thought</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">s a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">bov</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e y</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">our th</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">o</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">u</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">g</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">ht</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">s</span><span style="color: #504c4e;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">V</span><span style="color: #010000;">. </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">It is I who b</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y
</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">m</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">y </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">gre</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">t p</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">o</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">w</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">r and out</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">s</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">tretch</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">d
arm m</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">d</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">th</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e ear</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">th</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">, w</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">ith th</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e peopl</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">e
</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">nd </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">nim</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">l</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">s t</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">hat </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">r</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e o</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">n </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">t</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">h</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e e</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">arth</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">, a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">nd I c</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">n </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">g</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">i</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">v</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">e it to wh</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">o</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">m</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">eve</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">r I ple</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">ase</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">. + </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">As </span><span style="color: #100c0d;">the he</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">a</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">v</span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e</span><span style="color: #100c0d;">ns </span><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">..</span></span><span style="color: #100c0d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #100c0d;">S</span></i><i><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">e</span></i><i><span style="color: #100c0d;">cond Readin</span></i><i><span style="color: #2f2b2c;">g </span></i><b><span style="color: #c00000;">From
<i>The Lord of History </i>by Jean Danielou</span></b><span style="color: #c00000;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">If
a missionary is to testify before the world concerning the mind of God, he must
first enter into that mind himself, he must be led by the Holy Spirit into the
depths in God's nature, he must contemplate with awe the scale and boldness of
the divine plan. The soul of the Blessed Virgin was enlightened at the time of
her visitation by such a spiritual vision of the ways of providence, so that she
cried out, in the Magnificat, <i>My soul magnifies the Lord .</i>.. <i>because he
who is mighty .</i>.. <i>has wrought .</i>.. <i>wonders. </i>"Magnify"
means to recognize the greatness of God's works, to stand amazed at the
magnificence of his operations. Generally, people fail to see these things, being
blinded by the spectacle of earthly grandeur, and unaware of the glory of God.
They are readily moved to admiration of temporal achievements: the power of
the great nations opposing one another in our time, or the dynamic influence of
the human mind evinced by such as Nietzsche, or Marx, fills them with
astonishment, even while they forget the immeasurable might of God's activity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">What
the Holy Ghost does for the apostle is to raise up his understanding from the
plane of human activity to the level of the divine working. For, indeed, as the
Lord said to Isaiah, he does not </span><i style="color: #c00000;">think as you think, deal as you deal. </i><span style="color: #c00000;">Men
and women have their own ideas, but these are not God's; they would like to
organize the world in a certain fashion, but this is not God's fashioning; they
pursue a goal which is not God. There is some relationship between these two
distinct worlds, but it is not one of identity. The apostle is a person whom
the Holy Spirit has taken up into the ways of God, and whom he will help to
cooperate in them, making him instrumental in their fulfilment, as we may see
in the case of the prophets throughout the ages of Old Testament history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;">Today
the Holy Spirit still affords us the same religious understanding of the
historical process, the same spiritual insight into the realities of our own
time. Thus when we look at contemporary events we may see further than the
children of this world, who perceive only the outward husk of things; we need
not explain everything in terms of the conflicting material interests of
classes and nations. Behind the scenes, another conflict is engaged, between
Christ and the powers of evil, for the possession of nations and of souls. It
is only the Spirit of God that enables us to transcend the limitations of human
insight, and to read the unanswerable riddle of our times. </span><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">R</span></i><i><span style="color: #2f2b2c; font-size: 14.0pt;">es</span></i><i><span style="color: #100c0d; font-size: 14.0pt;">ponsorv Eph
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">----- Forwarded Message -----<br /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_8903" style="font-family: Arial;"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9329"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9328">From:</span></b> Donald ...<br /><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9495"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9494">To:</span></b> "William ....<br /><br /><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9381"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9380">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 6:03<br /><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9383"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_9382">Subject:</span></b> Six Rabannus Maurus entries</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Dear William,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Our continuing of "My forehead. Enter into my thoughts."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Thank you comment and below to follow the furrows in Rabanus Maurus at '<a href="http://enlargingtheheart.wordpress.com/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_8958" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">enlargingtheheart.wordpress.com</a>', six Entries included. May not be in our library.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Angels.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Yesterday at Western General Hospital, Raymond and I went to visit 93yr Mary in the maze to search. At the Reception an elderly WWW voluntary aid kept us all the way of paths by buildings, lifts and wards! 'Angel' I called her as she realized. And Mary suffering shingles, herself an Angel too. Hospital staff all so kind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">...yours,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Donald</span><br />Sent from my iPad. </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">COMMENT from William </span>- Thank you. D.<br />
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----- Forwarded Message -----<br /><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7176" style="font-family: Arial;"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7226"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7225">From:</span></b> William ...<br /><b>To:</b> nunrawdonald ...<br /><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 19:30<br /><b>Subject:</b> Re: this interior listening</span></div>
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Dear Father Donald,</div>
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There is a practical snag here for me... <span style="color: magenta;">"</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7172"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7318" style="color: magenta;">No<i> </i>one learns anything through speech... unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit"</span> And yet, </span>the spoken word does not always 'register' for me its full meaning, (first thoughts distracting me), and when I do realize the meaning of all that I have just heard, the echo is gone! Whereas the written word places its meaning before me to consider and reflect upon, and review the meaning of one phrase caught up into the next: Lectio is for me this <span style="color: magenta;">"interior listening"</span>.</div>
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I need the text for the full value of the spoken word to register. I wonder if that was in the mind of the writers of the Gospels as they sought to capture the depth of the meaning relayed in the oral traditions?</div>
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----Original message----<br /><br />Date : 27/10/2015 - 07:34 (GMTST)<br />...<br />Cc ...<br />Subject : Night Office<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">The mind has the wealth of thoughts.</span></div>
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margin: 0.6em 0px 0px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 10px;">8:55 am</span></div>
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In the Gospel he who is Truth himself says to his disciples:</div>
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<i>When you stand before kings and princes, do not think how you are to speak, or what you are to say; what you are to say will be given you at the time, for it is not you who will be speaking but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.</i></div>
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We must realise that the grace of the Holy Spirit is necessary not only for those who teach but also for those who are taught.</div>
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Unless the Spirit is present in the heart of the listener, the teacher is wasting his breath.</div>
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Unless there is a teacher within us, the teacher without works in a vacuum.</div>
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In Church we all hear the same voice speaking, but all do not understand it in the same way.</div>
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Since there is no difference in what is said, why is there a difference in our understanding of it, unless there is an interior teacher giving certain people special instruction through their understanding of words of admonition addressed to all?</div>
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Concerning this grace of the Holy Spirit, John says: <i>His anointing will teach you everything</i>.</div>
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No<i> </i>one learns anything through speech, therefore, unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7338">Because King Jehoiachim and his servants were not inwardly illumined by the grace of the Holy Spirit who inspired the Prophet, their bodily ears could hear the words of God, but the ears of the heart were deaf to them.</span></div>
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It is this interior listening which our Lord demands in the Gospel when he says: <i>Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.</i></div>
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One has to marvel at the blindness of the human mind and the wickedness of the hardened heart.</div>
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Those whom salutary admonitions should have filled with compunction and sorrow for their sins were at pains to burn the scroll containing the words of the Lord.</div>
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They also took every opportunity to insult the Prophet whom they ought to have honoured for his inspired teaching and admonitions.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7343">And why did they do this? Was it not because there was in them the sort of wicked spirit that always resists grace?</span></div>
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Yet human pride is impotent when it sets itself to resist divine sovereignty.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7384">An earthly King gave orders for the Prophet and his scribe to be arrested and sent to prison;</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7382">the King of heaven shielded his blameless saints from human malice so that they came to no harm.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7379"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7380">Rabanus Maurus (c.780-856): </i>Commentary on Jeremiah, 13 (PL 111:1073-75);<i> </i><a href="http://www.centreforcatholicstudies.co.uk/?page_id=765" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7378" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7377"><i>from th</i><i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446036565682_7376">e Monastic Office of Vigils, Tuesday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time, Year 1</i></i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5302" style="line-height: 13.8px;">30th Wed 28 Oct 2015, Luke 6_12-19 cf. Magnificat</span><span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5304" style="color: #0d0d0d; line-height: 13.8px; line-height: 13.8px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> St. Jude is the Patron Saint of Hope and hopeless cases</span></div>
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<span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5348" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: small;">King Abagar of Edessa asked Jesus to cure him of leprosy and sent an artist to bring him an icon of Jesus. Impressed with Abagar’s great faith, Jesus pressed His face on a cloth, leaving the image of His face on it. He gave the cloth to St. Jude, who took the image to Abagar and cured him.</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5354" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> In the middle ages, in a vision, Christ told St. Bridget, “In accordance with his surname, Thaddeus, which means<u id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5442"> amiable or loving</u>, he will show himself most willing to give help.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5360" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> In the early 20<sup class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5362">th</sup> century, devotion to St Jude was almost unknown. It resurfaced when a Claretion Father in Chicago built a shrine to St Jude. Today, millions of people around the world turn to St. Jude for help.</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5368" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: small;"> In Cameroon and Nigeria, there is a flourishing St Jude Society in almost every parish. They have more than their fair share of hopeless cases. May the Lord help them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5380" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span><span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5392" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;">Father, may the Holy Spirit renew our hearts with faith, <u id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5472">Hope</u> and charity, </span><span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_5394" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;">through Christ our Lord.</span></span></div>
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<span class="yiv2612490605" id="yiv2612490605yui_3_16_0_1_1446025097871_6039" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ps. Thank you William for your kind condolences on Patricia's departing this world. She was a gem, natural and supernatural. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /> The name of <strong>Saint Simon</strong>usually appears eleventh in the list of the apostles. Nothing is known of him except that he was born at Cana and is surnamed "The Zealot".<br /> <strong>Saint Jude</strong>, also called Thaddeus, was the apostle who asked the Lord at the Last Supper why he has manifested himself only to his </span>disciples and not to the whole world (John 12:22).</div>
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<em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6316"><a href="http://enlargingtheheart.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/raban-maur_alcuin_otgar.jpg" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6315" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: blue; cursor: text !important; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="yiv8309291566alignright yiv8309291566size-medium yiv8309291566wp-image-2929" data-id="2e317912-fe71-5bdc-e688-57b56d32af9d" height="300" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6314" src="https://enlargingtheheart.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/raban-maur_alcuin_otgar.jpg?w=600&h=616" style="border: none; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 2px 7px; padding: 4px;" title="Raban-Maur_Alcuin_Otgar" width="292" /></a><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6729" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: small;">(</span><span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">On Jeremiah 36)</span></em></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6376"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_7123" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">In the Gospel he who is Truth himself says to his disciples:</span></span></div>
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<em id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6329"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_7107" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">When you stand before kings and princes, do not think how you are to speak, or what you are to say; what you are to say will be given you at the time, for it is not you who will be speaking but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.</span></em></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6775"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6774" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">We must realise that the grace of the Holy Spirit is necessary not only for those who teach but also for those who are taught.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6771"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6770" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">Unless the Spirit is present in the heart of the listener, the teacher is wasting his breath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">Unless there is a teacher within us, the teacher without works in a vacuum.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6744"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6743" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">In Church we all hear the same voice speaking, but all do not understand it in the same way.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6333"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6741" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">Since there is no difference in what is said, why is there a difference in our understanding of it, unless there is an interior teacher giving certain people special instruction through their understanding of words of admonition addressed to all?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">Concerning this grace of the Holy Spirit, John says: <em>His anointing will teach you everything</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">No<em> </em>one learns anything through speech, therefore, unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6336"><span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">Because King Jehoiachim and his servants were not inwardly illumined by the grace of the Holy Spirit who inspired the Prophet, their bodily ears could hear the words of God, but the ears of the heart were deaf to them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">It is this interior listening which our Lord demands in the Gospel when he says: <em>Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">One has to marvel at the blindness of the human mind and the wickedness of the hardened heart.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6339"><span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">Those whom salutary admonitions should have filled with compunction and sorrow for their sins were at pains to burn the scroll containing the words of the Lord.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6366"><span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">They also took every opportunity to insult the Prophet whom they ought to have honoured for his inspired teaching and admonitions.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6342"><span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">And why did they do this? Was it not because there was in them the sort of wicked spirit that always resists grace?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">Yet human pride is impotent when it sets itself to resist divine sovereignty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">An earthly King gave orders for the Prophet and his scribe to be arrested and sent to prison;</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6365"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1445970559340_6731" style="color: #cd232c; font-size: large;">the King of heaven shielded his blameless saints from human malice so that they came to no harm.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pope's Discourse at Close of Synod<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"It was about showing the
vitality of the Catholic Church, which is not afraid to stir dulled consciences
or to soil her hands with lively and frank discussions about the family."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #c00000;">Vatican City,</span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;">October 24, 2015</span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;">(<a href="http://www.zenit.org/"><span style="color: #c00000; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ZENIT.org</span></a>)</span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;"><a href="http://www.zenit.org/en/authors/staff-reporter"><span style="color: #c00000; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Staff Reporter</span></a></span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;">|</span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;"> 7827 hits</span></i><i><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Below is the Vatican-provided translation of Pope
Francis' discourse at the conclusion of the Synod of Bishops on the Family in
the Vatican's Paul VI Hall this afternoon:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">***<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Dear Beatitudes, Eminences and Excellencies,<br />
Dear Brothers and Sisters,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">men and women who contributed generously to the
labours of this Synod by quietly working behind the scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Be assured of my prayers, that the Lord will reward
all of you with his abundant gifts of grace!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">As I followed the labours of the Synod, I asked
myself: </span><i><span style="color: #c00000;">What
will it mean for the Church to conclude this Synod devoted to the family?</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #555555;">Certainly, the Synod was not about settling all the
issues having to do with the family, but rather attempting to see them in the
light of the Gospel and the Church’s tradition and two-thousand-year history, </span><span style="color: #c00000;">bringing the joy of hope without falling into a
facile repetition of what is obvious or has already been said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Surely it was not about finding exhaustive
solutions for all the difficulties and uncertainties </span>which challenge and
threaten the family, but rather about seeing these difficulties and
uncertainties in the light of the Faith, carefully studying them and
confronting them fearlessly, without burying our heads in the sand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was about urging everyone to appreciate the
importance of the institution of the family and of marriage between a man and a
woman, based on unity and indissolubility, and valuing it as the fundamental
basis of society and human life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was about listening to and making heard the
voices of the families and the Church’s pastors, who came to Rome bearing on
their shoulders the burdens and the hopes, the riches and the challenges of
families throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was about showing the vitality of the Catholic
Church, which is not afraid to stir dulled consciences or to soil her hands
with lively and frank discussions about the family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was about trying to view and interpret
realities, today’s realities, through God’s eyes, so as to kindle the flame of
faith and enlighten people’s hearts in times marked by discouragement, social,
economic and moral crisis, and growing pessimism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was about bearing witness to everyone that, for
the Church, the Gospel continues to be a vital source of eternal newness,
against all those who would “indoctrinate” it in dead stones to be hurled at
others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was also about laying<span style="color: #c00000;"> closed hearts, which bare
the closed hearts which frequently hide even behind the Church’s teachings or
good intentions, in order to sit in the chair of Moses and judge, sometimes
with superiority and superficiality, difficult cases and wounded families.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was about making clear that the Church is a
Church of the poor in spirit and of sinners seeking forgiveness, not simply of
the righteous and the holy, but rather of those who are righteous and holy
precisely when they feel themselves poor sinners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">It was about trying to open up broader horizons,
rising above conspiracy theories and blinkered viewpoints, so as to defend and
spread the freedom of the children of God, and to transmit the beauty of
Christian Newness, at times encrusted in a language which is archaic or simply
incomprehensible.<span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">In the course of this Synod, the different opinions
which were freely expressed – and at times, unfortunately, not in entirely
well-meaning ways – certainly led to a rich and lively dialogue; they offered a
vivid image of a Church which does not simply “rubberstamp”, but draws from the
sources of her faith living waters to refresh parched hearts.</span><sup><span style="color: #c00000;">1</span></sup><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">And – apart from dogmatic questions clearly defined
by the Church’s Magisterium – we have also seen that what seems normal for a
bishop on one continent, is considered strange and almost scandalous for a
bishop from another; what is considered a violation of a right in one society
is an evident and inviolable rule in another; what for some is freedom of
conscience is for others simply confusion. Cultures are in fact quite diverse,
and each general principle needs to be inculturated, if it is to be respected
and applied.</span><sup><span style="color: #c00000;">2</span></sup><span style="color: #c00000;"> The
1985 Synod, which celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the conclusion of the
Second Vatican Council, spoke of </span><i><span style="color: #c00000;">inculturation</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;"> as
“the intimate transformation of authentic cultural values through their
integration in Christianity, and the taking root of Christianity in the various
human cultures”.</span><sup><span style="color: #c00000;">3</span></sup><span style="color: #c00000;"> </span><i><span style="color: #c00000;">Inculturation</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;"> does not weaken true values, but demonstrates
their true strength and authenticity, since they adapt without changing; indeed
they quietly and gradually transform the different cultures.</span><sup><span style="color: #c00000;">4</span></sup><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">We have seen, also by the richness of our
diversity, that the same challenge is ever before us: that of proclaiming the
Gospel to the men and women of today, and defending the family from all
ideological and individualistic assaults.<span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">And without ever falling into the danger of</span><i><span style="color: #c00000;"> relativism</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;"> or of</span><i><span style="color: #c00000;"> demonizing</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;"> others,
we sought to embrace, fully and courageously, the goodness and mercy of God who
transcends our every human reckoning and desires only that “all be saved”
(cf. </span><i><span style="color: #c00000;">1
Tm</span></i><span style="color: #c00000;">2:4). In this way we wished to
experience this Synod in the context of the Extraordinary Year of Mercy which
the Church is called to celebrated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Dear Brothers,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #555555;">The Synod experience also made us better realize
that the true defenders of doctrine are not those who uphold its letter, but
its spirit; not ideas but people; not formulae but the gratuitousness of God’s
love and forgiveness. This is in no way to detract from the importance of
formulae, laws and divine commandments, but raather to exalt the greatness of
the true God, who does not treat us according to our merits or even according
to our works but </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">solely</span></i><span style="color: #555555;"> according to the boundless generosity of his
Mercy (cf. </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">Rom </span></i><span style="color: #555555;">3:21-30; </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">Ps </span></i><span style="color: #555555;">129; </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">Lk </span></i><span style="color: #555555;">11:37-54).
</span><span style="color: #c00000;">It does have to do with overcoming
the recurring temptations of the elder brother (cf. </span><i><span style="color: #c00000;">Lk </span></i><span style="color: #c00000;">15:25-32) and the jealous labourers (cf. </span><i><span style="color: #c00000;">Mt </span></i><span style="color: #c00000;">20:1-16).</span><span style="color: #555555;">
Indeed, it means upholding all the more the laws and commandments which were
made for man and not vice versa (cf. </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">Mk </span></i><span style="color: #555555;">2:27).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #555555;">In this sense, the necessary human repentance,
works and efforts take on a deeper meaning, not as the price of that salvation
freely won for us by Christ on the cross, but as a response to the One who
loved us first and saved us at the cost of his innocent blood, while we were
still sinners (cf. </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">Rom </span></i><span style="color: #555555;">5:6).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">The Church’s first duty is not to hand down
condemnations or anathemas, but to proclaim God’s mercy, to call to conversion,
and to lead all men and women to salvation in the Lord (cf. </span><i><span style="color: #c00000;">Jn </span></i><span style="color: #c00000;">12:44-50).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #555555;">Blessed Paul VI expressed this eloquently: “”We can
imagine, then, that each of our sins, our attempts to turn our back on God,
kindles in him a more intense flame of love, a desire to bring us back to
himself and to his saving plan… </span><span style="color: #c00000;">God, in Christ,
shows himself to be infinitely good… God is good.</span><span style="color: #555555;">
Not only in himself; God is – let us say it with tears – good for us. He loves
us, he seeks us out, he thinks of us, he knows us, he touches our hearts us and
he waits for us. He will be – so to say – delighted on the day when we return
and say: ‘Lord, in your goodness, forgive me. Thus our repentance becomes God’s
joy”.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555;">5</span></sup><span style="color: #555555;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Saint John Paul II also stated that: “the Church
lives an authentic life when she professes and proclaims mercy… and when she
brings people close to the sources of the Saviour’s mercy, of which she is the
trustee and dispenser”.</span><sup><span style="color: #c00000;">6</span></sup><span style="color: #c00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Benedict XVI, too, said: “Mercy is indeed the
central nucleus of the Gospel message; it is the very name of God… May all that
the Church says and does manifest the mercy God feels for mankind. </span><span style="color: #555555;">When the Church has to recall an unrecognized
truth, or a betrayed good, she always does so impelled by merciful love, so
that men may have life and have it abundantly (cf. </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">Jn</span></i><span style="color: #555555;">10:10)”.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555;">7</span></sup><span style="color: #555555;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #c00000;">In light of all this, and thanks to this time of
grace which the Church has experienced in discussing the family, we feel mutually
enriched.</span><span style="color: #555555;"> Many of us have felt the working of
the Holy Spirit who is the real protagonist and guide of the Synod. For all of
us, the word “family” has a new resonance, so much so that the word itself
already evokes the richness of the family’s vocation and the significance of
the labours of the Synod.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555;">8</span></sup><span style="color: #555555;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #555555;">In effect, for the Church </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">to conclude </span></i><span style="color: #555555;">the Synod means </span><i><span style="color: #555555;">to return</span></i><span style="color: #555555;"> to our true “journeying together” in bringing
to every part of the world, to every diocese, to every community and every
situation, the light of the Gospel, the embrace of the Church and the support
of God’s mercy!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 6.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> Cf.
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical
Catholic University of Argentina on the Centenary of its Faculty of Theology, 3
March 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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