Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing

  

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C

Saint Luke 1:1-4.4:14-21.

Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us,...

...He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing." v.21

Saint Ambrose (c.340-397), Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church

Commentary on Psalm 1, §33 ; CSEL 64, 28-30

"Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing"

Nunraw, Sunday - dramatic thaw of snow

Drink first of the Old Testament so as to drink afterward of the New. If you do not drink of the first you will not be able to quench your thirst at the second. Drink of the first to take your thirst away, of the second to staunch it completely... Drink of the cup of both the Old Testament and the New for in these two you drink Christ. Take away your thirst with Christ for he is the vine, he is the rock that caused water to gush forth, he is the spring of life. Drink Christ for he is “the stream whose runlets gladden the city of God”, he is peace and “from his breast flow rivers of living water”. Drink Christ to quench your thirst with the blood of your redemption and the Word of God. The Old Testament is his word and so is the New. We drink Holy Scripture and we eat it and then the eternal Word descends into the veins of the spirit and the life of the soul: “Not by bread alone does man live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God”. Therefore, quench your thirst with this Word yet in its proper order: first drink it in the Old Testament and then, without delaying, in the New.

He himself says almost insistently: “People who walk in darkness, see this great light; you who dwell in a land of death, a light has shone upon you”. So drink without delay and a great light will enlighten you: no longer the ordinary light of day, whether that of the sun or the moon, but the light that casts out the shadow of death.

(Biblical references : Jn 15,1; 1Co 10,4; Ps 36[37],10; 45[46],5; Eph 2,14; Jn 7,38; Dt 8,3; Mt 4,4; Is 9,1 LXX; Mt 4,16; Lk 1,79)

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“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” John 6:68 

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The whole team of Daily Gospel wishes you a very happy and holy Christmas!

On this holy night among all, let’s free our heart from the world, its restlessness, its material wealth, and let’s merely, humbly, kneel before our Savior. Let’s follow him in his impoverishment to contemplate the eternal realities: in the mystery of Christmas, God the Son comes to us and takes us into transports of delight, love and gratitude, for it is to each of us that God gives his Son. Let’s prepare our souls to receive this priceless gift and let’s sing with the angels the glory of God!

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Tonight: Nativity of the Lord (Christmas), solemnity
Nativity of the Lord  THE SON OF GOD BECAME MAN I. WHY DID THE WORD BECOME FLESH?                    With the Nicene Creed, we answer by confessing: "For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit, he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man."         The Word became flesh for us in order to save us by reconciling us with God, who "loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins": "the Father has sent his Son as the Saviour of the world", and "he was revealed to take away sins": Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again. We had lost the possession of the good; it was necessary for it to be given back to us. Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Saviour; prisoners, help; slaves, a liberator. Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state? (St. Gregory of Nyssa)           The Word became flesh so that thus we might know God's love: "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him." "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."           The Word became flesh to be our model of holiness: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me." "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me." On the mountain of the Transfiguration, the Father commands: "Listen to him!" Jesus is the model for the Beatitudes and the norm of the new law: "Love one another as I have loved you." This love implies an effective offering of oneself, after his example.          The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods." II. THE INCARNATION          Taking up St. John's expression, "The Word became flesh", The Church calls "Incarnation" the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it. In a hymn cited by St. Paul, the Church sings the mystery of the Incarnation: Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. and being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. (Ph 2:5-8)  The Letter to the Hebrews refers to the same mystery: Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, Lo, I have come to do your will, O God." (He 10:5-7)          Belief in the true Incarnation of the Son of God is the distinctive sign of Christian faith: "By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God." Such is the joyous conviction of the Church from her beginning whenever she sings "the mystery of our religion": "He was manifested in the flesh." Catechism of the Catholic Church, § 456-463 - Copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana

Acknowledging the Son of Man Luke 12:8

Saturday, 20 October 2012
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Luke 12: 8-12

MEDITATION OF THE DAY

Acknowledging the Son of Man

The present state is a beginning of a martyrdom of the most pure love... You must immerse yourself evermore in pure love, and in this divine fire you must be a true victim sacrificed as a holocaust to the Supreme Good. Love, love, suffer, and be silent. Love allows one to speak little, and if it be much en-kindled  it does not allow one to say anything because [the soul] attends to pure love and allows itself to be burnt to ashes in the divine fire in which, with a glance of charity, it embraces the needs of all creatures and without expressing it, cries out for all.

Ah, that His most Sacred Suffering

Could always be in my heart!

Ever praying,

Burning love my only part! ...

In my meditation a fire has come forth,

It has made my heart as unquenchable fire!

Abandon yourself in the deep sea of divine love, entering through the door of the most pure Heart of Jesus, in pure faith, without images. Hide yourself totally in that great Holy of Holies, and there lose yourself completely in the bottomless sea of the infinite Love of God. Rise to the contemplation of the divine wonders, beauties, and riches of the Sovereign Good; take pleasure in him; melt into that great fire like a small piece of wax; put yourself on the bundles of spices which are the suffer­ings of Jesus, and there burn everything, reduce the whole holocaustal victim to ashes.

SAINT PAUL OF THE CROSS

Saint Paul of the Cross (t 1775) was an Italian priest, mystic, and the founder of the Passionists.                

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St. Paul of the Cross, Priest (1693-1775) 

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        The eighty-one years of this Saint's life were modelled on the Passion of Jesus Christ. In his childhood, when praying in church, a heavy bench fell on his foot, but the boy took no notice of the bleeding wound, and spoke of it as "a rose sent from God." A few years later, the vision of a scourge with "love" written on its lashes assured him that his thirst for penance would be satisfied. In the hope of dying for the faith, he enlisted in a crusade against the Turks; but a voice from the Tabernacle warned him that he was to serve Christ alone, and that he should found a congregation in his honor.

        At the command of his bishop he began while a layman to preach the Passion, and a series of crosses tried the reality of his vocation. All his first companions, save his brother, deserted him; the Sovereign Pontiff refused him an audience; and it was only after a delay of seventeen years that the Papal approbation was obtained, and the first house of the Passionists was opened on Monte Argentario, the spot which Our Lady had pointed out.

        St. Paul chose as the badge of his Order a heart with three nails, in memory of the sufferings of Jesus, but for himself he invented a more secret and durable sign. Moved by the same holy impulse as Blessed Henry Suso, St. Jane Frances, and other Saints, he branded on his side the Holy Name, and its characters were found there after death.

        His heart beat with a supernatural palpitation, which was especially vehement on Fridays, and the heat at times was so intense as to scorch his shirt in the region of his heart. Through fifty years of incessant bodily pain, and amidst all his trials, Paul read the love of Jesus everywhere, and would cry out to the flowers and grass, "Oh! be quiet, be quiet," as if they were reproaching him with ingratitude.

        He died whilst the Passion was being read to him, and so passed with Jesus from the cross to glory.

Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2012:%208-12&version=KNOX

Luke 12:8-12

Knox Bible (KNOX)

⁸ And I tell you this; whoever acknowledges me before men, will be acknowledged by the Son of Man in the presence of God’s angels; ⁹ he who disowns me before men, will be disowned before God’s angels. ¹⁰ There is no one who speaks a word against the Son of Man but may find forgiveness; there will be no forgiveness for the man who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit.^[a]11 When they bring you to trial before synagogues, and magistrates, and officers, do not consider anxiously what you are to say, what defence to make or how to make it; ¹² the Holy Spirit will instruct you when the time comes, what words to use.^[b]

Footnotes:

1. Luke 12:10 See p. 17, note 1.
2. Luke 12:12 vv. 1-12: Mt. 10.26.

THE RICH YOUNG MAN (Matt. 19:16 – Mark 10:17-30)

 

Homily 

Fr. Raymond - Organ  

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THE RICH YOUNG MAN  (Matt. 19:16 – Mark 10:17-30)

Sometimes in the Gospel scenes we find the same story told by more than one of the Evangelists.  The stories are obviously about the same incident but each of the different accounts has its own point of view, its own emphasis, its own peculiar details that aren’t found in the others.  This is true of the story we have in today’s Gospel – the “Story of the Rich young man” It’s only when we put the two stories together that we get the full flavour of the incident.

Today’s version is that of St Mark.  He gives us a much more vivid description of the initial encounter between the young man and Jesus.  Matthew simply tells us that once, a man came up to Jesus.  Mark on the other hand tells us that he actually came running up to Jesus and he knelt down before him.  There is a note of youthful enthusiasm and of beautiful humility brought into the scene by these two words “running” and “knelt”.  It is only from Mark too that we learn that the man was young but it is only at the very end of the story that he tells us that.

Both the Evangelists then tell us that the young man addresses Jesus in terms that use the word “Good”. “Master, what good must I do to  possess eternal life”, we read in Matthew; and “Good Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” we read in Mark.  In either case the Young man is presuming that Jesus is in himself the personification and teacher of goodness.  When Jesus answers: “Why call me good?  No one is good but God alone.” He doesn’t so much deny his goodness as give a veiled reference to his divinity by suggesting to the young man that he look into his heart and consider why he is so assured of the goodness of the one he is speaking to. He is inviting him to consider: What is this overwhelming sense of goodness that shines forth in this man before me?

Jesus, obviously doesn’t expect the young man to be able, then and there, to realise his divinity, but he is planting a seed that will, hopefully, blossom in due time into such a realisation in faith.   We can remind ourselves here of Jesus saying to his disciples “You cannot understand just now what I am talking about but, after I have risen and ascended to heaven, I will send my Spirit to you to make all things clear to you.”

Jesus then goes on to answer the young man’s question more directly:  “To gain eternal life you must keep the commandments – you know them all” and when the young man answers in simple sincerity that he has kept them all from his youth, then Jesus seems to be, humanly speaking, overwhelmed by this simple sincerity and he gazes on him with love – perhaps even with an astonished love. –remember how he was astonished at the faith of the Centurian.

We know that Jesus looks on every one of us with love, but, like every true human being there were those whom he loved in a special way.  Apart from his blessed Mother, of course, there was John, the beloved disciple, who leaned on his breast at the last supper, and then there was Lazarus whom he raised from the dead, and Martha and Mary his Sisters, and there was Mary Magdalen to whom he appeared first after his resurrection.  Yes, Jesus did have his special loves, just like any of us, and perhaps this young man was one of them.

But finally we have to consider the sad, sad ending of this story.  Here was this young man.  Spiritually speaking, had everything going for him.  He was so innocent and pure, so zealous and enthusiastic, and so humble.  And yet, when Jesus calls him to leave everything and follow him, he turns away sadly because of his great possessions.  What a frightening picture this gives us of the power of the good things of this life to come between us and God.  

John 6:51-58. I am the living bread that came down from heaven... Homily Fr. Raymond

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6:51-58.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; 

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Jesus said to the crowd “I am the Living Bread which has come down from Heaven.  Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.”  We can note from this wonderful saying, first of all, that Jesus is speaking directly and explicitly of himself.  He is not speaking about some  sign or symbol of himself.  He is not speaking about somerepresentation of himself.  He is speaking purely and simply, and very explicitly, ofhimself; his own true, living self:  “I.... am the Living Bread”.  And then he tells us where He comes from, “I am the Living Bread which has come down from Heaven”   So, He immediately leads us into mystery, the great mystery, of the Son of God’s Incarnation and of his Sacramental Communion with us; His communion with all who can find the faith to believe in Him; His promised communion with all who have the humility and the courage to believe in the truth of his words; even though, like the apostles, when they first heard them, they just couldn’t understand them.  “This is a hard saying”, the crowd said “and who can believe it”, but the Apostles said “To whom shall we go?  It’s you who have the words of eternal life”.  This faith of the apostles is faith in Jesus at its deepest.  It is not to be defined as a faith in the truth of what Jesus says or in the power he displays in his miracles, but it is purely and simply a faith in Jesus;  a faith that trusts itself to him no matter what he says, no matter what he does; and indeed, eventually it would prove to be a faith  and a trust in him no matter what might happen to him.

The next thing we can note in these words is that he calls himself “Bread”, “I am The Living Bread”.  For the Jews of his day, as for ourselves to this day, the word “Bread” conjures up the idea of mankind’s basic need for subsistence.  Man must eat to live.  In calling himself “Bread” therefore, Jesus is implying that our very life depends on him; our very subsistence depends on our communion with him.  He puts this very explicitly in another phrase: “If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man you cannot have life in you”.    The Sacrament of Holy Communion then is something that is much more than just a gift to us.  It is of course a gift, a most wonderful gift, a gift beyond price, but, for the life of our souls, for our life in the spirit, it is also so much more than just a gift.  It is an absolute necessity.  It is an absolute necessity for us if we are to stay alive at all.  “If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man you cannot have life in you”.

We are not, all of us, capable of great spritual insights  into the riches of the eucharist.  We are not, all of us, capable of deep theological understanding of the mysteries of our faith.  We are not, all of us, capable of rising to the heights of great spirituality.  But we are, each and every one of us, no matter what our spiritual stature before God, we are all able to come to the table of the Eucharist and “take and eat” as the Lord commanded us.

“Do this in memory of me”

 

'I have come down from heaven'?" John 6:41

PREAMBLE:  

One phrase of Jesus in the Gospel in John’s Eucharistic Chapter may well be sufficient for lasting thought, as today’s Reading, “I have come down from heaven.” , re-echoing the Jews and missing the mark.

After pausing and silent, the dramatic expressions from the DAY BY DAY reflection, ”That eating human flesh is the deepest, darkest, most unmentionable of taboos. ...” - enters more deeply as below.

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B

Saint John 6:41-51.

The Jews murmured about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven," ...

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

May the communion in your Sacrament

that we have consumed, save us, 0 Lord,

and confirm us in the light of your truth.

Through Christ our Lord.

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DAY BY DAY

Heather King

From Redeemed: A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles Toward God, Marginal Sanity,  and the Peace That Passes All Understanding. 2008, Viking Publishing, Penguin Group, Inc .• New York, NY.

"I am the living bread"

The mystery of the Eucharist alone - that Christ left his Body and Blood for us to eat and drink - I could ponder forever and not fully plumb its depths. That it's his actual (real) Body and Blood - not "virtually real", not a symbol. That he literally becomes part of us and we become part of him. That by leaving us "food" eat and drink, he acknowledges and appeases our ravenous spiritual hunger. That eating human flesh is the deepest, darkest, most unmentionable of taboos. The very worst thing a human being could do - butcher a man, torture to death a person who's completely innocent, and eat him - Christ says, I'm going to let you do it: I'm going to offer myself up. I'm in solidarity not only with your humanity, your brokenness, your sins; I'm in solidarity with your pathologies. And in offering up my very flesh, I am going to transform the consciousness of all humanity, for all time. I'm going to descend to the depths and ascend to the heights of the human spirit and, to all who want to avail themselves, open up the possibility of becoming truly awake and alive to reality.

While I could never plumb the depths of the Eucharist - yet a simple fisherman would understand all that needs to and probably can be understood about it: it's a gift, and it's holy. Someone sacrificed himself and left his very Body and Blood to us as a gift, an offering, the answer to our deepest prayer: Oh, please let there be something beyond me and my sadly, pathetically limited powers. Let there still be something holy in the world, let there be something we haven't wrecked with our greed, our fear, our lust. Let the terrible, terrible suffering of me and every other human being on earth have meaning. The Mass is a celebration and re-enactment of the sacrifice: the consecration of the Host, the bridging of the gap between life and death, light and dark, heaven and earth, the material and spiritual. The Eucharist is the eternal coming-into-being of the power that on the one hand has the ability to shake the foundations of the universe, and on the other, perpetually, gently assures us that we are known, seen, cherished; that God hungers for us, thirsts for us.

HEATHER KING

Heather King is a convert to Catholicism and a writer from California. 

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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 7:6.12-14.

Tuesday, 26 June 2012.

On the Twelfth week in Ordinary Time. 

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Commentary of the day :   
Saint Benedict (480-547), monk 
The Rule, Prologue 



“ Enter through the narrow gate ”

The Lord, seeking his laborer in the multitude to whom he thus cries out, says again, "Who would have life and desires to see good days?" (Ps. 34:13) And if, hearing him, you answer, "I am the one," God says to you, "If you will have true and everlasting life, keep your tongue from evil and your lips that they speak no guile. Turn away from evil and do good; seek after peace and pursue it" (Ps. 34:14-15)... What can be sweeter to us, dear brothers, than this voice of the Lord inviting us? In his loving kindness the Lord shows us the way of life. Having our loins girded, therefore, with faith and the performance of good works (Eph. 6:14), let us walk in his paths by the guidance of the Gospel, that we may deserve to see him who has called us to his Kingdom (1 Th 2:12). For if we wish to dwell in the tent of that kingdom, we must run to it by good deeds or we shall never reach it. Let us ask the Lord, with the prophet, "Lord, who shall dwell in your tent, or who shall rest upon your holy mountain?" (Ps. 15:1) After this question, brothers, let us listen to the Lord as he answers and shows us the way...

      And so we are going to establish a school for the service of the Lord. In founding it we hope to introduce nothing harsh or burdensome. But if a certain strictness results from the dictates of equity for the amendment of vices or the preservation of charity, do not be at once dismayed and fly from the way of salvation, whose entrance cannot but be narrow. For as we advance in life and in faith, our hearts expand and we run the way of God's commandments with unspeakable sweetness of love (Ps. 119:32). Thus, never departing from his schooling but persevering in the monastery according to his teaching until death, we may by patience share in the sufferings of Christ (1 Peter 4:13) and deserve to have a share also in his Kingdom.

Raphael Arnaiz Baron - DGO extract -

      Raphael  to know how now to WAIT                                      

Thank you,
William.     

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Dear Father Donald,

There is a deeply personal prayer on DGO illustrating today's Gospel that I find very moving.

Following the examples of personal prayer of Blossis, this holds the same spiritual beauty....

William

  

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Saturday, 23 June 2012

Saturday of the Eleventh week in Ordinary Time

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 6:24-34.

Jesus said to his disciples: «No one can serve two masters.

Commentary of the day : 

Saint Raphael Arnaiz Baron (1911-1938), a Spanish Trappist monk 

To know how to wait, 04/03/1938, (trans. Mairin Mitchell) 

"If God so clothes the grass of the field... will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?"

Today I take up my pen in the name of God, so that my words, imprinting themselves on the white paper, may give service in perpetual praise of God, the blessed author of my life, my soul, my heart. I would like the whole Universe, with all the planets, stars, and the countless sidereal systems, to be a vast smooth surface on which could be written the name of God. I would like my voice to be stronger than a thousand thunders, more powerful than the surge of the sea, more fearful than the eruption of volcanoes, only to say the name of God. I would like my heart to be as great as Heaven, pure as that of the angels, guileless as that of the dove (Mt 10,16), so that it could possess God. But as none of these grandiose dreams can be realized, satisfy yourself, Brother Rafael, with little, and you who are nothing, that very nothing must suffice...

Why keep silent about it? Why hide it? Why not cry out to the whole world, and proclaim to the four winds the wonders of God? Why not say to everyone what they would like to hear: “You see what I am? You see what I was? You see my wretchedness dragged through the mire? No matter – marvel at it – in spite of everything, I have God. God is my friend!” God loves me so deeply that if the whole world understood this everyone would go mad and shout in sheer amazement. Still more, all that is but a little. God loves me so much that the angels themselves don't understand it! (cf. 1Pt 1,12) How great is the mercy of God! To love me, to be my friend, my brother, my father, my master. To be God! And I to be what I am!

Oh Jesus! I don't have paper or pen. What can I say? How am I not to go mad!

The Catechism teaches that “[the Most Holy Trinity] is the mystery of God in himself.

Trinity page of Mass

The Catechism teaches that “[the Most Holy Trinity] is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, ..

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Sunday, 03 June 2012

The Most Holy Trinity, solemnity

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THE MOST HOLY TRINITY 

The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life. God alone can make it known to us by revealing himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.    

         The Incarnation of God's Son reveals that God is the eternal Father and that the Son is consubstantial with the Father, which means that, in the Father and with the Father the Son is one and the same God.     The mission of the Holy Spirit, sent by the Father in the name of the Son (⇒ Jn 14:26) and by the Son "from the Father" (⇒ Jn 15:26), reveals that, with them, the Spirit is one and the same God. "With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified" (Nicene Creed).   
        "The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father as the first principle and, by the eternal gift of this to the Son, from the communion of both the Father and the Son" (St. Augustine, De Trin. 15, 26, 47).   
        By the grace of Baptism "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit", we are called to share in the life of the Blessed Trinity, here on earth in the obscurity of faith, and after death in eternal light (cf. Paul VI, CPG).  
        "Now this is the Catholic faith: We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity, without either confusing the persons or dividing the substance; for the person of the Father is one, the Son's is another, the Holy Spirit's another; but the Godhead of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is one, their glory equal, their majesty coeternal" (Athanasian Creed).   
        Inseparable in what they are, the divine persons are also inseparable in what they do. But within the single divine operation each shows forth what is proper to him in the Trinity, especially in the divine missions of the Son's Incarnation and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Catechism of the Catholic Church § 261-267 - Copyright © Libreria Editrice Vaticana

TRINITY

SUNDAY

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'cleft of the rock' Ex.33:22 Ascension Thursday

"and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. (Exodus  33:22 NASB)

The Tabernacle is in a hole of the wall. 

It is like 'the cleft of the rock' where Moses had asked to see the face of the glory of the Holy One. 

Last evening the sunshine illuminated the Oratory behind the Choir.

Sancta Maria Abbey: http://www.nunraw.com.uk  
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Thursday, 17 May 2012

The Ascension of the Lord - Solemnity - Year B

Feast of the Church : Ascension of Jesus Christ, solemnity
Saint(s) of the day : St. Paschal Baylon 

Ascension

Revised Ronald Knox Bible (‘you’ version).

RE-CREATING THE KNOX-COX TEXT OF “THE GOSPEL STORY”, compiled / combining extracts from: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts

The Ascension of Our Lord

The first book which I wrote, Theophilus, was concerned with all that Jesus set out to do and teach, until the day came when he was taken up into heaven. 

He then laid a charge, by the power of the Holy Spirit, on the apostles whom he had chosen. 

He had shown them  by many proofs that he was still alive, after his passion; throughout the course of forty days he had been appearing to them, and telling them about the kingdom of God; and now he gave them orders, as he shared a meal with them, not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the fulfilment of the Father's promise:
 Behold, I am sending down upon you the gift which was promised by my Father; you must wait in the city until you are clothed with power from on high. 

John's baptism was with water, but there is a baptism with the Holy Spirit which you are to receive, not many days from this. 

And as he led them out as far as Bethany, his companions asked him, Lord, do you mean to restore the dominion to Israel here and now? But he told them, It is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority. Enough for you, that the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and you will receive strength from him; you are to be my witnesses in Jerusalem and throughout Judaea, in Samaria, yes, and to the ends of the earth. 

And so the Lord Jesus, When he had said this, lifted up his hands and blessed them; and even as he blessed them he parted from them; they saw him lifted up, and a cloud caught him away from their sight. 

And as they strained their eyes towards heaven, to watch his journey, all at once two men in white garments were standing at their side. 

Men of Galilee, they said, why do you stand here looking heavenwards? He who has been taken from you into heaven, this same Jesus, will come back in the same fashion, just as you have watched him going into heaven. And they bowed down to worship him who is seated now at the right hand of God. 

Then, from the mountain which is called Olivet, went back full of joy to Jerusalem ; the distance from Jerusalem is not great, a sabbath day's journey. Coming in, they went up into the upper room where they dwelt, Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the brother of James. 

All these, with one mind, gave themselves up to prayer, together with Mary the mother of Jesus, and the rest of the women and his brethren.  Matthias was added to their number as a witness of Jesus resurrection and took rank with the eleven apostles.  

They spent their time continually in the temple, praising and blessing God.

Resurrection texts from the Knox translation

compiled by William J. W.

The 14th Station (The risen Lord sends the Holy Spirit) in wood by Giovanni Dragoni at the Colle Don Bosco (where St. John Bosco was born on August 16, 1815).

Catholic Truth Society

Illustrates the sculptures in shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary, Pompei, Italy