Today is the new feast day of St John XXIII. Youtube-Paintings of Saint John Paul II and Saint John XXIII

11th. Saturday October 2014
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Introduction - Fr. Mark

Intro Mass                                                                                                                          Sat. 11 Oct 2014

Today is the new feast day of St John XXIII.  It is so recent it hasn't been included in this year's calendar.  Interestingly, today is the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council.  Significantly, the Synod of Bishops on the Family is meeting at this time to try and resolve some of the problems facing married people today just as Vatican II attempted to bring the Church into the modern world fifty years ago.

In this Saturday's gospel reading we hear a woman in the crowd praising the mother of Jesus.  We are perhaps still a little put out by Jesus' reply to the  woman even though we know he is not in fact being disrespectful of his mother.  Our Lord wants to emphasise that his family involves more than a physical bond.   Everyone who listens to his word is part of his family.  We know from Luke's gospel that Mary is a perfect mother and a true disciple.  She more than anyone knows how to listen, to understand and follow what he has come to teach us.

Penitential Rite

1   Lord, you give us your word to teach and save us.                                       Lord, have mercy.

2   By believing in your word, we receive knowledge of eternal life.          Christ, have mercy.

3   Lord, in our obedience to you we are given fullness of life.                     Lord, have mercy.

SATURDAY 11th"

COMMUNION ANTIPHON Cf. Lk 11:27

Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

As we receive this heavenly Sacrament, we beseech, 0 Lord, your mercy,

that we, who rejoice in commemorating

the Blessed Virgin Mary, may by imitating her

serve worthily the mystery of our redemption. Through Christ our Lord .

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MEDITATION   OF    THE DAY 

SAINT JOHN XXIII

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Blessed Is the Womb

My thoughts turn once more to the words of the humble daughter of Israel who still speaks for our own hearts and lips, words which we repeat with enthusi­asm to the Blessed Mother of Jesus, who is our own Mother too: Beata, beata viscera Marire Virginis quos portaverunt /Eterni Patris Filium! 0 blessed indeed the womb that bore you! And I place my confident trust in the reply of Jesus which is the renewed assurance for you, children of the Catholic Church, that we may find here below on earth, as a pledge of our eternal happi­ness in heaven, prosperity, joy, and peace, in propor­tion to our unconquerable fidelity to the teaching of the divine Word, always better understood arid better guarded: Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God and keep it.

O Mary, Mother of Jesus and our Mother too! We hail you with this cry that all generations of men re­peat, contemplating the mysteries of your life and the splendour of your Assumption. Once more we hail you as blessed, beata; intercede for us, 0 glorious Queen of the world, and be ever mindful of us, particularly in the dangers and needs of the present hour.

O Jesus, Son of Mary, our Brother and our Saviour, by the mystery of the body and blood which you deigned to assume from the Virgin's pure womb and which we today renew on our altar, preserve for us the gift of faith for the salvation of our souls, for the prosperity and greatness of our people and for the glory of your name, which will be at the same time our glory and our joy, in this present life and in eternity. Amen.

Saint John XXIII (+ 1963) reigned os pope from 1958 until 1963.

John XXIII (Saint)  . From Days of Devotion, Dorothy White, Tr. 0 2008,
Viking Publishing, Penguin Group, (USA) Inc .• New York, NY.

  

1.   Paintings of Saint John Paul II and Saint John XXIII - YouTube

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Anna Gulak, a young polish sculptor and painter, has made a series of portraits of the two pope saints. These ...

 

St. Bruno Mon. 6 October 2014

Monday, 06 October 2014 St. Bruno, Priest (c. 1030-1101)
SAINT BRUNO Priest (c. 1030-1101)         Bruno was born at Cologne, about 1030, of an illustrious family. He was endowed with rare natural gifts, which he cultivated with care at Paris. He became canon of Cologne, and then of Rheims, where he had the direction of theological studies. On the death of the bishop the see fell for a time into evil hands, and Bruno retired with a few friends into the country.         There he resolved to forsake the world, and to live a life of retirement and penance. With six companions he applied to Hugh, Bishop of Grenoble, who led them into a wild solitude called the Chartreuse. There they lived in poverty, self-denial, and silence, each apart in his own cell, meeting only for the worship of God, and employing themselves in copying books.         From the name of the spot the Order of St. Bruno was called the Carthusian. Six years later, Urban II. called Bruno to Rome, that he might avail himself of his guidance. Bruno tried to live there as he had lived in the desert; but the echoes of the great city disturbed his solitude, and, after refusing high dignities, he wrung from the Pope permission to resume his monastic life in Calabria. There he lived, in humility and mortification and great peace, till his blessed death in 1101. Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]

Saint Cuthbert 22 Thu 4 Sep 2014

Melrose Abbey  

Eildon Hills

Passage to Holy Island

Lindisfarne

St. Cuthbert

 Fw: 22 Thursday September - You will be fishers of men

Sancta Maria Abbey: http://www.nunraw.com.uk (Website)   Blogspot :http://www.nunraw.blogspot.co.uk  domdonald.org.uk 

On Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 18:54, 

Nivard ...> wrote:

www.dailyscripture.net, 

adapted Copyright © 2014 Servants of the Word

22 Thu 4 Sep 2014

 

Mk 5 1-11. You will be fishers of men.

    God expects greater things than we can do by ourselves

   This incident tells us an important truth about how God works in and through each of us for his glory.

   When we cooperate in his works, we accomplish far beyond what we can do on our own.

 

   Therese of Lisieux, wrote to a friend:

"Jesus has so great a love for us that he wants us to have a share with him in the salvation of souls. He wills to do nothing without us. The Creator of the universe awaits the prayer of a poor little soul to save other souls, redeemed like it, at the price of his Precious Blood."

 

 

Father in heaven, fill our hearts with love and compassion for those who do not know you. May we be good witnesses of your truth to all we meet today through Christ Jesus our Lord.

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St Cuthbert's Way - YouTube

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St Cuthbert's Way Walk a 60 mile walk from Melrose to Holy Island.

St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe Thursday, August 14, 2014

Mass NT Saint, 

Introduction:
Fw: Seventy times seven

On Thursday, 14 August 2014, 

fr. Nivard ... wrote:

Magnificaat, adapted, 19 Frid 14 Aug 2014 Mt 18 21-19 1.

Do not forgive seven times. I tell you, but seventy-seven times seven.

 

   Maximilian Kolbe was born in Russian Poland in 1894.

   At the age of ten Mary appeared to him. She offered him two crowns, red for martyrdom, and white for purity. He chose both.

   Genuine love rises above creatures and soars up to God. 

   To all it stretches out a hand filled with love.

   It prays for all, suffers for all, wishes what is best for all, desires happiness for all, because that is what God wants.

    Father, you have been kind and forgiving towards us. May we be merciful as you are merciful, through the same Christ Jesus our Lord.

     

St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe Thursday, August 14, 2014 Lived(1894-1941) | Feast Day:
“I don’t know what’s going to become of you!” How many parents have said that? Maximilian Mary Kolbe’s reaction was, “I prayed very hard to Our Lady to tell me what would happen to me. She appeared, holding in her hands two crowns, one white, one red. She asked if I would like to have them—one was for purity, the other for martyrdom. I said, ‘I choose both.’ She smiled and disappeared.” After that he was not the same. He entered the minor seminary of the Conventual Franciscans in Lvív (then Poland, now Ukraine), near his birthplace, and at 16 became a novice. Though he later achieved doctorates in philosophy and theology, he was deeply interested in science, even drawing plans for rocket ships. Ordained at 24, he saw religious indifference as the deadliest poison of the day. His mission was to combat it. He had already founded the Militia of the Immaculata, whose aim was to fight evil with the witness of the good life, prayer, work and suffering. He dreamed of and then founded Knight of the Immaculata, a religious magazine under Mary’s protection to preach the Good News to all nations. For the work of publication he established a “City of the Immaculata”—Niepokalanow—which housed 700 of his Franciscan brothers. He later founded one in Nagasaki, Japan. Both the Militia and the magazine ultimately reached the one-million mark in members and subscribers. His love of God was daily filtered through devotion to Mary. In 1939 the Nazi panzers overran Poland with deadly speed. Niepokalanow was severely bombed. Kolbe and his friars were arrested, then released in less than three months, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception. In 1941 he was arrested again. The Nazis’ purpose was to liquidate the select ones, the leaders. The end came quickly, in Auschwitz three months later, after terrible beatings and humiliations. A prisoner had escaped. The commandant announced that 10 men would die. He relished walking along the ranks. “This one. That one.” As they were being marched away to the starvation bunkers, Number 16670 dared to step from the line. “I would like to take that man’s place. He has a wife and children.” “Who are you?” “A priest.” No name, no mention of fame. Silence. The commandant, dumbfounded, perhaps with a fleeting thought of history, kicked Sergeant Francis Gajowniczek out of line and ordered Father Kolbe to go with the nine. In the “block of death” they were ordered to strip naked, and their slow starvation began in darkness. But there was no screaming—the prisoners sang. By the eve of the Assumption four were left alive. The jailer came to finish Kolbe off as he sat in a corner praying. He lifted his fleshless arm to receive the bite of the hypodermic needle. It was filled with carbolic acid. They burned his body with all the others. He was beatified in 1971 and canonized in 1982. Comment:  Father Kolbe’s death was not a sudden, last-minute act of heroism. His whole life had been a preparation. His holiness was a limitless, passionate desire to convert the whole world to God. And his beloved Immaculata was his inspiration. Quote:  “Courage, my sons. Don’t you see that we are leaving on a mission? They pay our fare in the bargain. What a piece of good luck! The thing to do now is to pray well in order to win as many souls as possible. Let us, then, tell the Blessed Virgin that we are content, and that she can do with us anything she wishes” (Maximilian Mary Kolbe, when first arrested). Click here for a printer friendly version

St.. Dominic, Priest (1170-1221) EC2006 - Fr. Peter M. Girard, OP - Why St Dominic Wept

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Why St. Dominic wept.

Friday, 08 August 2014

ST DOMINIC Priest (1170-1221)

Published on 22 Nov 2012

In 2006 Father Peter Girard gave three presentations at our convention. Here is the second of them entitled "Why St Dominic Wept".

Fr. Peter M. Girard, OP, STD was ordained to the holy priesthood in 1992. He holds a Masters Degree in Communications (M.A.) from American University and the Masters of Divinity (M.Div.) and License in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, DC. He received his Doctorate in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome in 2001.

Fr. Peter has served as theological advisor to Virgil Dechant, the former Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, as Dean of Men and Director of Homiletics at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT and Vice-Rector at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH. He is the author of over 60 articles in Homiletic & Pastoral Review and other publications, as well as A Textual Study and History of the Inscription of the Paschal Candle, his first book published by The Edwin Mellen Press of New York in 2004.

Fr. Peter has given numerous retreats and missions throughout the United States and around the world. He is currently Chaplain to the Dominican Cloistered Nuns in West Springfield, MA and Professor of Homiletics at Holy Apostles Seminary. He recently began a Got Forgiveness? campaign to bring priests and laity back to Confession which has born much good fruit. A priest with experience in international diplomacy, Fr. Peter is often called upon to speak on topics of significance for the Church and the world.

Saint John Mary Vianney, priest. 4 August 2014

Ordinary Time: August 4th

Memorial of St. John Vianney, priest

SECOND READING

From the Catechetical Instructions by Saint John Mary Vianney, priest
(Catechisme sur la prière: A. Monnin, Esprit du Curé d’Ars, Parish 1899, pp. 87-89)

The glorious duty of man: to pray and to love

My little children, reflect on these words: the Christian’s treasure is not on earth but in heaven. Our thoughts, then ought to be directed to where our treasure is. This is the glorious duty of man: to pray and to love. If you pray and love, that is where a man’s happiness lies.

Prayer is nothing else but union with God. When one has a heart that is pure and united with God, he is given a kind of serenity and sweetness that makes him ecstatic, a light that surrounds him with marvelous brightness. In this intimate union, God and the soul are fused together like two bits of wax that no one can ever pull apart. This union of God with a tiny creature is a lovely thing. It is a happiness beyond understanding.

We had become unworthy to pray, but God in his goodness allowed us to speak with him. Our prayer is incense that gives him the greatest pleasure.

My little children, your hearts are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the soul and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.

Prayer also makes time pass very quickly and with such great delight that one does not notice its length. Listen: Once when I was a purveyor in Bresse and most of my companions were ill, I had to make a long journey. I prayed to the good God, and believe me, the time did not seem long.

Some men immerse themselves as deeply in prayer as fish in water, because they give themselves totally to God. There is not division in their hearts. O, how I love these noble souls! Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Colette used to see our Lord and talk to him just as we talk to one another.

How unlike them we are! How often we come to church with no idea of what to do or what to ask for. And yet, whenever we go to any human being, we know well enough why we go. And still worse, there are some who seem to speak to the good God like this: “I will only say a couple of things to you, and then I will be rid of you.” I often think that when we come to adore the Lord, we would receive everything we ask for, if we would ask with living faith and with a pure heart.

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Feast of Saint James (Great)

Friday 25, 2014, Community Mass

 

 Feast of Saint James

James "the Greater" 

>> and his brother John are called by Jesus as they mend their nets in their boat on the Sea of Galilee. 

>> He belongs to the inner circle of the Apostles. 

>> With Peter and John, he witnesses the cure of Peters mother-in-law, the raising of [airus' daughter, 

>> Jesus' Transfiguration, and his agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. 

>> The mother of lames and John asks Jesus to give

them the seats at either side of him, positions of honour and authority. 

>> This prompts Jesus' teaching: the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many (Mt 20:28). (Magnificat.com)

 First among the apostles, was martyred by beheading in Jerusalem around the year 43/44 by order of Herod Agrippa. The tomb containing his remains, transferred from Jerusalem after the martyrdom, would have been discovered at the time of Charlemagne in 814.'s Tomb became a place of great medieval pilgrimage, so that the place took the name of Santiago (from Sancti Jacobi, in Spanish Sant-Yago), and in 1075 began the construction of the magnificent basilica dedicated to him. (iBreviary) 

  

Night Office, Patristic Reading. 

25 July Saint James  Feast

First Reading

From the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 4:1-16)

Responsory   Acts 4:33.31

With mighty power * the apostles bore witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

- and they were all treated with great respect.

They were filled with the Holy Spirit,

and boldly proclaimed the word of God;

- and they were ...

Second Reading   From a homily in praise of Saint James by Nicetas of Paphlagonia (Or.5:PG 105,89- 100)

James and John, together with the great Peter, were thought worthy to receive the chief and supreme honor from Christ. As his most faithful disciples he showed them on the mountain the dazzling appearance of his divine body. He also told them, as his closest friends, of the agony and distress that lay before him on account of his human nature; and immediately after the Last Supper he took them with him to assist him with their prayers, although, wearied by their great grief, they were overcome by sleep. In all their association with the Lord there was no difference, I think, between these two servants of God, no difference in their fervent zeal, their genuine faith and their perfect love, or even in the coming upon them of the Holy Spirit from above, in the assignment of tongues and the division of gifts. So far the two of them can be praised as one, con­formed as they were to the image of Christ, and confirmed and marked in the same way by the one Holy Spirit. But since each had a separate time as well as manner of death, for that we must give them separate praise.

So we salute you, James, fervent preacher of the gospel truth, who with Peter and John hold the highest position and the chief dignity among the apostles. We salute you, as one who drank Christ's cup in advance of your fellow disciples, and were baptized with the baptism of your Savior as he promised you, and are adorned with the double crown of apostle and martyr.

We salute you, blessed eye-witness of the Word, you who see God, for you have changed one fishing-ground for another, one desire for another, and one inheritance for another; in place of things unstable you have gained those that last, and in place of an earthly passing world you have gained a changeless heavenly world.

We salute you, who as you formerly had direct physical contact with the God-man on earth, so do you now, united with him in spirit, converse with him face to face in heaven.

Responsory

see Ps 18:4.5; Wis 5:1

There is no tongue, no language * in which their message is not heard.

- Their voice has resounded all over the world; their words to the ends of the earth.

The just will stand up with great confidence before those who afflicted them.

- Their voice ...