Friday in the Octave of Easter

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Fw; It is the Lord.    

            

On Thursday, 24 April 2014, 

Fr. Nivard ...> wrote:

Readings & Med. Adapted 

1 Easter Friday , Jn: 20: 1-14  

   Skeptics say the disciples only saw a vision of Jesus. The Gospels, however, give us a vivid picture of the reality of the resurrection.

 Jesus offered his disciples various proofs of his resurrection. He is real and true flesh, not just a spirit or ghost.

   Jesus prepared breakfast and ate with them. Peter's prompt, “It is the Lord!”,  stands in sharp contrast to his previous denial of his Master.

   The Lord Jesus reveals himself to each of us as we open our hearts to hear his word.

Father, Increase our faith in the power of your Son’s resurrection and in the truth that Jesus is truly alive, through Christ our Lord.

34th Wed. Luke 21:18 "not a hair of your head"

Mass Intro:

On Tuesday, 26 November 2013,
From: Nivard...

Daily Reading & Meditation  (c) 2013 Don Schwager

34 Wed 27 Nov 2013
Lk 21_12-19

"Not a hair of your head will perish"

   What is Jesus' response to hostility and persecution?

   Only love can defeat prejudice and hatred.

   God's love purifies our heart and mind of all that would divide and tear people apart.

   Knowing and loving God's truth is essential for overcoming evil.

   Jesus promises to give us supernatural strength and wisdom to take a stand and witness to the truth and love of Jesus.    

   The gospel is good news for the whole world because it is God's eternal word of truth, love and pardon.

   Jesus has won the victory for us through the cross and his rising from the grave.

   That is why the gospel has power to set people free from sin and destruction.

 

 Father, by the atoning death of your Son you have redeemed the world. Fill us with joyful hope and boldness to witness the truth of your love for sinners through Christ our Lord.  

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“... but not a hair on your head will be destroyed.” (Luke 21:18)

Saint Augustine of Hippo comments on this verse from today’s Gospel:

“We should have no doubt that our mortal flesh also will rise again at the end of the world. This is the Christian faith. This is the Catholic faith. This is the apostolic faith. Believe Christ when he says, “Not a hair of your head shall perish.” Putting aside all unbelief, consider how valuable you are. How can our Redeemer despise any person when he cannot despise a hair of that person’s head? How are we going to doubt that he intends to give eternal life to our soul and body? He took on a soul and body in which to die for us, which he laid down for us when he died and which he took up again that we might not fear death.” (Sermon 214)

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30th Thurs. Oct. As a hen gathers her chicks

----Forward Message---- 

From: Nivard ....

Subject: 30th Thursday As a hen gathers her chicks ...

 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 ...

29 Thurs 23 Oct 13 Lk 12_49-53

Jesus said to them, "Go and tell that fox...   Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures.”

   

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Jesus calls Herod a fox". Foxes are animals "that make havoc with the vineyards".

   

Jesus tells us how such damage occurs. _"You refused". Only our un-willingness can" come between us and the love of Christ".

   By our ‘yes’, God "will not refuse anything he can give" along with his Son.

   

In the First Reading St Paul says “We are reckoned as sheep for the slaughter" - sheep who "triumph" over the fox.

 "Father, Fill our hearts with love and mercy for others that we may boldly witness to the truth and joy of the gospel by word and example, through Christ our Lord."

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God enters into our hearts. Nivard

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Your faith has saved you. Lk 7:50.

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From: Nivard . . . .
Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2013, 11:42
Subject: Thur 13 Your faith has saved you. Lk 7:36-50.   

Magnificat, Adapted, Lk 7:36-50. 24 Thur 19 Sept 13 Your faith has saved you.    When we have an inferiority complex, we do not believe that what God has made is good. We do not look at ourselves with the merciful, tender, compassionate eyes of God. When we do not realize that God is both in our midst and within us, our faith fades and disappears.               The mystery of man enters into the mystery of God. It bursts forth with great joy, faith and understanding.           When faith is there, all is clear, and a love relation with God enters into our hearts. When we have faith, it is such a simple thing to accept his love, even if we do not understand why he loves us.   Father, Fill our hearts with the faith of Mary Magdalen and love You as she loved  your Son Jesus our Lord.                                          **************** Full text:  MEDITATION OF THE DAY   "Your faith has saved you" When you have an inferiority complex-and who of us hasn't-you say things like, "I just don't believe that what God made is good. Look at me, I'm a louse." Don't dare to challenge God like this.Everything he made is good, including yourself. Don't listen to that serpent who is giving you apples that look red on the outside and are full of inferiority complexes on the inside. Don't eat that apple, or else you are going to go down into a pit prepared by Satan for you for your whole life. How can you have a wrong image of something or someone that God touched? God touched you and he created you. You passed through his mind and you were begotten. Anyone of us that passes through God's mind, anyone of us that God touched, cannot be this horrible person we think we are. No! Each one of us is beautiful-we're beautiful because he touched us. Sometimes this is very difficult for us to accept. We look at ourselves and say, "He made us in his image, equal to himself in a manner of speaking, heir to his Son? This just can't be. He hasn't looked into my heart. He doesn't know what I'm made of!" We say those silly things because our evaluation of ourselves is very poor. We haven't looked at ourselves with the merciful, ten­der, compassionate eyes of God. So we walk in despair half the time. As a result, the ability to realize that God is both in our midst and in us-a realization that is the fruit of faith-fades and disappears. This is the main reason, it seems to me, why the Father sent his Son to us, why the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us as one of us. The Father, having given us the fantastic gift of faith,wanted to help us accept this awesome gift. He sent his Son Jesus Christ so that we, unbelieving,might believe. We are like children; we need to touch. Every human being is a mystery. The mystery of man enters into the mystery of God, and bursting forth with great joy, comes faith and understanding. When faith is there, all is clear, and a love relation with God enters into your heart. When you have faith, it is such a simple thing to accept his love, even if you do not understand why he loves you. ERVANT OF GOD CATHERINE DE HUECK DOHERTY Catherine de Hueck Doherty (t 1985) was born in Russia and was the foundress of Madonna House in Combermere, Canada

Mass - Angels and Archangels

Friday 1 February 2013  

Friday of week 3 of the year   

Listening to the Mass this morning, the voice of the Presiding priest was clear, 

and at that point I was riveted to the words of Angels and Archangels,

Thrones and Dominions, all hosts and Powers. 

Leads me back to the classic history and theology of Danielou - the picture right.

Then N. mentioned to me that the BBC Songs of Praise are to feature 

the author of 'Angels in My Hair' by Lorna Byrne.  

Already, after dream of chaos I was asking the Angels to guide thoughts, 

and felt the words from the Common Preface I speaking even more clear.

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The Order of Mass

COMMON PREFACE I

The renewal of all things in Christ

It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,

always and everywhere to give you thanks,

Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God,

through Christ our Lord.

In him you have been pleased to renew all things,

giving us all a share in his fullness.

For though he was in the form of God, he emptied himself

and by the blood of his Cross brought peace to all creation.

Therefore he has been exalted above all things,

and to all who obey him,

has become the source of eternal salvation.

And so, with Angels and Archangels,

with Thrones and Dominions,

and with all the hosts and Powers of heaven,

we sing the hymn of your glory,

as without end we acclaim:

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts . . .

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Simon & Jude, 28 Oct 2011

   

Fr. Michael Casey ocso

MONASTIC ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR 

SANCTA MARIA ABBEY, NUNRAW,

SCOTLAND.

16 – 29 October, 2011

Abbot Mark Nunraw

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Subject: Intro MassThe Introduction for today's Mass:

Intro Mass                                                      Simon & Jude, 28 Oct 2011

Today we celebrate the feast of Sts Simon and Jude.  This is the other Simon among the twelve, called the Zealot, and the other Jude – not the Iscariot.

This will be the last celebration of the Eucharist at the seminar for some of us, so I want to take this opportunity to say publicly how well everyone has fitted into the spirit of the meeting and accepted the arrangements that have been made – both among the Nunraw community as well as our good natured extended community.  I thank you all for that.

It is the final day but only the beginning of something else.  I say that because this time together has brought to the surface thoughts and values that need to be worked at, to be properly digested, if we are to make them our own.  Not least there are the faces that won’t be readily forgotten.  This past fortnight has been a gift for which we give thanks to God, and to Michael for being the channel through which we received them.

Jude has traditionally been revered as the patron of Hopeless Cases.  What a wonderfully appropriate feast to have on our final day.  But, after two weeks probing texts and turning them upside down in an entertainingly way with Fr Michael, I hope he thinks St Jude has been successfully at work among us.

The Lord's Prayer Luke 11:1-4

27th Week  Night Office Reading From a conference of John TAULER Christ Teaching How to Pray Mass Intro The Gospel is the shorter version of the ‘Our Father’, St. Luke 11:1-4 The Matthew (Mt. 6:9-13) ‘Our Father’ is the one we ‘know by heart’. That is how we say it familiarly, but in fact it can be the mechanical habit of a prayer. The Dominican, Tauler, in the Night Office Reading, used the brief prayer, ASK, SEEK, KNOCK. Even the briefest can be mechanical. Tauler reminds; “we must use whatever methods of prayer come to us, whether they are directed to God's divinity or to the Holy Trinity or to the passion or the sacred wounds of our Lord.” It can be misleading to learning a prayer ‘by heart’ as it can be just as mechanical. The truth is to pray ‘by heart of heart, of heart, of heart’, we must bring our hearts home Tauler provides the choice of words. From a conference by John Tauler God is ready to give if we will only ask him properly; and he has been at pains to tell us and urge us and teach us how to ask him properly. All the same, his gifts are only given to those who beg and pray and keep on praying, never to idlers and loungers. We should observe what we must ask for, and how. If we want to be wholehearted in our prayer, above everything else we must bring our hearts home, call them back from their wanderings among created things, from their distractions, and then with deep humility we must prostrate ourselves at God's feet and ask him to be merciful and generous to us. We must knock at the Father's heart and beg for bread. This bread is God's love. If we have no bread, then we have no appetite for any other food, however rich it may be; we cannot enjoy it, it does not nourish us. God's love is like that; it is the one thing we really need. So we must ask God to give to us, and ask him to teach us in our prayer and in our spiritual exercises, how to ask him in the way most pleasing to him and most profitable to us. Then we must use whatever methods of prayer come to us, whether they are directed to God's divinity or to the Holy Trinity or to the passion or the sacred wounds of our Lord. So "ask" means ask the Lord for something. It is not given to everyone to use purely mental prayer; some people have to use words. If you need to do this, speak to our dear Lord lovingly and tenderly with all the most loving words you can think of. This will raise up your love and your heart. Ask the heavenly Father to give you a foretaste of himself through his only Son in whatever way is most pleasing to him; and when you have found the form of prayer that suits you best, even if it is the remembrance of your sins and your faults, persevere in it and make it your own. "Seek" means seek out whatever is most pleasing to God and most profitable to you. And "knock" means apply yourself with zeal and persistence; because the prize is given to the person who persists to the end. Response:  Mt. 7:7. Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find; + knock and the door will be opened to you. …

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Praying "Our Father" 

from Jesus of Nazarene (Pope 1966)   

We must therefore let Jesus teach us what father really means. In Jesus' discourses, the Father appears as the source of all good, as the measure of the recti­tude (perfection) of man ... The love that endures "to the end" (In 13: 1), which the Lord fulfilled on the cross in praying for his enemies, shows us the essence of the Father. He is this love. Because Jesus brings it to completion, he is entirely "Son", and he invites us to become "sons" according to this criterion ...

The Lord reminds us that fathers do not give their children stones when they ask for bread. He then goes on to say: "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" (Mt 7: 9ff.). Luke specifies the "good gifts" that the Father gives; he says, "how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" (Lk 11: 13).

This means that the gift of God is God himself. The "good things" that he gives us are himself. This reveals in a surprising way what prayer is really all about: it is not about this or that, but about God's desire to offer us the gift of himself - that is the gift of all gifts, the "one thing necessary". Prayer is a way of gradually purifying and correcting our wishes and of slowly coming to realise what we really need: God and his Spirit.

Benedict XVI  elected to Pope 2005. 

Easter Sunday, the Resurrection of the Lord

SUNDAY, 24 APRIL 2011

Easter Blessings

Man's resistance to death becomes evident: somewhere - people have constantly thought - there must be some cure for death.

Sooner or later it should be possible to find the remedy not only for this or that illness, but for our ultimate destiny - for death itself.

Surely the medicine of immortality must exist.

Today too, the search for a source of healing continues ...

What would it really be like if we were to succeed, perhaps not in excluding death totally, but in postponing it indefinitely, in reaching an age of several hundred years? Would that be a good thing? Humanity would become extraordinarily old; there would be no more room for youth.

Capacity for inno­vation would die, and endless life would be no paradise, if anything a condemnation.

The true cure for death must be different.

It cannot lead simply to an indefinite prolongation of this current life.

It would have to transform our lives from within.

It would need to create a new life within us, truly fit for eternity: it would need to transform us in such a way as not to come to an end with death, but only then to begin in fullness.

What is new and exciting in the Christian message, in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, was and is that we are told: yes indeed, this cure for death, this true medicine of immortality, does exist.

It has been found.

It is within our reach.

In baptism, this medicine is given to us.

A new life begins in us, a life that matures in faith and is not extinguished by the death of the old life, but is only then fully revealed ...

Indeed, the cure for death does exist.

Christ is the tree of life, once more within our reach.

If we remain close to him, then we have life ...

Hence, Paul can say to the Philippians: "Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say, rejoice!" (Ph 4: 4).

Joy cannot be commanded.

It can only be given.

The risen Lord gives us joy: true life.

We are already held for ever in the love of the One to whom all power in heaven and on earth has been given (d.

Mt 28: 18).

In this way, confident of being heard, we make our own the Church's Prayer over the Gifts from the liturgy of this night: Accept the prayers and offerings of your people.

With your help may this Easter mystery of our redemption bring to perfection the saving work you have begun in us.

Pope Benedict XVI
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