Lulworth Monastery; re-internment at MSB.

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Re-Internment of Lulworth Monks at Mt. St. Bernard Abbey at which BLESSED CYPRIAN TANSI was present and appears.
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Following the Lulworth re-internment above, Fr. Simon, Secretary MSB, made the Youtube.
And we find another YouTube from Fr. Simon's 'Visit to Nunraw' and talk with Dom Raymond.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIXFKxqNDK0   [Simon Tibbs]

Day 03 (Tu 25 May) - Father Simon drops in on the Sancta Maria Abbey, nr Haddington

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The Right Reverend Dom Raymond Jaconelli has been a Cistercian monk for over 50 years. He talks to Father Simon about life at the Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw, near Haddington in East Lothian.http://www.nunraw.com/

Shot on a Sony Ericsson Vivaz mobile phone.

Twitter - www.twitter.com/Father_Simon
Facebook 'Like' page - "Father Simon's Walking to Walsingham"
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His website - www.fathersimon.org

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Kieran the priest Youtube

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The Secret Paradise of Sancta Maria Abbey.

 

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The Cistercian Abbey of Sancta Maria and historical Nunraw Abbey Guest house, are located in the Lammermuir Hills of East Lothian, Scotland. The community of Monks live a contemplative life of prayer, simple manual labour and works of charity. living harmoniously with one another, as Mahatma Gandhi wrote. (* "The rose transmits its scent without a movement. I have a definite feeling that if you want us to experience the aroma of Christianity you must copy the rose. It irresistibly draws people to itself and the scent remains with them. A rose does not preach ... it simply spreads its fragrance. ) Sancta Maria is the rose in the garden of Eden.

for more information on Sancta Maria Abbey see www.nunraw.com

* According to the Monastic Tradition" Page 1 Introduction.
by Columban Heaney, ocso. Nunraw Abbey Publications

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Birthday joys 13th. August. Archive, Monastery at East Lulworth, Dorset

Hi, Mary,

Thanks for the Birthday Greetings.

Another card gives the wish from H...
 - words 'Read by Lady Jane Fellows at the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales.

 

Love from Donald

13th August Birthday ----- Forwarded Message -----

To:  Anne Marie ...

I hope you are rejoicing the most of the holidays still with you.

By the way, the 13th August is always be my luckiest day, my birthday. 

The greeting from 4 sisters is 

"It's your Birthday. . . 

so let's PARTY ! !"

see Attachment.

 fr. Donald

Sancta Maria Abbey

It has been a happy 13th August Birthday.
Surprise was the visit from Harry. He is 87. Last September, he suffered a stroke. He can in his wheel chair and once more he was wheeled round the cloisters and Church. He has been the artist of our Christmas Greeting cards for so many years. We looked atthe Sacristy Tapestry of the Leonardo 'Last Supper'.

Among other greetings, William sent me this memorable Card.
The view, the text, and not least the location Lulworth Cove connection.
Cistercian history recalls the the French Revolution refuge in Dorset.
Our SEARCH in this Blog find
 "In 1795 a group of French refugee monks, fleeing the Revolutionary terror, came to England and settled at Lulworth in Dorset. These were the first Cistercians to return to these islands. A group of nuns followed the in 1802, settling at Stapehill not far away. However, in 1817 the monks had to return to France, as they were not allowed to receive novices in England. They went to Melleray near Nantes. In 1832 a group of English and Irish monks were deported from Melleray as non-nationals, and it is from this nucleus that Mount Melleray in Ireland and Mount St. Bernard in England were founded in the years immediately following".*

It has been busy - have to hide away to bed.

The Lulworth does not surface for the moment, but appears in older Website "Why Monasteries" *.

Thanks for the letter received after Compline.

God Love.

Donald

Interesting:

Lulworth Monastery
  ttp://www.eastlulworth.org.uk/east_lulworth_monastery_farml.html

Monastery Farm, in the foreground.

The establishment of a Monastery at East Lulworth

A colony of six monks from the Abbey of Val-Sainte arrived in London during the month of August, 1794. Their superior, Dom. Jean Baptiste de Noyer, had received his appointment the preceding year. Their intention was to proceed forthwith to Canada; but Providence had other designs upon them. The late Thomas Weld, Esq., always ready to assist and harbour the harbourless, invited them to Lulworth, where they arrived in October, 1794, and placed them in the chaplain's house near his castle. Here they remained till March, 1796, when they removed into a new monastery in East Lulworth, which he had provided for them in a dry and sheltered situation,—the very reverse of the old house of La Trappe. It was dedicated under the name of the Holy Trinity and St. Susan, and here they increased and prospered. The first prior was John Baptist, already mentioned. He quitted England in the summer of 1801, when he was succeeded by Dom. Marie Bernard Benoit, who died in July, 1805. Dom. Maur Adam was the third prior; but he was hurried to the tomb in May, 1810. Then was called to the helm a very distinguished character, Dom. Antoinc Saulnier de Beaureaund, a quondam canon of Sens Cathedral, and in every sense of the word a superior man. Pope Pius VII., in consideration of his merits, raised him, in May, 1813, to the rank of abbot, and as such he was blessed by Bishop Poyntcr, in London, in the August following. Under his direction, La Trappe attracted the attention and wonder of all classes. Every unprejudiced visitor* must have departed from the sight of these holy men, delighted with their indefatigable industry, their admirable frugality, and their cheerful and unaffected piety. And yet persons were found who frightened themselves into the persuasion that their example might contribute to the multiplication of such establishments in Protestant England. Had they reasoned, had they inquired, their terrors must have vanished; for in all Catholic France, before the Revolution, there was but one single convent of La Trappe! Until the beginning of 1816, these good religious had experienced the most profound tranquillity, when they had to feel experimentally the force of Christ's words, "A man's enemies are those of his own household." One James Power,t a native of Waterford, after seven years spent in the order, decamped towards the end of January, 1816, and soon after publicly abjured the Catholic faith in the parish church of Blandford. Not satisfied with this scandal, the heartless man, on 16th March that year, swore to several charges, as may be seen in the Appendix. But the unprincipled apostate was soon after summoned before the tribunal of Heaven, to answer for his hypocrisy, false testimony, and violation of his solemn vows. The result of the business was, that the abbot, with much reluctance, decided on transporting his establishment to France, as soon as circumstances would permit. On application to the French authorities, permission was granted, and Lewis XVIII. assisted the abbot in purchasing the ancient Bernardine Convent and domain of Melleray, in the diocese of Nantes, and sent the La Revanche frigate to Weymouth, to take on board their community, as also a lugger to convey their goods and chattles to France. On 7th July, 1817, this band of holy monks, fifty-nine in number, embarked, reached the French coast on the 23rd, and entered their new monastery, with imposing solemnity, on 7th August. There, as at Lullworth, they proved a daily source of benediction to the surrounding country by their virtues and superabundant charity.* (2 Kings vi.) During their stay at Lullworth, they buried twenty-seven of their brethren; viz. seven priests, thirteen choir-religious, the rest postulants or lay-brothers.

The Assumption 15th Aug, & 13th Birthday

A preamble of lines from 'HE AND i', (Gabrielle Bossis), leads into a Balthasar depth charge with "Graces of the Assumption"

Abbey Enclosure, Roe Deer-antlers

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August 13 - The old house is full of people.

 "But you are Mine as though you were alone. You give yourself to everyone and you find Me there. It's only your duty that changes. Your Master is the same gentle Master. And you have your nights. How well you know that the evening conversations are the most intimate, when your thoughts merge with Mine. When you find it difficult to talk about yourself, the Spirit interprets for you, but you're not aware of that. You don't know that your humble, childish stammerings become hymns of glory for Me .Haven't you the intention of glorifying God? Prolong this intention throughout your whole life .Intensify it."

Quotation, Hans Urs von Balthasear, with thanks from MAGNIFICAT com 15^th August 2013

You Have Words of Eternal Life
Balthasar

Graces of the Assumption

If we think now about Mary, we know that she has

-. a place in God's saving plan,' a' home, where she was "chosen before the foundation of the world" to be the Saviour's Mother, "to be holy and blameless before him" (Ep 1:4), Surely she never left that place as she became a person in time and lived out her entire exis­tence on earth. When she comes to God on the day of her Assumption, she simply returns home to the place that was hers from the start, a place so familiar to her (for it is the revelation of-her real being) that she instantly knows "this is where I have always been". And this takes place not merely 'as an idea or divine intention is finally realised; rather, it is because the deepest being of the Virgin Mother was always identical with this idea, and she thus experiences in her Assumption: this is where I always was .... ' 

We are not Mary. We do not yet correspond in this "foreign land" to God’s conception of us as his child. Yet at the same time something of the completed mystery of Mary is already present in us. We do not know how deep a truth lies in the statement that Christ "gave those who received him the power to become children of God" (In 1:12), not in a vague and figurative sense but in the fact that we are born by grace with him from God the Father ....

Already here the chosen ones are carried over into the realm of God through the Word God inserts into their hearts .... Because we are already children of the Father and members of Christ and have the Holy Spirit in our hearts calling, "Abba, Father" (Rm 8:15), just as the Son called to the Father (Mk 14:36), our homecoming to the conception God has of us eternally is an arrival at the place from which we originated, at the place in which we have been eternally in our own most intimate truth and reality. Only from that place can we measure how far away we were while we wandered sinful and imperfect like the lost son of the parable, who finally set his sights on his father's house and was received therein by his father.

HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Father von Balthasar (+ 1988) was an eminent Swiss Catholic theologian and co-founder of a religious community His extensive writings were an important influence on Blessed John Paulll.

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal 12 August

For the Memorial of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal: 

12 December

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, religious

OPTIONAL MEMORIAL

Jane Frances was born at Dijon in France in 1572. As a young woman she mar­ried and had six children, but then in 1601, she was widowed as the result of a shooting accident. At first she gave way to depression, but overcame that and sought instead to live a more spiritual life. She had always been pious. In 1604 she met Se Francis de Sales and placed herself under his direction.

In 1610 she founded the first convent of the Visitation at Annecy. By the time she died in 1641 sixty-four further convents had been founded.

St Jane Frances was purified by sufferings in her affections and in her faith.

St Vincent de Paul rated her among the holiest souls he had met.

As a reading, a letter from St Jane Frances to St Francis de Sales is offered.

This is the first of her letters to St Francis to be preserved. It was written in 1617. It concerns her prayer-life: she had obviously attained a high form of prayer.

I have many things to tell you, my unique Father, but I know not where they are, so overwhelmed and distracted is my poor mind with a thousand worries. I no longer feel that abandonment and sweet confidence (which I used to have in prayer), nor can I make any acts of those virtues, although it seems to me they are more solid and firm than ever. In its superior part, my soul is in a state of very simple union. It does not bring about this union itself; for when, on certain occasions, it wishes to make acts of union, it feels a difficulty in doing so. It clearly sees that it cannot unite itself, but can only remain united. It has no inclination to change this state for any other. It neither thinks nor acts, if I except the consciousness of desire, formed almost imperceptibly that God may do with it and with all creatures, in all things, whatever he shall please. It would wish to do nothing but this for the morning exercise, at holy Mass, in preparation for holy communion, and in thanksgiving for all benefits; in a word, for everything. It wishes only to remain in this most simple unity of mind with God, without looking elsewhere, and whilst in this state to say sometimes vocally an Our Father for the whole world, for individuals  and for itself, without, however, diverting its attention or thinking for whom or for what it prays.

Frequently, according to occasions, necessity, or inclination, which last comes without being sought, my soul flows into this union. With regard to this manner of prayer, I believe indeed that it suffices for everything; nevertheless, my unique Father, I am very often assailed by fears on this head, and I force myself (which I find very difficult) to make acts of union, adoration, the exercise of the morning, of Mass, and of thanksgiving. If I do wrong in this, please do tell me. Tell me, also, whether this simple union suffices, whether it will satisfy God for all the acts I have just mentioned, which are of obligation for us; nay, even, if it will suffice during spiritual aridity when the soul has no perception or consciousness of such union, except in its very highest point. I do not ask you for a long answer on the subject. In a dozen words you can tell me all that, repeating my question if you choose, and assuring me that this simple union will suffice for everything; then I shall, with God's help, be faithful to make no more acts.

St Jane Frances de Chantal, 'Letter to Francis de Sales', 1617

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See Review from Amazon com: Francis De Sales, Jane De Chantal: Letters 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Adorable!, March 18, 2012

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Timothy Abraham "A former Muslim" (Knightdale, NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Francis De Sales, Jane De Chantal: Letters of Spiritual Direction (Classics of Western Spirituality) (Paperback)

I have always been a big fan of Francis de Sales for his deep piety and intimacy with Christ. To know that he had had spiritual friendship with women and corresponded with them is even more appealing to me as I know what a woman is capable of spiritually and how much she can add to a relationship. Women generally tend to see what men can't see; women can see behind the corners because the Lord has given them the sixth sense. While we men see with just our two eyes, women definitely tend to have 3 eyes, if only they would choose to use them by constantly connecting with the divine. In this book you will not meet a woman and a man walking around with a halo on their heads, too holy to be touched, but instead you will meet real people like you and me. What took place between 1567 and 1641 is possible to occur once again in our too busy world where our loneliness increased more than ever before. From this book I learn that you can experience real close and mutuality with a woman if Jesus the center of this relationship, and here love would be pure, and not driven by hormones. Indeed, such loved can be attested to as having "the bond of perfection" as the Bible says. But your relationship with a lady has to be anchored in your common love for God. A lady is not just your friend, girlfriend, wife, lover, etc. but she is somebody with whom you enjoy spiritual friendship, and so you enjoy mutually your spiritual gifts and support each other in your commitment to faithfulness. You are there to assist each other humbly as you grow together day after day in your companionship of Jesus, seeking to be more and more like Jesus, to be perfect as our Father who is in Heaven is perfect. Because of Jesus, you will recognize tendencies to become possessive of each other which lead to violence. Jesus is there to purge us of that because the the relationship from the beginning is founded on Jesus. Because of Jesus, you will respect each other as individuals and your spiritual friendship will bear fruit. Francis and Jane will here teach us that the deepest intimacy we may experience as men is not in having just "a partner" in our lives but Christ is here in our midst and gives us to each other, and we together incarnate divine love. The relationship has to be also founded upon mutuality in sharing and confession. To share is to confess. To confess is to be vulnerable and completely open to the other person. This produces healing, genuine intimacy and reconciliation.

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Friendship Quote of the Week"The deep affection they have for each other is generously shared with all women and men with whom they enter into a spiritual relationship.  There is no holding back, no careful distance, no concern about possible misinterpretations, no fear for too much too soon...Both Francis and Jane give and receive affection freely and share it generously with all who are part of their spiritual family."

Henri Nouwen (Preface) on the friendship between Francis de Sales and Jane de Chantal

Dropbox - a new media enterprise

Dropbox; a new venture,  with easier sharing of Documents and Pictures.

Look up the www.dropbox.com (Website).

I need to learn the tricks of the game.
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domdonald.org.uk 

From: Donald via Dropbox <no-reply@dropbox.com>
To: william J. ...
Sent: Sunday, 11 August 2013, 21:05
Subject: Donald ... shared "Anne Marie iPad" with you

From Donald:"Gladiolis magnificent. Retreat Sunday Adoration and flowers at Tabernacle. Other large bouquet at the Cloister Lady. United in prayer. Donald"   Click here to view Anne Marie iPad (Donald shared these files using Dropbox. Enjoy!) © 2013 Dropbox ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: William J.> To: Donald  .... Sent: Monday, 12 August 2013, 14:31 Subject: Re: shared "Anne Marie iPad" Dear Father Donald, Thank you! It is a great delight for me to receive a message from you via Anne's Marie's iPad "Dropbox" with photos of your beautiful Monstrance before the glistening Tabernacle bedecked with glorious gladioli, and so too before Our Lady both in the church and in the cloister, excellent photographs which I shall treasure. Truly nature's beauty is a harvest of delight for the eyes and the heart! I chuckle at the photo of Fr Nivard being taken into custody,  menacing hand on his shoulder, by a sinister looking character! I shall enjoy that! Andy and Anne Marie visiting you ..., I wonder if you talked of webcams? Which reminds me, there is an organisation that provides a viewing service which one could join, perhaps...   http://www.mcnmedia.tv/livecamdisplay.asp?CamID=45 Live Church Webcams Webcams By Diocese Contact Thank you so much for thinking to send me a message from her iPad - it has made my day!  in Our Lord, William

Immaculate Heart of Mary at Knock - Consecration August 8 2013

Knock Shrine

Ireland: Consecration of Ireland to Immaculate Heart of Mary at Knock

Posted: Thursday, August 8, 2013 12:47 pm

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Virgin Mary - Velasquez Ireland will be consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Bishops of Ireland on 15th August 2013 at Knock Shrine. Ceremonies commence in the Basilica with Anointing of the Sick at 2.30pm followed by concelebrated Mass at 3pm afterwhich the Eucharistic Procession will proceed to the Apparition Chapel where the Act of Consecration will be prayed. Act of Consecration Prayer Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and refuge of sinners, we entrust and consecrate ourselves and our family, our home and our Dioceses to Jesus through your Immaculate Heart. As your children, we promise to follow your example in our lives by doing at all times the will of God. O Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit, we renew today the promises of our baptism and Confirmation. Intercede for us with the Holy Spirit that we may be always faithful to your Divine Son, to his Mystical Body, the Catholic Church, and to the teachings of his Vicar on earth, our Holy father the Pope. Immaculate Heart of Mary, our queen and our Mother, we promise to uphold the sanctity of marriage and the welfare of the family. Watch over our minds and our hearts and preserve our youth from the dangers to the faith and many temptations that threaten them in the world today. We ask you, Mary our Advocate to intercede with your divine Son. Obtain from our country the grace to uphold the uniqueness of every human life, from the first moment of conception to natural death. O Blessed Mother, our life, our sweetness and our hope, we wish that this Consecration be for the great glory of God and that it lead us safely to Jesus your Son. A Naomh-Mhuire, a Mháthair Dé, guigh orainn na peacaigh, anois agus ar uair ár mbáis. Amen. For more information about Knock see: http://www.knock-shrine.ie/

ST DOMINIC Priest (1170-1221)

ST DOMINIC
Priest
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        St. Dominic was born in Spain, in 1170. As a student, he sold his books to feed the poor in a famine, and offered himself in ransom for a slave.

        At the age of twenty-five he became superior of the Canons Regular of Osma, and accompanied his Bishop to France. There his heart was well-nigh broken by the ravages of the Albigenian heresy, and his life was henceforth devoted to the conversion of heretics and the defence of the Faith. For this end he established his threefold religious Order.  http://dailygospel.org

St. Dominic Feast.   http://goodnews.ie/news.php?dt=2013-08-08
Today the Dominican Gospel.

8 August Mt 16:13-23

When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah!  For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." “The Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages.  God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father….”  This is the from the 4th-century Nicene Creed.  By that time there had been many controversies about the identity of Jesus, and there had been time for the Christian mind to mature.  Peter and the other disciples knew Jesus intimately, yet they could not have elaborated the Nicene Creed, or the Athanasian Creed, or any developed theology about him.  There are different kinds of knowing.  They contrast with one another and yet do not exclude one another.  There is factual knowledge; there ticalis intimate knowledge; and the saints speak of a mysterious or mystical knowledge.  Unless you had some training as an archivist or historian you could not write a biography of your mother, yet in another way you know her more intimately than any historian or archivist ever could, whose knowledge was just factual.  This intimate knowledge that you have is not able to give a fluent account of itself, and so to the other kind of knowledge it appears very simple and poor.  No footnotes, no bibliography, no historical background, little or no relationship to contemporary events.  A historian would dismiss it.  But to intimate knowledge, the historian’s knowledge looks cold and impersonal, too general.  Eckhart spoke continually about another still ‘poorer’ kind of knowledge – poorer and yet richer than the others.  “Anyone who would see God must be blind,” he said.  “‘God is a light that shines in the darkness’.  He is a light that blinds us. That means a light of such nature that it is uncomprehended: it is unending; in other words it has no end and knows no end. The blinding of the soul means that she knows nothing and is aware of nothing. The 'darkness' is best of all.” “Some say you are John the Baptist, others Elijah or Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”  That was factualknowledge, despite the strangeness of the claims (it was a fact that some people thought this and that).  Deeper than this, Peter knew Jesus as a friend; he had intimate or personal knowledge of him.  But deeper than this again, he had some mysterious inkling of the ultimate identity of Jesus.  Every Christian has this kind of knowledge of Jesus, buried somewhere in them.