Monday, 19 August 2013

COMMENT: Jerusalem reference in Biography



The Association of Gabrielle Bossis LINK has brief information,
"Didn't you understand that when you were in Jerusalem and prayed on Calvary", the quote places Gabrielle in Jerusalem during her  'grueling commitments in France, in Europe, Palestine, Africa '.
It will be worth following the dates in the months of August and September of 1948.
The table before compares the translations.
 Gabriellebossis.fr


GABRIELLE BOSSIS
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Lexprience mystic (1936-1950)

After thirteen years of ministry on stage, new light led Gabrielle on top of the Great Pyramid that was his life, the beginning of his spiritual journal, as if all that had gone before had been a rise to the summit. At sixty-two years, in 1936, after many requests, Miss Bossis agrees to organize a risky tour in Canada, across the Atlantic Ile-de-France . It will be two months and a half uninterrupted appointments and travel, performances and lessons to young actresses improvised meetings, parties and emotions. Reading these first interviews, it strikes us, Gabrielle related as if it were a fact now usual: the outcrop of intimacy between her and one who speaks it.And it comes to ask if it is really the first time Gabrielle hears this voice, how is it possible that no emotion pierces her? His mystical conversations they begin, as everyone believed in 1936? 
The tour ends in Canada. Gabrielle returns home but the newspaper "two voices" continues, so spiritual. It will go with her ​​life, becoming: Him and me . A divine interlocutor has crept into a land travel into the celestial journey.
While Europe rushes into the tragedy of the Second World War, Gabrielle - ignorant as each upcoming events -. Still organizes his tours but the newspaper says almost nothing 
Forgetting obediently, it saves Now the witty dialogue, renouncing annotate personal facts that are not necessary to the understanding of the divine response. Only the mention of places and dates to track, at least in part, its grueling commitments in France, in Europe, Palestine, Africa ... Evidence of this period also help us.



L'exprience mystique (1936-1950)

Après treize années d’apostolat sur scène, une nouvelle lumière conduit Gabrielle au sommet de la grande pyramide que fut sa vie, le début de son journal spirituel, comme si tout ce qui l’avait précédé n’avait été qu’une ascension vers ce sommet. À soixante-deux ans, en 1936, après de nombreuses sollicitations, Mademoiselle Bossis accepte d’organiser une tournée risquée au Canada, sur le transatlantique Île-de-France. Ce seront deux mois et demi ininterrompus de rendez-vous et de déplacements, de représentations et de cours à de jeunes actrices improvisées, de rencontres, de fêtes et d’émotions. En lisant ces premiers entretiens, une chose nous frappe, Gabrielle la rapportant comme s’il s’agissait d’un fait désormais habituel : l’affleurement de rapports intimes entre elle et Celui qui lui parle. Et l’on en vient à se demander : s’il s’agit vraiment de la première fois que Gabrielle entend cette Voix, comment est-il possible qu’aucune émotion ne perce chez elle ? Ses conversations mystiques commencent-elles, comme tout le monde l’a cru, en 1936 ?
La tournée au Canada s’achève. Gabrielle rentre chez elle mais le journal « à deux voix » se poursuit, tellement spirituel. Il ne s’éteindra qu’avec sa vie à elle, devenant : Lui et moi. Un interlocuteur divin s’est insinué dans un voyage terrestre pour le transformer en voyage céleste.
Tandis que l’Europe se précipite dans la tragédie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Gabrielle – ignorant comme chacun les événements à venir – organise encore ses tournées mais son journal n’en dit presque plus rien. 
S’oubliant docilement, elle n’enregistre désormais que les dialogues spirituels, renonçant à annoter les faits personnels qui ne sont pas nécessaires à la compréhension de la réponse divine. Seule la mention des lieux et des dates permet de suivre, au moins en partie, ses engagements exténuants : en France, en Europe, en Palestine, en Afrique... Des témoignages de cette époque nous aident également.


Gabrielle, 'Did she make pilgrimage to the Holy Land?


YOU AND i, Gabrielle Bossis


Question:

The location of Gabrielle’s movements are rare. There the line, Didn't you understand that when you were in Jerusalem and prayed on Calvary’, may need some biographical details help.



1948

August 19 -  In a moment of depression.
"Keep going. Be steadfast."

September 6 -  In the empty house.
 "I am always crucified before the Father, who sees all time in a single instant. I am always the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And since I am yours, why don't you offer Me more often to heaven from the depths of your heart? It is always now. Didn't you understand that when you were in
  Jerusalem and prayed on Calvary.

Tenderly offer your sacrifice for the world. Aren't there others weaker than you? Can they rise up without Me? If you wanted to save a person very dear to you and this beloved person refused your help, how much you would suffer! I want to help the world, and the world refuses My help. Speak to the Father about His Son on the cross, so that He will let Himself be touched and send light to these hardened ones who do not even look at Me. You know how one speaks to a father who is watching his son die? Won't this father hasten to carry out his child's last wishes? Remind Him of the words 'Forgive them for they know not what they do.' It is always now.

And if He forgives, what will He not do? Do you know the outpouring of any love like His? A love as vehement, as faithful, as all - consuming, as full of delicate and incomparable sweetness. A love that is all readiness. It is now this love. It is always now."




Sunday, 18 August 2013

Night Office Saint John Chrysostom 18 Aug 2013

 
TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
SUNDAY
First Reading                           Ephesians 1:1-14

Responsory                                                                                               Col 1:17-20
Christ exists before all things, and all things are held together in him. He is the head of the body, the Church. + He is the beginning and the first-born from the dead, so as to be first in every way.
V. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.+ He is the ...

Second Reading       From a homily by Saint John Chrysostom
In his great desire for the glory of his grace to be revealed, God the Father predestined us to be adopted as his children. This was his will and pleasure, says the Apostle, so that his glorious grace freely bestowed on us in his Beloved might redound to his praise.

Why does God wish to be praised and glorified by us if not to make our love for him more fervent? His desire is not to receive service or glory or anything else from us, but only for our salvation, and for this he made the whole world. Being filled with praise and wonder because of the grace bestowed on us will make us more diligent and zealous.

Imagine a man suffering from a repugnant and infectious disease, and afflicted as well by old age, poverty, and hunger. Suppose someone suddenly transforms him into a comely young man, surpassing all others in beauty, his cheeks glowing, his eyes shining more brightly than the sun; and suppose that having endowed him thus with the bloom of youth, he then clothes him in purple, puts a crown on his head, and gives him all the insignia of a king. Welt this is exactly what God has done for our soul: he has made it beautiful, desirable, and lovable. The angels, archangels, and all the powers of heaven desire to look upon such a soul. So has he made us pleasing and desirable in his eyes. As the Psalmist says: The King will desire your beauty.

Consider the hurtful things we used to say, and how full of grace are the words we use now. Think of the words spoken by the newly baptized. Could any speech be more beautiful than that we use in renouncing the devil and swearing allegiance to Christ, or than the profession of faith that we make before and after our baptism? But let the thought of how many of us have been unfaithful to our baptism fill us with sorrow, so that its grace may be renewed in us.

In his Beloved, says the Apostle, in whom we have redemption through his blood. The wonder is not only that God gave us his Son, but even more that he gave his Beloved to be sacrificed. There can be no greater marvel than this, that he gave his Beloved for his enemies. See how highly he values us! If he gave his Beloved when we hated him and were his enemies, what will he not give us in the future, now that we have been reconciled to him through grace?

Passing from the heights to the depths, the Apostle spoke first about adoption as children, sanctification and purity, and finally about suffering. Not that he considers suffering to be of less importance, for his subject matter is not arranged in an order proceeding from what is more to what is less wonderful, but indeed the reverse. Nothing is more astounding than the fact that Gods blood was shed for us; surpassing our adoption as his children and all his other gifts is the fact that he did not even spare his Son. For it is a great thing that our sins have been forgiven, but an even greater that they have been forgiven through the blood of our Lord.

Responsory                                                                 Ps 145:4-5.14
One age shall proclaim your works to another, shall declare your mighty deeds. +People will speak of your plendour and glory, and tell of your wonderful works.
V. The Lord supports all who stumble and raises all who are bowed down. + People will ...
John Chrysostom, Hom. 1 sur L’Ephesiens: Bareillle 18, 176-178.
A Word in Season. Readings for the Liturgy of the Hours. VI, Ordinary Time Year 1, pp.26-27. Augustinian Press 1995.