Eckhart previous Night Reading

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Bernard McGinn reflects on "Mystical Language in Meister Eckhart" A Lecture in Honor of John Connolly ...

COMMENT:
From: Donald.
Thank you William.
First, your Comment on Meister Eckhart strike a chord.
On previous day, Sunday 21st Sept, the Night Office was also from Eckhart. I will insert that Reading below.
You will enjoy to shine your beam headlight and that will clear my blinker view.
Thank you to brush-stroke, weave the tapestry and inlay marguetry to the revelation,
We quest ever.
...
Donald
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   [Blog] Eckhart - and Fr Raymond's Mass introduction. 

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On Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 10:10, 

William ... wrote:

Dear Fathers,

Thank you for sharing with me the Night Office reading from Meister Eckhart, what a master of words! and Fr Raymond's Mass introduction, such a master of interpretation! widening and deepening the horizon of thought! I well remember asking Fr Raymond on my second visit in the Guest House to look at and advise me with regard to my book list, and his reply: "Read the Scriptures"! Yes, Father Raymond, everything is stated and woven within that tapestry of revelation! And I remember Father Donald telling me that at the centre of the meaning of all revelation lies the Incarnation. You have together given me so much.... 

I am quite arrested by Eckhart's statement which so well defines the Cistercian vow of "conversion,,. In all a man does he should turn his will Godward and, keeping God alone in mind, forge ahead without qualms about its being the right thing or whether he is making a mistake. And at this point, I earnestly remind myself of St. Francis de Sales' concern regarding "scruples"... not so very easy, except by living through deepest humility.

Then I relate, with a broad smile, to Eckhart's next statement [see attached the just-completed oil painting of Jedburgh Abbey!!]   If a painter had to plan every brush-stroke with the first, he would paint nothing.

Courage in faith! - that would make a very good life motto!

With my deepest thanks,

and with my love in Our Lord,

William

TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

SUNDAY

Year 11

First Reading

Tobit 1:1-22

          Responsory 1 Srn 16:7; [as 2:5

The Lord does not see as humans do; they judge by appearances, but t the Lord sees the heart.

Y. Has not God chosen those who are poor by worldly standards to be rich in faith: t The Lord sees ...

Second Reading

From the writings of Meister Eckhart (Sermon 65: Sermons and Treatises Il, 75-76)

Lend to God, and God will repay you

God made the poor for the rich and the rich for the poor. Lend to God, and God will repay you. Some say they believe in God, but they do not believe God. It is a greater thing to believe in God than to believe God. If you lend a man five shillings you believe him, that he will pay you back, and yet you don't believe in that man. So, if a man believes in God, why does he not believe that God will repay him what he lends his poor? He who gives up all things gets back a hundredfold. But whoever expects a hundredfold will get nothing, for he is not giving up all things but wanting his hundredfold back. But our Lord promises a hundredfold to those who leave all things; then he will get a hundredfold back and eternal life as well. It might be that a man, in the course of ridding himself, got back the very thing he had abandoned, but if any should give up for this very reason, then, not giving all, he would get nothing. Anyone who seeks anything in God, knowledge, understanding, devotion, or whatever it might be - though he may find it he will not have found God; even though he may indeed find knowledge, understanding, or inwardness, which I heartily commend - but it will not stay with him. But if he seeks nothing, he will find God and all things in him, and they will remain with him.

A man should seek nothing at all, neither knowledge nor understanding nor inwardness nor piety nor repose, but only God's will. The soul that is as she by rights should be would notwant God to give her his whole Godhead: it would no more console her than if he were to give her a fly. Knowing God outside of God's will is naught. In God's will, all things are, and are something, they are pleasing to God and are perfect: outside of God's will, all things are naught, they are not pleasing to God and are imperfect. A man should never pray for anything, he should pray for God's will alone and nothing else, and then he gets everything. If he prays for anything else, he will get nothing. In God there is nothing but one, and one is indivisible, and whoever takes anything but one, that is a part, not one. God is one, and if a man seeks or expects anything more, that is not God but a fraction. Whether it is repose or knowledge or whatever else but God's will alone, that is for its own sake and so is nothing. But if a man seeks God's will alone, whatever flows from that or is revealed by that he may take as a gift from God without ever looking or considering whether it is by nature or grace or whence it comes or in what ways: he need not care about that. It is well with him and he need only lead an ordinary Christian life without considering doing anything spe­cial. He should take just one thing from God, and whatever comes, accept it as the best for him, having no fear that by this limitation he will be hindered in any way, inwardly or outwardly. Whatever he may do, if only he is aware of having the love of God within him, that suffices.

Responsory Ps 91:11-12; Heb 12:1

He will charge his angels to guard you wherever you go; t they will bear you upon their hands that you may not strike your foot against

a stone.

V. Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run with resolution the race that lies before us, our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. t They will bear ... 

San Padre Pío: Cuerpo incorrupto (Full HD) Night Office Community Mass

ICN News: 23rd September   

Saint Padre Pio

Capuchin priest. Mystic. Padre Pio is one of the most loved Catholic figures in the church of the 20th century. He spent nearly all his life in the Italian town of San Giovanni Rotondo.

Born in 1887, Francesco was one of eight children of Grazio and Maria Forgione. A very devout child, from an early age he felt drawn to the priesthood. He became a Capuchin novice at the age of sixteen and received the habit in 1902. Francesco was ordained to the priesthood in 1910 after seven years of study and became known as Padre Pio.

During the First World War he was called up for military service, but went absent without leave and never returned to duty. His superiors sent him to the friary of Our Lady of Grace at San Giovanni Rotondo.

On September 20, 1918, Padre Pio was kneeling in front of a large crucifix when he received the visible marks of the crucifixion. The doctor who examined Padre Pio could not find any natural cause for the wounds. Upon his death in 1968, the wounds were no longer visible. In fact, there was no scarring and the skin was completely renewed. He had predicted 50 years prior that upon his death the wounds would heal.

The wounds of the stigmata were not the only mystical phenomenon experienced by Padre Pio. He had an odour about him described by many as similar to that of perfume or flowers. He was also said to have had the gift of bilocation.

Padre Pio had the ability to read the hearts of the penitents who flocked to him for confession which he heard for ten or twelve hours per day. Padre Pio used the confessional to bring both sinners and devout souls closer to God; he would know just the right word of counsel or encouragement that was needed. At times he would be unsympathetic, if he detected pride or lack of intention to amend.

A model priest, Padre Pio would say: "I love my spiritual children as much or even more than my own soul." "Once I take on a soul I also take on their family as my spiritual children." "When I reach the gates of heaven I will not enter until all my spiritual children have been allowed in."

Padre Pio died on September 23, 1968 at the age of eighty-one. His funeral was attended by about 100,000 people. He was beatified in 1999. He was canonized on 18 June 2002.

Eckhart Night Office and Mass introduction

TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

Dear William,

There is MEMO on my desk ...

This morning of the Night Office I completely missed the Second Reading. To the rescue of the loss, Fr. Raymond introduced to the Mass with very incisive sum up of Eckhart's philosophical (mystic) reading.

....Donald

 

Rw, Eckhart POSTIT

Fr. Raymond, PROVIDENCE

Master Ekhart gave us this morning his own version of the classical teaching on indifference to life’s ups and downs.  This is a wisdom that goes as far back as the book of Job where we learn that ‘it is the Lord who gives and the Lord who takes away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord.’  It comes to us even from the pagan philosophers of Greece and Rome through the Stoicism of their own philosophers.  But it reaches its perfection in the teaching of St Paul who gives a clear and positive note to this teaching when he tells us that “all these things work together for the good of those who love God.

On Monday, 22 September 2014, 20:35, 

Donald ...> wrote:

Fr. Raymond,

Thank you for introducing to Eckhart at the Mass.

See below the whole Reading.. Sent to William J W.

Donald

PS. I first hiccuped the words;

"Whoever sees anything in God does not see God. A righteous man has no need of God. What I have, I am not in need of. He serves for nothing, he cares for nothing"; in the boiling pot I felt scalded by the lines!.

Picture: 

Abbot General Eamon working in Assisi General Chapter.

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MONDAY 21 Sept 2014  Year II

 First Reading

Tobit 2:1-3.6

Responsory Rom 11:2.29.12

God has not rejected his people, whom he chose as his own in time past. + The gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

V. If their fall and defection meant the enrichment of the world, the Gentile world, how much more will their conversion mean? + The gifts ...

Second Reading

From the writings of Meister Eckhart (Sermon 65: Sermons and Treatises Il, 76-78)

A righteous person has no need of God

When it falls to some people to suffer or to do something, they say, "If only I knew it was God's will, I would gladly endure it or do it!" Dear God! that is a strange question for a sick man to ask, whether it is God's will that he should be sick. He ought to realize that if he is sick, it must be God's will. It is just the same with other things. And so a man should accept from God, purely and simply, whatever happens to him. There are some people who praise God and have faith in him when all goes well with them, inwardly or outwardly, as when somebody says, "I have got ten quarters of corn this year and as many of wine: I put my trust in God." "Indeed," I say, "you put your trust in the corn and the wine." The soul is created for a good so great and so high that she cannot rest in any mode: all the time she is hastening past all modes toward the eternal good which is God, and for which she was created. And this is not to be gained by storm, by a man's being obstinately determined to do this and leave that, but by gentleness and sincere humility and self-abnegation in that as in everything that befalls, notby a man saying to himself: "You will do this at whatever cost!" - that would be wrong, for that is an assertion of self. If anything happens to him that causes him grief or trouble or disquiet, again he would be wrong, for he would be giving way to self. If some­thing were very repugnant to him, he should inwardly seek counsel of God, and, bending humbly before him, accept with quiet faith from him whatever might happen to him, and then he would be right. This is the gist of the matter, of all advice and teaching: that a man should let himself be advised and pay regard only to God, though this can be explained in many and various words. It promotes a properly ordered conscience to refuse attention to casual happenings, and for a man when he is by himself to give up his will wholly to God and then to accept all things equally from God: grace or whatever it may be, inward or outward.

Whoever sees anything in God does not see God. A righteous man has no need of God. What I have, I am not in need of. He serves for nothing, he cares for nothing: he has God, and so he serves for nothing. By so much as God is higher than man, so he is readier to give than man is to receive. Not by fasting and outward works can we gauge our progress in the good life: but a sure sign of growth is a waxing love for the eternal and a waning interest in temporal things. If a man had a hundred marks and gave them all for God's sake to found a cloister, that would be a fine deed. And yet I say, it would be greater and better to despise and naught himself for God's sake. In all a man does he should turn his will Godward and, keeping God alone in mind, forge ahead without qualms about its being the right thing or whether he is making a mistake. If a painter had to plan every brush-stroke with the first, he would paint nothing. And if, going to some place, we had first to settle how to put the front foot down, we should get nowhere. So, follow the first step and continue: you will get to the right place, and all is well.

Responsory Is 55:8-9; Heb 11:2

My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. + For as the heavens are high above the earth, so are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

V. It was for their faith that the people of former times won God's approval. +For as the heavens ...

 

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Sister Wendy on BBC Breakfast

Sister Wendy on BBC Breakfast

5 May 2009

 COMMENT: 

After learning or a fall at her hermitage, we have prayed for Sr. Wendy. Our wishing of restored health and continuing of inspiring presence of God in her vision to us.

Sister Wendy Beckett, an art critic who lives the life of a hermit,
outside the Louvre

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From Sister Wendy Beckett

 

  ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD

In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary

In this story of discovery and spiritual adventure, Sister Wendy Beckett, a contemplative nun and beloved art commentator, travels from Engand, to Rome, to Ukraine, and finally to a remote monastery in Sinai, to view the earliest icons of Mary. These are among the few that survived the wholesale destruction of icons in the early eighth century. In contrast with the familiar and magnificent icons of later history, these early icons have a haunting simplicity and unfamiliar spiritual power. They come to us from a time closer to that of Christ, when faith was still alive with wonder, and possibilities were infinite. 65 color illustrations. Hardcover, 140 pages 

Sister Wendy on BBC Breakfast

Irapuato  28/10/2010 07:16:52

chrisxgreen | May 05, 2009 Being interviewed regarding her new book: "Encounters with God: In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary".

Tagalog • German

Irapuato  28/10/2010 07:36:32

Encounters with God: In Quest of Ancient Icons of Mary Book Description

In this story of discovery and spiritual adventure, Sister Wendy Beckett travels from England to Rome to Ukraine, and finally to a remote monastery in Sinai, to view the earliest icons of Mary.

Wendy Beckett has contributed to Encounters with God: In Quest of Ancient Icons of Mary as an author. Sister Wendy Beckett is a consecrated virgin and hermit, living on the grounds of the Carmelite monastery at Quidenham, in … [More]

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Being interviewed regarding her new book BBC...
Books

2001
Sister Wendy's Impressionist Masterpieces
Sister Wendy's American Masterpieces

2000
Sister Wendy's American Collection
In the Midst of Chaos, Peace (with Mary J. Dorcy and Dan Paulos)
Sister Wendy's Book of Muses (with Justin Pumfrey)

1999
Sister Wendy's 1,000 Masterpieces (with Patricia Wright)
My Favourite Things: 75 Works of Art from Around the World

1998
Sister Wendy's Nativity
Inner Life: A Fellow Traveler's Guide to Prayer (by … [More]

20th September The Martyrs of Korea

Community Mass: Fr. Nivard

Fw: 24th Sat. Korean Martyrs, Good seed

 

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24 Sat 20 Sept 2014 Lk 8 4-15 Harvest through perseverance ...

 

   Jesus compares the third type of hearer with the good soil that is ready to receive the seed of his word so it can take root and grow, and produce good fruit.

   A receptive heart and open mind are always ready to hear what God wants to teach us through his word.  

 

   The "ears of their heart" and the "eyes of their mind" search out the meaning of God's word for them so that it may grow and produce good fruit in their lives.

   They hear with a listening ear and teachable spirit (Isaiah 50:4-5) that wants to learn and understand the intention of God's word for them.    

  

    Father in heaven, Open our eyes to your deeds, and our ears to the sound of your call. May we understand your will for our lives and live accordingly through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Saint of the day: 20th September  (ICN weekend)

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The Martyrs of Korea

Christianity first came to Korea through books, sent from China. The first Koreans were baptised in Peking in 1784. Ten years later, a Chinese priest visiting Korea found 4,000 Christians. He stayed with them until he was killed in 1801. For the next 30 years, the community did not have a priest.

In 1837, Pope Pius VII sent Bishop Laurence Imbert with two priests from the Paris Missionary Society to China. Christianity was punishable by death at that time, so they worked in secrecy and lived in incredibly poor conditions. But the growing numbers of Christians could not remain hidden forever. Violent persecutions began and the three priests allowed themselves to be arrested to avert a riot. They were beheaded at Seoul on 21 September 1839. Later 78 Koreans were martyred.

In 1846 the first Korean priest, Andrew Kim, died for his faith. The entire group was canonised in 1984.

     

Korean Martyrs Saturday of the Twenty-fourth week in Ordinary Time. Youtube

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Saint(s) of the day : St. Andrew Kim Taegon & St. Paul Chong Hasang & Companions, Martyrs - Memorial, Sts. Eustachius and Companions, Martyrs († 2nd century)


St. Andrew Kim Taegon
& St. Paul Chong Hasang
& companions
Martyrs
(19th century)
        The evangelization of Korea began during the 17th century through a group of lay persons. A strong vital Christian community flourished there under lay leadership until missionaries arrived from the Paris Foreign Mission Society.
        During the terrible persecutions that occurred in the 19th century (in 1839, 1866, and 1867), one hundred and three members of the Christian community gave their lives as martyrs. Outstanding among these witnesses to the faith were the first Korean priest and pastor, Andrew Kim Taegon, and the lay apostle, Paul Chong Hasang.
        Among the other martyrs were a few bishops and priests, but for the most part lay people, men and women, married and unmarried, children, young people, and the elderly. All suffered greatly for the Faith and consecrated the rich beginnings of the Church of Korea with their blood as martyrs.
        Pope John Paul II, during his trip to Korea, canonized these martyrs on May 6, 1984, and inserted their feast into the Calendar of the Universal Church.  
Korean Martyrs - YouTube


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Reflection for 9/20/08. ... Today, September 20, is the feast of the Korean Martyrs: Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn and Companions. Below is a short  video

ocso A centenarian at Mepkin

COMMENT:
Congratulation Dom Anthony and prayers at Nunraw.
During the 1974-1990 General Chapters I shared the experiences with joy. (Donald).

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Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:09

Happy Birthday,

 Father Christian!

 And thank you

 for your witness

 and your fidelity…

Father Christian

Dom Aidan Christian Carr was born on September 14, 1914 in Galveston (Texas – USA).  He entered the Franciscan Order (O.F.M. Conv.) and was ordained a priest in 1945. He entered Mepkin on October 31, 1969 and made solemn profession on May 11, 1972. He served as Superior ad nutum of Mepkin from 1974 to 1977 and as Abbot from 1977 to 1990.  He was Chaplain in Uganda, in the Community of Butende, from 1993 to 1996.  He remains in good health (for a 100 year old) and continues to have a very active mind.

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