C.S. Lewis: My Life's Journey. Video. Biography. Emails

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Thank you William,
After our share of the CS Lewis Biography (below), there follows the surfacing of the books abandoned in a top corridor here.    
These two are duplicates from the library, both as magnets in subject, see picture.

'Surprised By Joy', Collins price 2/6, 1960

Richard Harries, Biography, Collins price £1.75, 1977.

It is a new experience to encounter in the digital technology. The Videos or as Youtube below has the heart rending of 'David Payne stars in this one-man play recalling the life and times of C.S. Lewis'.

This is opening the whole  horizons of the Blogspot.

William, keep me briefed as we learn more.

Yours...

Donald.

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C.S. Lewis: My Life's Journey

 

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Lewis book! and Br. Philip Talk

On Friday, 7 November 2014, 19:31, William .... wrote:

Dear Father Donald,

I am overjoyed at your kindness in sending me this copy of the biography of CS Lewis by RL Green & W Hooper. It is so thoughtful of you, and has quite made my day! I will greatly delight in it. 

I had been out with ...Jim to Mass, and thence to coffee where I showed him the rubrics of the Divine Office, for he had this last week acquired a bargain set, a very encouraging step [Thomas Merton's conversion through and through, Elected Silence, chapter True North]. This also after the parish priest had thrust upon me an ardent young man desirous to extend his understanding of Catholic Mysticism. So I returned home very weary... until E... pointed to a book parcel on the kitchen table which so delighted me! Thank you so very much.  

I thoroughly enjoyed the Youtube video of David Payne's biographical portrayal of CS Lewis. By the end I almost came to believe it was autobiographical, the actor so living his part.

Br Philip's talk - I could hear his delivery - told the beautiful story of his own discovery of the Community at Nunraw, closing so contentedly: "The Community has a special character of its own... it incarnates its own spirit in a life style both old and new, and to a large extent it is through this life style that the community spirit is to pass on to others". For so many years his has been the 'public face' of the Community to visitors and resident guests, and his graciousness has described to all the Cistercian Community spirit of which he speaks so eloquently. This chapter of the Rule could not have been presented more fittingly.

I look forward to the late evening when I can settle in the quietness to the delight of this book on CS Lewis, thank you so very much for all your kindness to me.

With my love in Our Lord,

William

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David Payne stars in this one-man play recalling the life and times of C.S. Lewis. Presented as part of the "Let There Be Light Series". Series: "Let There Be Light" [3/2003] [Humanities] [Show ID: 7183]  

‘Wednesday Talks’ on Rule of St. Benedict. talk by Br. Philip

"To become a Cistercian..."

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Community Chapter ‘Wednesday Talks’ on Rule of St. Benedict

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Community Chapter ‘Wednesday Talks’ on Rule of St. Benedict

5 November 2014. Br. Philip –  

CLOISTER - To become a Cistercian.

To become a Cistercian is to undertake to live in a separate place, which is the monastery. It also implies we ‘leave the world’. What this means, in effect, we leave behind all those ties which have been part of our lives up to now. We leave family & friends, we leave the family home. We are attracted by another place, by its ethos and spirit.

These speak to us of a presence, of someone who live there, who has made his dwelling in this place, and now he invites us to join him, to dwell with him. He has chosen the men who are there and has given them to one another as brothers. If these new ties are to grow, we must distance ourselves from the others we love. But they will grow strong in the trial, and will find family and friends again in a deeper and more abiding union. For that union will be enriched with the newness of God and we will live again in the true new communion of Spirit. However,, this separation from family & friends, even though generously desired and sought is powerful. It involves saying goodbye to those whom we love, and entering a new way of life, a whole new set of relationships.

This is the first experience of what we call ‘cloister’. It sets the bounder of this place, is its distinguishing characteristic, and lends an air of mystery to the monastery and its life No one can understand the meaning of ‘cloister’, with solitude and loneliness and its aloneness unless he comes to the monastery on more than one passing visit. If he is to understand it he must come to live there. A person who comes to join the monastery does this because he has chosen the place that he wishes to be faithful to the cloister. The Lord who dwells here will not allow his search to end in failure.

Perhaps later on the aspirant will feel he has failed to find God in the monastery, and decide to leave, if this happens, the vey shape and appearance of the cloister, speaking to him as it does of peace and prayer and rest in God, will recall him to his purpose, and in this he will hear the last appeal of his Lord. The very stones will speak to him.

The Community has a special character of its own. This group of monks and nuns has entered a whole the tradition and this is so even if the monastery is recently founded. It incarnates its own spirit in a life style both old and new, and to a large extent it is through this life style that the community spirit is pass on to others.

Br. Philip..

Blessed John Duns Scotus - You-tube, Benedict XVI

Mass and Night Office, 

Saturday, November 08, 2014 Blessed John Duns Scotus (Optional Memorial)

First Reading: Psalm: Gospel: Philippians 4:10-19 Psalm 112:1-2, 5-6, 8-9 Luke 16:9-15 Bl. John Duns Scotus Sculpture at the Duns town in the Scottish Borders    Newly beatified in 1993 by John Paul II, the Franciscans and other particular calendars may celebrate the optional memorial of Blessed John Duns Scotus, a Scottish Franciscan priest and theologian who died in 1308. He was the founder of the Scotistic School in Theology, and until the time of the French Revolution his thought dominated the Roman Catholic faculties of theology in nearly all the major universities of Europe. He is chiefly known for his theology on the Absolute Kingship of Jesus Christ, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his philosophic refutation of evolution. He is also known as the "Doctor of Mary Immaculate" because of his defense of the Immaculate Conception.

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Blessed John Duns Scotus...the cantor of the incarnate Word and defender of

Blessed John Duns Scotus, the teacher of “God’s closeness”.  I love the homily below on this great theologian and lover of the Blessed Mother. 

CNA- Pope Benedict XVI  taught about Franciscan priest and teacher  Blessed John Duns Scotus, in one of his Wednesday audiences in July of 2010.  The Holy Father remembered his loyalty and devotion to Christ, the Church and the Successor of St. Peter, as well as his contributions to Christian thought.

During his catechesis, the Pope recalled the life of the medieval Scottish priest and theologian, Blessed John Duns Scotus. He spoke of how the Franciscan, who taught at Oxford, Cambridge, and later in Paris, left France instead of betraying Pope Boniface VIII who was in conflict with King Phillip IV.

This fact, said the Pope, “invites us to remember how many times in the history of the Church, believers have found hostility and promptly even persecution because of their loyalty and devotion to Christ, to the Church and to the Pope.

“We all look with admiration to these Christians, that teach us to protect as a precious inheritance the faith in Christ and the communion with the Successor of Peter and, therefore, with the Universal Church.”

Continuing on the life of the 13th century Franciscan, the Pope said that Blessed Scotus provided three major contributions to Christian thought.The first gift is his “great Christocentric vision” that in the Incarnation “every creature, in and through Christ, is called to be perfected in grace and to glorify God forever.” The second contribution is the theory which led to the dogma “that Our Lady’s preservation from original sin was a privilege granted in view of her Son’s redemptive passion and death.” Andfinally, Pope Benedict noted his “great attention to the issue of human freedom”as one of his gifts to Christian thought.

Turning to a passage from Pope John Paul II’s address at Blessed Scotus’ 1993 beatification ceremony, Pope Benedict indicated that it “summarize(s) the notable contribution that Duns Scotus made to the history of theology.” That day, the late Pope remembered the medieval priest and theologian as “the cantor of the incarnate Word and defender of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.”

Pope Benedict XVI concluded Wednesday’s audience by saying that the Franciscan “teaches us that the essential thing in our lives is to believe that God is close to us and loves us in Jesus Christ, and to cultivate, then, a profound love for Him and His Church.

“We are the witnesses of that love on this earth,” he said - CNA -  http://nunraw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/john-duns-scotus-subtle-doctor-was.html 

Fr. Robert Barron on C. S. Lewis

 

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Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture. For more visit http://www.wordonfire.org

C. S. Lewis - Video conversation,

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Dear William,

The Video of Bishop Michael Marshall at London City is invaluable commentary, with true inner grasp of the writings of CS Lewis.  

Michael first pins his college WW2 time acquaintance in Broadcast Talks 1941 and 1942.

At the end he dramatizes CS Lewis, 'A Grief Observed', the reflections of the great scholar and Christian on the death of his wife after only a few short years of marriage Painfully honest. in its dissection of his thoughts and feelings. ..

I trust that the Video will play from Internet Church.

Yours 

Donald

Fw: Good news! and Lonon Internet Church 

On Monday, 3 November 2014, 13:53, 

William J Wardle ....> wrote:

Dear Father Donald,

It is such good news regarding Sr P....

The CS Lewis video has ignited my interest as you knew it would! His journey ‘rings bells’, just as that of (as quoted) St Augustine (perhaps that of Bl Cardinal Newman?). I have never read any of his books, and will now be burrowing amidst the paperback titles that I have seen in the 2nd hand bookshop!

Thank you for this ‘link’ and most especially for sharing news with me.

With prayerful concern

and my love in Our Lord,

William

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Dear William,

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It so happens. this is a glorious VIDEO on the remarkable CS Lewis.

You will love this Link

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On Sunday, 2 November 2014, 20:37, Donald Nunraw <nunrawdonald@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear William,

Just in passing

- good news ....

It so happens this is a glorious VIDEO on the remarkable CS Lewis.

You will love this Link

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On Sunday, 2 November 2014, 19:29, 

Donald ... > wrote:

Hi, Anne Marie,
London Internet Church.org.uk, many thanks, interesting. Anglican Videos rather eloquent.
See previously Premier TV, powerful stuff UK Christian, brilliant. Asking for extension of licence.
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God love -- Compline Bell.

Donald
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 The Problem of Pain written in the War time

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All Souls « When Jesus saw Mary weeping and the Jews who had comne with her weeping, he became perturbed and deeply troubled » (Jn 11,33)

Sunday, 02 November 2014 The Commemoration of all of the Faithful Departed The          Commemoration of all of the Faithful Departed               It is very significant and appropriate that after the Solemnity of All Saints, the Liturgy has us celebrate the Commemoration of all of the Faithful Departed. The "communion of saints", which we profess in the Creed, is a reality that is constructed here below, but is fully made manifest when we will see God "as he is" (I Jn 3: 2).             It is the reality of a family bound together by deep bonds of spiritual solidarity that unites the faithful departed to those who are pilgrims in the world. It is a mysterious but real bond, nourished by prayer and participation in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. In the Mystical Body of Christ the souls of the faithful meet, overcoming the obstacle of death; they pray for one another, carrying out in charity an intimate exchange of gifts.             In this dimension of faith one understands the practice of offering prayers of suffrage for the dead, especially in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, memorial of Christ's Pasch which opened to believers the passage to eternal life.             Dear friends, may the traditional visit of these days to the tombs of our dear departed be an occasion to fearlessly consider the mystery of death and to cultivate that constant vigilance which prepares us to meet it serenely. The Virgin Mary, Queen of Saints… will help us. Pope Benedict XVI (Angelus, 1st November 2005) http://dailygospel.org/main.php?language=AM&module=saintfeast&id=10054&fd=0 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 25:31-46. Jesus said to his disciples: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.' Then the righteous will answer him and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?' And the king will say to them in reply, 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.' Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?' He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.' And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Commentary of the day :  Saint Ambrose (c.340-397), Bishop of Milan and Doctor of the Church  On the death of his brother, § 6  « When Jesus saw Mary weeping and the Jews who had comne with her weeping, he became perturbed and deeply troubled » (Jn 11,33)      Why is it that I would pray for you, O my brother, who loved me so much and have been carried off from me… ? For I have not lost my relationship to you, rather it has been completely changed in my regard. Up to now it was inseparable from the body, but now it is indissoluble from feeling. You remain with me and will remain so always… Paul the apostle calls me back and places a sort of brake on my sadness with these words: “We do not want you to be unaware about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest who have no hope” (1Thes 4,13)… But not all weeping is a sign of lack of faith or of weakness. Natural sorrow is one thing, the sadness of unbelief is another… Sorrow is not alone in having its tears and prayer, according to the prophet, bathes our bed with tears (Ps 6,7). When the patriarchs were enslaved, their people wept bitterly over themselves as well. Thus tears are signs of affection and not incitements to sorrow. I confess that I have wept, but the Lord also wept (Jn 11,35). He wept for someone not of his own kin; I for a brother. He wept for all men in one man; as for me, I will weep for you, my brother, in every man. Christ wept with the feeling that is ours, not his own, for divinity has no tears… He wept in that man who was “sorrowful even to death” (Mt 26,38); he wept in him who was crucified, who died, who was buried; he wept in that man… who was born of the Virgin. + + + + + + + + + + + + + +  + + + + +   +Prayers of Intercession for the Holy Souls (an excerpt) Our Sunday Visit 10/9/2013    by Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, C.F.R., Susan Tassone, and Fr. John P. Grigus, O.F.M. Conv Foreword The risen Lord is free of all constraints imposed by space and time. He can be anywhere he wants to be, and he wants to be entirely present to us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. Under the appearance of bread, Jesus is truly present: divinity and humanity, body and soul. When the faithful spend time with him in adoration, their love for the Lord grows strong.