My Day - A Mass; May Our Life - Be A Host

My Day ++ + ++ A Mass

My Day . . . A Mass

  

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"Through Him, and with Him, and in Him, is to Thee, God the Father Almighty, in the union of the Holy Ghost, all honour and glory world without end." Amen.

(Canon of the Miass).

My Daily Offering:

I offer all

    Eternal Father, I place upon the paten, my whole being, my soul, my body, my intellect and my will, for I offer You all that I am and have; also all my joys, my sorrows of today, my work with its fatigue, my crosses with their bitterness.

    I place also upon this paten the hearts of all those whom I love, those who have done me good, those who have recommended themselves to my prayers, those for 'whom I have promised to pray, and the hearts of all the agonizing.

THROUGH THE IMACULi\TE HEART OF MARY

    I unite all this to the offering of Jesus as a holocaust of love for the salvation and sanctification of priestly and religious souls and for my own sanctification.

United to Christ

    By the drop of water which represents me, a my God, permit me to cast into the Chalice, with Jesus Christ, every moment of my life so that all may be sanctified, supernaturalized in the mood of Christ and may pass through Him to the Adorable Trinity,

1 cast also into the Chalice and I offer You the life and efforts of all, so that their life too may take on a divine value,

    I place also within the chalice the souls of all my relatives for whom I should pray: the souls of those for whom I may have forgotten to pray: the souls most devour to the Sacred Heart and the Blessed Virgin: the souls of the most abandoned. Jesus, when You change the wine into Your Precious Blood, change these poor souls from their place of suffering into Eternal Happiness,

Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.

    Mother of sorrows! Mother of Christ!

You had influence with your Divine Son when on earth, you have the same influence now in Heaven, pray for me.

In all the Masses

    O my Jesus, I unite myself to all the Masses which will be celebrated this day throughout the world, in union with the intentions of your Sacred Heart, 0 my Jesus, I beg of you to retain for me, from each of these Masses, a drop of Your Precious Blood, in expiation for my sins.

o Divine Heart of Jesus, give to the world many and holy priests to continue the work of your Redemption. Amen.

A TREASURE TO EXPLOIT . . .  

    The death of our Saviour Jesus Christ upon the Cross-That is the great Treasure! The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the key which unlocks this Treasure from which we can derive an abundance of graces.

    The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the centre, the heart of our religion, n heart which, without ceasing, sends a stream of grace into the veins of Christianity, so that it may vivify each and every member of the great Mystical Body of Christ which is our Holy Mother the Church, (Mgr.Mader)

LET US USE this TREASURE . , ,

- By assisting devoutly at Holy Mass.

- By having Masses said.

- By uniting with all the Masses which will be celebrated in the world, at every hour of the day and night.

    More than 400,000 Masses are celebrated each day-which means 5 Elevations every second. He who unites himself with them, shares in them. Let us therefore gain for ourselves a Treasure in eternity.

TREMENDOUS VALUE OF HOLY MASS

    At the hour of death the holy Masses you have heard devoutly will be your consolation.

    Every Mass will go with you to Judgement and will plead for pardon for you.

    By every Mass you can diminish the temporal punishment due to your sins, more or less, according to your fervour.

    By devoutly assisting at Holy Mass you render the greatest homage possible to the Sacred Humanity of Our Lord.

    One Holy Mass, heard during your life, will be of more benefit to you than many heard for you after your death.

    ‘Through Holy Mass you are preserved from many dangers and misfortunes which would otherwise have befallen you. You shorten your Purgatory by every Mass'.  

By piously hearing Holy Mass you afford the Souls in Purgatory the greatest possible relief.

Permissu Superiorum

Stanbrook Abbey No. 32 Printed in England

(1930s?) 

Online Link: 2006

  http://holydevotions.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/my-day-mass.html

Contemplative Life Today - Saints of the Benedictine Family

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OCSO Missal Feast 13 November

  Friday, 13 November 2009

 - Saints of the Benedictine Family

Contemplative Life Today

Br. Seamus

  

The 2^nd Reading of Vigils this morning spoke so clearly and resounding, it gave us the thought for today’s celebration of the ALL SAINTS of the Benedictine Family/

Night Office, Br.. Seamus. COMMENT:

The Reading for today; I have what I think an answer, ‘Why do you become a monk?’ – this Reading says we are all contemplatives “At heart”.

So becoming a monk is not such a big deal after all!

All Benedictine Saints 13 November [Based on Some Thoughts on Contemplative Life Today, by Clifford Stevens in Review for Religious, July-August 1991] The pattern of contemplative life has neither changed, nor will it change. It is still a life of solitude, of withdrawal from 'the world', of silence and seclusion. However the image of contemplative life is changing from an ascetic protest and rejection of 'the world' to the cultivation of intimacy with God in the sacrament of solitude. It is the personal pursuit of closeness to God, not from a sense of exclusivity, but from a deep sense of 'commonalty' with the rest of the human family. The contemplative life is just one way of seeking and finding God, in no way minimizing other pathways and in no way deprecating the infinite variety of the Christian life and Christian holiness. Every person, in the most secret part of his or her being, is contemplative. Every human being has a passion for God, a hunger for the known or unknown Divine that bursts into flame when, at certain moments, a glimpse is caught of the magnitude of God. To speak of the contemplative life is to speak of a kind of life that all people hanker after in the deepest part of their being; the formal contemplative life is simply an extension of this basic human hunger, a hunger for God that is perhaps the very blueprint of our existence. In the depth of our being, then, we are all solitaries, and each one of us has a primitive face we show to God alone, a part of ourselves we can reveal to no one else, however intimate our relationship or profound our affection. We show to others only a small part of our total personality while, at the core of our being, we are all God-centred. The contemplative life begins in astonishment at the overpowering reality of God's love, the magnitude of His plans for every human being. It is this fascination with God that draws a person into solitude, for only the freedom of solitude is adequate to contain that fascination and the probing of that astonishment. The contemplative has, in very truth, been astounded and struck with the wonder of God in a way that is beyond explaining. And it is this wonder and astonishment that draw him or her into solitude where the wonder can be nurtured and the astonishment explored and probed with all the energy of heart and mind. This, indeed, becomes the lifetime occupation of the contemplative, with the secluded life itself simply the setting and necessary environment for it. Contemplatives are driven into solitude as lovers are drawn together, and for the same reason: to cultivate an intimacy beyond their power to put into words, but which embodies everything they have ever desired and is expressive of the deepest and most intimate longing of their being. The contemplative life reaches out to intimacy with God just as human lovers reach out to intimacy with each other, for the sheer joy of that intimacy and for the love that binds two together in an inseparable and deliberately chosen companionship. And do You, Lord, have mercy on us.

November month is dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory. 2. Card. Newman. C.S. Lewis

All Souls, 

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 Prayer of Cardinal Newman

O most gentle Heart of Jesus, ever present in the Blessed Sacrament, ever consumed with burning love for the poor captive souls in Purgatory, have mercy on the souls of Your servants. 

Bring them from the shadows of exile to Your bright home in Heaven, where we trust that You and Your Blessed Mother have woven for them a crown of unfolding bliss. Amen.

November month is dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory.  

Letters to Malcolm Chiefly on Prayer is a book by CS Lewis posthumously published in 1964

 

I BELIEVE IN PURGATORY...

 - C.S.Lewis, Letters To Malcom: Chiefly on Prayer, chapter 20, paragraphs 7-10, pages 108-109    

    

"Of course I pray for the dead. The action is so spontaneous, so all but inevitable, that only the most compulsive theological case against it would deter me. And I hardly know how the rest of my prayers would survive if those for the dead were forbidden. At our age, the majority of those we love best are dead. What sort of intercourse with God could I have if what I love best were unmentionable to him?

I believe in Purgatory.

Mind you, the Reformers had good reasons for throwing doubt on the 'Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory' as that Romish doctrine had then become.....

The right view returns magnificently in Newman's DREAM. There, if I remember it rightly, the saved soul, at the very foot of the throne, begs to be taken away and cleansed. It cannot bear for a moment longer 'With its darkness to affront that light'. Religion has claimed Purgatory. 

Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would in not break the heart if God said to us, 'It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into the joy'? Should we not reply, 'With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleaned first.' 'It may hurt, you know' - 'Even so, sir.'

I assume that the process of purification will normally involve suffering. Partly from tradition; partly because most real good that has been done me in this life has involved it. But I don't think the suffering is the purpose of the purgation. I can well believe that people neither much worse nor much better than I will suffer less than I or more. . . . The treatment given will be the one required, whether it hurts little or much.

My favorite image on this matter comes from the dentist's chair. I hope that when the tooth of life is drawn and I am 'coming round',' a voice will say, 'Rinse your mouth out with this.' This will be Purgatory. The rinsing may take longer than I can now imagine. The taste of this may be more fiery and astringent than my present sensibility could endure. But . . . it will [not] be disgusting and unhallowed."

12th November - St. Theodore of Studium - Saint Machar & St Josaphat -

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St. Theodore of Studium

A zealous champion of the veneration of images and the last geat representative of the unity and independence of the Church in the East, b. in 759; d. on the Peninsula of Tryphon, near the promontory Akrita on 11 November, 826. He belonged to a very distinguished family and like his two brothers, one of whom, Joseph, becameArchbishop of Thessalonica, was highly educated. In 781 theodore entered themonastery of Saccudion on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus near Constantinople, where his uncle Plato was abbot. In 787 or 788 Theodore was ordained priest and in 794 succeeded his uncle. He insisted upon the exact observance of the monasticrules. During the Adulterine heresy dispute (see SAINT NICEPHORUS), concerning thedivorce and remarriage of the Emperor Constantine VI, he was banished by Constantine VI to Thessalonica, but returned in triumph after the emperor's overthrow. In 799 he left Saccudion, which was threatened by the Arabs, and took charge of the monastery of the Studium at Constantinople. He gave the Studium an excellent organization which was taken as a model by the entire Byzantine monasticworld, and still exists on Mount Athos and in Russian monasticism. He supplemented the somewhat theoretical rules of St. Basil by specific regulations concerning enclosure, poverty, discipline, study, religious services, fasts, and manual labour. When the Adulterine heresy dispute broke out again in 809, he was exiled a second time as the head of the strictly orthodox church part, but was recalled in 811. The administration of the iconoclastic Emperor Leo V brought new and more severe trials.Theodore courageously denied the emperor's right to interfere in ecclesiasticalaffairs. He was consequently treated with great cruelty, exiled, and his monasteryfilled with iconoclastic monks. Theodore lived at Metopa in Bithynia from 814, then at Bonita from 819, and finally at Smyrna. Even in banishment he was the central point of the opposition to Cæsaropapism and Iconoclasm. Michael II (810-9) permitted the exiles to return, but did not annul the laws of his predecessor. Thus Theodore saw himself compelled to continue the struggle. He did not return to the Studium, and died without having attained his ideals. In the Roman Martyrology his feast is placed on 12 November; in the Greek martyrologies on 11 November.
Theodore was a man of practical bent and never wrote any theological works, except a dogmatic treatise on the veneration of images. Many of his works are still unprinted or exist in Old Slavonic and Russian translations. Besides several polemics against the enemies of images, special mention should be made of the "Catechesis magna", and the "Catechesis parva" with their sonorous sermons and orations. His writings onmonastic life are: the iambic verses on the monastic offices, his will addressed to themonks, the "Canones", and the "Pænæ monasteriales", the regulations for themonastery and for the church services. His hymns and epigrams show fiery feeling and a high spirit. He is one of the first of hymn-writers in productiveness, in a peculiarly creative technic, and in elegance of language. 550 letters testify to hisascetical and ecclesiastico-political labours.

Sources Theodorus Studites, Opera varia, ed. SIRMOND (Paris, 1696); P.G., XCIX; Nova patrum bibl., V, VIII, IX, X (Rome, 1849, 1871, 1888, 1905); Theodorus Studites, Parva Catechesis, ed. AUVRAT-TOUGARD (Paris, 1891); Bibl. hagiogr. Græca (2nd ed., Brussels, 1909), 249; THOMAS, Theodor von Studien(Osnabrück, 1892); GARDNER, Theodore of Studium (London, 1905).

12th November - Saint Machar & St Josaphat - Independent Catholic News

St Machar's Cathedral Saint Machar Bishop. This Sixth century saint was an Irish nobleman who was baptised by St Colman.  Later he became a monk and a disciple of St Columba on Iona. He is said to have evangelised Mull and Aberdeen. St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen is named in his honour. A stone carved with a Celtic cross - a clear indication of the site’s Celtic roots - believed to have been associated with the original building is now on display in the church.  For centuries, water from St Machar's well was used for baptisms in the  Cathedral. A few other dedications to him survive in this part of Scotland. also St Josaphat Archbishop. Born in 1584 in Wolodimir in Poland, he became a monk of the Byzantine rite when he was about 20. Ten years later he was made abbot of Vilnius. Josaphat devoted his life to promoting unity between the Orthodox and Catholic churches. In 1618 he was made archbishop of Polatsk in Bielarus, and continued to defend the Byzantine rite Catholics against the Roman rite Polish clergy. When Russia set up a rival Orthodox hierarchy in 1623, he was murdered by a mob of Cossacks at Vitebsk. He was the first Eastern-rite Catholic to be formally canonised in 1867. The Latin rite recognised him in 1882.

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The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome - Feast

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Asia Church Catholic This feast of one church building in Rome reminds us that we can and should appreciate and celebrate all the buildings in which we gather as a community. Those buildings, whether they be lowly huts or grand basilicas, are our homes.