Luisa Post-it, Effects of Communion in the Divine Will - “prodigies of the greatest conversions.”

Community Monthly Memorial of the Dead. 8th October 2015

Thursday 08/10/2015

   

Communion in the way Jesus

I communicated Myself

communicating Myself

in order to convert

prodigies of the greatest conversions

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Luisa Post-it, “prodigies of the greatest conversions.”  

October 2, 1916

Effects of Communion in the Divine Will

This morning I received Communion in the way Jesus had taught me - that is, united with His Humanity, His Divinity and His Will; and Jesus, on coming, made Himself seen and I kissed Him and clasped Him to my heart.  He returned my kiss and my embrace, and told me:

“My daughter, how content I am that you have come to receive Me united with my Humanity, Divinity and Will!  You have renewed in Me all the contentment I received when I communicated Myself; and while you were kissing Me and embracing Me, since all of Myself was in you, you contained all creatures, and I felt I was given the kiss of all, the embraces of all, because this was your will, as was Mine in communicating Myself - to return to the Father all the love of creatures, even though many would not love Him.  The Father made up for their love in Me, and I make up for the love of all creatures in you; and having found in my Will one who loves Me, repairs Me, and so much more, in the name of all - because in my Will there is nothing that the creature cannot give Me - I feel like loving creatures even if they offend Me, and I keep inventing stratagems of love around the hardest hearts in order to convert them.  Only for love of these souls who do everything in my Will, do I feel as though chained, captured; and I concede to them the prodigies of the greatest conversions.” 

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Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson, Graces of the Holy Rosary , in one of his early novels, (1906-09), gave us a beautiful explanation of the rosary

  WEDNESDAY 7TH, October

MEDITATION OF THE DAY

MAGNIFICAT com,

Father Raymond P Lawrence

Graces of the Holy Rosary

Monsignor Hugh Benson, in one of his early novels, (1906-09), gave us a beautiful explanation of the rosary. An old nun is trying to make the devotion clear to a young Protestant girl. The enquirer asks:

"How can prayers said over and over again like that be any good?"

Mistress Margaret was silent for a moment.

"I saw young Mrs Martin last week," she said, "with her little girl in her lap. She had her arms around her mother's neck, and was being rocked to and fro; and every time she rocked she said 'Oh, mother'." 

"But, then," said lsabel, after a moment's silence, "she was only a child." "Except ye become as little children-m quoted Mistress Margaret softly-"you see, my lsabel, we are nothing more than children with God and his Blessed Mother. To say, 'Hail Mary, Hail Mary,' is the best way of telling her how much we love her. And, then, this string of beads is like our Lady's girdle, and her children love to finger it, and whisper to her. And then we say our Our Fathers too; and all the while we are talking, she is showing us pictures of her dear Child, and we look at all the great things he did for us, one by one; and then we turn the page and begin again." 

Those who have profited most from the rosary are the ones who have thus understood it. With hearts full of love they have rested close by the side of our heav­enly Mother; and, whispering words of endearment to her, they have gazed the while at those wonderful pictures which the changing mysteries recall, seeing always something new and beautiful. And when they have come to the end of the picture-book, with the insatiable interest of a child, they have gone back to the beginning and turned every page over again.

FATHER RAYMOND' P. LAWRENCE

 (+ 1968) was a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse, NY, and was the author of the book The Journey Home.

Prayer for the Evening

Come, let us praise the Lord our God

on this feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary!

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Robert Hugh Benson Robert Hugh Benson, son of the Archbishop of Canterbury, became a Roman Catholic priest, a novelist, and a prominent writer of apologetics. He published Confessions of a Convert and Lourdesserially in Notre Dame's magazine, The Ave Maria, before he brought them out as books. He visited Notre Dame in April of 1914, seven months before he died at the age of forty-three. The Religion of the Plain Man (1906) Christ in the Church (1910) The Friendship of Christ (1912) Confessions of a Convert (1913) Paradoxes of Catholicism (1913) Lourdes (1914) Poems (1914) Essays (1916)

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Works[edit]

Science fiction

·                  A Mirror of Shalott, Benziger Brothers, 1907.

·                  Lord of the World, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908 [1st Pub. 1907].

·                  The Dawn of All, B. Herder, 1911.^[6]

Historical fiction

·                  By What Authority?, Isbister, 1904.

·                  Come Rack! Come Rope!, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913 [1st Pub. 1912].

·                  Oddsfish!, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914.

·                  The King's Achievement, Burns Oates & Washbourne, Lrd., 1905.

·                  The Queen's Tragedy, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1907.

·                  The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd., 1912.

·                  Initiation, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914.^[7]

Contemporary Fiction

·                  The Light Invisible, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1906.

·                  The Sentimentalists, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1906.

·                  The Conventionalists, Hutchinson & Co., 1908.

·                  The Necromancers, Hutchinson & Co., 1909.

·                  The Winnowing, B. Herder, 1910.

·                  None other gods, B. Herder, 1911.

·                  The Coward, B. Herder, 1912.

·                  An Average Man, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913.

·                  Loneliness?, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1915.

Our Lady of the Rosary Mass Introduction

Mass Introduction - Fr. Brendan

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Lord, teach us how to pray.

Our Lady of the Rosary 

Sister Margaret was explaining the rosary to a Protestant girl.

   Isabel asks, “How can prayers said over and over again like that be of any good?”

   Sister Margaret answered.

“I saw young Mrs Martin last week with her little girl in her lap. She had her arms around her mother’s neck, and was being rocked to and fro. Every time she rocked she said, ‘Oh, me mum’ ”.

   To say, Hail Mary, Hail Mary,’ is the best way of telling her how much we love her. And, then this string of beads is like our Lady’s girdle, and then we say our ‘Our Fathers’ too, and all the while we are talking, she is showing us pictures of her dear Child, one by one, and then we turn the page and begin again.”  (Mgr. Hugh Benson)

 

Father, fill my heart with your love that all my actions may be pleasing to you. Help me to be kind and forgiving towards my neighbour as you have been towards me, through Christ our Lord.

 

The grotto of the Marian apparition
in Tre Fontane Rome Italy

   

Our Lady of the Rosary October 7, sermon St. Bernard

Night Office sermon by Saint Bernard, Abbot

(Sermo de Aquaeductu: Opera Omnia, Edit. Cisterc. 5 [1968], 282-283)

Our Lady of the Rosary October 7

This memory Mariana source devotional connects with the victory of Lepanto (1571), who arrested the great expansion of the Ottoman Empire. St. Pius V attributed that historic event to pray that the Christian people had addressed to the Virgin of the Rosary in the form. (Mess. Rom.) Etymology: Mary = loved by God, from the Egyptian; lady, Hebrew Martyrology: Memory of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Rosary on this day with the prayer of the Rosary and Marian crown invoking the protection of the holy Mother of God to meditate on the mysteries of Christ, under the guidance of her, which was associated so everything Special incarnation, passion and resurrection of the Son of God.

iBreviaryWednesday, 7 October 2015  Wednesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time 

Office of Readings

Morning Prayer

SECOND READING

From a sermon by Saint Bernard, Abbot
(Sermo de Aquaeductu: Opera Omnia, Edit. Cisterc. 5 [1968], 282-283)

We should meditate on the mysteries of salvation

The child to be born of you will be called holy, the Son of God, the fountain of wisdom, the Word of the Father on high. Through you, blessed Virgin, this Word will become flesh, so that even though, as he says: I am in the Father and the Father is in me, it is still true for him to say: “I came forth from God and am here”.

In the beginning was the Word. The spring was gushing forth, yet still within himself. Indeed, the Word was with God, truly dwelling in inaccessible light. And the Lord said from the beginning: I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. Yet your thought was locked within you, and whatever you thought, we did not know; for who knew the mind of the Lord, or who was his counsellor?

And so the idea of peace came down to do the work of peace: The Word was made flesh and even now dwells among us. It is by faith that he dwells in our hearts, in our memory, our intellect and penetrates even into our imagination. What concept could man have of God if he did not first fashion an image of him in his heart? By nature incomprehensible and inaccessible, he was invisible and unthinkable, but now he wished to be understood, to be seen and thought of.

But how, you ask, was this done? He lay in a manger and rested on a virgin’s breast, preached on a mountain, and spent the night in prayer. He hung on a cross, grew pale in death, and roamed free among the dead and ruled over those in hell. He rose again on the third day, and showed the apostles the wounds of the nails, the signs of victory; and finally in their presence he ascended to the sanctuary of heaven.

How can we not contemplate this story in truth, piety and holiness? Whatever of all this I consider, it is God I am considering; in all this he is my God. I have said it is wise to meditate on these truths, and I have thought it right to recall the abundant sweetness, given by the fruits of this priestly root; and Mary, drawing abundantly from heaven, has caused this sweetness to overflow for us.

RESPONSORY

O Virgin Mary, no other daughter of Jerusalem is your equal,
for you are the mother of the King of kings,
you are the Queen of heaven and of angels.

– Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

Hail, full of grace; the Lord is with you.
– Blessed are you among women
and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

CONCLUDING PRAYER

Let us pray.

Lord,
fill our hearts with your love,
and as you revealed to us by an angel
the coming of your Son as man,
so lead us through his suffering and death
to the glory of his resurrection,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.

Luisa Post-it, 'souls of all kinds'

   

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Souls of all kinds
the ones sleepy with love
the ignorant of love
the crazy of love
the learned of love
... what interests me the most

      And Jesus added: “I make souls of all kinds: I make the ones sleepy with love, the ignorant of love, the crazy of love, the learned of love.  But, of all this, do you know what interests me the most?  That everything be love.  Anything else which is not love is worth not even a glance.” 

July 23, 1912

The heart must be empty of everything.

Finding myself with my always lovable Jesus, I was lamenting to Him because, in addition to His privations, I also felt my poor heart insensitive, cold, and indifferent to everything, as if it no longer had life.  What a pitiful state mine is!  And even so, I myself am unable to cry over my misfortune.  ‘Since I myself am unable to have compassion for myself - You, have compassion for this heart, which You have loved so much, and which You intended so firmly to receive.’ 

And Jesus: “My daughter, do not afflict yourself for something that deserves no affliction.  Instead of having compassion for these laments and for your heart, I am pleased and I say to you:

‘Rejoice with Me, because I have made a complete purchase of your heart.  And since you no longer feel anything of your very contentment and of the life of your heart, I alone come to enjoy your contentment and your very life.’ 

“You must know that when you do not feel anything from your heart, I draw your heart into my Heart and I keep at rest, in sweet sleep, while I enjoy it.  If you do feel it, then the enjoyment is together.  If you let Me act, after I have given you rest in my Heart and enjoyed it from you, I will come to rest in you and I will make you enjoy the contentment of my Heart.”

“Ah, my daughter, this state is necessary for you, for Me and for the world.  For you: if you had been awake, you would have suffered very much in seeing the chastisements which I am sending now, and the others which I will send.  Therefore, it is necessary to put you to sleep so as not to make you suffer so much.  It is necessary for Me: how much I would have suffered had I not made you content - had I not condescended to what you wanted, since you would not permit Me to send chastisements.  So, it was necessary to put you to sleep.  In certain sad times, with necessity of chastisements, it is necessary to choose ways in the middle in order to be less unhappy.  It is necessary for the world: if I wanted to pour Myself out with you and make you suffer as a lance used to do - and therefore making you content by sparing the world the chastisements - faith, religion, salvation, would be banished even more from the world, especially considering how souls are disposed in these times.  Ah, my daughter, let Me act, whether I have to keep you awake or asleep.  Did you not tell Me to do with you whatever I wanted?  Do you perhaps want to withdraw your word?” 

And I: ‘Never, O Jesus!  Rather, I fear that I have become bad, and because of this I feel I am in this state.’ 

And Jesus: “Listen, my daughter, is it perhaps that some thought, affection or desire which is not for Me has entered into you?  If this were the case, you should fear; but if this is not, it is a sign that I keep your heart in Me and I make it sleep.  The time will come - it will come - when I will have it wake up; then you will see that you will take the attitude of before, and since you will have been at rest, this attitude will be greater.” 

Then He added: “I make souls of all kinds: I make the ones sleepy with love, the ignorant of love, the crazy of love, the learned of love.  But, of all this, do you know what interests me the most?  That everything be love.  Anything else which is not love is worth not even a glance.” 

   

Bruno, A Witness of the Absolute

COMMENT:  Bruno and Thomas M...
  The personal style of St. Bruno in letters of contemplation in life. Thomas Merton is the journalistic talent and prolific writings. It still awaits for me to browse the Letters of Merton.

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1 n 1084, Bruno decided to withdraw to the "desert", to an isolated wilderness where he might give himself up to spiritual devotions without danger of distraction from the clamour of the world. He founded a hermitage in the heart of the Chartreuse Mountains, in the Alps-the source of the name "Carthusian". adopted by the religious of his order, as well as the "charterhouses", which their monasteries came to be called. In the background, the painter Mignard depicts Brunos first six companions occupied in the various tasks of  eremitical life. In 1090, Bruno founded a second charterhouse in a "desert" of Calabria, Italy. While building work was underway, Bruno lodged in a cave. Wishing to meet him, the lord of the domain, Count Roger of Sicily, scoured the countryside for days but could find him nowhere. And so he returned with his pack of hunting dogs. One of them tracked Bruno down to his cave, in rapt contemplation of God. Mignard pictures the hound here in the foreground. Before him, we find Bruno, his whole being turned toward the divine light which floods down over him through a fissure in the rock. The rosary hanging from the saint's belt is an anachronism, a witness to the fact that this devotion, popularised by the Dominicans, was actually first conceived by the Carthusians. On the ground, in the opposite corner, a skull recalls the vanity of all human existence whose goal is not life in God. For, to a Christian, each vocation is a religious one: through faith working through love (Ga 5:6), to make of one's existence on this earth a life that endures for eternal life. But the perfection of the vocation of each member of the Church is only fully realised through the complimentarily of the gifts encompassed by the mystical Body of Christ. Thus, while some devote their lives to preaching the Gospel, while others witness to Christ's charity in service of their brethren, and still others consecrate themselves to God through a conse­cration to one another by love in marriage-certain members of the mystical Body are called to withdraw from the world to act as perpetual witnesses of the Absolute, ensuring that Christ's prayer to his Father is never extinguished from his Body. 

Saint Bruno praying in the wilderness (1638), Nicholas Migard. Calvet Museum, Avignon, France.

Artist. NICOLAS MIGNARD 1606/1668

Saint Bruno praying in the wilderness (1638)

Nicolas Mignard is anything but an isolated provincial painter. In 1635, he moved to Rome in the suite of the Ambassador of France Alphonse de Richelieu. This is former Carthusian and very attached to the figure of St. Bruno, the founder of the order. This may be to flatter his powerful protector that Mignard realizes this painting, his first masterpiece.

Pope Francis speaks about Thomas Merton in his address to Congress on Thursday, 24 September.

17 24 September, 2015 - Pope Francis speaks about Thomas Merton in his address to Congress

	Pope Francis addressed the United States Congress on Thursday, 24th of September, 2015. During his address, he used four Americans as examples of the type of vision which needs to be applied to today's world problems. The people he chose were Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. Here are some excerpts from this address.
	My visit takes place at a time when men and women of good will are marking the anniversaries of several great Americans. The complexities of history and the reality of human weakness notwithstanding, these men and women, for all their many differences and limitations, were able by hard work and self-sacrifice – some at the cost of their lives – to build a better future. They shaped fundamental values which will endure forever in the spirit of the American people. A people with this spirit can live through many crises, tensions and conflicts, while always finding the resources to move forward, and to do so with dignity. These men and women offer us a way of seeing and interpreting reality. In honoring their memory, we are inspired, even amid conflicts, and in the here and now of each day, to draw upon our deepest cultural reserves. I would like to mention four of these Americans: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton. … A century ago, at the beginning of the Great War, which Pope Benedict XV termed a “pointless slaughter”, another notable American was born: the Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. He remains a source of spiritual inspiration and a guide for many people. In his autobiography he wrote: “I came into the world. Free by nature, in the image of God, I was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and my own selfishness, in the image of the world into which I was born. That world was the picture of Hell, full of men like myself, loving God, and yet hating him; born to love him, living instead in fear of hopeless self-contradictory hungers”. Merton was above all a man of prayer, a thinker who challenged the certitudes of his time and opened new horizons for souls and for the Church. He was also a man of dialogue, a promoter of peace between peoples and religions.
	From this perspective of dialogue, I would like to recognize the efforts made in recent months to help overcome historic differences linked to painful episodes of the past. It is my duty to build bridges and to help all men and women, in any way possible, to do the same. When countries which have been at odds resume the path of dialogue – a dialogue which may have been interrupted for the most legitimate of reasons – new opportunities open up for all. This has required, and requires, courage and daring, which is not the same as irresponsibility. A good political leader is one who, with the interests of all in mind, seizes the moment in a spirit of openness and pragmatism. A good political leader always opts to initiate processes rather than possessing spaces (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 222-223). Being at the service of dialogue and peace also means being truly determined to minimize and, in the long term, to end the many armed conflicts throughout our world. Here we have to ask ourselves: Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. In the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade. Three sons and a daughter of this land, four individuals and four dreams: Lincoln, liberty; Martin Luther King, liberty in plurality and non-exclusion; Dorothy Day, social justice and the rights of persons; and Thomas Merton, the capacity for dialogue and openness to God. Four representatives of the American people.  …. A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to “dream” of full rights for all their brothers and sisters, as Martin Luther King sought to do; when it strives for justice and the cause of the oppressed, as Dorothy Day did by her tireless work, the fruit of a faith which becomes dialogue and sows peace in the contemplative style of Thomas Merton. In these remarks I have sought to present some of the richness of your cultural heritage, of the spirit of the American people. It is my desire that this spirit continue to develop and grow, so that as many young people as possible can inherit and dwell in a land which has inspired so many people to dream.
	For a full transcript of Pope Francis' address to Congress: Related Links: The Thomas Merton Collection at Bellarmine University The International Thomas Merton Society

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