News.
Abbot Mark, Nunraw could not obtain the necessary Visa to visit the Cistercian Titular Priory of Our Lady of the Angels, Nsugbe , Nigeria
We were happy with the good news from the Community.
Three monks made their Simple Profession,
Br Paschal
Br. Kieran
Br. Rock James
There were also three Solemn Profession,
Br. Simon
Br. Peter
Br. Casimir
Fr. Raphael has attained to the 75th age as Titular Prior.
Our prayer goes with the Brethren at this milestone of progress in the community.
Br Casimir, Br Peter, Br Simon
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Sunday, 08 August 2010
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 12:32-48.
Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come."
And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come."
Treatise on the unity of the Church, 26-27
“You also must be prepared”
The Lord was looking to our days when he said, "When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" (Lk 18:8) We see that what he foretold has come to pass. There is no faith in the fear of God, in the law of righteousness, in love, in good works… That which our conscience would fear if it believed, it does not fear because it does not believe at all. If it believed, it would also take heed; and if it took heed, it would be saved.
Therefore beloved brothers, let us arouse ourselves as much as we can and break the slumber of our listlessness. Let us be watchful to observe and to do the Lord's precepts. Let us be like he himself has bidden us to be, saying, "Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master's return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival".
We ought to be dressed for work, lest, when the day of setting forth comes, it should find us burdened and entangled. Let our light shine in good works, and glow in such a way as to lead us from the night of this world to the daylight of eternal brightness. Let us always wait with solicitude and caution for the sudden coming of the Lord, so that when he knocks, our faith may be on the watch, and receive from the Lord the reward of our vigilance. If these commands be observed, if these warnings and precepts be kept, we will not be overtaken in slumber by the deceit of the devil. But we shall reign with Christ in his kingdom as servants on the watch.
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