4th Tues Lent, Conclave on
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From: Nivard ...
Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 10:16
Subject: 4th Tues Lent, Conclave on
Magnificat Adapted, 4 Tues (12 Mar 13):
“Do you want to be well?”
Scripture: Jn 5:1-3, 1-16
“Do you want to be well?” “The Lord of hosts is with us; the ‘God of Jacob is our stronghold.” Jesus commands:”Pick up your sleeping-mat and walk.” We wait by the waters of Christ’s open side from which a river flows that gives life to every living creature.
Do we want to be well? Let us drink deeply from the well of love that flows from the side of Jesus.
We remember especially the Cardinals that they may be filled with the Holy Spirit and listen to his voice.
Father, put within our hearts a burning desire to be changed, healed and transformed in your holiness. Let your Holy Spirit change our hearts and renew us in your love and faithfulness, through Christ our Lord."
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Thanks Jo for Jerusalem update. Here glorious sunshine with deep frost. Praise the Lord.
Yours ...
Nivard
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Bl. Columba Marmion 2nd Reading. (First Reading: Hebrews)
This selected passage from Dom Marmion is very interesting in the comparaive translations.
See the parallels below.
Comment on the sources.
A WORD IN SEASON
Readings for the Liturgy of the Hours
II
Lent
Easter Triduum
Years I and IT
New Edition AUGUSTINIAN
PRESS 2001
+ + +
earlier: A WORD IN SEASON
Monastic Lectionary For The Divine Office
Exordium Books 1982
(Le Christ dans ses mysteres, 440-442) translation from the 2001 Edition. Question of translator...
Christ in His Mysteries London 1939,translated by M.M. St. Thomas of Tyburn Convent.
It can be puzzling. Dom Raymund Thibaut OSB has edited other selections of Marmion, eg. ''Word on the Margin of the Misssal", and varies in lines.
The main feature in Mother M M. St. Thomas's translation is the invaluable text of Latin References.
Second
Reading From the writings of Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B. (Le
Christ dans ses mysteres, 440-442)
Translation from French text.
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MARMION.
CHRIST IN HIS MYTERIES
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AND NOW, FATHER, GLORIFY THY SON pp.319-320
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The anchor of hope
Christ, the
supreme high priest of the human race, having conferred on us a legal title,
bears us up with him in hope to heaven.
We must
never forget that it is only through him that we can gain entrance there. No
human being can penetrate the holy of holies except with him; no creature can
enjoy eternal happiness except in the wake of Jesus; it is his precious
merits that win us infinite bliss. For all eternity we shall say to him,
"Because of you, Jesus Christ, because of the blood you shed for us, we
stand before God's face. It is your sacrifice, your immolation, that wins our
every moment of glory and happiness. To you, the Lamb that was slain, be all
honor and praise and thanksgiving!"
In this
interval of time until Christ comes to fetch us as he promised, he is preparing
a place for us, and above all he is supporting us by his prayer.
Indeed, what is our high priest doing in heaven? The Letter to the Hebrews
gives the answer: he has entered heaven in order to stand now in God's
presence on our behalf. His priesthood is eternal, and therefore eternal
too is his work as mediator. How infinitely powerful is his influence! There
he stands before his Father, unceasingly offering him that sacrifice recalled
by the marks of the wounds he has voluntarily retained; there he stands, alive
for ever, ever interceding for us.
As high
priest he is unfailingly heard, and for our sake he speaks again the priestly
prayer of the last supper: Father, it is for them that I pray
they are in the world ... guard those whom you have given me I pray
for them, that they may have in themselves the fullness of joy ... Father, I will
that they may be with me where I am.
How could
these sublime truths of our faith fail to inspire us with unwavering
confidence? People of scanty faith though we are, what have we to fear? And
what may we not hope for? Jesus is praying for us, and praying always. Let us
then trust absolutely in the sacrifice, the merits and the prayer of our high
priest. He is the beloved Son in whom the Father delights; how could he be
refused a hearing, after showing his Father such love?
Father, look
upon your Son. Through him and in him grant us to be one day where he is, so
that through him and with him and in him we may also render to you all honour
and glory.
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[On
the day of His Ascension,]
Christ, the supreme
High Priest of the human race, took us with Him into heaven, by right and in
hope.
Never forget that it is only through Him that we can enter
there; no man can enter into the Holy of holies except with Him; no creature
can enjoy eternal bliss except by following Jesus: it was His merits that won
for us infinite beatitude. Throughout eternity, we shall say to Him: O Christ
Jesus, it is through You, through Your Blood shed for us, that we are before
the Face of God ; it is Your sacrifice, Your immolation, that has gained for
us each instant of our glory and beatitude: to You, O Lamb slain for us, be all
honour, all praise, all thanksgiving!
Whilst awaiting that Christ Jesus will come to take us to
Himself, as He promised, He is preparing us a place, and above all He aids us
by His prayers. St. Paul tells us that He has entered into Heaven, "that
He may appear now in the presence of God for us " Ut appareat NUNC
vultui Dei pro nobis".*3 His priesthood is eternal. And what infinite power in His mediation!
He is there before His Father unceasingly presenting to Him
His sacrifice, recalled by the marks of His Wounds which He was willed to
retain. . He is there "always living
[I. Hebr, IX, 8. - 2. Col. 11, 14. - 3. Hebr. IX, 24]
to make intercession for us " : Semper
vivens ad interpellandum pro nobis1•
A High Priest Who is
always heard, He repeats for us the
sacerdotal prayer of the Last Supper: "Holy' Father, keep them in Thy Name whom Thou hast given Me ... that they may have My joy filled in themselves ... Father, I
will that where I am, they also whom Thou hast given Me may be with Me; that
they may see My glory which Thou hast given
Me... that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me, may be in them, and I in
them."*2
How can these sublime
truths of our faith fail to give rise within us to an unshakable confidence?
Souls of little faith, what can we fear? What is there we may not hope? Jesus
is praying for us, always. As St. Paul says, if the blood . of animal-victims purified the flesh of those who were
sprinkled with it, " how much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who ... offered Himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience
from dead works to serve the Living God *3?
Let us, then, have
absolute confidence in the sacrifice, the merits and the prayer of our High
Priest. He has entered to-day into the heavens; He inaugurates, with His
triumph, His unceasing mediation ; He is the beloved Son in Whom the Father
is well pleased ; how can He fail to be heard, after having manifested by His
Sacrifice such love to His Father? Exauditus est pro sua reverentias. *4
O Father, look upon Thy Son; look upon His
Wounds: Respice in jaciem Christi
tui; and by Him, in Him, grant us to be one day where He is, so that also
by Him, in Him and with Him, we may render Thee all honour and all glory I
[I. Ibid. VII. 25. See above p. 86 and following pages concerning the oblation of Christ in Heaven. - 2. Joan. XVII, 11. x3. 24. 26. - 3. Hebr. IX, x3-x4. ,.. Ibid. v, 7. ]
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