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From: Donald.
Thank you William.
First, your Comment on Meister Eckhart strike a chord.
On previous day, Sunday 21st Sept, the Night Office was also from Eckhart. I will insert that Reading below.
You will enjoy to shine your beam headlight and that will clear my blinker view.
Thank you to brush-stroke, weave the tapestry and inlay marguetry to the revelation,
We quest ever.
...
Donald
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On Tuesday, 23 September 2014, 10:10,
William ... wrote:
Dear Fathers,
Thank you for sharing with me the Night Office reading from Meister Eckhart, what a master of words! and Fr Raymond's Mass introduction, such a master of interpretation! widening and deepening the horizon of thought! I well remember asking Fr Raymond on my second visit in the Guest House to look at and advise me with regard to my book list, and his reply: "Read the Scriptures"! Yes, Father Raymond, everything is stated and woven within that tapestry of revelation! And I remember Father Donald telling me that at the centre of the meaning of all revelation lies the Incarnation. You have together given me so much....
I am quite arrested by Eckhart's statement which so well defines the Cistercian vow of "conversion,,. In all a man does he should turn his will Godward and, keeping God alone in mind, forge ahead without qualms about its being the right thing or whether he is making a mistake. And at this point, I earnestly remind myself of St. Francis de Sales' concern regarding "scruples"... not so very easy, except by living through deepest humility.
Then I relate, with a broad smile, to Eckhart's next statement [see attached the just-completed oil painting of Jedburgh Abbey!!] If a painter had to plan every brush-stroke with the first, he would paint nothing.
Courage in faith! - that would make a very good life motto!
With my deepest thanks,
and with my love in Our Lord,
William
TWENTY-FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
SUNDAY
Year 11
First Reading
Tobit 1:1-22
Responsory 1 Srn 16:7; [as 2:5
The Lord does not see as humans do; they judge by appearances, but t the Lord sees the heart.
Y. Has not God chosen those who are poor by worldly standards to be rich in faith: t The Lord sees ...
Second Reading
From the
writings of Meister
Eckhart (Sermon
65: Sermons and Treatises Il,
75-76)
Lend to God, and God will repay you
God made the poor for the rich and the rich for the poor. Lend to God, and God will
repay you. Some say they believe in God, but they do not
believe God. It is a greater thing to believe in God than to believe God. If you
lend a man five shillings you believe him,
that he will pay you back, and yet you don't believe in that man. So, if a man believes in God, why does he not believe that God will repay him what he lends his poor? He who gives up all things gets back a hundredfold. But whoever expects a hundredfold will get
nothing, for he is not giving up all things but wanting his hundredfold back. But our Lord promises a hundredfold to those who
leave all things; then he will get a hundredfold back and eternal life as well. It might be that a man, in the course of ridding himself, got back the very thing he had abandoned, but
if any should give up for this very reason, then, not giving all, he would get nothing. Anyone who seeks anything in God, knowledge, understanding, devotion, or whatever it might be - though he may find
it he will not have
found God; even though he may indeed find knowledge, understanding, or inwardness, which I
heartily commend - but it will
not stay with him. But if he seeks nothing, he will find God and all things in
him, and they will remain with him.
A man should
seek nothing at all, neither
knowledge nor understanding nor inwardness nor piety nor repose, but only God's will. The soul that is as she by rights
should be would notwant God to give her his whole Godhead: it would no more console her than if he were to give her a fly. Knowing God outside of God's will is naught. In God's will, all things are, and
are something, they are pleasing to God and are perfect: outside of God's will, all things are
naught, they are not pleasing to God and are imperfect. A man should never pray for anything, he should pray for God's will alone and nothing else, and then he gets everything. If he prays for anything else, he will get nothing. In God there is nothing but one, and one is indivisible, and whoever takes anything but one, that is a part, not one. God is one, and
if a man seeks or expects anything more, that is not God but a fraction. Whether it is
repose or knowledge or whatever else but God's will alone, that is for its own sake and so is nothing. But if a man seeks God's will alone, whatever flows from that or is revealed by that he may take as a gift from God without ever looking or considering whether it is by nature or grace or whence it comes or in what ways: he need not care about that. It is well with him and he need only lead an ordinary Christian life without considering doing anything special. He should take just one thing
from God, and whatever comes, accept it as the best for him, having no fear
that by this limitation he will be hindered in any way, inwardly or outwardly. Whatever he may do, if only he is aware of having the love of God within him, that suffices.
Responsory Ps 91:11-12; Heb
12:1
He will charge his angels to guard you wherever you go; t they will bear you upon their hands that you may not strike your foot against
a stone.
V. Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run with resolution the race that lies before us, our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. t They will bear ...
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