COMMENT: Night Office.
Moving by the letter to his Carthusian sons by Saint Bruno
San Bruno (Bruno) Priest and monk
October 6 - Optional Memory
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Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Tuesday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
Tipo: Feriale - Tempo: Ordinario
For the Memorial of Saint Bruno:
SECOND READING
From a letter to his Carthusian sons by Saint Bruno, priest
(Nn. 1-3: SC 88, 82-84)
My spirit rejoices in the Lord
From the frequent and pleasant reports of our most blessed brother, I know of your reasoned and truly praiseworthy discipline, carried out with unwavering rigor. Since I have heard of your holy love and constant pursuit of honesty and virtue, my spirit rejoices in the Lord. I rejoice and am drawn to praise and give thanks to God, and still I long to love him. I rejoice, as I should, in the growing fruits of your strength, and yet I grieve and grow ashamed that I lie idle and senseless in the mire of my sins.
Therefore rejoice my dearest brothers, because you are so blessed and because of the bountiful hand of God’s grace upon you. Rejoice, because you have escaped the various dangers and shipwrecks of the stormy world. Rejoice, because you have reached the quiet and safe anchorage of a secret harbor. Many wish to come into this port, and many make great efforts to do so, yet do not achieve it. Indeed many, after reaching it, have been thrust out, since it was not granted them from above.
Therefore, my brothers, you should consider it certain and well-established that whoever partakes of this desirable good, should he in any way lose it, will grieve to his death, if he has any regard or concern for the salvation of his soul.
My dearest lay brothers, of you I say: My soul magnifies the Lord. For I have learned of the generosity of his mercy toward you from the report of your prior and dearest father; he rejoices and takes great pride in you. And let us rejoice that since you are unacquainted with the knowledge of letters, almighty God will inscribe in your hearts with his finger not only his love but also the knowledge of his holy law. By your work you show what you love and what you know. When you observe true obedience with prudence and enthusiasm, it is clear that you wisely pick the most delightful and nourishing fruit of divine Scripture.
RESPONSORY
Psalm 55:7-8; 1 John 2:17
Had I but wings like a dove
to fly away and find my rest,
– I would flee far away
and encamp in the wilderness.
The world and all its allurements will pass away,
but whoever does God’s will shall live for ever.
– I would flee far away
and encamp in the wilderness.
CONCLUDING PRAYER
Let us pray.
Father,
you called Saint Bruno to serve you in solitude.
In answer to his prayers
help us to remain faithful to you
amid the changes of this world.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.
SECOND READING
From a letter to his Carthusian sons by Saint Bruno, priest
(Nn. 1-3: SC 88, 82-84)
My spirit rejoices in the Lord
From the frequent and pleasant reports of our most blessed brother, I know of your reasoned and truly praiseworthy discipline, carried out with unwavering rigor. Since I have heard of your holy love and constant pursuit of honesty and virtue, my spirit rejoices in the Lord. I rejoice and am drawn to praise and give thanks to God, and still I long to love him. I rejoice, as I should, in the growing fruits of your strength, and yet I grieve and grow ashamed that I lie idle and senseless in the mire of my sins.
Therefore rejoice my dearest brothers, because you are so blessed and because of the bountiful hand of God’s grace upon you. Rejoice, because you have escaped the various dangers and shipwrecks of the stormy world. Rejoice, because you have reached the quiet and safe anchorage of a secret harbor. Many wish to come into this port, and many make great efforts to do so, yet do not achieve it. Indeed many, after reaching it, have been thrust out, since it was not granted them from above.
Therefore, my brothers, you should consider it certain and well-established that whoever partakes of this desirable good, should he in any way lose it, will grieve to his death, if he has any regard or concern for the salvation of his soul.
My dearest lay brothers, of you I say: My soul magnifies the Lord. For I have learned of the generosity of his mercy toward you from the report of your prior and dearest father; he rejoices and takes great pride in you. And let us rejoice that since you are unacquainted with the knowledge of letters, almighty God will inscribe in your hearts with his finger not only his love but also the knowledge of his holy law. By your work you show what you love and what you know. When you observe true obedience with prudence and enthusiasm, it is clear that you wisely pick the most delightful and nourishing fruit of divine Scripture.
RESPONSORY
Psalm 55:7-8; 1 John 2:17
Had I but wings like a dove
to fly away and find my rest,
– I would flee far away
and encamp in the wilderness.
The world and all its allurements will pass away,
but whoever does God’s will shall live for ever.
– I would flee far away
and encamp in the wilderness.
CONCLUDING PRAYER
Let us pray.
Father,
you called Saint Bruno to serve you in solitude.
In answer to his prayers
help us to remain faithful to you
amid the changes of this world.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.
San Bruno (Bruno) Priest and monaco
October 6 - Optional Memory
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Cologne (Germany), around 1030 - Serra San Bruno (Vibo Valentia), October 6, 1101
Born in Germany in 1030 and then lived between his country, France and Italy, where he died in 1101, Bruno and Bruno, a professor of theology and philosophy, soon chooses the way of life of a hermit. Find so six companions who think like him and Bishop Hugh of Grenoble helps them settle in a place called wild "chartusia" (chartreuse in French). There they build an environment for common prayer, and seven barracks where everyone lives praying and working: a life of a hermit, with community events. When Bruno taught in Reims, one of his students was the Benedictine Odo of Chatillon. In 1090 if it finds as Pope Urban II, who chose him as an adviser. Get him recognition and autonomy for the monastery founded at Grenoble, then known as the Grande Chartreuse. In Calabria in Forest Tower (now in the province of Vibo Valentia) founded a new community. Later, at a short distance, it will build another monastery for the community life. It is the place next to which will arise then the first houses of the Serra San Bruno.(Avvenire)
Etymology: Bruno = alludes to the color of complexion
Martyrology: San Bruno, a priest, who, born in Cologne in Lotharingia, in the territory of today's Germany, after having taught theology in France, eager to lead a solitary life, founded with a few disciples in the deserted valley Chartroux an Order in where the solitude of a hermit you could combine with a minimal form of community life. Called to Rome by Pope Blessed Urban II, to help him in the needs of the Church, however, he was able to spend the last years of his life in a hermitage near the monastery of La Torre in Calabria.
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