Rabanus Maurus 2. Interior Listening (Wm)

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Dear William,

Our continuing of "My forehead. Enter into my thoughts."

Thank you comment and below to follow the furrows in Rabanus Maurus at 'enlargingtheheart.wordpress.com', six Entries included. May not be in our library.

Angels.

Yesterday at Western General Hospital, Raymond and I went to visit 93yr Mary in the maze to search. At the Reception an elderly WWW voluntary aid kept us all the way of paths by buildings, lifts and wards!  'Angel' I called her as she realized. And Mary suffering shingles, herself an Angel too. Hospital staff all so kind.

...yours,

Donald
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COMMENT from William  - Thank you. D.

Fw: this interior listening

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Dear Father Donald,

There is a practical snag here for me... "No one learns anything through speech... unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit" And yet, the spoken word does not always 'register' for me its full meaning, (first thoughts distracting me), and when I do realize the meaning of all that I have just heard, the echo is gone! Whereas the written word places its meaning before me to consider and reflect upon, and review the meaning of one phrase caught up into the next: Lectio is for me this "interior listening".

I need the text for the full value of the spoken word to register. I wonder if that was in the mind of the writers of the Gospels as they sought to capture the depth of the meaning relayed in the oral traditions?

Just William

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The mind has the wealth of thoughts.

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  Rabanus Maurus: No One Learns Anything through Speech unless the Mind is Anointed with the Spirit

Monday, Nov 7 2011 

Early Latin Monks and MONASTIC and PATRISTIC and Rabanus Maurus grace, heart, Holy Spirit, interior life, mind, scripture Mark Armitage 8:55 am

(On Jeremiah 36)

In the Gospel he who is Truth himself says to his disciples:

When you stand before kings and princes, do not think how you are to speak, or what you are to say; what you are to say will be given you at the time, for it is not you who will be speaking but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

We must realise that the grace of the Holy Spirit is necessary not only for those who teach but also for those who are taught.

Unless the Spirit is present in the heart of the listener, the teacher is wasting his breath.

Unless there is a teacher within us, the teacher without works in a vacuum.

In Church we all hear the same voice speaking, but all do not understand it in the same way.

Since there is no difference in what is said, why is there a difference in our understanding of it, unless there is an interior teacher giving certain people special instruction through their understanding of words of admonition addressed to all?

Concerning this grace of the Holy Spirit, John says: His anointing will teach you everything.

No one learns anything through speech, therefore, unless the mind is anointed with the Spirit.

Because King Jehoiachim and his servants were not inwardly illumined by the grace of the Holy Spirit who inspired the Prophet, their bodily ears could hear the words of God, but the ears of the heart were deaf to them.

It is this interior listening which our Lord demands in the Gospel when he says: Those who have ears to hear, let them hear.

One has to marvel at the blindness of the human mind and the wickedness of the hardened heart.

Those whom salutary admonitions should have filled with compunction and sorrow for their sins were at pains to burn the scroll containing the words of the Lord.

They also took every opportunity to insult the Prophet whom they ought to have honoured for his inspired teaching and admonitions.

And why did they do this? Was it not because there was in them the sort of wicked spirit that always resists grace?

Yet human pride is impotent when it sets itself to resist divine sovereignty.

An earthly King gave orders for the Prophet and his scribe to be arrested and sent to prison;

the King of heaven shielded his blameless saints from human malice so that they came to no harm.

Rabanus Maurus (c.780-856): Commentary on Jeremiah, 13 (PL 111:1073-75); from the Monastic Office of Vigils, Tuesday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time, Year 1

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COMMENT: Supreme Volition

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Subject: [Blog] Supreme Volition - the bell at the moment of Consecration

Dear Father Donald,

EXQUISITE! (quote) 

"The operating of the soul in my Will is like the silvery sound of a vibrant and shrill bell, which sounds so loudly as to call the attention of all; and it sounds and sounds again, so sweetly, that all recognize, at that sound, the operating of the soul in my Will, all receiving the glory and the honor of a divine act.”

May the bell sounding at the time of the Consecration of the Eucharist so call us all to attend to the Divine Will, and RECOGNIZE how conformity to the Divine Will draws us into His embrace.

Enthralled!

William

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Dear William,

Thank you for 'Exquisite' response to Luisa's lyric poetry.
The first paragraph riveted to my revolving echos.
Highlighting by resonating...
   "This morning, on coming, my sweet Jesus told me: “My daughter, I bring you the kiss of all Heaven.” And as He was saying this, He kissed me and added: “All of Heaven is in my Will, and because they are in this Supreme Volition, whatever I do, they feel the echo of my acts, and as though corresponding to my echo, they repeat what I do.” Having said this, He disappeared.

 But after a few hours He came back, telling me: “My daughter, return to Me the kiss I gave you, because all of Heaven, my Mama, our ...

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Kiss of all Heaven.

   

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    October 21, 1925

Effects of one act in the Divine Will. The sorrow of Jesus is suspended in the Divine Will, waiting for the sinner.

This morning, on coming, my sweet

Jesus told me: “My daughter, I bring you the kiss of all Heaven.” And as He was saying this, He kissed me and added: “All of Heaven is in my Will, and because they are in this Supreme Volition, whatever I do, they feel the echo of my acts, and as though responding to my echo, they repeat what I do.”
Having said this, He disappeared. But after a few hours He came back, telling me:
“My daughter, return to Me the kiss I gave you, because all of Heaven, my Mama, our Celestial Father and the Divine Spirit, are awaiting the requital of your kiss, because, since an act of theirs has come out in my Will toward the creature who lives in the exile, they yearn for the requital of it to be returned to them in my same Will.” So, as He drew His mouth close to mine, almost trembling, I gave Him my kiss, which produced a harmonious sound, never before heard, which rose up high and diffused in everything and to everyone. And Jesus, with unspeakable love, added: “How beautiful are the acts in my Will. Ah! you do not know the power, the greatness, the marvel of one act in my Will. This act moves everything - Heaven and earth - as if they were one single act; and all Creation, the Angels, the Saints, give and receive the return of that act. Therefore, an act done in my Will cannot be without return, otherwise all would feel the sorrow of a divine act which has moved everyone, everyone putting of his own into it; and yet, it is not requited. The operating of the soul in my Will is like the silvery sound of a vibrant and shrill bell, which sounds so loudly as to call the attention of all; and it sounds and sounds again, so sweetly, that all recognize, at that sound, the operating of the soul in my Will, all receiving the glory and the honor of a divine act.” Having said this, He disappeared.
Then, I was continuing the fusing of myself in the Divine Will, feeling sorrow for each offense which has ever been given to my Jesus, from ....  

Peter and John at Resurrection morning. William Comments

Eugene Burnand (1850 - 1921) 
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les-disciples-Burnand

Thank you William for the Email below.  

"it was the work of the Master's own hands" - the chin band by Ronald Knox.

Puzzles here: check with the Ian Wilson 'Shroud of Turin', exegesis, spiritual  devotional writers, different mystics/

Fr. Raymond's Monday Mass of Holy Week quoted St. Bernard, "No day should pass without a thought or prayer of Passion of Christ".

Happily my Lenten Book is on 'Hours of the  of the Passion' (Luisa Piccarreta).

Equally Holy Week has to be very practical for the Sacristy and in the Liturgy - not least tomorrow, for the Thursday, washing of the Feet, Last Supper, Blessed Sacrament Procession on the cloister to the Chapel of Repose.

... yours,

Donald

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I hope you may have received my Easter card with its intense-emotion picture of Peter and John on Easter morning. If I may explain, my reflection takes me into ‘their moment’, where there has been only tragedy, and then the extraordinary claim of Mary Magdalene. Would I not have run with them to witness the scene, with all of their anticipation and expectation? That is from where my meditation arises. We have the ‘benefit of hindsight’, of knowledge of the Resurrection, but on that morning… Through that extraordinary painting I have been caught up in their emotion.

I sigh for Easter morning, but know that I must first go through this distressing time. The Scripture takes us there, but strangely consoles us as we thus share in Jesus' Passion.

With my love in Our Lord,

William

[Comparative ART of "The Disciples"  Eugene Burnand (1850 - 1921)]   

The problem with most depictions of the Resurrection is that they are too literal, if you can say that about something so without precedent – Christ often ‘floating’, the empty tomb, angels etc.  Perugino did several, Bellini (see this on the excellent Idle Speculations blog), and probably themost famous of them all, by Piero della Francesca, Huxley’s ‘greatest picture in the world’ .Eugene Burnand was a French-based Swiss painter, linked to the Realist school of the time.

Hence when you look at the above painting, he’s got the faces just right. Something is happening which will change everything, forever.

https://theknifeandme.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/burnand-easter-sunday/

 Knox Bible verse

John 20:7

Simon Peter, coming up After him, went into the tomb and saw the linen cloths lying there, and also the veil which had been put over Jesus’ head, not lying  with the linen cloths, but still wrapped round and round in a place by itself. (Diary of Jesus, Jean Aulagnier used translation quotation Mgr. Knox).

“The Glorification” is the title to the seventh and last part of The Poem of the God Man by Maria Valtorta.

The Gospel Story, Ronald Knox & Ronald Cox pp.   

Peter, John and Mary Magdalen

And while they were on their way, Peter and the other disciple both set out, and made their way to the tomb; they began running side by side, but the other disciple outran Peter, and reached the tomb first. He looked in and saw the linen sheet lying there, but he did not go in. Simon Peter, coming up after him, went into the tomb and saw the linen sheet lying there, and also the chinband which had been on 'Jesus' head, not lying with the linen sheet, but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and saw this, and learned to believe. They had not yet mastered what was written of\him, that he was to rise from the dead.. Narrative p.410

Peter and John were together somewhere, probably at the Cenacle; they were alarmed at Mary's breathless news. Although our Lord had told them he would rise from the dead (pp. 170, 176, 290,352), they were thinking of him 'dead and buried'; and now the Jews had gone to the unbelievable lengths of profaning his dead body. Their apprehension increased as the three women ran past them, too terrified to speak. Had they found the Master's body, cast out of the tomb, and perhaps mutilated by his enemies? In his eagerness, spurred on by the urgency of the situation, John runs ahead; relieved at seeing the grave cloths intact, he waits for Peter, and together they go into the tomb. The linen sheet lay there on the bench, undisturbed. If anyone had taken the body, they would have carried it in the shroud; or, if they had left the shroud, it would be disarranged, and probably thrown on the floor. But the chin band was the most convi­ncing piece of evidence; it was neatly folded up on the bench. No robber would have done that; it was the work of the Master's own hands. These facts convinced both Peter and John; the latter (it is a scene found only in St. John's Gospel) confesses that the apostles should have known of Jesus' resurrection, even with­out this evidence; it was foretold in the scriptures (p. 434), Explanations p. 411/p.413

  

Community Talk on monastic life , Thurday 4th 2014. Fr. Hugh

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Fr. Hugh recalls of the Nigeria Foundation, talking to Br. Benedict and Br. Anthony to make Solemn Profession, some years ago. In his community TALK, he quoted from the Notes below.

TheJesse Tree ISAAC 

day_6 Isaac was the only son of Abraham.
Christ was the only begotten son of God

December 5

Symbols: Bundle of Wood, Ram

And Isaac was a great type, or symbol of Christ. Both carried up a mount the wood on which they were to be sacrificed. Isaac was the only son of Abraham, Christ was the only begotten son of God.

The altar with the slain lamb is a prefigurement of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

Recommended Readings: Genesis 22:1-2, 6-13, 15-19

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/seasons/advent/jesse_tree_day6.cfm

Community Talk, Thurday 4^th 2014.

Fr. Hugh

Obedience is not a very popular word with young people today distasteful.

Novicemaster replies: ‘Would you prefer anarchy?

Answer: ‘0h no but what we cannot stand is a totalitarian use of authority’.

Authority in the Church is not like that. All have to obey.

The vow of obedience is part of a much bigger spectrum and first to consider obedience in its full scope.

‘Obedience as described by St. Benedict goes a long way beyond the narrow framework of an order given by the Superior. It implies all the effort which a monk makes to put his intimate feelings in harmony with God.

(‘The Rule of St. Benedict and the Ascetic Traditions from Asia to the West^’ by Mayeul de Dreulle O.S.B. Page 9)

The way to perfection for St. Benedict is to harmonise the human heart with God. St. Benedict calls it obedience but he gives a very rich meaning to that word and wants it to mean,above all, obedience to God.^’ (Page 12 as above)

"In the first place obedience presupposes listening.

In the Prologue we are told to listen first and then we are told to do something Listening is mentioned seven times in the Prologue

God speaks to us and shows us his will in different ways. Through the words of Holy Scripture, through the orders of Superiors, through the legitimate needs of others, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

Through the words of Holy Scripture.

This is very much a characteristic of the Prologue. St. Antony of Egypt recognised the voice of God when he heard the Gospel message: ‘Sell all you have and give to the poor.’ ‘A quiet, slow reading of the Bible will develop a facility for recognising the message. It is good to assimilate something of

the mentality of those who were very close to God.

Seeing the will of God in the legitimate needs of others.

Obedience to each other. This takes the form of personal service. Someone asks you for something at tne wrong time when you are wanting to have a bit of peace. You are asked to give pastoral service in the Guest House or in the confessional.

It is Christ you are meeting in your brother or sister. 'In as much as you did it to the least of these my brethren you did it to me.'

WaIter Hilton, an English Spiritual writer belonging to the Middle Ages wrote a book for hermitesses. In it he says:

'If you are at prayer and someone knocks at your door do not hesitate to go and see what they want. You will not leave the presence of God but find him in another way.

The service of others brings happiness.

President Kennedy said: "Do not ask what America can do for you but what you can do for America.” The person who puts most into community life will get most out of it. The joy of living is the joy of giving. If we try to find happiness for ourselves we shall never find it but if we try to make someone else happy we will find a happiness of which we have never dreamt.

Obedience to the Holy Spirit.

Obedience at the end of Chapter 7 speaks of the good habit and delight in virtue which God will produce in his workman William of St. Thierry in his Golden Epistle writes beautifully of the Holy Spirit: 'He forms the affection, gives virtue, helps the implementation,

doing all things mightily and disposing all things sweetly. And though men may teach how to seek God and angels how to adore, it is He alone who teaches us to find, to possess, to enjoy. '(Ch.16. para 15)

(Obedience to Superiors next time)

EVANGELII GAUDIUM

Gospel Joy

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41. At the same time, today's vast and rapid cultural changes demand that we constantly seek ways of expressing unchanging truths in a language which brings out their abiding newness.

"The deposit of the faith is one thing ... the way it is expressed is another"." There are times when the faithful, in listening to completely orthodox language, take away something alien to the authentic Gospel of Jesus Christ, because that language is alien to their own way of speaking to and understanding one another. With the holy intent of communicating the truth about God and humanity, we sometimes give them a false god or a human ideal which is not really Christian. In this way, we hold fast to a formulation while failing to convey its substance. This is the greatest danger. Let us never forget that "the expression of truth can take different forms. The renewal of the e forms of expression becomes necessary for the sake of transmitting to the people of today the Gospel message in its unchanging meaning"."

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