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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading test3
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading from a commentary on an Easter hymn of St. Gregory of Nazianzen\, by St. Dorotheus of Gaza. 1 \nThis is the Day of Resurrection. \nLet us offer God its first-fruits — which is ourselves. \nLet us\, as his most precious children\, return to the likeness [of God]\, \nWhat is truly his likeness in us. \nLet us reverence our worth. \nLet us honor our Exemplar. \nLet us come to understand the power of the ‘mystery’ wherein Christ died. \n  \nThe Israelites of old\, coming together for their festivals\, according to the Law offered God gifts such as incense\, burnt offerings\, first-fruits\, and the like. St. Gregory invites us too to celebrate this feast in God’s honor as they did\, and exhorts us to do so by saying\, “This is the Day of Resurrection”\, a day to replace all their holy feasts\, a day of divine assembly\, the day of Christ’s Passover. What is this Passover of Christ? The Israelites kept the Passover when they came out of Egypt. Easter\, the Passover which we are now keeping and which the Saint commends to our celebration\, is enacted in the soul\, which comes out of the spiritual Egypt\, that is\, from sin. When the soul passes over from sin to virtue\, then it celebrates the Passover of the Lord\, As Evagrius says: “The Passover of the Lord is the passage away from evil.” \n  \nToday… is therefore the ‘Passover’ of Christ\, a day of brilliant festival\, the day of Resurrection\, the day of his nailing sin to the Cross\, of his dying and being raised to life—all for our sakes. Let us offer ourselves as sacrificial gifts and holocausts to the Lord\, who has no desire for senseless animals. “You did not desire irrational sacrifices and offerings\, and are not pleased with burnt offerings of sheep and cattle” (Ps 40.6\, Heb 10.5-6). …What sort of gift ought we offer to Christ in order to please him on the day of his Resurrection\, if he does not desire the sacrifice of senseless animals? \n  \nThe Saint in his teaching tells us the answer\, for after saying “This is the Day of Resurrection”\, he adds\, “Let us offer up its first-fruits\, which is ourselves.” The Apostle [Paul] too instructs us: “Offer up your own bodies as a living sacrifice\, holy and well-pleasing to God\, the worship that your reason dictates” (Rom 12.1). \n  \nHow then ought we to make an offering of our bodies as a living sacrifice to God? “By no longer following our physical desires and our own ideas\,” but “walking in the spirit and not fulfilling the desires of the flesh”(Gal 5.16). “For this is to mortify our earthly members” (Col 3.5). This is what is meant by a living sacrifice\, holy and well-pleasing to God. \n  \nBut why a living sacrifice? Because an animal destined for sacrifice\, by the very fact that it becomes a sacrificial victim\, dies. But the saints who offer themselves to God\, offer themselves alive\, every day—as David says\, “For your sake we are put to death all the day long\, we are considered as sheep for the slaughter” (Ps 44.22). …By not loving the world or what is in the world [but by] taking up the Cross and following Christ and crucifying the world to themselves and themselves to the world… this is how the saints put themselves to death. \n  \nBut how did they offer themselves up? By not living for themselves\, but reducing themselves to servitude to God’s commandments and putting away their own will for the sake of the command and love of God and their neighbor.. As St. Peter says\, “Behold\, we have given up everything and followed you” (Mt 19.27). …This is how the saints offered themselves up\, putting themselves to death… in regard to all their passionate desires and doing their own will and living solely for Christ and his commandments. \n  \nSo then for us! Let us offer ourselves as St. Gregory teaches us. For he wants us to be “God’s most precious children.” \n1 Dorotheus of Gaza\, “Commentary on an Easter Hymn of St. Gregory Nazianzen\,\,” Discourses and Sayings (Cistercian Studies Series 33)\, Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 1977\, pp. 220 ff.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 18th Sun ORD test
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nA Commentary on the Gospel of Luke by St Basil the Great [1] \n  \n“The land of a rich man produced abundant harvests\, and he thought to himself: What am I to do? I will pull down my barns\, and build larger ones.” \nNow why did that land bear so well\, when it belonged to a man who would make no good use of its fertility? It was to show more clearly the forbearance of God\, whose kindness extends even to such people as this. He sends rain on both the just and unjust\, and makes the sun rise on the wicked and the good alike.  \nBut what do we find in this man? A bitter disposition\, hatred of other people\, unwillingness to give. This is the return he made to his Benefactor. He forgot that we all share the same nature; he felt no obligation to distribute his surplus to the needy. His barns were full to the bursting point\, but still his miserly heart was not satisfied. Year by year he increased his wealth\, always adding new crops to the old. The result was a hopeless impasse: greed would not permit him to part with anything he possessed\, and yet because he had so much there was no place to store his latest harvest. And so he is incapable of making a decision and could not escape from his anxiety. What am I to do? \nWho would not pity a man so oppressed? His land yields him no profit but only sighs: it brings him no rich returns\, but only cares and distress and a terrible helplessness. He laments in the same way as the poor do. Is not his cry like that of one hard pressed by poverty? What am I to do? How can I find food and clothing? \nYou who have wealth\, recognize who has given you the gifts you have received. Consider yourself\, who you are\, what has been committed to your charge\, from whom have you received it\, why have you been preferred to most other people? You are the servant of the good God\, a steward on behalf of your fellow servants. Do not imagine that everything has been provided for your own stomach. Take decisions regarding your property as though it belonged to another. Possessions give you pleasure for a short time\, but then they will slip through your fingers and be gone\, and you will be required to give an exact account pf them. \nWhat am I to do? It would have been so easy to say: “I will feed the hungry\, I will open my barns and call in all the poor. I will imitate Joseph in proclaiming my good will toward everyone. I will offer the generous invitation: “Let anyone who lacks bread come to me. You shall share\, each according to need\, in the good things God has given me\, just as though you were drawing from a common well. \n[1] Journey with the Fathers – Year C – New City Press – 1994 – pg 104
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading -St Andrew Kim Taegon
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nLove and perseverance are the crown of faith: a reading  \nfrom the final exhortation of Andrew Kim Taegon\, priest and martyr. [1] \n  \n  \nMy brothers and sisters\, my dearest friends\, think again and again on this: God has ruled over all things in heaven and on earth from the beginning of time; then reflect on why and for what purpose he chose each one of us to be created in his own image and likeness. \n  \nIn this world of perils and hardship if we did not recognize the Lord as our Creator\, there would be no benefit either in being born or in our continued existence. We have come into this world by God’s grace; by that same grace we have received baptism\, entrance into the Church\, and the honor of being called Christians. Yet what good will this do us if we are Christians in name alone and not in fact? We would have come into the world for nothing\, we would have entered the Church for nothing\, and we would have betrayed even God and his grace. It would be better never to have been born than to receive the grace of God and then to sin against him. \n  \nLook at the farmer who cultivates his rice fields. In season he plows\, then fertilizes the earth; never counting the cost\, he labors under the sun to nurture the seed he has planted. When harvest time comes and the rice crop is abundant\, forgetting his labor and sweat\, he rejoices with an exultant heart. But if the crop is sparse and there is nothing but straw and husks\, the farmer broods over his toil and sweat and turns his back on that field with a disgust that is all the greater the harder he has toiled. \n  \nThe Lord is like a farmer and we are the field of rice that he fertilizes with his grace and by the mystery of the incarnation and the redemption irrigates with his blood\, in order that we will grow and reach maturity. When harvest time comes\, the day of judgment\, those who have grown to maturity in the grace of God will find the joy of adopted children in the kingdom of heaven; those who have not grown to maturity will become God’s enemies and\, even though they were once his children\, they will be punished according to their deeds for all eternity. \n  \nDearest brothers and sisters: when he was in the world\, the Lord Jesus bore countless sorrows and by his own passion and death founded his Church; now he gives it increase through the sufferings of his faithful. No matter how fiercely the powers of this world oppress and oppose the Church\, they will never bring it down. Even since his ascension and from the time of the apostles to the present\, the Lord Jesus has made his Church grow even in the midst of tribulation. \n  \nFor the last fifty or sixty years\, ever since the coming of the Church to our own land of Korea\, the Faithful have suffered persecution over and over again. Persecution still rages and as a result many who are friends in the household of the faith\, myself among them\, have been thrown into prison and like you are experiencing severe distress. Because we have become the one Body\, should not our hearts be grieved for the members who are suffering? Because of the human ties that bind us\, should we not feel deeply the pain of our separation? But\, as the Scriptures say\, God numbers the very hairs of our head and in his all-embracing providence he has care over us all. Persecution\, therefore\, can only be regarded as the command of the Lord or as a prize he gives or as a punishment he permits. \n  \nHold fast\, then\, to the will of God and with all your heart fight the good fight under the leadership of Jesus; conquer again the diabolical power of this world that Christ has already vanquished. I beg you not to fail in your love for one another\, but to support one another and to stand fast until the Lord mercifully delivers us from our trials. There are twenty of us in this place and by God’s grace we are so far all well. If any of us is executed\, I ask you not to forget our families. I have many things to say\, yet how can pen and paper capture what I feel? I end this letter. As we are all near the final ordeal\, I urge you to remain steadfast in faith\, so that at last we will reach heaven and there rejoice together. I embrace you all in love. \n[1] Pro Corea Documenta\, ed. Mission Catholique Seoul (Seoul-Paris\, 1938) v. 1\, pp. 74-75; trans. in NCCB Newsletter\, v. 21\, August/September 1985.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading test
DESCRIPTION:An Easter Sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx 1 \nAt the time when the sons of Israel were leaving Egypt\, it was prescribed in the Law that a lamb was to be slaughtered and eaten. This was called the paschal feast. It was also prescribed that for seven days they should eat unleavened bread – that is\, bread without leavening. And this was called the feast of unleavened bread. The Evangelist brings this out when he says: The festival of unleavened bread\, called the pasch\, was approaching. This first feast\, when they killed the lamb \, was called only the pasch; the latter was called both the pasch and the feast of unleavened bread. It seems to me\, then\, that the first feast symbolizes the Lord’s passion and the latter his resurrection. That the first symbolizes the Lord’s passion is sufficiently well known. In it the true Lamb was slain and by his blood we have been saved from the hand of Pharaoh – that is\, the devil. The feast is called the pasch – that is\, the passing over – because Christ at his passion passed over from this world. As the Evangelist says: Before the day of paschal feast Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. \nYet let us take a look at how the other feast symbolizes the Lord’s resurrection. And first of all let us reflect on how profoundly that divine majesty humbled himself and to what depths he descended for us. He who is the creator\, made himself a creature. He who was Lord\, made himself a servant. He who was rich\, made himself poor. He who was great\, made himself little. And the Word was made flesh. He was bread and he fed the angels. But he did not feed us. And so we were wretched\, because a rational creature is always wretched if he is not fed this bread. We were\, however\, so weak that in no way could we taste that bread in all its purity. We had within us a corrosive leaven that robbed us of our pristine strength. We had become so unlike that pure and untainted bread that we could not taste it at all. This leavening which we had within us was twofold. We had within us the leavening of mortality and we had within us the leavening of iniquity. \nYou see now how far removed we were from that bread in which there was neither mortality nor iniquity. How were we to ascend to it? How were we to taste it? What things are so contrary to one another as mortality and immortality\, iniquity and justice? We are mortals and sinners; he is immortal and just. How were we to come together? He saw this\, he who is caring and merciful. Because we could not ascend to him\, he came down to us. He took upon himself one part of our leavening and so adapted himself to our weakness. He did not take to himself the whole leaven that was in us\, but a certain part of it. If he had taken on the whole of it he would be as we are and he would not be able to help us. If he had taken none of it he would be so distant from us that we would not be able in any way to approach him. And so we would remain forever in our wretchedness. We have said that there was a twofold leavening in us: mortality and iniquity. The one he took on and by it was made like us. The other he avoided so that he could profit us. \nThe leavening of our mortality therefore he accepted\, and abode in the purity of his justice\, so that he would be the sort of being who could come down to us and yet remain the sort of being to whom we ought to ascend. You see now\, brothers\, how that pure bread is leavened for our sake. To this leavening of mortality belongs hunger\, thirst\, sorrow\, misery. All of this our Lord took on himself. He chose to take on this leavening\, but he was not obliged to remain in ferment. First he showed this leavening in himself through a wondrous compassion and then he purged himself of this leaven through a wondrous charity. He purged himself of this leavening in such a way as to show his wonderful charity for us. Therefore he willed to purge himself from the leavening of mortality in the way in which we have to purge ourselves from the leavening of iniquity. \nWe ought to know that our iniquity is the cause of our mortality. And therefore when we are fully purged of iniquity we will doubtless also be purged of mortality. We ought meanwhile to realize that our iniquity is twofold. It comes from the nature in which we were born and from the evil which we later brought to it. From both of these the Lord purges us. He offered for us a sacrifice – his own blood – and through this sacrifice we are purged. And therefore what we suffer now from the corruption of our nature is no longer iniquity but infirmity. From the corruption of our nature come the impulses of concupiscence which we suffer unwillingly. From this come the impulses of lust\, anger\, pride\, ambition. But if we do not consent to them\, God does not impute them to us\, because the pure sacrifice was offered to offset the corruption of our nature. Note\, then\, by the workings of his compassion in us in baptism we are purged of all sins\, both those which came from nature and those which we added voluntarily. \n1The Liturgical Sermons of Aelred of Rievaulx – Sermon 12 – Cistercian Fathers Series – #58 – Cistercian Publications – Kalamazoo – 2001 – pg 194 \n 
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SUMMARY:Homily - Thanksgiving Day - Fr. Conner  test
DESCRIPTION:Thanksgiving Day – 2021 \n  \nWe have special reasons for being Thankful at this Thanksgiving. We have successfully passed through the threat of the covid and we can rejoice in the fact that as a nation we have avoided the threat of losing our democratic form of government. As Christians we join together to celebrate\, recalling the message of Isaiah:  I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord\, according to all that the Lord has granted to us”. And we all have SO much to be thankful for. We can be thankful for the fact that Jesus Christ has loved us to such an extent that He became flesh and died an excruciating death in order that we might live. We can be thankful for the many blessings He has bestowed on us\, both material and spiritual blessings. We can be thankful even for those who may not still be with us this Thanksgiving. They are still closer with us than we can imagine\, for they are one with us in Christ Jesus. And as the second reading from Paul tells us: “Above all these put on love\, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And be thankful”. We are thankful for the fact that God Himself has chosen us to be His very own adopted children through the primal gift of His Son Jesus Christ. \nThe gospel  tells us of the ten lepers who were healed by the Lord\, but only one who returned to give thanks. All too readily we tend to identify with this one. But in actual fact\, in our daily lives\, are we truly the one or are we rather the nine others who fail to give thanks? St. Paul tells us what true thankfulness entails: “Put on then\, as God’s chosen ones\, compassion\, kindness\, lowliness\, meekness\, patience. And above all put on love”. The sole leper showed true love by eagerly returning to the Lord in a spirit of humble gratitude. He knew that he did not deserve this miracle\, yet precisely because of this\, he comes all the way back to give thanks to God. It is precisely his knowledge that he did not deserve the miracle which made him all the more grateful. \nWe are all deeply conscious of the fact that we have done absolutely nothing to deserve God’s merciful gifts. Yet this very fact makes us only all the more thankful. God chooses each one of us solely because he has first loved us. He has loved us each to the extent of taking on Himself our leprosy in order to cover us with the new flesh of His own divinity\, making us truly one in Him in love. He shares this very flesh with us in this Eucharist which we celebrate now. He asks only that we continue to show our gratitude in the very ways that we relate to Him in one another. \nTrue thanksgiving must be filled with a spirit of Eucharistia – thankfulness. Jesus has set the example of this in giving us the very Sacrament of the Eucharist at the very time that he was about to be given up to suffering and death. Even then he could cry out “I thank you\, heavenly Father!” and that is what He wants us to cry out also  in every circumstance of our lives. \nOnly then can we truly celebrate Thanksgiving not just as a single day of the year\, but as the basis of our daily lives and ways of truly living with one another in a spirit of love and trust and faithfulness. Then when the day arrives when we return to the Father\, \nJesus will be able to say: “Here are the other nine!!” \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Cleveland Monthly Meeting test
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URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/__trashed-11/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220921
DTSTAMP:20260505T035236
CREATED:20220920T152522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T155009Z
UID:6646-1663632000-1663718399@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
SUMMARY:Vigils Reading test1
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URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/__trashed-12/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220921
DTSTAMP:20260505T035236
CREATED:20220920T152717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T163034Z
UID:8121-1663632000-1663718399@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
SUMMARY:LCG Chicago test
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URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/__trashed-13/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260505T035236
CREATED:20220920T135322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T135322Z
UID:9097-1663660800-1663693200@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
SUMMARY:Chicago LCG Meeting
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URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/chicago-lcg-meeting/
CATEGORIES:LCG Local Community Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220920T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T035236
CREATED:20220802T191816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T144434Z
UID:8916-1663704000-1663707600@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
SUMMARY:Rule of Benedict: Reflection. 7 pm CDT
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88434101612?pwd=dHMyRkFBNW52eVJIaytWdng0VmZaZz09 \nMeeting ID: 884 3410 1612 \nPasscode: 807992 \nJan 20-May 21-Sept 20- \nChapter 4: What Are the Instruments of Good Works 44-62 \nTo fear the Day of Judgment; to be in dread of hell; to desire eternal life with all the passion of the spirit; to keep death daily before one’s eyes; to keep constant guard over the actions of one’s life; to know for certain that God sees one everywhere; when evil thoughts come into one’s heart\, to dash them against Christ immediately\, and to manifest them to one’s spiritual mother; to guard one’s tongue against evil and depraved speech; not to love much talking; not to speak useless words or words that move to laughter; not to love much or boisterous laughter; to listen willingly to holy reading; to devote oneself frequently to prayer; daily in one’s prayers\, with tears and sighs\, to confess one’s past sins to God\, and to amend them for the future; not to fulfill the desires of the flesh; to hate one’s own will; to obey in all things the commands of the Abbess\, even though she herself (which God forbid) should act otherwise\, mindful of the Lord’s precept\, “Do what they say\, but not what they do.” Not to wish to be called holy before one is holy; but first to be holy\, that one may be truly so called. \nEnd of Selection
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/rule-of-benedict-reflection-7-pm-cdt-4/
CATEGORIES:LCG open events
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