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SUMMARY:Reading: Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI 7\nto the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey \nIn the life of monks…prayer takes on a particular importance: it is the heart of\ntheir calling. Their vocation is to be men of prayer. In the patristic period the\nmonastic life was likened to the life of the angels. It was considered the essential\nmark of the angels that they are worshippers. Their very life is worship. This\nshould hold true also for monks. Monks pray first and foremost not for any specific\nintention\, but simply because God is worthy of being praised…Such prayer for its\nown sake\, intended as pure divine service\, is rightly called officium. It is “service”\npar excellence\, the “sacred service” of monks. It is offered to the triune God who\,\nabove all else\, is worthy “to receive glory\, honour and power”\, because he\nwondrously created the world and even more wondrously renewed it. \nAt the same time\, the officium of consecrated persons is also a sacred service\nto men and women\, a testimony offered to them. All people have deep within their\nhearts\, whether they know it or not\, a yearning for definitive fulfillment\, for\nsupreme happiness\, and thus\, ultimately\, for God. A monastery\, in which the\ncommunity gathers several times a day for the praise of God\, testifies to the fact that\nthis primordial human longing does not go unfulfilled: God the Creator has not\nplaced us in a fearful darkness where\, groping our way in despair\, we seek some\nultimate meaning; God has not abandoned us in a desert void\, bereft of meaning\,\nwhere in the end only death awaits us. No! God has shone forth in our darkness\nwith his light\, with his Son Jesus Christ. In him\, God has entered our world in all\nhis “fullness”; in him all truth\, the truth for which we yearn\, has its source and\nsummit. \nOur light\, our truth\, our goal\, our fulfilment\, our life – all this is not a\nreligious doctrine but a person: Jesus Christ. Over and above any ability of our own\nto seek and to desire God\, we ourselves were already sought and desired\, and\nindeed\, found and redeemed by him! The gaze of people of every time and nation\,\nof all the philosophies\, religions and cultures\, ultimately encounters the wide open\neyes of the crucified and risen Son of God; his open heart is the fullness of love. The\neyes of Christ are the eyes of a loving God. \nYour primary service to this world must therefore be your prayer and the\ncelebration of the divine office. The interior disposition…of each consecrated\nperson\, must be that of “putting nothing before the divine Office”. The beauty of\nthis inner attitude will find expression in the beauty of the liturgy\, so that wherever\nwe join singing\, praising\, exalting and worshipping God\, a little bit of heaven will\nbecome present on earth…In all our effort on behalf of the liturgy\, the determining\nfactor must always be our looking to God. We stand before God – he speaks to us\nand we speak to him… \n…among you there burns the Marian flame of a Saint Bernard of\nClairvaux…Perhaps it was because of his particular devotion to Our Lady that he\nexercised such a compelling and infectious influence on his many young\ncontemporaries called by God. Where Mary is\, there is the pentecostal breath of the\nHoly Spirit; there is new beginning and authentic renewal…Saint Bernard says\, and\nwe say with him: “Look to the star of the sea\, call upon Mary…in danger\, in distress\,\nin doubt\, think of Mary\, call upon Mary. May her name never be far from your lips\,\nor far from your heart…If you follow her\, you will not stray; if you pray to her\, you\nwill not despair; if you turn your thoughts to her\, you will not err. If she holds you\,\nyou will not fall; if she protects you\, you need not fear; if she is your guide\, you will\nnot tire; if she is gracious to you\, you will surely reach your destination”. \n7 Pope Benedict XVI. Visit to Heiligenkreuz Abbey: Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI. Sunday\, 8\nSeptember 2007.
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