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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:ENTIRELY TURNED TOWARDS GOD \nBy Lucien Legrand6 \n◊◊◊ \nThe significance of Mary’s virginity is entirely different from both cultic \nvirginity and philosophical continence. Mary knows that her virginity has no \nvalue of its own and no power but that of the Spirit. She does not speak of the \ngreatness of her virginity. For her\, it is not virginity that makes her great: it is \nthe Lord. As far as she is concerned\, she is nothing and her virginity seals her \nnothingness. Because she is a virgin\, she is ‘poor’\, a contemptible thing\, \nconsidered worthless by the world. Of course\, in the case of Mary as in that of \nthe ‘Poor of Yahweh’ in the Old Testament\, poverty should be taken in the \nbiblical sense. It is not merely negative. It does not mean only destitution… \nPoverty is a religious attitude which underlies the spiritual development \nof the Old Testament and prepares the way for the abasement of the cross\, the \nimprint of which it bears by anticipation. Biblical poverty does indeed mean life \ndeprived of any human hope but also and mostly at its deepest\, radical \ndetachment\, total humility and consequently utter confidence in God. Mary’s \nvirginity belongs to this type of poverty. It is a form of that religious attitude \nmade up of faith and abandon\, joy and confidence; it is akin to humility and can \nbe summarized as an attitude of religious expectation. It is silence\, readiness\, \nemptiness. And her greatness comes from the faith and confidence in god which \nspring in the heart on that emptiness\, and from the answer God gave to that \nfaith and confidence. \nVirginity of this kind differs entirely from its pagan counterparts. It does \nnot represent an attempt to substitute our influence for God’s power: on the \ncontrary\, Mary has no other ambition than to be the handmaid of the Lord. \nNeither does Mary’s virginity correspond to a merely human longing for purity \nand moral greatness. Her virginity does not belong so much to the moral as to \nthe theological virtues. It manifests an attitude before god rather than an effort \nof moral perfection and of self-achievement. Luke’s Gospel of the Infancy does \nnot describe in Mary a heroic form of the virtue of chastity. What it sees in her is \nsheer faith and hope which has no reliance in creatures but is entirely turned \ntoward God.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-224/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:LCG Chicago 9:00 am CDT
DESCRIPTION:All are Welcome to Join Our Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86028356465 \nMeeting ID: 860 2835 6465 \nOne tap mobile \n+13126266799\,\,86028356465# US (Chicago) \n+13092053325\,\,86028356465# US \n  \n9:00 Gather for Opening prayer and lighting of the candles illuminating the Theotokos icon of Blessed Mother Mary and the baby Jesus. \nWe also pray for all our lay Cistercian sisters and brothers in the US and around the world.  Specially we pray for our Gethsemani monks.  Finally\, we pray this month specially for these Gethsemani monks: \nBr. Maximilian Pickerill \nBr. Abel Arbuckle \nBr. Joseph Bender \n 9:10 Lectio. Our lectio piece will be led by Tom Kosnik. \n 9:50 Reading.  Our reading this month is to complete (chapters 8 and 9) Augustine Roberts’ Centered on Christ.  This work has been subject of monthly Zoom LCG study—check in on LCG website—led by Fr. Michael Casagram (see attachments to this email).  Notably\, Fr. Michael used the book to mentor Gethsemani novices.  A fruitful way to more fully understand and appreciate our brother monks and the Cistercian charism. \n10:45 Housekeeping.   Volunteer to lead lectio next month?  And our next reading selection?  Chicago Report on LCG Advisory Council activity.  Plans for international meeting in 2025 and Anglophone lead-ins thereto. Finally\, we await meeting next week at the Autumn LCG Retreat at Gethsemani. \n11:00 Update.   Share how the Holy Spirt has entered our lives as lay Cistercians since our last meeting. \n11:45 Closing worship and prayer.  We will pray the liturgical hour of None as with our Gethsemani monks (identical Psalms as done today at Gethsemani Abbey.) \nOur next meeting: November 9\, 2024.
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CATEGORIES:LCG Local Community Meetings,LCG open events
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