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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Charles Lwanga & Companions
DESCRIPTION:A reading from a homily by \nPOPE ST PAUL VI \n◊◊◊ \nThe African martyrs add another page to the martyrology – the Church’s \nroll of honor – an occasion both of mourning and of joy. This is a page worthy in \nevery way of being added to the annals of that Africa of earlier times\, which we\, \nliving in this era and being people of little faith\, never expected to be repeated. \nIn earlier times there occurred those famous deeds\, so moving to the \nspirit\, of the martyrs of Scilli\, of Carthage\, and of that “white robed army” of \nUtica commemorated by Saint Augustine and Prudentius; of the martyrs of \nEgypt so highly praised by Saint John Chrysostom\, and of the martyrs of the \nVandal persecution. Who would have thought that in our days we should have \nwitnessed events as heroic and glorious? \nWho would have predicted to the famous African confessors and martyrs \nsuch as Cyprian\, Felicity\, Perpetua and – the greatest of all – Augustine\, that we \nwould one day add names so dear to us as Charles Lwanga and Matthias \nMulumba Kalemba and their twenty companions? Nor must we forget those \nmembers of the Anglican Church who also died in the name of Christ. These \nAfrican martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the human mind might be \ndirected not toward persecutions and religious conflicts but toward a rebirth of \nChristianity and civilization! Africa has been washed by the blood of these latest \nmartyrs\, the first of this new age (and God willing\, let them be the last\, although \nsuch a holocaust is precious indeed). Africa is reborn free and independent.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-charles-lwanga-companions-4/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from a sermon by \nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN \n◊◊◊ \nThat all Christians are\, in some sense or other\, one\, in our Lord’s eyes is \nplain\, from various parts of the New Testament. In his mediatorial prayer for \nthem to the Almighty Father\, before His Passion\, He expressed His purpose that \nthey should be one. St Paul\, in like manner\, writing to the Corinthians\, says\, “As \nthe body is one\, and has many members\, and all the members of that one body\, \nbeing many\, are one body\, so also is Christ… Now you are the Body of Christ\, \nand members in particular.” To the Ephesians\, he says\, “There is one Body\, \nand one Spirit\, even as you are called in one hope of your calling: one Lord\, \none faith\, one baptism\, one God and Father of all.“ \nAnd\, further\, it is to this one Body\, regarded as one\, that the special \nprivileges of the Gospel are given. It is not that this person receives the blessing\, \nand that one\, but one and all\, the whole body\, as one being\, one new spiritual \nreality\, with one accord\, seeks and gains it. The Holy Church throughout the \nworld\, “the Bride\, the Lamb’s wife\,” is one\, not many\, and the elect souls are all \nelected in her\, not in isolation. For instance: “He is our peace who has made \nboth (Jews and Gentiles) one\, …to make in himself one new humanity.“ \nIn the same epistle\, it is said\, that all nations are “fellow- heirs\, and of the \nsame body and fellow-partakers of Hid promise in Christ;” and that we must “ \none and all come\,” or converge\, “in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge \nof the Son of God\, unto a perfect creation\, unto the measure of the stature of the \nfullness of Christ;” that as “the husband is the head of the wife\,” so “Christ is the \nHead of the Church\,” having “loved her and given Himself for her\, that He \nmight sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the Word.“ \nThese are a few out of many passages which connect Gospel privileges \nwith the circumstance or condition of unity in those who receive them; the \nimage of Christ and token of their acceptance being stamped upon them then\, at \nthat moment\, when they are considered as one; so that henceforth the whole \nmultitude\, no longer viewed as mere individuals\, become portions or members \nof the indivisible Body of Christ Mystical\, so knit together in Him by Divine \nGrace\, that all have what He has\, and each has what all have. \nThe same great truth is taught us in such texts as speak of all Christians \nforming one spiritual building\, of which the Jewish Temple was the type. They \nare temples one by one\, simply as being portions of that one Temple which is the \nChurch. “You are built up\,” says St Peter\, “a spiritual house\, a holy priesthood\, \nto offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.“ \nHence the word “edification“\, which properly means this building up of \nall Christians in one\, has come to stand for individual improvement; for it is by \nbeing incorporated into the one Body\, that we have the promise of life; by \nbecoming members of Christ\, we have the gift of His Spirit.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-434/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Boniface
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Christopher Dawson on \nST BONIFACE \n◊◊◊ \nIn art and religion\, in scholarship and literature\, the Anglo-Saxons of the \neighth century were the leaders of their age. At the time when continental \ncivilization was at its lowest ebb\, the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons marked \nthe turn of the tide. The Saxon pilgrims flocked to Rome as the center of the \nChristian world and the Papacy found its most devoted allies and servants in the \nAnglo-Saxon monks and missionaries. The foundations of the new age were \nlaid by the greatest of them all\, St Boniface of Crediton\, “the apostle of \nGermany“\, a man who had a deeper influence on the history of Europe than any \nEnglishman who has ever lived. \nUnlike his Celtic predecessors\, he was not an individual missionary\, but a \nstatesman and organizer\, who was\, above all\, servant of the Roman order. To \nhim is due the foundation of the medieval German Church and the final \nconversion of Hesse and Thuringia\, the heart of the German land. With the help \nof his Anglo-Saxon monks and nuns he destroyed the last strongholds of \nGermanic heathenism and planted abbeys and bishoprics on the site of the old \nFolkburgs and heathen sanctuaries\, such as Buraburg\, Amoneburg\, and Fulda. \nOn his return from Rome in 739 he used his authority as Papal Vicar in \nGermany to reorganize the Bavarian Church and to establish the new dioceses \nwhich had so great an importance in German history. \nFor Germany beyond the Rhine was still a land without cities\, and the \nfoundation of the new bishoprics meant the creation of new centers of cultural \nlife. It was through the work of St Boniface that Germany first became a living \nmember of the European society. \nBut in addition to this\, Boniface was the reformer of the whole Frankish \nchurch. The decadent Merovingian dynasty had already given up the substance \nof its power to the mayors of the palace\, but in spite of their military prowess\, \nwhich saved France from conquest by the Arabs in 735\, they had done nothing \nfor culture and had only furthered the degradation of the Frankish Church. \nCharles Martel had used the abbeys and bishoprics to reward his lay partisans\, \nand had carried out a wholesale secularization of Church property. \nAs Boniface wrote to the Pope\, “Religion is trodden under foot. Benefices \nare given to greedy laymen or unchaste and publican clerics. All their crimes do \nnot prevent their attaining the priesthood; at last rising in rank as they increase \nin sin they become bishops\, and those of them who can boast that they are not \nadulterers or fornicators\, are drunkards\, given up to the chase\, and soldiers who \ndo not shrink from shedding Christian blood.” \nNevertheless\, the successors of Charles Martel\, Pepin and Carloman\, \nwere favorable to Boniface’s reforms. Armed with his special powers as Legate \nof the Holy See and personal representative of the Pope\, he undertook the \ndesecularization of the Frankish Church.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-boniface-4/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading by \nFR ROMANO GUARDINI \n◊◊◊ \nElizabeth calls the Virgin Blessed because she had faith – for everything \nwould happen as the Lord had told her; through the power of the Holy Spirit she \nwould become the Mother of the Redeemer\, and in this find the fulfillment of \nher life and salvation. To be assured of this was not always easy. When the \nGospel speaks of Mary and her son\, one perceives a great love\, but also a \nremoteness. \nThe answer of the twelve-year-old boy in the temple; the answer Jesus \ngave at the wedding feast of Cana; his words to the bystanders\, when Mary\, at \nthe door\, asks for him; what he said to the woman who exalted his Mother; and \nhis last testament in which he committed her to the care of the disciple – in each \nof these\, something is revealed that removes him from her\, and we always sense \nthe possibility that she might have become perplexed about God’s guidance. But \neach time her confidence increased and she placed all into his hands. Mary lived \ncompletely through her confidence in God’s power\, a power that is capable of \nconsummating all\, even in darkness and opposition. \nHope is confidence in God’s power to accomplish all things. He has \npromised that we shall become new persons\, and that his creation shall be a \n“new heaven and a new earth”. This is gainsaid by the impression made on us by \nworldly things; by the course our life is taking; by the opinions of people around \nus; by our own daily insufficiency and sin – by everything. \nHope is the “nevertheless” of faith. In spite of all contradiction\, the new \nlife is within us\, and God will complete it if we trust in him despite all \nopposition. But that is difficult\, sometimes impossible. So we must ask again \nthat the Lord “may strengthen our hope.“
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-memorial-of-bvm-21/
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