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SUMMARY:St. Barnabas
DESCRIPTION:A reading on St Barnabas by\nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 5\n◊◊◊\nOn two occasions the conduct [of St Barnabas] is scarcely becoming an Apostle\, as instancing somewhat of that infirmity which uninspired persons of his peculiar character frequently exhibit. Both are cases of indulgence towards the faults of others\, yet in a different way; the one\, an over-easiness in a matter of doctrine\, the other\, in a matter of conduct.\nWith all his tenderness for the Gentiles\, yet on one occasion he could not resist indulging the prejudices of some…brethren\, who came from Jerusalem to Antioch. Peter first was carried away; before they came\, “he did eat with the Gentiles\, but when they came\, he withdrew\, and separated himself\, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch\, that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.”\nThe other instance was his indulgent treatment of Mark\, his sister’s son\, which occasioned the quarrel between him and St Paul. “Barnabas determined to take with them\,” on their Apostolic journey\, “John\, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them\, who departed from them from Pamphylia\, and went not with them to the work.”\nNow it is very plain what description of character\, and what kind of lesson\, is brought before us in the history of this Holy Apostle. Holy he was\, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith; still the characteristics and the infirmities of man remained in him\, and thus he is “unto us for an example\,” consistently with the reverence we feel towards him as one of the foundations of the Christian\nChurch. He is an example and warning to us\, not only as showing us what we ought to be\, but as evidencing how the highest gifts and graces are corrupted in our sinful nature\, if we are not diligent to walk step by step\, according to the light of God’s commandments.\nBe our mind as heavenly as it may be\, most loving\, most holy\, most zealous\, most energetic\, most peaceful\, yet if we look off from Him for a moment\, and look towards ourselves\, at once these excellent tempers fall into some extreme or mistake. Charity becomes over-easiness\, holiness is tainted with spiritual pride\, zeal degenerates into fierceness\, activity eats up the spirit of prayer\, hope is heightened into presumption. We cannot guide ourselves. God’s revealed word is our sovereign rule of conduct; and therefore\, among other reasons\, is faith so principal a grace\, for it is the directing power which receives the commands of Christ\, and applies them to the heart. \n5\nPAROCHIAL & PLAIN SERMONS\, John. H. Newman (Ignatius Press\, CA 1987) pp. 401-403.
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SUMMARY:Sacred Heart of Jesus
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “Christ\, the Ideal of the Monk” by\nBLESSED COLUMBA MARMION 6\n◊◊◊\nWhen a person fails in charity\, and receives Christ in Holy Communion\, he cannot say to him: ‘My Jesus\, I love you with all my heart.’ It would be a lie\, since he does not envelop Christ and his members with a self-same love. He has not accepted the mystery of the Incarnation in its totality; he stops at Christ’s individual manhood\, and forgets the spiritual prolongation of the Incarnation which is the Mystical Body of Jesus. So\, then\, when we communicate\, we ought ever to be ready to embrace\, in one and the same charity\, Christ and all that is united to him; for the measure of the giving of Christ to our souls is that of our own donation to our brethren. The Eucharist is a Sacrament of union with Christ\, and of union between souls.\nThus a soul who draws near to our Lord\, in Communion\, in these dispositions of unreserved love towards the neighbour is very pleasing to the Sacred Heart. Christ showers magnificent gifts upon it; moreover\, faults and shortcomings in respect to the other virtues are at once forgiven\, because of this fervent love it bears towards the members of Jesus. When\, on Maundy Thursday\, the Abbot has communicated all the members of the monastic family\, the angels who behold us see that we are all one in Christ\, each one being united to Christ Jesus\, and Christ being one\, we are then truly one in him. We thus fulfill the dearest desire of the Word Incarnate.\nIndeed\, at the supreme farewell hour\, when Christ Jesus spoke for the last time with his Apostles before entering into his sorrowful Passion and sacrificing himself for the world’s salvation\, what is the exclusive theme of his discourse and the first object of his prayer? Spiritual charity. A new commandment I give unto you… by this shall all men know that you are my disciples… Father… that they may be one\, as we also are one\, I in them\, and you in me\, that they may become perfectly one. That is the testament of Christ’s Heart.\nOur Blessed Father St Benedict\, in concluding his Rule\, also leaves us as his last testament\, his magnificent teaching on good zeal. After having set forth in detail the ordering of our life\, he sums up all his doctrine in this short chapter. And what does he tell us? Does he speak to us of prayer? Of contemplation? Of mortification? Undoubtedly\, the holy Patriarch forgets nothing of all this\, as we have seen; but having reached the end of his long life so full of experience\, at the moment of closing the monastic code which contains for us the secret of perfection\, he speaks to us\, before all else\, of mutual love; he wishes\, with that intense desire which was that of Jesus at the Last Supper\, to see us excel in most fervent love. This chapter is the worthy crowning of a Rule which is but the pure reflection of the Gospel. \n6\nBlessed Columba Marmion\, Christ\, the Ideal of the Monk\, 2.17.5
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SUMMARY:Immaculate Heart of Mary
DESCRIPTION:A reading from\nST ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY 7\n◊◊◊\n“The Virgin kept all these things in her heart”: her whole history can be summed up in these few words! It was within her heart that she lived\, and at such a depth that no human eye can follow her. When I read in the gospel “that Mary went in haste to the hill country of Judea” to perform her loving service for her cousin Elizabeth\, I imagine her passing by so beautiful\, so calm and so majestic\, so absorbed in recollection of the Word of God within her. Like him her prayer was always this: “Ecce\, here I am!” Who? “The servant of the Lord\,” the lowliest of his creatures: she\, his Mother! Her humility was so real for she was always forgetful\, unaware\, freed from self. And she could sing: “The Almighty has done great things for me\, henceforth all peoples will call me blessed.”\nThis Queen of virgins is also Queen of martyrs; but again it was in her heart that the sword pierced\, for with her everything took place within! Oh! How beautiful she is to contemplate during her long martyrdom\, so serene\, enveloped in a kind of majesty that radiates both strength and gentleness. She learned from the Word himself how those must suffer whom the Father has chosen as victims\, those whom he has decided to associate with himself in the great work of redemption\, those whom he “has foreknown and predestined to be conformed to his Christ\,” crucified by love.\nShe is there at the foot of the Cross\, standing\, full of strength and courage\, and here my Master says to me: [“Behold your Mother.”] He gives her to me for my Mother. And now that he has returned to the Father and has substituted me for himself on the Cross so that “I may suffer in my body what is lacking in his passion for the sake of his body\, which is the Church\,” the Blessed Virgin is again there to teach me to suffer as he did\, to tell me\, to make me hear those last songs of his soul which no one else but she\, his Mother\, could overhear. \n7\nComplete Works\, vol. 1\, translated by Sr. Aletheia Kane\, OCD\, Washington\, D.C.: ICS Publications\, 1984\, pp. 160-161.
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