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SUMMARY:Memorial of The BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from the missionary letters of\nST NIKOLAI VELIMIROVICH 7\n◊◊◊\nYou write to me with exhilaration how the Mother of God appeared to you\nand how you are now on the sure path of faith. Your little daughter was in bed\nwith a terrible fever. You called for a number of doctors. They examined the girl\nand went to the other room to assess the situation. You listened in to their\nconversation with trembling. One of them said that she might be saved if the\nailing girl could perspire. Others considered it was too late even for that.\nIn desperation\, you wrung your hands and cried. Over the child’s bed was\nan icon of the Theotokos. Until that moment\, you saw that icon more as a\ndecoration of the house\, not a necessity. But in that desperate hour\, you kneeled\nbefore the icon and choking with tears\, you cried out to the Mother of God…\nAfter long prayer and sobbing\, you looked at the icon and you saw tears in the\nVirgin’s eyes. \nA moment after that\, you looked at your child and she was all in sweat.\nThe day after\, she sat up and ate\, and soon after that she was completely\nrecovered. Thanks be to the Holy Theotokos. And thank you for sharing this.\nOur faith is founded upon experience\, not on self-willed judgments and\ntheories… \nLast winter\, we had a case like this happen also. The daughter of a poor\nwidow was gravely ill. For a month\, she was out of her senses and did not say a\nword. All hope was lost. The grieving mother started collecting money for the\nfuneral items. One evening\, the mother was sitting by the deathbed of her\ndaughter and crying quietly. Suddenly\, without opening her eyes\, the girl said\,\n“Do not cry mother. Take me to Kalishte tomorrow and I will get well. That’s\nwhat my Heavenly Mother said to me. She is now standing by me!” The shocked\nmother was quivering. The next day she took the sick girl to the Monastery of the\nHoly Theotokos at Kalishte\, and brought her back healthy. \nBut were there only two instances of this happening; or three or ten?\nThere is no number and no end of the appearances and intercessions of the\nTheotokos. Saint Seraphim of Sarov…said that the Mother of God personally\nappeared to him six times during his life. And if the whole of this quiet people\nwhich considers all those heavenly visions to be its precious and sweet secret —\nif all of them would open their mouth and speak of all they have seen\, the earth\nwould be filled with amazement. \nBelieve me\, when one enters the knowledge of the working and appearing\nof the heavenly world in our earthly life\, one feels like he has entered a new\nboundless and unstudied kingdom of a most wondrous reality. Into that\ndarkness for the worldly eyes\, the soul can enter only with the lit torches of faith\nand love\, according to the wondrous words of the Apostle Paul\, “may Christ by\nfaith move into your hearts\, that you may be rooted and grounded in love\, so\nthat you may later understand what is width and length and depth and height.”\nAnd you ought to thank God and His Mother that your spiritual sight was open.\nDo not blind it with sin and carelessness anymore. May God always help you. \n7 Saint Nikolai Velimirovich. Missionary Letters of Saint Nikolai Velimirovich – Part 1. Trans. Hierodeacon Serafim.\nGrayslake\, IL: New Gracanica Monastery\, 2008. 120-122.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - All Saints
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST GERTRUDE THE GREAT \n◊◊◊ \nO consuming fire\, my God… Devouring me\, a speck of dust\, in the fiery \nvigor of your love\, consume me utterly and absorb me into yourself. Behold\, I \nam approaching you… Let your face light up over me so that my darkness may \nbecome like noonday in your presence… Make me to be listed and numbered in \nthe generation of those who know you\, God of Israel; among the generation of \nthose who seek your face\, God of Jacob; in the generation of those who cherish \nyou\, God of hosts. \nHoly Trinity\, one God: grant that my heart may fear you\, cherish you\, \nfollow you because you are my true love. Holy Mary\, paradise of holiness\, lily of \npurity\, be the guide and guardian of my chastity\, for in you is all the grace of life \nand truth… Saint John the Baptist\, obtain for me enlightenment through that \ntrue light to whom you came to bear witness… Saint Peter\, first of the apostles\, \nby your authority deliver me from the bonds of all my sins. Saint Paul\, chosen \nvessel\, obtain for me that gift of true cherishing-love… Saint Mary Magdalene\, \nmost fervent lover of Jesus Christ\, obtain for me the most diligent observance of \nholy religion. All saints and chosen ones of God\, obtain for me such observance \nof holy religion that thereby I may come with you to that homeland of eternal life \nwhich knows nothing but joys\, where God is all in all. \nMy beloved Jesus Christ\, I desire to enter with you into a beloved rule so \nthat I may renew and remake my life in you… Place my life in the guardianship \nof your Holy Spirit so that I may keep your commandments at all times… Flood \nmy sense with the light of your love so that you alone may teach and guide me\, \nand convert me within. Sink my spirit so firmly into your Spirit – quickly down \ninto its ground – that I may be truly buried in you. And let me be so fully \ntransported out of myself into union with you that nobody may know of my \ngrave in you except your living love alone\, which may place its seal on it. \nTherefore\, by the cooperation of your grace and through the spotless law \nof your love\, turn my soul from the frailty of the human condition toward you in \nsuch a way that I may untiringly run the way of your commandments and cling \nto you. Be with me\, my Lord\, aiding me always and making me strong in the \nwork that I have taken up for the love of your love… And grant me then to see \nyou\, to have you\, to enjoy you eternally in the greatest happiness\, for my soul \nhas yearned for you\, O Jesus\, dearest of all dear ones.
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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n31st Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (A)\, Weekdays (II)\nNovember 1 – 7\, 2026\n\n\n\nSun\n1\nMon\n2\nTue\n3\nWed\n4\nThu\n5\nFri\n6\nSat\n7\n\n\nOffice\nAll Saints\nAll Souls\nWeekday\nSt Charles Borromeo\nWeekday\nWeekday\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nRev 5:1-14\nEzek 37:1-14\nDaniel 5:1-12\nDaniel 5:13-6:1\nDaniel 6:2-29\nDaniel 7:1-15\nDaniel 7:16-28\n\n\nLauds\nIsa 65:17-25\nIsa 38:9-20\nZech 11:1-6\nZech 11:7-14\nZech 11:15-17\nZech 12:1-6\nZech 12:7-14\n\n\nMass\n667\n668\n486\n487\n488\n489\n490\n\n\n1st\nRev 7:2-4\, 9-14\nWis 3:1-9\nPhil 2:5-11\nPhil 2:12-18\nPhil 3:3-8a\nPhil 3:17-4:1\nPhil 4:10-19\n\n\n2nd\n1 Jn 3:1-3\n2 Cor 5:1\, 6-10\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMatt 5:1-12a\nJohn 11:17-27\nLuke 14:15-24\nLuke 14:25-33\nLuke 15:1-10\nLuke 16:1-8\nLuke 16:9-15\n\n\nVespers\nRev 19:5-9\n1 Thess 4:13-18\n1 John 5:6-12\n1 John 5:13-17\n1 John 5:18-21\n2 John 1-6\n2 John 7-13
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - All Souls
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “Purgation and Purgatory” by \nST CATHERINE OF GENOA \n◊◊◊ \nThe souls in purgatory cannot think\, “I am here\, and justly so because of \nmy sins\,” or “I wish I had never committed such sins for now I would be in \nparadise\,” or “That person there is leaving before me\,” or “I will leave before that \none.” They cannot remember the good or evil in their past nor that of others. \nSuch is their joy in God’s will\, in his pleasure\, that they have no concern \nfor themselves but dwell only in their joy in God’s ordinance. They see only the \ngoodness of God\, his mercy toward all. Should they be aware of other good or \nevil\, theirs would not be perfect charity. Only once do they understand the \nreason for their purgatory: the moment in which they leave this life. After this \nmoment\, that knowledge disappears. Immersed in charity\, incapable of \ndeviating from it\, they can only will or desire pure love. There is no joy save that \nin paradise to be compared with the joy of the souls in purgatory. \nAs the rust of sin is consumed the soul is more and more open to God’s \nlove. Just as a covered object left out in the sun cannot be penetrated by the \nsun’s rays\, in the same way\, once the covering of the soul is removed\, the soul \nopens itself fully to the rays of the sun. Having become one with God’s will\, these \nsouls\, to the extent that he grants it to them\, see into God… \nAll that I have said is nothing compared to what I feel within\, the \nwitnessed correspondence of love between God and the soul; for when God sees \nthe soul pure as it was in its origins\, he tugs at it with a glance\, draws it and binds \nit to himself with a fiery love. God so transforms the soul into himself that it \nknows nothing other than God. He will not cease until he has brought the soul to \nits perfection. \nThat is why the soul seeks to cast off any and all impediments\, so that it \ncan be lifted up to God; and such impediments are the cause of the suffering of \nthe souls in purgatory. Not that the souls dwell on their suffering; they dwell \nrather on the resistance they feel within themselves against the will of God\, \nagainst his intense and pure love bent on nothing but drawing them up to him. \nAnd I see rays of lightning darting from that divine love to the creature\, so \nintense and fiery… The soul becomes like gold that becomes purer as it is fired\, \nall dross being cast out… \nThese flaws are burned away in the last stage of love. God shows the soul its \nweakness\, so that the soul may see the workings of God. If we are to become \nperfect\, the change must be brought about in us and without us; that is\, the \nchange is to be the work not of human beings but of God… The overwhelming \nlove of God gives the soul a joy beyond words. In purgatory great joy and great \nsuffering do not exclude one another.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “Rule of Life for a Recluse” by \nST AELRED OF RIEVAULX \n◊◊◊ \nImagine now that you are standing before Christ’s judgment-seat \nbetween these two companies and have not yet been assigned to one or the \nother. Turn your eyes to the left of the judge and gaze upon that wretched \nmultitude. What horror is there\, what a stench\, what fear\, what grief? They \nstand there miserable and unhappy\, gnashing their teeth\, their bare flesh \nshaking with fear\, dreadful to look upon\, their faces distorted\, cast down from \nshame\, in confusion because of their body’s degradation and nakedness. They \nwant to hide and they are not allowed\, they try to flee and it is not granted them. \nIf they raise their eyes the Judge’s fury bears down upon them from above. If \nthey lower them they are filled with the horror of hell’s pit. They have no excuse \nto offer for their crimes nor is there any chance of claiming that the judgment is \nunfair\, since whatever is decided their own conscience will recognize as just. \nSee now how you should love him who has set you apart from this doomed \ncompany by his predestination\, separated you by his call\, cleansed you by his \njustification. Now turn your eyes to the right and look at those among whom he \nwill place you by glorifying you. What grace is there\, what honor\, what \nhappiness\, what security. Some take their seat on high to give judgment\, some \nare resplendent in martyrs’ crowns\, some are bearing the white flower of \nvirginity\, some display the fruit of almsgiving\, some are illustrious for their \ndoctrine and their learning\, but they are all united by the bond of charity. Jesus’ \nface shines upon them\, not terrible but lovable\, not bitter but sweet\, not \nfrightening but attractive. \nNow stand in the middle\, not knowing to which company the Judge’s \nsentence will assign you. O what a dreadful waiting. Fear and trembling have \ncome upon me and darkness has covered me.’ If he sends me to join those on the \nleft I cannot complain of injustice; if he sets me among those on the right it is to \nbe attributed to his grace\, not to my merits. Truly\, Lord\, life is at your disposal.” \nYou see then how your spirit should be absorbed in his love. \nAlthough in all justice he could have extended to you the sentence passed \non the wicked\, he preferred to place you among those who are to be saved. \nNow imagine yourself associated with that holy company and hearing his \nvoice utter the decree: “Come\, ye blessed of my Father\, receive the kingdom \nwhich was prepared for you from the beginning of the world\,” while those other \nwretched souls hear the harsh words\, full of anger and fury: “Depart from \nme…into eternal fire.” “Then\,” we read\, “they will go to eternal punishment\, but \nthe just to eternal life.” What a harsh separation\, what a miserable lot.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Charles Borromeo
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nFR RONALD KNOX \n◊◊◊ \nWhen our Lord’s apostles came to look back upon that terrible night in the \nLake of Galilee\, when they strained every nerve against the tempest while their \nMaster lay sleeping in the boat\, they found in it an allegory of their own \nsituation\, as they launched out the frail bark of his Church upon waves so \ntroubled\, with prospects so uncertain. And in every age the Church has looked \nback to that picture and taken comfort from it in times of adversity. [With great \nconfidence]\, the Church of God\, which is Peter’s boat\, has breasted the waves all \nthrough her troubled history. It is not upon the captain’s judgment or the pilot’s \nexperience\, not human wisdom or human prudence\, that she depends for her \nsafe voyage: she rests secure in the presence of her inviolable passenger. \nYet we should do ill if we grudged recognition and gratitude to those \nservants of his who at various times have steered our course for us through \ndifficult waters\, and especially to the saints of the Counter-Reformation — that \nremarkable group of saints whom God raised up at the time of Europe’s \napostasy\, by whose influence\, humanly speaking\, the faith survived that terrible \nordeal. And not the least\, nor the least prominent\, of these is [St Charles \nBorromeo]\, who ruled the Church of Milan in the latter part of the sixteenth \ncentury… \nWhatever be the rights and wrongs of all the controversies we hear about \nthe medieval Church\, this at least is clear\, that in the days of the Council of Trent \nits organization needed reform. And reform needs more than mere legislation to \ndecree it; it needs administration to execute it. That is St Charles’s characteristic \nlegacy to the Church: it was the influence of his example\, in great measure\, that \nmolded her organization on the new model which Trent had decreed. The \nbishop has got to be the center of everything in his diocese\, and the clergy of the \ndiocese are to be his clergy — a family of which he is to be the father\, a guild of \nwhich he is to be the master. \nSee how fond St Charles was of synods: the whole of his comparatively \nshort episcopate is a long record of the synods he gathered amongst his clergy. \nSee how enthusiastic he is for the seminary idea; the bishop\, henceforth\, is not \nmerely to ordain people\, he is to know whom he is ordaining. And above all what \nwas characteristic of St Charles was the institute which he left behind him — a \nbody of secular priests\, putting themselves at the disposal of the bishop as \nabsolutely as the religious puts himself at the disposal of his superior. \nYes\, there is much about St Charles’s life which is more exciting\, and much \nwhich is more attractive\, than all this; his boundless generosity to the poor\, the \nrelentless mortification that regulated his busy\, competent life. But what makes \nhim stand out among the saints more than either is his intense devotion even to \nthe most uninspiring details of diocesan routine.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nJOHN OF FORD \n◊◊◊ \n‘May your will’\, Lord Jesus\, ‘be done on earth as it is in heaven \,̓ \nfor you \nsaid that it was your will that fire be enkindled on this earth\, the fire you came to \nsend upon it. What you desired has happened. The furnace that is in Jerusalem \nhas enkindled a furnace on earth. Here on earth\, just as in heaven\, you have \nmade your ministers flames of fire\, and like a devouring fire\, they devour to the \nright and to the left. \nIndeed\, love is never satisfied. It feels distaste for nothing\, it does not \nthink anything should be rejected. It issues its call equally to the good and to the \nbad\, receiving them indiscriminately and making no distinction in favor of one \nrather than the other. The only distinction\, perhaps\, is that it usually overflows \nmore copiously for those in whom sin has abounded. It is characteristic of love \nthat\, like fire\, it burns more fiercely where it finds sturdier tinder\, and the \nquality and quantity of what instigates it\, makes its flame grow ever stronger. \nJesus makes this crystal clear in his parable of the two debtors; it is the one who \nis forgiven most who loves most). He loves more\, says Jesus\, to whom more is \ngiven; he loves more\, meaning that he is urged by the debt and the material is \nthere to prompt him to greater love. \nIn my opinion\, this is why Zechariah said those words I quoted above\, that \nhe would make ‘the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood\, like a \nflaming torch among the sheaves Obviously\, because wood is harder than hay\, it .̓ \nis better material for fires\, and the more difficult it is to set it burning\, the more it \nblazes up once it has begun. It seems to change into the very substance of fire\, \ntaking on its color as well as its heat. \nThe sheaves\, on the other hand\, are those whose sins are venial\, and the \nflaming torch\, that is\, the opportunity to be forgiven and receive unmerited \ngrace\, consumes them with a spark. Yet it is not a fiery torch that touches the \nwood\, but a furnace\, so that\, in some wonderful way\, the wood itself becomes \nfire by the intensity of the heat. And the wood takes to itself not only the ability \nto burn\, but also to enkindle.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nHANS URS VON BALTHASAR \n◊◊◊ \nChristians live with their involvement in the involvement of God for the \nfreedom of the world. They know that each one has been chosen by God and \ncalled by name to assist in his work of liberation. In this work human beings are \ncentral\, not the angels nor the subhuman things created for the sake of human \nbeings to rule as God commanded and chose them to do. \nChristians must\, first of all\, learn to see fellow human beings and all \ncreated things through the eyes of God. This does not mean that the human \nbeing seen in this light\, ceases to be a profound mystery. Just the opposite. If it \nis true that God has made the human being in his own image and likeness\, then \nthis ought rather to mean that something of the uniqueness and \nunfathomableness of God shines in the human person\, so much more clearly to \nthe beholder when God\, in choosing him and acting in and for him\, sheds upon \nhim God’s own mysterious light. \nTo look through God’s eyes at the human world means enduring both the \nopenness and contradictions of humans\, not forcing them onto a dogmatic \nprocrustean bed but bringing everything under the unity of God’s plan. \nWhoever can see more truth than someone else when they look\, is in the right. \nThis means first that the human being exists centrally as a person: a person \nintended by God\, loved by God\, and for whom God dies in order to rescue and \ndraw him to God. Hence all that has the status of a thing\, all that is not personal \nin this world\, has value only in so far as it serves the purposes of the person\, and \nis harmful when it betrays the person into the hands of the impersonal\, reducing \nhim to slavery and to the status of a thing. This determines the Christian’s \nattitude towards technology. Our battle with the universe will always remain \nsomething of a struggle and perhaps even a violent war\, but such a war will be \njust and permissible only so long as its normative aim remains the \nhumanization of the human being. \nAs a fellow human being\, the Christian is of course committed to taking \npart in the total effort of humanity towards the humanizing of the world\, the \nperduring problematic and indeed tragic nature of which we have already \nindicated. The Christian\, however\, has no clear-cut recipes or solutions to offer \nto this problem\, and like others must wrestle with the deciphering of the riddles \nof nature and of history. In this pursuit Christians are at one with their fellows. \nBut from their knowledge of God’s involvement for the world\, they have a wider \nhorizon which embraces the problematic and tragic\, without eliminating it\, and \nfrom which there falls on the world the only light that is truly illuminating and \nhelpful. They must bear witness to this light not just abstractly – by professions \nof faith – but concretely in their professional and human involvement.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX \n◊◊◊ \nIn speaking of our Lady\, we ought not to make improbable assertions \nabout matters that are beyond our knowledge\, for example\, that when she was a \nsmall child she went up to the Temple to offer herself to God with extraordinary \nfervor and a heart on fire with love. For all we know\, she went simply in \nobedience to her parents. \nIf a sermon on the Blessed Virgin is to bear fruit\, it must describe her \nreal life\, such as the Gospel gives us a glimpse of\, and not her fancied life. And \nwe perceive clearly that her real life at Nazareth and later on must have been \nquite ordinary…”He was subject to them”. How simple it all is! \nSometimes the Blessed Virgin is represented as being quite \nunapproachable. Instead\, we ought to show that she was imitable in her practice \nof hidden virtues; we ought to point out that she lived a life of faith\, just as we \ndo. \nWe know well that the Blessed Virgin is queen of heaven and earth; but \nshe is more of a mother than a queen\, and we ought not to give out the idea\, as I \nhave heard it done more than once\, that because of her prerogatives she eclipses \nthe glory of all the saints\, just as the sun\, rising in brilliance\, makes the stars \ndisappear. My God\, what a strange thing to say! A mother who makes the glory \nof her children disappear! For my part\, I believe just the opposite; I think that \nshe will greatly increase the splendor of the elect. \nWe do well to speak of her prerogatives. But we should not stop there. \nWe should make her loved. If\, when we hear a sermon on the Blessed Virgin\, the \npreacher tries to do nothing from beginning to end but call forth our \nadmiration\, we become bored\, and that does not lead to love and imitation. Who \nknows but what some souls will not experience a certain sense of estrangement \nfrom a creature so lofty? \n  \nThe Theology of the Mystical Body \, Emile Mersch SJ\, B. Herder Book Co.\, St Louis MO 1951\, pp. 169-170\,174ff.15 \n  \n  \n 
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