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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Basil & Gregory
DESCRIPTION:CHRIST AMONG US \nFrom a homily by St Basil the Great \n◊◊◊ \nGod is on earth\, God is among us\, not now as lawgiver – there is no fire\, \ntrumpet blast\, smoke-wreathed mountain\, dense cloud\, or storm to terrify \nwhoever hears him but as one gently and kindly conversing in a human body \nwith his fellow men and women. God is in the flesh. Now he is not acting \nintermittently as he did through the prophets. He is bringing back to himself \nthe whole human race\, which he has taken possession of and united to himself. \nBy his birth he has made the human race his own kin. \nBut how can glory come to all through one man? How can the Godhead \nbe in the flesh? In the same way as fire can be in iron: not by moving from place \nto place but by the one imparting to the other its own properties. Fire does not \nspeed toward iron\, but without itself undergoing any change it causes the iron \nto share in its own natural attributes. The fire is not diminished and yet it \ncompletely fills whatever shares in its nature. So is it also with God the Word. \nHe did not relinquish his own nature and yet he dwelt among us. He did not \nundergo any change and yet the Word became flesh. Earth received him from \nheaven\, yet heaven was not deserted by him who holds the universe in being. \nLet us strive to comprehend the mystery. The reason God is in the flesh is \nto kill the death that lurks there. As diseases are cured by medicines and \nassimilated by the body\, and as darkness in a house is dispelled by the coming \nof light\, so death\, which held sway over human nature\, is done away with by the \ncoming of God. As ice formed on water covers its surface as long as night and \ndarkness last but melts under the warmth of the sun\, so death reigned until the \ncoming of Christ; but when the grace of God our Savior appeared and the Sun7 \nof Justice arose\, death was swallowed up in victory\, unable to bear the presence \nof true life. How great is God’s goodness\, how deep his love for us! \nLet us join the shepherds in giving glory to God\, let us dance with the \nangels and sing… The Lord is God and he has appeared to us!
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE ETERNAL SON \nFrom the writing of St Mechthild of Magdeburg \n◊◊◊ \nI saw and still see three Persons in the eternal heights before God’s Son \nwas conceived in the body of St. Mary. They were then known and seen by all \nthe holy angels in their distinctness\, in their completeness\, in their name\, and \nin how the Three were one God. No matter how good the angels’ eyes were\, they \nsaw neither bone nor flesh nor color nor the glorious name Jesus. This was \nmiraculously hidden from them in the breast of the eternal Father. They called \nthe Father the uncreated eternal God\, the Son wisdom with no beginning\, the \nSpirit of them both they called right knowledge of truth. \nThe fiery angels of the highest order\, who are suspended opposite the \nloving Godhead in the breath of the whole Trinity\, served and were witness to \nthe blissful decision when God became man. Gabriel brought only the name \ndown at the Annunciation. He was entrusted with neither bone nor flesh nor \nblood. The Second Person — that was always the eternal Son. Although he had \nnot yet assumed human nature\, he had always been ours but had not been given \nto us before Gabriel brought the message… Although Adam’s nature was broken \nand changed and his inheritance lost forever\, God never gave up on him. Hence \nwe were and still are able to return. God has kept his noble loving nature intact… \nHe cannot withhold himself. God immediately cast Lucifer from himself into \nthe eternal prison\, but he pursued Adam\, asked him where he was\, and brought \nhim back to the path. Lucifer had only a single nature in God. When he \ndestroyed it\, he could not return. \nMan has a complete nature in the Holy Trinity\, and God saw fit to fashion \nit with his own divine hands. When his holy efforts on our behalf went for \nnaught\, he was forced back within himself by a threefold delight. For this reason \nhe wanted to restore us with his own feet and his own hands so that we would \nhave great oneness with him. If man had remained in paradise\, God would have \nbeen immediately visible to him\, would have greeted his soul and refreshed his \nbody. Thus did I see God come from heaven to paradise\, like a great angel. \nAlso\, this same nature forces God to greet us with knowledge and with \nholy intimacy to the extent that we are prepared through holy virtues and true \ninnocence. When I reflect that divine nature now includes bone and flesh\, body \nand soul\, then I become elated in great joy\, far beyond what I am worth. But \nangels are to some degree formed according to the Holy Trinity\, but they are \npure spirits. The soul alone with its flesh is mistress of the house in heaven\, sits \nnext to the eternal Master of the house\, and is most like him. There eye reflects \nin eye\, there spirit flows in spirit\, there hand touches hand\, there mouth speaks \nto mouth\, and there heart greets heart. Thus does the Lord and Master honor \nthe mistress at his side. But the princes and the vassals — these are the holy \nangels — these the Master keeps in full view. All service and all praise the angels \nengage in are offered totally to the mistress as well as to the Master. \n  \n3 Mechthild of Magdeburg. The Flowing Light of the Godhead. Trans. Frank Tobin. New York: Paulist Press\, 1998. 156- \n158.9 \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Elizabeth Ann Seton
DESCRIPTION:DEATH OF A HUSBAND AT CHRISTMAS \nFrom the collected writings of St Elizabeth Ann Seton \n◊◊◊ \nWith God for our Portion there is no Prison in high walls and bolts — no \nsorrow in the Soul that waits on him tho’ beset with present cares\, and gloomy \nProspects… For this freedom I can never be sufficiently thankful\, as in my \nWilliams case\, it keeps alive what in his weak State of Body would naturally fail \n— and often when he hears me repeat the Psalms of Triumph in God\, and read \nSt. Paul’s faith in Christ with my Whole Soul\, it so enlivens his Spirit that he \nalso makes them his own\, and all our sorrows are turned into joy. Oh well may \nI love God. Well may my whole soul strive to please him\, for what but the strain \nof an Angel can ever express what he has done and is constantly doing for me. \nWhile I live\, while I have my being in Time and thro’ Eternity let me sing praises \nto my God… \nEvery promise in the Scriptures I could remember and suitable Prayer\, I \ncontinually repeated to him which seemed to be <William’s> only relief. When \nI stopped to give anything <he would say> “Why do you do it\, what do I want\, \nI want to be in Heaven\, pray\, pray for my Soul“ \n… \nThe hard struggle ceased…a quarter past seven when the dear Soul took \nits flight to the blessed exchange it so much longed for… I often asked him when \nhe could not speak\, “You feel my love that you are going to your Redeemer” and \nhe motioned yes with a look…of Peace. At a quarter past 7 on Tuesday morning \n27th December — his Soul was released — and mine from a struggle next to \ndeath… \nI had done all — all that tenderest love and duty could do. My head had \nnot rested for a week. Three days and nights the fatigue had been incessant and \none meal in 24 hours… In all this it is not necessary to dwell on the mercy and \nconsoling presence of my dear Redeemer\, for no mortal strength could support \nwhat I experienced… \nMy William often asked me if I felt assured that he would be accepted and \npardoned\, and I always tried to convince him that where the soul was so humble \nand sincere as his\, and submission to God’s will so uniform as his had been \nthroughout his trial\, that it became sinful to doubt one moment of his reception \nthrough the merits of his Redeemer… \nThe night before his death praying earnestly for him that his pardon \nmight be sealed in Heaven and his transgressions blotted out… I continued on \nmy knees and leaned my head on the chair by which I knelt and insensibly lost \nmyself… I had a dream… A little angel at some distance held open a division in \nthe sky. A large black Bird like an eagle flew towards me and flapped its wings \nround and made everything dark. The angel looked as if it held up the division \nwaiting for something the Bird came for. And so alone from every friend on \nEarth\, walking the valley of the Shadow of death we had sweet comfort even in \nour dreams — while Faith convinced us they were realities. \n  \n4 Elizabeth Bayley Seton. Collected Writings: Volume I – Correspondence and Journals 1793-1808. Ed. Regina Bechtle\, S.C. \nand Judith Metz\, S.C. New City Press: Hyde Park\, NY\, 2000. 265\, 274-276.11 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St John Neumann
DESCRIPTION:THE PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS \nOF ST JOHN NEUMANN \n◊◊◊ \nThe fourth Bishop of Philadelphia was a well-known and respected figure \nin the life of the city even though he moved in and about it quietly… A rather \nshort man\, he was just over five feet\, two inches in height… As a young priest he \nhad a rugged constitution; but the incessant calls he made on his physical \nresources took their toll\, which became noticeable with the advancing years… \nSo reserved was he that even those with a just estimate of true values were liable \nto be unimpressed. One old lady who ardently admired him declared\, “Oh\, to \nsee that humble little creature you never would think he was a bishop.” To \nappraise him adequately\, one had to see him at close range; then the \noutstanding qualities of the man shone to the best advantage… \nOne class of people was his special concern – the poor. His generosity to \nthem became so proverbial that those working in the rectory complained that \nthe poor imposed upon him\, oftentimes overdoing appeals for aid… On one \noccasion when a poor beggar\, caught red-handed coming back a second time\, \nwas despoiled of her gift\, the bishop intervened and allowed her to keep it\, \nsaying that if she repeated her call she must indeed be badly off… When one \nwoman begged Neumann for a dollar\, he was forced to confess that he did not \nhave a dollar to his name. Just then another woman called on him and asked \nhim to say a Mass for her giving him a five-dollar stipend. The bishop quickly \nput the five dollars into the poor woman’s hands and said\, “See what God sent \nyou!” \nAnother story illustrates well the bishop’s way with youngsters. Two \nsmall girls were sent by the Sisters of the Holy Cross with a message for the \nbishop. When he entered the parlor\, he found the little ladies in wide-eyed \nadmiration of a very beautiful marble statue of a child in a cradle… The bishop \ncommented on it and playfully suggested that he would give the statue to the \none who could carry it home. When the statue\, twenty-five or thirty pounds in \nweight\, proved too much for the youthful admirers\, one of them ran home and \nreturned with a little wagon to claim the prize. Considering himself \noutmaneuvered fairly\, the bishop surrendered his precious piece of marble\, \nwhich she carried to her home… \nBesides the poor and children\, the bishop had a special care for the sick… \nFrequently in his visits to the hospital\, he might be seen going through the \nwards from bed to bed\, addressing words of consolation and encouragement to \nall the patients\, irrespective of age\, condition or religion. And he would most \nearnestly exhort the Sisters engaged with the sick to regard them as the \nsuffering members of Jesus Christ and lavish on them every care and \nattention… \nAll his life he had a deep sense of his own nothingness… Neumann knew \nthat of himself he was nothing and could do nothing… Even the slightest \ndeviation from the highest form of service to God and man was proof positive \nthat of himself he could do nothing but sin. This basic conviction and the habits \nof soul rooted in it were the solid foundations of all his other virtues… \nThough Neumann was bishop only seven and three-quarter years… he \nlabored through every part of the diocese\, and has\, undoubtedly\, done more for \nits better organization and for the spread of piety throughout the various \nCongregations than might have been otherwise done in even ten or twenty years \nby another individual… He spared himself in nothing. \n  \n5 Curley\, Michael J. C.SS.R. Venerable John Neumann\, C.SS.R. Washington\, D.C.: The Catholic University of America \nPress\, 1952. 361-362\, 366-370\, 373\, 376.13 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:GOD AND FLESH \nFrom the homilies of St Gregory Palamas \n◊◊◊ \nHIS IS THE FESTIVAL of the virgin birth! Our address must be exalted \ntherefore in accordance with the greatness of the feast…for nothing done by God \nfrom the beginning of time was more beneficial to all or more divine than \nChrist’s nativity… \nThe pre-eternal and uncircumscribed and almighty Word is now born \naccording to the flesh\, without home\, without shelter\, without dwelling\, and \nplaced as a babe in the manger\, seen by men’s eyes\, touched by their hands\, and \nwrapped in layers of swaddling bands. He is not a spiritual creature coming into \nbeing after previously not existing; nor flesh which is brought to birth but will \nsoon perish; nor flesh and mind united to form a rational creature\, but God and \nflesh mingled unconfusedly… \nDavid\, who is a forefather of God on account of Him who has now been \nborn of his line\, hymns God somewhere “Thy hands have made me and \nfashioned me” \n… God formed human nature out of the earth with His own hand \nand breathed His own life into man\, whereas everything else He brought into \nbeing by His word alone. He then allowed man to be governed by his own \nthoughts and follow his own initiative\, because he was a rational creature with \na sovereign will. Left alone\, deceived by the evil one’s counsel and unable to \nwithstand his assault\, man did not keep to what was in accordance with his \nnature\, but slid towards what was unnatural to it. So now God not only forms \nhuman nature anew by His own hand in a mysterious way\, but also keeps it near \nHim. Not only does He assume this nature and raise it up from the fall\, but He \ninexpressibly clothes Himself in it and unites Himself inseparably with it and \nwas born as both God and man: from a woman\, in the first instance\, that He \nmight take upon Himself the same nature which He formed in our forefathers; \nand from a woman who was a virgin\, in the second\, so that He might make man \nnew. \nIf He had been born from seed\, He would not have been a new man and\, \nbeing part of the old stock\, and inheriting that fall\, He would not have been able \nto receive the fullness of the incorruptible Godhead in Himself and become an \ninexhaustible source of hallowing. And so\, not only would He not have been able \nto cleanse\, with abundance of power\, our forefathers’ defilement caused by sin\, \nbut neither would He have been sufficient to sanctify those who came later. Just \nas water stored in a tank would not be sufficient to provide a large city with \nenough to drink continuously\, but would require its own spring… in the same \nway\, neither a man nor a holy angel who\, by sharing in grace…would suffice to \nsanctify everyone at all times… Creation needed a well man\, containing its own \nspring\, that those who drew near it and drank their full might remain \nundefeated by the attacks of weaknesses and deprivations inherent in the \ncreated world. So…the Lord Himself came and saved us\, being made a man like \nus for our sake\, and continuing unchanged as God. \nBuilding now the new Jerusalem\, raising up a temple for Himself with \nliving stones\, and gathering us into a holy and worldwide Church\, He sets in its \nfoundation\, which is Christ\, the ever-flowing fount of grace. For the Lord’s \neternal fullness of life\, the all-wise and omnipotent divine nature\, is made one \nwith human nature…that the Lord might instil into it wisdom and power and \nfreedom and unfailing life. \n  \n6 St Gregory Palamas. The Homilies. Trans. Christopher Veniamin. Waymart\, PA: Mount Thabor Publishing\, 2009. \n477\, 481-482.15 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n1st Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nJanuary 7 – 13\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n7\nMon\n8\nTue\n9\nWed\n10\nThu\n11\nFri\n12\nSat\n13\n\n\nOffice\nEpiphany of the Lord\nBaptism of the Lord\nWeekday\nSt William of Bourges\nOffice for Vocations\nSt Aelred\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nIsa 60:1-22\nJoshua 3:1-17\nNum 1:1-4\, 44-54\nNum 6:1-21\nNum 6:22-7:11\nNum 9:15-23; 10:33-36\nNum 11:1-6\, 10-30\n\n\nLauds\nIsa 49:13-23\nActs 19:1-7\nEccles 1:1-11\nEccles 1:12-18\nEccles 2:1-3\nEccles 2:4-12\nEccles 2:13-17\n\n\nMass\n20\n21\n306\n307\n308\n309\n310\n\n\n1st\nIsa 60:1-6\nIsa 55:1-11\n1 Sam 1:9-20\n1 Sam 3:1-10\, 19-20\n1 Sam 4:1-11\n1 Sam 8:4-7\, 10-22a\n1 Sam 9:1-4\, 17-19; 10:1\n\n\n2nd\nEph 3:2-3a\, 5-6\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMatt 2:1-12\nMark 1:7-11\nMark 1:21-28\nMark 1:29-39\nMark 1:40-45\nMark 2:1-12\nMark 2:13-17\n\n\nVespers\nRev 21:22-27\nCol 2:8-15\n2 Cor 1:1-7\n2 Cor 1:8-11\n2 Cor 2:14-3:3\n2 Cor 3:4-11\n2 Cor 3:12-18
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Epiphany of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:IN SEARCH OF GOD \nFrom a commentary by St Leo the Great1 \n◊◊◊ \nDearly beloved\, the day on which Christ first showed himself to \nthe Gentiles as the Savior of the world should be held in holy reverence among \nus. We should experience in our hearts the same joy as the three wise men felt \nwhen the sign of the new star led them into the presence of the king of heaven \nand earth\, and they gazed in adoration upon the one in whose promised coming \nthey had put their faith. Although that day belongs to the past\, the power of the \nmystery which was then revealed has not passed away; we are not left with a \nmere report of bygone events\, to be received in faith and remembered with \nveneration. God’s bounty toward us has been multiplied\, so that even in our \nown times we daily experience the grace which belonged to those first \nbeginnings. \nThe gospel story specifically recalls the days when\, without any previous \nteaching from the prophets or instruction in the law\, three men came from the \nfar east in search of God; but we see the same thing taking place even more \nclearly and extensively in the enlightenment of all those whom God calls at the \npresent time. We see the fulfillment of that prophecy of Isaiah which says: The \nLord has bared his holy arm in the sight of all nations\, and the whole world \nhas seen the salvation that comes from the Lord our God. And again: Those \nwho have not been told about him shall see\, and those who have not heard shall \nunderstand. When we see people being led out of the abyss of error and called \nto knowledge of the true light\, people who\, far from professing faith in Jesus \nChrist\, have hitherto devoted themselves to worldly wisdom\, we can have no \ndoubt that the splendor of divine grace is at work. Whenever a shaft of light \nnewly pierces darkened hearts\, its source is the radiance of that same star\, \nwhich impresses the souls it touches by the miracle of its appearance and leads \nthem forward to worship God. \nIf on the other hand we earnestly ask ourselves whether the same \nthreefold oblation is made by all who come to Christ in faith\, shall we not \ndiscover a corresponding gift offering in the hearts of true believers? To \nacknowledge Christ’s universal sovereignty is in fact to bring out gold from the \ntreasury of one’s soul; to believe God’s only Son has made himself truly one with \nhuman nature is to offer myrrh\, and to declare that he is in no way inferior to \nhis Father in majesty is to worship him with frankincense. \n  \n1 Journey with the Fathers – Year B – New City Press – NY -1993 – pg 26-27.3 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Baptism of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:THE WATERS WILL BE SANCTIFIED \nFrom a commentary by St Ephrem the Syrian2 \n◊◊◊ \nToday the Source of all the graces of baptism comes himself to be baptized \nin the river Jordan\, there to make himself known to the world. Seeing him \napproach\, John stretches out his hand to hold him back\, protesting: Lord\, by \nyour own baptism you sanctify all others; yours is the true baptism\, the source \nof perfect holiness. How can you wish to submit to mine? \nBut the Lord replies\, I wish it to be so. Come and baptize me; do as I wish\, \nfor surely you cannot refuse me. Why do you hesitate\, why are you so afraid? \nDo you not realize that the baptism I ask for is mine by every right? By my \nbaptism the waters will be sanctified\, receiving from me fire and the Holy Spirit. \nUnless I am immersed in them they will never be empowered to bring forth \nchildren to eternal life. There is every reason for you to let me have my way and \ndo what I am asking you to do. Did I not baptize you when you were in your \nmother’s womb? Now it is your turn to baptize me in the Jordan. So come\, then\, \ncarry out your appointed task. \nTo this John answers\, Your servant is utterly helpless. Savior of all\, have \nmercy on me! I am not fit even to unfasten your sandal straps\, let alone to lay \nmy hand upon your venerable head. But I hear your command\, Lord\, and in \nobedience to your word I come to give you that baptism to which your own love \nimpels you. Man of dust that I am\, let deepest reverence enfold me when I \nbehold the height to which I have been called — even to laying my hand on the \nhead of my Maker! \nSee the hosts of heaven hushed and still\, as the all-holy Bridegroom goes \ndown into the Jordan. No sooner is he baptized than he comes up from the \nwaters\, his splendor shining forth over the earth. The gates of heaven are \nopened\, and the Father’s voice is heard: This is my beloved Son in whom I am \nwell pleased. All who are present stand in awe as they watch the Spirit descend \nto bear witness to him. O come\, all you peoples\, worship him! Praise to you\, \nLord\, for your glorious epiphany which brings joy to us all! The whole world has \nbecome radiant with the light of your manifestation. \n  \n2 Journey with the Fathers – Year B – New City Press – NY -1993 – pg 28-29.5 \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:PERFECT TRUST IN GOD \nFrom “Unseen Warfare” by St Theophan the Recluse3 \n◊◊◊ \nIt is very important not to rely on our own efforts in this unseen warfare. At \nthe same time\, if we merely give up all hope of ourselves and despair of ourselves \nwithout having found another support\, we are certain to flee immediately from the \nbattlefield or to be overcome and taken prisoner by our enemies. Therefore\, \ntogether with complete renunciation of ourselves\, “we should plant in our heart a \nperfect trust in God and a complete confidence in Him. In other words we should \nfeel with our whole heart that we have no one to rely on except God\, and that from \nHim and Him alone can we expect every kind of good\, every manner of help\, and \nvictory. Since we are nothing\, we can expect nothing from ourselves\, except \nstumblings and falls\, which make us relinquish all hope of ourselves. On the other \nhand\, we are certain always to be granted victory by God\, if we arm our heart with \na living trust in Him and an unshakable certainty that we will receive His help… \nThe following thoughts will help you to be grounded in this hope and\, \nthereby\, to receive help: 1) God is Omnipotent and can do all that He chooses\, \nand therefore can also help us… 2) God\, being Omniscient and Wise\, knows all \nin the most perfect manner\, and therefore knows fully what Is best for the salvation \nof each one of us… 3) God is infinitely Good and comes to us with ineffable love\, \nalways desirous and ready…from moment to moment to give us all the help we \nneed for complete victory in the spiritual warfare which takes place in us\, as soon \nas we run with firm trust to the protection of His arms. \nAnd how is it possible that our good Shepherd\, Who for three years went in \nsearch of sheep that had gone astray\, calling so loudly that His throat became \nparched\, and following ways so hard and thorny that He shed all His blood and \ngave up His life; how is it possible\, I repeat\, that now\, if His sheep follow Him\, turn \nto Him with love and call for His help with hope\, He should fail to turn His eyes to \nthe lost sheep\, take it into His divine arms and\, placing it among the heavenly \nangels\, make a welcoming feast for its sake? If our God never ceases to search \ndiligently and lovingly for the blind and deaf sinner (like the woman for the piece \nof silver in the Gospels)\, how is it possible to suppose that He would abandon him \nnow when\, like a lost sheep\, he cries out calling for his Shepherd? And who will \never believe that God\, Who\, according to the Revelation\, constantly stands at the \ndoor of a man’s heart\, and knocks\, wishing to come in and sup with him\, and \nbestow His gifts upon him\, who will believe that this same God should remain deaf \nand refuse to enter if a man opens to Him the door of his heart and invites Him in? \nAnd the fourth method of maintaining a lively trust in God and of attracting \nHis speedy help is to review in our memory all the instances of speedy divine help \ndescribed in the Scriptures. These instances\, which are so numerous\, show us \nclearly that no one\, who put his trust in God\, was ever left confounded and without \nhelp. \nArmed with these four weapons\, enter the battle with courage…and wage \nwar watchfully with the full conviction that victory will be granted you. For with \ntheir help you will most certainly acquire perfect trust in God\, and this trust will \nnever fail to attract God’s help… These two together will in the end make \ncomplete distrust of yourself deeply rooted in you… Without any self-reliance\, led \nonly by your trust in God\, take care always to preserve an attitude in which the \nconsciousness and feeling of your weakness always precede in you the \ncontemplation of God’s omnipotence\, and let both alike precede your every action. \n  \n3 Theophan the Recluse. Unseen Warfare. Accessed online:7 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St William of Bourges
DESCRIPTION:SAINT WILLIAM\, \nARCHBISHOP OF BOURGES\, FRANCE \nFrom “In the Valley of Wormwood” by Thomas Merton4 \n◊◊◊ \nSeek peace and follow after her. The search for interior and exterior peace\, \nfor himself and for others\, is more or less the dominating theme of…Saint William \nof Bourges… William de Donjean came from the family of the Counts of Nevers and \nwas born at the castle of Arthel near Nevers\, probably about 1140… Going on to \nParis where he completed his studies for the priesthood\, he became a canon there \nalso\, but he renounced all that a brilliant career in the Church held out to him and \nretired to the strictest Order he could find: the Order of Grandmont… After a short \ngolden age…the Order of Grandmont fell into a decline…notorious in the Church \nfor its incessant internal quarrels\, dissensions\, rebellions and scenes of violence… \nAbout the time Saint William became a member of the Order\, matters had already \nreached a crisis… Having entered the Order about 1164\, and made his profession\, \nhe left it again about 1170. The peace he had sought\, and which the Rule of \nGrandmont had seemed to promise\, was not to be found here. He made his way to \nthe Cistercian abbey of Pontigny… \nSaint William so impressed all with his virtues and talents that he was soon \nchosen as Prior of Pontigny. Some years later\, about 1184\, he became abbot of \nFountains-Jean\, a thriving community of over two hundred monks with many lay \nbrothers\, but he did not remain there long. In 1188 he was abbot of Chalis. He was \nthe admiration of all for his sanctity which made itself evident by the extraordinary \ninterior peace and spiritual joy which he radiated and which affected all who came \nin contact with them… \nThe fame of his virtues and sanctity made it impossible for him to remain \nlonger in the cloister which he loved… In 1199 the Cathedral Chapter of Bourges\, \nhaving come to a deadlock in their efforts to select a new archbishop\, drew up a list \nthat included several Cistercian abbots and submitted it to Odo of Sully\, Bishop of \nParis\, with the intention of accepting his choice as final… The archbishop…placed \nthree of the best names on slips of paper under the altar cloth while he said Mass\, \nand then afterwards in the presence of two other bishops\, he took one of the papers. \nThe name on it was William of Chalis… Saint William made himself remarkable \nfrom the very outset as a prelate who refused to maintain a private army and resort \nto force in order to keep order in his diocese… William relied first on the example \nof a life of uncompromising abnegation and ceaseless prayer and then on preaching \nof the word of God and showing mercy and pardon to his enemies… \nOn the feast of the Epiphany\, 1209\, Saint William must have had a \npresentiment that his end was near… He received the Body of Christ…kneeling on \nthe floor with his arms out in the form of a cross. After that… he entered into his \nagony. He was then taken from his bed and placed on a haircloth and heap of ashes \nin the middle of the floor\, according to the Cistercian usages\, and there he gave up \nhis soul to God… \nHis process was introduced\, strangely enough\, not at the suggestion of the \nCistercians but of the Grandmontines. The Prior of Grandmont\, speaking of his \nown memory of Saint William as a member of that Order\, praised his holiness of \nlife to Innocent III at the Fourth Lateran Council… Saint William’s canonization \ntook only nine years… It was completed in 1218… At the present day…his life is \npractically unknown. Yet he is one of our greatest saints\, and we have much to \nreflect upon and imitate in his perfection of Christ-like charity and apostolic love \nof souls\, which seeks to win men to the kingdom of God by love and mercy and \npurity of life and prayer…. \n  \n4 Merton\, Thomas. In the Valley of Wormwood – Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age. CS 233. Ed. Patrick Hart. \nCollegeville\, MN: Cistercian Publications\, 2013. 19-20\, 22-24\, 26\, 28-30.9 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:FRATERNAL CHARITY \nFrom the book “My Sister Saint Thérèse” by Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face 5 \n◊◊◊ \nFraternal charity…was one of Thérèse’s favourite themes. She left no stone \nunturned\, therefore\, to impress on her novices the supreme importance of this \nvirtue in community life… In order to encourage me in the practice of virtue\, \nThérèse confided to me one of the sacrifices she was called upon to make during \nher first years at Carmel. \nAs one of the former prioresses could not endure any fragrant odour\, \n<Thérèse>\, in deference to her\, had always been very careful not to have any sweet- \nsmelling flowers…at her cloister-shrine of the Child Jesus. It happened that\, one \nday\, just as she was about to place a lovely rose before the statue of the Holy Child\, \nshe heard the Mother calling her\, and Thérèse knew why… My humble little sister \nconfessed when relating the incident to me\, “I had a strong desire to let this good \nnun go ahead and actually complain before I should tell her that it was only an \nartificial flower. But at that same moment\, Jesus was tugging at my heart for a \nsacrifice of this little selfish satisfaction\, and He won out. Holding up the flower\, I \nexclaimed gaily: ‘See\, Mother\, how well they imitate nature nowadays! Wouldn’t \nyou think that this rose had just been freshly gathered from the garden?’ Oh! If \nyou only knew how happy I was after that act of charity\, and how marvellously it \nstrengthened my character.” \nOne day in the Infirmary during her last illness\, my sister called my attention \nto the soft\, downy linens which the infirmarian\, Sister Stanislaus always had at \nhand for the benefit of her patients. “Souls should be treated with the same tender \ncare\,” the Saint said\, “but why is it that we forget this so frequently\, and allow those \nabout us to go on unnoticed in the endurance of sharp\, interior pain? Shouldn’t \nthe spiritual needs of the soul be attended to with the same charity\, with the same \ndelicate care which we devote to our neighbour’s bodily necessities?… How \ntenderly we should not only love them but also show our love for them.” Whenever \nshe happened to find any sister in a disagreeable mood or at fault in any other way\, \nThérèse would extend herself to be only the more amiable\, obliging and \naffectionate; in this way she endeavoured to restore peace to an agitated heart \nwhich\, she knew\, must be suffering… \nBelieving that I was too self-centered at times\, our dear Saint said to \nme… \n“This tendency to fall back on self makes the soul barren and incapable of the \npractice of virtue… Whenever we find ourselves a prey to such self-introspection\, \nwe should have immediate recourse to external works of charity. <God> often \npermits us to become obnoxious to ourselves precisely that we might get away from \nself. Our only escape\, then\, is to go on a visit to Jesus and Mary by the performance \nof charitable works.” \n… \nThérèse frequently urged us to practise great charity in judging others\, for\, \nas she used to point out to us\, that which seems to be a fault in another is often an \nact of heroism in the sight of God. The unfinished task of a nun who may be over- \ntired or suffering interiorly\, she told us\, often brings more glory to God than a duty \nmeticulously completed by another nun robust of soul and body. In other words\, \nit is effort and not success that counts most with God… \nWhen the tuberculosis had spread to all parts of her body causing \nindescribable suffering\, we were imploring heaven one day in tears to give our dear \nlittle sister some relief when she said to us: “I am asking God that all the prayers \nbeing offered for me may serve rather for the salvation of souls and not for the \nalleviation of my sufferings.” And I can still hear her declare: “No\, I never would \nhave thought it possible to suffer so much… never\, never! I can only explain it by \nmy intense desire to save souls.” \n  \n5 Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face. My Sister Saint Thérèse. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons\, 1959. 124\, 129-132\, 137- \n138\, 148-149.11 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Aelred
DESCRIPTION:AELRED’S LAST DAYS \nFrom “The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx” by Walter Daniel6 \n◊◊◊ \nAs he lay in bed he talked constantly in gasps\, and day by day his body got \nfeebler\, until at last on 3 January he ordered all the monks to be summoned to \nhim\, and made them this allocution: \n‘Often I have begged your permission when I had to cross the sea\, or it \nwas my duty to hasten to some distant region\, or I had occasion to seek the \nking’s court; and now by your leave and with the help of your prayers I go hence\, \nfrom exile to the fatherland\, from darkness to light\, from this evil world to God; \nfor the time has come when he\, who redeemed me of himself without me\, and \ndeigned by his grace to bind me more closely to himself in the bonds of a better \nlife among you\, will take me to himself… We have a good Lord and now it \npleases my soul to see his face… \n’ \nThe most pious father added: ‘I have lived with a good conscience among \nyou\, for as I lie here\, as you see\, at the point of death\, my soul calls God to \nwitness that\, since I received this habit of religion\, the malice\, detraction or \nquarrel of no man has ever kindled any feeling in me against him which has \nbeen strong enough to last the day in the domicile of my heart… By the grace of \nChrist I have commanded my spirit that no disturbance to the patience of my \nmind should survive the setting of the sun.’ At these words we all wept… and \nmost of all when he\, weeping\, said to us\, ‘God who knows all things knows that \nI love you all as myself\, and\, as earnestly as a mother after her sons… \nTo wait by his bedside during those days was\, I confess\, an awe-inspiring \nexperience… He would say… \n‘Hasten for the love of Christ\, hasten.’ When I said \nto him ‘What\, lord?’ he stretched out his hands\, as to heaven\, and fixing his eyes \nlike lamps of fire upon the cross which was held there before his face\, said\, \n‘Release me\, let me go free to him\, whom I see before me\, the King of Glory. \nWhy do you linger?… Hasten\, for the love of Christ\, hasten’ \n… In all my life I \nhave never been so stricken to the heart as I was by those words\, so often \nrepeated\, so awfully uttered\, by such a man at such an hour\, by a good man at \nthe point of death. And these words kept proceeding from his mouth through \nthree whole days… \nI sat with him on that <last> day and…said to him in a low voice\, so that \nnobody would notice us\, ‘Lord\, gaze on the cross; let your eye be where your \nheart is.’ And immediately raising his eyelids and turning his pupils to the \nfigure of truth depicted on the wood\, he said to him who suffered death for us \nupon the tree\, ‘You are my God and my Lord\, You are my refuge and my Saviour. \nYou are my glory and my hope for evermore. Into your hands I commend my \nspirit.’ He uttered these words clearly as they are written\, although for two days \nhe had not spoken so many words\, nor afterwards did he speak three words \ntogether… He died about the fourth watch of the night before the Ides of \nJanuary\, in the year of the Incarnation one thousand and sixty-six… the fifty- \nseventh year of his life… \nWhenever I think of him then\, I am still overcome by joy and wonder at \nthe gracious recollection… My God! He did not die ‘in darkness\, as those that \nhave been long dead\,’ not so\, Lord\, but in your light\, for in his light we see your \nlight. \n  \n6 Daniel\, Walter. The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx. CF 57. Trans. F.M. Powicke. Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, \n1994. 133-135\, 138-139.13 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:OF MARY’S CHARITY TOWARDS HER NEIGHBOUR \nBy St Alphonsus de Liguori7 \n◊◊◊ \nLove towards God and love towards our neighbour are commanded by the \nsame precept: “And this commandment we have from God\, that he who loveth \nGod love also his brother.” Saint Thomas says that the reason for this is\, that he \nwho loves God loves all that God loves. Saint Catherine of Genoa one day said\, \n‘Lord\, Thou willest that I should love my neighbour\, and I can love none but \nThee.’ God answered her in these words: All who love Me love what I love.” But \nas there never was\, and never will be\, any one who loved God as much as Mary \nloved Him\, so there never was\, and never will be\, any one who loved her \nneighbour as much as she did… \nFor Christ\, who is love itself\, inspired the Blessed Virgin with charity in \nits highest degree\, that she might succour all who had recourse to her. So great \nwas Mary’s charity when on earth… as was the case at the marriage-feast of \nCana\, when she told her Son that family’s distress: “They have no wine\,” and \nasked Him to work a miracle. O\, with what speed did she fly when there was \nquestion of relieving her neighbour! When she went to the house of Elizabeth \nto fulfil an office of charity\, “she went into the hill-country with haste.” She \ncould not\, however\, more fully display the greatness of her charity than she did \nin the offering which she made of her Son to death for our salvation. On this \nsubject Saint Bonaventure says\, \n‘Mary so loved the world as to give her only- \nbegotten Son.’ Hence Saint Anselm exclaims\, ‘O blessed amongst women\, thy \npurity surpasses that of the angels\, and thy compassion that of the Saints!’ \nGreat was the mercy of Mary towards the wretched when she was still in \nexile on earth; but far greater is it now that she reigns in heaven. Saint Agnes \nassured Saint Bridget that there was no one who prayed without receiving \ngraces through the charity of the Blessed Virgin. Unfortunate\, indeed\, should \nwe be\, did not Mary intercede for us! Jesus Himself\, addressing the same Saint\, \nsaid\, \n‘Were it not for the prayers of My Mother\, there would be no hope of \nmercy.’ Blessed is he\, says the Divine Mother\, who listens to my instructions\, \npays attention to my charity\, and\, in imitation of me\, exercises it himself \ntowards others: “Blessed is the man that heareth me\, and that watcheth daily at \nmy gates\, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. \n” \nSaint Gregory Nazianzen assures us that ‘there is nothing by which we can \nwith greater certainty gain the affection of Mary than by charity towards our \nneighbour. Therefore\, as God exhorts us\, saying\, “Be ye merciful\, as your Father \nalso is merciful\,” so also does Mary seem to say to all her children\, ‘Be ye \nmerciful\, as your Mother also is merciful.’ It is certain that our charity towards \nour neighbour will be the measure of that which God and Mary will show us: \n“Give\, and it shall be given to you. For with the same measure that you shall \nmete withal\, it shall be measured to you again. \n” Saint Methodius used to \nsay\, \n‘Give to the poor\, and receive paradise.’ For the apostle writes\, that \ncharity… \n“is profitable to all things\, having promise of the life that now is\, and \nof that which is to come. \n” \nO Mother of Mercy\, thou art full of charity for all; forget not my miseries; \nthou seest them full well. Recommend me to God\, who denies thee nothing. \nObtain me the grace to imitate thee in holy charity\, as well towards God as \ntowards my neighbour. \n  \n7 St Alphonsus de Liguori. The Glories of Mary. Rockford\, IL: TAN Books\, 1982. 477-480.15 \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n2nd Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nJanuary 14 – 20\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n14\nMon\n15\nTue\n16\nWed\n17\nThu\n18\nFri\n19\nSat\n20\n\n\nOffice\n2nd Sunday\nSS Maur & Placid\nWeekday\nSt Anthony\nWeekday\nWeekday\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nNum 12:1-15\nNum 13:1-3\, 17-33\nNum 14:1-25\nNum 16:1-24\nNum 16:25-35\nNum 17:1-15\nNum 17:16-28\n\n\nLauds\nEccles 2:18-23\nEccles 2:24-3:8\nEccles 3:9-15\nEccles 3:16-22\nEccles 4:1-6\nEccles 4:7-12\nEccles 4:13-17\n\n\nMass\n65\n311\n312\n313\n314\n315\n316\n\n\n1st\n1 Sam 3:3b-10\, 19\n1 Sam 15:16-23\n1 Sam 16:1-13\n1 Sam 17:32-33\, 37\, 40-51\n1 Sam 18:6-9; 19:1-7\n1 Sam 24:3-21\n2 Sam 1:1-4\, 11-12\, 19\, 23-27\n\n\n2nd\n1 Cor 6:13c-15a\, 17-20\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nJohn 1:35-42\nMark 2:18-22\nMark 2:23-28\nMark 3:1-6\nMark 3:7-12\nMark 3:13-19\nMark 3:20-21\n\n\nVespers\n2 Cor 4:1-6\n2 Cor 4:7-18\n2 Cor 5:1-10\n2 Cor 5:11-15\n2 Cor 5:16-21\n2 Cor 6:1-13\n2 Cor 6:14-7:1
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 2nd Sunday Ordinary
DESCRIPTION:BEHOLD\, THE LAMB OF GOD \nFrom a commentary by St Basil of Seleucia1 \n◊◊◊ \nSpurred on by the testimony of John the Baptist\, the glorious apostle \nAndrew left his teacher and ran to the one pointed out by him. John’s words \nwere his signal\, and\, moving more swiftly than John could speak\, he \napproached the master with obvious longing\, his companion\, John the \nEvangelist\, running beside him. Both had left the lamp to come to the sun. \nAndrew was the first to become an apostle. It was he who opened the gates \nof Christ’s teaching. He was the first to gather the fruits cultivated by the \nprophets\, and he surpassed the hopes of all by being the first to embrace the \none awaited by all. He was the first to show that the precepts of the law were in \nforce only for a limited time. He was the first to restrain the tongue of Moses\, \nfor he would not allow it to speak after Christ had come. Yet he was not rebuked \nfor this\, because he did not dishonor the teacher of the Jews\, but honored more \nthe sender than the one sent. In fact Andrew was seen to be the first to honor \nMoses\, because he was the first to recognize the one he foretold when he said: \nThe Lord God will raise up for you from among your kindred a prophet like \nmyself. Listen to him. Andrew set the law aside in obedience to the law. He \nlistened to Moses who said: Listen to him. He listened to John who cried out: \nBehold the Lamb of God\, and of his own accord went to the one pointed out to \nhim. \nHaving recognized the prophet foretold by the prophets\, Andrew led his \nbrother to the one he had found. To Peter\, who was still in ignorance\, he \nrevealed the treasure: We have found the Messiah for whom we were longing. \nHow many sleepless nights we spent beside the waters of the Jordan\, and now \nwe have found the one for whom we longed! Nor was Peter slow when he heard \nthese words\, for he was Andrew’s brother. He listened attentively\, then \nhastened with great eagerness. \nTaking Peter with him\, Andrew brought his brother to the Lord\, thus \nmaking him his fellow-disciple. This was Andrew’s first achievement: he \nincreased the number of the apostles by bringing Peter to Christ\, so that Christ \nmight find in him the disciples’ leader. When later on Peter won approval\, it was \nthanks to the seed sown by Andrew. But the commendation given to the one \nredounded to the other\, for the virtues of each belonged to both\, and each was \nproud of the other’s merits. Indeed\, when Peter promptly answered the master’s \nquestion\, how much joy he gave to all the disciples by breaking their \nembarrassed silence! Peter alone acted as the mouthpiece of those to whom the \nquestion was addressed. As though all spoke through him\, he replied clearly on \ntheir behalf: You are the Christ\, the Son of the living God. In one sentence he \nacknowledged both the Savior and his saving plan. \nNotice how these words echo Andrew’s. By prompting Peter the Father \nendorsed from above the words Andrew used when he led Peter to Christ. \nAndrew had said: We have found the Messiah. The Father said\, prompting \nPeter: You are the Christ\, the Son of the living God\, almost forcing these words \non Peter. “Peter\,” he said\, “when you are questioned\, use Andrew’s words in \nreply. Show yourself very prompt in answering your master. Andrew did not lie \nto you when he said: We have found the Messiah. Turn the Hebrew words into \nGreek and cry out: You are the Christ\, the Son of the living God!” \n  \n1 Journey with the Fathers – Year B – New City Press – NY -1993 – pg 72-73.3 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Maur & Placid
DESCRIPTION:SAINTS MAUR AND PLACID \nFrom the Dialogues of St Gregory the Great2 \n◊◊◊ \nThe holy man\, St Benedict\, having returned to Subiaco\, long continued to \nshine by his virtue and miracles\, and assembled a great number of solitaries \nwho consecrated themselves to the service of God\, so that\, with the aid of our \nLord Jesus Christ\, he built twelve monasteries\, placing in each twelve Religious \nwith an Abbot to govern them. He retained with himself only a few of his \ndisciples who\, he thought\, still needed his presence to be better formed to \nperfection. It was at this time that many persons in Rome\, conspicuous for their \nnobility and virtue\, began to visit him and offer their children that he might \nmold them to piety\, and teach them to live for God alone. Aequitas and \nTertullus\, who had the honor of being Roman Patricians\, came to see the saint \nand confided to his care their two children; the former was distinguished for \nspotless innocence of life\, and merited\, though young\, to be chosen by his \nmaster to assist him in his functions. As to Placid\, being only a boy\, he was \nsubject to the weaknesses inseparable from tender age… \nThe venerable Benedict being one day in his cell\, the boy Placid…went out \nto fetch water from the lake\, but\, when dipping his pitcher into the water\, not \ntaking sufficient heed\, his body followed the vessel and he fell into the lake. The \nwaves immediately bore him out from the land as far as the usual flight of an \narrow. The saint\, who was in his cell\, knew of the sad accident at that very \ninstant\, and at once calling Maurus\, his disciple\, said to him: “Brother Maurus\, \nrun with all speed; the boy who went to fetch water fell into the lake and has \nbeen already carried off a long distance.” \nThe thing wonderful and unheard of since that instance of the Apostle \nPeter! Maurus having asked and received the blessing\, ran to the lake to execute \nthe order of his Abbot. Thinking he was treading upon dry land\, he advanced to \nthe very place whither the waves had carried off the child\, and laying hold of \nhim by the hair\, brought him back with great haste to the shore. Having reached \nthe land\, he began to reflect on what he did\, and casting a look behind\, saw that \nhe had been running over the waves. He was astonished thereat and very much \nafraid\, seeing that he had performed what he would not have dared to undertake \nif he had been aware of what he was doing. Having returned to the monastery\, \nhe narrated the whole occurrence to the Abbot. The venerable Benedict did not \nattribute this miracle to his own merit\, but to the obedience of the disciple. \nMaurus\, on the other hand\, said he was only fulfilling a command\, and could \nhave no share in a miracle which he unconsciously performed. \nDuring this pious dispute arising from the humility of the holy Abbot and \nhis disciple\, the boy rescued from peril presented himself as arbitrator\, and put \nan end to the contest thus: “When I was being drawn out of the waves\, I saw the \nAbbot’s robe above my head\, and it seemed to me that it was he who delivered \nme from the water.” \n… \nAn ancient tradition says that the monk Maurus was sent into Gaul by the \nsame holy Father. There\, according to the same tradition\, he founded a \nmonastery at Glannofol; after having governed it for a long time\, he died in the \nLord in a good old age\, renowned for his sanctity and miracles… while Placid \ndied a martyr’s death in Sicily in 541\, a few years before the death of St Benedict \nhimself. \n  \n2 from the LITURGICAL READINGS compiled and adapted at St Meinrad’s Abbey (St Meinrad \, IN\, 1941) pp. 311-313.5 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:DIVINE LOVE \nFrom “The Four Hundred Chapters of Love” by Maximus the Confessor3 \n◊◊◊ \nWhen through love the mind is ravished by divine knowledge…then\, \naccording to the divine Isaiah\, it comes in consternation to a realization of its \nown lowliness and says with conviction the words of the prophet: Woe is me for \nI am stricken at heart; because being a man having unclean lips\, I dwell in the \nmidst of a people with unclean lips and I have seen with my eyes the King\, the \nLord of hosts. The one who loves God cannot help but love also every man as \nhimself even though he is displeased by the passions of those who are not yet \npurified. Thus when he sees their conversion and amendment\, he rejoices with \nan unbounded and unspeakable joy. \nThe passionate soul is impure\, filled with thoughts of lust and hatred. The \none who sees a trace of hatred in his own heart through any fault at all toward \nany man whoever he may be makes himself completely foreign to the love for \nGod\, because love for God in no way admits of hatred for man. \n“The one who \nloves me\,” says the Lord\, \n“will keep my commandments” and “this is my \ncommandment\, that you love one another.” Therefore the one who does not love \nhis neighbor is not keeping the commandment\, and the one who does not keep \nthe commandment is not able to love the Lord… \nThe one who has acquired divine love in himself does not grow weary of \nclosely following after the Lord his God\, as the divine Jeremiah says; rather he \nendures nobly every reproachful hardship and outrage without thinking any evil \nof anyone. When you are insulted by someone or offended in any matter\, then \nbeware of angry thoughts\, lest by distress they sever you from charity and place \nyou in the region of hatred. Whenever you are suffering intensely from insult or \ndisgrace\, realize that this can be of great benefit to you\, for disgrace is God’s way \nof driving vainglory out of you. \nAs the memory of fire does not warm the body\, so faith without love does \nnot bring about the illumination of knowledge in the soul. As the light of the sun \nattracts the healthy eye\, so does the knowledge of God draw the pure mind to \nitself naturally through love… The soul is pure when it has been freed from the \npassions and rejoices unceasingly in divine love… For he recalls his former \nworldly life and different transgressions and the temptations bedeviling him \nfrom his youth\, and how the Lord delivered him from all these things and made \nhim pass from this life of passion to a divine life. And so with fear he receives \nlove as well\, ever thankful with deep humility to the benefactor and pilot of our \nlife. \n  \nMaximus the Confessor. Selected Writings. Trans. George C. Berthold. New York: Paulist Press\, 1985. 36-40.7 \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Anthony
DESCRIPTION:HE KEPT HIS HEART WATCHFUL \nFrom the writing of Nikiphorus the monk4 \n◊◊◊ \nOnce two brothers were on their way to visit St Antony\, but on the journey \ntheir water gave out and one of them died and the other was near to dying. \nUnable to go any further\, he too lay down on the ground and awaited death. But \nAntony\, seated on the mountain\, called two monks who happened to be with \nhim and said to them urgently\, ‘Take a jar of water and go as fast as you can \nalong the road leading to Egypt: two men were on their way here\, but one has \njust died and the other will also die if you don’t hurry. This was revealed to me \nas I was praying.’ \nThe monks set off; and finding the one man dead they buried him\, while \nthey revived the other with water and brought him to the elder. It was about a \nday’s journey off. Should you ask why Antony did not speak before the first man \ndied\, I would say that the question is inapt: the decision about death rested not \nwith Antony but with God\, and He allowed the first man to die and sent a \nrevelation to St Antony about the second. The miracle happened to St Antony\, \nand to him alone\, because while seated on the mountain he kept \nhis heart watchful\, and so the Lord showed him what was happening a long way \noff. \nDo you see how through watchfulness of heart St Antony was able to \nperceive God…? For it is in the heart that God manifests Himself to \nthe intellect…as fire that purifies the lover and then as light that illumines \nthe intellect and renders it godlike. \nWe cannot be reconciled with God and assimilated to Him unless we \nfirst…enter into ourselves\, in so far as this lies within our power. For the miracle \nconsists in tearing ourselves away from the distraction and vain concerns of the \nworld and in this way relentlessly seizing hold of the kingdom of heaven within \nus \n4 https://orthodoxchurchfathers.com/fathers/philokalia/nikiphoros-the-monk-from-the-life-of-our-holy-father- \nantony.html. Accessed: Jan. 11\, 2024.9 \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:UNCEASING PRAYER AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE \nBy Elder Paisios of Mount Athos5 \n◊◊◊ \nIn regards to unceasing prayer\, if you want\, use a simple method if you \nare a simple person… Unfortunately\, some people don’t have as their aim the \nputting off of their old man\, repentance\, humility and the placing of asceticism \nas a supporting means for the sanctification of their soul in order to sense deeply \ntheir sinfulness and feel profoundly the need for God’s mercy\, and say with \nsweet pain\, “Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me”. Instead\, they begin with arid \nascesis and pursue divine pleasures and divine lights… When they believe that \nthey have become holy\, immediately the enemy approaches… \nTherefore\, my brother\, ask for repentance in your prayer and nothing \nelse\, neither for divine lights\, nor miracles\, nor prophecies\, nor spiritual gifts – \n– nothing but repentance. Repentance will bring you humility\, humility will \nbring the Grace of God\, and God will have in His Grace everything you need for \nyour salvation\, or anything you might need to help another soul. \nThings are very simple and there is no reason why we should complicate \nthem. If we regard matters in this way\, we will feel…prayer as a necessity and \nwill not grow weary. We will…feel a sweet pain and then Christ Himself will \nshed His sweet consolation inside our heart. \nThus prayer does not tire but invigorates. It is tiresome only when we do \nnot enter into its meaning and do not understand the sense given it by our Holy \nFathers. Once we comprehend the need of God’s mercy\, the desire of this \nhunger will compel us\, without pressuring ourselves in prayer\, to open our \nmouth like a nursing infant\, and we will feel\, simultaneously\, all the security \nand joy of a baby in its mother’s embrace… \nWe should be in frequent contact with God and\, if possible\, in “constant \nvigilance” for more safety in order to continuously have an abundance of divine \nstrength. Of course\, the enemy does not rest and is constantly attacking us in a \nvariety of ways. However\, we can turn it to our advantage\, and render him into \nan unpaid worker\, who assists us in our unceasing prayer. For example\, when \nhe brings us evil or blasphemous thoughts\, we should start the Jesus Prayer and \nsay to the devil: “It’s good that you pricked at me\, for I had forgotten my Christ”. \nWhen we do this\, even if we were to keep the devil near\, he won’t remain\, since \nhe is not so dumb as to work for free and to bring benefit to our soul. \nIf we want to engage in fine and painstaking work\, let us take\, in order\, \nthe most difficult passions we have\, and whatever fault we detect during the \nday\, and humbly ask for God’s mercy so that we can be redeemed… In this way\, \nthe passions are uprooted… \nWhen someone first gets to know himself and becomes conscious of his \ngreat sinfulness and the great benevolence of God\, his heart breaks even if it is \nas hard as granite. Then\, real tears flow naturally and man does not pressure \nhimself neither in prayer nor in order to shed tears. Humility and <gratitude> \ncontinually work to “drill” on his heart\, and the wellsprings increase\, and God’s \nhand constantly caresses His hardworking grateful child. \n  \n5 Elder Paisios of Mount Athos. Epistles. Souroti\, Thessaloniki\, Greece: Holy Monastery “Evangelist John the \nTheologian\, 2002. 71-73.11 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE WAY OF REPENTANCE \nFrom the writing of Jacob Boehme6 \n◊◊◊ \nWhen…a man finds within himself a hunger\, so that he would eagerly repent\, \nbut finds in himself no proper sorrow for his past sins\, and yet a hunger for sorrow \n(as the poor\, captured soul ever groans\, fears itself and acknowledges itself as guilty \nof sins before God’s judgement)\, he can do no better than to gather sense\, mind \nand all reason together into one and…when he feels a desire to repent he is to make \na powerful resolution\, that in this hour\, in this minute\, he will enter into \nrepentance\, and leave his godless way\, give no attention to any worldly power and \nhonour and\, if it must be\, leave all for true repentance and esteem nothing. \nAnd [he] is to make such a firm and stern resolution for himself that he will \nnever again leave [repentance]\, even if the whole world considers him a fool; and \nthat he will wish to lead his mind obediently away from the beauties and pleasures \nof this world into the sufferings and death of Christ\, under His cross\, and order his \nwhole hope to the coming life and enter into Christ’s vineyard\, in righteousness \nand truth to do God’s will\, and begin and complete all his work in this world in \nChrist’s spirit and will. For the sake of Christ’s word and promise by which He \npromised us heavenly reward\, he should eagerly suffer and bear all misfortune and \nsuffering\, so that he may be counted among the community of Christ’s children…by \nthe blood of Jesus Christ. \nHe is strongly to consider\, and completely wrap his soul [in the idea] that he \nhas made the resolution to gain the love of God in Christ Jesus\, and that according \nto His true promise God will give him the noble pledge of the Holy Spirit as a \nbeginning so that in himself he might be reborn in Christ’s humanity\, according to \nthe heavenly divine being\, and that the spirit of Christ might renew his mind…and \nstrengthen his weak faith so that in his soul’s desire… he might receive…from the \nsweet fountain\, Jesus Christ\, the water of eternal life… \nHe is to consider fully the great love of God\, that God does not wish the death \nof the sinner\, but that he be converted and live. And he is also to [consider] how \nChrist\, in a friendly manner\, calls poor sinners to Himself\, since He desires to \nrevive them; and that God sent His son into the world to seek and to make holy \nthat which was lost\, the poor\, repentant\, converted sinner; and how\, for the sake \nof the poor sinner\, He gave His life unto death\, and for him died in our humanity\, \ntaken on [for us]. \nHe is to consider strongly also that God in Christ Jesus will more readily hear \n[him] and receive him into grace than he himself wants to come to Him; and that \nin the love of Christ\, in the very precious Name JESUS\, God can desire no evil\, that \nthere is no glimpse of wrath in this Name\, but that He is the highest and deepest \nlove and faithfulness… so that He would pour His sweet love into us so that the \nFather’s wrath\, which was enflamed in us\, might be put out and changed into love. \nAll of this occurred for the sake of the poor sinner so that he might again gain the \nopen gate of grace. \nIn such a consideration he should firmly imagine that at this hour and \nmoment he stands in the presence of the Holy Trinity\, and that God is truly present \nin him and outside of him… Thus\, he is to know and believe for certain that he \nstands\, with his soul\, before the face of Jesus Christ\, before the holy Godhead\, and \nthat his soul has turned from God’s face; and that he now\, this hour\, wishes to turn \nhis soul’s eyes and desire to God\, and\, with the poor\, prodigal and returning son \n[desires to] come to the Father. \n  \n6 Jacob Boehme. The Way to Christ. Trans. Peter Erb. New York: Paulist Press\, 1978. 31-34.13 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:ALL WHO HUNGER AND THIRST \nFrom a homily by Ogier of Locedio7 \n◊◊◊ \nHow sweet and delightful it is\, ever to call to mind our heavenly mother\, \nthat fragrant spikenard\, about whom roses waft the scent of Paradise!… For \nthus sang Mary\, Queen of the world and Mother of Humility: He cast down the \nmighty from their thrones and raised up the lowly… Therefore be meek of \nheart\, you who wear the habit of humility: let what your habit professes \noutwardly preserve you inwardly in virtue… Thus you will be pleasing to God\, \nwho emptied himself and\, accepting the form of a servant\, gave himself up to \nsuffer\, dying on the rood\, lest humankind die and for ever live in the abyss of \nsavage cruelty… \nWhatever your past\, take no pleasure in what is displeasing to your \nCreator\, but in him alone\, whom you have vowed yourself to please in all your \nactions. If you have lived chastely\, if you have not strafed the citadel of humility \nwith bolts of pride\, then you will be comely and beautiful in the sight of the Most \nHigh. He himself — who filled the hungry with good things and sent away the \nwealthy empty-handed –– will find it good to be your spouse. \nHow blessed the hungry whom the Lord fills with his lasting goodness… \nAll who hunger and thirst for justice will be fed by the Bread of Angels that came \ndown from heaven to give life to the world. These hungry ones Jesus does not \nturn away empty-handed; he satisfies their desires with his goodness\, by \nenriching them with the good of everlasting life. They are indeed rich when they \nshare in the wealth of joy in the glory of heaven. There true wealth lies\, where \nno one is wretched or poor; for there dwell glory and life\, utter joy\, and total \nbliss. With such good things the author of goodness will fill those who in this \nlife have rid themselves of sin\, who suffer torment in order to possess Him\, and \nwho find no pleasure except in the true joy of God\, and the supreme bliss of \nChrist. \nHe enriches holy paupers with his ineffable goodness\, but he \nimpoverishes the wicked wealthy\, and sends them away empty. Death separates \nthe rich from their passing wealth\, but when the poor of Christ pass on\, they \ngain eternity… The true pauper has nothing of mortal sin. Even if he has earthly \nriches\, he reckons them as worthless\, because he does not yet possess the true \nwealth of the Lord Jesus. To see him\, to hold him: this is the desire towards \nwhich he labors with all his heart. \nThe rich…are those whose lives are doubly mortal: they covet passing \ngains\, and neglect to live for God. O what an evil wealth is the enormity of sin \nand vice\, which plunders the soul of divine riches! The greater the accumulation \nof such wealth\, the more its possessors will be cast down and despised by Christ\, \nwho will dismiss them empty-handed\, saying: Depart from me\, workers of \niniquity; in truth I tell you\, I do not know you!… Let us rid ourselves of worldly \nwealth and sin. Let the rich whose true wealth is Christ bestow their goods on \nthe poor and needy\, so that they—and we—may join the company of the angels \nin the Kingdom of his Father\, and he says those wondrous words of welcome: \nCome\, blessed of my Father\, receive the kingdom prepared for you before the \nbeginning of the world… This promise of eternal inheritance knows no end\, for \nbelievers will want for nothing at the end of time\, but will enjoy beatific glory \nfor ever and beyond. May the Mother of glory deign through her merits to bring \nus to that bliss. \n  \n7 Ogier of Locedio. In Praise of God’s Holy Mother. CF 70. Trans. D. Martin Jenni. Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian \nPublications\, 2006. 111\, 120-122\, 128.15 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Skema: Week 3 of Ordinary Time
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nBiblical Readings for Office and Mass\n3rd Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nJanuary 21 – 27\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n21\nMon\n22\nTue\n23\nWed\n24\nThu\n25\nFri\n26\nSat\n27\n\n\nOffice\n3rd Sunday\nWeekday\nWeekday\nSt Francis de Sales\nConversion of St Paul\nSS Robert\, Alberic & Stephen\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nNum 20:1-13; 21:4-9\nNum 21:21-35\nNum 22:2-21\nNum 22:22-40\nActs 26:1-23\nLev 26:3-13\nNum 22:41-23:12\n\n\nLauds\nEccles 5:1-6\nEccles 5:7-11\nEccles 5:12-19\nEccles 6:1-6\nSir 39:1-10\nEzek 34:23-31\nEccles 6:7-12\n\n\nMass\n68\n317\n318\n319\n519\n606\, 322\, 815.8\n322\n\n\n1st\nJon 3:1-5\, 10\n2 Sam 5:1-7\, 10\n2 Sam 6:12b-15\, 17-19\n2 Sam 7:4-17\nActs 22:3-16\nSir 44:1\,10-15\n2 Sam 12:1-7a\, 10-17\n\n\n2nd\n1 Cor 7:29-31\n\n\n\n\nHeb 11:1-2\, 8-16\n\n\n\nGospel\nMark 1:14-20\nMark 3:22-30\nMark 3:31-35\nMark 4:1-20\nMark 16:15-18\nMark 10:24b-30\nMark 4:35-41\n\n\nVespers\n2 Cor 7:5-10\n2 Cor 7:11-16\n2 Cor 8:1-7\n2 Cor 8:8-15\n1 Jn 4:13-21\n2 Cor 4:7-18\n2 Cor 9:6-15
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SUMMARY:Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
DESCRIPTION:THE GREATNESS OF GOD’S LOVE\nFrom a commentary by St Caesarius of Arles1\n◊◊◊\nIn today’s gospel\, beloved\, we heard the exhortation to repent\, for the\nkingdom of heaven is at hand. Now the kingdom of heaven is Christ\, who\, as we\nknow\, is the judge of good and evil and scrutinizes the motives for all our\nactions. We should therefore do well to forestall God’s judgment by freely\nacknowledging our sins and correcting our wrongheaded attitudes; for by\nfailing to seek out the needful remedies and apply them\, we place ourselves in\ndanger. And our knowledge that we have to account for the motives behind our\nshortcomings makes the need for such a change of heart even greater. \nWe must recognize the greatness of God’s love for us; so generous is it\nthat he is willing to be appeased by the amends we make for our evil deeds\,\nprovided only that we freely admit them before he has himself condemned\nthem. And though his judgments are always just\, he gives us a warning before\nhe passes them\, so as not to be compelled to apply the full rigor of his justice. It\nis not for nothing that our God draws floods of tears from us; he does so to incite\nus to recover by penance and a change of heart what we had previously let slip\nthrough carelessness. God is well aware that human judgment is often at fault\,\nthat we are prone to fleshly sins and deceitful speech. He therefore shows us the\nway of repentance\, by which we can compensate for damage done and atone for\nour faults. And so to be sure of obtaining forgiveness\, we ought to be always\nbewailing our guilt. Yet no matter how many wounds our human nature has\nsustained\, we are never justified in giving ourselves over to despair\, for our Lord\nis magnanimous enough to pour out his compassion abundantly on all who\nneed it. \nBut perhaps one of you will say: “What have I to fear? I have never done\nanything wrong.” On this point hear what the apostle John says: If we claim to\nbe sinless\, we deceive ourselves and are blind to the truth. So let no one lead\nyou astray; the most pernicious kind of sin is the failure to recognize one’s own\nsinfulness. Once let wrongdoers admit their guilt and repent of it\, and this\nchange of heart will bring about their reconciliation with the Lord; but no sinner\nis more in need of the tears of others than the one who thinks he has nothing to\nweep for. So I implore you\, beloved\, to follow the advice given you by the holy\nScripture and humble yourselves beneath the all-powerful hand of God. \nAs none of us can be wholly free from sin\, so let none of us fail to make\namends; here too we do ourselves great harm if we presume our own innocence.\nIt may be that some are less guilty than others\, but no one is entirely free from\nfault; there may be degrees of guilt\, but no one can escape it altogether. Let\nthose then whose offenses are more grievous be more earnest in seeking\npardon; and let those who have so far escaped contamination by the more\nheinous crimes pray that they may never be defiled by them…. \n1\nJourney with the Fathers – Year B – New City Press – 1999 – pg 74-75.
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SUMMARY:Blessed Madeleine Delbrel
DESCRIPTION:WHEREVER LOVE IS PRESENT\nFrom the writing of Blessed Madeleine Delbrêl 2\n◊◊◊\nAnywhere we are\, God is there\, too. The space where we join him is the\nplace of our love\, a love that does not want to be separated from God\, that wants\nto encounter God. Whoever has not tried to know who Jesus is – truly\, fully\,\npresently – will not desire him. He will desire him less than a child desires an\norange from the grocery store. \nBut those who have struggled to climb toward the mystery of God\, who\nthought him possible\, who believed him possible\, who\, in the end\, believed him\nto be true\, who found the joy of joys in this truth; those who had to make room\nin themselves for still more joy in knowing that this mystery was made\nperceptible to the eyes of men in a man who was both man and God; those who\nknow that this man will remain with them until the end of time\, with his body\,\nwith his blood\, with his glory\, those who believed and who still believe in all\nthis\, we who believe it – will we lack the desire to find him wherever he says he\ncan be found? To knock down or pierce through all the obstacles that would\nkeep us from being with him forever\, ever more deeply? It is this desire that\nmakes prayer and that makes it anywhere. Wherever love is present\, it carries\nwithin itself this desire. To love God enough to want to be with him\, to carry\nwithin ourselves the desire of this love\, gives us strength enough to cut through\neven the hardest\, most hectic of lives\, so that in prayer we can reach the One we\nlove. \nA few minutes of such prayer will give us to God and give us God more\nthan hours of powerful meditation if they are not preceded by a free and living\ndesire. The retreat to the desert can be…at the end of the day\, after we have\nspent all day “digging” a well toward these few brief moments; in contrast\, this\nsame desert could be without retreat if we put off our desire to meet the Lord.\nOur comings and goings – and not only the big ones\, but also those we make\nfrom one room to the next – the moments when we are required to wait…are\nmoments of prayer prepared for us\, as long as we are prepared for them. To\nwaste them through lack of preparation can rightly be called a small fault. But\nif one day we find that\, with the Lord\, it is not a question of sin but one of love\,\nperhaps we will realize that we have been strange lovers. \n2 Delbrêl\, Madeleine. The Dazzling Light of God. Trans. Mary Dudro Gordon. San Francisco: Ignatius Press\,\n2023. 119-120.
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SUMMARY:Weekday
DESCRIPTION:OUR NEIGHBOUR IS THE IMAGE OF GOD \nFrom the writing of Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov 3 \n◊◊◊ \nHoly monks constantly remembered Christ’s words: Truly I tell you\, when you did it to one of the least of these My brethren\, you did it to Me. They did not stop to consider whether their neighbour deserved their respect or not; they paid no attention to his numerous and obvious defects. Their attention was taken up with seeing that they did not somehow fail to realize that our neighbour is the image of God\, and that Christ accepts what we do to our neighbour as if it were done to Him… \nIt requires considerable spiritual effort and it requires the co-operation of divine grace for the heart damaged by sin to grasp this notion so as to have it constantly in mind\,” in our relations with our brethren. But when by the mercy of God we grasp this notion\, it becomes a source of the purest love for our neighbour\, a love for all equally. Such love has a single cause — the Christ Who is honoured and loved in every neighbour. \nThe realization of this truth becomes a source of the sweetest compunction\, of the most fervent\, undistracted\, most concentrated prayer. Holy Abba Dorotheus used to say to his disciple\, St. Dositheus\, whenever he was overcome by anger: ‘Dositheus! You get angry\, and are you not ashamed that you get angry and offend your brother? Do you not realize that he is Christ and that you offend Christ?’ \nThe great Saint Apollos often used to tell his disciples regarding the reception of who came to him that they must be given honour with a prostration to the earth. In bowing to them we bow not to them but to God… And that we must welcome and show hospitality to the brethren we have learnt from Lot who urged the Angels to spend the night at his house. \nThis way of thought and behaviour was adopted by all the monks of Egypt… St. Cassian the Roman… of the fourth century\, relates the following: “When we…wishing to learn the rules of the elders\, arrived from the region of Syria in the province of Egypt\, we were astonished to find that they received us there with extraordinary kindness. Moreover they never observed the rule for the use of food\, for which a fixed hour is appointed\, contrary to what we had learnt in the Palestinian monasteries. Wherever we went the regular fast for that day was relaxed\, with the exception of the canonical fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. We asked one of the elders: “Why do you all without distinction disregard the daily fasting?” He replied: “Fasting is always with me\, but you I must send away eventually and I cannot always have you with me. Although fasting is beneficial and constantly necessary\, yet it is a gift and a voluntary sacrifice\, whereas the observance of love…is an invariable duty required by the commandment. I receive Christ in your person\, and I must show Him wholehearted hospitality… Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But when the bridegroom is taken away from them\, then they will fast lawfully”… \nThrough humility in your dealings with your neighbour\, and through love for your neighbour\, hardness and callousness is expelled from the heart. It is rolled away like a heavy rock from the entrance to a tomb\, and the heart revives for spiritual relations with God. \n3 Brianchaninov\, Ignatius. The Arena: An Offering to Contemporary Monasticism. Trans. from the Russian. Madras\, 1970. 62-65.
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SUMMARY:St. Francis de Sales
DESCRIPTION:HOW CHARITY PRODUCES LOVE OF NEIGHBOR\nBy St Francis de Sales 4\n◊◊◊ \nJust as God has created “us in his image and likeness\,” so also has he\nordained for us a love in the image and likeness of the love due to his divinity.\nHe says: “You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart\, and with your\nwhole soul\, and with your whole mind.” This the greatest and the first\ncommandment. and the second is like it\, “You shall love your neighbor as\nyourself.”… Why do we love God? “The reason for which we love God is God\nhimself.” says St. Bernard\, as if to say that we love God because he is the most\nsupreme and most infinite goodness. Why do we love ourselves in charity?\nSurely\, it is because we re God’s image and likeness. \nSince all persons have this same dignity\, we also love them as ourselves\,\nthat is\, in their character is most holy and living images of the divinity. It is in\nthis character…that we are related to God by such close alliance and such loving\ndependence that nothing prevents him from saying that he is our Father and\nfrom calling us his children. It is in this character that we are capable of being\nunited to his divine essence by enjoyment of his supreme goodness and bliss. It\nis in this character that we receive his grace and our spirits are associated with\nhis most holy Spirit\, and as it were “are made partakers of his divine nature\,” as\nSt. Leo says. \nHence\, the same charity that produces acts of love of God produces at the\nsame time those of love of neighbor. Just as Jacob saw that one and the same\nladder touched heaven and earth and equally served the angels both to descend\nand to ascend\, so also we know that one and the same dilection reaches out to\ncherish both God and neighbor. Thus it raises us up to unite our spirit with God\nand it brings us back again to loving association with our neighbors. However\,\nthis is always on condition that we love our neighbors in as much as they are\nGod’s image and likeness\, created to communicate with the divine goodness\, to\nparticipate in his grace\, and to enjoy his glory… \nTo love our neighbor in charity is to love God in the human being or the\nhuman being in God. It is to cherish God alone for love of himself and creatures\nfor love of him. When we see our neighbor created in the likeness and image\nof God\, should we not say to one another\, “Stop\, do you see this created being\,\ndo you see how it resembles the Creator?” Should we not cast ourselves upon\nhim\, caress him\, and weep over him with love? Should we not give him a\nthousand\, thousand blessings? Why so?… It is for love of God who made us in\nhis own image and likeness and therefore capable of sharing in his goodness in\ngrace and glory. \n4 On the Love of God\, Tan Books & Pub. Inc.\, 1975\, pp. 170-171.
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SUMMARY:Conversion of St. Paul
DESCRIPTION:FROM A HOMILY ON THE PRAISE OF ST PAUL\nBy St John Chrysostom 5\n◊◊◊ \nPaul\, more than anyone else\, has shown us what humankind really is\, and\nin what our nobility consists\, and of what virtue this particular animal is\ncapable. Each day he aimed ever higher; each day he rose up with greater ardor\nand faced with new eagerness the dangers that threatened him. He summed up\nhis attitude in the words: I forget what is behind me and push on to what lies\nahead. When he saw death imminent\, he bade others share his joy: Rejoice and\nbe glad with me! And when danger\, injustice and abuse threatened\, he said: I\nam content with weakness\, mistreatment and persecution. These he called the\nweapons of righteousness\, thus telling us that he derived immense profit from\nthem. \nThus\, amid the traps set for him by his enemies\, with exultant heart he\nturned their every attack into a victory for himself; constantly beaten\, abused\nand cursed\, he boasted of it as though he were celebrating a triumphal\nprocession and taking trophies home\, and offered thanks to God for it all:\nThanks be to God who is always victorious in us! \nThe most important thing of all to him\, however\, was that he knew\nhimself to be loved by Christ. Enjoying this love\, he considered himself happier\nthan anyone else; were he without it\, it would be no satisfaction to be the friend\nof principalities and powers. He preferred to be thus loved and be the least of\nall\, or even to be among the damned\, than to be without that love and be among\nthe great and honored. \nTo be separated from that love was\, in his eyes\, the greatest and most\nextraordinary of torments; the pain of that loss would alone have been hell\, and\nendless\, unbearable torture. \nSo too\, in being loved by Christ he thought of himself as possessing life\,\nthe world\, the angels\, present and future\, the kingdom\, the promise and\ncountless blessings. Apart from that love nothing saddened or delighted him;\nfor nothing earthly did he regard as bitter or sweet. \nDeath itself and pain and whatever torments might come were but child’s\nplay to him\, provided that thereby he might bear some burden for the sake of\nChrist. \n5 Hom. 2 de laudibus sancti Pauli: PG 50\, 477-480.
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SUMMARY:SS Robert\, Alberic\, and Stephen
DESCRIPTION:THE JOURNEY TO THE WILDERNESS OF CITEAUX\nFrom the “Exordium Magnum” of Conrad of Eberbach 6\n◊◊◊ \nIn the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1098\, Dom Robert\, the abbot of\nthe Abbey of Molesme…and with him went those brothers whose hearts God had\ntouched\, set out from Molesme\, making the same choice as their father Saint\nBenedict\, to tire themselves out in working for God rather than settling down in a\ncomfortable way of life. They hurried eagerly to that place which by the grace of\nGod had been offered them beforehand as suitable to their endeavor\, that is\, to the\nwilderness called Citeaux. Situated in the diocese of Chalon\, it was at that time a\nplace but seldom approached by human beings because of the woods and dense\nbriars and inhabited only by wild beasts. \nThe men of God arrived at this place of horror and vast solitude; and thought\nit quite suitable for the sort of religious observance which they had long had in\nmind and for which they had come\, all the more so when they realized that the\ndensity of woods and briars would make the monastery remote and cut off\, quite\nforgotten by and inaccessible to the world. So by the will of the bishop of Chalon\nand the consent of the person to whom the place belonged\, they began to build\nthere… on 21 March\, that is\, on the solemnity of the birth [to eternal life] of Saint\nBenedict\, which was also Palm Sunday and therefore celebrated with double joy\,\nto the rejoicing of angels and the casting down of demons…By a happy omen\, those\nwho had decided to arrange the ordering of their life and the guidelines for divine\nservices according to the form prescribed in the Rule began this undertaking on\nthe birthday of the very person who had\, through the life-giving Spirit\, given the\nsaving law to many. \n…Just as at the beginning of grace\, when Christ our Lord and Savior was\nborn\, the world\, while it knew him not\, received a pledge of new redemption\, of\nancient reconciliation\, of eternal happiness\, so too in these last days\, when charity\nis cold and iniquity everywhere abounds\, the almighty and merciful Lord planted\nthe seed of that same grace in the wilderness of Citeaux. Watered by the rain of\nthe Holy Spirit\, it gathered an incredibly plentiful harvest of spiritual riches\,\ngrowing and developing into a great tree so surpassingly beautiful and fruitful that\npeople of various nations\, tribes\, and tongues delighted to rest in its shade and\nsatisfy themselves with its fruits. Yet although this fruit makes bitter the stomach\nof carnal desire by the work of repentance\, it is as sweet as honey in the mouth of\nthe developing conscience. \n6 Conrad of Eberbach. The Great Beginnning of Citeaux: A Narrative of the Beginning\nof the Cistercian Order: The Exordium Magnum of Conrad of Eberbach. CF 72. Trans.\nBenedicta Ward\, SLG\, and Paul Savage. Collegeville\, MN: Cistercian Publications\, 2012.\n75-78.
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SUMMARY:Memorial of the BVM
DESCRIPTION:ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD\nFrom the writing of St Bernard of Clairvaux 7\n◊◊◊ \n‘And the Lord will give to him the throne of his father David’. Those are\nthe very words spoken by the angel to the Virgin about the Son who had been\npromised to her\, and by them he promised also that He should possess the\nkingship of David… \nAt first\, as long as she was doubtful\, she prudently kept silence…\npreferring\, of course\, humbly to give no reply rather than to speak hastily about\nmatters of which she knew nothing. But once she was reassured… for the Lord\nwas with her as the angel had said… once she was strengthened by the faith\nwhich casts out fear\, and by the joy which casts out confusion\, she said to the\nangel\, ‘How can this be\, since I know no man?’ She does not doubt the event\,\nbut wonders how it shall occur… \nHe said then\, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you\, and the power of the\nMost High will overshadow you.’… It is as if the angel replied to the Virgin\, ‘Why\nask me about something which you are going soon to experience in yourself?\nYou will find out…how happily you will find out\, and your teacher will be none\nother than he who works this [within you]\, I have been sent only to announce\nthis virginal conception\, not to bring it about. This is something which can only\nbe taught by the giver\, and learnt only by the receiver. “Therefore the Holy to be\nborn of you will be called the Son of God.”… \nWhat then? Are you the one who was promised\, or must we look for\nanother? No\, it is you and no one else… So\, answer the angel quickly or rather\,\nthrough the angel\, answer God. Only say the word and receive the Word: give\nyours and conceive God’s. Breathe one fleeting word and embrace the\neverlasting Word. Why do you delay? Why be afraid? Believe\, give praise and\nreceive. Let humility take courage and shyness confidence… Blessed Virgin\,\nopen your heart to faith\, your lips to consent and your womb to your Creator.\nBehold\, the long-desired of all nations is standing at the door and knocking. Oh\,\nwhat if he should pass by because of your delay and\, sorrowing\, you should\nagain have to seek him whom your soul loves? Get up\, run\, open! Get up by\nfaith\, run by prayer\, open by consent! \n‘Behold\,’ she says\, ‘I am the handmaiden of the Lord; let it be to me\naccording to your word’… May the Word who in the beginning was with God\,\nbecome flesh of my flesh\, according to your word… I do not want it to be a word\nproclaimed to me in discourse\, symbolized in figures\, or dreamed in the\nimagination\, but one silently inspired\, personally incarnate\, corporally\ninviscerate. May the Word which could not…be made in himself\, deign to be in\nme\, deign to be to me according to your word. Let it be for the whole world\, but\nlet it be to me uniquely ‘according to your word’. \n7 Bernard of Clairvaux. Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary. CF 18A. Trans. Marie-Bernard Saïd. Kalamazoo\, MI:\nCistercian Publications\, 1993. 45\, 48-50\, 54-55.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/memorial-of-the-bvm/
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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n4th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (B)\, Weekdays (II)\nJanuary 28 – February 3\, 2024\n\n\n\nSun\n28\nMon\n29\nTue\n30\nWed\n31\nThu\n1\nFri\n2\nSat\n3\n\n\nOffice\n4th Sunday\nOffice for the Dead\nWeekday\nSt John Bosco\nWeekday\nPresentation of the Lord\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\nNum 23:13-26\nNum 23:27-24:13\nNum 25:1-17\nJosh 1:1-18\nJosh 2:1-24\nExod 13:1-16\nJosh 3:1-17\n\n\nLauds\nEccles 7:1-9\nEccles 7:10-14\nEccles 7:15-22\nEccles 7:23-29\nEccles 8:1-9\n1 Sam 1:20-28\nEccles 8:10-13\n\n\nMass\n71\n323\n324\n325\n326\n524\n328\n\n\n1st\nDeut 18:15-20\n2 Sam 15:13-14\, 30; 16:5-13\n2 Sam 18:9-10\, 14b\, 24-25a\, 30-19:3\n2 Sam 24:2\, 9-17\n1 Kgs 2:1-4\, 10-12\nHeb 2:14-18\n1 Kgs 3:4-13\n\n\n2nd\n1 Cor 7:32-35\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGospel\nMark 1:21-28\nMark 5:1-20\nMark 5:21-43\nMark 6:1-6\nMark 6:7-13\nLuke 2:22-40\nMark 6:30-34\n\n\nVespers\n2 Cor 10:1-11\n2 Cor 11:1-6\n2 Cor 11:7-15\n2 Cor 11:21b-30\n2 Cor 12:1-10\nRom 12:1-5\n2 Cor 12:11-18
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