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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST JOHN HENRY NEWMAN \n◊◊◊ \nPersons are aware from the mere force of the doctrines of which the \ngospel consists\, that they ought to be variously affected\, and deeply and \nintensely too\, in consequence of them. The doctrines of original and actual sin\, \nof Christ’s divinity and atonement\, and of holy baptism\, are so vast\, that no one \ncan realize them without very complicated and profound feelings. Natural \nreason tells us this\, and that if we simply and genuinely believe the doctrines\, we \nmust have these feelings; and we profess to believe the doctrines absolutely\, and \ntherefore we profess the correspondent feelings. But in truth we perhaps do not \nreally believe them absolutely…and therefore our profession of feeling outruns \nthe real inward existence of feeling\, or we become unreal. Let us never lose sight \nof two truths\, – that we ought to have our hearts penetrated with the love of \nChrist and full of self-renunciation; but if they be not\, professing that they are \ndoes not make them so. \nAnother still more common form of the same fault\, yet without any \ndefinite pretense or effort\, is the mode in which people speak of the shortness \nand vanity of life\, the certainty of death\, and the joys of heaven. They have \ncommonplaces in their mouths\, which they bring forth upon occasions for the \ngood of others\, or to console them\, or as a proper and becoming mark of \nattention towards them. Thus they speak to clergymen in a professedly serious \nway\, making remarks true and sound\, and in themselves deep\, yet unmeaning \nin their mouths; or they give advice to children and young men; or perhaps in \nlow spirits or sickness they are led to speak in a religious strain as if it was \nspontaneous. \nOr when they fall into sin\, they speak of being frail\, of the deceitfulness of \nthe human heart\, of God’s mercy\, and so on: – all of these great words\, heaven\, \nhell\, judgment\, mercy\, repentance\, works\, the world that now is\, the world to \ncome\, being little more than “lifeless sounds\, whether of pipe or harp\,” in their \nmouths and ears\, as the “very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and \ncan play well on an instrument\,” – as the properties of conversation\, or the \ncivilities of good breeding. \nI am speaking of the conduct of the world at large\, called Christian; but \nwhat has been said applies\, and necessarily\, to the case of a number of well- \ndisposed or even religious men. I mean\, that before we come to know the \nrealities of human life\, it is not wonderful that our view of religion should be \nunreal. Young people who have never known sorrow or anxiety\, or the sacrifices \nwhich conscientiousness involves\, want commonly that depth and seriousness \nof character\, which sorrow only and anxiety and self-sacrifice can give. \nI do not notice this as a fault\, but as a plain fact\, which may often be seen\, \nand which it is well to bear in mind. This is the legitimate use of this world\, to \nmake us seek for another. It does its part when it repels us and disgusts us and \ndrives us elsewhere. Experience of it gives experience of that which is its \nantidote\, in the case of religious minds; and we become real in our view of what \nis spiritual by the contact of things temporal and earthly.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Ignatius of Loyola
DESCRIPTION:A reading from the Papal Bull of Pope Paul III\, \nAPPROVING THE JESUIT ORDER \n◊◊◊ \nOf Late we have learned that our beloved sons Ignatius of Loyola\, Peter \nFaber\, James Laynez\, Francis Xavier\, Claude le Jay [and others]\, priests\, \nmasters of arts\, and graduates of the University of Paris\, and students of some \nyears’ standing in theology\, inspired\, as they piously believe\, by the Holy Spirit\, \nassembled together and forming an association\, forsook the allurements of the \nage to dedicate their lives to the perpetual service of our Lord Jesus Christ and \nof ourselves and our successors\, the Roman pontiffs. \nNow for many years they have labored nobly in the vineyard of the Lord\, \npublicly preaching the word of God under a tentative license\, privately \nexhorting the faithful to a good and blessed life and stimulating them to holy \nthoughts\, assisting in hospitals\, instructing the young and ignorant in the truths \nessential for the development of a Christian\, and performing all these offices of \ncharity and acts for the consolation of souls with great approbation in whatever \nlands they have visited. \nThen\, gathering in this beautiful city and remaining within its confines in \norder to complete and preserve the union of their society in Christ\, they have \ndrawn up a rule of life in accordance with the principles which they have learned \nby experience will promote their desired ends\, and in conformity with \nevangelical precepts and the canonical sanctions of the fathers. The tenor of the \naforesaid rule is as follows: \nHe who desires to fight for God under the banner of the cross in our society — \nwhich we wish to distinguish by the name of Jesus – and to serve God alone and \nthe Roman pontiff\, his vicar on earth\, after a solemn vow of perpetual chastity\, \nshall set this thought before his mind\, that he is a part of a society founded for \nthe special purpose of providing for the advancement of souls in Christian life \nand doctrine and for the propagation of the faith through public preaching and \nthe ministry of the word of God\, spiritual exercises and deeds of charity\, and in \nparticular through the training of the young and ignorant in Christianity and \nthrough the spiritual consolation of the faithful of Christ in hearing confessions; \nand he shall take care to keep first God and next the purpose of this organization \nalways before his eyes.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-ignatius-of-loyola-2/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Alphonsus Ligouri
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Jean Delumeau on \nST ALPHONSUS LIGOURI \n◊◊◊ \nAlphonsus’ destiny was not an ordinary one. Born into the Neapolitan \nnobility [in 1696]\, the son of a military man\, a highly gifted student who was \ndrawn to music\, painting\, drawing\, and architecture\, he became a lawyer at \nsixteen. Naples admired this brilliant young man…who mingled with the finest \nintellects of the city. The Neapolitans were surprised when he became a priest \nagainst the will of his authoritarian father\, and utterly amazed when they \ndiscovered him in the poorest neighborhoods\, preaching to the illiterate in \nremarkable evening sermons. \nOne day\, to the surprise of nearly everyone\, he fled from Naples on a \ndonkey to consecrate his life to preaching missions in the most abandoned rural \nareas. But it was difficult to found a new religious congregation [since] there \nwere already too many secular and regular priests and too many convents in this \npoor and badly administered country. He had to return to Naples far more often \nthan he wanted to plead as a lawyer for the survival of his fragile institution\, [the \nRedemptorists]. Badly shaved or unshaven\, he argued endlessly\, in his patched \ncassock\, with government ministers who respected him and considered him a \nsaint but who did not always give in to him. \n[Once established in the rural areas\, he found] that country-people\, and \nparticularly those from the most backward regions\, were under-Christianized\, \n[and he] decided to devote [his] life to them and forbade [his] disciples to \npreach in the big cities. [He] did not neglect even the most modest hamlets and \neliminated all embellishments and complexities from [his] preaching. [He] \ninsisted more on catechism than on eloquence and aimed at simplicity with \nsimple people. This was the reason for [his] popularity. \nAlphonsus’ originality lay in the fact that he was a musician\, having \nfrequented as a boy the Oratorians in Naples who preserved and developed the \nmusical tradition started by Saint Philip Neri… \nTwo tragic paradoxes marked the last thirty-five years of his life. He had \nsworn to himself that he would not become a bishop\, but he had to accept the \nnomination on direct orders from Rome\, where echoes of his saintliness had \nspread. Having finally succeeded in resigning from the bishopric for health \nreasons\, he had hoped to end his days peacefully among his [religious] “sons”. \nBy the time of his death [in 1787\, at 91 years of age]\, he had been excluded\, \ntogether with his Neapolitan brothers\, from the Congregation he had founded. \nRome recognized only the Redemptorists of the Papal States and excluded from \nthe Congregation those who continued to live and work further south. \nIt was not easy to be a saint\, not easy to cut oneself off from a brilliant \nsocial milieu\, or to go against a father’s will\, or to argue inch-by-inch with \nChurch and State. Above all it was not easy to fight against oneself as Alphonsus \ndid\, for he was by nature quick-tempered and strong-willed. He was very hard \non himself\, but his spiritual message to others was one of trust\, hope and \nmoderation. He was tormented by scruples but he tried to preserve others from \nthem. He gained self-mastery through fasting\, mortification\, work\, and lack of \nsleep\, so that he was generally seen by others as having a “heavenly face…gentle\, \njoyful\, and kind.”
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-alphonsus-ligouri-5/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:Chicago Zoom September 9:00am CDT
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