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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Kateri Tekaqwitha
DESCRIPTION:A reading by Daniel Sargent on \nST KATERI TEKAKWITHA \n◊◊◊ \nOn the fourteenth of October\, 1682\, a Frenchman living in Canada began \na letter to a Frenchman living in France. He had seen many wonders in Canada\, \nand was therefore eager to tell about them. \nHe was a missionary\, a priest\, a Jesuit\, a certain Father Chauchetière\, now \nonly thirty-seven years old\, and who had spent seven years already among the \nIndians of Canada whom he was trying to Christianize. The great astonishment \nof his life as a missionary had not been the size of the St Lawrence River\, but the \npiety which he had found among the Indians at his St Lawrence Mission. \nHe had expected to be horrified by the Indians even though he was willing \nto give his life for them. Instead he had been edified by them. But how was he \ngoing to convince the Jesuit Superior\, to whom he was writing his letter\, of this \nIndian holiness?… He dwelt on the inconvenience of this fervor: it led the \nIndians to adopt immoderate penances\, and forced him to step in and restrain \nthem. Only grudgingly did he add\, as the sole flash of his enthusiasm\, that “They \nwould be admired in France if what they do were known there.” \n[Then] he came to what was most incredible of all: “During the past two \nyears their fervor has greatly increased since God has removed from this world \none of these devout savage women who live like nuns\, and she died with the \nreputation of sanctity. Journeys are continually made to her tomb; and the \nsavages\, following her example\, have become better Christians than they were. \nWe daily see wonders worked through her intercession. Her name was [Kateri] \nTekakwitha.”… \nTekakwitha’s ancestors were an old people. Not merely that they had had \nas many ancestors as any other person alive\, but they remembered those \nancestors. They carried the past with them in their traditions\, from generation \nto generation… The ancestors of [Tekakwitha] had been suffering and longing \nfor ages… The gaining of salvation had been their age-long preoccupation… \nIf we look at the past of [Tekakwitha’s] ancestors\, as Fr. Chauchetière did \nnot and could not\, and if we look at the story of the French missionaries\, then \nthe spiritual blossoming of this [Kateri Tekakwitha] becomes a climax of a long \ndrama. Instead of exclaiming as Chauchetière did\, “How suddenly she has \ncome\,” our sigh is\, “How long\, how long\, the world has waited!”
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-kateri-tekaqwitha/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Bonaventure
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “Butler’s Lives of the Saints” on \nST BONAVENTURE \n◊◊◊ \nThis greatest successor of St Francis of Assisi…was born at Bagnorea\, near \nViterbo\, in the year 1221… He was clothed in the order of Friars Minor and \nstudied at the University of Paris under Alexander of Hales… Bonaventure\, who \nwas to become known as the Seraphic Doctor\, taught theology and Holy \nScripture at the University from 1248 to 1257. \nHe was called by his priestly obligation to labor for the salvation of his \nneighbor\, and to this he devoted himself with enthusiasm. He preached to the \npeople with an energy which kindled a flame in the hearts of those that heard \nhim. While at the University of Paris he produced one of the best-known of his \nwritten works\, the Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard\, which \ncovers the whole field of scholastic theology. The years of his public lecturing at \nParis were greatly disturbed\, however\, by the attack made on the mendicant \nfriars by the other professors at the university. Jealousy of their pastoral and \nacademic success and the standing reproof to worldliness and ease of the friars’ \nlives were in part behind this attempt to get them excluded from the schools. \nThe leader of the secular party was William of Saint-Amour\, who made a \nbitter onslaught on the mendicants in a book called The Perils of the Last Times. \nBonaventure\, who had to suspend lecturing for a time\, replied in a treatise on \nevangelical poverty\, named Concerning the Poverty of Christ. Pope Alexander \nIV appointed a commission of cardinals to go into the matter at Anagni\, and on \ntheir findings ordered Saint-Amour’s book to be burnt\, vindicated and \nreinstated the friars\, and ordered the offenders to withdraw their attack. A year \nlater\, in 1257\, St Bonaventure and St Thomas Aquinas received the degree of \ndoctor of theology together. \nIn 1257 Bonaventure was chosen minister general of the Friars Minor. He \nwas not yet thirty-six years old\, and the order was torn by dissensions\, some of \nthe friars being for an inflexible severity\, others demanding certain mitigation \nof the rule; between the two extremes were a number of other interpretations. \nSome of the extreme rigorists\, called Spirituals\, had even fallen into error and \ndisobedience\, and thus given a handle to the friars’ opponents in the Paris \ndispute. Bonaventure wrote a letter to his provincials in which he made it clear \nthat he required a disciplined observance of the rule\, involving a reformation of \nthe relaxed\, but giving no countenance to the excesses of the Spirituals. \nAt Narbonne in 1260\, the first of the five general chapters which \nBonaventure held\, he produced a set of constitutions on the rule\, which were \nadopted and had a permanent effect on Franciscan life\, but they failed to pacify \nthe excessive rigorists. At the request of the friars assembled in this chapter\, he \nundertook to write the life of St Francis\, with a spirit which shows him to have \nbeen filled with the virtues of the founder whose life he wrote. St Bonaventure \ngoverned his order for seventeen years and has been justly called its second \nfounder.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-bonaventure-3/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Bl Virgin Martyrs of Orange
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “The Catholic Encyclopedia” on \nTHE MARTYRS OF ORANGE \n◊◊◊ \nThe Martyrs of Orange were a group of 32 beatified religious women \nmartyred at Orange\, France\, during the French Revolution between July 5 and \n26\, 1794. Two were Cistercian nuns from Avignon\, the others were from \nBollene\, near Avignon. The others were from Bollene\, near Avignon and \nincluded 16 Ursulines\, 13 Sacramentine nuns and one Benedictine nun. For \nrefusing to take the oath of Liberty of the new regime\, the nuns were expelled \nfrom their convents\, arrested and held in La Cure prison in Orange. These and \nother nuns formed a kind of religious community\, and spent hours in prayer \ndaily and religious exercises until condemned for fanaticism and superstition. \nBesides these\, many others were imprisoned and died under dire \ncircumstances at this same time. The martyrs of the prison ships or on islands \noff the shore of La Rochelle who died of starvation or illness off the shore of La \nRochelle included over 547. Yet for the cause of beatification\, only 64 among \nthese were retained as martyrs\, namely\, those who were explicitly mentioned in \nthe lists of the deported. \nOn October 1\, 1995\, Pope John Paul II beatified three other Cistercians at \nthe same time as 61 other priests and religious of various Congregations. The \nmartyrs of the prison ships of Rochefort died in 1794\, the same year as the nuns \nof Orange\, and were declared martyrs in 1925. They were not the only \nCistercians who died of starvation or illness in the slave ships or on the islands \noff the shore of La Rochelle. Our Menology mentions several others. Yet for the \ncause of beatification\, only 64 among the 547 who died\, were retained as \nmartyrs\, namely\, those who were explicitly mentioned in the list of the \ndeported.11 \nThe three Cistercians were: Bro\, Elias Desgardin\, a lay Brother from Sept \nFons. He cared for his sick companions. A martyr of charity\, he died of typhoid \nfever at the age of forty-four. He was buried on the island of Aix. Also Dom Paul \nCharles\, the Prior of Sept Fons. Detained on the ship Les Deux Associes\, he died \nat the age of fifty-one\, esteemed and loved by his companions in captivity\, he \nwas buried on the island called Madame. The third beatified martyr was Dom \nGervais Brunel\, Superior of La Trappe\, who died at the age fifty in a provisional \nhospital on the island Madame. Stricken with typhoid fever\, he arrived there on \nthe point of dying\, dying on the very day of the disembarkment. \nOne of them made a statement that can be applied to all these beatified \nreligious and to many others condemned to die on the prison ships: “If we are \nthe most unhappy of men\, we are also the happiest of Christians”.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-bl-virgin-martyrs-of-orange/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nST LEO THE GREAT \n◊◊◊ \nI rejoice\, dearly beloved\, in the pious affection of your devotion\, and I give \nthanks to God that I see in you the love of Christian unity. For your very \npresence here testifies that you understand that the annual return of this day is \na matter for common rejoicing; and that in celebrating the annual festival of the \nShepherd\, you are honoring the whole flock. For though the universal Church is \nordered in varying degrees\, so the whole is made up from the diverse members \nof the sanctified Body\, we are all\, nevertheless\, as the Apostle says\, one in \nChrist; and no one is separated by office from another\, so that even the least \namong us is related to the head. \nTherefore\, Beloved\, in its unity of faith and baptism\, our society is \nundivided\, and its dignity is the dignity of all its members; according to the \nwords of the blessed Peter\, spoken by his own consecrated voice: Be you as \nliving stones built up\, a spiritual house\, a holy priesthood\, to offer up spiritual \nsacrifices\, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. And a little later: You are a \nchosen generation\, a kingly priesthood\, a holy nation\, a purchased people. \nFor all who are born again in Christ\, the sign of the Cross makes kings\, \nand the anointing of the Holy Spirit consecrates priests; so that apart from the \nspecial service of our ministry\, let all spiritual and reasoning Christians know \nthat they are of royal birth\, and sharers of the priestly office. For what is so \nkingly as the soul that is subject to God\, and the ruler of its own body? \nAnd what is so priestly as to dedicate to the Lord a pure conscience\, and to \noffer him on the altar of our hearts the unstained gift of our love? And since by \nGod’s grace this has been given to us all\, it is for you a devout and praiseworthy \nthing to rejoice on the day of our coronation as though the honor were your own.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Memorial of BVM
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “Mary\, the Mother of the Lord” by \nFR KARL RAHNER \n◊◊◊ \nAll that the faith says about the realization of redemption\, about salvation \nand grace and the fullness of grace\, is realized in Mary. This human person \nwhom we call Mary is as it were the very point in the whole history of our \nredemption at which the saving grace of the living God descends from him into \nthis history\, and from which it is diffused over the whole of humankind. For her \nSon\, whom she accepted in the strength of her heart\, whom she conceived in \nfaith and love\, is the Redeemer of the world. \nAnd since\, as Scripture testifies\, the consent she gave in faith and \nobedience belongs not only to her private life-story\, but to the public history of \nredemption\, it must correspond\, in harmony of person and function\, to the \npurpose for which it was given; in short it must be perfect. \nIt follows too that Mary is one of us. We honor her\, praise her\, love and \nrevere her unique dignity. But if\, in view of the mystery of her son\, we ask\, where \ndoes Mary stand? We must reply\, she belongs entirely with us. She must receive \nGod’s mercy just as we must\, for she lives and typifies to perfection what we \nourselves are to be in Christ’s sight. We too are to become what she is. She comes \nbefore God with us – like us and as one of our company – in the innumerable \nhost of humanity. \nIn our midst\, within the history of humankind as a whole\, as a part of it\, \nshe accomplishes her own life-story\, which takes on a unique importance for \nour salvation\, and which\, once lived through with this significance\, endures \neternally in God’s sight. Precisely because Mary\, in this position as \nintermediary\, is entirely one of us\, and only occupies that position because she \nbelongs with us\, as a mere creature\, to the one human family\, is she so near and \ndear to us. That is why we love her. And have an almost too merely human trust \nin her. And feel her intercession\, protection and love to be so near and human\, \nalthough\, or rather because this dear and familiar humanity has been taken up\, \nunimpaired and transfigured\, into the eternal life of God himself.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-memorial-of-bvm-22/
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SUMMARY:Chicago Zoom 9:00 am CDT
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