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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading from \nHANS URS VON BALTHASAR \n◊◊◊ \nThe Church lives in an incomprehensible place between earth and \nheaven\, between death and eternal life\, between the old world that is passing \naway and the new and incorruptible world. The Christian has died with Christ in \nbaptism but has also (as St Paul assures him) risen up with Christ and ascended \nwith him into heaven\, and he lives in time on the basis of eternal life and \noriented toward eternal life. As he follows Christ\, he goes toward suffering and \ndeath\, and yet he lives out of the real power of the risen Christ. \nThus Christian existence embraces the span between penitence and \nfeast. We are reminded of this by the Church year with its seasons of Advent and \nLent and yet with its unbroken succession of feasts great and small. This \nsequence gives us a symbol of something that\, on a deeper level\, is a mutual \ncompenetration\, a third paradox of our Christian existence. But just as heaven is \nvictorious over earth\, and resurrection over death\, so for the Christian must \neven penitence\, suffering\, and death be lived out of a disposition of the \ncelebration of a feast: the feast of the wedding of God with his redeemed world. \nIt is well known that the solemnities of the Old Testament all grew out of \nthanksgiving feasts for harvest. Where the earth bears fruit and holds feast\, man \nholds a feast with it in thankfulness… Everywhere the joy at harvest shimmers \nthrough the Mazzoth feast of unleavened bread\, the Pentecost feast of the \nfirstfruits of the wheat harvest\, and the feast of booths in the plucking of fruit \nand grapes\, when people slept in booths in the open fields and beside the \nvineyard: and perhaps no one even today can celebrate a religious feast with \nsuch a natural joy and cheerfulness as the Jews. \nThere are prayers\, but there are also songs and dances as a means of \ngiving thanks to God. Has this cheerfulness remained anywhere on the faces of \nthe Christians who celebrate a feast? It is true that the mystery that they \ncelebrate lies on a deeper level – but is it not also greater? Ought not the joy too \nbe a much deeper joy? What are religious harvest thanksgiving festivals\, even \nindeed when they are concerned with the rescuing of Israel\, compared with the \nunforeseeable harvest of bread and wine in the New and eternal Covenant? The \nwhole earth is now bread and wine. Must not the genuinely human joy be \npermitted to break through at this point? Would not a song by thousands of \nvoices…be the expression of what the Apostle says: “Rejoice in the Lord always; \nagain I say rejoice…” \nIt is not a worldly enthusiasm that we are to draw forth from the feast but \na strength that comes from the insight into the essence of God’s love. And it is \nnot herself that the Church celebrates; she is not enthusiastic about herself but \nonly about her Head and Lord. It is not the emotional atmosphere that is \nimportant but the matter itself. And this is God\, who becomes man among us in \norder to die for us… \nThe object of our celebration is Jesus Christ in his love that goes until the \nend\, in his power to lay down his life and to take it up again\, in his creative might \nto make the gift of himself to us in the forms of bread and wine\, in order to be \ninconceivably one with humanity.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-455/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Transfiguration of the Lord
DESCRIPTION:A reading from the last “Angelus” message of \nPOPE ST PAUL VI \n◊◊◊ \nThe Transfiguration of Our Lord\, recalled by the liturgy of today’s \nsolemnity throws a dazzling light on our daily life\, and makes us turn our mind \nto the immortal destiny which that fact foreshadows. On Mount Tabor\, Christ \nreveals for a few moments the splendor of his dignity\, and he manifests himself \nto chosen witnesses as he really is\, the Son of God\, “the glory of God and the \nvery stamp of his nature”. But it also shows the transcendent destiny of our \nhuman nature\, which he assumed in order to save us\, and which is destined – \nbecause redeemed by his sacrifice of irrevocable love – to participate in the \nfullness of life\, “in the inheritance of the saints in light”. \nThat body\, which is transfigured before the astonished eyes of the \napostles\, is the body of Christ our brother\, but it is also our body called to glory. \nThat light\, which bathes it\, is and also will be our share of inheritance and of \nsplendor. We are called to share such great glory because we are “partakers of \nthe divine nature”. And incomparable destiny awaits us if we honor our \nChristian vocation\, if we live a life that is logically consistent in word and deed \nwith the commitments that our baptism imposes on us…
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-transfiguration-of-the-lord-3/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Cajetan
DESCRIPTION:A reading from Butler’s Lives of the Saints \nST CAJETAN \n◊◊◊ \nSt Cajetan was son of Caspar\, Count of Thiene\, of the nobility of Vicenza\, \nwhere he was born in 1480. Two years later his father was killed\, fighting for the \nVenetians against King Ferdinand of Naples. Cajetan went for four years to \nPadua University\, where he distinguished himself in theology\, and took the \ndegree of doctor in civil and canon law in 1504. He then returned to his native \ntown\, of which he was made senator. In pursuance of his resolve to serve God as \na priest he received the tonsure. In 1506 he went to Rome. Soon after his arrival \nPope Julius II conferred on him the office of protonotary… On the death of \nJulius Cajetan refused his successor’s request to continue in that office\, and \ndevoted three years to preparing himself for the priesthood. He was ordained in \n1516\, being thirty-three years old\, and returned to Vicenza in 1518. \nCajetan had re-founded a confraternity in Rome called “The Oratory of \nthe Divine Love”\, which was an association of zealous and devout clerics who \ndevoted themselves to labor with all their power to promote God’s honor and \nthe welfare of souls… but consisted only of men in the lowest station of life. This \ncircumstance gave great offense to his friends\, who thought it a reflection on the \nhonor of his family. He persisted\, however\, and sought out the sick and the poor \nthroughout the whole town\, served them and cared for those who suffered from \nthe most loathsome diseases in the hospital of the incurables. He founded a \nsimilar oratory at Verona and then went in 1520 to Venice where he took up his \nlodgings in the new hospital of that city… He introduced exposition of the \nBlessed Sacrament in that city\, as well as continuing the promotion of frequent \ncommunion. \nThe state of Christendom at this time shocked and distressed Cajetan\, and \nin 1523 he went back to Rome to confer with his friends of the Oratory of Divine \nLove. They agreed that little could be done other than by reviving in the clergy \nthe spirit and zeal of those holy pastors who first planted the faith\, and a plan \nwas formed for instituting an order of regular clergy upon the model of the lives \nof the Apostles. The first associates of Cajetan were John Peter Caraffa\, who \nlater became pope under the name of Paul IV. The institute was approved by \nClement VII\, and Caraffa was chosen as the first provost general. From the \nname of his episcopal see of Theatensis these clerks regular came to be \ndistinguished from others as Theatines… \nIn 1527\, when it still numbered only a dozen members\, the army of \nEmperor Charles V sacked Rome. The Theatines house was demolished and the \nmembers had to escape to Venice. Cajetan was sent to Verona\, where both the \nclergy and the laity were opposing the reformation of discipline\, which their \nbishop was endeavoring to introduce among them. A general improvement was \nthe fruit of his example\, preaching and labors. \nWorn out with trying to appease civil strife in Naples\, and disappointed at \nthe suspension of the Council of Trent\, from which he hoped so much for the \nChurch’s good\, Cajetan had to take to his bed in the summer of 1547. The end \ncame on Sunday\, August 7. Many miracles wrought by his intercession were \napproved at Rome after rigorous scrutiny\, and he was canonized in 1671.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-cajetan-4/
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Dominic
DESCRIPTION:A reading on the prayer of \nST DOMINIC \n◊◊◊ \nThe holy father Dominic also had another beautiful way of praying\, full of \ndevotion and grace. After the canonical Hours and the grace which is said in \ncommon after meals\, the father would go off quickly on his own to a cell or \nsomewhere\, sober and alert and anointed with a spirit of devotion which he had \ndrawn from the divine words which had been sung in choir or during the meal; \nthere he would sit down to read or pray\, recollecting himself in himself and \nfixing himself in the presence of God. \nSitting there quietly he would open some book before him\, arming \nhimself first with the sign of the cross\, and then he would read. And he would be \nmoved in his mind as delightfully as if he heard the Lord speaking to him. As the \nPsalm says\, “I will hear what the Lord God is saying in me.” It was as if he were \narguing with a friend; at one moment he would appear to be feeling impatient\, \nnodding his head energetically\, then he would seem to be listening quietly\, then \nyou would see him disputing and struggling\, and laughing and weeping all at \nonce\, fixing his gaze\, submitting\, then again speaking quietly and beating his \nbreast. \nIf anyone was inquisitive enough to want to spy on him secretly\, he would \nfind that the holy father Dominic was like Moses\, who went into the innermost \ndesert and saw the burning bush and the Lord speaking and calling to him to \nhumble himself. The man of God had a prophetic way of passing quickly from \nreading to prayer and from meditation to contemplation. \nWhen he was reading like this on his own\, he used to venerate the book \nand bow to it and sometimes kiss it\, particularly if it was a book of the gospels or \nif he was reading the words which Christ had spoken with his own lips. And \nsometimes he used to hide his face and turn it aside\, or he would bury his face in \nhis hands and hide it a little in his scapular. And then he would also become \nanxious and full of yearning\, and he would also rise a little\, respectfully\, and \nbow as if he were thanking some very special person for favors he has bestowed. \nThen\, quite refreshed and at peace in himself\, he would continue reading his \nbook.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-st-dominic-4/
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SUMMARY:Chicago Zoom 9:00 am CDT
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SUMMARY:Chicago Zoom September 9:00am CDT
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