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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading test
DESCRIPTION:An Easter Sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx 1 \nAt the time when the sons of Israel were leaving Egypt\, it was prescribed in the Law that a lamb was to be slaughtered and eaten. This was called the paschal feast. It was also prescribed that for seven days they should eat unleavened bread – that is\, bread without leavening. And this was called the feast of unleavened bread. The Evangelist brings this out when he says: The festival of unleavened bread\, called the pasch\, was approaching. This first feast\, when they killed the lamb \, was called only the pasch; the latter was called both the pasch and the feast of unleavened bread. It seems to me\, then\, that the first feast symbolizes the Lord’s passion and the latter his resurrection. That the first symbolizes the Lord’s passion is sufficiently well known. In it the true Lamb was slain and by his blood we have been saved from the hand of Pharaoh – that is\, the devil. The feast is called the pasch – that is\, the passing over – because Christ at his passion passed over from this world. As the Evangelist says: Before the day of paschal feast Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. \nYet let us take a look at how the other feast symbolizes the Lord’s resurrection. And first of all let us reflect on how profoundly that divine majesty humbled himself and to what depths he descended for us. He who is the creator\, made himself a creature. He who was Lord\, made himself a servant. He who was rich\, made himself poor. He who was great\, made himself little. And the Word was made flesh. He was bread and he fed the angels. But he did not feed us. And so we were wretched\, because a rational creature is always wretched if he is not fed this bread. We were\, however\, so weak that in no way could we taste that bread in all its purity. We had within us a corrosive leaven that robbed us of our pristine strength. We had become so unlike that pure and untainted bread that we could not taste it at all. This leavening which we had within us was twofold. We had within us the leavening of mortality and we had within us the leavening of iniquity. \nYou see now how far removed we were from that bread in which there was neither mortality nor iniquity. How were we to ascend to it? How were we to taste it? What things are so contrary to one another as mortality and immortality\, iniquity and justice? We are mortals and sinners; he is immortal and just. How were we to come together? He saw this\, he who is caring and merciful. Because we could not ascend to him\, he came down to us. He took upon himself one part of our leavening and so adapted himself to our weakness. He did not take to himself the whole leaven that was in us\, but a certain part of it. If he had taken on the whole of it he would be as we are and he would not be able to help us. If he had taken none of it he would be so distant from us that we would not be able in any way to approach him. And so we would remain forever in our wretchedness. We have said that there was a twofold leavening in us: mortality and iniquity. The one he took on and by it was made like us. The other he avoided so that he could profit us. \nThe leavening of our mortality therefore he accepted\, and abode in the purity of his justice\, so that he would be the sort of being who could come down to us and yet remain the sort of being to whom we ought to ascend. You see now\, brothers\, how that pure bread is leavened for our sake. To this leavening of mortality belongs hunger\, thirst\, sorrow\, misery. All of this our Lord took on himself. He chose to take on this leavening\, but he was not obliged to remain in ferment. First he showed this leavening in himself through a wondrous compassion and then he purged himself of this leaven through a wondrous charity. He purged himself of this leavening in such a way as to show his wonderful charity for us. Therefore he willed to purge himself from the leavening of mortality in the way in which we have to purge ourselves from the leavening of iniquity. \nWe ought to know that our iniquity is the cause of our mortality. And therefore when we are fully purged of iniquity we will doubtless also be purged of mortality. We ought meanwhile to realize that our iniquity is twofold. It comes from the nature in which we were born and from the evil which we later brought to it. From both of these the Lord purges us. He offered for us a sacrifice – his own blood – and through this sacrifice we are purged. And therefore what we suffer now from the corruption of our nature is no longer iniquity but infirmity. From the corruption of our nature come the impulses of concupiscence which we suffer unwillingly. From this come the impulses of lust\, anger\, pride\, ambition. But if we do not consent to them\, God does not impute them to us\, because the pure sacrifice was offered to offset the corruption of our nature. Note\, then\, by the workings of his compassion in us in baptism we are purged of all sins\, both those which came from nature and those which we added voluntarily. \n1The Liturgical Sermons of Aelred of Rievaulx – Sermon 12 – Cistercian Fathers Series – #58 – Cistercian Publications – Kalamazoo – 2001 – pg 194 \n 
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SUMMARY:Jim Finley - John of the Cross test 3
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Jim Finley – John of the Cross\nTime: Oct 4\, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89843106805?pwd=SEZsVEVJY3FtNUxlclZGN005Q0hDQT09 \nMeeting ID: 898 4310 6805\nPasscode: 688800\nOne tap mobile\n+16468769923\,\,89843106805#\,\,\,\,*688800# US (New York)\n+13017158592\,\,89843106805#\,\,\,\,*688800# US (Washington DC) \nDial by your location\n+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\nMeeting ID: 898 4310 6805\nPasscode: 688800\nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kdEegIwa1m
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SUMMARY:Jim Finley - John of the Cross test 1
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SUMMARY:Tenebrae Psalms test
DESCRIPTION:GOOD FRIDAY: First Nocturn – 2\, 21\, 26    Second Nocturn – 37\, 39\, 68
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading -St Andrew Kim Taegon
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nLove and perseverance are the crown of faith: a reading  \nfrom the final exhortation of Andrew Kim Taegon\, priest and martyr. [1] \n  \n  \nMy brothers and sisters\, my dearest friends\, think again and again on this: God has ruled over all things in heaven and on earth from the beginning of time; then reflect on why and for what purpose he chose each one of us to be created in his own image and likeness. \n  \nIn this world of perils and hardship if we did not recognize the Lord as our Creator\, there would be no benefit either in being born or in our continued existence. We have come into this world by God’s grace; by that same grace we have received baptism\, entrance into the Church\, and the honor of being called Christians. Yet what good will this do us if we are Christians in name alone and not in fact? We would have come into the world for nothing\, we would have entered the Church for nothing\, and we would have betrayed even God and his grace. It would be better never to have been born than to receive the grace of God and then to sin against him. \n  \nLook at the farmer who cultivates his rice fields. In season he plows\, then fertilizes the earth; never counting the cost\, he labors under the sun to nurture the seed he has planted. When harvest time comes and the rice crop is abundant\, forgetting his labor and sweat\, he rejoices with an exultant heart. But if the crop is sparse and there is nothing but straw and husks\, the farmer broods over his toil and sweat and turns his back on that field with a disgust that is all the greater the harder he has toiled. \n  \nThe Lord is like a farmer and we are the field of rice that he fertilizes with his grace and by the mystery of the incarnation and the redemption irrigates with his blood\, in order that we will grow and reach maturity. When harvest time comes\, the day of judgment\, those who have grown to maturity in the grace of God will find the joy of adopted children in the kingdom of heaven; those who have not grown to maturity will become God’s enemies and\, even though they were once his children\, they will be punished according to their deeds for all eternity. \n  \nDearest brothers and sisters: when he was in the world\, the Lord Jesus bore countless sorrows and by his own passion and death founded his Church; now he gives it increase through the sufferings of his faithful. No matter how fiercely the powers of this world oppress and oppose the Church\, they will never bring it down. Even since his ascension and from the time of the apostles to the present\, the Lord Jesus has made his Church grow even in the midst of tribulation. \n  \nFor the last fifty or sixty years\, ever since the coming of the Church to our own land of Korea\, the Faithful have suffered persecution over and over again. Persecution still rages and as a result many who are friends in the household of the faith\, myself among them\, have been thrown into prison and like you are experiencing severe distress. Because we have become the one Body\, should not our hearts be grieved for the members who are suffering? Because of the human ties that bind us\, should we not feel deeply the pain of our separation? But\, as the Scriptures say\, God numbers the very hairs of our head and in his all-embracing providence he has care over us all. Persecution\, therefore\, can only be regarded as the command of the Lord or as a prize he gives or as a punishment he permits. \n  \nHold fast\, then\, to the will of God and with all your heart fight the good fight under the leadership of Jesus; conquer again the diabolical power of this world that Christ has already vanquished. I beg you not to fail in your love for one another\, but to support one another and to stand fast until the Lord mercifully delivers us from our trials. There are twenty of us in this place and by God’s grace we are so far all well. If any of us is executed\, I ask you not to forget our families. I have many things to say\, yet how can pen and paper capture what I feel? I end this letter. As we are all near the final ordeal\, I urge you to remain steadfast in faith\, so that at last we will reach heaven and there rejoice together. I embrace you all in love. \n[1] Pro Corea Documenta\, ed. Mission Catholique Seoul (Seoul-Paris\, 1938) v. 1\, pp. 74-75; trans. in NCCB Newsletter\, v. 21\, August/September 1985.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 18th Sun ORD test
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nA Commentary on the Gospel of Luke by St Basil the Great [1] \n  \n“The land of a rich man produced abundant harvests\, and he thought to himself: What am I to do? I will pull down my barns\, and build larger ones.” \nNow why did that land bear so well\, when it belonged to a man who would make no good use of its fertility? It was to show more clearly the forbearance of God\, whose kindness extends even to such people as this. He sends rain on both the just and unjust\, and makes the sun rise on the wicked and the good alike.  \nBut what do we find in this man? A bitter disposition\, hatred of other people\, unwillingness to give. This is the return he made to his Benefactor. He forgot that we all share the same nature; he felt no obligation to distribute his surplus to the needy. His barns were full to the bursting point\, but still his miserly heart was not satisfied. Year by year he increased his wealth\, always adding new crops to the old. The result was a hopeless impasse: greed would not permit him to part with anything he possessed\, and yet because he had so much there was no place to store his latest harvest. And so he is incapable of making a decision and could not escape from his anxiety. What am I to do? \nWho would not pity a man so oppressed? His land yields him no profit but only sighs: it brings him no rich returns\, but only cares and distress and a terrible helplessness. He laments in the same way as the poor do. Is not his cry like that of one hard pressed by poverty? What am I to do? How can I find food and clothing? \nYou who have wealth\, recognize who has given you the gifts you have received. Consider yourself\, who you are\, what has been committed to your charge\, from whom have you received it\, why have you been preferred to most other people? You are the servant of the good God\, a steward on behalf of your fellow servants. Do not imagine that everything has been provided for your own stomach. Take decisions regarding your property as though it belonged to another. Possessions give you pleasure for a short time\, but then they will slip through your fingers and be gone\, and you will be required to give an exact account pf them. \nWhat am I to do? It would have been so easy to say: “I will feed the hungry\, I will open my barns and call in all the poor. I will imitate Joseph in proclaiming my good will toward everyone. I will offer the generous invitation: “Let anyone who lacks bread come to me. You shall share\, each according to need\, in the good things God has given me\, just as though you were drawing from a common well. \n[1] Journey with the Fathers – Year C – New City Press – 1994 – pg 104
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading test3
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading from a commentary on an Easter hymn of St. Gregory of Nazianzen\, by St. Dorotheus of Gaza. 1 \nThis is the Day of Resurrection. \nLet us offer God its first-fruits — which is ourselves. \nLet us\, as his most precious children\, return to the likeness [of God]\, \nWhat is truly his likeness in us. \nLet us reverence our worth. \nLet us honor our Exemplar. \nLet us come to understand the power of the ‘mystery’ wherein Christ died. \n  \nThe Israelites of old\, coming together for their festivals\, according to the Law offered God gifts such as incense\, burnt offerings\, first-fruits\, and the like. St. Gregory invites us too to celebrate this feast in God’s honor as they did\, and exhorts us to do so by saying\, “This is the Day of Resurrection”\, a day to replace all their holy feasts\, a day of divine assembly\, the day of Christ’s Passover. What is this Passover of Christ? The Israelites kept the Passover when they came out of Egypt. Easter\, the Passover which we are now keeping and which the Saint commends to our celebration\, is enacted in the soul\, which comes out of the spiritual Egypt\, that is\, from sin. When the soul passes over from sin to virtue\, then it celebrates the Passover of the Lord\, As Evagrius says: “The Passover of the Lord is the passage away from evil.” \n  \nToday… is therefore the ‘Passover’ of Christ\, a day of brilliant festival\, the day of Resurrection\, the day of his nailing sin to the Cross\, of his dying and being raised to life—all for our sakes. Let us offer ourselves as sacrificial gifts and holocausts to the Lord\, who has no desire for senseless animals. “You did not desire irrational sacrifices and offerings\, and are not pleased with burnt offerings of sheep and cattle” (Ps 40.6\, Heb 10.5-6). …What sort of gift ought we offer to Christ in order to please him on the day of his Resurrection\, if he does not desire the sacrifice of senseless animals? \n  \nThe Saint in his teaching tells us the answer\, for after saying “This is the Day of Resurrection”\, he adds\, “Let us offer up its first-fruits\, which is ourselves.” The Apostle [Paul] too instructs us: “Offer up your own bodies as a living sacrifice\, holy and well-pleasing to God\, the worship that your reason dictates” (Rom 12.1). \n  \nHow then ought we to make an offering of our bodies as a living sacrifice to God? “By no longer following our physical desires and our own ideas\,” but “walking in the spirit and not fulfilling the desires of the flesh”(Gal 5.16). “For this is to mortify our earthly members” (Col 3.5). This is what is meant by a living sacrifice\, holy and well-pleasing to God. \n  \nBut why a living sacrifice? Because an animal destined for sacrifice\, by the very fact that it becomes a sacrificial victim\, dies. But the saints who offer themselves to God\, offer themselves alive\, every day—as David says\, “For your sake we are put to death all the day long\, we are considered as sheep for the slaughter” (Ps 44.22). …By not loving the world or what is in the world [but by] taking up the Cross and following Christ and crucifying the world to themselves and themselves to the world… this is how the saints put themselves to death. \n  \nBut how did they offer themselves up? By not living for themselves\, but reducing themselves to servitude to God’s commandments and putting away their own will for the sake of the command and love of God and their neighbor.. As St. Peter says\, “Behold\, we have given up everything and followed you” (Mt 19.27). …This is how the saints offered themselves up\, putting themselves to death… in regard to all their passionate desires and doing their own will and living solely for Christ and his commandments. \n  \nSo then for us! Let us offer ourselves as St. Gregory teaches us. For he wants us to be “God’s most precious children.” \n1 Dorotheus of Gaza\, “Commentary on an Easter Hymn of St. Gregory Nazianzen\,\,” Discourses and Sayings (Cistercian Studies Series 33)\, Kalamazoo\, MI: Cistercian Publications\, 1977\, pp. 220 ff.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nTO COMPREHEND WITH THE SAINTS THE DEPTH OF GOD\, \n from the Works of St Bernard[1] \n  \n[“That you may have the power to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth..”(Eph 3:18) St Paul says] “comprehend” not “know” so that we should not be content to be curious for knowledge\, but seek with all our power to comprehend. The reward lies not in knowing but in comprehending. To put it another way\, as someone says\, it is a sin for someone to know what is good and not to do it(Jas 4:17). And Paul himself says in another place\, “So run that you may comprehend (1Cor 9:24). \nWhat then is God? He is “length\,” I say. What is that? Eternity. Eternity is so long that it has no end of place or time. He is also breadth. And what is that? Love. And who shall draw boundaries to God’s love\, for he hates nothing that he has made? Indeed\, he causes his sun to rise upon the good and the wicked and rain falls upon the just and the unjust. Therefore his bosom enfolds even his enemies. And not satisfied with that\, it stretches to infinity. He goes beyond every bound not only of love but of knowledge\, as the Apostle goes on to say\, “And to know the love of Christ\, which passes all understanding”(Eph 3:19). What more can I say? He is eternal\, or perhaps even greater\, eternity itself. Do you see that the width is as great as the length? Would that you could see not only what it is like but what it actually is! To be breadth is to be depth. The one no less than two; the two no more than one. God is eternity; “God is love” (1Jn 4:16). He is length without extension\, breadth without distension. In both equally he exceeds local and temporal limits\, but by the freedom of his nature\, not by the vastness of his substance. He who made everything according to measure is immense in this way\, and although he is immense\, this is the measure of his immensity. \nAgain\, what is God? “The height and the depth.” In one he is above all\, in the other\, he is within all. It is clear that nowhere in the Godhead is equality limited. It stands square on all sides and is utterly consistent. Consider his power as the height and his wisdom as the depth. They correspond to one another symmetrically\, and while the height is beyond reach the depth is equally beyond seeing into. Paul wonders at it and exclaims\, “O height of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God; how inscrutable are his judgments\, and his ways are beyond searching out”(Rom 11:33). Let us exclaim with Paul\, gazing upon the most simple unity of those attributes with God and in God. O powerful wisdom\, reaching everywhere in strength. O wise power\, disposing all things sweetly! One reality\, many effects\, different acts; And this one reality is length because it is eternity\, breadth because it is love\, height because it is majesty\, depth because it is wisdom. \n     [1]BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (Classics of Western Spirituality) Trans. by G R Evans (Paulist Press  NY  1987) pp. 169-170.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - 25th Sunday ORD
DESCRIPTION:A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke by Gaudentius of Brescia 1 \nThe Lord Jesus\, true teacher of the precepts that lead to salvation\, wished to urge the apostles in his own time and all believers today the Christian duty of almsgiving. He therefore related the parable of the steward to make us realize that nothing in this world really belongs to us. We have been entrusted with the administration of our Lord’s property to use what we need with thanksgiving\, and to distribute the rest among our fellow servants according to the need of each one. We must not squander the wealth entrusted to us\, nor use it on superfluities\, for when the Lord comes we shall be required to account for our expenditure. \nFinally\, at the end of the parable\, the Lord adds: Use worldly wealth to make friends with the poor\, so that when it fails you\, when you have spent all you possess on the needs of the poor and have nothing left\, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings. \nIn other words\, these same poor people will befriend you by assuring your salvation\, for Christ\, the giver of eternal rewards\, will declare that he himself received the acts of kindness done to them. Not in their own name\, then\, will these poor folk welcome us\, but in the name of him who is refreshed in their persons by the fruit of our faith and obedience. Those who exercised this ministry of love will be received into the eternal dwellings of the kingdom of heaven\, for the King will say: Come\, blessed of my Father\, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world; for I was hungry and you fed me\, thirsty and you gave me a drink. \nBut if you have been untrustworthy in the administration of worldly wealth\, who is going to trust you with true riches? For if someone cannot be relied on to administer worldly possessions that provide the means for all sorts of wrong doing\, would anyone dream of trusting that person with the true heavenly riches rightly and deservedly enjoyed by thosde who have been faithful in giving to the poor? \nThe Lord’s query above is immediately followed by another: If you cannot be trusted with another’s property\, who will give you your own? Nothing in this world really belongs to us. We who hope for a future reward are told to live in this world as strangers and pilgrims\, so as to be able to say to the Lord without fear of contradiction: I am a stranger and a pilgrim like all my ancestors. \nWhat believers can regard as their own is that eternal and heavenly possession where our heart is and our treasure\, and where intense longing makes us dwell already through faith\, for as Saint Paul teaches\, Our homeland is in heaven. \n1Journey with the Fathers – Year C – New City Press – New York – 1997 – pg 118 \n 
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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n25th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (II)\nSeptember 18 – 24\, 2022\n\n\n \nSun\n18\nMon\n19\nTue\n20\nWed\n21\nThu\n22\nFri\n23\nSat\n24\n\n\nOffice\n25thSunday\nWeekday\nSt Andrew Kim-Taegon &Companions\nSt Matthew\nWeekday\nSt Pius of Pietrelcina\nMemorial of the BVM\n\n\nVigils\n2 Macc 12:1-16\n2 Macc 12:17-31\n2 Macc 12:32-46\nJob 28:1-28\n2 Macc 13:1-12\n2 Macc 13:13-26\n2 Macc 14:1-14\n\n\nLauds\nAmos 8:9-14\nAmos 9:1-6\nAmos 9:7-10\nProv 15:27-33\nAmos 9:11-15\nMic 1:1-9\nMic 2:1-5\n\n\nMass\n135\n449\n450\n643\n452\n453\n454\n\n\n1st\nAmos 8:4-7\nProv 3:27-34\nProv 21:1-6\, 10-13\nEph 4:1-7\, 11-13\nEccl 1:2-11\nEccl 3:1-11\nEccl 11:9-12:8\n\n\n2nd\n1 Tim 2:1-8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nGospel\nLuke 16:1-13\nLuke 8:16-18\nLuke 8:19-21\nMatt 9:9-13\nLuke 9:7-9\nLuke 9:18-22\nLuke 9:43b-45\n\n\nVespers\n1 Tim 4:6-10\n1 Tim 4:11-16\n1 Tim 5:1-8\n2 Tim 3:10-17\n1 Tim 5:17-25\n1 Tim 6:3-10\n1 Tim 6:11-16\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Fear and Hope from a book by Michael Schmaus1 \nTo Understand God’s call as one of love does not do away with the awesomeness of death; even the faithful anticipate it with fear. Indeed\, the element of fear in the believer is liable to be stronger than in the atheist or nihilist\, who has resolved to his own satisfaction the problem of what comes after death and is chiefly disturbed by the knowledge the one must abandon a work which one has begun\, leaving something unfinished. The believer\, however\, sees in death the moment of encounter with God\, that moment towards which the person has been journeying\, in an anticipation never free of tension\, during one’s whole lifetime. As the person awaits the judgment God will pronounce\, anxiety can be overcome only in a loving confidence. The death of the faithful Christian is a death in the Lord. It is a death which will not bring condemnation\, since no one who lives and has faith in Christ will ever die. \nAlthough God is an impenetrable mystery\, the person of faith perceives the meaning of the divine summons in a way that prevents one from falling into despair. When the time had come for him to take leave of his disciples\, Christ said: “Trust in God always; trust also in me.” In that hour Christ gave his own assurance that they would have life\, and have it abundantly. He never promised them an untroubled existence within time\, but only a life of joy in God. Thus anxiety is changed into tremulous expectation: the Lord comes. In the First Letter of John\, Jesus’ exhortation to his disciples to have confidence in the Father and in himself is made explicit when he says: “There is no room for fear in love; perfect love banishes fear. For fear brings with it the pains of judgment\, and anyone who is afraid has not attained to love in its perfection.” So\, in the face of death\, there remains to everyone only trust and hope with which to meet the unavoidable fear of death. \n1 Dogma 6\, Justification & the Last Things. Michael Schmaus\, Sheed & Ward\, 1977\, pp.220-221 \n 
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SUMMARY:Compline at Gethsemani via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Jim Finley - John of the Cross
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SUMMARY:Jim Finley - Turning to the Mystics
DESCRIPTION:Topic: LCG Jim Finley Turning to the Mystics\nTime: Dec. 14\, 2020 12:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86241990168?pwd=RW8rUTA4MkQwWWNTbkRMYXhhb2FhQT09 \nMeeting ID: 862 4199 0168\nPasscode: 364959\nOne tap mobile\n+13017158592\,\,86241990168#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,364959# US (Germantown)\n+13126266799\,\,86241990168#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,364959# US (Chicago) \nDial by your location\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\nMeeting ID: 862 4199 0168\nPasscode: 364959\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdVBLHnSyF \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Cornelius & Cyprian
DESCRIPTION:St. Cyprian\, Bishop of Carthage – from Butler=s Lives of Saints [1] \n  \nCaecilius Cyprianus was born about the year 200\, probably at Carthage. According to St. Jerome\, he was a native of Proconsular Africa. Very little is known of his life before he became a Christian. He was a public orator\, teacher of rhetoric\, and pleader in the courts\, and engaged to the full in the life of Carthage\, both public and social. God=s instrument of his conversion\, somewhere about middle age\, was an old priest\, Caecilian\, and Cyprian ever reverenced him as his father and guardian angel. Caecilian\, in turn\, had the greatest confidence in his virtue and on his deathbed recommended his wife and children to Cyprian=s care and protection. A complete change came over Cyrpian=s life. Before his baptism he made a vow of perfect chastity\, which greatly astonished the Carthaginians. \nWith the study of the Holy Scriptures St Cyprian joined that of their best expositors\, and in a short time became acquainted with the works of the great religious writers. He particularly delighted in the writings of his countryman Tertullian. Cyprian was soon made a priest\, and in 248 he was designated for the bishopric of Carthage. At first he refused and sought to flee\, but ultimately yielded and was consecrated. \nThe Church continued to enjoy peace for about a year after Cyprian=s promotion to the see of Carthage\, till the Emperor Decius began his reign by raising a persecution. Years of quiet and prosperity had had a weakening effect among the Christians\, and when the edit reached Carthage there was a stampede to the capitol to register apostasies with the magistrates\, amid cries of ACyprian to the lions@! from the pagan mob. The bishop was proscribed and his goods ordered forfeited\, but Cyprian had already retired to a hiding-place\, something that brought upon him much adverse criticism both from Rome and in Africa. He felt placed on the defensive\, and set out justifying reasons for his actions in several letters to the clergy. \nDuring the absence of Cyprian a priest who had opposed his Episcopal election\, named Novatus\, went into open schism. Some among the lapsed\, as well as some who were displeased at Cyprian=s discipline toward the former\, adhered to him\, for Novatus received all apostates who desired to return to the communion of the Church without requiring any canonical penance. Cyprian denounced Novatus\, and at a council convened at Carthage when the persecution slackened he read a treatise on the unity of the Church. \nThe leaders of the schismatics were excommunicated\, and Novatus departed to Rome to stir up trouble there\, where Novatian had set himself up as antipope. Cyprian recognized Cornelius as the true pope and was active in his support both in Italy and Africa during the ensuing schism. With Dionysius\, Bishop of Alexandria\, he rallied the bishops of the East to Cornelius\, making it clear to them that to adhere to a false bishop of Rome was to be out of communion with the Church. In connection with these disturbances he added to his treatise on Unity one on the question of the Lapsed. \nCyprian complained in many parts of his works that the peace that the Church had enjoyed enervated some Christians in the watchfulness and spirit of their profession\, and had opened the door to many converts who had no true spirit of faith\, and many lacked courage to stand the trial. These\, whether apostates who had sacrificed to idols or those who had purchased for money certificates that they had offered sacrifice\, were the lapsed\, who gave rise to the great controversy which raged during and after the Decian persecution. On the side of excessive leniency Novatus went into schism\, while Novatian=s severity crystallized into heresy that the Church cannot absolve an apostate at all. At this time those guilty of less heinous sins than apostasy were not admitted to assist at the holy Mysteries before they had gone through a rigorous course of public penance\, consisting of several years penance. Relaxations of these penances were granted on extraordinary occasions\, and it was also customary to grant Indulgences@ to penitents who received a recommendation from some martyr\, or some confessor in prison for the faith. In Cyprian=s time this custom degenerated into an abuse by being granted in too vague and peremptory terms\, without examination or discernment. \nCyprian condemned these abuses severely\, yet he himself pursued a middle way\, and in practice was considerate and lenient. After consulting the Roman clergy\, he insisted that his episcopal rulings must be followed without question until the matter could be brought up for discussion by all the African bishops and priests. This was eventually done in 251\, at the Council of Carthage. \nBetween the years 252 and 254 Carthage was visited by a terrible plague. Cyprian organized the Christians of the city and spoke to them strongly on the duty of mercy and charity\, teaching them that they ought to extend their care not only to their own people\, but also to their enemies and persecutors. \nIn August 257 was promulgated the first edict of Valerian=s persecution\, which forbade all assemblies of Christians and which required bishops\, priests and deacons to take part in official worship under pain of exile. On August 30 the bishop of Carthage was brought before the proconsul. Paternus ordered him into exile\, but when Galerius replaced him ads proconsul\, Cyprian was recalled from exile and again put on trial. Once more\, however\, he refused to offer sacrifice to pagan gods\, and on this occasion he was sentenced to death by beheading. The sentence was carried out immediately. It was September 14\, 258. \n[1] Butler=s Lives of the Saints\, Revised edition\, edited by Michael Walsh\, Harper\, San Francisco\, \n1991m p. 289
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Our Lady of Sorrows
DESCRIPTION:From a Sermon in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Amadeus of Lusanne (CF 18:105-106) \nWith deep calling to deep\, two loves had come together into one and from the two loves was made a single love when the Virgin mother gave to her Son the love she gave to God\, and showed her love for her son in loving God. Therefore the more she loved\, the more she grieved and the greatness of her love brought the increase of her suffering. \nWhat was she doing when she stood on Calvary and saw the cross\, the nails\, the wounds of the One who was dying in innocence and the insatiable cruelty of the Pharisee afire with malice? [Jesus] hung there atoning not for his sins but for ours\, and the Pharisees with the Scribes\, mocking him\, struck him on the head and offered to his lips vinegar mingled with gall that there might be fulfilled the prophecy of David\, saying in the person of Christ\, ‘They added to the pain of my wounds.’ In the midst of this the Mother of God was distressed in mind\, and sorrows seized upon her as upon a woman in childbirth. There are groans\, sobs\, sighs\, sorrow\, grief\, agony\, distress of heart\, fires\, a death more cruel than death. There life is not taken away yet the bitterness of death is suffered. O memory to be revered\, full of devotion and tears\, to recall how that glorious holy soul suffered\, and what anguish she endured in the death of Christ. The pale face of Jesus reflected the bloodless face of his mother. He suffered in the flesh\, she in her heart. Finally the insults and scoffing of the wicked came back upon his mother’s head. The Lord’s death was to her more bitter than her own [would have been]. Although\, taught by the Spirit\, she would not doubt the resurrection\, yet she had to drink the Father’s cup and to know the hour of her own passion. Concerning this\, the venerable Simeon prophesied to her: ‘A sword shall pierce your soul.’ O Lord Jesus\, terrible in your counsels beyond the sons of men\, you did not spare your mother from the sword piercing her soul. By this road must we all pass by the fiery sword turning this way and that to the tree of life which is in the midst of paradise. \nBut to return: Blessed Mary was able to cry out that which was especially appropriate to Christ: ‘O all you who pass by\, behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow. What a sorrow and how great! And in that sorrow what was Mary like? Alas\, as she was then\, how different from the girl who had once tended her son amid a choir of angels while shepherds worshiped and Magi adored him with an offering of mystic gifts. Very different\, not indeed in virtue but in sadness\, not in grace but in grief. For she increased in virtue and grew in grace. For set in the midst of adversity she neither relaxed her modesty nor lost the strength of her constancy. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Exaltation of Holy Cross
DESCRIPTION:The Triumph of the Cross: a reading from a treatise by St.  John Chrysostom.1 \n  \nIsaiah made it clear that Christ will raise up all men when he said: “The dead shall be raised up again\, even those in the tombs shall be raised up.  For the dew from you is healing for them.”  That was not all.  After his cross\, after his slaughter\, his glory will shine forth more brightly; after his resurrection\, he will advance the message of his Gospel still more. \nHe was bound\, betrayed by an apostle\, spat upon\, outraged with insults\, scourged\, nailed to the cross\, and\, as far as [some] were concerned\, he did not deserve to be buried in a tomb.  His executioners divided his garments.  They suspected that he aspired to be a king\, and he died for it.  “For everyone who makes himself king\, sets himself against Caesar.”  They suspected him of blasphemy\, and he died for it.  “Behold\, you have heard his blasphemy.” \nEven though he would undergo all these torments\, he roused up those who would listen\, he stirred them to courage by saying: “Do not be afraid because of these things which they did to me.  I was crucified\, I was scourged\, I was outraged and insulted by robbers\, I was arrested on suspicion of blasphemy and of being a king.  But after my death and resurrection\, people will look on my sufferings in such a way that no one will say that they were not filled with abundant value and honor.” \nCertainly\, this did come to pass.  And a prophet predicted it long beforehand when he said: “There shall be the root of Jesse\, even he who rises up to rule nations.  In him nations will put their trust\, and his resting place shall be glorious.”  This kind of death is more glorious than a crown.  Certainly\, kings have laid aside their crowns and taken up the cross\, the symbol of his death.  On their purple robes is the cross\, on their crowns is the cross\, at their public prayers is the cross\, on their weapons is the cross\, on the sacred table of their altar is the cross.  Everywhere in the world\, the cross shines forth more brightly than the sun. As it says in the Scriptures: “And his resting place shall be glorious.” \nIn human affairs things do not generally happen that way.  Men of distinction flourish while they are alive; after they die\, their exploits are reduced to nothing.  Anyone could see how true this is not only in the case of the wealthy and rulers but even in the case of the emperor himself.  Their laws are abrogated\, their images are obscured\, people’s memory of them is blotted out\, their name is forgotten\, those who enjoyed their favor are held in scorn.  This is the lot even of those emperors who waged wars\, of those who\, by their nod\, changed the conditions of peoples\, cities\, and affairs\, of those who had the power to put men to death\, of those who could give a reprieve to men on their way to execution.  But all their great powers have perished despite the great honors shown to them while they were alive. \nWith Christ it is quite the opposite.  Before the cross\, his situation was one of shame and dejection.  Judas betrayed him\, Peter denied him\, the others fled.  He stood alone and was led off in the midst of his foes; many who had believed in him now deserted him.  But after he had died on the cross\, his situation was not destroyed but became brighter\, more glorious\, and more sublime.  From this you may understand that the crucified one was no mere man. \n  \n1 Demonstration Against the Pagans That Christ is God. Trans. Paul W. Harkins\, Fathers of the Church Series\, vol. 73. Washington\, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press\, 1985. pp.221ff.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St John Chrysostom
DESCRIPTION:  \nSt John Chrysostom – from a book: \nThe Fathers of the Church” By Pope Benedict XVI [1] \n  \nSt John Chrysostom was born on Antioch in Syria om 344.. His father died when he was an infany\, and his mother Anthusa raised him. He studied with the most famous rhetorician of the day\, Libanus. Baptized as a young adult in 368\, John undertook an ascetic life for four years\, living alone on the neighboring Mount Silpius. He extended his stay for a further two years\, living alone in a cave under the guidance of an old hermit. \nHaving fallen ill\, he found it impossible to care for himself and returned to the city and was ordained a deacon and then a priest from 386 to 397 he preached in the cathedral at Antioch\, perhaps the most satisfying and happiest years of his life. There he delivered courses of sermons on books of the Bible. John was nicknamed “Chrysostom”\, that is\, “golden mouthed”\, because of his elqquebce\, \nIn 397 he was taken\, almost by force\, to Constantinople\, ordained bishop\, and made patriarch of the capitol city. He lives ascetically and showed deep concern fpr the poor and the sick. But his style of life offended some powerful people\, including the Empress Eudoxia. Theophilus\, the patriarch of Alexandria\, was also among his enemies\, and in 403 Theophilus presided at a synod near Constantinople that deposed John. John was banished twice\, the first time for only a short while. But during the second exile he died on September 14\, 407 while being forced to travel in harsh weather. John is known for a large corpus of homilies\, most of them on Scripture. Among his best known and most read books are the six books On the Priesthood. \n[1] Fathwers of the Church – Pope Benedict XVI =erdmans Publishing C0 – Grahnd Rapids\, MI – 2020 – pg 169
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nWisdom as the source of life\,  \nfrom Pathways in Scripture by Damasus Winzen. [1] \n  \nThe most wonderful field for contemplation is the way in which God led his chosen people through the vicissitudes of history. Sections of the book of Wisdom\, as well as Sirach reviews the course of Jewish history to praise the magnitude of God=s mercy in which he delivered Israel\, his firstborn\, out of the hands of them that sought his life. There is no better way to a deep understanding of the Scripture than the passages of Wisdom which refer the whole history of the patriarchs to the constant presence of wisdom in God=s chosen ones. A few words are sufficient\, for example\, to put Noah in the full light of God=s eternal designs fulfilled in Christ: When the deluge destroyed the earth\, wisdom healed it again\, steering the course of the just one with contemptible wood. When wisdom throw=s her light on the great fathers of the chosen people\, they begin to shine as the images of him in whom they were all fulfilled.  Sirach is a master in the art of painting\, with a few strokes\, a faithful picture of the great spiritual leaders of Israel and in their portraits we recognize the features of Christ… \n  \nThe teaching of the sapiential books would not be complete\, however\, without the revelation of two other great mysteries\, which represent in some way the beginning and the end of God’s ways: the mystery of the divine personality of the Word of God\, and that of the eternal life of the just. Wisdom is not a mental image or an abstract thought or a guiding principle. It is a divine person. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways\, before he made anything from the beginning. I was set up from eternity and of old before the earth was made. I was with him in forming all things; and was delighted every day\, playing before him at all times\, playing in the world\, and my delights were to be with the children of men (Prov 8:22ff). It is the inner nature of wisdom to be the true\, substantial image of the Father=s glory. The words of wisdom: For she is the breath of the power of God\, and a pure emanation of his almighty glory\, a reflection of the everlasting light and a spotless mirror of God’s majesty\, and the image of his goodness were used in the letter to the Hebrews (1:3) to describe the only-begotten Son of God. \n  \nIf wisdom were only a personification of the law she would be dead. Only as a divine person can she become a source of life. Though she is one\, she can do all things\, and while remaining in herself she makes everything new (Wis 7:27).  As this is shown in the beginning of creation\, so still more gloriously at the end. The last triumph of wisdom is the last judgment\, which will bring eternal life to the just. In the earlier periods of the Old Testament revelation\, the immortality of the soul was shrouded in mystery. Now it enters into the full light of faith.  The souls of the just are in the hands of God\, and the torment of death shall not touch them. In the eyes of the unwise they seemed to die\, but they are in peace (Wis 3:1-2). \n  \nFrom the beginning to the end the universal rule of wisdom has been established. Nevertheless\, those whose eyes have been opened in baptism to the light of Christ will realize that the teaching of Solomon lacks one thing: the foolishness of God\, Christ crucified. Wisdom was going to be more than a guide to the wise\, more than eternal life for the just\, more\, even\, than the beginning of creation. She was to become the Lamb who should not only expose but take away the sin of the world. The Wisdom of Solomon preached reward to the virtuous and death to those who hate her. But more than Solomon is here\, where Christ Jesus becomes unto us sinners wisdom and justice and sanctification\, and redemption through the foolishness of the cross (1Cor 1:30). \n[1] Ann Arbor\, Michigan: Word of Life\, 1976\, pp. 192-194.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke by Peter Chrysologus 1 \nFinding something we have lost gives us a fdresh joy\, and we are happier at having found the lost object that we should have been had we never lost it. This parable\, however\, is concerned more with divine tenderness and compassion than with human behavior\, and it expresses a great truth. Humans are too greedy to forsake things of value for love of anything inferior. That is something only God can do. For God not only brought what was not into being\, but he also went after what was lost while still protecting what he left behind\, but he also went after what was lost while still protecting what he had left behind\, and found what was lost without losing what he had in safe keeping. \nThis story\, then\, speaks of no earthly shepherd but of a heavenly one \, and far from being a portrayal of human activity\, this whole parable conceals divine mysteries\, as becomes clear from the number mentioned when Christ says: Which of you\, if you had a hundred sheep and lost one of them… You see how the loss of a single sheep made the shepherd grieve as though the whole flock were no longer in safe keeping but had gone astray\, and how this made him leave the ninety-nine to go after the lost one and search for it\, so that its recovery might make the flock complete again. \nBut let us now unfold the hidden meaning of this heavenly parable. The man who owns the hundred sheep is Christ. He is the good shepherd\, the loving shepherd\, who in a single sheep\, that is in Adam\, fashioned the whole flock of humankind. He set this sheep in a place of rich pasturage amidst the pleasures of paradise\, but heedless of the shepherd’s voice it trusted in nthe howling of wolves\, lost the protection of the sheepfold\, and was pierced through by deadly wounds. \nChrist therefore came into the world to loook for it\, and he found it in nthe Virgin’s womb. He came in the body assumed at his human birth\, and raising that body on the cross\, he placed the lost bsheep on his own shoulders by his passion. Then in the intense joy of the resurrection he brought it to his heavenly home. And he called his friends and neighbors\, that is the angels\, and said to them: Rejoice with me\, for I have found the sheep that was lost. \nThe angels joined Christ in gladness and rejoicing at the return of the Lord’s sheep. They did not take it amiss that he now reigned over them upon the throne of majesty\, for the sin of envy had long since been banished from heaven together with the devil\, and it could not gain entry there again through the Lamb who took away the sin of the world! \nBrothers and sisters\, Christ sought us on earth; let us seek him in heaven. He has borne us up to the glory of his divinity; let us bear him in our bodies by holiness. As the apostle says: Glorify and bear God in your bodies. That person bears God in his b0ody whose bodily activities are free from sin. \n1Journey with the Fathers – Year C – New City Press – New York – 1971 – pg 116 \n 
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SUMMARY:Skema Wk 24 ORD
DESCRIPTION:Biblical Readings for Office and Mass\n24th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (II)\nSeptember 11 – 17\, 2022\n\n\n \nSun\n11\nMon\n12\nTue\n13\nWed\n14\nThu\n15\nFri\n16\nSat\n17\n\n\nOffice\n24thSunday\nWeekday\nSt John Chrysostom\nExaltation of the Holy Cross\nOur Lady of Sorrows\nSS Cornelius & Cyprian\nOffice for the Dead\n\n\nVigils\n2 Macc 9:13-29\n2 Macc 10:1-19\n2 Macc 10:20-38\nIsa 52:13-53:12\n2 Macc 7:20-41\n2 Macc 11:1-15\n2 Macc 11:16-38\n\n\nLauds\nAmos 6:8-14\nAmos 7:1-6\nAmos 7:7-9\nIsa 45:21-25\nBaruch 4:9b-20\nAmos 7:10-17\nAmos 8:1-8\n\n\nMass\n132\n443\n444\n638\n639\n447\n448\n\n\n1st\nExod 32:7-11\, 13-14\n1 Cor 11:17-26\, 33\n1 Cor 12:12-14\, 27-31a\nPhil 2:6-11\nHeb 5:7-9\n1 Cor 15:12-20\n1 Cor 15:35-37\, 42-49\n\n\n2nd\n1 Tim 1:12-17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nGospel\nLuke 15:1-32\nLuke 7:1-10\nLuke 7:11-17\nJohn 3:13-17\nJohn 19:25-27 \nLuke 8:1-3\nLuke 8:4-15\n\n\nVespers\n1 Tim 1:12-20\n1 Tim 2:1-8\n1 Tim 3:1-7\nGal 6:14-18\nCol 1:21-24\n1 Tim 3:8-13\n1 Tim 3:14-4:5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Weekday
DESCRIPTION:A READING ABOUT THE ORDER AND HARMONY WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN TO THE WORLD\, from a letter to the Corinthians by St Clement\, pope[1]. \n Let us fix our gaze on the Father and Creator of the whole world\, and let us hold on to his peace and blessings\, his splendid and surpassing gifts.  Let us contemplate him in our thoughts and with our mind’s eye reflect upon the peaceful and restrained unfolding of his plan; let us consider the care with which he provides for the whole of his creation. \nBy the Creator’s direction the heavens are in motion\, and they are subject to him in peace.  Day and night fulfill the course the Creator has established without interfering with each other.  The sun\, the moon and the choirs of stars revolve in harmony at his command in their appointed paths without deviation.  By the will of the Creator the earth blossoms in the proper seasons and produces abundant food for us and for animals and all the living things on it without reluctance and without any violation of what he has arranged. \nYet unexplored regions of the abysses and inexpressible realms of the deep are subject to the Creator’s laws.  The mass of the boundless sea\, joined together by his ordinance in a single expanse\, does not overflow its prescribed limits but flows as he commanded it.  For God said: “Thus far shall you come\, and your waves will be halted here.” The ocean\, impassable for humankind\, and the worlds beyond it are governed by the same edicts of the Lord. \nThe seasons\, spring\, summer\, autumn and winter\, follow one another in harmony.  The quarters from which the winds blow function in due season without the least deviation.  And the ever-flowing springs\, created for our health as well as our enjoyment\, unfailingly offer their breasts to sustain human life.  The tiniest of living creatures meet together in harmony and peace.  The great Creator and Lord of the universe commanded all these things to be established in peace and harmony\, in his goodness to all\, and in overflowing measure to us who seek refuge in his mercies through our Lord Jesus Christ; to him be glory and majesty for ever and ever.  Amen. \n     [1]The Letter to the Corinthians\, Cap 19\,2–20\,12:Funk 1\, 87-89.
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SUMMARY:St. Peter Claver
DESCRIPTION:The patron of all missionary enterprises among Negroes: a reading about St. Peter Claver from Butler’s Lives of the Saints. \nHe was born in Catalonia\, about 1581\, and as he showed fine qualities of mind and spirit was destined for the Church and sent to study at the University of Barcelona. Here he graduated with distinction [and entered] the Society of Jesus. He left Spain forever in April 1610\, and was ordained priest at Cartagena\, in what is now the republic of Colombia. By the time of his ordination the slave trade had been established in the Americas for nearly a hundred years\, and the port of Cartagena was one of its principal centers\, being conveniently situated as a clearing house. The trade had recently been given a considerable impetus\, for the local Indians were not physically fitted to work in the gold and silver mines\, and there was a big demand for Negroes from Angola and the Congo. \nAt this time the leader of the work among the Negroes was Father Alfonso de Sandoval\, a great Jesuit missionary who spent forty years in the service of the slaves\, and after working under him Peter Claver declared himself “the slave of the Negroes forever”. Although by nature shy and without self-confidence he threw himself into the work with method and organization. He enlisted bands of assistants\, and as soon as a slave-ship entered the port he went to wait on its living freight. The slaves were disembarked and shut up in the yards. Into these yards or sheds St. Peter Claver plunged\, with medicines and food\, bread\, brandy\, lemons\, tobacco to distribute among the Negroes\, some of whom were too frightened\, others too ill\, to accept them. “We must speak to them with our hands\, before we try to speak to them with our lips”\, Claver would say. When he came upon any who were dying he baptized them\, and then sought out all babies born on the voyage that he might baptize them. He had a band of seven interpreters\, one of whom spoke four Negro dialects\, and with their help he taught the slaves and prepared them for baptism\, not only in groups but individually. He made use of pictures\, showing our Lord suffering on the cross for the; above all he tried to instill in them some degree of self-respect\, to give them at least some idea that as redeemed human beings they had dignity and worth\, even if as slaves they were outcast and despised. \nIt is estimated that in forty years St. Peter Claver instructed and baptized over 300\,000 slaves. When there was time and opportunity he took the same trouble to teach them how properly to use the sacrament of penance\, and in one year is said to have heard the confessions of more than five thousand. Many of the stories both of the heroism and of the miraculous powers of St. Peter Claver concern his nursing of sick and diseased Negroes\, in circumstances often that no one else\, black or white\, could face. \nIn 1650 he went to preach the jubilee among the Negroes along the coast\, but sickness attacked his emaciated and weakened body\, and he was recalled to the Jesuit residence at Cartagena. But here a virulent epidemic had begun to show itself\, and one of the first to be attacked among the Jesuits was the debilitated missionary\, so that his death seemed at hand. After receiving the last sacraments he recovered\, but he was a broken man. For the rest of his life pain hardly left him\, and a trembling in his limbs made it impossible for him to celebrate Mass. He perforce became almost entirely inactive\, but would sometimes hear confessions\, especially of his dear friend Doŋa Isabella de Urbina\, who had always generously supported his work with her money. Otherwise he remained in his cell\, not only inactive but even forgotten and neglected. \nOn September 6\, 1654 he was taken very ill and became comatose. The rumor of his approaching end spread round the city\, everyone suddenly remembered the saint again\, and numbers came to kiss his hands before it was too late; his cell was stripped of everything that could be carried off as a relic. St. Peter Claver never fully recovered consciousness\, and died two days later on the birthday of our Lady. The civil authorities who had looked askance at his solicitude for mere Negro slaves\, and the clergy\, who had called his zeal indiscreet and his energy wasted\, now vied with one another to honor his memory. \nSt. Peter Claver was never again forgotten and his fame spread throughout the world: he was canonized in 1888 and was declared by Pope Leo XIII patron of all missionary enterprises among Negroes. \n 
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SUMMARY:Nativity of B. V. M.
DESCRIPTION:A reading from a sermon for Our Lady’s Birthday \n by Blessed Guerric of Igny (CF 32:192-193) \nAs the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odor. Today we celebrate the birthday of the blessed Virgin Mother from whom the Life of all things took his birth. Today is the birthday of that Virgin from whom the Savior of all men willed to be born in order that he might give to all who were born to death the power to be reborn to life. Today is the birthday of that new Mother who has destroyed the curse brought by the first mother’ so that all those who through the fault of the first had been born under the yoke of eternal condemnation might instead\, through her\, inherit a blessing. She is indeed the new Mother\, for she has brought new life to her children already hardening with age and has healed the defect of both inborn and acquired senility. Yes indeed. She is the new Mother\, who by an unheard of miracle has given birth in such a way that\, becoming a mother\, she has not ceased to be a Virgin. And she has given birth to the Child who created all things\, even the Mother herself. \nIt is indeed a wonderful new thing\, this fruitful virginity\, but far more wonderful is the novelty of the Child born of it. No one who admits that the Child was God\, finds any difficulty in believing his Mother remained a Virgin. His birth in no wise could injure the physical integrity of his Mother\, this Child who went about making even the diseased whole. Nor could the reality of the body he assumed be thought to limit the power of the Creator as if he could not retain for himself what he gives to many of his creatures. For you find not a few creatures that are born without any harm to the integrity of the parents. In their own way all these bear witness to their Creator’s own immaculate birth. \nBut the Mother herself\, who was quite aware of the mystery surrounding her\, has spoken and taught us how and what she brought forth. She speaks however not in contemporary or recent arguments but in the ancient oracles of prophecy\, because\, as the Apostle Peter tells us\, the word of prophecy is a stronger witness than miracles. Indeed what is less open to deceit or suspect of falsity than the testimony from heaven about one not yet born? Long before her birth therefore the Spirit\, who would later make his abode in her\, borrowed Mary’s voice to defend both the divinity of the Child and the integrity of the Mother – all his own handiwork  – against the blasphemies of unbelievers. In her person\, if we are to follow a common opinion\, he uttered the words you have just heard: As the vine\, I have brought forth a pleasant odor \nIn their context\, these words must be applied to the Person of Wisdom himself\, that is\, the Son. But you know quite well from the rules of Sacred Scripture that this does not mean they cannot be applied also to the Mother\, like so many other passages. You know too that there is other evidence\, enough\, and more than enough\, bearing on this question\, which is more familiar to you and much clearer than this. But you must not be cheated in your expectations of what today’s lesson can teach us. \n 
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SUMMARY:Weekday
DESCRIPTION:TO KNOW THE FATHER THROUGH THE INCARNATE WISDOM\, \nfrom a Discourse by St Athanasius[1] \nThe only-begotten Son\, the Wisdom of God\, created the entire universe. Scripture says: ” You have made all things by your wisdom\, and the earth is full of your creatures”. Yet simply to be was not enough: God also wanted his creatures to be good. That is why God was pleased that his own wisdom should descend to their level and impress upon each of them singly and upon all of them together a certain resemblance to their Model. It would then be manifest that God’s creatures shared in his wisdom and that his works were worthy of him. \nFor the word we speak is an image of the Word who is God’s Son\, so also is the wisdom implanted in us an image of the Wisdom who is God’s Son. It gives us the ability to know and understand and so makes us capable of receiving him who is the all-creative Wisdom\, through whom we can come to know the Father. “Whoever has the Son has the Father also”\, Scripture says\, and “Whoever receives me receives the One who sent me”. And so\, since this image of the Wisdom of God has been produced in us and in all creatures\, the true and creative Wisdom rightly takes to himself what applies to his image and says: “The Lord created me in his works.” \nBut because “the world was not wise enough to recognize God in his wisdom\,” as we have explained it\, “God determined to save those who believe by means of the ‘foolish’ message that we preach.” Not wishing to be known any longer\, as in former times\, through the mere image and shadow of his wisdom existing in creatures\, he caused the true Wisdom himself to take flesh\, to become like us\, and to suffer death on the cross so that all who believed in him might be saved by faith. \nYet this was the same Wisdom of God who had in the beginning revealed himself and his Father through himself by means of his image in creatures (which is why Wisdom too is said to be created). Later\, as John declares\, that Wisdom who is also the Word\, became flesh and after destroying the power of death and saving our race\, he revealed himself and the Father through himself with greater clarity. “Grant”\, he prayed\, “that they may know you\, the only true God\, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” \nSo now the whole earth is filled with the knowledge of God\, since it is one and the same thing to know the Father through the Son\, and to know the Son who comes from the Father. The Father rejoices in his Son\, and with the same joy the Son delights in the Father and says: “I was his joy; every day I took delight in his presence.” \n     [1]ORATIO 2\, 78. 81-82: PG 26\, 311. 319.
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SUMMARY:Rule of Benedict: Reflection. 7 pm CDT
DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88434101612?pwd=dHMyRkFBNW52eVJIaytWdng0VmZaZz09 \nMeeting ID: 884 3410 1612 \nPasscode: 807992 \nOne tap mobile \n+13126266799\,\,88434101612# US (Chicago) \nJan. 6-May 7-Sept. 6-Prologue 39-44 \nSo\, brothers and sisters\, we have asked the Lord who is to dwell in His tent\, and we have heard His commands to anyone who would dwell there; it remains for us to fulfill those duties. Therefore we must prepare our hearts and our bodies to do battle under the holy obedience of His commands; and let us ask God that He be pleased to give us the help of His grace for anything which our nature finds hardly possible. And if we want to escape the pains of hell and attain life everlasting\, then\, while there is still time\, while we are still in the body and are able to fulfill all these things by the light of this life\, we must\nhasten to do now what will profit us for eternity. \nEND OF READING
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