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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
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 \n 
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SUMMARY:Skema
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nBiblical Readings for Office and Mass\n18th Week in Ordinary Time\n\n\nMass Readings: Sunday (C)\, Weekdays (II)\nJuly 31 – August 6\, 2022\n\n\n \nSun\n31\nMon\n1\nTue\n2\nWed\n3\nThu\n4\nFri\n5\nSat\n6\n\n\nOffice\n18thSunday\nSt Alphonsus Ligouri\nWeekday\nWeekday\nSt John Vianney\nSt Mary Major\nTransfiguration of the Lord\n\n\nVigils\nGen 37:21-36\nGen 38:1-30\nGen 39:1-23\nGen 40:1-23\nGen 41:1-32\nGen 41:33-57\n2 Cor 3:7-4:6\n\n\nLauds\nHos 10:1-8\nHos 10:9-15\nHos 11:1-7\nHos 11:8-11\nHos 12:1-7\nHos 12:8-15\nSir 48:1-11\n\n\nMass\n114\n407\n408\n409\n410\n411\n614\n\n\n1st\nEccl 1:2; 2:21-23\nJer 28:1-17\nJer 30:1-2\, 12-15\, 18-22\nJer 31:1-7\nJer 31:31-34\nNah 2:1\, 3; 3:1-3\, 6-7\nDan 7:9-10\, 13-14\n\n\n2nd\nCol 3:1-5\, 9-11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nGospel\nLuke 12:13-21\nMatt 14:13-21\nMatt 14:22-36\nMatt 15:21-28\nMatt 16:13-23\nMatt 16:24-28\nLuke 9:28b-36\n\n\nVespers\nEph 1:11-14\nEph 1:15-23\nEph 2:1-10\nEph 2:11-22\nEph 3:1-7\nEph 3:8-13\n1 Jn 5:9-12\n\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 - Memorial B.V.M.
DESCRIPTION:MY 52.DOC\n07.30.22 \nIn her hiddenness we find Mary’s greatness; from a book by Thomas Merton. \nIn all the great mystery of Mary\, then\, one thing remains most clear: that of herself she is nothing\, and that God has for our sakes delighted to manifest his glory and his love in her.\nIt is because she is\, of all the saints\, the most perfectly poor and the most perfectly hidden\, the one who has absolutely nothing whatever that she attempts to possess as her own\, that she can most fully communicate to the rest of us the grace of the infinitely selfless God. And we will most truly possess him when we have emptied ourselves and become poor and hidden as she is\, resembling him by resembling her.\nAnd all our sanctity depends on her maternal love. The ones she desires to share the joy of her own poverty and simplicity\, the ones whom she wills to be hidden as she is hidden\, are the ones who share her closeness to God.\nIt is a tremendous grace\, then\, and a great privilege when a person living in the world we have to live in\, suddenly loses his interest in the things that absorb that world and discovers in his own soul an appetite for poverty and solitude. And the most precious of all the gifts of nature or grace is the desire to be hidden and to vanish from human sight and be accounted as nothing by the world and to disappear from one’s own self-conscious consideration and vanish into nothingness in the immense poverty that is the adoration of God.\nThis absolute emptiness\, this poverty\, this obscurity holds within it the secret of all joy because it is full of God. To seek this emptiness is true devotion to the Mother of God. To find it is to find her. And to be hidden in its depths is to be full of God as she is full of him\, and to share her mission of bringing him to all peoples.\nYet all generations must call her blessed\, because they all receive through her obedience whatever supernatural life and joy is granted to them. And it is necessary that the world should acknowledge her and that the praise of God’s great work in her should be sung in poetry and that cathedrals should be built in her name. For unless Our Lady is recognized as the Mother of God and as the Queen of all the saints and angels and as the hope of the world\, faith in God will remain incomplete. How can we ask him for all the things he would have us hope for if we do not know\, by contemplating the sanctity of the Immaculate Virgin\, what great things he has power to accomplish in us.
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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Martha & Mary & Lazarus
DESCRIPTION:07SN2902.DOC \n                                                                                                                                              07.29.22   \n  \nHow action and contemplation complement one another in our Christian life; \n a reading from the book Contemplative Prayer by Thomas Merton. [1] \nIn the monastic life one could find\, according to Bernard\, three vocations: That of Lazarus the penitent\, that of Martha the active and devoted servant of the monastic household\, and that of Mary the con­templative. Mary had chosen (said St Bernard) the Abest part\,@ and there was no reason for her to envy Martha or leave her contemplation\, unasked\, to share in the labors of Martha. The portion of Mary is\, by nature\, preferable to the other two and superior to them. And one feels\, reading between the lines of St Bernard\, that this had to be said because it was not unknown for Mary to envy Martha. The portion of Mary was not in fact always desired by the majority.  \nSt Bernard himself solves the problem by saying that after all Martha and Mary are sisters and they should dwell together in the same household in peace. They supplement one another. But in actual fact\, true monastic perfection consists above all in the union of all three voca­tions: that of the penitent\, the active worker (in the care of souls above all) and the contemplative. But when Bernard speaks of the care of souls he refers to the duty of instructing and guiding other monks\, rather than apostolic work outside the cloister. Yet the need for preachers and apostolic workers was acute in the twelfth century.  \nFor St Bernard\, the contemplative life is that which is normal for the monk\, it is that which he should always desire\, always prefer\, but the active life necessarily has its claims also. Contemplation should always be desired and preferred. Activity should be accepted\, though never sought. In the end the perfection of the monastic life is found in the union of Martha\, Mary and Lazarus in one person-usually such a person will be an abbot\, like Bernard himself.  \nIt must not\, of course\, be imagined that either St Gregory or St Bernard is always concerned with contemplation from this problematical viewpoint. Because of the large amount of activity in their own lives they do\, indeed\, give ardent expression to their longing for the silence of contemplative prayer. Yet they always admit that contemplation is not unknown to them in their life of apostolic labor: indeed we sense that their contemplative experience is somehow deeper and richer precisely because of the mystical graces given to them to help them to preach to others. \n[1] New York: Image Books\, 1971\, pp. 54-55.
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