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SUMMARY:Mary\, Mother of the Church
DESCRIPTION:A reading from\nFR HUGO RAHNER 2\n◊◊◊\nThe valiant woman [in the Book of Proverbs] as symbolizing both Mary and the Church on the road from Nazareth to Golgotha. The beginning is at the moment of the incarnation in the heart of Mary\, at the supreme instant of her acceptance of the task\, when she became the mother of the Word. The precious blood that was to redeem the world was her blood\, and in this way her road was already marked out\, the road through those everyday years\, leading direct to Golgotha. \nIt is to this mystery of her life\, and her life already at Nazareth\, where love is strong as death\, that the Cistercian mystic\, Adam of Perseigne\, refers when he sees in the moment of the incarnation the fulfillment of the valiant woman: “A Lady full of bravery: she traveled through her mortal life amidst the evil of the world\, yet through the majesty of her spirit she surpassed all creation. For it was to her\, the valiant woman\, that Gabriel was sent — his very name means ‘God’s valiant one.’ Was she not indeed valiant\, this woman – Mary\, whose love was stronger than death?” \nFor her acceptance of the incarnation was the acceptance of death. Her blood she gave him\, only for him to shed it. And this also is fulfilled in the Church: The Church\, like Mary\, is the woman who brings Christ into the world\, only to be sacrificed upon the altar. Incarnation and death are made one in the Church’s sacraments\, for in the sacrificial death\, Christ’s body is every day reborn. \nThus the symbol of the valiant woman is fulfilled also in the Church and her vocation on earth: valiant indeed is this great woman of the world\, since as the mystical mother of Christ crucified\, daily she meets death again. This acceptance of death\, in which she follows Mary\, is verified in her day-to-day history\, her persecutions\, and her daily cares. In this she is truly valiant. This is what Epiphanius of Salamis once told his people: “You are the children of that wise and valiant woman\, of whom Solomon said; ‘Who shall find a valiant woman?’ This valiant woman\, is she not the Church\, your mother? for none is braver than she\, who every time a persecution is raised against her is ready to go to death for the name of her beloved.” \n2\nPantheon Books\, 1961\, pp. 82-83.
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SUMMARY:Weekday
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “The Mirror of Faith” by\nWILLIAM OF SAINT-THIERRY 3\n◊◊◊\nIf you feel a natural hesitation when confronted with the more profound mysteries of faith\, take courage\, Christian soul\, and say not contentiously but with loving submission: ‘How can these things be?’ Let your question be a prayer\, let it be an expression of love\, piety\, and humble longing. Seek not to explore the heights of the divine majesty\, but to find salvation in the saving deeds of God our Saviour. \nThen the Messenger of God’s great design will reply: When the Paraclete comes\, whom I shall send you from the Father\, he will remind you of everything and teach you all truth. Even as no one knows the thoughts of man except the spirit of the man that is within him\, so no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. \nHasten therefore to share in the Holy Spirit. He is with you when you call upon him; you can call upon him only because he is already present. When he comes in answer to your prayer\, he comes with an abundance of divine blessings. He is the river whose streams give joy to the city of God. \nIf when he comes he finds you humble\, silent\, and trembling at the words of God\, he will rest upon you and reveal what God the Father has hidden from the wise and the prudent of this world. You will then begin to understand the things holy Wisdom could have told his disciples on earth\, but which they were unable to bear until the Spirit of truth came who was to teach them all truth. \nWe cannot hope to learn from the lips of any man truths that Truth himself could not convey. For he himself has told us: God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth\, so those who wish to know him must seek understanding of their faith and perception of its pure and simple truth only through the Holy Spirit. \nIn the darkness and ignorance of this life the Holy Spirit is the light that enlightens the poor in spirit\, the love that draws them on\, the sweetness that attracts them\, their access to God\, the love of the loving. The Spirit is devotion and piety. From one degree of faith to the next the Spirit reveals to believers the justice of God\, so that grace follows grace\, and the faith that comes from hearing gives place to a faith enlightened by understanding. \n3\nBlessed William of Saint-Thierry\, The Mirror of Faith (PL 180:384); Word in Season III\, 1st ed. \n 
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SUMMARY:St. Augustine of Canterbury
DESCRIPTION:A reading from Butler’s Lives of the Saints on\nST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY 4\n◊◊◊\nWhen Pope St Gregory the Great decided that the time had come for the evangelization of Anglo-Saxon England\, he chose as missionaries some thirty or more monks from his monastery of St Andrew… As their leader he gave them their own prior\, Augustine. The party set out from Rome in the year 596; but no sooner had they arrived in Provence than they were assailed with warnings about the ferocity of the Anglo-Saxons and the dangers of the Channel. Greatly discouraged\, they persuaded Augustine to return to Rome and obtain leave to abandon the enterprise. St Gregory\, however\, had received definite assurance that the English were well disposed towards the Christian faith; he therefore sent Augustine back to his brethren with words of encouragement which gave them heart to proceed on their way. \nThey landed in the Isle of Thanet in the territory of Ethelbert\, king of Kent\, who was baptized at Pentecost 597. Almost immediately afterwards St Augustine paid a visit to France\, where he was consecrated bishop of the English by St Virgilius\, metropolitan of Arles. At Christmas of that same year\, many of Ethelbert’s subjects were baptized. Augustine sent two of his monks\, Laurence and Peter\, to Rome to give a full report of his mission\, to ask for more helpers and obtain advice on various points. They came back bringing the pallium for Augustine and accompanied by a fresh band of missionaries\, amongst whom were St Mellitus\, St Justus and St Paulinus… \nIn Canterbury itself St Augustine rebuilt an ancient church which\, with an old wooden house\, formed the nucleus for his metropolitan basilica and for the later monastery of Christ Church… Outside the walls of Canterbury he made a monastic foundation\, which he dedicated in honour of St Peter and St Paul… \nCut off from much communication with the outside world\, the British church clung to certain usages at variance with those of the Roman tradition. St Augustine invited the leading ecclesiastics to meet him at some place just on the confines of Wessex\, still known in Bede’s day as Augustine’s Oak. There he urged them to comply with the practices of the rest of Western Christendom\, and more especially to co-operate with him in evangelizing the Anglo-Saxons. Fidelity to their local traditions\, however\, made them unwilling. A second conference proved a said failure. Because St Augustine failed to rise when they arrived\, the British bishops decided that he was lacking in humility and would neither listen to him nor acknowledge him as their metropolitan. \nThe saint’s last years were spent in spreading and consolidating the faith throughout Ethelbert’s realm\, and episcopal sees were established at London and Rochester. About seven years after his arrival in England\, St Augustine passed to his reward\, on May 26\, 605. \nButler’s Lives of Saints. Harper\, 1991\, pp. 158-159.ngland\, St Augustine passed to his reward\, on May 26\, 605. \n 
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SUMMARY:Weekday
DESCRIPTION:A reading from the dogmatic constitution “Lumen Gentium” from\nTHE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL 5\n◊◊◊\nOn the day of Pentecost when the Son had completed the work on earth assigned to him by the Father\, the Holy Spirit was sent to sanctify the Church unceasingly so that through Christ\, in the one Spirit\, believers would have access to the Father. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of life\, a fountain of water welling up to give a life that is eternal. Through him the Father gives life to those who were dead because of their sins\, and at last raises up their mortal bodies. \nBuilding up and guiding the Church by means of varied gifts\, both hierarchical and charismatic\, and adorning her with his fruits\, the Spirit leads her into all truth and gives her unity in communion and service. The Spirit is perpetually renewing the Church’s youth by the power of the Gospel and leading her to perfect union with her Bridegroom. The Spirit and the bride say to the Lord Jesus: ‘Come!’ \nThe whole Church is thus shown to be a people made one as the Father\, Son\, and Holy Spirit are one.\nThe body of believers as a whole\, each one of whom has been anointed by the Holy One\, cannot err in matters of faith. They demonstrate this special inerrancy of theirs when their supernatural instinct of faith causes all from the Bishops down to the most humble lay person to agree in matters of faith and morals. \nThrough this instinct of faith\, which is awakened and kept alive by the Spirit of truth\, the people of God hold indefectibly to the faith once delivered to the Saints; with true insight they penetrate it more deeply and they apply it ever more perfectly in their lives. They do all this under the guidance of the sacred Magisterium of the Church to which they loyally defer\, not as to the words of men\, but as to the very word of God. \nThe Holy Spirit sanctifies and guides God’s people and enriches them with virtues through the Sacraments and other ministrations of the Church. He also distributes special graces among believers in every state of life\, apportioning his gifts to each one as he wills. By these gifts the Spirit prepares them and makes them eager to undertake various tasks and offices which serve the renewal and building up of the Church. As Scripture says: The power of the Spirit is shown in a particular way in each one for the good of all. \nThese charisms\, the simpler and more widespread as well as the most outstanding\, should fill us with a sense of gratitude\, for they are especially adapted to the needs of the Church and are of the greatest value to her. \n5\nSecond Vatican Council\, Lumen Gentium 4\, 12; Word in Season III\, 1st ed.
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SUMMARY:St. Paul VI
DESCRIPTION:A reading from The New Catholic Encyclopedia on\nPOPE ST PAUL VI 6\n◊◊◊\nHe was born with the name of Giovanni Baptista Montini in September 26\, 1897. His father\, Giorgio was a lawyer\, politician and member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The young Montini was plagued with numerous physical ailments. He was ordained at the age of 22 on May 29\, 1920. He was then sent to Rome where he attended the Academy which was geared to the training of diplomats. He began his service of thirty years in the Vatican Secretariat of State. During those years he was also active as a chaplain to the Catholic Students at the University of Rome. \nHe was named Undersecretary of State in 1924. He served in that office for thirty years. He was named Archbishop of Milan in 1954. He rebuilt churches that had been destroyed during the war and made every effort to win back the working class from Communist influences. Devoted to the disadvantaged\, he was a frequent visitor to hospitals\, orphanages\, homes of the aged and prisons.\nAfter Pope John XXIII was elected and announced the Second Vatican Council\, he appointed Montini to the Central Preparatory Commission. He took a very active part in the First Session of the Council in 1962. Pope John died in 1963 and Montini was elected as his successor. It was felt that he would continue the process of the Council. He chose the name of Paul VI and was determined that\, like Paul the Apostle\, his pontificate would spread the Gospel to the entire world. In his first message as Pope he set forth his agenda: to continue Vatican II\, to revise Canon Law\, to work for peace and justice at all levels\, and to seek Christian Unity. \nPaul was well equipped to deal with the Council because of his long experience in the Secretariat of state. He knew the Curia thoroughly. Their actions may not have always pleased him\, but they rarely surprised him. He was actively involved in the three sessions of the Council over which he presided. He suggested amendments to several of the documents: ecumenism\, missionary activity\, revelation\, Eastern Catholic Churches and religious liberty. \nOne issue that he held back from the Council was that of Birth Control. He set up a Commission of Lay people to consider the issue. However eventually he came to his own conclusion and issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae which forbade the use of artificial contraceptives. The encyclical created a crisis in the Church. Paul himself came to refer to the document as “a painful document in our episcopacy”. \nThe last ten years of his pontificate were difficult for Paul VI. He was more withdrawn and troubled by the negative reaction to Humanae Vitae\, the polarity between conservatives and liberals\, the massive departure from priestly and religious life\, and the lack of vocations. The Pope told Jean Guiton that Archbishop Lefebvre\, who defiantly opposed the liturgical reform was “the greatest cross of my pontificate”. \nDebilitating arthritis and acute cystitis weakened him in the summer of 1978. On August 6\, 1978 he died of a heart attack at Castel Gandolfo. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI and canonized by Pope Francis. \n6\nNew Catholic Encyclopedia – vol. 11 = Catholic University of America – Washington D.C.
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SUMMARY:Weekday
DESCRIPTION:A reading from “On the Trinity” by\nDIDYMUS THE BLIND 7\n◊◊◊\nThe Holy Spirit renews us in Baptism through his Godhead\, which he shares with the Father and the Son. Finding us in a state of deformity\, the Spirit restores our original beauty and fills us with his grace\, leaving no room for anything unworthy of our love. The Spirit frees us from sin and death\, and changes us from the earthly men we were\, made of dust and ashes\, into spiritual men\, sharers in the divine glory\, sons and heirs of God the Father\, who bear a likeness to the Son and are his coheirs and his brothers\, destined to reign with him and to share his glory. In place of earth the Spirit reopens heaven to us and gladly admits us into Paradise\, giving us even now greater honor than the angels\, and by the holy waters of Baptism extinguishing the unquenchable fires of hell. \nWe have two conceptions: to the human body we owe our first conception; to the divine Spirit\, our second. John says: To all who received him\, who believed in his name\, he gave power to become children of God; who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh\, nor of the will of man\, but of God. All who believed in Christ\, he says\, received power to become children of God\, that is\, of the Holy Spirit\, and to gain kinship with God. To show that their parent was God the Holy Spirit\, he adds these words of Christ: I give you this solemn warning\, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. \nVisibly\, through the ministry of priests\, the font gives symbolic birth to our visible bodies. Invisibly\, through the ministry of angels\, the Spirit of God\, whom even the mind’s eye cannot see\, baptizes into himself both our souls and bodies\, giving them a new birth. \nSpeaking quite literally\, and also in harmony with the words\, of water and the Spirit\, John the Baptist says of Christ: He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Since we are only vessels of clay\, we must first be cleansed in water and then hardened by spiritual fire – for God is a consuming fire. We need the Holy Spirit to perfect and renew us\, for the fire of the Spirit can also wash us and the water of the Spirit can also melt us down and recast us. \n7\nDidymus the Blind\, On the Trinity\, 2.12 (PG 39:667-674); Word in Season III\, 1st ed.
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