tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4135120497782871452024-03-19T04:48:06.943-04:00Meeting Christ in the Liturgy"I meet you, O Christ, face to face. I see you in your Sacraments." Saint Ambrose (Photo of Haditha Dam, Iraq.)Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.comBlogger1799125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-36700665104930815972024-02-11T08:56:00.004-05:002024-02-11T10:35:48.587-05:00Dominica in Quinquagesima <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tR8MHahfW8Q_1_n-ZD1zu-rgZ-emG3p8u3f2-t1obIUzsQBt_skHBgurN0ivPyaLEhw_3d5clX8Zs8g1iapw9GpF17u-NPbayEB_kmLjUWGk0mOgE4_KpPfzFhlNsjGV85hXQLizIROvN89Unuv5S2eFeedMP30txh-4N1nTPGNI8rLjC_BRLdUPAaJO/s1383/IMG_3904.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1383" data-original-width="841" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tR8MHahfW8Q_1_n-ZD1zu-rgZ-emG3p8u3f2-t1obIUzsQBt_skHBgurN0ivPyaLEhw_3d5clX8Zs8g1iapw9GpF17u-NPbayEB_kmLjUWGk0mOgE4_KpPfzFhlNsjGV85hXQLizIROvN89Unuv5S2eFeedMP30txh-4N1nTPGNI8rLjC_BRLdUPAaJO/s320/IMG_3904.jpeg" width="195" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;">Epistle </span></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">(</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">1</span><span style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Corinthians </span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">13:1-13) </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">The merit of our good works, like the light which enlightens our minds, will be in proportion to the charity which we possess. Let us therefore, dispose our will to detachment from everything in it that is opposed to divine charity, so that having seen God "through a glass in a dark manner," by faith, here on earth, we may behold Him "face to face" in Heaven, in all the fullness of our love for Him.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">Gospel </span></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">(</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Luke</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;"> 18:31-43) </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">"The man blind from birth of whom the Gospel speaks", says St. Gregory in the Matins of today, "is most certainly the human race. Since its expulsion from Paradise in the person of our first parents, it has known nothing of the inspirations of supernatural light, and has moreover suffered from being plunged into darkness through its condemnation." It is Jesus Christ Who, by the merits of His Passion, must open its eyes as He did for the blind man of Jericho and at the same time, free it from the captivity of error and sin.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">(</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">St. Andrew Missal</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="20" data-originalfontsize="20px" style="color: #584c7c; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: bold;">)</span></p>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-41828720968036583412024-02-07T08:48:00.004-05:002024-02-07T08:50:36.866-05:00The controversial relics of San Romualdo <div class="page-header header-small" data-parallax="active" id="primary" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); 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margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">0</div><div class="heateorSssTotalShareText" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13.3px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: normal; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">Shares</div></div></a></div><div class="heateorSssClear" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"></div></div><div class="heateorSssClear" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Our loyal readers will immediately recognize the name San Romualdo! How often did we mention this saint in our articles? The Saint was born between 951-953 in Ravenna, not exactly near Le Marche, especially at that time!</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Around the age of 20 he converted to the Benedictine order, stayed in Spain, came back to Ravenna, and then eventually, around the Year 1000, ended up in Camaldoli, near Arezzo. There, he founded a branch of the Benedictines: the Camaldolese Order, to which he also added Eastern hermitage in addition to the Western <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Ora et Labora</em> (pray and work). This union of Western and Eastern philosophy was reflected in the symbol of this Order: two doves drinking together from the same chalice.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full fbx-instance" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a class="fbx-link" href="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/P1010146.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-20462" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 933px) 100vw, 933px" src="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/P1010146.jpg" srcset="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/P1010146.jpg 933w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/P1010146-300x257.jpg 300w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/P1010146-768x659.jpg 768w" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="933" /></a></figure></div></div></div></article></div></div></div><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;">The Camaldolese monks therefore often built hermit caves, or hermit buildings, in addition to ordinary monasteries. For example, the</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://eccolemarche.eu/en/blog/2020/06/04/10753/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); color: #4937ed; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank" title="A 3-Abbeys tour in Le Marche">Eremo dei Frati Bianchi</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;">in Cupramontana, where the first monks lived in cliff dwellings.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full fbx-instance" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); color: #3c4858; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><a class="fbx-link" href="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eremo_01.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-20467" decoding="async" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" src="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eremo_01.jpg" srcset="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eremo_01.jpg 1200w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eremo_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eremo_01-768x512.jpg 768w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eremo_01-360x240.jpg 360w" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1200" /></a></figure><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">An 18th century copy of the painting The Apparition by Andrea Sacchi (17th century in the Vatican Museums) hangs in the San Leonardo Church in Cupramontana. Here San Romualdo is depicted as an elderly man in his white habit.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full fbx-instance" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); color: #3c4858; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><a class="fbx-link" href="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DSC_8976.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-20461" decoding="async" height="800" sizes="(max-width: 1191px) 100vw, 1191px" src="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DSC_8976.jpg" srcset="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DSC_8976.jpg 1191w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DSC_8976-300x202.jpg 300w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DSC_8976-768x516.jpg 768w" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="1191" /></a></figure><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Romualdo then moved regularly in Umbria and Le Marche, where he died in 1027 in the <a href="https://eccolemarche.eu/en/blog/2019/11/21/the-local-beef-razza-marchigiana/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank" title="The local beef: Razza Marchigiana">abbey of Valdicastro.</a><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><div class="wp-block-image fbx-instance" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); color: #3c4858; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><figure class="aligncenter size-full" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="fbx-link" href="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-2.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-20436" decoding="async" height="199" loading="lazy" src="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-2.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="300" /></a></figure></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">In addition, a small community took the name of this saint: <a href="https://eccolemarche.eu/en/blog/2020/07/09/fresh-air-in-poggio-san-romualdo/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank" title="Fresh air in Poggio San Romualdo">Poggio San Romualdo</a></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-full fbx-instance" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); color: #3c4858; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;"><a class="fbx-link" href="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-3.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-20437" decoding="async" height="450" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-3.jpg" srcset="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-3.jpg 800w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-3-768x432.jpg 768w" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="800" /></a></figure><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">He was canonized in 1595. But already in 1480 his body was already important. Two monks from Ravenna tried to smuggle Romualdo’s body from the Abbey of Valdicastro back to his hometown. But during their stop in Jesi, their plan was discovered. From then on, a whole battle started between Fabriano (to which Valdicastro belonged) and Jesi, because relics or better still bodies of clerics who were venerated, always attracted many pilgrims and of course meant income!</p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">In the end, Fabriano received almost all of the body, with Jesi receiving part of the arm that can be seen in the <a href="https://eccolemarche.eu/en/blog/2019/05/16/24-hours-in-jesi/" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;" target="_blank" title="Jesi in 24 Hours">Cathedral of Jesi</a>.</p><div class="wp-block-image fbx-instance" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(60, 72, 88); color: #3c4858; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px;"><br /><figure class="aligncenter size-full is-resized" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><a class="fbx-link" href="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-4.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4937ed; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-20463" decoding="async" height="300" loading="lazy" src="https://eccolemarche.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/afbeelding-4.jpg" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="199" /></a></figure></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">This is how Romualdo ended up in the San Biagio church of Fabriano (13th-18th century), which was then called the Chiesa dei Santi Biagio e Romualdo</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Source: <a href="https://eccolemarche.eu/en/blog/2023/02/04/the-controversial-relics-of-saint-romualdo/">https://eccolemarche.eu/en/blog/2023/02/04/the-controversial-relics-of-saint-romualdo/</a></p>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-73957680063475455752024-02-02T10:07:00.013-05:002024-02-02T10:27:05.287-05:00Candlemas<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 24.48px;">And suddenly there will come to the temple the Lord ...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">... whom you seek."</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-align: justify;">-- Mal 3:1-4<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><br /></span></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">"My eyes have seen..Salvation!"</span></div></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-align: justify;">-- <span style="font-size: 15.84px;">Luke 2:22ff</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15.84px;">From the Holy Gospel according to Luke</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; text-align: start;"><i>Luke 2:22-32</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; text-align: start;"><b><i>I</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">n that time, after the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord. And so on.</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black; font-size: medium;">Homily on this passage by St. Ambrose, Bishop </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">of Milan.</span></div></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Bk. 2, Comm. on Luke II</i></div></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium;">nd, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. The birth of the Lord is attested not only by Angels and Prophets, and shepherds, but also by elders and just men. Every age, and both sexes, as well as the miracles of the events themselves, are here to strengthen our faith. A virgin conceiveth, a barren woman beareth, a dumb man speaketh, Elizabeth prophesieth, the wise man worshippeth, the unborn child leapeth, the widow praiseth, and the just man waiteth.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; text-align: start;"><b><i>W</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">ell is he called just, who looked not for favour for himself, but for consolation for his people. He desired to be set free from the bondage of this frail body, but he waited to see the Promised One for he knew that blessed are the eyes that see Him. Then took he Him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said: Lord, now lettest Thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. Behold a just man, confined in the weary prison of the body, desiring to be dissolved and to begin to be with Christ. For to be dissolved and to be with Christ is much better. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;">Phil. i. 23.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small; text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; text-align: start;"><b><i>W</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: medium; text-align: start;">hosoever will be dissolved and be with Christ, let him come into the Temple, let him come to Jerusalem, let him wait for the Lord's Christ, let him take hold on the Word of God, let him embrace it with good works, as it were with arms of faith and then let him depart in peace, for he shall not see death, who hath seen life. Behold how the Lord's Birth doth overflow with abounding grace for all, and prophecy is not denied to the just, but to the unbelieving. Behold, Simeon prophesieth that the Lord Jesus Christ is come for the fall and rising again of many; yea, He shall separate the just from the unjust by their deserts, and according as our work shall be, so shall the true and righteous Judge command us to be punished or rewarded.</span></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">N.B. Today we hold the blessed tapers alight in the holy liturgy of procession and Mass. As the lights and decorations of Christmas are put away for next year’s celebration of the Incarnation, we seek, behold and adore all the more intensely through faith the light of Christ truly present in our temples as the Holy Eucharist. And when we receive Him thus in a state of grace we become alight through the Truth we believe, embrace and live as Divine light amidst the darkness and sin of this passing world.</div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-60718742042937012472024-01-18T09:10:00.014-05:002024-01-18T13:40:57.466-05:00Cathedræ S. Petri and the “Keys of Peter”: To forgive sin, not to bless it<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYGaSgq7VIzVgxr_eQJs3HegBrhhTPEAQb_brzLk808fSgZTKyv07NAfj4yApUQLyKo-1qD9KSNQ_Ay0lo1tA5-AHOThJCdxQZPGQbst2aH_vJZlvZycJFO-K14kZknJEhyphenhyphenj0PxuYGm_AdIn5qu5R94R7DdVDkWJr6-VkqL1u3oKmQRQ4SfzDBmuFm_hV/s807/IMG_3658.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="807" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYGaSgq7VIzVgxr_eQJs3HegBrhhTPEAQb_brzLk808fSgZTKyv07NAfj4yApUQLyKo-1qD9KSNQ_Ay0lo1tA5-AHOThJCdxQZPGQbst2aH_vJZlvZycJFO-K14kZknJEhyphenhyphenj0PxuYGm_AdIn5qu5R94R7DdVDkWJr6-VkqL1u3oKmQRQ4SfzDBmuFm_hV/s320/IMG_3658.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span face="Lato, "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Corbel, sans-serif, Helvetica, Corbel, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(136, 141, 147); color: #888d93; font-size: 14px;">Perugino, </span><em style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(136, 141, 147); color: #888d93; font-family: Lato, "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Corbel, sans-serif, Helvetica, Corbel, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christ Giving the Keys of the Kingdom to St. Peter,</em><span face="Lato, "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Corbel, sans-serif, Helvetica, Corbel, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(136, 141, 147); color: #888d93; font-size: 14px;"> Sistine Chapel, 1481-83, fresco, 10 feet 10 inches x 18 feet (Vatican, Rome) </span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;">From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Matt 16:13-19</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;">t that time, Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? And so on.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;">Homily by St. Hilary, Bishop </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">of Poitiers.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Commentary on Matthew xvi.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: black;">he Lord asketh His disciples who men say that He is, and He addeth, He, the Son of Man. Let us ever remember to hold fast this truth of our profession, namely, that the Son of God is the Son of Man also. Were He one and not the other, then were He no Saviour for us. The Lord then, having heard the various opinions of men, asketh, But Who say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Peter had weighed the questions. The Lord had asked, Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? </span></span></p>From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew</span></span><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Matt 16:13-19</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">t that time, Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is? And so on.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Homily by St. Hilary, Bishop </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">of Poitiers.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Commentary on Matthew xvi.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">he Lord asketh His disciples who men say that He is, and He addeth, He, the Son of Man. Let us ever remember to hold fast this truth of our profession, namely, that the Son of God is the Son of Man also. Were He one and not the other, then were He no Saviour for us. The Lord then, having heard the various opinions of men, asketh, But Who say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Peter had weighed the questions. The Lord had asked, Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? That He was Son of Man was sufficiently evident to all who looked upon His Body. But when He spake of His whole Self, and asked, Who do ye say that I am? He showed that the mind had something to grasp beyond That Which was seen, for Son of Man He was manifestly. What judgment did He wish them to give? I think it was not /that which He had owned concerning Himself. That something more, which He wished them to own, was a hidden thing, whereunto the faith of them that believed in Him was to reach.</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>P</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">eter’s confession was followed by a proper reward for having seen the Son of God in the Son of Man. Blessed is this holy Apostle, in whose praise it is said that he saw with more than human eyes That Which was unseen, who gazed upon Flesh and Blood, and by the secret revelation of the Heavenly Father recognised the Eternal Son of God; who was the first thought worthy to acknowledge the Divinity of Christ. {Here, if necessary, the Lesson is divided.) God bless thee, O Peter, thou who by uttering for the first time the title of Divine honour, didst lay the goodly foundation of the Church! God bless thee, thou worthy rock whereon she is built, for ever triumphant over the infernal powers, the gates of hell, and the bands of death! God bless thee, happy door-keeper of heaven, to whose keeping are given the keys of the everlasting mansions, whose sentences on earth are already confirmed in heaven so that whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.</span> </p><p>N.B. The forgiveness of sins is the blessing of Christ in the Church through the ministry of priests in union with Peter’s successor.</p><p>The blessing of sin is a betrayal. A lie from the Evil One.</p><p>Scripture wherein Peter speaks to us a word for our time.</p><p><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">1 Pet 1:3-9</i></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven for you,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">5</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in diverse temptations:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">7</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> That the trial of your faith much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">8</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now, though you see him not, you believe: and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">9</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>℣.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> O Lord, hear my prayer.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>℟.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> And let my cry come unto thee.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>L</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">et us pray.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>O</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> God, Who hast given unto thy Blessed Apostle Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and the power to bind and to loose, loose us, we beseech thee, at his mighty intercession, from all the bands of our sins.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>W</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">ho livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, world without end.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>℟.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Amen</span></span></p>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-61607839121422295392024-01-07T08:44:00.006-05:002024-01-07T09:14:03.913-05:00Sanctæ Familiæ Jesu Mariæ Joseph<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytM6pEpHnACM5MW70jqz-JrchIjSphvBxyBCSH7yKL3zjrB-d466eZWoGsO7G433mbgJ8F2PWvY3PpJXb7clqc-ppyKvVFb5mGNxwEN1B4cblqd2g5nsdu-96VaF3k15dxGNEihTFWvrHwxioXs1CgdG3Am-LZ_TPIQeshHrStY1MgM5zdFSTTy-8dvnS/s1200/IMG_3556.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="850" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytM6pEpHnACM5MW70jqz-JrchIjSphvBxyBCSH7yKL3zjrB-d466eZWoGsO7G433mbgJ8F2PWvY3PpJXb7clqc-ppyKvVFb5mGNxwEN1B4cblqd2g5nsdu-96VaF3k15dxGNEihTFWvrHwxioXs1CgdG3Am-LZ_TPIQeshHrStY1MgM5zdFSTTy-8dvnS/s320/IMG_3556.webp" width="227" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">12</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">13</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">14</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">15</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">16</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.</span><div><br /></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">17</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">18</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">19</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter towards them.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">20</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">21</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Lesson from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Colossians</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Col 3:12-21</i></span></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">From the Apostolic Letters of Pope Leo XIII</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Breve « Neminem fugit » 14 junii 1892</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>W</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">hen God in his mercy determined to accomplish the work of man's renewal, which same had so many long ages awaited, he appointed and ordained this work on such wise that its very beginning might shew to the world the august spectacle of a Family which was known to be divinely constituted; that therein all men might behold a perfect model, as well of domestic life as of every virtue and pattern of holiness: for such indeed was the Holy Family of Nazareth. There in secret dwelt the Sun of Righteousness, until the time when he should shine out in full splendour in the sight of all nations. There Christ, our God and Saviour, lived with his Virgin Mother, and with that most holy man Joseph, who held to him the place of father. No one can doubt that in this Holy Family was displayed every virtue which can be called forth by an ordinary home life, with its mutual services of charity, its holy intercourse, and its practices of godly piety, since the Holy Family was destined to be a pattern to all others. For that very reason was it established by the merciful designs of Providence, namely, that every Christian, in every walk of life and in every place, might easily, if he would but give heed to it, have before him a motive and a pattern for the good life.</span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">From the Holy Gospel according to Luke</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Luke 2:42-52</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">nd when he was twelve years old, they going up into Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast, And having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem; and his parents knew it not..<span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: Inter, SourceSerifPro, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: Inter, SourceSerifPro, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">And so on.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">Homily by Saint Bernard</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>L</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">earn, O man, to obey! Learn, O earth, to be subject! Learn, O dust, to submit! The Evangelist speaking of thy Creator saith: And he was subject unto them. And there is no doubt that this sheweth us that God was subject to Mary and Joseph. Shame on you, ye proud entities of dust and ashes! God abaseth himself, and dost thou, O creature sprung from the earth, exalt thyself? God maketh himself subject to man, and dost thou, who art always so eager to lord it over men, set up thyself to lord it over thy Creator? For as often soever as I desire pre-eminency over men, so often do I strive to excel God. For of him it was said: And he was subject unto them. If thou disdainest, O man, to follow the example of man, at least thou canst follow thy Creator without dishonour. If thou canst not, perchance, follow him whithersoever he goeth, deign at least to follow him in this thing wherein he hath emptied himself, and made himself of no reputation, for the sake of such as thou.</span></span></span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-6680549455922390782024-01-06T09:01:00.002-05:002024-01-06T10:08:27.748-05:00In Epiphania Domini: “Ecce Magi ab Oriénte venérunt Jerosólymam”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-qA1-SzQR459m2t0eI9eAySH7I-_jkNv9YiR5xz91B_FDU3FGaveA4oua1OtbdOHGADpHmaflpO1mv3gkkrrqKD4DxKFtdsedtX1BqXpu94bfL7VAQkaI681NjvDBaM5ukYE60TjUCoaO7ICdYCaWmD-4EoEjH_uDhGG1ygn080nzL-pHBr5KBcq_FOV/s280/IMG_3549.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="280" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib-qA1-SzQR459m2t0eI9eAySH7I-_jkNv9YiR5xz91B_FDU3FGaveA4oua1OtbdOHGADpHmaflpO1mv3gkkrrqKD4DxKFtdsedtX1BqXpu94bfL7VAQkaI681NjvDBaM5ukYE60TjUCoaO7ICdYCaWmD-4EoEjH_uDhGG1ygn080nzL-pHBr5KBcq_FOV/s1600/IMG_3549.jpeg" width="280" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Matt 2:1-12</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>C</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">um natus esset Jesus in Béthlehem Juda in diébus Heródis regis, ecce Magi ab Oriénte venérunt Jerosólymam, dicéntes: Ubi est qui natus est Rex Judæórum? Et réliqua.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo (the Great)</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>2nd for Twelfth-Day.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>D</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">early beloved brethren, rejoice in the Lord; again I say, rejoice. But a few days are past since the solemnity of Christ's Birth, and now the glorious light of His Manifestation is breaking upon us. On that day the Virgin brought Him forth, and on this the world knew Him. The Word made Flesh was pleased to reveal Himself by degrees to those for whom He had come. When Jesus was born He was manifested indeed to the believing, but hidden from His enemies. Already indeed the heavens declared the glory of God, and their sound went out into all lands, when the Herald Angels appeared to tell to the shepherds the glad tidings of a Saviour's Birth; and now the guiding star leadeth the wise men to worship Him, that from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof, the Birth of the true King may be known abroad; that through those wise men the kingdoms of the east might learn the great truth, and the Roman empire remain no more in darkness.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">hus also we remark that afterwards the Redeemer was preached among the Gentiles not by Himself, but by His Apostles, even as, when a little Child, He is shown to them, not by the voice of angels, but merely by the vision of a star. When He Himself had begun to speak He was made known to us by speakers, but when He lay silent in the manger, by that silent testimony in heaven. But whether we consider the signs which accompanied His birth or His death, this thing is wonderful, namely, the hardness of heart of the Jews, who would not believe in Him either for prophesying or for miracles.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">ll things which He had made, bore witness that their Maker was come. Let me reckon them after the manner of men. The heavens knew that He was God, and sent a star to shine over where He lay. The sea knew it, and bore Him up when He walked upon it. The earth knew it, and quaked when He died. The sun knew it, and was darkened. The rocks and walls knew it, and rent at the hour of His death. Hell knew it, and gave up the dead that were in it. And yet up to this very hour the hearts of the unbelieving Jews will not acknowledge that He to Whom all nature testified is their God, and, being more hardened than the rocks, refuse to be rent by repentance.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">XX+C+M+B+XXIV</span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-76602531167450909092024-01-05T08:14:00.008-05:002024-01-05T08:22:46.739-05:00In Vigilia Epiphaniae<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJWriT_brunCsmU0ZimvkY0diR_0o7heJZUyssP41XFoB3vEATts3JOQdF3CxcMwxoOd1GoVml_Rezj3meUX_jrms7sGDirrr_6kSascfkpAvC_0XIhXUcD1ee1PH6rthUd84q_yO7PF3hVXuZeYjBQgSciiL4TwUIAnVBpfX-Sbbn9DS2pMDPUCkJsMR/s1011/IMG_3542.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1011" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJWriT_brunCsmU0ZimvkY0diR_0o7heJZUyssP41XFoB3vEATts3JOQdF3CxcMwxoOd1GoVml_Rezj3meUX_jrms7sGDirrr_6kSascfkpAvC_0XIhXUcD1ee1PH6rthUd84q_yO7PF3hVXuZeYjBQgSciiL4TwUIAnVBpfX-Sbbn9DS2pMDPUCkJsMR/s320/IMG_3542.jpeg" width="253" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Matthǽum</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Matt 2:19-23</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>I</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">n illo témpore: Defúncto Heróde, ecce Angelus Dómini appáruit in somnis Joseph in Ægýpto, dicens: Surge, et áccipe púerum et matrem ejus, et vade in terram Israël. Et réliqua.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Homily by St. Jerome, Priest </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">at Bethlehem.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Bk. i., Comm. on Matth. ii.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>F</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">rom the words, they are dead, (in the Plural), which are used in this passage of the Gospel, we may understand that there were others beside Herod which sought the young Child's life probably the Priests and Scribes. And he Joseph arose, and took the young Child and His Mother. It is not written, He took his wife and child, but he took the young Child and His Mother; whence it is clear that the holy Evangelist willeth to imply that Joseph was not the father, but the Guardian of Jesus, not the husband, but the Betrothed of Mary.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">But when he </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea, in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither. There are some persons so grossly ignorant of history that they confuse themselves over the two Herods, as if the one mentioned here were the same who afterwards set our Lord at nought during His Passion, and they cannot understand how he should now be said to be dead. The Herod who was made friends with Pilate over Christ's death, was the son of the Herod who massacred the infants of Bethlehem, and the brother of Archelaus.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">He shall be called a Nazarene. The Evangelist, in quoting these words, saith that they were spoken by the Prophets, (Plural). If he had been citing any one precise passage he would have said by the Prophet, in the Singular. But he is citing the sense of the Prophets, and not any individual passage in any of their writings. He seemeth to refer to the fact that in Hebrew the word Nazarene signifieth holy, and that Christ is the Holy One of God is the common declaration of all the Scriptures.</span></span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-82646960969634570952024-01-02T11:37:00.002-05:002024-01-02T11:37:24.350-05:00Sanctissimi Nominis Jesu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1QfJqP_CnqSMgsCGZ0ZtaI7zZV4yNn1BbUPTROLqS2ivqNorshIKOZ6PtmGeq0CTLuAm2FlZhjXThpijLcm39dXVhg-iWgK0SkRAQYNyhPeiwLZ9oP46_96iYBl5bcrZvNQC5FHYkyz7x1Q00HSaZTvJF3TPJ1YpS4bx8dzKa7wcY9tQFw59ALWpKNbo/s1200/IMG_3523.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="1200" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw1QfJqP_CnqSMgsCGZ0ZtaI7zZV4yNn1BbUPTROLqS2ivqNorshIKOZ6PtmGeq0CTLuAm2FlZhjXThpijLcm39dXVhg-iWgK0SkRAQYNyhPeiwLZ9oP46_96iYBl5bcrZvNQC5FHYkyz7x1Q00HSaZTvJF3TPJ1YpS4bx8dzKa7wcY9tQFw59ALWpKNbo/s320/IMG_3523.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Léctio sancti Evangélii secúndum Lucam</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Luc 2:21</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>I</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">n illo témpore: Postquam consummáti sunt dies octo, ut circumciderétur Puer: vocátum est nomen ejus Jesus. </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Homily by St. Bernard, Abbot (of Clairvaux)</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>1st on the Circumcision</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>B</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">ehold a mystery, great and full of wonder! The Child is circumcised, and His Name is called Jesus. Why are these two things thus mentioned together? It would seem that circumcision should rather be for the saved than for the Saviour; that the Saviour ought rather to be Circumciser than circumcised. But behold here the Mediator between God and men, how even from His childhood He joineth the things of the Highest to the things of the lowest, the things of God to the things of men. He is born of a woman, but her womb is made fruitful without the loss of the flower of her virginity. He is wrapped in swaddling-bands, but these swaddling-bands are a theme for the jubilation of angels. He is laid in a manger, but a bright star standeth in heaven over the place. So also in His circumcision, the ceremony gave proof of the reality of the Manhood which He had taken, and that Name which is above every name proclaimed the glory of His Blessed Majesty. As very son of Abraham He underwent circumcision; He assumed the Name of Jesus as very Son of God.</span>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-6084277434794327442024-01-01T09:36:00.014-05:002024-01-01T11:48:08.697-05:00In Circumcisione Domini<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECfRDiyFX5NvoGz8DxgPGfgecaUmg01se0cyEXE-00Y7MHuaEU7jaW6rvvXlgNU7-Y1Awk2jnlUAPVxOlAwNGOC2il3c_5Fj5_mR0IbZgjRaH3qk6Hbu3NvQIiM0gW5RGPT_3sTL3FFXifa0LLuEz7DHWtVz21KGHB5ycoh4GnIcV9Au_sBH2G6idw4t2/s560/IMG_3517.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="560" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgECfRDiyFX5NvoGz8DxgPGfgecaUmg01se0cyEXE-00Y7MHuaEU7jaW6rvvXlgNU7-Y1Awk2jnlUAPVxOlAwNGOC2il3c_5Fj5_mR0IbZgjRaH3qk6Hbu3NvQIiM0gW5RGPT_3sTL3FFXifa0LLuEz7DHWtVz21KGHB5ycoh4GnIcV9Au_sBH2G6idw4t2/s320/IMG_3517.jpeg" width="320" /></a><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(84, 89, 93); color: #54595d; font-size: 13.8125px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(84, 89, 93); color: #54595d; font-size: 13.8125px;">Circumcision of Christ, </span><i style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background: repeat; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(84, 89, 93); color: #54595d; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 13.8125px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menologion_of_Basil_II" style="background: repeat; border: 0px; color: #795cb2; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Menologion of Basil II">Menologion of Basil II</a></i><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Inter, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(84, 89, 93); color: #54595d; font-size: 13.8125px;">, 979–984.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">From the Holy Gospel according to Luke</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Luke 2:21</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>I</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">n that time, after eight days were accomplished, that the child should be circumcised, his name was called Jesus…</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">the Great.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>7th for Christmas</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>D</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">early beloved brethren, whosoever will keep truly and honour piously this day's festival, it is necessary for him neither to think falsely of the Lord's Incarnation, nor meanly of the Lord's Godhead. For as there is danger, on the one hand, of denying the truth of Christ's participation of our nature, so is there no less danger, on the other, of doing despite to the equality of His glory with the glory of the Father. Wherefore, when we draw near to understand the mystery of Christ's Birth, wherein He was born of the Virgin Mary, we must leave the clouds of earthly imagination behind and pierce the fog of human wisdom with the eye of enlightened faith.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">he authority on which we believe is the authority of God Himself; the teaching which we follow is the teaching of God Himself. Wherefore whether we lend the ear of our mind to the testimony of the Law, or to the revelations of the Prophets, or to the full pealing of the Gospel trumpet, that is true, which John the Son of Thunder, uttered, when he was filled with the Holy Ghost, and said: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made. True also is his witness when he saith: The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">John i. 1-3, 14.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">he Person of the Son of God therefore remaineth unchanged and one, though He have two natures, keeping His own, and taking ours. He appeareth as man to be the restorer of men, but abideth all the while in His immutable Godhead. That Godhead which He shareth with the Father was not a whit the less Almighty, nor did the form of a servant touch the form of God to derogate from it. The Most High and Everlasting Being, bending down for man's salvation, took the Manhood into His glory; He ceased not to be That which He is from everlasting. Hence we see the Only-begotten Son of God in one place confessing that the Father is greater than He, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">John xiv. 28,</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> and in another declaring that He and the Father are One, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">x. 30.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> This is an evident proof of the distinction of His two natures, and the unity of His Person; for He is inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood, and yet equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and yet, though He be God and Man, He is not two, but One Christ.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Lesson from the letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Rom 4:1-17</i></span></div><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">3</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">5</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">6</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> As David also termeth the blessedness of a man, to whom God reputeth justice without works:</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">7</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">8</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.</span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">9</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only, or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">10</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">11</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith, which he had, being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised, that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">12</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> And might be the father of circumcision; not to them only, that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faithful, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">13</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> For not through the law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world; but through the justice of faith.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">14</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">15</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">16</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">17</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations, before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.</span></div><div><p><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">the Great.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>7th for Christmas</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>D</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">early beloved brethren, whosoever will keep truly and honour piously this day's festival, it is necessary for him neither to think falsely of the Lord's Incarnation, nor meanly of the Lord's Godhead. For as there is danger, on the one hand, of denying the truth of Christ's participation of our nature, so is there no less danger, on the other, of doing despite to the equality of His glory with the glory of the Father. Wherefore, when we draw near to understand the mystery of Christ's Birth, wherein He was born of the Virgin Mary, we must leave the clouds of earthly imagination behind and pierce the fog of human wisdom with the eye of enlightened faith.</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">he authority on which we believe is the authority of God Himself; the teaching which we follow is the teaching of God Himself. Wherefore whether we lend the ear of our mind to the testimony of the Law, or to the revelations of the Prophets, or to the full pealing of the Gospel trumpet, that is true, which John the Son of Thunder, uttered, when he was filled with the Holy Ghost, and said: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made. True also is his witness when he saith: The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only-begotten of the Father. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">John i. 1-3, 14.</span></span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">he Person of the Son of God therefore remaineth unchanged and one, though He have two natures, keeping His own, and taking ours. He appeareth as man to be the restorer of men, but abideth all the while in His immutable Godhead. That Godhead which He shareth with the Father was not a whit the less Almighty, nor did the form of a servant touch the form of God to derogate from it. The Most High and Everlasting Being, bending down for man's salvation, took the Manhood into His glory; He ceased not to be That which He is from everlasting. Hence we see the Only-begotten Son of God in one place confessing that the Father is greater than He, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">John xiv. 28,</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"> and in another declaring that He and the Father are One, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">x. 30.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"> This is an evident proof of the distinction of His two natures, and the unity of His Person; for He is inferior to the Father as touching His Manhood, and yet equal to the Father as touching His Godhead, and yet, though He be God and Man, He is not two, but One Christ.</span></span></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-64357481621884511042023-07-22T07:41:00.012-04:002023-07-22T07:46:58.599-04:00Saint Mary Magdalene: Seeking the Lord amid the darkness of this world <div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQoVYH6jVhpgNlOlpfKUaKc0m8JD_4opM_1JP0_VPLOUO-sr0wMRojCYTsNmfsJp0JSXht77MjIQUV2olScwxh8EKDw_9qStdk1JCl9XVgvMPffrW8d_YVozbD9CownMhST-FLbnT2bTzKFDuMXFD6B7fngDoko73fP1Q2Vz2GV3_NCBJO7TAaBth3DIvC/s450/IMG_1640.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="376" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQoVYH6jVhpgNlOlpfKUaKc0m8JD_4opM_1JP0_VPLOUO-sr0wMRojCYTsNmfsJp0JSXht77MjIQUV2olScwxh8EKDw_9qStdk1JCl9XVgvMPffrW8d_YVozbD9CownMhST-FLbnT2bTzKFDuMXFD6B7fngDoko73fP1Q2Vz2GV3_NCBJO7TAaBth3DIvC/s320/IMG_1640.webp" width="267" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>Noli me tangere, Tiziano</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">2</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> I will rise, and will go about the city: in the streets and the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and I found him not.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">3</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> The watchmen who keep the city, found me: Have you seen him, whom my soul loveth?</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">4</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.”</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white;">De Canticis Canticorum.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Song 3:1-4</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span></div></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><div><span style="color: red;"><b><i>“M</i></b></span>ary Magdalen, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, through love of the truth, washed away in her tears the defilement of her sins, and the words of the Truth are fulfilled which He spake Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much. She who had remained chilly in sin, became fiery through love. When even His disciples went away again unto their own home, Mary still stood without at the sepulchre of Christ, weeping. She sought Him Whom her soul loved, but she found Him not. She searched for Him with tears; she yearned with strong desire for Him Who, she believed, had been taken away. And thus it befell her, that being the only one who had remained to seek Him, she was the only one that saw Him. It is the truth that the backbone of a good work is perseverance.</div></span><p> “<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">t first when she sought Him, she found Him not; she went on searching, and so it came to pass that she found Him; and this was so, to the end that her longing might grow in earnestness, and so in its earnestness might find what it sought. Hence is it that the Bride in the Song of Songs saith as representing the Church: By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. We seek on our bed for Him Whom our soul loveth, when, having got some little rest in this world, we still sigh for the Presence of our Redeemer but it is by night that we so seek Him, for though our mind may be on the alert for Him, yet still He is hidden from our eyes by the darkness that now is.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>“B</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">ut if we find not Him Whom our soul loveth, it remaineth that we should rise and go about the city, that is, by thought and questioning, go through the holy Church of the elect seek Him in the streets, and in the broad ways, that is, walk anxiously looking about us both in the narrow and the broad places, that if we can, we may find His footsteps there for there are some even of those who live for the world, from whom something may be learnt to be imitated by a godly man. As we thus go wakefully about, the watchmen, that keep the city, find us; the holy Fathers, who are the watchmen of the bulwarks of the Church, come to meet our good endeavours, and to teach us either by their words or by their writings. And it needeth but a little to pass from them, but we find Him Whom our soul loveth (a little we must pass,) for albeit our Redeemer in lowliness became a man among men, yet by right of His Divine Nature He is still above men.“</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">From the Sermons of Pope St. Gregory </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">the Great.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>25th on the Gospels.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span></div></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></p>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-70721450272374939202023-07-20T09:01:00.009-04:002023-07-20T09:06:22.811-04:00On “Spiritual Childhood” by St John Chrysostom<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLlOeCay5yi-8UUD9c2-COg8tbCmM_dhFMDVy0VzW-gYCkZNioU0vSWLlJNidz0UMVywnc43OJeyE8UPSTd5fFWisD685MXs2llK3TSvMp7RIH3CaBvFfoBxGqD0k91FkFE59-EQTF9jMFzB65pmn2p-lzedYr0pSGLXduW8XvTffpkEi8GkdG_heyUm82/s1183/IMG_1621.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1183" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLlOeCay5yi-8UUD9c2-COg8tbCmM_dhFMDVy0VzW-gYCkZNioU0vSWLlJNidz0UMVywnc43OJeyE8UPSTd5fFWisD685MXs2llK3TSvMp7RIH3CaBvFfoBxGqD0k91FkFE59-EQTF9jMFzB65pmn2p-lzedYr0pSGLXduW8XvTffpkEi8GkdG_heyUm82/s320/IMG_1621.jpeg" width="277" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p>From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew</span><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“<i style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">A</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">t that time, there were brought unto Jesus little children that He should put His Hands on them, and pray… and Jesus said, ‘Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belong the kingdom of heaven…’ ” </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Matt 19:13-21</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>“W</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">herefore did the disciples rebuke them that brought them From an idea of His dignity. What therefore did He To teach them to be lowly, and to be above the niceness of the world, He took the little children, and embraced them in His Arms, and declared that of such is the kingdom of heaven as also He had said above, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">xviii. 3, 4.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> And we also, if we would fain be heirs of the kingdom of heaven, let us seek with great earnestness this virtue. For this is the highest peak of philosophy, to be simple and wise this is the life of an Angel. The mind of a little child is free from all the diseases of the mind a little child keepeth no remembrance of injuries, but goeth unto such as have inflicted them, as if unto friends, and as if nothing had happened. Although his mother give him stripes, yet a little child ever seeketh her, and putteth her before all.</span></p><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>“I</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">f thou wert to show him a Queen adorned with her crown, he would not prefer her before his own mother, in raiment how faded soever, and he would rather see her, albeit unkempt, than the Queen in all her glorious apparel. For his use is to account of things whether they be his own, or of others, not by the standard of poverty and riches, but by that of love only. He seeketh no more than he needeth. When he is satisfied with milk, he leaveth the pap. The things that press upon us, such as the loss of money, and the like, do not press upon him, nor do the same transitory things that please us, please him, neither doth he gaze with admiration at loveliness of shape. Therefore Christ said: Of such is the kingdom of heaven, to make us do by force of will what little children do by nature.</span><br /></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>“T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">he Pharisees' usual springs of action were spite and vanity; therefore doth the Lord everywhere command His disciples to be simple, and in teaching the one, pointeth silently at the other class. Nothing breedeth pride so much as princedom and precedence. Since, then, His disciples were to receive much honour throughout all the world, He warneth their minds beforehand, and letteth them not stumble into the snare of men, nor go seeking for honours from the mob, nor put themselves forward before others. It is true, these may seem little things, but they give occasion for very great evils. It was when they were placed in these positions, that the Pharisees fell into their direst misfortunes from looking for salutations, and foremost or good places, they got into a keen desire of distinction, and from that into ungodliness.”</span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-28422281860309652392023-04-22T14:23:00.007-04:002023-04-22T14:24:39.897-04:00Good Shepherd Sunday: The Good Shepherd Giveth His Life for His Sheep <p> </p><article class="l-content-page content-page" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="content-page__media content-page__media--image" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="styles file-styles dici_image_full_width" id="styles-0-0" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img data-cfsrc="https://sspx.org/sites/sspx/files/styles/dici_image_full_width/public/media/usa-district/new-news/gallaplacidia.jpg?itok=hFgQAQuU" height="450" src="https://sspx.org/sites/sspx/files/styles/dici_image_full_width/public/media/usa-district/new-news/gallaplacidia.jpg?itok=hFgQAQuU" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Good Shepherd" width="800" /></span></figure><section class="content-page__text content-page__text--summary" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 3rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="summary-body" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I am the good shepherd: and I know Mine, and Mine know Me, as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father: and I lay down My life for My sheep,” and, “The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.” (Gospel)</p></div></section><section class="content-page__text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 3rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today is called "Good Shepherd Sunday". For, in the epistle, St. Peter himself, made by the risen Lord head and chief Pastor of His Church, tells us that Christ is the shepherd of our souls, which were like wandering sheep They are gathered round Him who came to give His life for them. The gospel relates the touching parable of the good shepherd who defends his sheep against the wolf, and protects them from death (Collect); and foretells that the heathen will come to join the Jews of the Old Law and to form with them one only Church and flock, under one shepherd.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />These our Lord recognizes as His sheep and like the disciples at Emmaus, whose eyes were opened at the breaking of the bread, at the altar when the priest consecrates the Host which is the memorial of our Lord's passion, they acknowledge that Christ is "the Good Shepherd who gives His life that He may feed His sheep with His Body and Blood" (St. Gregory). Raising their eyes to Him (Offertory), they pour forth to Him their gratitude for His great mercy (Introit).<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />"It was in those days," says St. Leo, "that the Holy Ghost was bestowed upon all the apostles by our Lord's breathing upon them, and that the blessed apostle Peter, raised above the rest, having already received the keys of the kingdom, saw the care of the Lord's flock committed to his charge." This was the first step in the founding of the Church. Let us thus press round the divine Shepherd of our souls.</p></section><div class="content-page__text content-page__text--footer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #727273; font-size: 1.4rem; margin: 3rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945 </p></div></article>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-7936058366725797672023-04-16T06:12:00.010-04:002023-04-16T06:19:23.660-04:00Dominica in Albis: “…our first duty is so to sanctify the mirth of these holy days”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAkkK1pzEsNlET9BgXsWCGO4tdsqR1ttGrkXDCnd-5jSeuvBTg4cWznX09w-TL4gwwGTllYoiBVRFgLK_gBSd9WbW9rxVP5mEEoIHNUUxB7Wwdk5uSN7lyJpEaI1L2cLFFQkmg3Iu4cayD6awIH-LQwe3CWCe9xiwU26fg4FrCufmdgb5IbY4IVVTWNQ/s1737/D1A03D6C-C462-45BF-A318-79B48F4B3CD2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="1737" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAkkK1pzEsNlET9BgXsWCGO4tdsqR1ttGrkXDCnd-5jSeuvBTg4cWznX09w-TL4gwwGTllYoiBVRFgLK_gBSd9WbW9rxVP5mEEoIHNUUxB7Wwdk5uSN7lyJpEaI1L2cLFFQkmg3Iu4cayD6awIH-LQwe3CWCe9xiwU26fg4FrCufmdgb5IbY4IVVTWNQ/s320/D1A03D6C-C462-45BF-A318-79B48F4B3CD2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><h1 class="dsArtwork__titleHeadline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Freight Sans", Arial, Helvetica, "MS Trebuchet", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="dsArtwork__titleCaption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Umbrian Master, St. Ambrose baptises St. Augustine</span><span class="dsArtwork__titleYear" style="box-sizing: border-box;">, ca. 1510</span></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">he Feast of this day is the end of the Paschal solemnity, and therefore it is today that the Newly-Baptized put off their white garments: but, though they lay aside the outward mark of washing in their raiment, the mark of that washing in their souls remaineth to eternity. Now are the days of the Pass-over, that is, of God's Passing-over our iniquity by His pardon and remission; and therefore our first duty is so to sanctify the mirth of these holy days, that our bodily recreation may be taken without defilement to our spiritual cleanness. Let us strive that our relaxation may be sober and our freedom holy, holding ourselves carefully aloof from anything like excess, drunkenness or lechery. Let us try so to keep in our souls their Lenten cleansing, that if our Fasting hath left us aught yet unwon, we may still be able to seek it.</span></p><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">- </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">From the Sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">of Hippo.</span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>1st Sermon for the Octave of the Passover, being the 157th for the Seasons.</i></span>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-1240918704789492622023-04-09T08:22:00.002-04:002023-04-09T08:22:20.877-04:00Through the Resurrection, We Go from Earthly Darkness to Heavenly Dignity<p><span class="styles file-styles dici_image_full_width" id="styles-0-0" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="450" src="https://sspx.org/sites/sspx/files/styles/dici_image_full_width/public/news/rubens_resurrection_du_christ_0.jpg?itok=14MFHjac" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="800" /></span> </p><h1 class="page-title" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.12121); margin: 3.4rem 0px 4.9rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">Pope St. Leo, who reigned from 440 to 461, explains the effects that Christ’s Resurrection has on our souls. A particularly fitting meditation for Eastertide:</span></h1><article class="l-content-page content-page" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="content-page__text" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The first man is of the earth earthy,” says the Apostle, “the second man is from heaven heavenly. As is the earthy, such also are they that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such also are they that are heavenly. As we have borne the image of the earthy, so let us also bear the image of Him Who is from heaven.” (I Cor. 15:47-49)</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We must greatly rejoice over this change, whereby we are translated from earthly degradation to heavenly dignity through His unspeakable mercy, Who descended into our estate that He might promote us to His, by assuming not only the substance but also the conditions of sinful nature, and by allowing the impassibility of Godhead to be affected by all the miseries which are the lot of mortal manhood.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And hence that the disturbed minds of the disciples might not be racked by prolonged grief, He with such wondrous speed shortened the three days' delay which He had announced, that by joining the last part of the first and the first part of the third day to the whole of the second, He cut off a considerable portion of the period, and yet did not lessen the number of days.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Savior's Resurrection therefore did not long keep His soul in Hades, nor His flesh in the tomb; and so speedy was the quickening of His uncorrupted flesh that it bore a closer resemblance to slumber than to death, seeing that the Godhead, Which quitted not either part of the Human Nature which He had assumed, reunited by Its power that which Its power had separated.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let God's people then recognize that they are a new creation in Christ, and with all vigilance understand by Whom they have been adopted and Whom they have adopted. Let not the things, which have been made new, return to their ancient instability; and let not him who has put his hand to the plough (Lk. 9:62) forsake his work, but rather attend to that which he sows than look back to that which he has left behind. (Ph. 3:14)</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let no one fall back into that from which he has risen, but, even though from bodily weakness he still languishes under certain maladies, let him urgently desire to be healed and raised up. For this is the path of health through imitation of the Resurrection begun in Christ.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">St. Leo the Great, Sermon on the Resurrection (Sermon 71)</p></section></article>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-43891355157961751442023-04-06T10:20:00.000-04:002023-04-06T10:20:03.679-04:00Instruction for Holy Thursday <p><br /></p><article class="l-content-page content-page" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="content-page__media content-page__media--image" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="styles file-styles dici_image_full_width" id="styles-0-0" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img data-cfsrc="https://sspx.org/sites/sspx/files/styles/dici_image_full_width/public/dsc_2526.jpg?itok=t0RpLIP3" height="450" src="https://sspx.org/sites/sspx/files/styles/dici_image_full_width/public/dsc_2526.jpg?itok=t0RpLIP3" style="border: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="800" /></span></figure><section class="content-page__text content-page__text--summary" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 3rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="summary-body" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is the Mass on Holy Thursday offered in the evening? What is the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mandatum</em>? Why is the Blessed Sacrament translated to an altar of repose? Why is the high altar stripped? Fr. Goffine answers!</p></div></section><section class="content-page__text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 3rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From <a href="https://sspx.org/en/media/books/the-churchs-year-fr-goffine" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Church's Year</em></a>, we reproduce the entry on the beautiful ceremonies of Holy Thursday.</p><hr style="border-top-color: rgb(114, 114, 115); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 0.1rem 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; height: 0.1rem; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;" /><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What festival does the Church celebrate today?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Catholic Church commemorates today the institution, by our Savior, of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. This commemoration she has celebrated from the first ages of Christianity.</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What remarkable things did Christ perform on this day?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He ate with His apostles the Paschal lamb which was a type of Himself; it was eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened bread; they ate it standing with clothes girded, and staff in hand, in remembrance of the hurried escape of the Jews from Egypt. (Exod. 12)</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After having eaten the Paschal lamb, Our Lord with profound humility washed the feet of His apostles, exhorting them to practice the same humility and charity; afterwards, He gave them His Flesh and Blood under the appearance of bread and wine, for spiritual food and drink, thus instituting the Must Holy Sacrament of the Altar, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the priesthood; for when He said to the apostles: Do this in commemoration of me, he ordained them priests.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After this He held His last discourse in which He particularly recommended brotherly love; said that beautiful, high-priestly prayer, in which He implored His Heavenly Father particularly for the unity of His Church.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He then went as usual to Mt. Olivet, where He commenced His passion with prayer and resignation to the will of His Father, suffering intense, deathlike agony, which was so great that He sweat blood. Here Judas betrayed Him into the hands of the Jews, by a treacherous kiss. They bound Him and led Him to the high-priests, Annas and Caiphas, where He was sentenced to death by the council, and denied by Peter.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Introit </strong>of the Mass reads thus: We ought to glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: in whom is our salvation, life, and resurrection: by whom we have been saved and delivered. (Gal. 6:14) May God have mercy on us, and bless us: may He cause the light of His countenance to shine upon us, and may He have mercy on us. (Ps. 66:2)</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COLLECT </strong>O God! from whom Judas received the punishment of his sin, and the thief the reward of his confession: grant us the effects of Thy mercy; that as our Lord Jesus Christ at the time of His passion bestowed on each a different recompense of his merits, so having destroyed the old man in us, He may give us the grace of His Resurrection. Who liveth, etc.</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What ceremonies are observed in this day's Mass?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The crucifix is covered with a white veil in memory of the sacred institution of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. The priest comes to the altar robed in white vestments; the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gloria in excelsis</em> is solemnly sung, accompanied by the ringing of bells, and all Christians are exhorted to render praise and gratitude to the Lord for having instituted the Blessed Feast of Love.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gloria </em>the bells are silent until Holy Saturday to indicate the Church's mourning for the passion and death of Jesus; to urge us also to spend these days in silent sorrow, meditating on the sufferings of Christ, and in memory of the shameful flight of the apostles at the capture of their master, and their silence during these days.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the Mass the priest consecrates two hosts one of which He consumes at the Communion, and the other he preserves in the chalice for the following day, because no consecration takes place on Good Friday. [As of the Holy Week Reform, the priest does not consecrate another large host, because he uses one of the Hosts from the ciboria reserved at the altar of repose on Good Friday—Ed.] The officiating priest does not give the usual kiss of peace before Communion, because on this day Judas betrayed his master with a kiss.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After Mass, the consecrated host in the chalice [as mentioned above this is no longer done], and the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle [ciborium], are taken in procession to the sacristy or repository, in memory of the earliest times of Christianity, when the consecrated hosts for the communicants and the sick, were kept in a place especially prepared, because there was no tabernacle on the altar. Moreover it also signifies Christ's going to Mt. Olivet, where His Godhead was concealed. After the procession the priests with the choir say vespers in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament [Vespers is now omitted and Compline according to a special form is said in front of the stripped altar].</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EPISTLE </strong>(I Cor. 11:20-32) Brethren, When you come together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper. For every one taketh before his supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry, and another is drunk. What! have you not houses to eat and drink in? Or despise ye the Church of God? and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke it, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also, the Chalice, after, he had supped, saying: This Chalice is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink it, for the commemoration of me. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink this chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until he come.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wherefore, whoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EXPLANATION </strong>The early Christians were accustomed after the celebration of the Lord's Supper, to unite in a common repast; those who were able furnished the food, and rich and poor partook of it in common, in token of brotherly love. This repast they called "<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Agape</em>,” “meal of love.” At Corinth this custom was abused, some ate before Communion that which had been brought, became intoxicated, and deprived the poor of their share. The Apostle condemns this abuse, declaring it an unworthy preparation for Communion, and reminds the Corinthians of the institution of the Blessed Sacrament telling them what a terrible sin it is to partake of the body and blood of the Lord unworthily, for whoever does this makes himself guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, and eats and drinks his own judgment, that is, eternal damnation. Therefore prove yourself, O Christian soul, as often as you communicate, see whether you have committed any grievous sin which you have not confessed, or for which you were not heartily sorry.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">GOSPEL </strong>(John 13:1-15) Before the festival day of the Pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. And when supper was done, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray him: knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and goeth to God: he riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments: and having taken a towel, he girded himself.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After that, he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel, wherewith he was girt. He cometh therefore to Simon Peter, and Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shaft know hereafter. Peter saith to him: Thou shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee, not, thou shall have no part with me. Simon Peter saith to him: Lord! not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. Jesus saith to him: He that is washed, needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all. For he knew who he was that would betray him: therefore he said: You are not all clean.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then after he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you? You call me Master, and Lord: and you say well, for so I am. If then I, being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that as I have done to you so do you also.</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why did Jesus wash the feet of His disciples?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To give them a proof of His sincere love and great humility which they should imitate; to teach them that although free from sin, and not unworthy to receive His most holy body and blood, their feet needed cleansing, that is, that they should be purified from all evil inclinations which defile the heart, and prevent holy Communion from producing fruitful effects in the soul.</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is it that on this day in each church only one priest says Mass at which the others receive Communion?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because on this day Christ alone offered the unbloody Sacrifice, and having instituted the Blessed Sacrament, fed with His own hands His disciples with His flesh and blood, it is therefore proper that in commemoration of this, the priests in one church should receive the Blessed Sacrament from the hands of one, according to the example of the apostles, but as a sign of the priestly dignity which on this day Christ gave to the apostles and their successors, each priest wears a stole.</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why art the altars stripped on this day?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To show that Jesus took off, as it were, at the time of His passion, His divine glory, and yielded Himself up in utter humiliation into the hands of His enemies to be crucified, (Phil. 2:6, 7) and that at the crucifixion He was forcibly stripped of His garments, which the soldiers divided among them, as foretold in the 21st Psalm, which is therefore said during this ceremony. The faithful are urged to put off the old sinful man with his actions, and by humbling themselves become conformable to Christ.</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is it that spiritual superiors wash the feet of their subjects, as do also the Catholic princes the feet of twelve poor men?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To commemorate the washing of the apostles' feet by Christ, and to teach all, even the highest to exercise the necessary virtues of humility and charity towards all, even the lowest, according to the example given by Jesus. Princes and spiritual superiors therefore kiss the feet after washing them, and the pope presses them to his breast, giving to each person a silver and a gold medal, on which is pictured the washing of the feet by Christ. [As of Pius XII's Holy Week Reform (1955), this <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mandatum</em> rite is also observed in all parishes with twelve male parishioners having their feet washed by the celebrant of the Mass.]</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is Tenebrae, and what its meaning?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/significance-tenebrae-3923" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">It is the office</a> which the clergy say on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, accompanied by the lamentations of the Prophet Jeremias, and other ceremonies.</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The word Tenebrae</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tenebrae </em>means darkness, and represents the prayers formerly said in the dark hours of the morning. In the Tenebrae the Church mourns the passion and death of Jesus, and urges her children to return to God; she therefore makes use of those mournful words of Jeremias: “<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jerusalem! Jerusalem, be converted to the Lord, thy God!</em>"</p><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: calc(1.2); margin: 5.6rem 0px 2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How should we attend the Church service on this day?</h4><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Church commemorates on this day the institution of the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar; we should therefore consider with a lively faith that Jesus, our divine Teacher and Savior, is really and truly here present; we should adore Him as the Son of God, who became man to redeem us; should admire the love which determined Him to institute the Blessed Sacrament, that He might always be with us; and should thank Him for all the inestimable graces which we derive from this Sacrament.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">REMARK </strong>In the cathedrals the holy oils which are used in Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Orders, and Extreme Unction, as also in consecrating baptismal fonts and altar stones, <a href="https://sspx.org/en/media/photos/chrismal-mass-holy-thursday-3928" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">are blessed on this day</a>. Let us thank Our Lord for the institution of these Sacraments at which blessed oils are used.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: Friends of Tradition</p></section></article>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-36922013633960327092023-03-28T07:57:00.006-04:002023-03-28T08:14:38.837-04:00Tuesday of Passion Week: “the Jews sought to kill Him”<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">By His own example when persecuted our Lord instructs us as to how to conduct ourselves in times of persecution. </span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to John</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>John 7:1-13</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">t that time: Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. And so on.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">of Hippo.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>28th Tract on John</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>I</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">n this chapter of the Gospel, my brethren, our Lord Jesus Christ hath much commended Himself unto our faith, as touching His Manhood. At the same time, His words and works were alway such as to give us to believe that He is both God and Man, yea, that God Who made us, and that Man Who hath sought us, yea, God the Son, Who, as touching His Godhead, is alway with the Father, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">John i. 18; iii. 13,</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> and, as touching His Manhood, hath been with us in time. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">Matth. i. 23.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> For He had not sought the work of His hands unless He had been made His own work. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">John i. 14.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Keep this well in mind, and let your hearts never forget it, namely, that Christ was not made Man so as to cease to be God. He, Who made the Manhood, took It into that Godhead Which is His from everlasting to everlasting.</span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: red;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: red;"><b><i>W</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">hile therefore He lay hid in the Manhood, we must not think that He had suffered any lessening of power, but that He was giving example to our weakness. When He willed it, He was taken; when He willed it, He was put to death. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">John x. 18.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> But, since He was to have members, that is, His faithful people, who would not have that power over their lives which He, our God, had over His, He hid Himself, He concealed Himself, as if it were to escape being put to death, to show what should be done by those His members in whom He should dwell.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>C</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">hrist is not the Head of His Church in such sense that He is not in her Body; but the whole Christ is in the Head, and the whole Christ is in the Body. That, then, which His members are is Himself, though That Which He is, That are not therefore His members. For if His members had not been indeed His Own, how had He said unto Saul, </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">Acts ix. 4</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">: Why persecutest thou Me? since Saul was not persecuting Him in Himself, but in His members, that is, in His faithful ones which were upon earth. He said not: Why persecutest thou My holy ones, nor: My servants, no, nor yet called He them by that more honourable name “My brethren”, but, “Why persecutest thou Me?”; that is, the members of My Body, whose Head I am.</span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-48602822162702876142023-03-24T10:00:00.016-04:002023-03-24T10:42:06.940-04:00The liturgical meaning of Passion Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6FKjpphcfp1VOYg6dmImPm8C9ux74cpAMRq0hRmYs4-Jw7aZzc_0Z_VQwXtJNCdF0QyulffAbqiOqyP5eo82NCEIhn6M9a-yfuWB9UKtiEyBK0m9z7lrZXfG0cCPDIAz9y85n2H1XKYtieaeqwysZw_9ovx4Ap_Z0q-kWSFzn-OgPU_a6yPjWk1cMA/s416/jeweled%20cross.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="416" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6FKjpphcfp1VOYg6dmImPm8C9ux74cpAMRq0hRmYs4-Jw7aZzc_0Z_VQwXtJNCdF0QyulffAbqiOqyP5eo82NCEIhn6M9a-yfuWB9UKtiEyBK0m9z7lrZXfG0cCPDIAz9y85n2H1XKYtieaeqwysZw_9ovx4Ap_Z0q-kWSFzn-OgPU_a6yPjWk1cMA/s320/jeweled%20cross.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div style="font-size: small; text-align: center;">Image: An ancient mosaic in the Ravenna basilica depicting a<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> crux gemmata, "jeweled cross".</em></div><div style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></em></div><div style="font-size: small; text-align: center;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Why will statues in churches be veiled starting this Sunday? Why is this Day of the Lord referred to as "Passion Sunday" and how does it serve as the gateway into Passiontide?</em></div><div><span face=""Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 18px;">Nothing better to grasp the spirit of the Church than to turn to the liturgical texts. This is most true of Passiontide and Holy Week. </span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Church’s Year of Grace</em><span face=""Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-family: Century-Light, serif; font-size: 18px;"> of Dr. Pius Parsch offers a few points of interest.</span><article class="l-content-page content-page" style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><section class="content-page__text" style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem 2.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As the Church enters the period of mourning the divine Bridegroom, she puts on the widow’s garments. The commemoration of Christ’s suffering is expressed in various ways.</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The last remaining traces of joy are eliminated: the <em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gloria Patri</em> of the Introit, <em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lavabo </em>and Breviary responsories. The omission of Psalm 42 at the foot of the altar, as in the Requiem Masses.</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The prayers and readings relate the theme of suffering to that of baptism. A favorite contrast, the pagan Ninivites (catechumens) do penance while the Jews plan to kill Jesus. Jeremias, a type of Christ, laments over the Jews "<em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who perfidiously leave their Lord, the fountain of living water</em>."</li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the most striking changes in the Passiontide is that the crosses and statues are draped, as an outward sign of the Church’s inward sorrow. It is not difficult to understand why the wailing garments are placed over the statues, which could distract us from the meditations of the Passion.</li></ul><p style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is however quite enigmatic for the Christians today to understand why the crosses have to be veiled. Why is not the sorrowful Crucifix visible to our eyes so as to draw tears of devotion? Just the contrary would be more intelligible.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, this veiling of the Cross is a relic from an ancient practice. When crosses, without the corpus, shone glorious with gold and precious stones (the <em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">crux gemmata</em>), there was deep meaning in the practice of veiling their brilliance during the days when the Bridegroom was taken away. The Church was putting on the widow’s weeds.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This tiny detail is a clear symbol of a very different approach between ancient and modern Christianity. Today, popular piety proceeds to review Holy Week historically; it pictures with great fidelity the various scenes of the "<em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bitter passion</em>," it dissects all the feelings and thoughts of our suffering Savior, it analyzes the virtues displayed by the Lord at every step. "<em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How shall I imitate Him… what can I learn from Him?</em>" are its most important questions. Suffering is the great motive for amendment: "<em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He died on the Cross for me, and I have offended Him so deeply</em>."</p><p style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The ancient Christians followed a different course. Of course, it also put Christ’s suffering up front but it was aiming too at the purpose of the Passion. By His suffering, Christ redeemed us and made us children of God. And, on what apparently is the most tragic day of the whole year, on Good Friday, we lift our voices in jubilant song: "<em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See, because of this wood joy has come into the whole world!</em>" The early Christians were not so eager to speak of the bitter passion as of the <em style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">beata passio</em>, the happy or blessed passion.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Perhaps a harmonious blending of the two mindsets is achieved on Good Friday. On that day of the great Sacrifice of the High Priest, the Church abstains from offering the divine sacrifice: instead of the divine Action, the liturgy is mostly commemorative and historical. Yet, with this initial meditation of the historical passion of Our Lord, as the ceremony progresses, it has us rejoice before the unveiled cross, presented as the glorious trophy with the Redeemer having fulfilled His mission. The rite ends with a glorious, joyful song to the Cross, to the Lord’s resurrection:</p><p style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thy Cross, Lord, we adore!<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />We praise and acclaim Thy holy resurrection.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Behold, through the wood of the Cross<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Joy has come into the whole world.</p><p style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: "Friends of Tradition"</p></section></article></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-16736503309677097942023-03-23T08:30:00.005-04:002023-03-23T08:44:11.321-04:00Saint Simon of Trent <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAwLLC9PfGkKuWYRji3nFvFNjSln2f4038E1nJISahnuSof8RVlR3QDdA-lVH1PmCeHx0GA8PsP9EaPhvRnAafeNGLAdn7dOA9knHZl3vsDSZoGQHuVmk_ccNv3smML9UUIshLQxeSicEZjvSDfxRvqRyRCguwJnpIOY8zsFkX0Ht1fw8p76mnTxx9A/s1170/6E3942DB-A386-4BE4-A0A0-A6FF47474F71.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="1170" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAwLLC9PfGkKuWYRji3nFvFNjSln2f4038E1nJISahnuSof8RVlR3QDdA-lVH1PmCeHx0GA8PsP9EaPhvRnAafeNGLAdn7dOA9knHZl3vsDSZoGQHuVmk_ccNv3smML9UUIshLQxeSicEZjvSDfxRvqRyRCguwJnpIOY8zsFkX0Ht1fw8p76mnTxx9A/s320/6E3942DB-A386-4BE4-A0A0-A6FF47474F71.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>M</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">arch 24th 2023, the 2nd day of the Moon, were born into the better life: </span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">… </span><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">t Trent, the holy child Simeon, most cruelly murdered by the Jews, and who afterwards shone with many miracles, [in the year 1475.] </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">- Roman martyrology </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_s4SmSsd3x-p8DReRc_jU0xE5pMEG9JmV5c2iFOgBtygPbiqF2TmJoAu3q7blWR6f2vAnrzDA66yMc5vgWS3UXi1TK3hsxYbgqJHz_B9CuyZsC9A1S4Q7x3Jvy9Xg34x1SzkM5Gv7TGm0GR65Trh4JBHHpI9LcwN-ShvYyDoNaa9ZY_5CoOyNXR92w/s1529/47F46EF0-9DCD-449D-A115-68C7491478F1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1529" data-original-width="895" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_s4SmSsd3x-p8DReRc_jU0xE5pMEG9JmV5c2iFOgBtygPbiqF2TmJoAu3q7blWR6f2vAnrzDA66yMc5vgWS3UXi1TK3hsxYbgqJHz_B9CuyZsC9A1S4Q7x3Jvy9Xg34x1SzkM5Gv7TGm0GR65Trh4JBHHpI9LcwN-ShvYyDoNaa9ZY_5CoOyNXR92w/s320/47F46EF0-9DCD-449D-A115-68C7491478F1.jpeg" width="187" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcPeoyimZBud7fXCh1hhaXKaoXyvxjmrc1ad85qtNmuRtQoCX6XlXOjqaRHuQvCuEwJfQeuFRQzB-dZM6GbHV5zADvstHI_De6FafBePiFYBwACV5KG_CeUwlSnezAnSZqP4o0isyN_TNsfqDt1wS2OMULhVGJsOyf2-8i2JUDvN-1n_OhB9jFElg1A/s1628/E5B296CC-A8FD-4EB9-9116-9A79538C9A9A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1628" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcPeoyimZBud7fXCh1hhaXKaoXyvxjmrc1ad85qtNmuRtQoCX6XlXOjqaRHuQvCuEwJfQeuFRQzB-dZM6GbHV5zADvstHI_De6FafBePiFYBwACV5KG_CeUwlSnezAnSZqP4o0isyN_TNsfqDt1wS2OMULhVGJsOyf2-8i2JUDvN-1n_OhB9jFElg1A/s320/E5B296CC-A8FD-4EB9-9116-9A79538C9A9A.jpeg" width="230" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsJq59-Z6C-KMNo7pQcH3zNGnyoc-wyxewQ-I8KkcD5v_0C3ryuVJqKLKoBTQpAL090CTPgOrIqQkHdEkp4l3CzjZUNlqzJQEb-2WdxoaX6kiUiewhS8EXmQlOpJkgRwB8DvDIdcww9J1yHBa6BOZwc_D2hzuvtvDjxDkOegD65wobNVZ3fhEBoLbSXw/s1170/FCF730C1-A39B-4E01-ACD5-C02F4F6DF739.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="1170" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsJq59-Z6C-KMNo7pQcH3zNGnyoc-wyxewQ-I8KkcD5v_0C3ryuVJqKLKoBTQpAL090CTPgOrIqQkHdEkp4l3CzjZUNlqzJQEb-2WdxoaX6kiUiewhS8EXmQlOpJkgRwB8DvDIdcww9J1yHBa6BOZwc_D2hzuvtvDjxDkOegD65wobNVZ3fhEBoLbSXw/s320/FCF730C1-A39B-4E01-ACD5-C02F4F6DF739.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>More on relics and devotional images: <a href="https://www.beweb.chiesacattolica.it/UI/page.jsp?action=ricerca%2Frisultati&locale=it&liberadescr=Simonino&liberaluogo=&ambito=XD&view=griglia&dominio=">https://www.beweb.chiesacattolica.it/UI/page.jsp?action=ricerca%2Frisultati&locale=it&liberadescr=Simonino&liberaluogo=&ambito=XD&view=griglia&dominio=</a><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-21165381004422056752023-03-18T20:49:00.002-04:002023-03-18T20:52:17.846-04:00Fourth Sunday in Lent (Laetare Sunday)<p><span face="Century-Light, serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"> The Multiplication of Loaves</span></p><article class="l-content-page content-page" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content-page__news-heading" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; 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border: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="800" /></span></figure><figure class="content-page__media content-page__media--image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="styles file-styles dici_image_full_width" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></figure><figure class="content-page__media content-page__media--image" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="styles file-styles dici_image_full_width" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700;">The Introit, Communion and Tract speak to us of Jerusalem compared to Mount Sinai by St. Paul in the Epistle for today. There, will the Christian people best raise their song of joy:</span></span></figure><section class="content-page__text" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 3.2rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This song of joy is "Laetare" (Introit, Epistle) on account of the victory won by our Lord on the cross at Jerusalem, and there most easily, will be roused the memory of the heavenly Jerusalem, whose gates have been opened to us by the death of Christ.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is for this reason, that formerly on this day, it was the custom […] solemnly to bless a rose, the queen of flowers. For, as we are reminded by the forms used for the blessing, in the traditional practice of Christian iconography, heaven is usually represented by a garden beautiful with flowers. For this blessing rose-colored vestments were used, and on this day a priest may celebrate Mass and Office in vestments of this color. Hence this custom was extended to the Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete or "rejoicing" Sunday... And in its turn Laetare, also "rejoicing" Sunday, is a halting place in the midst of the Lenten observance.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Rejoice, rejoice with joy," we are told in the Introit, for having died to sin with our Lord during Lent, we are shortly to rise with Him by the Paschal confession and communion. The Gospel speaks at one and the same time of the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes, symbols of the Eucharist and of Baptism, which were formerly received on the same occasion at Easter, and in the Epistle allusion is made to our deliverance by the sacrament of Baptism, which the catechumens formerly received at this season. And if we have had the misfortune to grievously offend almighty God, we shall recover our freedom by means of our Easter confession.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #727273; font-size: 14px;">Source: Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945, adapted and abridged.</span></p></section><div class="content-page__text" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 6.5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="block block-sspx-mod social-block" id="block-sspx-mod-social--7" style="align-items: center; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #949494; flex: 0 0 auto; font-size: 1.4rem; 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box-sizing: inherit; color: #c6262c; display: block; font-size: 0px; height: 4.8rem; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 4.8rem;" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></article>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-19702764725930847252023-03-17T09:33:00.005-04:002023-03-17T10:31:13.376-04:00Saint Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, intercede for re-paganized Ireland <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX2rgZ-Jc17qDg_q77ztyBEOfv5CxOdj955mTe_yjtDvIwbkBn5SrKxSIgK8Hb5x1hKY3UZCx35jIgCzqZoSsOyS-xoxtnhXhSyzLaFFe4PwXU_rqe-awuZWKtwK_ALyc-5PKJcDvNioIn-Ev6xp0BffTwYGxlh5xz05V4vu1_PxrSE46QxB9x9BgaA/s527/6B9CECB6-3C6D-498F-9D98-DD7B2D264895.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX2rgZ-Jc17qDg_q77ztyBEOfv5CxOdj955mTe_yjtDvIwbkBn5SrKxSIgK8Hb5x1hKY3UZCx35jIgCzqZoSsOyS-xoxtnhXhSyzLaFFe4PwXU_rqe-awuZWKtwK_ALyc-5PKJcDvNioIn-Ev6xp0BffTwYGxlh5xz05V4vu1_PxrSE46QxB9x9BgaA/s320/6B9CECB6-3C6D-498F-9D98-DD7B2D264895.jpeg" width="229" /></a></div><br /> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>P</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">atrick, called the Apostle of Ireland, was born in Great Britain. The name of his father was Calphurnius, and that of his mother Conchessa. She is said to have been a relation of St. Martin, Bishop of Tours. When Patrick was a lad, he was several times taken prisoner by savages, and while being in their hands he was employed as a shepherd, he already showed marks of his saintliness to come. His spirit was filled with faith, and love, and fear of God, so that he would rise before the light, in snow, and frost, and rain, to make his prayers to God, being accustomed to address God in prayer an hundred times every day, and an hundred times every night. After being rescued from his third captivity, he was placed among the clergy, and for a long time exercised himself in sacred learning. To this end he travelled with much labour, through Gaul, Italy, and the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea, but at last being called of God to work for the salvation of the Irish, and, having received from the Blessed Pope Celestine a commission to preach the gospel, and likewise being consecrated a Bishop, he betook himself to Ireland.</span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>O</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">rémus.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>D</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">eus, qui ad prædicándam géntibus glóriam tuam beátum Patrícium Confessórem atque Pontíficem míttere dignátus es: eius méritis et intercessióne concéde; ut, quæ nobis agénda prǽcipis, te miseránte adimplére possímus.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>P</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">er Dóminum nostrum Iesum Christum, Fílium tuum: qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitáte Spíritus Sancti, Deus, per ómnia sǽcula sæculórum.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>℟.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> Amen. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>L</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">et us pray.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>O</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> God, Who didst send forth thy Blessed Confessor and Bishop Patrick to preach thy glory among the Gentiles, mercifully grant unto us, for his sake and at his petition, whatsoever Thou commandest us to do, to have grace and power faithfully to fulfill the same.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">hrough Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>℟.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Amen.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><p></p></div></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-64182189302798681712023-03-15T08:26:00.003-04:002023-03-15T08:27:06.222-04:00Wednesday, Lent III: You “pass over the commandments of God, in order to keep to the traditions of men.”<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Matt 15:1-20</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">t that time, scribes and Pharisees came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying: Why do thy disciples trangress the tradition of the ancients? And so on.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Homily by St. Jerome, Priest </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">at Bethlehem.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Bk. ii Comm. on Matth. xv</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">he stupidity of the Pharisees and Scribes is something extraordinary. They rebuke the Son of God because He doth not observe the traditions and commandments of men for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. It behoveth us to cleanse, not the hands of the body, but the hands of the soul, namely, our works, that we may do the commandments of God. But He answered and said unto them Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? He meeteth here their false accusation by a true. “How,” saith He, “do ye, who pass over the commandments of God, in order to keep to the traditions of men, hold that My disciples are to be rebuked, because they deem the tradition of the elders of little moment in comparison with the doing of what they know to be the Laws of God?”</span>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-33714303719322540882023-03-14T10:24:00.006-04:002023-03-14T10:29:09.700-04:00Tuesday, Lent III: “ if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him”<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Matthew</span></p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>Matt 18:15-22</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>A</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">t that time, Jesus saith to his disciples: “But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone.” </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">And so on.</span><div><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Homily by St. Augustine, Bishop </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">of Hippo.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>16th Sermon on the Words of the Lord, vol. x</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"> </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>W</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">hy tell him his fault? Because he hath made thee smart by trespassing against thee? God forbid. If thou tell him his fault because thou lovest thyself, thou dost nothing. But if thou tell it him because thou lovest him, then dost thou do exceeding well. Hear now, in the words of the Gospel itself, for love of whom, thou oughtest to do it, of thyself, or of him. The Lord saith: If he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Therefore it behoveth thee to do it for his sake, that thou mayest gain him; since, if thou so do, haply thou mayest gain him; whereas, if thou do it not, he may haply perish. Why then are there so many who reckon lightly of a trespass against their brother, and say I have done no great offence, for I have trespassed only against my fellow man? Deem it not light; thou hast trespassed, though it be against thy fellow man….</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Therefore let no man deem it a light thing when he trespasseth against his brother. For the Apostle Paul saith in a certain place: When ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red; font-size: xx-small;">1 Cor. viii. 12.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> We are all members of Christ. How dost thou not trespass against Christ, which trespassest against one of His members?</span></span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-83357924112548626072022-10-11T14:13:00.010-04:002022-10-11T14:44:09.411-04:00Maternitatis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis & commemoration of the Council of Ephesus<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHB36h2_kVu0mHnH2AMzrjR3aBXDr0vFhb5SRnBCX3LtyFu1PGqcG7R7NGaZOVySiJk0c7LQ389vaXR4WBRa3QdAgMn25_DpQpmmzoMIv3Cf7CqBZVW0ZODR_HTjw7LTs9eD8IXIJUm4fldsLmZ0lVc7GHPH2ykDQikLahHnrLn1cVsgLFbGdInqE5A/s245/EE9618F0-AEFE-45CA-8C46-04CFD21D42D4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="206" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqHB36h2_kVu0mHnH2AMzrjR3aBXDr0vFhb5SRnBCX3LtyFu1PGqcG7R7NGaZOVySiJk0c7LQ389vaXR4WBRa3QdAgMn25_DpQpmmzoMIv3Cf7CqBZVW0ZODR_HTjw7LTs9eD8IXIJUm4fldsLmZ0lVc7GHPH2ykDQikLahHnrLn1cVsgLFbGdInqE5A/s1600/EE9618F0-AEFE-45CA-8C46-04CFD21D42D4.jpeg" width="206" /></a></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;"><br />In the year 1931, amid the applause of the whole Catholic world, solemn rites were celebrated to mark the completion of the fifteen centuries which had elapsed since the Council of Ephesus, moving against the Nestorian heresy, had acclaimed the blessed Virgin Mary, of whom Jesus was born, as Mother of God. This acclamation had been made by the Fathers of the Church under the leadership of Pope Celestine.</span><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Pius XI, as Supreme Pontiff, wished to commemorate the notable event and to give lasting proof of his devotion to Mary. Now there had existed for many years in Rome a grand memorial to the proclamation of Ephesus, the triumphal arch in the basilica of Saint Mary Major on the Esquiline Hill. This monument had already been adorned by a previous pontiff, Sixtus III, with mosaics of marvelous workmanship, now falling to pieces from the decay of the passing ages. Pius XI, therefore, out of his own munificence, caused these to be restored most exquisitely and with them the transept of the basilica.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">In an Encyclical Letter Pius set forth also the true history of the Council of Ephesus, and expounded fervently and at great length the doctrine of the prerogatives of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Mother of God. He did this that the doctrine of this lofty mystery might sink more deeply into the hearts of the faithful. In it he set forth Mary, the Mother of God, blessed among women, and the most holy Family of Nazareth as the exemplars to be followed above all others, as models of the dignity and holiness of chaste wedlock, as patterns of the holy education to be given youth. Finally that no liturgical detail be lacking, he decreed that the feast of the Divine Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary be celebrated annually on the 11th day of October by the universal Church with a proper Mass and Office under the rite of a double of the second class.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>L</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">et us pray.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>O</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> God, who didst will that, at the announcement of an Angel, thy Word should take flesh in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grant to us thy suppliants, that we who believe her to be truly the Mother of God may be helped by her intercession with thee.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">hrough the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: red;"><i>R.</i></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> Amen.</span></span></p>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-50299576051014472782022-08-15T07:45:00.006-04:002022-08-15T07:52:17.376-04:00In Assumptione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHUW5PB-XeIUKinPCwfbCA0exKnSmyrUEYFFiQbR4WNpOpArLRatDw_LRFTdo3ZK15yfIpct0riNQc_0jD29PLCLPVm7F13ePuhbPxXHiZpk4QfwwYQp5BT0yZoNuwHIGhrCjz2YoIngxwC7mde_heuGx4IYHDAeUGiI_9A1RZvI3Cg51XMh9LiSuAbA/s558/BDDFBF09-7E2F-4C23-AF92-E29DD5D6B6A0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHUW5PB-XeIUKinPCwfbCA0exKnSmyrUEYFFiQbR4WNpOpArLRatDw_LRFTdo3ZK15yfIpct0riNQc_0jD29PLCLPVm7F13ePuhbPxXHiZpk4QfwwYQp5BT0yZoNuwHIGhrCjz2YoIngxwC7mde_heuGx4IYHDAeUGiI_9A1RZvI3Cg51XMh9LiSuAbA/s320/BDDFBF09-7E2F-4C23-AF92-E29DD5D6B6A0.jpeg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 19.260000228881836px; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1.125rem;">Since indeed the universal Church hath at all times and throughout the ages manifested faith in the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and since the Bishops of the whole world by an almost unanimous agreement have petitioned that this truth, which is enshrined in Sacred Scripture and deeply rooted in the souls of Christ's faithful, and is also truly in accord with other revealed truths, should be defined as a dogma of the divine and Catholic Faith, Pope Pius XII, acceding to the requests of the whole Church, decreed that this privilege of the Blessed Virgin Mary be solemnly proclaimed, and thus, on the first day of November of the year of the Great Jubilee, nineteen hundred and fifty, at Rome, in the open square before the Basilica of St. Peter, surrounded by a throng of many Cardinals and Bishops of the Holy Roman Church who had come from distant parts of the earth, and before a great multitude of the faithful, with the whole Catholic world rejoicing, proclaimed in these words and with infallible statement the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven: Wherefore, having offered to God continual prayers of supplication, and having invoked the light of the Spirit of Truth, to the glory of Almighty God who hath enriched the Virgin Mary with his special favour; in honour of his Son, the immortal King of ages and victor over sin and death; for the increase of the glory of the same august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the whole Church, by the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that: The Immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever Virgin, was, at the end of her earthly life, assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.</span></span><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 19.260000228881836px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1.125rem;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 19.260000228881836px; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-removefontsize="true" style="font-size: 1.125rem;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;"><i><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="24" data-originalfontsize="18pt" style="color: red; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 25.68000030517578px;">F</span></i></b><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-originalfontsize="13.5pt" style="font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 19.260000228881836px;">rom the Acts of Pope Pius XII</span></span></span></div>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413512049778287145.post-80415301572160854912022-05-26T18:25:00.002-04:002022-05-26T18:25:57.035-04:00In Ascensione Domini <p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="24" data-originalfontsize="18pt" style="color: red; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 25.68000030517578px;"></span></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="24" data-originalfontsize="18pt" style="color: red; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 25.68000030517578px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGB27QYxT4fbzbo0bLYlPTSM6mEoQkFCWPtPr_JK8zPNddetv3UtANI4WiiQxV0w-WhMbCsXKZHFeUEdkQ3WXg2dvdZhUZH5JdAhtDh3Seaa4UdFYqPKPaFo4h7GuczN9bUm30F5VrlF6gSSOPwTww48RRlvKtpKAQjazPu2gcjatBw6FH9IeYwlLs2A/s3134/FA9F4E88-73E6-461C-84D2-563C1759AD00.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3134" data-original-width="2802" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGB27QYxT4fbzbo0bLYlPTSM6mEoQkFCWPtPr_JK8zPNddetv3UtANI4WiiQxV0w-WhMbCsXKZHFeUEdkQ3WXg2dvdZhUZH5JdAhtDh3Seaa4UdFYqPKPaFo4h7GuczN9bUm30F5VrlF6gSSOPwTww48RRlvKtpKAQjazPu2gcjatBw6FH9IeYwlLs2A/s320/FA9F4E88-73E6-461C-84D2-563C1759AD00.jpeg" width="286" /></a></span></i></b></div><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; word-spacing: 1px;"><i><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="24" data-originalfontsize="18pt" style="color: red; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 25.68000030517578px;"><br />A</span></i></b><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-originalfontsize="13.5pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 19.260000228881836px; word-spacing: 1px;">fter the blessed and glorious Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, wherein the Divine Power raised up in three days the true Temple of God Which the iniquity of the Jews had destroyed </span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="10" data-originalfontsize="7.5pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: red; font-size: 0.625rem; line-height: 10.699999809265137px; word-spacing: 1px;">John ii. 19,</span><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-originalfontsize="13.5pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 19.260000228881836px; word-spacing: 1px;"> God was pleased to ordain, by His Most Sacred Will, and in His Providence for our instruction and the profit of our souls, a season of forty days which season, dearly beloved brethren, doth end on this day. During that season the bodily Presence of the Lord still lingered on earth, that the reality of the fact of His having risen again from the dead might be armed with all needful proofs. The death of Christ had troubled the hearts of many of His disciples their thoughts were sad when they remembered His agony upon the Cross, His giving up of the Ghost, and the laying in the grave of His lifeless Body, and a sort of hesitation had begun to weigh on them.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; height: auto; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><i><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="24" data-originalfontsize="18pt" style="color: red; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 25.68000030517578px;">H</span></i></b><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-originalfontsize="13.5pt" style="color: black; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 19.260000228881836px;">ence the most blessed Apostles and all the disciples, who had been fearful at the finishing on the Cross, and doubtful of the trustworthiness of the rising again, were so strengthened by the clear demonstration of the fact, that, when they saw the Lord going up into the height of heaven, they sorrowed not, nay they were even filled with great joy And, in all verity, it was a great an unspeakable cause for joy to see the Manhood, in the presence of that the multitude of believers, exalted above all creatures even heavenly, rising above the ranks of the angelic armies and speeding Its glorious way where the most noble of the Archangels lie far behind, to rest no lower than that place where high above all principality and power, It taketh Its seat at the right hand of the Eternal Father, Sharer of His throne, and Partaker of His glory, and still of the very man's nature which the Son hath taken upon Him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; height: auto; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><i><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="24" data-originalfontsize="18pt" style="color: red; font-size: 1.5rem; line-height: 25.68000030517578px;">T</span></i></b><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-originalfontsize="13.5pt" style="color: black; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 19.260000228881836px;">herefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us also rejoice with worthy joy, for the Ascension of Christ is exaltation for us, and whither the glory of the Head of the Church is passed in, thither is the hope of the body of the Church called on to follow. Let us rejoice with exceeding great joy, and give God glad thanks. This day is not only the possession of Paradise made sure unto us, but in the Person of our Head we are actually begun to enter into the heavenly mansions above. Through the unspeakable goodness of Christ we have gained more than ever we lost by the envy of the devil. We, whom our venomous enemy thrust from our first happy home, we, being made of one body with the Son of God, have by Him been given a place at the right hand of the Father with Whom He liveth and reigneth, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; height: auto; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-originalfontsize="13.5pt" style="color: black; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 19.260000228881836px;">From the sermons of Pope Saint Leo the Great</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(49, 49, 49); color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; height: auto; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; word-spacing: 1px;"><span data-originalcomputedfontsize="18" data-originalfontsize="13.5pt" style="color: black; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 19.260000228881836px;"><br /></span></p>Father Kevin M Cusick http://www.blogger.com/profile/04460394747724581336noreply@blogger.com0