Private Vows in The Laity/Spirituality

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Daily Mass Online

Monday 8th October 2018

from Australia

 

 

21 hours ago, BarbaraTherese said:

 

 

LITURGY OF THE HOURS

LET US PRAY WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH

For The Church and The World

Universalis

Each location has its own calendar http://universalis.com/930/n-location.htm

If you cannot find your location on the above link,

use

The General Calendar, which is posted daily into this thread (link below)

 

General Calendar - Lauds (Morning Prayer)  http://universalis.com/1030/lauds.htm

(all Hours are in the left hand column)

 

 

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Vatican II—Get the 411 https://clumsytheosis.wordpress.com/2018/09/09/vatican-ii-get-the-411/

How much of what you *know* about the Second Vatican Council is from hearsay or observation, rather than from actually reading the Vatican II documents? Here’s the basic run down of Vatican II and the Church’s articulation of herself. It’ll inspire you to read them yourself.

 

 

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Isaiah Chapter 42

I will lead the blind on their journey; by paths unknown I will guide them. I will turn darkness into light before them, and make crooked ways straight. These things I do for them, and I will not forsake them.

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St Denis (- 258)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04721a.htm

As might be expected for a saint of such an early period, practically no hard facts about Saint Denis survive. According to St Gregory of Tours, writing some 300 years later, Denis came to Gaul from Rome in the middle of the third century. He arrived at what is now the Ile de la Cité in Paris, where he built a church, arranged the regular celebration of Mass, and preached the Gospel. Together with two members of his clergy he was martyred near the city.

  Denis (in Latin, Dionysius) is not Dionysius the Areopagite, whom St Paul converted to Christianity, nor is he the author of the writings of the “Pseudo-Dionysius,” but both these confusions helped to popularise devotion to him from the seventh century onwards.

  Nevertheless, the real St Denis did exist, he brought the Gospel to Paris, and he was its first martyr. For these things alone devotion to him is proper and justified.

 

 

 

Daily Mass Online

9th. October 2018

from Australia

 

 

On 10/8/2018 at 8:49 AM, BarbaraTherese said:

 

 

 

LITURGY OF THE HOURS

LET US PRAY WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH

For The Church and The World

Universalis

Each location has its own calendar http://universalis.com/930/n-location.htm

If you cannot find your location on the above link,

use

The General Calendar, which is posted daily into this thread (link below)

 

General Calendar - Lauds (Morning Prayer)  http://universalis.com/lauds.htm

(all Hours are in the left hand column)

 

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Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880-1906)
Carmelite

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Last Retreat, 10th – 11th Days (in The Complete Works, vol. 1; ICS Publications, 1984)

 

"Mary who sat beside the Lord at his feet listened to him speak."

So that nothing may draw me out of this beautiful silence within, I must always maintain the same dispositions, the same solitude, the same withdrawal, the same stripping of self! If my desires, my fears, my joys or my sorrows, if all the movements proceeding from these "four passions" are not perfectly directed to God, I will not be solitary: there will be noise within me. There must be peace, sleep of the powers, "the unity of being.” "Listen, my daughter, lend your ear, forget your people and your father's house, and the King will become enamored of your beauty." (Ps 44[45]:11-12)… To forget "your people" is difficult, I think, for this people is everything which is, so to speak, part of us: our feelings, our memories, our impressions, etc.… when the soul has made this break, when it is free from all that, the King is enamored of its beauty…

The Creator, seeing the beautiful silence which reigns in His creature, and gazing on her wholly recollected in her interior solitude… leads her into this immense, infinite solitude, into this "spacious place" sung of by the prophet (Ps 17[18]:20), which is nothing else but Himself… "I will lead her into solitude and speak to her heart." (Hos 2:16) The soul has entered into this vast solitude in which God will make Himself heard I "His word," St. Paul says, "is living and active, and more penetrating than a two-edged sword: extending even to the division of soul and spirit, even of joints and marrow. "(Heb 2:16) It is His word then that will directlv achieve the work of stripping in the soul…

But it is not enough just to listen to this word, we must keep it! (Jn 14:23) And it is in keeping it that the soul will be "sanctified in the truth," (Jn 17:17) and that is the desire of the Master… To the one who keeps His word has He not made this promise: "My Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home in him"? (Jn 14:23) It is the whole Trinity who dwells in the soul that loves Him in truth, that is, by keeping His word.

 

 

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https://catholicexchange.com/the-fruitful-union-of-the-contemplative-and-active

The Fruitful Union of the Contemplative and the Active

DOM JEAN-BAPTISTE CHAUTARD

“Just as the love of God,” says St. Isidore, “reveals itself by acts of the interior life, so also the love of the neighbor manifests itself by the operations of the exterior life; and as the love of God and the love of the neighbor are practically inseparable, it follows that these two forms of life cannot subsist without each other.” This is also the teaching of Suarez and St. Thomas. “Those who are called to the works of the active life,” says the latter, “would be mistaken, were they to imagine that they are thereby dispensed from the acts of the contemplative life, for they should be added to the duties of the active life. Hence, these two modes of life, far from excluding one another, require, presuppose, mingle with, and complete each other; and if one of them should have the larger share, it should be the contemplative, which is the more perfect and the more necessary of the two.”

Action, to prove fertile, stands in need of contemplation; and when the latter has reached a certain degree of intensity, it pours out on the former some of its superabundance and enables the soul to draw directly from the Heart of God the graces that the active life is charged with distributing. This explains why, in a saint, action and contemplation united together in perfect harmony im­part perfect unity to his life. For instance, St. Bernard was at the same time the most contemplative and the most active person of his time. In him, contemplation and action so perfectly harmo­nized together, that he, at one and the same time, appeared wholly devoted to external works and all absorbed in the presence and the love of God.

 

 

 

The Interior Life: Both Active and Contemplative

ROMAN CATHOLIC SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

https://catholicexchange.com/interior-life-active-contemplative

 

Excerpt - to read whole text, see above link..............".............But once we have ascended to the summit of the contemplative life, traveling up the side that is the active life, we come down on the other side, bearing in our hands the treasures of God to distribute to our neighbor. This is the apostolic life. There is no one who has arrived at union with God, at the plenitude of contemplation, who does not feel himself eaten up with zeal for the salvation of souls. Then he descends from the height of contemplation to the field of the apostolate to win souls for God.

In one manner or another, therefore, every interior life must in its final phase be the contemplative life. Well, then, to contemplate God, the first requisite is to encounter Him. And once we have encountered Him, we need to know the means whereby to enter into communication with Him.

If I have a great desire to hear the lectures of a master, but if I do not know in what country or in what city he lives, the first thing I need to do is...................."  ...........

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Daily Mass Online

10th. October, 2018

from Australia

 

My own Personal Rule of Life uses the Petitions  of The Our Father as subheadings.  The Our Father not only covers every petition imaginable, it is also a whole way of life.

 

 

22 hours ago, BarbaraTherese said:

 

LITURGY OF THE HOURS

LET US PRAY WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH

For The Church and The World

Universalis

Each location has its own calendar http://universalis.com/930/n-location.htm

If you cannot find your location on the above link,

use

The General Calendar, which is posted daily into this thread (link below)

 

General Calendar - Lauds (Morning Prayer)  http://universalis.com/20181010/lauds.htm

 

 

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"In life, there is no end to getting well."

(Cary Grant)

http://www.healyourhealthnow.com/no-end-getting-well/

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I watch the following video every so often - it is my favourite.  The very best of it commences at 16.07, where Sister is speaking to an elderly Sister.....the younger Sister's appearance somewhat resembles St Elizabeth of The Trinity ...

St Elizabeth of The Trinity

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Archbishop visiting Wolverhampton Carmel

 

Wolverhampton Carmel have an informative website, including blog - and probably in a special way for anyone discerning a Carmelite vocation:

http://www.carmel-in-wolverhampton.org.uk/

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THE HOLY NAMES

OF

JESUS AND MARY

https://www.rosarycenter.org/the-holy-names-of-jesus-and-mary/

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Excerpt..........."...........The Holy Name of Jesus is central to the Ave Maria, begins the praises of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Magnificat, and is also the inheritance handed onto Mary at the Cross. Mary at the Cross stands sorrowful, yet full of hope in a future out of reach of anyone but God. Jesus Christ, King of the Jews, gives Himself to the Blessed Virgin Mary in a new way at the Cross. He gives Himself  in the Church. “Behold your Son; Behold your Mother.” (Jn 19:26,27) She now has the responsibility of receiving all new Christians. And what is she going to say? “Do whatever He tells you.” (Jn 2:5) But instead of telling us as His servants, she tells us as His friends, who now know what the Master is doing (cf. Jn 15:15). Now she gives us His Name, not in the superstitious way of a servant, who can only mimic syllables, but in a possessive way as a friend, who cherishes the Name above every other name. Mary gives us her Son’s Name, Christian, and we have the dignity of living as sons and daughters of God and of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And whenever we speak the Name of Jesus with affection, we do so also with confidence.

Mary and Jesus are intimately connected such that their Names....."..........read MORE ON ABOVE LINK

 

 

 

 

St Joseph is, in Catholic culture I think, an underrated saint.  He is beloved Foster Father of Jesus in Heaven and patron of The Universal Church, The Mystical Body of Christ, and a powerful intercessor for all our needs.  Being patron of The Universal Church, he is the patron saint of all souls. 

 I read somewhere, no idea how reliable or accurate it might be, nor who wrote or said it, that The Church would suffer until St Joseph became universally acknowledged, known and loved.  When The Church suffers, mankind suffers as well.

Certainly today The Church suffers and mankind as well.

For me, St Joseph is a powerful advocate for The Universal Church and mankind.

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"Some Saints are privileged to extend to us their patronage with particular efficacy in certain needs, but not in others; but our holy patron St. Joseph has the power to assist us in all cases, in every necessity, in every undertaking. " – St. Thomas Aquinas

 

 

The paternity of St Joseph 

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2018-03/the-role-of-st-joseph-in-the-life-of-jesus.html

Speaking of Joseph’s role in the early life of Jesus, Fr Anthony said: “The Jewish father played an enormously important part in the life of the son because he embodied the spirit of the covenant." St Joseph's fatherhood, he said, "with all its depth is of immense value to world because within our society there is a crisis in the whole nature of paternity, which embodies the spirit of commitment, willingness to sacrifice for the good of his children, to endow them with values and prepare them for love in their own lives."

 

St Teresa of Avila

"Our Lord would have us understand that as He was subject to St Joseph on earth -

so now in Heaven,

Our Lord grants all his petitions"

 

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Mystici Corporis Christi

(Pre Vatican II)

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/document/mystici-corporis-christi-on-the-mystical-body-of-christ-278

 

ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE MISTICAL BODY OF CHRIST TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN,

PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES,  ARCHBISHOPS, BISHIOPS, AND OTHER LOCAL ORDINARIES  ENJOYING PEACE AND COMMUNION

WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE

 

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Excerpt........"...........At the same time, when the Fathers of the Church sing the praises of this Mystical Body of Christ, with its ministries, its variety of ranks, its officers, it conditions, its orders, its duties, they are thinking not only of those who have received Holy Orders, but of all those too, who, following the evangelical counsels, pass their lives either actively among men, or hidden in the silence of the cloister, or who aim at combining the active and contemplative life according to their Institute; as also of those who, though living in the world, consecrate themselves wholeheartedly to spiritual or corporal works of mercy, and of those in the state of holy matrimony. Indeed, let this be clearly understood, especially in our days, fathers and mothers of families, those who are godparents through Baptism, and in particular those members of the laity who collaborate with the ecclesiastical hierarchy in spreading the Kingdom of the Divine Redeemer occupy an honorable, if often a lowly, place in the Christian community, and even they under the impulse of God and with His help, can reach the heights of supreme holiness, which, Jesus Christ has promised, will never be wanting to the Church............."...............

 

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Thursday, 11th October 2018

Feast: St Pope John XXIII (1881 - 1963) 

 

Pope John XXIII convened

Second Vatican Council

 

 http://universalis.com/20181011/today.htm

 

 

 

Daily Mass online

Thursday 11th October 2018

from Australia

 

 

On 10/10/2018 at 9:13 AM, BarbaraTherese said:

 

LITURGY of THE HOURS

LET US PRAY WITH THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH

For The Church and The World

Universalis

Each location has its own calendar http://universalis.com/930/n-location.htm

If you cannot find your location on the above link,

use

The General Calendar, which is posted daily into this thread (link below)

 

General Calendar - Lauds (Morning Prayer)  http://universalis.com/20181011/lauds.htm

 

 

Edited October 11, 2018 by BarbaraTherese