Apr
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Then Jose was a-walkingHe heard an angel sings: “Tonight he will be graceful king of Heav’nly of bornOur there; It neither will be bornIn housen nor in corridor, nor in the place of paradise, but in the shutdown of an ox. ” `He neither will be white wine of christen’dIn nor in red; But with the water of right manatial, with which they baptized to us. ‘Whereas Jose One-walked, thus the angel did sing; And boy of Maria in midnightWas taken to be our king.
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Apr
29
It gives to that it asks to him, and does not reject for the God will is that we give to all of the gifts that we have received. – century II
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Apr
28
Having decided and solved the first problem, we faced another more difficult one worthy of no less reflection and foresight. Having already pronounced perpetual vows of chastity and poverty before the most reverend legate of His Holiness when we were working in Venice, we now asked whether we should pronounce a third vow, namely to obey one of us in order that we might carry out the will of our Lord God more sincerely and with greater praise and merit and, at the same time, carry out the will and command of His Holiness to whom we had most willingly offered our will: will, understanding, strength, and the rest. After many days of reflection and prayer, nothing had transpired to fill our souls with peace in solving this problem. Hoping in the Lord, we began to discuss mutually some means to solve the problem. First of all, we asked whether it might be good for all of us to withdraw to some hermitage and to remain there for thirty or forty days, spending all our time in meditations, fasting, and penances to the end that God might respond to our desires and deign to impress upon our minds the solution of the problems. Then, we asked whether three or four in the name of all should retire in this way for the same purpose. Or whether – although no one would go to a hermitage, all remaining in the city – we should devote ourselves to this one affair, so that we might give a larger and more ample place to meditation, reflection, and prayer, spending the rest of the day in our usual works of preaching and hearing confessions. Finally, after discussing and examining these proposals, we decided that all would remain in Rome for two reasons especially: first, so as not to cause rumors and scandals in the city and among the people who, since men are so inclined to rash judgment, might conclude and suppose that we had taken flight or begun to work at something new or had little stability and perseverance in carrying out what we had begun; secondly, so that through being absent we would not in the meantime lose the great results we were seeking in hearing confessions, preaching, and other spiritual exercises, the demands for which were so great that if we were four times our number we could not satisfy all, as we cannot do at present.
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Apr
27
Prayer of the opening: “Mr. Jesus, you that is the son of alive God, teaches to me to listen what say you me in the holy writings, and to discover his face there.” (Guigo III) reading: Familiarisation with the text• It admits all the elements of the text. • He is conscious of the related context, texts, quotes. • It observes the dominant characters; which are the key words? • Any person does not choose thing to work with in this stage. • You are making familiar with the text: storing of the matter in which to think. Meditation: Hooking with the text, doing to him my the own ones• Here, life of the faith and the interactive word and integration of the search. • What the text says to me on God that speaks? • Says what me on the answer to that God? • What the text teaches to me on my life of the faith? • What I need to make to transform my life? • We cannot only do it; they humiliate, we we give return to us to God in prayer. Prayer: It lets the prayer emerge from his operation with the text• This prayer emerges from our reading/meditation. • It is formed by our personal practice of the prayer. • We try the tolerance to reach what emerged from the meditation. • It trusts us to the prayer to the transformation of the life. • Everything that we can do in prayer does here. Contemplation: Answer of God• What happens here, only God can give• It does not hope that this happens: it goes with her if it does. • God does not hope but the breakage inside and does not work to find us. • There is no necessity to be quiet to let to God speak. Action: through day• Now it chooses a word, phrase, oration. • Tráigala to matter frequently during the day. • You leave recovers the experience to him of his lectio. • Utilícelo in situations especially referring to his lectio. • Newspaper and hourly until the ground of the heart with the plow of the gospel. Of Jose Sobb, S.J of the Australian province
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Apr
26
It sees, compassionate God of Or, what returnI, its thankless servant, has madefor favorsand innumerable the wonderful love that you have demonstrated to me! What evils I have done, what good left exhausted! It clears, it requests him, these failures and stainswith its precious blood, the redeeming majority of the good one, and compensates my povertyby applying its merits. Déme the protection that I need to amend my life. I give and I give myself you entirely, and I offer everything to him what I own, with the prayer that you tolerance of bestowyour in me, so that it can be able to dedicate and employall the energy of thought of my mindand the force of my bodyin its service santo, who is forever. Amen.Memorial blessed God: 27 of April
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Apr
25
Current love. It is often unique possible the good one. In order to help others as you can better, to avoid to lose them its genius, to understand, to keep calm and the smile in these occasions (as much as possible) it is loving his neighbor, without char it of luxury, but of a practical way.
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Apr
24
We began, therefore, to use all our human efforts and to bring forward our common problems deserving of careful and mature consideration and planning. Our custom was to reflect and meditate and pray over the questions throughout the day. In the evening each man proposed to rest what he judged to be more correct and more expedient, in order that all might unanimously embrace the opinion that was truer and that had been examined and proved by stronger reasons and by the votes of the majority. The first evening we came together, this question was proposed: after we had offered and dedicated ourselves and our lives to Christ our Lord and to His true and legitimate vicar of earth, so that he might dispose of us and send us wherever he might judge we could be most effective – whether to the Indies, the heretics, or among any of the faithful or among the non-Christians – would it be better for us to be so joined and bound together in one body that no physical dispersal, however great, could separate us? Or perhaps would this be inexpedient? A clear example of the problem was the Pope’s sending two of us to Siena. Should we have concern and mutual comprehension for those going there, and they for us? Or should we perhaps have no greater concern for them than for persons outside our Company? Finally, we decided affirmatively, namely, that since the most kind and loving Lord had deigned to unite us to one another and to bring us together – weak men and from such different places and cultures – we should not sever God’s union and bringing together, but rather every day we should strengthen and more solidly ground it, forming ourselves into one body. Everyone should have concern for and comprehension of the others for greater apostolic efficacy, since united strength would have more power and courage in confronting whatever challenging goals were to be sought than if this strength were divided into many parts. Now, in all that has been recounted and yet will be, we wish it to be understood that we adopted nothing at all from our own “spirit” and subjective notions, but only (whatever it might be) what the Lord inspired and the Apostolic See confirmed and approved.
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Apr
24
April 25, 2010 Many people in the world are now looking at the spiritual shepherds of the Catholic Church and concluding that some have not been caring, protective shepherds to the flock. The sexual abuse scandal and its subsequent response by bishops are not isolated to the U.S. as some thought. Since last fall, three Irish bishops have resigned; a Belgian and a German bishop just offered their resignation and some suggest that others throughout the world should probably follow suit. This week theologian Hans Kung wrote an open letter to the bishops urging them to consider his six points including calling for a council who could address the problematic issues of the day. Theologian Gerald O’Hanlon wrote a similar letter in February that was published in Furrow magazine. Many are impatiently waiting for the Church leaders to respond as Jesus, the Good Shepherd, would. The media and the church’s critics will keep their focus of the pastoral response of bishops, including the Bishop of Rome who promises to take action in this matter. We have to be careful not the throw the baby out with the bath water. We do have many good bishops and religious leaders who care for their flock and we need to affirm those who are providing good ministry. We also know that there is a widening gap between some bishops and their people because complicated social and moral issues are not allowed to be discussed in conversation. Dialogue is essential for understanding another’s viewpoints and for enriching one’s own conscience. We all have an obligation to develop and form our conscience and in this fast-paced, ever-changing world, we need dialogue to help us maneuver through this rugged terrain. True dialogue is often a loving response because one is able to listen attentively and also feel heard by the other. It is satisfying even if it does not solve any problems. Notice the style of one’s way of proceeding. It can say much about their openness and generosity. Being besieged by forces within or outside the church ought not to bother us. It has always been there and always will be. In the Acts of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas preaches the grace of God in raising Jesus from the dead to both the Jews and the Gentiles. The Gentiles gratefully receive the message, but many Judaizers become violent towards the disciples who leave joyfully because the word of God was being spread to many others. The first reading and the Gospel remind us to keep our eyes fixed on the joy of knowing Christ who is our ultimate Good Shepherd. He will give us the protection we need. We need not be afraid of the forces of the world because he will give us eternal life, and we might want to notice all the good people who are with us in the flock – lay people, priests, religious and bishops. We are all in this together because Christ has called us to himself. In this entire maelstrom, we have to return to the voice of the Shepherd and first and foremost listen to what he has to say, and we have to tell him what is on our mind as well, including what we deeply feel. He will take care of us for sure, but he is showing us remarkable love when he converses with us. Let’s find some time to dialogue with our true Shepherd in prayer this week. It can make all the difference in the world. Quote for the Week From Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus, December 18, 2005: The silence of Saint Joseph is given a special emphasis. His silence is steeped in contemplation of the mystery of God in an attitude of total availability to divine desires. It is a silence thanks to which Joseph, in unison with Mary, watches over the Word of God, known through the Sacred Scriptures, continuously comparing it with the events of the life of Jesus; a silence woven of constant prayer, a prayer of blessing of the Lord, of the adoration of His holy will and of unreserved entrustment to his providence. It is no exaggeration to think that it was precisely from his “father” Joseph that Jesus learned — at the human level — that steadfast interiority which is a presupposition of authentic justice…. Let us allow ourselves to be “filled” with Saint Joseph’s silence! In a world that is often too noisy, that encourages neither recollection nor listening to God’s voice. Themes for this Week’s Masses First Reading : We see how the church begins to move outward from Jerusalem as Peter visits the house of uncircumcised Gentiles and eats with them. Peter realizes that it is the same Holy Spirit that falls upon the Gentiles and Jews, so they all glorified God. During the persecution that followed because of Stephen, the new Christians were scattered and began to talk with Greeks and they proclaimed the good news to them. While in Antioch, Paul and Barnabas are set aside to bring the word of God to the Gentiles. Paul tells the story of the Jews culminating in the life of Jesus and the promise that God fulfilled among them. Gospel : From Good Shepherd Sunday, we continue with John 10 as he describes the good care that a true shepherd provides his flock. Jesus is the gate for the sheep and he gives eternal life. His statements end with his proclamation that he and the Father are one. He came in to the world as light and whoever receives and believes in Jesus believes in the Father. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and all who come to him will have eternal life with the Father. Saints of the Week Monday: Mark, the Evangelist is celebrated on April 25th, which falls on the Lord ’s Day this year. Mark is regarded as the author of the first Gospel and is associated with Peter whom he heard preach. Mark was originally a companion of Paul, but is later associated with Peter’s ministry. He was sent to Alexandria and formed a church that is now known as the Coptic Orthodox Church. Tuesday: Peter Canisius, S.J., priest and Doctor , is attributed to have stopped the spread of Protestantism in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, and the Czech Republic. The restoration of Catholicism in Germany after the Restoration is attributed to his work. Declared a doctor of the church in 1925, his feast day was moved to December 21st, the date of his entry into eternal life. Wednesday: Peter Chanel, priest, missionary, martyr , is the first martyr of the Pacific South Seas. Originally a parish priest in rural France, he joined the Society of Mary to become a missionary in 1831. At first the missionaries were well-received in the New Hebrides as they recently outlawed cannibalism. When the king’s son wanted to be baptized, his anger erupted and Peter was clubbed to death in protest. Thursday: Catherine of Siena, Doctor , had mystical visions as a girl that continued during her 3rd Order of Dominican profession at age 16. She persuaded the Pope to go back to Rome from Avignon in 1377 in order to heal the great Western Schism. She is said to have a brilliant theological mind. When she died at age 33, she was found to have the stigmata. Friday: Pius V, Pope , led the church through the Reformation (1566-1572). He was ordained a Dominican priest and taught in seminaries, became master of novices and a prior to several houses, and eventually became the General of the Inquisition. His excessive zeal led to his publication of Trent’s decrees on the Roman catechism, breviary, and missal. His alignment with European monarchical forces stopped the decline of Islamic advances by the Turks in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 in the gulf of Patras in the Ionian Sea. Saturday: Joseph the Worker , was honored by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in an effort to counteract May Day, a union, worker, and socialist holiday. Many Catholics believe him to be the patron of workers because he is known for his patience, persistence, and hard work as admirable qualities which believers should adopt. This Week in Jesuit History • Apr 25, 1915. Pierre Rousselot, Professor at the Institute Catholique in Paris, is wounded and taken prisoner during World War I. • Apr 26, 1935. Lumen Vitae, center for catechetics and religious formation was founded in Brussels. • Apr 27, 1880. On the occasion of the visit of Jules Ferry, French minister of education, to Amiens, France, shouts were raised under the Jesuit College windows: ” Les Jesuites a la guillotine .” • Apr 28, 1542. St Ignatius sent Pedro Ribadenaira, aged fifteen, from Rome to Paris for his studies. Pedro had been admitted into the Society in l539 or l540. • Apr 29, 1933. Thomas Ewing Sherman died in New Orleans. An orator on the mission band, he was the son of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman. He suffered a breakdown, and wanted to leave the Society, but was refused because of his ill health. Before his death he renewed his vows in the Society. • Apr 30, 1585. The landing at Osaka of Fr Gaspar Coelho. At first the Emperor was favorably disposed towards Christianity. This changed later because of Christianity’s attitude toward polygamy. • May 1, 1572. At Rome, Pope St. Pius V dies. His decree imposing Choir on the Society was cancelled by his successor, Gregory XIII. Plans for the Week I am heading to Hervey Bay, a four-hour drive north of Brisbane, Australia to give a three-week retreat called the Exercises in Daily Life. Please pray for the Xavier Catholic College participants who will make this retreat and please pray for their director that I may stay out of the ways of God’s communication with them. Prayers for Chile and Haiti Let’s continue our prayers and generosity to the people of Chile and Haiti who are still recovering from earthquakes and natural disasters. While the world’s cameras may have turned their lenses to other news, let’s remember those who silently reconstruct their lives amid great hardship.
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Apr
23
Ointment of you of God, Maria.Llena you are of grace: With you of the Gentleman it is. Blessed you of ere women of those of all of enter. Belly of the one of your of the fruit of THE ONE of is of the blessed one of and: Jesús.Santa Maria, Mother of God, sinful of we of by of requests, death of in the hour of ours of now and. Amen.
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Apr
22
Cerca del final de prestó el tiempo dibujaba cerca cuando tendríamos que ser dispersados y ser separados a partir de la una otra. Éramos muy impacientes para esto, reconociéndolo cuanto sea necesario para alcanzar la meta que habíamos fijado ya sobre y que habíamos pensado alrededor con deseo intenso. Decidíamos venir juntos por algunos días antes de separar para discutir el uno con el otro nuestra vocación y manera de la vida. Después de hacer esto por varios días, diversas ideas y opiniones referentes nuestro estado de la vida, algo de nosotros que eran franceses, otros españoles, otros Savoyards o a portugués nos dividimos. Había unidad de la mente y del propósito: para buscar la voluntad graciosa y perfecta de dios según el alcance de nuestra vocación; pero había varias opiniones referentes al más eficaz y medios más acertados para nosotros mismos y para nuestro fellowmen. Debe sorprender nadie que este contraste de pareceres ocurrió entre nosotros débiles y hombres frágiles, desde incluso los apóstoles, los príncipes y los pilares de la iglesia más santa, así como muchos hombres más perfectos con quienes seamos indignos incluso ser comparado remotamente, tenía puntos de vista cuál era diferente y ocasionalmente en la contradicción directa, y han dejado estas opiniones contrarias en la escritura. Puesto que juzgamos materias diferentemente, por lo tanto nosotros impacientes por buscar y encontrar una cierta manera verdaderamente abierta que podríamos seguir en el ofrecimiento nosotros mismos como holocausto a nuestro dios, cuya a alabanza y honre nuestro puede ser que seamos entregados todo. Finalmente, decidíamos y los determinamos unánimemente para darnos a los rezos y los sacrificios y las meditaciones con mayor del fervor generalmente y, después de usar todos nuestros recursos, para echar todas nuestras preocupaciones sobre el señor, esperando en él que es tan bueno y abundante que él niega a su buen alcohol a nadie que pida con un corazón humilde y solo. De hecho, él da con el largesse a todos los hombres que decepcionan nadie. Ciertamente, él no nos fallaría; pero tan grande es su calidad, él nos ayudaría más allá de nuestros deseos y comprensión.
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Apr
21
The God energy is able to find the hope where the hope exists not more, and a way where the way is impossible.
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Apr
21
The God energy is able to find the hope where the hope exists not more, and a way where the way is impossible.
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Apr
20
In this table we put each worldly separation based on culture separate, class, or other differences. This communion is because all the prejudicar, all the racism, all the sexism, all the respect to the abundance and the energy must banished of our parishes, our homes, our lives.
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Apr
20
In this table we put each worldly separation based on culture separate, class, or other differences. This communion is because all the prejudicar, all the racism, all the sexism, all the respect to the abundance and the energy must banished of our parishes, our homes, our lives.
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Apr
19
You, to traverse whose of charming faces of faceall she watches, and are you solve foreverin the true mirror of your soul: you, in whose irrevocable voices of wordthe tacit she speaks again, doing in this momentthe less divided remembered the music that the heart decides. Or you who are same but other, that is the world, and unknownthrough that works an orchard the city, the river, the relative and the source shine; here it is my hand, and with her it left all the handsbe given, and it is maintained, in hers and mine.
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Apr
18
Virginia Satir speaks of five liberties that increase when one loves uncondtionally. These liberties imply our basic energies: (1) the energy to perceive, (2) the energy to love (it chooses and desire), (3) the energy of emote, (4) the energy to think and to express, and (5) the energy to anticipate or to imagine. When we are whole and completely one same-that accepts, we took care more of reality than with “shoulds” of the life. We have been “we must on” far too much often while still alive. When unconditionallly loves to us, we can hardly accept to us whereas we are. The Self-acceptance is personal energy. It means that we are integrated and unified. All our energy concentrates and flows towards outside.
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Apr
17
April 18, 2010 The stories told in today’s readings show us ways of showing love to one another in light of Christ’s victorious resurrection. Peter and the disciples appear before the religious council in defiance of their strict orders never to mention the resurrection, but they leave their presence in joy (despite the floggings) because they were faithful to God’s command rather than the commands of men. Neither fear of recrimination nor the sting of death has any power over the disciples anymore. They are free to live in imitation of Jesus whose faith brought about their redemption. In the second reading, the whole heavenly court is found rejoicing in the final triumph of Christ over the forces of sin and death. All creation responds in joyful celebration to the Christ event. John’s Gospel depicts the famous scene of Peter standing in front of Jesus at the seashore to receive triple forgiveness for his triple denial during the Passion. By confessing his love of Jesus, he is able to renew his commitment to him and to live in a future that will have new, yet uncertain directions. Peter realizes only two aspects of discipleship are necessary for his life – his self-sacrificing, loving fidelity to Jesus which brings about a loving response to his neighbors. This radical version of love with Christ as the true north of the compass will govern every activity in his life and will shape the new community being formed. Love is the root that grounds all future choices. Love is a choice. It is important for us to examine the life of the early Christians to help us understand the ways in which love is to govern our daily lives and the life of our church. We sometimes have to ponder whether our religious leaders are acting out of the Sanhedrin-like adherence to the law or the Peter and the Apostles fidelity to God’s commission to preach and to live in the Spirit of Christ. This is not always easy to discern. We have wonder whether we adequately seek the forgiveness of sins as Peter did so that we can recommit our fidelity to the merciful Christ. We may find it best to take more time to wrestle with our daily choices so we can check in with Christ to if our smallest decisions are made in conversation with him and reveal the greatest amount of our love. Taking time to comprehend our responses to Christ will help us be free enough to respond with the bold clarity and joyfulness of the apostles. Who would not want to live this way? Quote for the Week Jesuits celebrate Thursday, April 22nd as the Feast of Mary, the Mother of the Society. This is the day in 1541 when Ignatius and his companions as members of a religious institute profess their solemn vows in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls in Rome. It is the equivalent and precedent for Jesuits taking final vows after their period of tertian formation. The quote below is from Galatians 4:4-7, which is used as the first reading in the feast day’s liturgy. “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’ So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.” Themes for this Week’s Masses First Reading: Stephen, one of the seven deacons, works great wonders and signs. People from all over debate him, but they cannot withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. Stephen assaults the people, elders, and scribes with the truth of God, which raises a furor. He is placed before Saul who assents to his execution. Persecution of the church reigns in Jerusalem. Paul enters houses to collect Christians; the disciples are dispersed; those who were scattered preached the word everywhere. Philip, on his way to Gaza, meets an Ethiopian eunuch, who asks to be baptized after hearing scripture opened for him. Saul, with murderous intent, travels to Damascus where he has an encounter with the Lord that his the beginning of his call to be a Christian. The church is at peace and is being built up so Peter visits all the towns. He cures paralytics and raises Tabitha from the dead in the name of Jesus. Gospel: Jesus draws parallels to mind of Moses. He tells them not to work for food that perishes, but seek out the food that will give you eternal life. He reminds the people that it was God, not Moses, who fed the people manna in the wilderness. He equates himself with God – as someone much greater than Moses. Jesus, as the bread of life, tells the crowd that it is the will of the Father that all who see the Son and believes will have eternal life. Jesus is the key to the Father. It is he who will give eternal life. Jesus’ statement that “My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink” is difficult for some to hear and some leave him. Peter, speaking for the disciples, replies “to whom shall we go? You have the words of everlasting life.” Saints of the Week Wednesday: Anselm, bishop and doctor was a monastic abbot in Normandy who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Church-state relations peppered his term, but he became known to the church because of his theological and philosophical treatises, mostly for his assertion about the existence of God – an idea greater than that which no other idea can be thought. Friday: George, martyr , was killed in Palestine. He may have been a Roman soldier who organized a Christian community in what is now Iran. He became part of the Middle Ages imagination for his ideal of Christian chivalry and is thought to have slain a dragon. He became the patron of England and the nation adopted George’s Arms, a red cross on a white background, which is still part of the British flag. Saturday: Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest and martyr, was a canon lawyer who became a Capuchin Franciscan in 1612. Prior to priesthood, he served the nobles in France, Italy and Spain and helped interpret legislation that served the poor. He was later appointed to the challenging task of preaching to the Protestants in Switzerland, where he was killed for being an agent for the king. This Week in Jesuit History • Apr 18, 1906. At Rome, the death of Rev. Fr. Luis Martin, twenty-fourth General of the Society. Pope Pius X spoke of him as a saint, a martyr, a man of extraordinary ability and prudence. • Apr 19, 1602. At Tyburn, Ven. James Ducket, a layman, suffered death for publishing a work written by Robert Southwell. • Apr 20, 1864. Father Peter de Smet left St Louis to evangelize the Sioux Indians. • Apr 21, 1926. Fr. General Ledochowski sent out a letter De Usu Machinae Photographicae. It stated that cameras should belong to the house, not the individual. Further, they should not be used for recreation or time spent on trifles rather than for the greater glory of God. • Apr 22, 1541. Ignatius and his first companions made their solemn profession of vows in the basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. • Apr 23, 1644. A General Chapter of the Benedictines condemned the calumny that St Ignatius was not the real author of the Spiritual Exercises. A monk had earlier claimed that the matter was borrowed from a work by Garzia Cisneros. • Apr 24, 1589. At Bordeaux, the Society was ordered to leave the city. It had been falsely accused of favoring the faction which was opposed to King Henry III.
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Apr
17
The true love priest and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow due to some other love, is generally because it is a falsified form of love. The true love is unconditional positive respect. The respect postive of Unconditionaly allows that we are whole and that we accept to all the parts of we ourself. To be whole, we must unite all the shamed and divide-dull aspects of we ourself. Juan Bradshaw
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