The eighteenth Sunday of the ordinary time

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August 1, 2010 Although today’s readings confront our capacity and inclination to obtain more than we actually need, they skim the surface of our attachments to those possessions that we perceive will bring us security. Qoheleth, the author of Ecclesiastes, writes that all is vanity. Another translation of the word vanity is breath, so he is saying that everything is breath. It is passing, transitory, it cannot be grasped and it vanishes quickly. He asks, “Why do we get anxious about those possessions or activities that, in the long run, do not matter so much?” We are seeking to grasp onto something to give us some security, but in the end, the happiness that comes from our wise choices give us peace. Our greed, whether for possessions or security, can become idolatrous. I recall the bumper sticker that appeared years ago, “He who has the most toys wins.” This worldview reveals it is the pursuit, not the actual possessions, that becomes idolatrous. The letter to the Colossians tells us that we have to put to death this insidious type of greed so that we can put on the new self, that is, to put on Christ. Jesus tells a story to one of two brothers who is constrained by his greed. The first brother doesn’t want to share his inheritance and the second one may or may not be too consumed with the inheritance, but he does want his brother to share out of sheer principles of fairness. In the story we learn of the futility of stockpiling and self-centeredness. The rich man builds a sense of security for himself because he will not go hungry, he will not have to rely upon others, and his hard work will surely pay off in the end, but the Lord God appears to him and chastises him for his foolishness. He gets no real benefit from his actions because he dies before he is able to enjoy his possessions. His relative wealth and comfort provides no surety in the long run. We do not want to be like this man even though we want to be hard workers, prudent savers, and wise stewards of the gifts we have been given. It is wise for us to properly understand our relationship to those things in life that we pine for with the backdrop of Qoheleth’s pronouncement that all in life is fleeting. What can we really hold onto? The parable explains our attachment to material possessions because it is easy to visualize, but more often in life we hold onto intangibles like honor, status, influence, appearances, or reputation. We cling to these because they define our character and personality, and it is helpful to remember that we get our sense of security and stability from them as well. Our world becomes shaken when we deal with shame rather than honor, or when our high esteem and status is overturned and we lose our prestige, and so on. We begin to question our identity and our compass in life. These aspects of life are fleeting too and we can’t rely upon them, just like the man in the parable cannot rely upon those possessions he has stockpiled. Take some time this week to examine your personal (intangible) possessions. How many of them are really illusory? Onto what can we really grasp and hold onto during a lifetime that is merely a breath? Until we have it sorted out, let’s follow the advice of Qoheleth who teaches us to live well, to enjoy life, to take matters in stride, and to know we will one day be called back to God. Let’s be generous and giving to one another; generosity has a way of paying back in exponential ways. Loosen up and let go. All is breath. Quote for the Week From The Book of Ecclesiastes : Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! For what profit comes to [one] from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun? … This also is vanity. Themes for this Week’s Masses First Reading : King Zedekiah breaks the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah and raises the false hopes of the people because he preached rebellion against the Lord, but Jeremiah prophesies that the Lord has not sent Zedekiah on his mission. The Lord tells Israel that because he has brought calamity upon them because of their numerous sins, but there will come a day when the punishment will be lifted. At the right time, the Lord will show his age-old love for the people once again in fullness. The days are coming when the Lord will make a new covenant with Israel and will no more remember their sin, and the just, because of their steadfast faith, will live. Gospel : When Jesus hears of John the Baptist’s murder, he retires to a secluded place to pray, but many people come to him for healing. He teaches them and since it is late, he provides them with the fish and loaves that satisfy their hunger. He sends the disciples to the other side of the lake and meets up with them by walking on the surface of the lake. A Canaanite woman who knows of the power of Jesus begs him to heal her daughter who is tormented by demons. Jesus pauses to ask his disciples to tell him who they think he is. He declare him to be the Christ. A man begs Jesus to care for his son who is a lunatic. The disciples are baffled by their inability to cure him while Jesus has the greater power to expel the demon and make him sane. Saints of the Week Monday: Blessed Peter Faber, S.J., priest , was one of the founding members of the Society of Jesus. He was an ordained priest when the original companions professed vows at Montmartre outside of Paris on August 15, 1534. He wrote his Memoriale to record the development of his spiritual life. Chosen as a delegate to the Council of Trent, Faber fell ill and died on August 1st. Eusebius of Vercelli, bishop ¸ settled a dispute between the Arians and Catholics in 355 and was subsequently banished to Palestine unti 361 when the emperor died. Peter Julian Eymard, priest , entered the Marists in 1839 and left to found the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in 1856 in an effort to promote devotion to the Eucharist as a model for Christian living. Wednesday: John Mary Vianney, priest , is the patron saint of priests and was called upon last year to intercession during the Year of the Priest. He was a parish priest who became known for his extended devotion to hearing confessions and for pastorally caring for the people of the village of Ars-en-Dombes near Lyons, France. Thursday: The Dedication of the Basilica of Mary Major in Rome is the church were St. Ignatius said his Mass of Thanksgiving a year after his ordination. It is also the church in which Francis of Assisi set up the first Nativity crèche. The basilica was renamed after the Council of Ephesus in 431 after Mary was proclaimed to be the mother of God. It is larger and older than other churches in Rome named after Mary. Friday: The Transfiguration of the Lord appears in each of the Synoptic Gospels when Jesus took Peter, James, and John up the mountain to pray and he was transfigured before their eyes. Jesus was affirmed by his Father in heaven and he was confirmed by his friends to be the Christ. Sadly, we also remember the transfiguring event of the anniversary of dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Saturday: Sixtus, II, pope and martyr with companions , died during the Valerian persecutions in 258. They were killed in the catacombs where they celebrated Mass. Sixtus was beheaded while speaking in his presidential chair and six deacons were killed as well. Lawrence, the Deacon, is honored on August 10th. This Week in Jesuit History • Aug 1, 1938. The Jesuits of the Middle United States, by Gilbert Garrigan was copyrighted. This monumental three-volume work followed the history of the Jesuits in the Midwest from the early 1820s to the 1930s. • Aug 2, 1981. The death of Gerald Kelly, moral theologian and author of Modern Youth and Chastity. • Aug 3, 1553. Queen Mary Tudor made her solemn entrance into London. As she passed St Paul’s School, an address was delivered by Edmund Campion, then a boy of thirteen. • Aug 4, 1871. King Victor Emmanuel signed the decree that sanctioned the seizure of all of the properties belonging to the Roman College and to S. Andrea. • Aug 5, 1762. The Parliament at Paris condemned the Society’s Institute as opposed to natural law. It confiscated all Jesuit property and forbade the Jesuit habit and community life. • Aug 6, 1552. The death of Claude Jay, a French priest who was one of Ignatius’ original companions at the University of Paris. • Aug 7, 1814. The universal restoration of the Society of Jesus. Weather Might the worst of the weather be over? The sustained sweltering heat has gripped much of the U.S., so it is reassuring to know that the crest of summer has passed. In the Southern Hemisphere, the increasing amounts of daylight bring relief to many people that the worst of the sustained cold weather is gone. We are over the hump!

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Prayer: Timothy Healy, S.J.

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Once or in 450 years we have done twice that the dream comes truth; in the reductions of Paraguay, the battle against Jansenism, Georgetown de Juan Carroll, the canonization of the advice of Vatican of the work of Juan Courtney Murray. The dream quickly came truth for the six men who taught in El Salvador that died month of November the past because they fought for the human dignity. Also truth for the majority comes from the Jesuits, I thinks, in the classrooms the reserved and corridors where, being we ourself, we attested to how many strange tools can make use patient God. The Jesuits share the Christian penetration that only stops God is truth to the noun. For the rest of us achingly is a verb unclosing. Déjeme to count a passed history, this personal time. Almost 30 years ago one of the great Jesuits of my time, Edwin Cuffe, S.J., sat down with me in one night of the hornada one near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where we were both that taught to a summer course to the young Jesuits. The unique antidote to the heat of afternoon was a cold beer, and we applied in fact to the medicine several times. During placing other problems of the world, we reached the conclusion that the most interesting Earth company was the church, and that its animated corner more was probably the religious order we both shared.

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Prayer: Timothy Healy, S.J.

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Jul

30

Once or in 450 years we have done twice that the dream comes truth; in the reductions of Paraguay, the battle against Jansenism, Georgetown de Juan Carroll, the canonization of the advice of Vatican of the work of Juan Courtney Murray. The dream quickly came truth for the six men who taught in El Salvador that died month of November the past because they fought for the human dignity. Also truth for the majority comes from the Jesuits, I thinks, in the classrooms the reserved and corridors where, being we ourself, we attested to how many strange tools can make use patient God. The Jesuits share the Christian penetration that only stops God is truth to the noun. For the rest of us achingly is a verb unclosing. Déjeme to count a passed history, this personal time. Almost 30 years ago one of the great Jesuits of my time, Edwin Cuffe, S.J., sat down with me in one night of the hornada one near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where we were both that taught to a summer course to the young Jesuits. The unique antidote to the heat of afternoon was a cold beer, and we applied in fact to the medicine several times. During placing other problems of the world, we reached the conclusion that the most interesting Earth company was the church, and that its animated corner more was probably the religious order we both shared.

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Espiritualidad: The tolerance to receive the freedom of _

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Jul

29

In reprocessings and prayer, we often looked for the tolerances that will free “” something that it retains to us and that will free “for” alguÌ good  greater n. Here it is a list of some conditions in which we wish to be released of a certain aspect of our lives. • Sin• Culpability• Existential anxieties (fear of the demons, the squeeze of but, of the death, taken care of diarios/de preoccupations, the pain, the desperation and the desperation• Displeasure with God and others• No freedom, chains• Oppressive and alienating bows• A life of any expression of the love• Arbitrary character• Egotismo• Operation of the credibility• Condemnation without mercy of others• Preoccupation by the reputation• Trying to impress others• Panic• Absence of pleasing• Attachments

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Espiritualidad: The tolerance to receive the freedom of _

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Jul

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In reprocessings and prayer, we often looked for the tolerances that will free “” something that it retains to us and that will free “for” alguÌ good  greater n. Here it is a list of some conditions in which we wish to be released of a certain aspect of our lives. • Sin• Culpability• Existential anxieties (fear of the demons, the squeeze of but, of the death, taken care of diarios/de preoccupations, the pain, the desperation and the desperation• Displeasure with God and others• No freedom, chains• Oppressive and alienating bows• A life of any expression of the love• Arbitrary character• Egotismo• Operation of the credibility• Condemnation without mercy of others• Preoccupation by the reputation• Trying to impress others• Panic• Absence of pleasing• Attachments

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Espiritualidad: The tolerance to receive the freedom for _

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Jul

28

In reprocessings and prayer, we often looked for the tolerances that will free “” something that it retains to us and that will free “for” alguÌ good  greater n. Here it is a list of some conditions in which we wish to be released for certain a new one and life-giving aspect in our lives. • Freedom• Uprightness• Peace with God and others• Confidence while still alive• New creation• Restoration of all the things• Joy• Happiness• Life• Life in eternal glory• Love• Hope• Sanctification• Ethical commission with the good one• All that is, as soon as, pure nobleman, true, attractive, merit of the love• To be abundant and he warms up the one to the other• In order to surpass badly with good• In order to share the merchandise to cure and to make whole number• To be imitadores of God• In order to walk in love as Christ loved to us

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Espiritualidad: The tolerance to receive the freedom for _

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Jul

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In reprocessings and prayer, we often looked for the tolerances that will free “” something that it retains to us and that will free “for” alguÌ good  greater n. Here it is a list of some conditions in which we wish to be released for certain a new one and life-giving aspect in our lives. • Freedom• Uprightness• Peace with God and others• Confidence while still alive• New creation• Restoration of all the things• Joy• Happiness• Life• Life in eternal glory• Love• Hope• Sanctification• Ethical commission with the good one• All that is, as soon as, pure nobleman, true, attractive, merit of the love• To be abundant and he warms up the one to the other• In order to surpass badly with good• In order to share the merchandise to cure and to make whole number• To be imitadores of God• In order to walk in love as Christ loved to us

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Sacred heart: A prayer of the greeting Santa Margarita Maria Alacoque

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Jul

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It hails, heart of Jesus, except me! It hails, heart of my creator, perfeccióneme! It hails, heart of my rescuer, entregúeme! It hails, heart of my judge, concédame the pardon! It hails, heart of my father, gobiérneme! It hails, heart of my husband, concédame the love! It hails, heart of my master, enséñeme! It hails, heart of my king, is my crown! It hails, heart of my benefactor, enriquézcame! It hails, heart of my shepherd, guárdeme! It hails, heart of my friend, confórteme! It hails, the heart of my brother, stay with me! It hails, heart of the boy Jesus, dibújeme to Thyself! It hails, heart of Jesus who dies in the cross, redímame! Graníceme, heart of Jesus in all Thy states, gives Thyself! It hails, heart of the incomparable quality, has mercy in me! It hails, heart of the splendor, brightness within me! It hails, the majority of the affectionate heart, inflámeme! It hails, the majority of the compassionate heart, work within me! It hails, the majority of the humble heart, halting within me! It hails, the majority of the patient heart, apóyeme! It hails, the majority of the faithful heart, is my reward! It hails, most admirable and the majority of the worthy heart, blesses to me!

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Prayer: Cecil McGarry

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Jul

27

My deeper moments of privacy with the gentleman always have been in the fight to continue being available for him, faithful at the moments of the dark, defeats, frustration, fatigue, in the great and small rebellions of newspaper when I have tried to impose my wisdom and my ways. I continue finding it more intimate when it proves more fort in the daily demands for the availability and the service that in the days of prayer. Encounter to more sensible God in the newspaper things that require effort and the delivery of the one same that in the days of formal prayer that is often empty of `and droughts, lived in the faith and the natural sensation to waste time. Note of Ignatius in the exercises that can appear cold and the refusal has gotten to be positive for me and a experience of the dedication: For each it must reflect that in all the spiritual matters, the more one it is deprived of self-love, of the obstinacy and the own interests, the more the progress one will do. The companion of Mr., Peter, discovered this, and with him I can only say also, the “a that must I go? You have the words of the eternal life, and I create. I know that you are God santo. ”

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Espiritualidad: “Prayer and desire” of the primary speech of Ana and Barry Ulanov

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Jul

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… God does not need to be said any thing exceeds what we needed and we want. Our words in prayer are not for the instruction but ours the own one of God. We discover this way what in fact we wished, what we want to reach outside towards and love. Thus we come to maintain itself in open knowledge what before we had lived unknowingly. The surprises happen. We can discover we want more than we thought that we dared. In the secret space of the prayer, we can reveal same how much we want the truth, beauty, love. While still alive of every day, we hid generally of such desires, trying to protect itself against its urgency with the cynical discussion that those are the simply infantile jumps that the life disappoints correctly. We can discover desires that we did not know around nor that we knew only weak, we wished that if were followed it would take us far from the trajectory we have constructed so carefully. It can be that we must change the works, relations of the license, we left our whole way of life to take entirely diverse. What follows desires does not do, as the critics could warn, necessarily takes to self-indulgence and to all the sensations hedonistic. Something, directs right in the dangers of the moral dilemma. The voice that God hears in prayer obtains more noisily and more noisily for us if we are going ignition to request. It can come to speak of a truth and a way of life that is broken shrewdly with the life which we are living.

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Poem: Both wolves

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Jul

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Old grandfathers said to his grandson, that he came to him with rage in a friend who had made it an injustice, “let tell him a history to me. I, has also felt occasionally the great hatred for which they have taken so much, without the pain so does he it. But hatred exhausts to him, and nonpity to its enemy. It is as to take the poison and wishing his enemy it would die. I have fought with these sensations often.” It continued, “he is as if there are two wolves within me. One is good and  n does not do ninguÌ damage. He lives in harmony around he yet, and he does not take offense when any offense did not think. He will only fight when correct to do therefore, and of the correct way. But the other wolf, ah! It is full of rage. The thing will fix smallest it to an adjustment of the genius. It fights each, all along, for no reason. He cannot think because their rage and hatred are so great. Is abandoned rage, because its rage will not change anything. Sometimes, he is hard to live with these two wolves within me, because both they try to dominate my alcohol.” The boy watched kind in the eyes of his grandfathers and asked, “which desire, grandfathers” The grandfathers smiled and said reserved, “the one that food.”

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The seventeenth Sunday in ordinary time

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Jul

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July 25, 2010 Last week we heard about Abraham’s three visitors, one who happened to be the Lord. This week, Abraham and the Lord travel to the towns of Sodom and Gomorrah and the Lord rhetorically asks if their sin, that is their failure to offer hospitality, is as grave as people say it is. Abraham pleads for justice for the righteous few who live in the city. Surely the Lord would not take vengeance on innocent people. We don’t know whether the Lord ever passes judgment or whether he teases answers out of Abraham to see how steadfast he will remain. Anyways, the Lord is teaching Abraham to ask for what he wants. We see the same dynamic in the Gospel: the midnight visitor asks for bread for his guest; Jesus teaches us how to call upon God as Father with petitions and demands, and then Jesus encourages us to boldly ask. The moral of the story is that we are to be more assertive in our prayers for ourselves and one another, and yet too often we are afraid to approach God with our needs – and then we feel guilty when we do ask. We rationalize by saying things like “I know others are more in need than I am” or “I’m already blessed. I can’t ask for too much” or “I feel selfish in asking for my own needs, but I have no problem praying for others.” Jesus wants us to pray always because prayer is fundamentally a relationship and we need to spend time developing our friendship with God. We are to persevere in prayer – even if only for our needs. The fact is we are not a selfish people in general. Few of us would ever shamefully deny a friend in need. Jesus is trying to tell us that God is like a generously giving friend, especially when we are in need, and God wants to abundantly give us plenty of graces that we do not deserve and have not earned. That is just the hospitable character and nature of God. Isn’t it reassuring to know that the friends of Jesus needed instructions on prayer? Jesus, the Messiah, lives with the people day by day and still his closest friends are bewildered and dissatisfied with their own prayer style. Amazing. We are not to get down on ourselves when we find our prayer desolating or ineffective. We judge ourselves much too harshly. We need to find a style of praying that energizes us and is right for us. We each have styles and modes of being in relationship with other people – they differ from person to person; we have to find ways that are comfortable in order to relate to the God who is in our midst. All too often, we think that is praying is saying devotional prayers that we learned up until the eighth grade in secondary school. While we have evolved over the years, we also need our prayer styles to reflect our maturity. The prayer that Jesus teaches his Jewish disciples models a lifestyle of generosity, forgiveness, and compassion. Everyone is welcome in this kingdom of heaven that is marked by peace, safety and abundance. It is a perfect prayer and it is good for us to chew on it bits at a time every so often so that we can see how the prayer penetrates deeply into our lives. When we truly pray it, we cannot help but feel a great deal of thankfulness for the many ways that God is always there – just ready to answer our prayers. This is an amazing God. Quote for the Week From The Contemplation to Attain Divine Love by Ignatius of Loyola : I will call back to memory the gifts I have received – my creation, redemption, and other gifts particular to myself. I ponder with deep affection how much God our Lord has done for me, and how much he has given me of what he possesses, and consequently how he, the same Lord, desires to give me even his very self, in accordance with his divine design. I will consider how God dwells in creatures; in the elements, giving them existence; in the plants, giving them life; in the animals, giving them sensation; in human beings, giving them intelligence; and finally, how in this way he dwells also in myself, giving me existence, life, sensation, and intelligence; and even further, making me his temple, since I am created as a likeness and image of the Divine Majesty. Then once again I will reflect on myself, in the manner described in the first point, or in any other way I feel to be better. I will consider how God labors and works for me in all the creatures on the face of the earth; that is, he acts in the manner of one who is laboring. For example, he is working in the heavens, elements, plants, fruits, cattle, and all the rest – giving them existence, conserving them, concurring with their vegetative and sensitive activities, and so forth. I will consider how all good things and gifts descend from above; for example, my limited power from the Supreme and Infinite Power above; and so of justice, goodness, piety, mercy, and so forth – just as the rays come down from the sun or the rains from their source. Themes for this Week’s Masses First Reading : The Lord illustrates to the prophet Jeremiah the blessings of staying close to the Lord God and keeping his commandments. He shows that infidelity to his commandments will cause the person to rot and be useless. The people, realizing their sins and those of their fathers, petition God for mercy. Even the innocent suffer and those in pain await the Lord God’s protection. God sends Jeremiah to the potter’s house so that he may reshape the people into an image pleasing to God. The Lord speaks to Jeremiah in the audience of King Jehoiakim of the house of Judah urging repentance from their sins or they shall become like the inhabitants of Shiloh. The priests, prophets, and people ridicule Jeremiah and telling them that he is to be put to death. Jeremiah reveals that the Lord God is the source of his prophecy. The princes protect Jeremiah because an innocent man does not deserve to be put to death. Gospel: Jesus speaks of the kingdom of heaven likening it to a mustard seed and yeast. He then explains the parable of the weeds in the field to his disciples telling them that the Son of Man is Lord of the Harvest and will come in judgment to collect the pure and holy from among the vile. He continues speaking of images of the kingdom calling it a treasure and a pearl. Though he is powerful in words and deeds, the people of his own town find it hard to see him as the Messiah. Because of their lack of faith, Jesus did not work many mighty deeds in their presence. At this time, Herod the tetrarch murders John the Baptist because he made an oath to his daughter to grant her whatever she wished. Saints of the Week Monday: We know little about Joachim and Anne, parents of Mary , because there is no scriptural reference to them, just some non-scriptural references to some writings of James the apostle. The lineage of women was not important in the Mediterranean world. Devotions to Anne began to crop up in the 6th century in the West and Joachim was honored in the East from earlier times. Thursday: Martha, apostle , is the sister of Mary and Lazarus from Bethany near Jerusalem. We know Martha as the sister who devoted her time attending to the social needs of hospitality while he sister, Mary, sat attentively at the feet of Jesus. When Lazarus died, Martha went out to meet Jesus as he approached the family home. There she confessed her belief in Jesus as the Messiah. Friday: Peter Chrysologus, bishop and doctor , a contemporary of Augustine, was archbishop of Ravenna in Italy during a time of strong pagan influence. Many Catholics had lapsed in their faith so Peter set about invigorating the faith through inspirational homilies that earned him the title Chrysologus “of golden words.” Saturday: Ignatius of Loyola, priest and founder of the Jesuits , and author of “The Spiritual Exercises” that help a person develop a deeper relationship with God through Christ. Ignatius was born of nobility and was wounded as a soldier in 1521. During his convalescence he was inspired by the life of Christ and desired to live like the saints. He wrote “The Spiritual Exercises” during a period of mysticism in a cave north of Barcelona. He later studied at the University of Paris and attracted friends who would later profess vows in order to help souls at the disposal of the church. Ignatius became the founder of the Society of Jesus in 1540 and wrote its constitutions before dying in 1556. This Week in Jesuit History • Jul 25, 1581. In the house of the Earl of Leicester in London, an interview occurred between Queen Elizabeth and Edmund Campion. The Queen could scarcely have recognized the worn and broken person before her as the same brilliant scholar who had addressed here at Oxford 15 years before. • Jul 26, 1872. At Rome, the greater part of the Professed House of the Gesu was seized and appropriated by the Piedmontese government. • Jul 27, 1609. Pope Paul V beatifies Ignatius. • Jul 28, 1564. In a consistory held before twenty-four Cardinals, Pope Paul IV announced his intention of entrusting the Roman Seminary to the Society. • Jul 29, 1865. The death in Cincinnati, Ohio of Fr. Peter Arnoudt, a Belgian. He was the author of The Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. • Jul 30, 1556. As he lay near death, Ignatius asked Juan de Polanco to go and obtain for him the blessing of the pope. • Jul 31, 1556. The death in Rome of Ignatius Loyola. Change in Status Each year on July 31st (The Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola), provincials in many parts of the world release the new status of assignments for the coming year. Jesuits leave their former apostolates to accept a new mission. I am happy to report that I am assigned to Eastern Point Retreat House in Gloucester, Massachusetts to be a director of retreats. Pray for me as I work with the people of God to help them become even closer to the Lord. Retreat Please pray for the Jesuits of the New England Province who are on retreat in the week leading up to St. Ignatius day. We will be praying for an increase of mobility and availability for mission as we step closer to merging provinces.

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Prayer: Pieris de Aloysius, S.J.

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Therefore, all the ministries of the border must be saturated with the alcohol of the person who breathes a happy promise of the victory de la Cruz of the evident lack where he is raised in glory; this faith guarantees a sense of humor in a situation of another rough way. The Jesuits without a sense of humor – without the capacity to ***reflx mng itself as much as in the lack and the skinny points of the church – cannot be in the border. This one is the meaning of the hope that accompanies the faith in each life by the love. The Jesuit santa who Ignatius defined as Jesuit mortified [something that as Jesuit of mere rogación [is therefore a completely crucified man of hope and humor. They only describe to be in the border. When he becomes the triple question of the first week, he must have before him crucified Christ of the medieval artist “with the smiling face” (which does that Christ says: I have done it! It is realised), an image still preserved in the Cistercian monastery in Lerins. Another sculpture of the same sort can be considered in the castle of Javier. In this smile of crucified “mind” the nonexisting limit between the third and fourth weeks of the spiritual exercises!

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Poem: of Jubilate Agno, elegant Christopher, 1759-63

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Jul

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It lets to the man and the beast appear before him, and magnifies its together name. It lets Noah and to its company approach the throne of the tolerance and make tribute to the coffer of its present of Salvation.Let Abraham a spur, and adores God of its Redemption.Let Isaac, the fianc2e, genuflexión with its camels, and blesses the hope of its pilgrimage. It leaves Jacob, and speckled his lead adores the good shepherd of the supply of Israel.Let Esau that a goat of scape for its seed… left the Nimrod, the powerful hunter, it ties a leopard to the altar… let to Daniel come ahead with a lion, and God of the praise… let Naphtali with a buttock give glory… left Aaron, the high priest, it sanctifies a Bull… it left Abiathar with a praise that the name of the gentleman… left Moses, the man of the Fox of God blesses, it with a lizard, in the sweet Majesty of the good-nature, and the magnanimity of meekness. It leaves Joshua that God of the praise with unicornio… let David bless with the bear… left the praise of Solomon with the ant… left Tobias blesses charity with its dog… left Ana blesses to God with the cat… left the praise of Benaiah with the ASP… left Barzillai blesses with the snail… left to Joab with the adoration of the horse Mr. God de HostsLet Shemaiah blesses to God with Caterpillar… left to the praise of Iddo the gentleman with polilla – the writings of the man pass away like the clothes, but the book of endureth of God by always. It lets Nebuchadnezzar bless with the grasshopper – the pomp and the vanities of the world are like the grass of the field, but the glory of increaseth of the gentleman by always.

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Espiritualidad: General examination 101

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Whereas the people of the world, that follows the world, love and search with such great honors, fame, and hardly consider of the diligence for a great Earth name, because the world teaches to them, so before that the spiritual life and the Christ truly following our love and intense desire of the gentleman are progressing in all. That is to say, they wish to bundle up with the same clothes and uniforms of his gentleman, due to the love and the reverence that it deserves, to such an extent that where there would not be offense to his divine Majesty and any imputation of the sin to the neighbor, it would wish to suffer injuries, false accusations, and insults, and to be maintained and to be considered like idiots (but without their donor of cualquie occasion for this), due to her desire to resemble themselves and to imitate of certain way to our creator and Mr. Jesus Christ, putting in her clothes and uniforms, since she was for our spiritual benefit that the same clothes as did he it. For him she gave an example us that in all the possible things can be that we look for, through the aid of its tolerance, imitate it and follow, since it is the way that takes to the life.

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Poem: I will not undertake close by Juan Predmore, SJ

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Jul

20

I have undertaken too much often by you, making many things exceeds you, for you. Meanwhile has needed and looked for it for you, but now I know that you are here. You were always. You have always wanted to me. You have tried to obtain to me, but I happened close. I am here and so I am you. I will not go (- perhaps more soon than me I will want.) As I am learning to remain far by its side without the change without the operation. You crush to me although you try nona. They scare to me of whom he can be that he finds within me, but I am in his great calm. You affirm to me she asks and me to remain and I feel the irritation in the extremities of my toes that only do that it wants to reach to you, of me as soon as I am sitting down on a rock in the sun by the beach that it emits that you remain next to my side.

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Prayer: Juan Pablo II

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Jul

20

To each, Christian, believing, and men and women of the will, I say: It is not scared to take an occasion peacefully, to teach to peace. The aspiration for La Paz will not be disappointed by always. It works for La Paz, inspired by the charity that does not disappear, will produce his fruits.

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Poem: The eagle of sea of Juan Predmore, SJ

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Jul

19

The tolerance of the eagle of sea does that it thinks about you. Whereas I watch for above and I see you are close. How desire to slide to me with life in the same way. You are solitary, but its glance goes downwards. In order to cause that my head in cloudsand sees more him nearlyis what I look for. No, I want to fly next to celebration of youand without limits. Falling, turning aside, stretching in the new limits, assembling to others upon those who rise – as soon as the breathing of the air to maintain to us, spending time with the brightness of the day. This one is our moment. Stay in high on those frothy undertows. Flavor the emotion. When day is donejust comes and rest with me in rockswith our shades left in the memory of the sensation of dayand tickly of I wade on ours facesknowing with a contented heart how it is good is.

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Prayer: Madness of Anthony de Mello, S.J.

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Jul

19

In the question of his own explanation the master always continued being been silent, although the disciples tried each means to be able to speak it. All the information that they had in this subject was what the master said once to his son younger than he wanted to know what felt its father when he clarified himself. The answer was: “An idiot.” When the boy asked because, the master had answered, “, son, was well as to go to the great pains to later break in a house raising a scale and breaking a window and realising more ahead than the door of the house she were open.”

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Prayer: Meister Eckhart

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Jul

18

You do not need to look for it here or there, because he is not more future than the door of his heart; there it is placed patiently that he waits to quienquiera is ready abrir left and it inside. No necessity to call by far to him: he can hope hardly abrir to him, he you wish you more thousand times than you of length for him.

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The sixteenth Sunday in ordinary time

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Jul

17

July 18, 2010 Abraham’s example of hospitality to the three strangers sets up our imagination to look at Mary and Martha’s style of welcome to Jesus. We meet Abraham directly after he promises obedience to God’s covenant while he is resting after circumcising himself. Three foreigners pass by Abraham’s camp and he begs them to stop for rest and nourishment. Abraham does not eat with them but waits on them while they eat. For his goodness, Abraham is rewarded by these men with a prophecy that his wife, Sarah, well beyond her child-bearing years, will bear a son within the next year. Abraham is upholding the revered custom in the ancient world to welcome the foreigner for everyone is a pilgrim at one time or another in life. One can never know when an angel of the Lord God may appear. Just as Abraham spends precious time with these three strangers, we find Mary and Martha attending, at varying degrees, to the words of Jesus. We often highlight the differing approaches they take – Martha, the ever-responsible one who makes events move smoothly, and Mary, the one who is enraptured by the words of Jesus and becomes a model for contemplative life. Mary’s way gets the nod from Jesus, but it does not resolve the tension as both ways are necessary for hospitality. We must prepare for our guests and when they arrive, it is time to relax with them. Martha feels too responsible to relax because Mary shirks her duties leaving too great of a burden on her. Maybe we do not understand fully the message Luke intends, but common sense will tell us that both ways have to be integrated if we are to be truly hospitable. However, Abraham shows us that it is key to offer the choicest welcome we can to foreigners. We just do not know the unexpected surprises that await us – for when we give generously, we also seem to get back much more than we ever gave. It is quite a paradox. How well do we receive people into our lives? We wouldn’t dare invite foreigners to our homes mostly because of security concerns, especially in a litigious society. Regretfully, we don’t even want them in our country. Our schedules are often horrific as they are so cluttered with many details that we often don’t get the chance to relax. If we can’t take care of ourselves, we will not be able to tend to the needs of others. Reflect upon the last time you have invited someone over to your house. We scarcely invite our friends over anymore. Many people would rather meet out at a coffee house or a restaurant because it is more convenient, safer, and we can control the amount of time we allot for the gathering, and then we have to debate over who is going to pay this time. But on those times in which we do invite someone over for a leisurely conversation, it is good if we learn a lesson from Abraham, Martha, and Mary. They did all they could to make the person feel honored. They listened well to their guests and were thereby enriched. It is only when we slow down within ourselves that we are truly able to receive the other person and we exponentially receive much more than we could ever give. Life is too short to fill up with so many activities. Learn to receive another with grace. You will be more than satisfied. Quote for the Week From Abraham Lincoln: During the darkest days of the Civil War, the hopes of the Union nearly died. When certain goals seemed unreachable, the leaders of the Union turned to President Abraham Lincoln for solace, guidance and hope. Once, when a delegation called at the White House and detailed a long list of crisis facing our nation, Lincoln told this story: Years ago, a young friend and I were out one night when a shower of meteors fell from the clear November sky. The young man was frightened, but I told him to look up in the sky past the shooting stars to the “fixed” stars beyond, shining serene in the firmament, and I said, “let us not mind the meteors, but let us keep our eyes on the stars. Themes for this Week’s Masses First Reading : Micah dialogues with the Lord God to find out what is required to gain good favor of God. The answer is: Do the right, love goodness, and walk humbly with God. He appeals to God to shepherd the people because there is no other God as good and caring. Jeremiah is called from his priestly family to be a prophet. This was his calling from the womb. He is called to help rebellious Israel return to its covenantal fidelity. When the people return, all will be restored and their memories will be only of the good actions of God and the people. To reform their ways, they must turn away from Ba’al, keep the commandments, care for the orphans and the poor, and welcome the foreigner. Gospel : The scribes and Pharisees ask for a sign of the origin of the power of Jesus and he calls to mind the story of the people of Jonah who repented merely at his words. Jesus then establishes the family of the kingdom by declaring blood lines no longer matter; those who do the will of God belong to this new family. He tells the parable of the sower and urges the people to take heart to what he is saying about accepting his teaching. He further urges patience because sometimes the good seed is planting among weeds and we must take care that we do not extinguish the harvest of that good seed. Saints of the Week Tuesday: Apollinaris, bishop and martyr , was the first bishop of Ravenna appointed by Peter during the reign of Claudius and Vespasian. He was repeatedly exiled and tortured, but he continued to preach the Gospel during his difficult times. Wednesday: Lawrence di Brindisi, priest and Doctor , was a scholarly Capuchin priest in Verona, Italy whose ministry spanned the year 1575 to 1619. As a scripture scholar he served as a diplomat and missionary and was commissioned by the Pope to convert Jews to Christianity and to combat the spread of Protestantism. Thursday: Mary Magdalene, apostle , is called the “Apostle to the Apostles” because she was the first witness to the Resurrection. She was moved to anoint the dead body of Jesus by bringing ointment to the tomb on Easter morning. Scriptural references portray her as being a faithful disciple to Jesus and as a woman who was cured fully (with perfection) of seven demons. Friday: Bridget of Sweden, religious , founded the Bridgettine Order for men and women in 1370, though today only the women’s portion has survived. She desired to live in a lifestyle defined by prayer and penance. Her husband of 28 years died after producing eight children with Bridget. She then moved to Rome to begin the new order. Saturday: Sharbel Makluf, priest , joined a monastery in the Maronite tradition and lived as a hermit for 23 years after living fifteen years in the community. He became known for his wisdom and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. This Week in Jesuit History • Jul 18, 1973. The death of Fr. Eugene P Murphy. Under his direction the Sacred Heart Hour, which was introduced by Saint Louis University in 1939 on its radio station [WEW], became a nationwide favorite. • Jul 19, 1767. At Naples, Prime Minister Tannic, deprived the Jesuits of the spiritual care of the prisoners, a ministry that they had nobly discharged for 158 years. • Jul 20, 1944. An abortive plot against Adolf Hitler by Claus von Stauffenberg and his allies resulted in the arrest of Fr. Alfred Delp. • Jul 21, 1773. In the Quirinal Palace, Rome, the Brief for the suppression of the Society was signed by Clement XIV. • Jul 22, 1679. The martyrdom at Cardiff, Wales, of St Phillip Evans. • Jul 23, 1553. At Palermo, the parish priests expressed to Fr. Paul Achilles, rector of the college, indignation that more than 400 persons had received Holy Communion in the Society’s church, rather than in their parish churches. • Jul 24, 1805. In Maryland, Fr. Robert Molyneux was appointed the first superior by Father General Gruber. Mary Magdalene Each year as I approach the Memorial of Mary Magdalene, I wonder how she will be treated by preachers and the church. The fact is we know so little about her, but we conflate various stories of “Marys” into the tale of Mary Magdalene and we fill our mind with a distorted view. I do wish we knew more, but sometimes knowing less can help our prayers. Some attempts have been made to rehabilitate her reputation. The best we can do is to get in touch with our scriptural tradition and learn from our tradition. It will help us gain better perspective into our church and our saints and we will feel much more secure in the mystery that is our church.

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Prayer: Catherine de Siena

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Jul

16

Thanks, thanks are to you, eternal father! I am imperfect and full of the dark, but you, the perfection and the light, have demonstrated perfectly and to the way of your son. He was dead and brought you me to the life.

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Poem: After the museum of Juan Predmore, S.J.

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Jul

15

I twist my shoes of my swollen feet contusionados I send and them of the tension of the day. Beating and toes that indicate upwards, red, jadeando for its fresh freedom. Soldiered valiantly and bores much weight for them had to take to house. Now they recline, risen for above, cooked to the steam to the hot steam. “We are tired,” they we shouted proud. “We have worked well. Styrenes. Desátenos. It leaves the air to be our ointment. We must get ready for another morning.”

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Prayer: They give Harrington, S.J.

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Jul

15

Encounter to God to a large extent in and through the bible. Most of my academic, spiritual life, and pastoral turns around the bible. It is for me the way most important to come to know, to love, and the love of the God.My service for the bible returns a long way. Tardamudeo. I always have, and I conjecture that always. Then a boy young I read I enter the newspaper that Moses tardamudeó. It watched it for above in the bible, and sure in 4:10 of the Moses exodus says enough to God: “Like slow of speech and I slow down to me of the tongue-piece.” But I found much more in the exoduses 3-4. It is the history of the one same-revelation of God to Moses in the Horeb assembly. It speaks of the ardent shrub, the suffering of God Israel people is Egypt, the revelation of the special name divine (“I am who I am”), of the promise of God of the liberation of the slavery, the miraculous energies of Moses, and of the call of God to Moses to speak in God name. I read that history repeatedly, and worked gradually on me so that it has formed my religious sense to this day. Like boy of ten or eleven years of age that I found to God in the bible, and me they have continued doing so since. God of the bible is God of the Jesus Christ. Experiment to its God in and with the bible and my life. It is my privilege like priest of the Jesuit to study and to teach to writing, to proclaim and to preach the God word, and to celebrate the liturgies of the church (which lie down to a large extent in the language of the bible). In means of these wonderful activities (that are my greater joy), tardamudeo from time to time. And this brings to me again to where my spiritual trip with the bible began. Although I am slow of speech and of the tongue-piece like Moses, still I hear the words of the 4:11 of exodus – 12: “Who to deliver speech to mortals? Who does dumb or the deaf one, to see or blinds? Am not I, the gentleman? Now it goes, and I will be its mouth and I will teach to him to which you must speak.”

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Poem: as of “May I have this dance” by Joyce Rupp

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Jul

14

Small wood flute and I, we needed the person who breathes….In order to feed worldMay song-hungry with gold melodies.

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