Espiritualidad: The name santo of Jesus de Juan de Polanco, S.J.

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Sep

30

The name is the company of Jesus. It generates main Ignatius had so many visitations and samples of the approval and confirmation of this name, that I heard that he to say would feel it to act against the will of God and offending of him if it were to the doubt of his aptitude. They impelled when to change it, because something said we took to Jesus for we ourself, and others gave other reasons, memory that he who says that even if all the members of the society (or any person they do not force to us under sin to follow) judged of another way, he would not give inside in this; and since it is in the constitutions that nothing can be done if as soon as one is against, this name would not be changed during its course of the life. Main Ignatius father has east inflexible securing in the matters that he knows through superior of the means that to be human. Then, nothing will do that he moves.

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Espiritualidad: Desire for God by Sebastian Moore

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Sep

29

… whereas the desire that is simply a necessity of the felt stops once satisfies the necessity, vital desire increases with the satisfaction. C.S. Lewis says than he calls sweet desire, that a thing one wishes once desire has gone is to have it again, to hurt again with him. This increase of desire with the fulfillment is only intelligible once we understand desire like enterprising relation. One can always be more enterprising, connected, that means more eager.

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Prayer: of dying and living by Paul S. Minear

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Sep

28

Few pictures are older, more archetype, than the picture of the pilgrim. The no best one expresses restlessnesss internal and external uncertainty, the sense of the continuous movement and the pain the fatigue. A pilgrim is incomplete without its knapsack in which it fills up what is most precious, most essential. In comparison with all possessions, the morral is a pathetic misery; but without him a person would be desperate in fact. Every day, the pilgrim must ask again: which I can take ahead? what I must take? So whenever we think about we ourself like pilgrims, we began by instinct to choose and to reject, even though and to measure, which is to go with us.

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Prayer: Peter Faber, S.J.

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Sep

27

Coverall looks for the aid of the Spirit Santo, a aid that occurs easily for that serious they request for him. When hearing confessions are smooth and calm. It never permítase that it speaks shrewdly or that demonstrates repugnance, does not matter how penitent is coarse. We take the care not to bore ourselves with this task sublimates and sagrada, who represent Christ who clears the sins of the world. We take the care that ninguÌ sinful  n that comes to the confession (that source as much of good), that it kneels down before we which they will try themselves, begged and judged, the faces a test lasts when he approaches, the vicars of the calm Christ. He lets keep to us from the action of the arrogant disdainful Pharisee, or to the angry impatient judge. In fine we make our maximum one to make sure that freely each penitent that leaves the confesonario will return there.

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Prayer: Irenaeus de Lyons

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Sep

26

The God glory is completely alive a human being; and the life of the human being consists of beholding to God.

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The twenty sixth Sunday in ordinary time

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Sep

24

September 26, 2010 I vividly recall reading this passage of the rich man and Lazarus to a hospitable patient who was battling AIDS. She screamed in horror as I read the passage about dogs coming to lick the sores of Lazarus. I recoiled as I thought I had done something wrong, but the poor woman identified so much with Lazarus because no one would touch her anymore. Only her dog would come and lick her wounds. She felt so isolated and the only response that arose from within me was to reach out to her and hold her hands. She wept because the nurses treated her officiously and I was the first one to have human contact with her out of sheer compassion. We sat together for a while until she was ready to offer her prayers to God. She prayed such a melodic lament until she could begin to praise God for the glimpse of compassion that she craved and received. She felt dignity once again because she was treated as a friend in the Lord. As the biblical tale goes, Lazarus was carried off to heaven; the rich man who stepped over him goes to a place of torment in the afterlife. To seek relief, the rich man petitions that Lazarus refresh him with cool water, but because a great gulf was created to keep the two separate, the rich man’s suffering went unheeded. Knowing that his suffering cannot come to an end, he tries to petition that his brothers and those who are living on earth be spared them from torment, but he is told that the living harden their hearts to the word of God and to the prophets. They are so stubborn that they will not listen even if someone should be raised from the dead. The message is that the chasm cannot be bridged in the afterlife, but it is completely possible to do so in this earthly life. We have enough data from our scriptures, the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, and from our tradition to save ourselves from prospective torment. We have all the resources we need, but we need to listen to our teachers and respond to one another with compassion. We need repeatedly to care for one another, the most destitute and those who are not faring so well, and walk humbly in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. We know that many who are rich do a lot of good with their money and abilities for the common good. The message of the Gospel is directed to anyone who keep those who are in need at such a safe distance that we do not even learn their names. We cannot look at others as abstractions or make up our own stories that we project onto others. The rich man in this story repeatedly refused to reach out to a very needy person and he was not able to be enriched by the story of Lazarus. We know that as individuals we cannot take care of every needy person and that a person has to try to pull himself or herself up out of their condition in life. We cannot solve other’s problems for them. We have limitations. We also have great capabilities and we use them best when we learn to open ourselves to receive and to share. Minimally, we can reach out to others and touch their lives through a simple gesture. The simplest one is to merely give each other the dignity of learning their names. As we reread the biblical tale, the rich man who suffers eternal torment is nameless. We will never honor his earthly identity in our memory. Lazarus is granted dignity because he is given a name to be remembered throughout the ages. Let’s bridge the chasm this week by learning the names of those we pass by daily. Quote for the Week From Paul’s Letter to the people of Philippi We give thanks to our God each time we remember you, happy at all times in the prayers we offer for all of you. Of this we are certain, that He who began the good work in you will bring it to completion. You are close to our hearts and we know that you share our happiness… And this is our prayer for you: May your love ever grow richer and richer. Themes for this Week’s Masses ? First Reading : In the Book of Job, Satan comes with the other angels of God to ask the Lord if he can tempt Job to see if he can remain a righteous, God-reverencing man. God agrees to Satan’s request as long as Job is not harmed. All his possessions, livelihood, and family members are taken away. Job curses the day he was born and wishes he were dead. Job begins to question the all-powerful, all-loving God for letting him, an innocent man, suffer needlessly. After Job lengthily petitions his case to God, the Lord answers him by questioning the wisdom of God. ? Gospel: James and John, friends of Jesus, erupt a dispute about which one of them was the greatest. Jesus shows them a child and tells them that the least among us is the greatest. Jesus sets his face determinately toward Jerusalem. James and John get upset with the villagers who refuse to offer him hospitality, but Jesus tells them that they will move to another village. Emphasizing hospitality, Jesus sends out the eager 72 disciples with instructions to announce the good news of the kingdom. Woe to those who fail to offer hospitality for destruction will surely come to them. Jesus shows hospitality to the little children who are considered among the least. Saints of the Week Monday: Andrew Vincent de Paul, priest , founded the Congregation of Missions to preach and to train clergy in the 1600’s in France. He is known for his works of charity to the poor, mostly by providing food and clothing for those in need. He co-founded the Daughters of Charity with Louise de Marillac. Tuesday: Wenceslaus, martyr , was brought to the faith by his grandmother against the wishes of his mother and brother. Their opposition continued even when he had become rule. His brother invited him to a religious festival to kill him when he lost his right to become the heir because of Wenceslaus’ son was born. Lawrence Ruiz and companions , were martyred in the mid-Seventeenth Century in Nagasaki, Japan. They were associated with the Dominicans and were sent on missionary expeditions to Asia Pacific. Wednesday: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels , are celebrated in both the Jewish and Christian traditions for their roles in proclaiming salvation history. Michael is the angel-guardian against evil and the leader of the heavenly host; Gabriel announces the coming of the Messiah and the births of Jesus and John the Baptist; Raphael heals Tobiah on his journey and touches his tongue so that he proclaims the word of God. Thursday: Jerome, priest and doctor , learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew and became the Papal secretary for Damasus. He translated the Bible into the common Latin language. He studied scripture with Gregory Nazianzen after his ordination in 377. Friday: Therese of the Child Jesus, doctor , is known best for her autobiography, “The Story of a Soul.” She sought to become a holy woman through her “little way” in the details of ordinary life. She is known as the “Little Flower” because of her way of perfection. She entered the Carmelites at age 15 and she died at age 24. Saturday: The Guardian Angels concludes the triduum that honors the angels. This feast honors all the angels that serve as individual guardians for people on earth who are struggle to find God in the midst of the forces of evil. The word angel means messenger and guardian angels are recognized for their work of consoling and strengthening the faithful. This Week in Jesuit History • Sep 26, 1605. At Rome, Pope Paul V orally declared St Aloysius to be one of the “Blessed.” The official brief appeared on October 19. ?• Sep 27, 1540. Pope Paul III signed the Bull, Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae, which established the Society of Jesus. •?Sep 28, 1572. Fifteen Jesuits arrived in Mexico to establish the Mexican Province. They soon opened ?a college. • Sep 29, 1558. In the Gesu, Rome, and elsewhere, the Jesuits began to keep Choir, in obedience to an order from Paul IV. This practice lasted less than a year, until the pope’s death in August, 1559. • Sep 30, 1911. President William Howard Taft visited Saint Louis University and declared the football season open. • Oct 1, 1546. Isabel Roser was released from her Jesuit vows by St Ignatius after eight months. • Oct 2, 1964. Fr. General Janssens suffered a stroke and died three days later. During his generalate, the Society grew from 53 to 85 provinces, and from 28,839 to 35,968 members. Anniversary of the Founding of the Society of Jesus On September 27 in 1540 (470 years ago today), St. Ignatius and his first 9 companions received from Pope Paul III the Papal Bull that brought the Jesuit Order into existence. The first companions pledged to serve the church under the Vicar of Christ as a religious institute with Ignatius as the Father General. The founding fathers expressed their desire to help souls accept the invitation of eternal salvation that was offered to them through Christ.

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Espiritualidad: Mysticism in a history of Sufi

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Sep

24

An aphorism of Sufi expresses the mystery to discover to God as mutual partner as we matured ourselves with life. By thirty years I looked for God. But when it watched carefully, I saw that one in God of the reality was the finder and was looked for. Of human lovers: A Majnun day, whose love for Laila inspired much to a Persian poet, played in a small pile of the sand, when a friend came to him and said: “Because you are that wastes their time in a so infantile occupation” “I am looking for Laila in these sand,” answered Majnun. His friend in the astonishment shouted: “Why? Laila is an angel, so which is the use to look for it in the common Earth” I look for “,” said It throughout to Majnun, being nauseated its head, “that I can find it somewhere.” Of the spiritual direction of Janet Ruffing

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Prayer: French Jane of Chantal

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Sep

23

It is a great consolation to give themselves entirely to God and to know that it sees and penetrates to the same secret of our hearts.

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Espiritualidad: Donor of voice to our desires

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Sep

22

If we received the value of expressing our desires, the dialogue with Jesus or God can influence, correct, or illumine desire understood badly. The rogación of a way like we allow ourselves that we affect abre us to God in the influence, the discovery, and the change. We keep in the expression of our true desires until they are satisfied, until they change, or until they convince God is responding to us.

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Poem: in of the union of a Virgin, Dylan Thomas, 1946

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Sep

21

Only walking in a multiplicity of loves when the morning lightSurprised in the opening of his of gold of eyesHis nightlong slept over the sun irisAnd of the east day yesterday jumped the O.N.U the sky of its miraculous virginity of thighsWas old like breads and fish, although the moment of a miracle lightningAnd is interminable the shipyards of the skin of the tracks of Galilee a navy military of doves.

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Sermon: Monday of the twenty fifth week in the ordinary time (Korean martyrs) [during reprocessing

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Sep

20

Today, Jesus lifts up the crowds and asks them to become virtues of light whose goodness can be seen by others. God’s light is to shine through the actions, attitudes, and dispositions of believers so that one’s life-altering experience of God’s goodness can be made visible. And yet, with such an uplifting message, I have always found myself hesitating with a small amount of trepidation when I have prayed over this passage. I reasoned that I must essentially be different than most people because this passage fails to inspire me. I knew the reason. I was vulnerable. I knew that when light shines on a place of darkness, the hidden areas of chaos are exposed and can be seen by many critics. I thought that exposure to the light would make me look less virtuous and less honorable. I did not want that which was hidden to be exposed, and as a priest friend of mine often says, “we are only as sick as our secrets.” Sometimes it is much easier for us to stay away from the full exposure of the light so we can deal with our dark areas according to our own volition. We do it at our own pace and under our own control. It is much more comforting to hold these areas close to our will so that we can neatly manage them before others. We realize that we each have areas of paralyzing fear and toxic shame in our lives that decide many of our actions. Most of the time, this toxic shame is passed onto us by unknowing parents who were born into a cycle of shame. And through life, we develop further dependencies and addictions and patterns of thinking and behaving that are in direct opposition to God’s plan for us. It takes either a very rare strong person to break through the formative elements of his or her life to become a healthier individual or it takes the exceeding grace of a merciful God to free us. Only a deeper affection, that is, the mercy of God can free us. At some point in our lives, we humbly recognize that we need a Savior – because we cannot do it on our own. When I last made my 30-day retreat, I was invited to assist in the daily chores of the farm. The retreat house was located in the semi-arid wine-growing regions of South Australia that was in the height of their vintage season. The sweet fragrance of ripe prize-winning grapes would draw me into a leisurely stroll through the vineyards. Each evening after supper I would walk back to my cottage and would notice the kangaroos frolicking in the rows the separated the vines. The orchard and garden next to my house was filled with choice fruits and abundant vegetables. Each night I would put the chickens and ducks in their pens to keep the foxes away from them, and the cows had a mighty bull to protect them. My daily chore was not as idyllic though. I was asked to pick up the broken branches of trees that fell to the ground and to place them in a pile that was far away from the edge of the property where it could be gathered into a massive woodpile and later burned. No worries mate I said as I like to do outside yard work, even though I knew I would have to skillfully navigate the minefields of cow dung. It looked easy, but as I reached down to pick up the first branch, I recoiled in pain as my finger was stung. I looked to see if it was from one of the many deadly brown snakes or from the venomous red back spider. It was merely the tiny thorns on the branch itself. The next day I bought a pair of gloves and resumed my task. These branches gashed me open often. They tore into my shirts and cut holes into my pants. I washed blood off of my arms, legs and neck each day and had looked like lost a fist fight as I entered into the dining room each night. These branches stung me where I did not expect. I continued with the project because I was beginning to realize that each of these branches were the memories of shame, fear, pain, and anger that are part of my formative history. It was a hurtful task to extricate each branch from the tangled pile of branches where it once lay. They did not want to budge and they clung to the other branches of turmoil. It was a dark mess of thorns. It would take great effort to pry them apart and to look at them in the light of day – as I was beginning to look at each memory – one by one – through my enlightening conversations with Christ. On its own, the branch was not too heavy. Apart from the tangled mess, it was not as formidable. Sure it could still draw blood, but it was not as fierce. When I pulled it apart and examined it with Christ, the sting of the memories lessened. The pain no longer held as much power and together we could toss out the stick of memories that kept me powerless and diminished. Through Christ, these memories could begin to be healed. Though it was not what you would call fun, I looked forward to being with Christ each day to ask for his insight into these difficult memories. He was there simply to reveal to me that he was in those memories where I experienced hurt and he let me know of his compassion towards me when my boundaries had been transgressed by others. His presence to me and his willingness to let me know his feelings made all the difference in helping me reconstruct the memories in a new, liberating manner. They no longer debilitate or paralyze or are memories that I want to bury, and the pain has subsided. My confidence could grow, my ability to harmfully judge myself lessened, and I could see the new strength that these memories provided me. And as I scanned the fields where the branches once lay, sure enough sunlight now reached the ground and there were new desirable growth. My prayer throughout this time, was “Take, Lord, Receive, all my liberty, my memory…” and I would not complete the prayer because I realized I needed to give those memories to the Lord so that one day he would returned them to me revived. This Gospel passage no longer instills hesitancy within me. When I pray it, I recall the memories of my inner work with the Lord. He is able to shine light upon areas that I wanted no one else to look at – because I could not look at them, but we worked through my fears and I was able to receive the light that only Christ could shine on them. My prayer is that each of us can look at their sources of toxic shame, their fears, those areas where others have sinned against them, those tangled, distorted memories that keep us debilitated. When we give them over to him, we truly do become children of the light because his power brings about an everlasting liberation. Bring your soul to the Lord and let him see what is there – the joy and the great extent of your charity, the deep hurt and disappointment. Bring whatever feeling and desire you have and place it before his sight. His mercy will be there to greet you. There’s no turning back. With healed and forgiven souls, we merely follow the one who can save us.

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Prayer: Enrique de Lubac

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Sep

20

The raised Christ, when he demonstrate themselves to his friendly, the takings in the face of all the races and each can hear it in his own tongue-piece.

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The twenty fifth Sunday in ordinary time

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Sep

18

September 19, 2010 I like this parable of the clever but unjust steward as an illustration of the manner in which they are to be inventive about their quest for salvation. It strikes me that Jesus is really living in the world and is not giving his disciples a pious, otherworldly answer to their problems. Their problems are of this world and they are therefore to use the secular resources of this world for solutions. One’s faith life ought not to be much different from one’s secular life. Don’t we just live one integrated life? Of course, Jesus would prefer that the rich man’s steward not be unjust at all in the management of his boss’s affairs, but he applauds the way that he is able to bring some good out of a confronting dilemma. He realizes the probable diminishment of his status and knows that he is not able to survive well in a reduced position. His existence is on the line. He could have walked away or faced harsh consequences, but he decides to make sweet lemonade out of sour lemons. Jesus admires his ingenuity and resourcefulness. The reading from Amos shows us the struggles that the prophet had in convincing God to be patient with the unruly Israelites because they were intent on cheating, cutting corners, and being unjust stewards. Amos has been speaking up in defense of the poor, but he has recently been charged not to speak anymore though he knows the Word of God is inside him and he cannot restrain himself from speaking. The Lord God says he will remember the social injustices done to others and Amos just cannot remain silent. Good for him! Those who are in authority are blatantly reckless in their responsibility to do the right thing. In Paul’s letter to Timothy, the church is asked to pray for those in authority so that they can be sources of wisdom and right actions. One’s accountability for one’s morally conscientious actions will lead to a life where others find no fault in him or her. Life is then enjoyed and one can delight in the blessings of good relationships. It seems that all these readings somehow touch on the reliably prudent use of authority in matters of governance. Managing well is challenging work and those in authority are subject to strict scrutiny if their intentions are not seen to be noble or for the care of the common good. The question that is posed to us is ‘what do we do if we see someone act unjustly?’ We realize we have a lot at stake and can suffer deleterious consequences if we speak up or act, but what type of world are we building if we refuse to give voice to serious injustice? Too often fear is used to intimidate, bully, silence or threaten those who are inclined to speak up – even from some of our religious leaders. What are we to do? Fight back? Withhold money? Be silenced? Or walk away? That is the question Jesus poses. He applauds the unjust steward for acting cleverly and for diligently seeking for solutions that work well in the secular world. How much more will Jesus affirm your good actions – the actions of good and caring people – if we learn to harness our own authority to seek to do what is right and good. Imagine the possibilities. Wouldn’t it be an exciting adventure upon which to embark? Use your intelligence and your power to bring about the world we desire to create together with our Lord. Quote for the Week From Irenaeus of Lyons The glory of God is the human being fully alive and the human being fully alive is the person in Christ. Themes for this Week’s Masses First Reading : Proverbs instructs a young person setting out in life to do good to others at all times as the curse of the Lord is on the wicked. The young person ought to respect the Lord and his truthful words. The preacher Ecclesiastes, also included as Wisdom literature, reminds the person that all things in life are passing so we ought to treat each created thing with due relevance. The cyclical nature of the world will take care of itself; we are to remind ourselves that we cannot change the cycle of life and death. Remember your Creator and let your heart be glad as you follow the ways of your heart. Gospel : Jesus lifts up the crowd by telling them that they are life a light that cannot be concealed. After honoring Matthew, we return to Jesus who calls the Twelve together and gives them authority over demons, the ability to heal, and to preach the kingdom of God. When Herod the tetrarch hears about the event around Jesus, he is mystified at the possible identity of Jesus. Jesus call out from his disciples their belief about his identity as he asks, “Who do you say I am?” He then prophesies about his Passion. The disciples fail to comprehend the fate of Jesus. Saints of the Week Monday: Andrew Kim Taegon, priest, Paul Chong Hasang, and companions were martyrs in Korea in the 19th century. Christianity took hold in the country during the 1600’s through French missionaries. Persecutions began in the mid-19th century when over 10,000 people were killed. Andrew Kim was the first Korean-born priest; Paul Chong was a Korean layman, over 100 priests, clergy, and lay people were killed in the violence. Tuesday: Matthew, the Evangelist , is celebrated for his role in writing down the accounts of the life of Jesus, which he took mostly from Mark’s account. Many people conflate the life of the evangelist with the disciple Matthew, but it is unlikely that the two are the same people. Matthew addressed his words to Jewish-Christians that were familiar with the Old Testament and he asks them to accept the Gentile Christians into the mission. For Matthew, Jesus is the fulfillment of Judaism as well as one who initiates a new way of relating to God. Thursday: Pio of Pietrelcina, priest , is known to most as Padre Pio, a Capuchin Friar who received the stigmata just as Francis of Assisi did. He began prayer groups in 1920 that continue to meet today totaling over 400,000 people. He helped people by hearing confessions, providing spiritual advice, and was a prayer intercessor for many. This Week in Jesuit History • Sep 19, 1715. At Quebec, the death of Fr. Louis Andre, who for 45 years labored in the missions of Canada amid incredible hardships, often living on acorns, a kind of moss, and the rind of fruits. • Sep 20, 1990. The first-ever Congregation of Provincials met at Loyola, Spain, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the approval of the Society and 500th anniversary of the birth of St Ignatius. • Sep 21, 1557. At Salamanca, Melchior Cano wrote to Charles V’s confessor, accusing the Jesuits of being heretics in disguise. • Sep 22, 1774. The death of Pope Clement XIV, worn out with suffering and grief because of the suppression of the Society. False stories had been circulated that he was poisoned by the Jesuits. • Sep 23, 1869. Woodstock College of the Sacred Heart opened. With 17 priests, 44 scholastics, and 16 brothers it was the largest Jesuit community in the United States at the time. • Sep 24, 1566. The first Jesuits entered the continental United States at Florida. Pedro Martinez and others, while attempting to land, were driven back by the natives, and forced to make for the island of Tatacuran. He was killed there three weeks later. • Sep 25, 1617. The death of Francisco Suarez. He wrote 24 volumes on philosophy and theology. As a novice he was found to be very dull, but one of his directors suggested that he ask our Lady’s help. He subsequently became a person of prodigious talent. Papal Visit to Britain Blessings to the people of Britain and to Pope Benedict XVI during the Papal visit. May he pastorally restore the confidence of the people and assist them to joyfully live their faith during a time of complex social and moral realities. As church, may the people and the religious leaders learn from each other about the ways to build a church responsive to their lived experiences of faith. We have so much to gain!

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Prayer: Teresa de Avila – discovery of Jesus like more the truth possible friend

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Sep

17

Or, my gentleman, how you are my true friend… Oh, that will shout for you, to say to each how you are faithful you are to its friendly! All the fall of the things; you, gentleman of all, never fail. Or my God, who have the understanding, the learning and the new words with which extol his works whereas to my it understands it soul? All he fails to me… but you do not leave to me, I will not fail to him.

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Poem: God like love of Hadewijch

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Sep

16

And if any then person dares to fight love with the yearning, entirely without heart and mind, and love contradicts east yearning with its yearning: That one is the force by which we conquered love.

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Sermon: Glorification de la Cruz santa (extreme of the reprocessing of eight days)

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Sep

15

So much of our faith is paradoxical. We have now been together for a week and for two reasons, this is the point in which the retreat really begins. Reason 1 – we are made for the world and we are returning to it so that what God did with us here can gracefully unfold; we are to engage in it as fully as we can. Reason 2 – the Cross of Jesus is where our life begins, even though we too often hesitate to go to it. We need our places of refuge, like Eastern Point, but we are to go back to the home or community to which Christ calls us. If Gloucester is merely a place of escape, we risk losing the meaning of its ministry. This place can be our sanctuary that gives us courage to persevere. Life is not easy; life is not fair and we will find many evils with terrifyingly destructive qualities to life, but we are to search for that which helps us find life and hold onto it. Life very naturally has a way of helping us build walls around us, especially in those areas where we feel anger, disappointment, hurt, and shame. These are areas where we need healing. When we are here, we discern the forces for good and evil in our life which helps us to be conscious of the walls we are building up or taking down. Many times we are not even aware that we build a fortress around ourselves, and we lose control of just how high it can grow. Many times we do not even comprehend the amount of baggage we carry – or hide – or deceive ourselves about. This is why we need a community of faith – friends in the Lord and we need the Cross. Through each other’s caring concern, we learn to open our hearts and attitudes to ourselves, our friends and loved ones, and most importantly to Jesus Christ. Christ is the only one who can feel our deepest hurts and joys. He is the one who gives much needed courage in our special sanctuary because we were made for the world, not for isolation. Christ helps us step forth into this journey of life and tear down the walls that we create before they get too high and too foreboding. It takes great courage to hammer that which has protected us and served us well – knowing we have created it through our own free responses to life. We have to take down the walls the debilitate us and keep us from being the most authentic person we can be. This is why we are here; this is the reason we go to the Cross of Jesus. We cannot escape the cross, though we try. A week ago we came here with so many prayers; what has happened to them? Did Christ give us enough courage to bring our concerns to him and place them at the foot of his Cross? As we listened to each other’s hopes during our first gathering, we heard about so much heaviness, much turmoil, the tip of the iceberg of chaos that we keep buried deep inside ourselves. No doubt, our crosses are heavy, and the cross of Jesus is frightening at times. When we were young, we would look at the crucifixion of Jesus as a horrible, brutal injustice done to him – an innocent man. It was so reprehensibly violent. In our middle years, we see the Cross as curiously necessary for life and a remarkable act of mysterious mercy on the part of God and Jesus. As we mature, we know that we need the Cross. We need, and desire, maybe sometimes even demand, that Jesus die for us so that he can make sense of all the chaos in our lives. We each need Jesus to die for us – personally, unmistakably – so that we may participate more fully in his life – so our life can have the fullness of meaning that we seek. Isn’t it paradoxical how this instrument of the vile torture is that which saves us – that which we embrace and cherish? We need this cross; we come to want this cross and we learn that we cannot have life without it. We are compelled to go to it – to place our chaos on his shoulders or let him take it from us. Wow! Jesus did this for us because of his great yearning to be with us. Jesus is doing it for us each day and he promises to do it so we can know just how much he wants to be alive in our hearts. Somehow, over time, we personally exalt the Cross. It becomes a great symbol of God’s steadfastness to us and Gods’ love for us – so much so that he sent his only Son into our chaos because he wants to be with us – in our joy and hope, in our grief and despair. And because of it he lives, he lives on in our hearts in a way in which there are no walls any longer. He not only claims victory over sin and death, he frees us from all those things that shackle us and keep us bollixed up. He is our liberator. With the risen Jesus who once hung on that Cross, we no longer feel any limits; or see any boundaries. We possess his fire in our hearts that make us love the world, the world in which we soon return, the way that God loves the world. What a gift. As we approach the table of the Lord, let’s remember the words we hear from Fr. Murray at the start of the retreat. Be gentle with yourselves. Be gentle. Let God be good to you as you re-enter the world beyond Eastern Point. Watch in amazement how your retreat lives on and continues to unfold upon your return. Cherish these memories. And go often to the Cross of Jesus, sit at its foot, and watch how it exalts you as it once exalted him.

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Prayer: Pope Gregorio I, the great one

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Sep

14

Desires of God that will be requested. Desires of God that will be forced. God wishes, of certain way, being surpassed by our prayer.

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Prayer: Anthony de Mello, S.J. – images of the love

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Sep

13

It is possible for rose to say, “I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell to me, I will retain but it of the bad one” Or it is possible that the lamp says, “I will give my light to good people in this site, I will retain but it of evil people”? Or can a tree says, “I wanted give my curtain to the good people who recline underneath me, I will retain but it of the bad one”? These are images of what love is around.

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Espiritualidad: Karl Rahner: The presence amazingly of faith, hope and love without the justification

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Sep

12

Karl Rahner writes amazingly of the love and hope, faith presence, occasionally when there are no evident justifications for her. He demands that hers is an action of the alcohol within us that brings raises hope beyond the individual hopes and of a basic and fundamental faith that they cannot be shaken. It gives the following examples: 1. Where a responsibility in the freedom still is accepted and it takes where it has evident nonsupply of the success or the advantage; 2. Where a person undergoes and accepts her last freedom that no earthly obligations can clear of him; 3. Where the lead in the dark of the death is accepted as the principle of eternal promises; 4. Where the sum of all the accounts of the life, that nobody can only calculate, is understood by one another inconceivable one like good, although still it cannot “be tried”; 5. Where she is experienced and accepted the fragmentary experience of the love, the beauty, and the joy purely and simply like the promise of the love, the beauty, and the joy, without the understanding in last cynical skepticism as it forms sale of consolation for a certain final deceit; 6. Where a woman dares to request in the quiet dark and knows they hear that it, although no answer seems to become on which she can be that she discusses and she rationalizes; 7. Where the men and the women try their own deaths while still alive daily; and attempt to live on a way like him would want that it died, compound Pacific and — there is tolerance of liberation of God and God. Rahner, the practice of the faith

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The twenty fourth Sunday in ordinary time

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Sep

11

September 12, 2010 Each of the readings today illustrate that one of God’s biggest desires is that sinners be saved from their own actions. In Exodus, Moses intercedes like a priest on behalf of the wayward people who are worshipping a golden calf instead of the one true God. Moses implores God to remember the covenant he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In 1 Timothy, Paul makes it abundantly clear that the reason Christ Jesus came into the world was to save sinners. In the 15th chapter of Luke’s Gospel, Jesus tells three stories to illustrate how the “once-lost” has now been found, that is, how a sinner has returned to the good graces of the one true God. The shepherd leaves the 99 to search for the one missing sheep; the woman scours her house for the precious lost coin; the wayward son who should have been disinherited by his father is welcomed back into the family. In each of these examples we are told of God’s great joy that one more person has been reconciled to God’s nonjudgmental mercy. We are left with some perplexing questions about these situations, namely, ‘what is sin?’ and ‘what does it mean to be saved?’ Since Vatican II, we have seen two situations occur with regards to our understanding of sin: (1.) we have lost our sense of sin and reconciliation as church teachings seems inadequate as arbiters of our moral lives, and (2.) at the same time, we have a richer, deeper perspective of social, systemic sin, but with few ways to liturgically express our sorrow for these types of collective sin. We no longer have a common understanding of sin or the conditions by which it may occur. We no longer fear the threat of hell the way our forbears did. Thus, we are filled with presumption because we no longer see our sin as anything that needs to be forgiven. We chalk it up to a mistake or an imprudent judgment. Few can tell you what it means to be saved. Few have experienced the atoning, reconciling power of the sacrament in which one’s sins are wiped away and completely absolved and forgiven. Few will tell you of their experience of living anew in a blessed, loving state in which no laws can bind them or shackle them. Few experience the happy state of being liberated from the weights that society, friends and family place upon them. It takes a special person to step forward into that new life that is so accessible to us if we only learn to say ‘yes’ to our possibilities. It would be good for each of us to struggle to define sin for ourselves. The best way I have heard sin defined is as a “failure to bother to love.” When we no longer even try anymore to set our lives right or to help another in terrible need, we simply sin. We do not see the pervasive effects of sin and when we live with unresolved tensions, we learn habits of going through life with indifference and apathy and disappointment. Our spirits are dampened and it is easy for our souls to get lost. We need to be saved. When we do bother to love, we are like that sheep that is returned to the fold, like the coin that is safely stored in the woman’s purse, or like the boy who returns to the grateful embrace of his accepting father’s arms. This is the type of love the world needs. This is the type of love that we need extended to us and extended by us. When we can become agents of these types of powerful reconciliations, we help others feel the warm love of God and God can only be happy with that. We have the possibility to live fulfilling, healthy lives if we only allow ourselves to be reconciled to God’s reach and really experience the type of mercy and acceptance we all crave. Quote for the Week From Deuteronomy 4:9 Take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live … teach them to your children and to your children’s children. Themes for this Week’s Masses First Reading: Paul addresses the divisions among the church in Corinth especially in the area of gathering for the memorial of the Lord’s Supper. Paul reminds them that this meal is very different and is handing onto them by the Lord himself. He encourages their unity by asking them to consider whether their actions to one another are loving – for charity has to be the determinant in all their moral choices. Paul imparts the mystery of faith to them and explains the manner in which he is called to be an apostle. God’s raising of Christ from the dead raises the dead to eternal life and removes the stain of our sins. The resurrection of the body takes on an incorruptible, glorious, powerful, spiritual nature in contrast to the body of the earthly life. God’s grace transforms the body into the image of a heavenly body. Gospel: In Luke, the Centurion exhibits laudable faith when he trusts that Jesus can and will cure his deathly ill slave. A sinful woman reveals the outward nature of her faith when she enters uninvited into Simon the Pharisee’s house to anoint the feet of Jesus with oil and tears. As the holy caravan moves from one town to the next, the disciples take time for rest and spend a restful time with Jesus. The Twelve were with him and also many women who were cured by Jesus. Jesus then preaches to the gathering crowd about the sower and the seed. Saints of the Week Monday: John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor , joined a hermitage that practiced austerity that ruined his health. He returned to his native Antioch and was ordained in 386. He was a powerful preacher, as Chrysostom means “golden mouth,” and was named bishop of Constantinople in 398 where he began a program of reform. Tuesday: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross commemorates the finding of the true cross by Emperor Constantine’s mother, Helen. The feast remembers the dedication of the original church of the Holy Sepulcher in 335 and the significance of Christ’s victory of death by crucifixion. Christianity had become the official religion of the Roman Empire due to Constantine’s conversion and the Roman church soon began to celebrate this day. Wednesday: Our Lady of Sorrows was originally called the Seven Sorrows of Mary by the Servite Friars who began a new devotion in 1668. The devotion’s popularity increased to recall: Simeon’s prophecy, the flight into Egypt, losing the boy Jesus in the Temple, the road to Calvary, the crucifixion, deposition, and entombment. Thursday: Cornelius, pope , was elected to the papacy after Pope Fabian was martyred. The priest Novatian tried to become bishop of Rome, but Cyprian came to the defense of Cornelius. Under a further persecution, Cornelius was killed in 253. Cyprian, bishop , reigned over Carthage and wrote on the unity of the church, the role the bishops, and the significance of the sacraments. The Emperor Valerian renewed a persecution and arrested Cyprian before putting him to death in 258. Friday: Robert Bellarmine, bishop and doctor , became a Jesuit in 1560 a few years after Ignatius Loyola’s death. He was a professor of Controversial Theology at the Louvain and in Rome where he wrote the “Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith Against the Heretics of the Age.” Even Protestant reformers respected his balanced and well-argued presentation. He further developed the Latin Bible, oversaw the publication of two catechisms, ran the Roman College and the Vatican library. The Jesuits name their house of studies in Rome after him. This Week in Jesuit History • Sep 12, 1744. Benedict XIV’s second Bull, Omnium Sollicitudinum, forbade the Chinese Rites. Persecution followed in China. • Sep 13, 1773. Frederick II of Prussia informed the pope that the Jesuits would not be suppressed in Prussia and invited Jesuits to come. • Sep 14, 1596. The death of Cardinal Francis Toledo, the first of the Society to be raised to the purple. He died at age 63, a cardinal for three years. • Sep 15, 1927. Thirty-seven Jesuits arrived in Hot Springs, North Carolina, to begin tertianship. The property was given to the Jesuits by the widow of the son of President Andrew Johnson. • Sep 16, 1883. The twenty-third General Congregation opened at Rome in the Palazzo Borromeo (via del Seminario). It elected Fr. Anthony Anderledy Vicar General with the right of succession. • Sep 17, 1621. The death of St Robert Bellarmine, bishop and doctor of the Church. • Sep 18, 1540. At Rome, Pedro Ribadeneira, aged fourteen, was admitted into the Society by St Ignatius (nine days before official papal confirmation of the Society). Earthquake Relief in Christchurch, New Zealand The people near Christchurch, New Zealand are still experiencing great challenges. Five days of frequent aftershocks and another earthquake on a different fault line is taking a toll on the inhabitants. Many people have had successive nights of undisturbed sleep and there is some toll on families who cannot weather these challenges. Current estimates of the cost of rebuilding are around four billion dollars. Donations to Caritas for Christchurch earthquake relief can be made by: • Phoning 0800 22 10 22 to make credit card donations or • Donating online using a credit card at www.caritas.org.nz or • Posting to Caritas, PO Box 12193, Thorndon, Wellington 6144, New Zealand. Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is a member of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 165 Catholic aid, development and social justice agencies active in over 200 countries and territories.

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Prayer: Ambrose de Milan

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Sep

10

How much people are hidden martyrs for Christ every day, confessing to Mr. Jesus to her facts?

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Relevación of the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand

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Sep

9

People near Christchurch, New Zealand still are undergoing great challenges. Five days of frequent seismic retorts and another earthquake in a diverse fault are taking a toll in the inhabitants. Much people have had successive nights of the unperturbed dream and are alguÌ  n toll in the families who cannot resist to these challenges. The present estimations of the reconstruction cost are around four billion dollars. The donations to Caritas for the relevación of the earthquake of Christchurch can be done close: • Telephone call of 0800 22 10 22 to make donations of the credit card or • Donating in line using of the credit card in www.caritas.org.nz or • Fixation to Caritas, PO BOX 12193, Thorndon, Wellington 6144, New Zealand. Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is a member of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of the catholic agencies of aid 165, the active development and social justice inside on 200 countries and territories.

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Prayer: Gualterio Burghardt, S.J.

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Sep

9

How he is those billions of stars can fly the sky faster than light? Because Christ gives an all-powerful them that they are. Not once and for all, but continuously, day after day. How it is those four thousand varieties of roses can grow and perfume our earth? Because an imaginative Christ gives life them. How he is that his Farmer of long hair can watch hungry you, you hear his weaker whistle, legs of endecha in his shoulders? Because a sensible Christ gives detects. How he is that you can form an idea, construct the capitol, transplant a human heart? Because immovable a human Christ gives intelligence him. How can you think that you died the God son a bloody death for you, how you can hope with confidence to live by always, how you can you occur without reserves to God and its brothers and brothers? Because an alive Christ instills the faith in you, full its meat of hope, inflames its same bones with a unique love not of this world?

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Prayer: Litany of the sacred heart of Jesus

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Sep

8

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us. God, the Son, Redeemer of the World, have mercy on us. God, the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us. Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, formed in the womb of the Virgin Mother by the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, united substantially with the word of God, have mercy on us Heart of Jesus, of infinite majesty, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, holy temple of God, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, tabernacle of the Most High, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, house of God and gate of heaven, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, glowing furnace of charity, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, vessel of justice and love, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, full of goodness and love, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, most worthy of all praise, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, king and center of all hearts, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, in whom dwells all the fullness of the Divinity, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, in whom the Father is well pleased, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, of whose fullness we have all received, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, patient and rich in mercy, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, rich to all who invoke you, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, fount of life and holiness, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, propitiation for our sins, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, saturated with revilings, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, crushed for our iniquities, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, made obedient unto death, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, source of all consolation, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, our life and resurrection, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, our peace and reconciliation, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, victim for our sins, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who hope in you, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, hope of those who die in you, have mercy on us. Heart of Jesus, delight of all saints, have mercy on us. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord. Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord, Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. V. Jesus, meek and humble of heart. R. Make our hearts become like yours. Let us pray: Almighty and everlasting God, look upon the heart of your beloved Son and upon the praise and satisfaction he makes to you in the name of sinners; and in your great goodness, pardon those who seek your mercy, in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.

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Poem: in of the praise of Maria, anonymous, century XIII

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Sep

7

The lady, flower of the thing of alle, sine spina, thousands of Rose bores Jesu, king of skies, divine of Gratia. Of all the bear’st of thousands the prize, lady, reigns of the Elect paradise.

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