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Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost

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“That portion of the divine Word which we have in today’s Gospel (Matthew 18:23-35) sums up the whole Christian life in the practice of that virtue of charity which makes us treat our neighbor as almighty God has treated us.

He has forgiven us great sins; let us in turn, learn how to forgive our brethren their infinitely less important offenses against us.

The devil in his jealousy drives men to act like the wicked servant who seized by the throat one who owed him a trifling sum and cast him into prison because he could not pay at once. In the day of Judgment God will treat us as we have treated our neighbor. Of that day this Sunday’s Mass warns us in our Lord’s words:

“The kingdom of heaven is likened to a king who would take account of his servants.”

At that time of justice pure and simple, He will be merciless like us if, during this life when He is all mercy to us, we have not learned to be merciful like Him. The wicked servant was delivered to the torturers. “So,” says our Lord, “shall my heavenly Father do to you, if you forgive not every one his brother from your hearts.”

The executioners to whom we shall be delivered by our Lord in His just anger against us, will be the powers of hell from whom He has protected us on earth, but whom He will then leave to indulge their hatred against us.
It is enough to recall their rage against holy Job.

Let us be on our guard against them, the more so, that this Sunday reminds us of the time when the devils will use their power against men with greater violence, since they will soon lose it altogether.

“O Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation; from eternity and to eternity Thou art God” (Gradual).”

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Nameday – St. Luke

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Another nameday celebration for us!

St. Luke, ora pro nobis.

The following is practical consideration from #frweninger

“Saint Luke bore always the mortification of the Cross in his body. He was always cheerful in his work and in his sufferings; never weary or desponding.

The love of Christ, and the hope of an eternal reward made everything light and easy to him.

If you love Christ with your whole heart, and think frequently on the future recompense, I am confident that you will not become weary at your work, that you will not despond while suffering.

Therefore, in future, think often how your Lord suffered for you, and how great a reward He has promised you for your labors and sufferings.”

St. Hedwig

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We have always sought to take advantage of all opportunities to grow in Faith, grace, and simply foster camaraderie among others desiring to live radically as the Gospel proclaims.

There is no denying that there is a newfound urgency during these times.

Reading the lives of the saints is also a necessary daily practice of ours. We cling to their wisdom and seek ways to practically apply their maxims to our lives.

Today is the feast of St. Hedwig (10.16). The following is practical consideration offered by Fr. Weninger (1876).

“We must adore the decrees of the Almighty not only in happy days, but also in those of sorrow and bereavement,” said Saint Hedwig, when God deprived her of her beloved spouse, by an early death.

Equally heroic was she, when by the will of Divine Providence, she lost her first-born son.

How do you act in similar painful circumstances?

You will never possess peace of mind, if you do not submit to the will of the Most High. And why should you not do this?

The decrees of God are all just, although they are incomprehensible. Nothing that happens to you is unknown to the Almighty, or has not been permitted by His wisdom.

All that God permits or ordains, is intended for your welfare. The true faith teaches you this.

It also teaches you that you should not, under any circumstances, oppose the will of God. Hence, there remains nothing to do, but to make a virtue of necessity, to adore humbly the decrees of Providence, to submit to them willingly, and to unite your will with that of your God.

In this manner you will be calm and contented in all adverse circumstances of life, and, at the same time, you will gather a treasure of merits for heaven.

“Make of necessity a virtue,” writes Saint James of Nisibis,” and as you cannot escape the hand of the Almighty, but must submit to so great a Lord, humble yourself voluntarily under His overwhelming power.”

📸 my girls on a day hike with Sisters from a beloved order and Father

Consolation in Sickness

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CONSOLATION IN SICKNESS

There was a certain ruler whose son was sick. (John IV. 16.)

As a consolation in sickness, you should consider that God sends you this affliction for the welfare of’ your soul, that you may know your sins; or if you be innocent, to practice patience, humility, charity, etc., and increase your merits.

Therefore a holy father said to one of his companions, who complained, because he was sick: “My son! if you are gold, then you will be proved by sickness, but if you are mixed with dross, then you will be purified.”

“Many are vicious in health,” says St. Augustine, “who would be virtuous in sickness;” and St. Bernard says: “It is better to arrive at salvation through sickness, than to have health and be damned.”

It is also a powerful means of consolation in sickness, to represent to ourselves the suffering Redeemer, who had no soundness from the top of His head to the sole of His foot, and contemplating whom St. Bonaventure used to cry out: “O Lord, I do not wish to live without sickness, since I see Thee wounded so much.”

When sick, we should carefully examine, whether we possess any ill-gotten goods, or have any other secret sin on our conscience; and if we are conscious of any, we should quickly free ourselves from it by a contrite, sincere confession, and by restoring the things belonging to others.

Sins are very often the cause of disease, and God does not bless the medicine unless the sickness effects its object, that is, the sinner’s amendment. Still less can we expect help, but rather temporal and eternal misfortune, if we have recourse to superstition, and spells, as the King Ochozias experienced, who was punished with death, because in sickness he had recourse to the idol Beelzebub. (IV Kings I.)

PRAYER O Jesus, Thou true physician of souls, who dost wound and heal us, yea, dost even permit sorrows and adversities to visit us that our souls may have health, grant us the grace to use every bodily pain according to Thy merciful designs for the promotion of our salvation.

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Feast of the Most Holy Rosary

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We did not grow up praying the daily rosary. We didn’t even adopt the devotion of the daily rosary as a family until we became right-ordered and I handed over the reins so my husband could take his proper place as the head of our family. It was a fruit of our Total Consecration (led by my husband). Since then, we have not turned back.

➕Is the Rosary a profitable method of prayer?

Yes; for by bringing before the eyes of the spirit the fundamental mysteries of Christianity it supplies us with the strongest motives to love God, to hate sin, to subdue the passions, to contemn the world and its vanity, and to strive after Christian perfection, in order that we may gain those happy mansions which Jesus prepares for us.

The Rosary, besides, brings before us living examples – Jesus and Mary – whom we must follow; and encourages us to good works by pointing to the all-powerful grace procured for us by Jesus, and the all-prevailing intercession of the gracious Mother of God.

Let us not be ashamed to carry the beads with us, for otherwise we might be ashamed of being Catholics; let us say the Rosary often – every evening – as was the custom with Catholics in former times, and we shall find that, as in St. Dominic’s day it was a wholesome check to error, so too In our times it will be, if said aright, a powerful weapon against heresy and unbelief, and will increase faith, piety, and virtue.

➕How should we say the Rosary?

1. Properly; as has been above described, and slowly, with a distinct pronunciation of the prayers and mysteries.

2. Devoutly, not only with the lips, but also with the heart.

More particularly we ought to meditate upon the mysteries that come before us;

at the joyful mysteries we should think of the infinite love of God to men and on His humiliation for us, thanking Him, and promising our love to Him in return;

at the sorrowful mysteries we should have compassion on the Saviour suffering for us, should from the heart detest the sins which were the cause of His sufferings, and make the most earnest resolutions for the future;

at the glorious mysteries we should remember the glory which awaits us also if we follow Jesus and Mary.➕

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St. Bruno

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“For what should we ask St. Bruno on his feast day?

* The love of recollection and humility, to be without pretensions, to love to live unknown and ignored by others.

* Even if we are obliged to live among others, to not be concerned about what they are thinking about us.

* To love spiritual solitude, turned exclusively to Our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Lady, and the Holy Catholic Church.

* To be faithful to grace and the orthodoxy of true Catholic doctrine, and to strive for the salvation of our souls so that we might go to Heaven and see God face to face.

We also should ask St. Bruno to watch over the desolate situation of the Catholic Church, and help to restore her, and in her, the order that he founded, the Carthusians.” #profpliniocorreadeoliveira

A Special Nameday

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We offer thanksgiving and pray for our priests, daily. And we gladly celebrate their nameday.

2021 Our Lady of Bethlehem Pilgrimage #olbpilgrimage#catholicpilgrimage

In your charity, please offer a prayer for Fr. Evaristus Eshiowu on this feast of his patron.

He is a fierce priest of tradition who instructs the faithful with great charity. He is a lover of souls and does all he can to admonish us sinners, help us prepare for what is to come, and raise us up so we can vigorously pursue our true home.

Pope Saint Evaristus, ora pro nobis.

“Thou art the first Pontiff to whom the Church was entrusted after the departure of all those who had seen the Lord. The world could then say in all strictness: ‘If we have known Christ according to the flesh, now we know Him so no longer.’

The Church was now more truly an exile; at that period, which was not without perils and anxieties, her Spouse gave to thee the charge of teaching her to pursue alone her path of faith and hope and love. And thou didst not betray the confidence of our Lord.

Earth owes thee, on this account, a special gratitude, O Evaristus; and a special reward is doubtless thine.

Watch still over Rome and the Church.

Teach us that we must be ready not only to fast here on earth, but to be resigned to the absence of the Bridegroom when He hides Himself; and not the less to serve Him and love Him with our whole heart and mind and soul and strength, as long as the world endures, and He is pleased to leave us therein.”

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Come Ye to the Wedding Feast

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“The man spoken of in the Gospel (Matt. XXII. 1-14) came to the wedding feast and was cast by the king’s command into exterior darkness because he had not on a wedding garment.

That is because he had not “put on the new man who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth”, and for not having put away lying and those feelings of anger against his neighbor which he cherished in his heart (Epistle – Ephes. IV. 23-28).

Thus will almighty God treat all those who, while belonging to the body of the Church by their faith, are found within the wedding-chamber without being clothed with the robe of charity. Since they are not animated by sanctifying grace, they have no share in the soul of the mystical body of Christ.

“Wherefore,” says St. Paul, “putting away lying, speak the truth every one with his neighbor, for we are members one of another… Let not the sun go down upon your anger” (Epistle).

Those who do not fulfill this command will be cast by the supreme judge into the torments of hell, like those who refused the invitation to the wedding feast of the king’s son, that is of Jesus Christ with His bride the Church, and who slew the prophets and apostles who were sent to bear the invitation.

The wedding guests were replaced by those whom the king’s servants found in the highways; the Jews by the Gentiles. To these last, at Pentecost, the apostles turned, filled with the Holy Ghost. And at the last Judgment, foretold on these last Sundays of the cycle, these rewards and punishments will be final. The elect will take part in the eternal marriage feast, while the damned will be cast into exterior darkness, into the avenging flames, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.””

– Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945 — Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost

📸 the children’s festivities at their big sis’ wedding 7.18.20

History & Morality of Current Issues

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A priest of tradition addresses the history of what we’re facing in these current times.

He speaks to the ultimate goal at hand. And he covers the morality of what is being imposed upon us.

Four Conditions of Moral Theology That Must Be Met:

1. No moral objections in development

2. Certain of effectiveness

3. Safe beyond all doubt — not life threatening

4. No other options

The solution is clear — simple refusal, come what may!

*Part 1/2 can be found in my IGTV, Libertas.

Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost

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“In the Apostles’ Creed we acknowledge our belief in the forgiveness of sins. Today’s Gospel gives us an example of the forgiveness of sins by the direct power of Christ Himself.

The poor man afflicted with paralysis was chiefly concerned with the cure of his bodily ailment. But Our Lord realized that what he needed chiefly was the cure of the ailments of his soul. Consequently the first blessing which Christ conferred on the invalid was the forgiveness of his sins. Then, in order to prove that He did truly possess the divine power to work this deed of mercy, Our Lord cured the sick man of his paralysis and bade him rise and walk.

By granting the sick man health of soul–which he did not ask for–in the first place, Christ emphasised the important truth that spiritual favours are far more desirable than temporal benefits.

However extraordinary may be the blessings of the temporal order we receive from God, such as health and financial success, they must be regarded as far inferior in value to spiritual gifts which perfect our soul.

Many Catholics do not seem to realize this important truth. Frequently they pray for temporal favours.

If they are unwell they make novenas for the recovery of their health.

If they wish to obtain success in business or an increase of salary, they have fervent recourse to prayer.

Often however, such Catholics show little concern for the needs of their souls. Some of them may even be living in mortal sin and yet be very much unconcerned. But they ardently desire God’s help toward the attaining of the things of the present life.

True Christians are spiritually minded. In their prayers they seek in the first place God’s grace.

They pray that they will receive strength in temptation, that they will know clearly what is God’s will in their regard, that they may be inspired to a greater love of the Blessed Sacrament, that they may have the privilege of receiving the last sacraments when life is drawing to a close.

And, if they feel that they may be among those fortunate persons to whom God is offering a vocation to the priesthood or religious life they pray for light & guidance and the grace to fulfill the will of God.”

Dom Gaspar Lefebvre

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