tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82590199304787295052024-03-13T01:15:11.331-04:00Cross of San Damiano Cybersociety BlogCross of San Damiano Cybersociety Blogroc scssrshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732236331314339385noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259019930478729505.post-579563400289208862019-02-23T17:04:00.000-05:002019-02-23T17:04:13.589-05:00Feast of Saint Polycarp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"The mystery of the innocents is that<i> they</i> are the victims. The divine eagle gathered them as booty to himself. The blow aimed by the tyrant at our Lord fell on them instead. They serve as a kind of guard of honor to the divine Child--and the militant dialogue between God and anti-God in which they are caught up earns them heaven. But we have lost our awareness of that ceaseless duel...we ignore it completely. Yet no one can escape responsibility and at any moment God, exercising his sovereign power, may draw us into the thick of it."</div>
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"Psalm 20 teaches us to pray for the earthly men and women that God gives to us as kings and queens and rulers all the while trusting ultimately in God and in His will, over and above the abilities, talents or charisma of politicians or princes. By praying such prayers we, in turn, learn to pray for the return of our true King, the One Who saves, and does not fail, Who comes to us alive out of the jaws of death and will give us eternal life: The only One who saves us all."</div>
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"Creation had been given to man as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into men's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, the sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to man not of themselves only but of Him who made them....Although we tend to look on the Old Testament as a chronicle of fear in which men were far from God, we forget how many of the patriarchs and prophets seem to have walked with God with intimate simplicity. As age succeeded age the memory of this revelation of God seems to have withered away, but its leaf is still green in the Psalter."</div>
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<br />roc scssrshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732236331314339385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259019930478729505.post-37837473918728880452018-10-12T12:03:00.001-04:002018-10-12T12:03:49.010-04:00Vacation Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Loving Maker of the world who, by separating the soil of the earth and banishing the troublesome waters, set the land firm, so that it may produce seeds of different kinds, be beautiful and bright with flowers, abundant in fruit and yielding desirable food, cleanse with the freshness of Your grace the wounds of our sin-parched soul, that it may wash away in sorrow its evil deeds and wear down the power sin has to attract us.<br />
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Grant this, most loving Father and You, the only Son, equal to the Father and, with the Spirit, the Paraclete, reigning through the ages. Amen.<i> -- Vesper "hymn" from The Hours of the Divine Office, ed. by Leonard J. Doyle, Liturgical Press, 1965.</i>roc scssrshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732236331314339385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259019930478729505.post-58207392482032281562018-09-07T08:42:00.000-04:002018-09-07T08:42:48.595-04:00Psalm 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"There are two buildings and two cities constructed since the beginning of the world. Christ builds the one, the devil the other....Those who are built on the structure of Christ are lifted up from the depths to the heights; those on the structure of the devil are hurled from the heights into the depths....If a man sees pride dominant in himself, he should not doubt that he is being unhappily built, or rather thrown down, in the city of the devil....Practice obedience with humility. Have you not read: 'For the sake of the words of Your lips I have kept hard ways'? [Psalm 17:4]. The commands of a superior seem difficult; how much harder will be the advice of the deceiver? How much harder are the things which avarice commands its advocates!"--St. Caesarius of Arles, <i>Sermon 233, </i>"To the Holy Monks at the Monastery in Blanzac"</div>
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"Brethren, I may say to you confidently of the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet...he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we are all witnesses." (Acts 2:29-32)</div>
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"We recognize that we are the true and living temple of God. God dwells...above all in the soul which has been made according to the image of God and was formed by the hand of the Creator....Christians who are chaste, humble, temperate and kind...observe peace and charity, and do not give false testimony--in such men the temple of Christ is kept intact, and Christ is known to dwell in them....Those who lead a wicked life and observe neither chastity nor justice, receiving 'bribes against the innocent' (Psalm 15:5) will have to endure eternal punishments."--St. Caesarius of Arles, Sermon #229, "On the Blessing of a Church.''<br />
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St. Caesarius was a wise pastor. Lest you lose heart, he goes on to say, "For this reason, brethren, with God's help let us avoid serious sin. As for the small sins of which we cannot be free, resist them by daily almsgiving and redeem them by continuous prayer." There's always hope.roc scssrshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04732236331314339385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8259019930478729505.post-87274647943196017532018-08-03T17:25:00.000-04:002018-11-17T12:37:49.959-05:00Psalm 14<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds....Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who...do not call upon the Lord? There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous. (Psalm 14:1, 4-5)</i><br />
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The Latin Vulgate uses the term "<i>voluntas" </i>instead of "deeds." <i>Voluntas </i>also connotes will, choice, or desire. Therefore, their desires themselves had become abominable. Cassiodorus states, "<i>Voluntas</i> derives from<i> volatus</i> (flying), because the mind rushes where it wills with great speed." This etymology is a "fanciful notion," his translator says, but it doesn't prevent Cassiodorus from making a very accurate observation: an ignorant and corrupted conscience inevitably leads to "abominable deeds."<br />
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"The virtue preached to us in this psalm is that as far as we can we should with kindly hearts consult the interests of our enemies, so that they do not harden in blind obstinacy and be subject to ineluctable error. The Church rebukes a sinning people, urging them not to hasten to their own destruction; thus they can abandon their wickedness and cast off the vices which can cause them wholly to perish."<br />
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Catholics and Protestants now seen to be following the same numbering system, but what is Psalm 12 to us was Psalm 11 to Cassiodorus (c.487-c.580): "It is certain that the sons of men can be freed by the power of the Lord. Then, since the strength of the number eleven, to which this psalm is assigned, is acknowledged as revealing to us a sign of the gospel, let us beg the Father of the household in His great mercy to admit us into the vineyard even at the eleventh hour, so that He may deign to bestow on our actions a reward not due to us, but gratuitous." (Cassiodorus, <i>Explanation of the Psalms</i>)</div>
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Over a cellar of disordered love.</div>
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Only the bare bones can stay now</div>
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Boneclean barrenness alone</div>
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Can look to spring.</div>
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Are you not mine who art the whole world's lover?</div>
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Can I not find you in all winds that blow,</div>
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Your new moons and festivals I detest,</div>
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Cease doing evil, learn to do good....</div>
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Though your sins be as scarlet,</div>
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<i>---Isaiah, Chapter 1</i></div>
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