Posted in on 28 February, 2006 | 3 Comments »
In the Passionist calendar, the day before Ash Wednesday is celebrated as the memoria of our Lord Jesus Christ praying in the Garden. The Mass and Liturgy of the Hours focus on the persevering prayer of Jesus in a time of suffering and temptation and how this prayer was the prelude to his Passion. In [...]
Posted in on 27 February, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Salve, receptus candida
sede Angelorum, Gabriel,
cuius perennem gloriam
et mira gentes efferunt.
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Salve, dolorum particeps
et gaudiorum Virginis:
virtute per quam fulseras,
per hanc corona cingeris.
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Nostris secundam casibus
caeli preceris Arbitram:
pro fratribus te supplice,
nil Virgo Mater abnuet.
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Pravis referta erroribus
instat scatebra ab inferis:
hanc, te rogante, exterminet
Maria, victrix haeresis.
(Hymn for Lauds - I have a translation of this somewhere; if I find it, I’ll [...]
Posted in Passionist Vocations on 23 February, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Almighty and eternal God, in your wonderful providence you choose what is weak in the world to shame the strong. Look favourably on this little flock of your servants gathered under the standard of the holy Cross and Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. May we, who have been called together in your name, grow [...]
Posted in on 23 February, 2006 | No Comments »
This evening we celebrate first vespers of the Solemn Commemoration of the Passion, the titular feast of the Passionist Congregation, celebrated on the Friday before Ash Wednesday. This feast, which was instituted by Saint Paul of the Cross, is a joyful celebration of the mystery of Good Friday, focussing on the Passion as “the most [...]
Posted in on 22 February, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Pope Benedict XVI named new cardinals today. I remember reading some years ago that when the recently elected Pope Leo XIII was asked what kind of pope he would be, he said that those who wanted to know should look at the names of those included in his first consistory. I wonder what Pope Benedict [...]
Posted in on 17 February, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Today’s feast of the Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order is a good reminder that heroic status and holiness are not the same thing. Most of us would have difficulty in naming even one or two of the seven; they are celebrated as the group of people who became the Order of Servants of [...]
Posted in on 11 February, 2006 | No Comments »
Saint Paul of the Cross by Gian Domenico Della Porta (1773). This portrait shows Paul at about 79 years of age, just two years before his death. When Paul died on 18 October 1775, it was Porta who would be asked to make the death mask. His Last Testament, spoken by Paul to his community [...]
Posted in Passionist Vocations on 10 February, 2006 | No Comments »
Tomorrow morning I’ll travel to our Monastery at Crossgar, County Down for a “Passionist Religious Life Weekend”, spending a few days with a group of young men who want to look more closely at the Passionist vocation. This is the third in a series of retreats at Tobar Mhuire (which means “Mary’s Well”, called after [...]
Posted in on 8 February, 2006 | No Comments »
My friend and fellow -Passionist, Father Frank at Mount Argus, made me smile with his reflection on last Sunday’s Gospel (- I’m the one who followed the bus to Motherwell).
” After ordination in 1983 I was assigned to St. Mungo’s Retreat in Glasgow. My primary roles were as Vocations Director and a member of a [...]
Posted in St Paul of the Cross on 7 February, 2006 | 2 Comments »
“It would seem that Almighty God had chosen Father Paul [Saint Paul of the Cross] to teach people how to seek him in the interior of their own hearts”
(Saint Vincent Mary Strambi, Life of Father Paul of the Cross).
Would Saint Paul of the Cross have been a blogger? He wrote thousands of letters during his [...]
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