tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119765342024-03-13T08:56:53.718-06:00Dominican Idaho<p><i>being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience:[1 Pt 3:15-16]</i></p>
<i>Nolite iudicare [Luke 6:37]</i>, <i>Nolite iudicare secundum faciem, sed iustum iudicium iudicate [John 7:24]</i>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.comBlogger1300125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-43200859268674218922023-09-15T13:56:00.000-06:002023-09-15T13:56:10.946-06:00Thoughts post 9/11<p> I have always had difficulty with the clamor to rush out and
forgive any and all perpetrators of publicly shocking events, like mass
shootings, from the comfort of our untouched lives. I have even seen this put
forth as a Christian thing to do. I have
also seen it called “cheap grace.” It has been a subject of some considerable
prayer and meditation for a long time.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The Our Father is pretty straight forward about mutual
forgiveness; if I want God to forgive me I better forgive you! That gets
spelled out pretty clearly to St. Peter in answer to his question on the
numerical limits of forgiveness; there are none [Matthew 18:22]. That, however,
is not the whole of it, as the instruction Jesus gives Peter has a condition,
which we find is that we are bound to forgive <i>if our brother repents and asks for it</i> [Luke 17:4].</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>A Catholic knows that his mortal sins will be forgiven only
under the condition that he repent and ask the always merciful God to forgive
him (perfect contrition carries the obligation of the confessional). This is
perfectly in accord with Luke 17:4 above. <i>If
one does not ask, one is not forgiven.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>So if God sets this limit, why do people think that they need
to forgive, oh say, the suicide attackers of 9/11?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Frequently there is a mention of Jesus on the cross saying “Father,
forgive them, they know not what they do” [Luke 23:34]. Do notice that Jesus,
though God, does not forgive them, but asks the Father to. And who is He asking
this on behalf of? If you read the Patristics on this, Jesus is asking on the
behalf of the soldiers who were executing Him in accord with their duty; not
the temple leaders to whom Pilate said “His blood is on your hands”. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>There is another time when Jesus raises eyebrows by
forgiving a man who did not ask for it. This was the paralytic whose friends
tore the roof off and lowered hid bier into Jesus’ presence [Mark 2:4]. Yet
even here the Patristic explanation has been that this is an example of the
power of intercessory prayer; in this case the diligence of the friends who
brought the paralytic to Jesus.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>If someone sins against me I am bound to offer my
forgiveness <i>to a repentant heart</i>. And
what is more attractive to a soul, that a “humble and contrite heart” [Psalm
51]? Jesus said “Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is
perfect” [Matthew 5:48]. Thus I find
that the way to approach forgiveness is with the same charity as God, which
does not exclude justice, nor attempt to outdo Him!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>A couple of final thoughts; St James in his epistle makes it
clear that we are not obliged to pray for those in mortal sin [ 1 John 5:16];
Charity can go beyond this but doesn’t require it. Also, at death our eternal
destiny is ratified and the time of forgiveness is over. And finally, only God
can forgive sins [Mark 2:7]. We have another obligation.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p><i>et dimitte nobis
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it is my own work and is subject to the teaching authority of the Catholic Church.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-87064918395065368672023-07-07T19:40:00.000-06:002023-07-07T19:40:16.908-06:00“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you” <p> St Augustine in his <i>Confessions</i> famously said, “You
have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in
you.” </p><p>There is another side to this
which is not so often quoted and familiar. St Augustine also said that the
devil, the prince of the world, is the author of constant change. When people
get tired of unending change, they turn to the unchanging God, and find Him in His
Church which, like Him, is unchanging. </p><p>St Augustine also is known for defining
peace as “The tranquility of order”. He also defined the boundary of the Church
as “peace”.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Taking these together, one can see that, at least from an
Augustinian perspective, Order is an attribute of the Church, while Disorder is
not. Thus, it stands to reason that to promote disorder is not an act of the Church,
but of churchmen who stand outside the Church’s boundaries, and attempts to
change the Order established by God represent not the unchanging God, but the
prince of this world.<o:p></o:p></p>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-65996376150340460672022-07-17T08:21:00.002-06:002022-07-17T08:21:56.629-06:00Chapter Meeting — July 16, 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMafy6eI949nT035NIV8h-MpcZrB-sOzHWCb6QRW_-FQrAlLNYpzSY2PB7GF6WZ_3GBnVPXDqS1zvM-ag1MHyw7vxddfzyqhmYwA6XMUEg8Oi-F5ODbNgM2q-x_yln-3lnv0NjXevMOB-vfwsnzmY-70ZgydrqijkG2OZ8_vEbl8DwKcsLQ/s4032/81EECBBF-7CA2-4612-82EF-A427FF417EB9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMafy6eI949nT035NIV8h-MpcZrB-sOzHWCb6QRW_-FQrAlLNYpzSY2PB7GF6WZ_3GBnVPXDqS1zvM-ag1MHyw7vxddfzyqhmYwA6XMUEg8Oi-F5ODbNgM2q-x_yln-3lnv0NjXevMOB-vfwsnzmY-70ZgydrqijkG2OZ8_vEbl8DwKcsLQ/s320/81EECBBF-7CA2-4612-82EF-A427FF417EB9.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxiDQXvjIVTjQUlsFp2MMEGOCyhKod_sWyqj5fTjC1fHt5UtQ2Xbw5R7xtF30EPTSnX7N6jXpboho4uI_P9IV2rlTAifAqpseYj8lbdarAeq7kbHbV0FXpMDDSBFQqtXAO96qekX_eonPDS8PK3pM2afYX1QwWE0a9seC6gj-A2oUaavLYA/s4032/263D0E12-4884-4C83-A515-27642483D9BF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxiDQXvjIVTjQUlsFp2MMEGOCyhKod_sWyqj5fTjC1fHt5UtQ2Xbw5R7xtF30EPTSnX7N6jXpboho4uI_P9IV2rlTAifAqpseYj8lbdarAeq7kbHbV0FXpMDDSBFQqtXAO96qekX_eonPDS8PK3pM2afYX1QwWE0a9seC6gj-A2oUaavLYA/s320/263D0E12-4884-4C83-A515-27642483D9BF.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /> The Chapter gathered on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at St Mark’s Catholic Church in Boise, Idaho. Each Chapter is it own school of formation, focus, and opportunity for fellowship among lay Dominicans. <p></p><p> Brian Walker talked about lay people living a consecrated life, within the means of the Evangelical Counsels. To live as such is to live a more perfect life in Christ. The Chapter will continue to support such apostolates within it and outside. </p><p> Pamila Jaszkowiak spoke of temperance as a virtue, both natural and spiritual being applied to aspects of our lives. The truth seems that moderation is always good and avoid evil in everything. </p><p> Alanna Burg reported on the Lay Provincial Council meeting held at Menlo Park near San Jose in California. She recalled the event with good memories and good relationships. </p><p> This is the Chapter’s 25th year. Hard to believe. The Lord has blessed the Chapter and the many within it. The Holy Spirit has been there many times bringing together lessons and ideas for our personal lives. He asks us to live according to that faith not just discuss it. </p><p> Above are two photos from central Washington, on the Columbia River, sunrise, in some alone time in prayer as the Chapter heads into the past, I want to recall it as one where temperance guides our life as we never forget that Christ is in every action, decision, and matter of our lives. </p><p>In peace and faith.</p><p> </p>John Keenan, OPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514688769709402691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-21274794330275257322020-11-21T13:37:00.001-07:002020-11-21T13:37:46.024-07:00The Social Kingship of Christ, the Albegensian Crusade, and the Cancel Culture<p> </p><div><br /></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">As we approach “Christ the King” on the new calendar, Mike Turner’s talk today (at the Dominican meeting) on the history of St Dominic is timely. In St Dominic's time, the Holy Father called a crusade against the Albegensians of southern France. In that time, the Catholic world had a very different understanding of the relationship between Church and state. The “social kingship of Christ” was an acknowledged and integral part of the civil order, and had been since Constantine. The civil authority recognized that the Church provided peace in the civil order, and a pope could depose a king, and a king could not go to war without the permission of the pope. It was understood by all that how one thought affected the entire civil order; and that heresy was destructive of the civil order. St Thomas taught that social evil be tolerated when to eradicate it would be a greater evil than the target evil itself. For example, divorce has traditionally been proscribed by law and thus kept under control; but when law fails to proscribe a social evil, it expands its grip on society, with resulting social disintegration. Hence the Church in Dominic’s time had “tolerated” heresy until the evil of the heresy was greater than the cost of suppressing it. Hence the crusade against the Albegensians, who were destroying the civil order in southern France. A response was warranted, to prevent the moral and social destruction of the culture. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The American notion of separation of church and state makes it hard to grasp the understanding that once was how everyone thought. In the American experiment, the American Founders did not share the notion of the Social Kingship of Christ, and instead had a view that the state should view all religions then present equally, enshrining the error of religious indifferentism. In our history, we see that Maryland was established by Catholic refugees, who tolerated the Puritans, who then took over the colony and outlawed the Catholic religion and put a death penalty on Catholic Priests. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">My point is that St Thomas taught a well-reasoned approach to the civil order in toleration of evil. A Dominican Friar who failed to follow this and who gained fame (infamy) was Savonarola, who tried to create a Catholic enclave of perfection, creating effectively a police state to rat out people who sinned in such minor ways as playing cards at home. He opposed the Holy Father’s order to desist (forever gaining the adulation of liberals by opposing the Holy Father), but in an act of charity, surrendered himself to save his brethren.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Intolerance, then, is the extreme which brooks no opposition to the received faith. This was seen in England, with the violent suppression of the Catholic Faith under a series of ascendant protestant sects and rulers (see <i>Cranmer’s Godly Order</i> by Michael Davies). This played out across protestant Europe, and as I mentioned, even in the North American colonies, where “freedom of religion” meant that a formerly repressed sect could have the ascendancy and suppress all the others.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Michael’s mention of the Albegensian Crusade gave me the thought that the modern “cancel culture” is a return to a way of thinking that is not modern, but ancient; the total intolerance of thought that is against the prevailing order; in this case, the zeitgeist. The world saw this under the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and the USSR, and all the attempted “perfect societies” that were spawned by the “errors of Russia” warned against at Fatima. To even think against the prevailing authority is considered subversive, because it is. Hence the intolerant intuitively understand that the very thought of truth is potentially dissolving of the “perfection” that they seek to impose by force, and hence must be “canceled” by whatever means necessary.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So while we may not grasp the traditional teaching of the "Social Kingship of Christ", the enemy does.</p></div>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-12214122364623525682020-06-10T16:20:00.000-06:002020-06-10T16:20:13.658-06:00FIUV Statement on Covid Communion on the Tongue <div style="text-align: center;">
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In light of the recent <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/images/local/Archbishops_Letter_to_Priests.pdf%20and%20http://mobarch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ResumptionofMasses.pdf"><span style="color: grey;">statement </span></a>(and <a href="http://mobarch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ResumptionofMasses.pdf"><span style="color: grey;">here</span></a>) by Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi of Mobile, Alabama, in the United States of America, on social distancing during the reception of Holy Communion, and related issues surrounding the reception of Holy Communion around the world in the context of the Coronavirus epidemic, the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce (FIUV) would like to make the following observations.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. In the Ordinary Form, the universal law of the Church gives every Catholic the right to receive on the tongue. This was reaffirmed by the Congregation of Divine Worship in the context of earlier public health concerns, the so-called ‘Swine flu’ epidemic of 2009. (See for example <i><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html"><span style="color: grey;">RedemptionisSacramentum</span></a> </i>(2004) 92; <a href="http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2020/03/communion-and-coronavirus-pertinent-law.html#.XmEnKC2cZ-2"><span style="color: grey;">Letter</span></a> of the Congregation of Divine Worship 24<sup>th</sup> July 2009, Prot. N. 655/09/L.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. The problem of maintaining physical distance between Minister and Communicant during the Reception of Holy Communion applies equally to Reception in the Hand as to Reception on the Tongue. In both cases Minister and Communicant are obliged to come close to each other, if only for a short time, and without touching. It is difficult to see how even the use of an instrument such as a pair of tongs (for which there are historical precedents) would enable Minister and Communicant to maintain a distance of six feet or two meters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. Canon law is rightly very restrictive in the penalties which bishops can impose on their priests for the breach of regulations of their own devising. Bishop Rodi’s attempt to prohibit priests who do not obey his regulations to celebrate public Masses—something which amounts to a partial suspension of a priest—goes beyond what Canon law would appear to justify. (See <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P4V.HTM"><span style="color: grey;">Canons</span></a> 1316-1319).<o:p></o:p></div>
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The FIUV represents the needs and concerns of the world-wide laity attached to the ancient Latin liturgical tradition, the Extraordinary Form. It has more than 45 member associations from Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-30598411032935832892020-06-05T12:26:00.000-06:002020-06-05T12:26:24.451-06:00A meditation on suffering
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-17976428091411951472020-04-16T12:58:00.001-06:002020-04-16T12:59:15.068-06:00What is "Catholic Social Justice"? Most likely not what you think - fix your thinking!!The following is from Michael Greaney at the Center for Economic and Social Justice:
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Misunderstanding of the development of the concept of social justice to counter the “new things” of socialism, modernism, and the New Age is pervasive in our day. Briefly, many people confuse the act of social justice with measures directed to the good of individuals, not to the common good. The act of social justice is not, however, a substitute or supplement for individual justice or charity, but a corrective intended to restructure institutions to make it possible for the individual virtues to function so that individuals can meet their own needs through their own efforts.</blockquote>
Read the rest of the article <a href="http://just3rdway.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-idea-of-social-justice.html" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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…[C]onsider, and understand that more horrifying kind of death everyone who sins dies. But every man is afraid of the death of the flesh; few, of the death of the soul. In regard to the death of the flesh, which must certainly come sometime, all are on their guard against its approach: this is the source of all their labour. Man, destined to die, labours to avert his dying; and yet man, destined to live forever, labours not to cease from sinning. And when he labours to avoid dying, he labours to no purpose, for its only result will be to put off death for a while, not to escape it; but if he refrain from sinning, his toil will cease, and he shall live forever. Oh that we could arouse men, and be ourselves aroused along with them, to be as great lovers of the life that abides, as men are of that which passes away!
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<em>Credit "<a href="https://stoneswillshout.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/203_April2020.pdf">Stones Will Shout</a>"</em>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-92101314487670292932019-10-03T10:02:00.002-06:002019-10-03T10:02:52.115-06:00Does psalm 149:3 justify dancing at Mass?I've long wondered if the translation of the psalms is in some measure responsible for the strange notion that dancers have a place in Mass. Since Mass is the representation of the Sacrifice on Calvary, I just can not get wrapped around the idea that being present at the foot of the cross, with Jesus hanging there for my sins and those of the whole world, that it would be fitting and proper to have a troupe of dancers...<br />
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Let my just cite one (of several) occurrences in the psalter, and compare the translation of verse 3 as presented in the New American Bible, the Douay Rheims, and the underlying Vulgate.<br />
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<a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/psalms/" target="_blank"><strong>NAB</strong> - <em>Let them praise his name in <strong>dance</strong>, make music with tambourine and lyre</em>.</a>
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<em>Let them praise his name in <strong>choir</strong>: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery</em>.
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<a href="http://www.latinvulgate.com/lv/verse.aspx?t=0&b=21&c=149" target="_blank"><strong>Vulgate</strong> - <em>laudent nomen eius in <strong>choro</strong> in tympano et cithara cantent ei</em></a>
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So, full disclosure; I am not a Latinist, but rather one who wishes to understand what God through the agency of the scripture, the product of a human author through the agency of the Holy Spirit has to say to me. Unfortunately, I do not know the original language, and there are translators between me and the original inspired text. Hence, I may be receiving, in places, the bias of the translator rather than the inspired word of God.<br />
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I do know enough to know that the Council of Trent has declared the Latin Vulgate to be inerrant (as opposed to inspired) in matters faith and morals, and the sure guide to resolve differences of opinion. I only mention this, because the word in question, "<em><strong>choro</strong>"</em>, comes to us in the Latin Vulgate, and the translators have variously brought that forward into English, as either "dance" or "choir", both of which are found as translations in Latin/English dictionaries in common use over the last two centuries. Then again, there is a certain bias in the order different dictionaries present translations, the order not necessarily reflecting common usage.<br />
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What I'd like to suggest, is based on a look at St Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. Now admittedly, what we see today is a translation of the his original work, but what is compelling is that the translation clearly indicates he understood the meaning in terms of a choir of singers, not a troupe of dancers. Try to shoe-horn "dance" into what follows, and it becomes nonsensical.<br />
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4. “<em>Let them praise His Name in <strong>chorus</strong></em>” Psalm 149:3. What means “<em><strong>chorus</strong></em>”? Many know what a “<em><strong>chorus</strong></em>” is: nay, as we are speaking in a town, almost all know. A “<strong><em>chorus</em></strong>” is the union of singers. If we sing “<em>in <strong>chorus</strong></em>,” let us sing in concord. If any one's voice is out of harmony in a chorus of singers, it offends the ear, and throwes the chorus into confusion. If the voice of one echoing discordantly troubles the harmony of them who sing, how does the discord of heresy throw into confusion the harmony of them who praise. The whole world is now the chorus of Christ. The chorus of Christ sounds harmoniously from east to west. “<em>Let them sing a psalm unto Him with timbrel and psaltery</em>.” Wherefore takes he to him the “<em>timbrel and psaltery</em>”? That not the voice alone may praise, but the works too. When timbrel and psaltery are taken, the hands harmonize with the voice. So too do thou, whenever you sing, “<em>Halleluia</em>,” deal forth your bread to the hungry, clothe the naked, take in the stranger: then does not only your voice sound, but your hand sounds in harmony with it, for your deeds agree with your words. You have taken to you an instrument, and your fingers agree with your tongue. Nor must we keep back the mystical meaning of the “<em>timbrel and psaltery</em>.” On the timbrel leather is stretched, on the psaltery gut is stretched; on either instrument the flesh is crucified. How well did he “<em>sing a psalm on timbrel and psaltery</em>,” who said, “the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world”? Galatians 6:14 This psaltery or timbrel He wishes you to take up, who loves a new song, who teaches you, saying to you, “<em>Whosoever wills to be My disciple, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me</em>.” Matthew 16:24 Let him not set down his psaltery, let him not set down his timbrel, let him stretch himself out on the wood, and be dried from the lust of the flesh. The more the strings are stretched, the more sharply do they sound. The Apostle Paul then, in order that his psaltery might sound sharply, what said he? “<em>Stretching forth unto those things which are before</em>,” etc. Philippians 3:13 He stretched himself: Christ touched him; and the sweetness of truth sounded. </li>
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So even if we were to stipulate that the better translation is "dance", it remains a term that in English is much broader in meaning than the literal translation from classical Latin, which is a very limited subset of "dance" as understood in modern English, where it covers everything from a 1940s Broadway musical "chorus line" and a "square dance" all the way to a "pole dance". Since some parishes have devolved to the point of homo-erotic dances at Mass more akin to the last listed, it is my regret that the word was not simply transliterated (and left as "chorus") rather than be written as "dance", as it was in the Douay Rheims.<br />
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So dear Holy Father, if there is any schism, do consider that it is not a thing defined in political terms within the Church as she stands, but is rather between the Church Triumphant (and Suffering) and a significant part of those who are the Church Militant. And with a hat tip to canonist Ed Peters, no, this is not a schism per canon law, but one of the heart, as indeed I think the Holy Father (not one for canon law) sees it.Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-32084908688629559462019-08-29T17:18:00.001-06:002019-08-29T17:19:59.564-06:00Dr Seuss Goes to WarWe all love Dr Seuss for his wonderful children's' books, such as The Cat in the Hat. What most don't know is that he was a pro-war political cartoonist prior to the entry of the United States into WWII.<br />
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What many also don't know, is that the Catholic Priests, Fr Coughlin ("The Radio Priest") and Msgr Ryan did much to, in the public eye, equate the term "Social Justice" with Socialism. Lest you think Nazi Germany was anything but <em>National Socialism</em>, check out the following 1942 Dr Seuss cartoon:<br />
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This is from the book "Dr Seuss Goes to War (1999). Lots more interesting cartoons there!Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-12036875439781345632019-08-07T15:20:00.001-06:002019-08-07T15:21:17.936-06:00Book: From Luther to HitlerFulton Sheen's book "Philosophies at War" had a footnote to a book called "From Luther to Hitler" (1941). I recently ran across my copy, and was excited to find that the book is available to read online!
The author was Professor William Montgomery McGovern, whom some have proposed was the original type for Indian Jones. His exploits, interesting in their own right, pale when one looks at the philosophical trail he travels, from the thought of Martin Luther to the philosophical underpinnings of Nazi and Fascist ideology. I might add, also found deeply entrenched in our decadent western culture today.
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So, to save you spending $187 to purchase a used original copy, or the $40 Indian reprint, here's the link to read it online:
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-43598003186854039062019-01-15T11:16:00.003-07:002019-01-15T11:16:26.318-07:00[The following is an article I'm reprinting from <a href="https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/01/influential-editorial-declares-francis.html#more" target="_blank">Rorate Caeli</a> that I think is worthy of consideration]<br />
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<em><strong>Influential Editorial declares Francis Pontificate a "failure": Hope for an end to Hyper-Papalism</strong></em> <br />
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The very recent publication of the editorial by R.R. Reno, the editor of First Things, declaring the pontificate of Pope Francis a “failure” (<i><a href="https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/02/a-failing-papacy"><b><span style="color: grey;">"A Failing Papacy"</span></b></a></i>, Feb. 2019 issue), is both newsworthy and more importantly the beginning, we hope, of an intellectual examination of the present papacy that will result in an honest assessment of the present papacy and, one further hopes, a call for an end to the hyper-papalism of the past years—perhaps even over a century--, and a theological reassessment, based on the Tradition of the Church, of the nature and role of the papacy. <br />
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That the editor of First Things, which became for some years, in my personal assessment, an organ for the Neo-Conservative agenda, has written this editorial may not catch the attention of the New York Times, but certainly is significant among those Catholics who understand the Tradition of the Church and who have been and are greatly disturbed by the failure of this pontificate to articulate clearly and unambiguously the Catholic Faith in a time of political and cultural mass confusion. </div>
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Reno must be thanked for his courage and his clarity with regard to the current situation in the Church. Reno now understands that this papacy is not only not consonant with St John Paul II’s real attempt, grounded in the Tradition of the Church, to re-anchor the Catholic Faith in the person of Jesus Christ and the dogma of the Church after the threatened collapse of Church teaching and liturgical praxis after the Second Vatican Council. This papacy, with its lack of fidelity to the Tradition and its cheap and outdated appeals to Modern Man ironically at a time when Modernity no longer exists except in the Roman Curia who are still living in 1965, has lost touch with those Post-Modern men and women, especially youth, who are searching for what is real and true in the detritus of Modernity.</div>
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Not only has this pontiff and his coterie not articulated the Catholic faith both to faithful Catholics and to the disbelieving and hostile world, they also seem determined to accommodate the Catholic faith to the contemporary zeitgeist and all in the name of –mirablie dictu—mercy. And this mercy without the Cross of Jesus Christ. The very idea of a Savior of the world becomes not necessary when the very understanding of sin, central to Christianity, is emptied out by an anti-intellectualism and sentimentality that both deny the intellectual/doctrinal history of the Church and posit, in the words of one of the Pope’s more out spoken members of the inner circle, Fr. Thomas Rosica, a version of the Church that is presided over by a pope who is free from the demands of the Christian faith. This Canadian priest tells us that Pope Francis breaks Catholic traditions whenever he wants, because he is “free from disordered attachments. Our Church has indeed entered a new phase: with the advent of this first Jesuit pope, it is openly ruled by an individual rather than by the authority of Scripture alone or even its own dictates of tradition plus Scripture.” </div>
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This disordered lunacy could be an entertaining segment on a comedy show. But that such a statement does not cause Cardinals and Bishops to rise up and condemn such an unCatholic and unChristian statement is evidence both of the state of the Catholic hierarchy and of the intellectual level of those in charge of the Church (at least in charge in this world.) This is why we must hope that Reno’s editorial is the beginning of an intelligent and honest assessment of this papacy that espouses an agenda that certainly does not have Christ and His Cross at its center, and in fact, goes out of its way not to speak words like Savior, Redemption, the Way, the Truth and the Life, that refuses to speak about the difficulty of leading a moral life based on the teachings of Christ and His Church, and an agenda that refuses to preach and teach the radical nature of the Incarnation that changes human history forever and in one specific way –the Cross and Resurrection--that demands the attention of every man and woman in this world, demanding a decision that is ratified in eternity.<br /></div>
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-72782163172350105502018-12-29T15:04:00.000-07:002018-12-29T15:04:19.848-07:00Repentence: the necessary flip side of our duty to forgiveI just read the article about the testimony of the man who was sexually molested by Cardinal McCarrick in the confessional, starting at age 11. <br />
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I have this difficulty with <em>"cheap forgiveness", </em>a mainstay of the culture. Christians are not immune.<br />
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So I am providing some background on "forgiveness", something we are bound to do, but something that has suffered at the hands of the "therapeutic culture," where it has somehow morphed to become a variant of that "unconditional love" shibboleth that is always tossed out as a justification for sin.<br />
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In point of fact, while we are commanded by God to forgive, we are not commanded to be more forgiving than God, who is the penultimate "judgmental" Being who made us all, and stands ever ready to forgive us our sins if we repent and approach Him with (perfect or imperfect) contrition.<br />
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I will acknowledge that the therapeutic culture is right in on one respect. It frees the soul not to nurse anger over injury; however, there is nothing new in this (see the Trent Catechism entry below). On the other hand, the willingness to forgive, and ability to forget injury, are not the same as forgiving the one who did injury. We are asked to "be perfect, as our heavenly Father is perfect", and in this we are to stand ready to forgive. But we can no more forgive the unrepentant that God will forgive us if we are unrepentant. <br />
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It is true, we can and should with all charity pray to God and ask Him to forgive others, as Jesus, St Stephen, Moses, and Job did. But you will note: Jesus on the cross said "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." He did not forgive them, as he did so many other times ("<em>go, your sins are forgiven"</em>). In the material that follows, you will find exhortation to make intercessory prayer for those who have injured you.<br />
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What follows is, I hope, what might be a counter-cultural primer on forgiveness. It contains entries from the Catechism of Trent (used for the remarkable clarity), Scripture, St Augustine, and Denzinger. <br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew 6:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12 and
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FIFTH PETITION OF THE LORD'S PRAYER: </span></b></div>
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FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS, AS WE FORGIVE OUR DEBTORS" </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So many are the things which display at once God's infinite
power and His equally infinite wisdom and goodness, that wheresoever we turn
our eyes or direct our thoughts, we meet with the most certain signs of
omnipotence and benignity. And yet there is truly nothing that more eloquently
proclaims His supreme love and admirable charity towards us, than the
inexplicable mystery of the Passion of Jesus Christ, whence springs that never failing
fountain to wash away the defilements of sin. (It is this fountain) in which,
under the guidance and bounty of God, we desire to be merged and purified, when
we beg of Him to forgive us our debts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This Petition contains a sort of summary of those benefits
with which the human race has been enriched through Jesus Christ. This Isaias
taught when he said: The iniquity of the house of Jacob shall be forgiven; and
this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away. David also
shows this, proclaiming those blessed who could partake of that salutary fruit:
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pastor, therefore, should study and explain accurately
and diligently the meaning of this Petition, which, we perceive, is so
important to the attainment of salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this Petition we enter on a new manner of praying. For
hitherto we asked of God not only eternal and spiritual goods, but also
transient and temporal advantages; whereas, we now ask to be freed from the
evils of the soul and of the body, of this life and of the life to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since, however, to obtain what we ask we must pray in a
becoming manner, it appears expedient to explain the disposition with which
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comes to offer this Petition must first acknowledge, and next feel sorrow and
compunction for his sins. He must also be firmly convinced that to sinners,
thus disposed and prepared, God is willing to grant pardon. This confidence is
necessary to sinners, lest perhaps the bitter remembrance and acknowledgment of
their sins should be followed by that despair of pardon, which of old seized
the mind of Cain and of Judas, both of whom looked on God solely as an avenger
and punisher, forgetting that He is also mild and merciful. </span></div>
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that, acknowledging our sins in the bitterness of our souls, we may fly to God
as to a Father, not as to a Judge, imploring Him to deal with us not according
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listen to God Himself admonishing us through the Sacred Scriptures in this
regard. Thus we read in David: They are all gone aside; they are become
unprofitable together; there is none that doeth good, no not one. Solomon
speaks to the same purpose: There is no just man upon earth, that doth good,
and sinneth not. To this subject apply also these words: Who can say: "my
heart is clean, I am pure from sin?" The very same has been written by St.
John to deter men from arrogance: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Jeremias also says: Thou hast said:
"I am without sin, and am innocent"; and therefore, let thy anger be
turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgment, because thou
hast said: "I have not sinned."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christ the Lord, who spoke by the mouth of all these,
confirms their teaching by this Petition in which He commands us to confess our
sins. The Council of Milevi forbids us to interpret it otherwise. It hath
pleased the Council, that whosoever will have it that these words of the Lord's
prayer, "forgive us our debts," are said by holy men in humility, not
in truth, let him be anathema. For who can endure a person praying, and lying
not to men, but to the Lord Himself, saying with the lips that he desires to be
forgiven, but with the heart, that he has no debts to be forgiven?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sorrow
for Sin</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In making this necessary acknowledgment of our sins, it is
Dot enough to call them to mind lightly; for it is necessary that the
recollection of them be bitter, that it touch the heart, pierce the soul, and
imprint sorrow. Wherefore, the pastor should treat this point diligently, that
his pious hearers may not only recollect their sins, and iniquities, but
recollect them with pain and sorrow; so that with true interior contrition they
may betake themselves to God their Father, humbly imploring Him to pluck from
the soul the piercing stings of sin.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Motives
For Sorrow Over Sin: The Baseness Of Sin</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pastor, however, should not be content with placing
before the eyes of the faithful the turpitude of sin. He should also depict the
unworthiness and baseness of men, who, though nothing but rottenness and
corruption, dare to outrage in a manner beyond all belief the incomprehensible
majesty and ineffable excellence of God, particularly after having been
created, redeemed and enriched by Him with countless and invaluable benefits.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Consequences of Sin</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And for what? Only for this, that separating ourselves from
God our Father, who is the supreme Good, and lured by the most base rewards of
sin, we may devote ourselves to the devil, to become his most wretched slaves.
Language is inadequate to depict the cruel tyranny which the devil exercises
over those who, having shaken off the sweet yoke of God, and broken the most
lovely bond of charity by which our spirit is bound to God our Father, have
gone over to their relentless enemy, who is therefore called in Scripture, the
prince and ruler of the world, the prince of darkness, and king over all the
children of pride. Truly to those who are oppressed by the tyranny of the devil
apply these words of Isaias: O Lord our God, other lords besides thee have had
dominion over us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If these broken covenants of love do not move us, let at
least the calamities into which we fall by sin move us. The sanctity of the
soul is violated, which we know to have been wedded to Christ. That temple of
the Lord is profaned, against the contaminators of which the Apostle utters
this denunciation: If any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Innumerable are the evils brought upon man by sin, that
almost infinite pest of which David says: There is no health in my flesh,
because of thy wrath; there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins. In
these words he marks the violence of the plague, confessing that it left no
part of him uninfected by pestiferous sin; for the poison had penetrated into
his bones, that is, it infected his understanding and will, which are the two
most intimate faculties of the soul. This widespread pestilence the Sacred
Scriptures point out, when they designate sinners as the lame, the deaf, the
dumb, the blind, the paralyzed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, besides the anguish which he felt on account of the
enormity of his sins, David was afflicted yet more by the knowledge that he had
provoked the wrath of God against him by his sin. For the wicked are at war
with God, who is offended beyond belief at their crimes; hence the Apostle
says: Wrath and indignation, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man
that worketh evil. Although the sinful act is transient, yet the sin by its
guilt and stain remains; and the imminent wrath of God pursues it, as the shadow
does the body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When, therefore, David was pierced by these tormenting
thoughts, he was moved to seek the pardon of his sins. That the faithful,
imitating the Prophet, may learn to grieve, that is, to become truly penitent,
and cherish the hope of pardon, the pastor should call to their attention the
example of David's penitential sorrow, and the lessons of instruction drawn
from his fiftieth Psalm. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How great is the utility of this sort of instruction, which
teaches us to grieve for our sins, God Himself declares by the mouth of
Jeremias, who, when exhorting the Israelites to repentance, admonished them to
awake to a sense of the evils that follow upon sin. See, he says, that it is an
evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my
fear is not with thee, saith the Lord, the God of hosts. They who lack this
necessary sense of acknowledgment and grief, are said by the Prophets Isaias,
Ezechiel and Zachary to have a hard heart, a stony heart, a heart of adamant,
for, like stone, they are softened by no sorrow, having no sense of life, that
is, of the salutary recognition (of their sinfulness).</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Confidence
in God's Mercy</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But lest the faithful, terrified by the grievousness of
their sins, despair of being able to obtain pardon, the pastor ought to
encourage them to hope by the following considerations. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s is declared in an Article of the Creed, Christ the Lord
has given power to the Church to remit sins.</span></span><br />
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Furthermore, in this Petition, our Lord has taught how great
is the goodness and bounty of God towards mankind; for if God were not ready
and prepared to pardon penitents their sins, never would He have prescribed
this formula of prayer: Forgive us our trespass. Wherefore we ought to be
firmly convinced, that since He commands us in this Petition to implore His
paternal mercy, He will not fail to bestow it on us. For this Petition
assuredly implies that God is so disposed towards us, as willingly to pardon
those who are truly penitent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God it is against whom, having cast off obedience, we sin;
the order of whose wisdom we disturb, as far as in us lies; whom we offend;
whom we outrage by words and deeds. But it is also God, our most beneficent
Father, who, having it in His power to pardon all transgressions, has not only
declared His willingness to do so, but has also obliged men to ask Him for
pardon, and has taught in what words they are to do so. To no one, therefore,
can it be a matter of doubt, that under His guidance it is in our power to be
reconciled to God. And as this declaration of the divine willingness to pardon
increases faith, nurtures hope and inflames charity, it will be worth while to
amplify this subject, by citing some Scriptural authorities and some examples
of penitents to whom God granted pardon of the most grievous crimes. Since,
however, in the introduction to the Lord's Prayer and in that portion of the
Creed which teaches the forgiveness of sins, we were as diffuse on the subject
as circumstances allowed, the pastor will borrow from those places whatever may
seem pertinent for instruction on this point, for the rest drawing on the
fountains of the Sacred Scriptures.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Debts"</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pastor should also follow the same plan which we thought
should be used in the other Petitions. Let him explain, then, what the word
debts here signifies, lest perhaps the faithful, deceived by its ambiguity,
pray for something different from what should be prayed for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, then, we are to know, that we by no means ask for
exemption from the debt we owe to God on so many accounts, the payment of which
is essential to salvation, namely, that of loving Him with our whole heart, our
whole soul, and our whole mind; neither do we ask to be in future exempt from
the duties of obedience, worship, veneration, or any other similar obligation,
comprised also under the word debts.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What we do ask is that He may deliver us from sins. This is
the interpretation of St. Luke, who, instead of debts, makes use of the word
sins, because by their commission we become guilty before God and incur a debt
of punishment, which we must pay either by satisfaction or by suffering. It was
of this debt that Christ the Lord spoke by the mouth of His Prophet: Then did I
pay that which I took not away. From these words of God we may understand that
we are not only debtors, but also unequal to the payment of our debt, the
sinner being of himself utterly incapable of making satisfaction.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wherefore we must fly to the mercy of God; and as justice,
of which God is most tenacious, is an equal and corresponding attribute to
mercy, we must make use of prayer, and the intercession of the Passion of our
Lord Jesus Christ, without which no one ever obtained the pardon of his sins,
and from which, as from its source, have flown all the efficacy and virtue of
satisfaction. For of such value is that price paid by Christ the Lord on the
cross, and communicated to us through the Sacraments, received either actually
or in purpose and desire, that it obtains and accomplishes for us the pardon of
our sins, which is the object of our prayer in this Petition.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here we ask pardon not only for our venial offences, for
which pardon may most easily be obtained, but also for grievous and mortal
sins. With regard to grave sins, however, this Petition cannot procure
forgiveness unless it derive that efficacy from the Sacrament of Penance,
received, as we have already said, either actually or at least in desire.'</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Our"</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The words our debts are used here in a sense entirely
different from that in which we said our bread. That bread is ours, because it
is given us by the munificence of God; whereas sins are ours, because with us
rests their guilt. They are our voluntary acts, otherwise they would not have
the character of sin.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Admitting, therefore, and confessing the guilt of our sins,
we implore the clemency of God, which is necessary for their expiation. In this
we make use of no palliation whatever, nor do we transfer the blame to others,
as did our first parents Adam and Eve. We judge ourselves, employing, if we are
wise, the prayer of the Prophet: Incline not my heart to evil words, to make
excuses in sins.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Forgive
Us"</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor do we say, forgive me, but forgive us; because the
fraternal relationship and charity which subsist between all men, demand of
each of us that, being solicitous for the salvation of all our neighbors, we
pray also for them while offering prayers for ourselves.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This manner of praying, taught by Christ the Lord, and
subsequently received and always retained by the Church of God, the Apostles
most strictly observed themselves and taught others to observe. </span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of this ardent zeal and earnestness in praying for the
salvation of our neighbors, we have the splendid example of Moses in the Old,
and of St. Paul in the New Testament. The former besought God thus: Either
forgive them this trespass; or, if thou dost not, strike me out of the book
that thou hast written; ' while the latter prayed after this manner: I wished
myself to be anathema from Christ for my brethren.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"As
we Forgive our Debtors"</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The word as may be understood in two senses. It may be taken
as having the force of a comparison, meaning that we beg of God to pardon us
our sins, just as we pardon the wrongs and contumelies which we receive from
those by whom we have been injured. It may also be understood as denoting a
condition, and in this sense Christ the Lord interprets that formula. If, He
says, you forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will also forgive
you your offences; but if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father
forgive you your sins.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Either sense, however, equally contains the necessity of
forgiveness, intimating, as it does that, if we desire that God should grant us
the pardon of our offences, we ourselves must pardon those from whom we have
received injury; for so rigorously does God exact from us forgetfulness of
injuries and mutual affection and love, that He rejects and despises the gifts
and sacrifices of those who are not reconciled to one another.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Necessity
of Forgiveness</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even the law of nature requires that we conduct ourselves
towards others as we would have them conduct themselves towards us; hence he
would be most impudent who would ask of God the pardon of his own offences
while he continued to cherish enmity against his neighbor.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those, therefore, on whom injuries have been inflicted,
should be ready and willing to pardon, urged to it as they are by this form of
prayer, and by the command of God in St. Luke: If thy brother sin against thee,
reprove him; and if he repent, forgive him; and if he sin against thee seven
times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, "I
repent," forgive him. In the Gospel of St. Matthew we read: Love your
enemies; and the Apostle, and before him Solomon wrote: If thy enemy be hungry,
give him to eat; if he thirst, give him to drink; and finally we read in the
Gospel of St. Mark: When you shall stand to pray, forgive if you have anything
against any man; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your
sins.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reasons
for Forgiveness</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But since, on account of the corruption of nature, there is
nothing to which man brings himself more reluctantly than to the pardon of
injuries, let pastors exert all the powers and resources of their minds to
change and bend the dispositions of the faithful to this mildness and mercy so
necessary to a Christian. Let them dwell on those passages of Scripture in
which we hear God commanding to pardon enemies.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let them also insist on this certain truth, that one of the
surest signs that men are children of God is their willingness to forgive
injuries and sincerely love their enemies; for in loving our enemies there
shines forth in us some likeness to God our Father, who, by the death of His
Son, ransomed from everlasting perdition and reconciled to Himself the human
race, which before was most unfriendly and hostile to Him.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let the close of this exhortation and injunction be the
command of Christ the Lord, which, without utter disgrace and ruin, we cannot
refuse to obey: Pray for them that persecute and calumniate you; that you may
be the children of your Father who is in heaven. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
Petition Should Not be Neglected</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But in this matter no ordinary prudence is required on the
part of the pastor, lest, knowing the difficulty and necessity of this precept,
anyone despair of salvation.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those
Unable To Forget Injuries</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are those who, aware that they ought to bury injuries
in voluntary oblivion and ought to love those that injure them, desire to do
so, and do so as far as they are able, but feel that they cannot efface from
their mind all recollection of injuries. For there lurk in the mind some
remains of private grudge, in consequence of which such persons are disturbed
by misgivings of conscience, fearing that they have not in simplicity and
frankness laid aside their enmities and consequently do not obey the command of
God. </span></div>
<br /><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here, therefore, the pastor should explain the contrary
desires of the flesh and of the spirit; that the former is prone to revenge,
the latter ready to pardon; that hence a continual struggle and conflict goes
on between them. Wherefore he should point out that although the appetites of
corrupt nature are ever opposing and rebelling against reason, we are not on
this account to be uneasy regarding salvation, provided the spirit persevere in
the duty and disposition of forgiving injuries and of loving our neighbor. </span></div>
<br /><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those
Who Do Not Love Their Enemies</span></b></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There may be some who, because they have not yet been able
to bring themselves to forget injuries and to love their enemies, are
consequently deterred by the condition contained in this Petition from making
use of the Lord's Prayer. To remove from their minds this pernicious error, the
pastor should adduce the two following considerations.</span></div>
<br /><br />
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 4pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(In the first place), whoever belongs to the number of the
faithful, offers this prayer in the name of the entire Church, in which there
must necessarily be some pious persons who have forgiven their debtors the
debts here mentioned.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Secondly, when we ask this favor from God, we also ask for
whatever cooperation with the Petition is necessary on our part in order to obtain
the object of our prayer. Thus we ask the pardon of our sins and the gift of
true repentance; we pray for the grace of inward sorrow; we beg that we may be
able to abhor our sins, and confess them truly and piously to the priest.
Since, then, it is necessary for us to forgive those who have inflicted on us
any loss or injury, when we ask pardon of God we beg of Him at the same time to
grant us grace to be reconciled to those against whom we harbor hatred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those, therefore, who are troubled by that groundless and
perverse fear, that by this prayer they provoke still more the wrath of God,
should be undeceived and should be exhorted to make frequent use of a prayer in
which they beseech God our Father to grant them the disposition to forgive
those who have injured them and to love their enemies.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
to Make this Petition Fruitful</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Penitential
Dispositions</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But that this Petition may be really fruitful we should
first seriously reflect that we are suppliants before God, soliciting from Him
pardon, which is not granted but to the penitent; and that we should,
therefore, be animated by that charity and piety which are fitting in
penitents, whom it eminently becomes to keep before their eyes, as it were,
their own crimes and enormities and to expiate them with tears.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avoidance
of Dangers Of Sin</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To this thought should be joined caution in guarding for the
future against every occasion of sin, and against whatever I nay expose us to
the danger of offending God our Father. With this solicitude the mind of David
was occupied when he said: My sin is always before me; and: Every night I will
wash my bed; I will water my couch with my tears.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Imitation
of Fervent Penitents</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let each one also call to mind the ardent love of prayer of
those who obtained from God through their entreaties the pardon of their sins.
Such was the publican, who, standing afar off through shame and grief, and with
eyes fixed on the ground, only smote his breast, crying: O God, be merciful to
me, a sinner. Such was also the woman, a sinner, who, standing behind Christ
the Lord, washed His feet, wiped them with her hair, and kissed them. Lastly,
there is the example of Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, who going forth wept
bitterly.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Frequent
Use of The Sacraments</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They should next consider that the weaker men are, and the
more liable to diseases of the soul, which are sins, the more numerous and
frequent are the remedies they need. Now the remedies of a sick soul are
Penance and the Eucharist; these, therefore, the faithful should frequently
make use of.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almsdeeds</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Next almsdeeds, as the Sacred Scriptures declare, are a
medicine suited to heal the wounds of the soul. Wherefore, let those who desire
to make pious use of this prayer act kindly to the poor according to their
means. Of the great efficacy of alms in effacing the stains of sin, the Angel
of the Lord in Tobias, holy Raphael, is a witness, who says: Alms deliver from
death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy
and life everlasting. Daniel is another witness, who thus admonished King Nabuchodonosor:
Redeem thou thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy to the
poor.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Spirit of Forgiveness</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The best alms and the most excellent act of mercy is
forgetfulness of injuries, and good will towards those who have injured us or
ours, in person, in property, or in character. Whoever, therefore, desires to
experience in a special manner the mercy of God, should make an offering to God
Himself of all his enmities, remit every offence, and pray for his enemies with
the greatest good will, seizing every opportunity of doing them good. But as
this subject was explained when we treated of murder, we refer the pastor to
that place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pastor ought to conclude his explanation of this
Petition with this final reflection, that nothing is, or can be conceived, more
unjust than that he who is so rigorous towards men as to extend indulgence to
no one, should himself demand that God be mild and kind towards him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.catholicapologetics.info/thechurch/catechism/TheLordsPrayer05.shtml"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.catholicapologetics.info/thechurch/catechism/TheLordsPrayer05.shtml</span></a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT: "<i>Thou
shalt not kill</i>"</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Importance
of Instruction on This Commandment </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The great happiness proposed to the peacemakers, of being
called the children of God, should prove a powerful incentive to the pastor to
explain to the faithful with care and accuracy the obligations imposed by this
Commandment. No means more efficacious can be adopted to promote peace among
mankind, than the proper explanation of this Commandment and its holy and due
observance by all. Then might we hope that men, united in the strictest bonds
of union, would live in perfect peace and concord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The necessity of explaining this Commandment is proved from
the following. Immediately after the earth was overwhelmed in universal deluge,
this was the first prohibition made by God to man. I will require the blood of
your lives, He said, at the hand of every beast and at the hand of man. In the
next place, among the precepts of the Old Law expounded by our Lord, this
Commandment was mentioned first by Him; concerning which it is written in the
Gospel of St. Matthew: It has been said thou shalt not kill, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The faithful, on their part, should hear with willing
attention the explanation of this Commandment, since its purpose is to protect
the life of each one. These words, Thou shalt not kill, emphatically forbid
homicide; and they should be heard by all with the same pleasure as if God,
expressly naming each individual, were to prohibit injury to be offered him
under a threat of the divine anger and the heaviest chastisements. As, then,
the announcement of this Commandment must be heard with pleasure, so also
should the avoidance of the sin which it forbids give pleasure.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two
Parts of This Commandment</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the explanation of this Commandment the Lord points out
its twofold obligation. The one is prohibitory and forbids us to kill; the
other is mandatory and commands us to cherish sentiments of charity, concord
and friendship towards our enemies, to have peace with all men, and finally, to
endure with patience every inconvenience. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Prohibitory Part of this Commandment</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exceptions:
The Killing of Animals</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With regard to the prohibitory part, it should first be
taught what kinds of killing are not forbidden by this Commandment. It is not
prohibited to kill animals; for if God permits man to eat them, it is also
lawful to kill them. When, says St. Augustine, we hear the words, "Thou
shalt not kill," we do not understand this of the fruits of the earth,
which are insensible, nor of irrational animals, which form no part of human
society. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Execution
of Criminals</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil
authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and
judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent.
The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act
of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder. The end of
the Commandment is the preservation and security of human life. Now the
punishments inflicted by the civil authority, which is the legitimate avenger
of crime, naturally tend to this end, since they give security to life by
repressing outrage and violence. Hence these words of David: In the morning I
put to death all the wicked of the land, that I might cut off all the workers
of iniquity from the city of the Lord.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Killing
in a Just War</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In like manner, the soldier is guiltless who, actuated not
by motives of ambition or cruelty, but by a pure desire of serving the
interests of his country, takes away the life of an enemy in a just war.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Furthermore, there are on record instances of carnage
executed by the special command of God. The sons of Levi, who put to death so
many thousands in one day, were guilty of no sin; when the slaughter had
ceased, they were addressed by Moses in these words: You have consecrated your
hands this day to the Lord. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Killing
by Accident</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Again, death caused, not by intent or design, but by
accident, is not murder. He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, says the book
of Deuteronomy, and who is proved to have had no hatred against him yesterday
and the day before, but to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in
cutting down the tree the axe slipt out of his hand, and the iron slipping from
the handle struck his friend and killed him, shall live. Such accidental
deaths, because inflicted without intent or design, involve no guilt whatever,
and this is confirmed by the words of St. Augustine: God forbid that what we do
for a good and lawful end shall be imputed to us, if, contrary to our
intention, evil thereby befall any one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are, however, two cases in which guilt attaches (to
accidental death). The first case is when death results from an unlawful act;
when, for instance, a person kicks or strikes a woman in a state of pregnancy,
and abortion follows. The consequence, it is true, may not have been intended,
but this does not exculpate the offender, because the act of striking a
pregnant woman is in itself unlawful. The other case is when death is caused by
negligence, carelessness or want of due precaution.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Killing
in Self-Defence</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If a man kill another in self-defence, having used every
means consistent with his own safety to avoid the infliction of death, he
evidently does not violate this Commandment.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Negative
Part of This Commandment Forbids Murder And Suicide </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The above are the cases in which life may be taken without
violating this Commandment; and with these exceptions all other killing is
forbidden, whether we consider the person who kills, the person killed, or the
means used to kill.</span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As to the person who kills, the Commandment recognizes no
exception whatever, be he rich or powerful, master or parent. All, without
exception or distinction, are forbidden to kill. </span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With regard to the person killed, the law extends to all.
There is no individual, however humble or lowly his condition, whose life is
not shielded by this law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It also forbids suicide. No man possesses such power over
his own life as to be at liberty to put himself to death. Hence we find that
the Commandment does not say: Thou shalt not kill another, but simply: Thou
shalt not kill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, if we consider the numerous means by which murder
may be committed, the law admits of no exception. Not only does it forbid to
take away the life of another by laying violent hands on him, by means of a
sword, a stone, a stick, a halter, or by administering poison; but also
strictly prohibits the accomplishment of the death of another by counsel,
assistance, help or any other means whatever.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sinful
Anger Is Also Forbidden By the Fifth Commandment </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Jews, with singular dullness of apprehension, thought
that to abstain from taking life with their own hands was enough to satisfy the
obligation imposed by this Commandment. But the Christian, instructed in the
interpretation of Christ, has learned that the precept is spiritual, and that
it commands us not only to keep our hands unstained, but our hearts pure and
undefiled; hence what the Jews regarded as quite sufficient, is not sufficient
at all. For the Gospel has taught that it is unlawful even to be angry with
anyone: But I say to you that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in
danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, "Raca,"
shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, "Thou
fool," shall be in danger of hell fire. From these words it clearly
follows that he who is angry with his brother is not free from sin, even though
he conceals his resentment; that he who gives indication of his wrath sins
grievously; and that he who does not hesitate to treat another with harshness,
and to utter contumelious reproaches against him, sins still more grievously. </span></div>
<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This, however, is to be understood of cases in which no just
cause of anger exists. God and His laws permit us to be angry when we chastise
the faults of those who are subject to us. For the anger of a Christian should
spring from the Holy Spirit and not from carnal impulse, seeing that we should
be temples of the Holy Ghost, in which Jesus Christ may dwell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Lord has left us many other lessons of instruction with
regard to the perfect observance of this law, such as Not to resist evil; but
if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other. And if a man
will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak
also unto him; and whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him two.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remedies
Against the Violation of this Commandment </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From what has been said, it is easy to see how inclined man
is to those sins which are prohibited by this Commandment, and how many are
guilty of murder, if not in fact, at least in desire. As, then, the Sacred
Scriptures prescribe remedies for so dangerous a disease, the pastor should
spare no pains in making them known to the faithful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of these remedies the most efficacious is to form a just
conception of the wickedness of murder. The enormity of this sin is manifest
from many and weighty passages of Holy Scripture. So much does God abominate
homicide that He declares in Holy Writ that of the very beast of the field He
will exact vengeance for the life of man, commanding the beast that injures man
to be put to death. And if (the Almighty) commanded man to have a horror of
blood,' He did so for no other reason than to impress on his mind the
obligation of entirely refraining, both in act and desire, from the enormity of
homicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The murderer is the worst enemy of his species, and
consequently of nature. To the utmost of his power he destroys the universal work
of God by the destruction of man, since God declares that He created all things
for man's sake. Nay, as it is forbidden in Genesis to take human life, because
God created man to his own image and likeness, he who makes away with God's
image offers great injury to God, and almost seems to lay violent hands on God
Himself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">David, thinking of this with a mind divinely illumined,
complained bitterly of the bloodthirsty in these words: Their feet are swift to
shed blood. He does not simply say, they kill, but, they shed blood, words
which serve to mark the enormity of that execrable crime and to denote the
barbarous cruelty of the murderer. With a view also to describe in particular
how the murderer is precipitated by the impulse of the devil into the commission
of such a crime, he says: Their feet are swift.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Positive
Part of this commandment</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love
of Neighbor Inculcated</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The mandatory part of this Commandment, as Christ our Lord
enjoins, requires that we have peace with all men. Interpreting the Commandment
He says: If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember
that thy brother hath anything against thee; leave there thy offering before
the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother, and then coming thou
shalt offer thy gift, etc. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Charity
to All Commanded</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In explaining this admonition, the pastor should show that
it inculcates the duty of charity towards all without exception. In his
instruction on the precept he should exhort the faithful as much as possible to
the practice of this virtue, since it is especially included in this precept.
For since hatred is clearly forbidden by this Commandment, as whosoever hateth
his brother is a murderer, it follows, as an evident consequence, that the
Commandment also inculcates charity and love.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Patience,
Beneficence and Mildness Commanded </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And since the Commandment inculcates charity and love, it
must also enjoin all those duties and good offices which follow in their train.
Charity is patient, says St. Paul. We are therefore commanded patience, in
which, as the Redeemer teaches, we shall possess our souls. Charity is kind;
beneficence is, therefore, the friend and companion of charity. The virtue of
beneficence and kindness has a great range. Its principal offices are to
relieve the wants of the poor, to feed the hungry, to give drink to the
thirsty, to clothe the naked; and in all these acts of beneficence we should
proportion our liberality to the wants and necessities of those we help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These works of beneficence and goodness, in themselves
exalted, become still more illustrious when done towards an enemy; for our
Savior says: Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, which also the
Apostle enjoins in these words: If thine enemy be hungry, give him to eat: if
he thirst, give hint to drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire
on his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, if we consider the law of charity, which is kind,
we shall be convinced that to practice the good offices of mildness, clemency,
and other kindred virtues, is a duty prescribed by that law.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Forgiveness
of Injuries Commanded</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the most important duty of all, and that which is the
fullest expression of charity, and to the practice of which we should most
habituate ourselves, is to pardon and forgive from the heart the injuries which
we may have received from others. The Sacred Scriptures, as we have already
observed, frequently admonish and exhort us to a full compliance with this
duty. Not only do they pronounce blessed those who do this, but they also
declare that God grants pardon to those who really fulfil this duty, while He
refuses pardon to those who neglect it, or refuse to obey it. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
to Persuade Men to Forgive Injuries</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the desire of revenge is almost natural to man, it
becomes necessary for the pastor to exert his utmost diligence not only to
instruct, but also earnestly to persuade the faithful, that a Christian should
forgive and forget injuries; and as this is a duty frequently inculcated by
sacred writers, he should consult them on the subject, in order to be able to
subdue the pertinacity of those whose minds are obstinately bent on revenge,
and he should have ready the forcible and appropriate arguments which those
Fathers piously employed. The three following considerations, however, demand
particular exposition.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All
We Have to Endure Comes From God</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, he who thinks himself injured ought above all to be
persuaded that the man on whom he desires to be revenged was not the principal
cause of the loss or injury. Thus that admirable man, Job, when violently
injured by the Sabeans, the Chaldeans, and by Satan, took no account of these,
but as a righteous and very holy man exclaimed with no less truth than piety:
The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away. The words and the example of that man
of patience should, therefore, convince Christians, and the conviction is most
just, that whatever chastisements we endure in this life come from the hand of
God, the Father and Author of all justice and mercy. He chastises us not as
enemies, but, in His infinite goodness, corrects us as children. To view the
matter in its true light, men, in these cases, are nothing more than the
ministers and agents of God. One man, it is true, may cherish the worst
feelings towards another, he may harbour the most malignant hatred against him;
but, without the permission of God, he can do him no injury. This is why Joseph
was able patiently to endure the wicked counsels of his brethren, and David,
the injuries inflicted on him by Semei.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here also applies an argument which St. Chrysostom has ably
and learnedly handled. It is that no man is injured but by himself. Let the
man, who considers himself injured by another, consider the matter in the right
way and he will certainly find that he has received no injury or loss from
others. For although he may have experienced injury from external causes, he is
himself his greatest enemy by wickedly staining his soul with hatred,
malevolence and envy.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Advantages
of Forgiveness</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The second consideration is that there are two advantages,
which are the special rewards of those, who, influenced by a holy desire to
please God, freely forgive injuries. In the first place, God has promised that
he who forgives, shall himself obtain forgiveness of sins, a promise which
clearly shows how acceptable to God is this duty of piety. In the next place,
the forgiveness of injuries ennobles and perfects our nature; for by it man is
in some degree made like to God, Who maketh his sun to shine on the good and
the bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Disadvantages
of Revenge</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally, the disadvantages which arise from the refusal to
pardon others are to be explained. The pastor, therefore, should place before
the eyes of the unforgiving man that hatred is not only a grievous sin, but
also that the longer it is indulged the more deeply rooted it becomes. The man,
of whose heart this passion has once taken possession, thirsts for the blood of
his enemy. Filled with the hope of revenge, he will spend his days and nights
brooding over some evil design, so that his mind seems never to rest from
malignant projects, or even from thoughts of blood. Thus it follows that never,
or at least not without extreme difficulty, can he be induced generously to
pardon an offence, or even to mitigate his hostility. Justly, therefore, is
hatred compared to a wound in which the weapon remains firmly embedded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Moreover, there are many evil consequences and sins which
are linked together with this one sin of hatred. Hence these words of St. John:
He that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and
knoweth not whither he goeth; because the darkness hath blinded his eyes. He
must, therefore, frequently fall; for how can anyone view in a favorable light
the words or actions of him whom he hates? Hence arise rash and unjust
judgments, anger, envy, detractions, and other evils of the same sort, in which
are often involved those who are connected by ties of friendship or blood; and
thus does it frequently happen that this one sin is the prolific source of
many.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not without good reason is hatred called the sin of the
devil. The devil was a murderer from the beginning; and hence our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, when the Pharisees sought His life, said that they were
begotten of their father the devil.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remedies
Against Hatred</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Besides the reasons already adduced, which afford good
grounds for detesting this sin, other and most suitable remedies are prescribed
in the pages of Holy Writ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of these remedies the first and greatest is the example of
the Redeemer, which we should set before our eyes as a model for imitation. For
He, in whom even suspicion of fault could not be found, when scourged with
rods, crowned with thorns, and finally nailed to a cross, uttered that most
charitable prayer: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And as
the Apostle testifies: The sprinkling of his blood speaketh better than Abel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another remedy, prescribed by Ecclesiasticus, is to call to
mind death and judgment: Remember thy last end, and. thou shalt never
sin." As if he had said: Reflect frequently and again and again that you
must soon die, and since at death there will be nothing you desire or need more
than great mercy from God, that now you should keep that mercy always before
your mind. Thus the cruel desire for revenge will be extinguished; for you can
discover no means better adapted, none more efficacious to obtain the mercy of
God than the forgiveness of injuries and love towards those who in word or deed
may have injured you or yours.</span></div>
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<span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love (St. Augustine)</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapter
73. The Greatest of All Alms is to Forgive Our Debtors and to Love Our Enemies.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">But none of those is greater than to forgive from the
heart a sin that has been committed against us. For it is a comparatively small
thing to wish well to, or even to do good to, a man who has done no evil to
you. It is a much higher thing, and is the result of the most exalted goodness,
to love your enemy, and always to wish well to, and when you have the
opportunity, to do good to, the man who wishes you ill, and, when he can, does
you harm. This is to obey the command of God: Love your enemies, do good to
them that hate you, and pray for them which persecute you. But seeing that this
is a frame of mind only reached by the perfect sons of God, and that though
every believer ought to strive after it, and by prayer to God and earnest
struggling with himself endeavor to bring his soul up to this standard, yet a
degree of goodness so high can hardly belong to so great a multitude as we
believe are heard when they use this petition, Forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors; in view of all this, it cannot be doubted that the implied
undertaking is fulfilled if a man, though he has not yet attained to loving his
enemy, yet, when asked by one who has sinned against him to forgive him his
sin, does forgive him from his heart. For he certainly desires to be himself forgiven
when he prays, as we forgive our debtors, that is, Forgive us our debts when we
beg forgiveness, as we forgive our debtors when they beg forgiveness from us.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapter
74. God Does Not Pardon the Sins of Those Who Do Not from the Heart Forgive
Others.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, he who asks forgiveness of the man against whom he
has sinned, being moved by his sin to ask forgiveness, cannot be counted an
enemy in such a sense that it should be as difficult to love him now as it was
when he was engaged in active hostility. And the man who does not from his
heart forgive him who repents of his sin, and asks forgiveness, need not
suppose that his own sins are forgiven of God. For the Truth cannot lie. And
what reader or hearer of the Gospel can have failed to notice, that the same
person who said, I am the Truth, taught us also this form of prayer; and in
order to impress this particular petition deeply upon our minds, said, For if
you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;
but if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive
your trespasses? The man whom the thunder of this warning does not awaken is
not asleep, but dead; and yet so powerful is that voice, that it can awaken
even the dead. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://newadvent.org/fathers/1302.htm"><span style="color: blue;">http://newadvent.org/fathers/1302.htm</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke 17:3-4 (RSV)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he
repents, forgive him;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">if
he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and
says, 'I repent,' you must forgive him</b>."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Matthew 18:15-35 (New American Bible)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">15 “If your brother sins [against you], go and tell him
his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over
your brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he does not listen,
take one or two others along with you, so that ‘every fact may be established
on the testimony of two or three witnesses.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to
listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax
collector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen, I say to you, whatever
you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>l Again,
[amen,] I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they
are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then Peter approaching asked him<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,
“Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as
seven times?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus answered, “I say to
you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a
king who decided to settle accounts with his servants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he began the accounting, a debtor was
brought before him who owed him a huge amount.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be
sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of
the debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that, the servant fell
down, did him homage, and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in
full.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moved with compassion the master
of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When that servant had left, he found one of
his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and
started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Falling to his knees, his fellow servant
begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he refused. Instead, he had him put in
prison until he paid back the debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed, and
went to their master and reported the whole affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You
wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Should you not have had pity on your fellow
servant, as I had pity on you?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then in
anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the
whole debt<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. So will my heavenly Father
do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart</b>.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke 15:11-32 (New American Bible)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he said, “A
man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me the
share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the
property between them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a few days,
the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country
where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation. When he had
freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found
himself in dire need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he hired
himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the
swine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he longed to eat his fill of
the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of
my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I,
dying from hunger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I shall get up and go
to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and
against you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I no longer deserve to be
called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.”’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he got up and went back to his father.
While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was
filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned
against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your
son.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But his father ordered his
servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his
finger and sandals on his feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take the
fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, because
this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has
been found.’ Then the celebration began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now the older son had been out in the field and, on his way back, as he
neared the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing. He called one of the
servants and asked what this might mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has returned and your father has
slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ He
became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and
pleaded with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said to his father
in reply, ‘Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your
orders; yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends.
But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for
him you slaughter the fattened calf.’ He said to him, ‘My son, you are here
with me always; everything I have is yours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead
and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not
deadly, he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for those
whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do
not say that you should pray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray
for those who persecute you,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that you
may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad
and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For if you love those who love you, what recompense
will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if you greet your brothers only, what is
unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father
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they are, continued the LORD to Moses. Let me alone, then, that my anger may
burn against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation. But
Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, “Why, O LORD, should your anger burn
against your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power
and with a strong hand? Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent he
brought them out, that he might kill them in the mountains and wipe them off
the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning wrath; change your mind about
punishing your people. Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and
how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants
as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will
give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’” So the LORD changed his
mind about the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people. </span></div>
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Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My anger blazes against you and
your two friends! You have not spoken rightly concerning me, as has my servant
Job. So now take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and
sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves, and let my servant Job pray for you.
To him I will show favor, and not punish your folly, for you have not spoken
rightly concerning me, as has my servant Job.” Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and
Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the LORD had
commanded them. The LORD showed favor to Job. </span></div>
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“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Then he fell to his knees and cried out in a
loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them”; and when he said this,
he fell asleep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Dz 897 Contrition, which has the first place among the
aforementioned acts of the penitent, is a sorrow of the soul and a detestation
of sin committed, with a determination of not sinning in the future. This
feeling of contrition is, moreover, necessary at all times to obtain the
forgiveness of sins, and thus for a person who has fallen after baptism it
especially prepares for the remission of sins, if it is united with trust in
divine mercy and with the desire of performing the other things required to
receive this sacrament correctly. The holy Synod, therefore, declares that this
contrition includes not only cessation from sin and a resolution and a
beginning of a new life, but also hatred of the old, according to this
statement: "Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have
transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit" (Ez
18,31). And certainly, he who has considered those lamentations of the saints:
"To Thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before Thee" (Ps
50,6); "I have labored in my groanings; I shall wash my bed every
night" (Ps 6,7); "I will recount to Thee all my years in the
bitterness of my soul" (Is 38,15), and others of this kind, will readily
understand that they emanate from a certain vehement hatred of past life and
from a profound detestation of sins.</span></div>
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sometimes happens that this contrition is perfect because of charity and
reconciles man to God, before this sacrament is actually received, this
reconciliation nevertheless must not be ascribed to the contrition itself
without the desire of the sacrament which is included in it. That imperfect
contrition [can. 5] which is called attrition, since it commonly arises either
from the consideration of the baseness of sin or from fear of hell and its
punishments, if it renounces the desire of sinning with the hope of pardon, the
Synod declares, not only does not make a person a hypocrite and a greater
sinner' but is even a gift of God and an impulse of the Holy Spirit, not indeed
as already dwelling in the penitent, but only moving him, assisted by which the
penitent prepares a way for himself unto justice. And though without the
sacrament of penance it cannot <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per se</i>
lead the sinner to justification, nevertheless it does dispose him to obtain
the grace of God in the sacrament of penance. For the Ninivites, struck in a
salutary way by this fear in consequence of the preaching of Jonas which was
full of terror, did penance and obtained mercy from the Lord (cf. Jon 3). For
this reason, therefore, do some falsely accuse Catholic writers, as if they
taught that the sacrament of penance confers grace without any pious endeavor
on the part of those who receive it, a thing which the Church of God has never
taught or pronounced. Moreover, they also falsely teach that contrition is
extorted and forced, and that it is not free and voluntary [can. 5]</span></div>
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the parts of penance has been recommended by our Fathers to the Christian
people in all ages, and which is especially assailed in our day under the
pretext of piety by those who "have an appearance of piety, but who have
denied the power thereof" (2Tm 3,51), the holy Synod declares that it is
absolutely false and contrary to the word of God that the guilt is never
forgiven by the Lord without the entire punishment also being remitted [can.
12, 15]. For clear and illustrious examples are found in the Sacred Writings
(cf. Gn 3,16 f.; Nb 12,14 f.; Nb 20,11 f.; 2S 12,13). f., etc.], besides which
divine tradition refutes this error with all possible clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed the nature of divine justice seems to
demand that those who have sinned through ignorance before baptism may be
received into grace in one manner, and in another those who at one time freed
from the servitude of sin and the devil, and on receiving the gift of the Holy
Spirit, did not fear to "violate the temple of God knowingly" (1Co
3,17), "and to grieve the Holy Spirit" (Ep 4,30). And it befits
divine clemency that sins be not thus pardoned us without any satisfaction,
lest, seizing the occasion (Rm 7,8), and considering sins trivial, we, offering
injury and "affront to the Holy Spirit" (He 10,29), fall into graver
ones, "treasuring up to ourselves wrath against the day of wrath" (Rm
2,5 Jc 5,3). For, without doubt, these satisfactions greatly restrain from sin,
and as by a kind of rein act as a check, and make penitents more cautious and
vigilant in the future; they also remove the remnants Of sin, and destroy
vicious habits acquired by living evilly through acts contrary to virtue.
Neither was there ever in the Church of God any way considered more secure for
warding off impending punishment by the Lord than that men perform these works
of penance (Mt 3,28 Mt 4,17 Mt 11,21 etc.) with true sorrow of soul. Add to
this that, while we suffer by making satisfaction for our sins, we are made
conformable to Christ Jesus, "who made satisfaction for our sins" (Rm
5,10 1Jn 2,1 f.), from whom is all our sufficiency (2Co 3,5), having also a
most certain pledge from Him that "if we suffer with Him, we shall also be
glorified" (cf. Rm 8,17).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-45967582697991768722017-11-09T14:04:00.002-07:002017-11-09T14:24:21.367-07:00From the Western Dominican Province
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Behold, Giovanni Gasparro’s “St Pius V and St. Charles Borromeo defending Catholicism against Islam and the Protestant Heresy.” <a href="http://www.eccellentipittori.it/post/167113784752/oggi-festa-di-san-carlo-flagellatore-dei" rel="noopener" target="_blank">HERE</a> Oil on canvass 220×160 cm (it’s big!), 2017.<br />
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<br />Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00485659115314688797noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-11694591036665468542017-11-03T14:35:00.001-06:002017-11-03T14:39:33.398-06:00All Souls RequiemThe All Souls Requiem Mass was assisted by about 150, drawing from all the valley parishes, as well as from Spokane WA, Vale and Jordan Valley in Oregon, Twin Falls and Hammett in Idaho. The Mass was exquisite, as was the chant. Many thanks to all who served at the altar as well as musicians, ushers, and those who assisted.
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This event was arranged by Pam Gross, chair the Chapter's Dominican Rite Mission. Max Mohun was 1/2 of the schola. The <a href="https://unavoceidaho.blogspot.com/">Treasure Valley Latin Mass Society</a> cooperated in making arrangements. If you are interesting in promoting the Traditional Latin Mass, check it out!Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-88151837612106307482017-10-29T10:51:00.000-06:002017-10-29T10:51:17.678-06:00All Souls Day Traditional Requiem Mass <h2 style="text-align: center;">
November 2, is All Souls' Day. Fr. Vogel will offer a Requiem Mass at 4:30pm at St. Paul’s in Nampa. </h2>
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For those who are not familiar with the Requiem Mass the following gives some background. <br /><br /><em>The commemoration of all the faithful departed is celebrated by the Church on 2 November, or, if this be a Sunday or a solemnity, on 3 November. The Office of the Dead must be recited by the clergy and all the Masses are to be of Requiem, except one of the current feast, where this is of obligation. </em><br /><br /><em>The theological basis for the feast is the doctrine that the souls which, on departing from the body, are not perfectly cleansed from venial sins, or have not fully atoned for past transgressions, are debarred from the Beatific Vision, and that the faithful on earth can help them by prayers, almsdeeds, and especially by the sacrifice of the Mass. </em><br /><br /><em>The ceremonies of the Mass of Requiem are the same as those of the so-called "Mass of the Living" with the exception of a few omissions and variations indicated in Title XIII of the Rubrics. The Requiem Mass should always be celebrated with black vestments; black, in the Latin Rite, representing the deepest mourning.</em> <br /><br /><br /><strong>This message is to all traditional-minded Catholics in the Treasure Valley who have expressed an interest in attending the Traditional Mass. <a href="https://unavoceidaho.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Treasure Valley Latin Mass Society, St. Joseph's Chapter</a> is in the early stages of formation. Its purpose is to promote and to establish a Traditional Latin Mass in the Treasure Valley. To further this goal an application has been submitted to Una Voce America to become a chapter. If you wish to help on the formation of a “stable group of faithful” for the celebration of the Traditional Mass according to <em>Summorum Pontificum</em> in the Treasure Valley, please contact Mr. Thomas Lester, Chair at (208) 891-9980 or Mrs. Pamela Gross, O.P., Vice –Chair at (208) 761-1188 or email us at: </strong><a href="mailto:LatinMassIdaho@gmail.com"><strong><span style="color: #2288bb;">LatinMassIdaho@gmail.com</span></strong></a><strong>.</strong> <br /><br /><br /> Please forward this message to anyone you know who may be interested.<br /><br /><br /> Pax et Fides,<br /> Mrs. Pamela Gross, O.P.<br /><br /><br /><em>Please pray for Bishop Michael P Driscoll, <strong>requiescat in pace</strong></em> Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-37553877374614191792016-12-18T21:25:00.000-07:002016-12-18T21:29:35.617-07:00Catholic Worldview -- Chapter Mtg December 17, 2016. At its December 17, 2016 meeting the Chapter reviewed the reading of St Dominic by Fr Alban Butler in the 1859 edition of his works. The reading is a short yet thorough review of St Dominic's life. The Chapter also reviewed the Saturday biblical reading from Genesis 42:2-8-10 and Matthew 1:1-17.<br />
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At the meeting's end the Chapter discussed the proper view we should have for one another and for our family and other people in this world who are our neighbors. We cannot ignore--as the world does--the fallen nature of his mankind; but we can view others through a Catholic or biblical worldview in contrast to a political or a secular ideological worldview. The source of a Catholic worldview is the Truth.<br />
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The manner of speaking to others from a Catholic worldview is not to condemn others, or commit gossip, calumny, or detraction, but to see other people as Christ sees other people.<br />
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The world and those who accept the world's perspective views other people through the lense of judgment, condemnation, status or politics. A good example of this error is the political worldview the moral case of abortion.<br />
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As a Catholic, we understand the moral absolute that the killing of the innocent is always wrong and we do not weigh it against the relative nature of other morals rights or wrongs. The worldly political view will always engage some truth from a relative point of view.<br />
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In the end the Catholic worldview looks to the Truth and applies it to the world we live in in charity; where a political or ideological worldview will ultimately give excuse to moral depravity and sin.John Keenan, OPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514688769709402691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-82845083814061387702016-11-25T11:41:00.000-07:002016-11-25T11:41:06.675-07:00Requiem Mass? Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, in a couple hours we need 6 candlesticks...The Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form requires a few different things that the funeral Mass in the Ordinary Form. Thinks like black vestments and a black pall, a catafalque, and six candle stands that surround the catafalque are items beyond what is used in any other Mass in the Extraordinary Form, and even a priest who offers it occasionally is less likely to have these things.<br />
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So when a member of our chapter decided to honor her mother with a Requiem Mass, we set to work locating the items we did not already have, and figuring out how to make do with what we did not have.<br />
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We did pretty good finding everything, but by 10AM on the day of the Requiem Mass, we still did not have confirmed that we had located candle stands we could borrow. I had a physical therapy appointment at 11AM and was ready to trust in God's providence that they would "appear", much as everything else had. <br />
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Wiser counsel (read: spouse) prevailed, and after being dropped off at PT, Pam went to Hobby Lobby and, with their counsel, acquired piece/parts. After picking me up we went to Home Depot and picked up some more parts. We had lunch, and at 3PM with my future son-in-law's help and grandson's critical supervision began assembling. An hour and a half later they were complete, and with an extra hour of drying time in the house, they were ready to stack in the trunk of the car!<br />
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So if you are scouring the internet trying to figure out how to make the six candle stands for the catafalque for a Requiem Mass, know that it is possible in a pinch to put something together for a modest cost that may not be the prettiest, but won't distract by being hideous or by being absent.<br />
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we started with a 10" square pine base. the base is routered on the edge to give it a nicer look. these were from Hobby Lobby. to the base we attached a 4"block. those were cut at Home Depot from an 8 foot 4x4 - which meant we had to purchase the whole thing, but hey... Montana (my mentioned soon to be relative) measured, drilled, and double screwed the block to the base.<br />
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The sales clerk at Home Depot talked Pam into purchasing spray paint designed for a wood stove. There was expressed a fear of vapors flashing and starting a fire! <br />
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We brought them inside and put them on the dining room table (we have a high ceiling), turned a box-fan on them, and set the house heat higher. An hour later we were dressed, the new candle stands were in the trunk, and off to Mass we went! the finished result:<br />
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<br />Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-48863586585325638332016-11-20T15:17:00.001-07:002016-11-20T15:17:51.657-07:00The Bridge and St Albert the Great. SUMMATION of the Blessed Margaret of Castello Chapter meeting, Saturday, November 19, 2016 at St. Mark's Catholic Church in Boise. The readings for the meeting were from "The Bridge" section of The Dialog from St. Catherine of Siena and a short biography of St Albert the Great, his feast having been celebrated this past November, 15, 2016.<br />
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"The Bridge" per The Dialog, is the span between earth and Heaven, Jesus Christ being the Bridge. This teaching from God the Father through St. Catherine is worth reading and reflecting on in prayers; as it bears the testimony and reflection of the Holy Scriptures. God the Father calls each of us when He tells St. Catherine that "[y]ou who have the gift of reason were made not for yourselves but for me, to serve me with all your heart and all your love." <br />
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The call to faith and to reason is resounded in the study of St. Albert the Great who lived in the 12th Century. As a key originator of the scientific method St. Albert was a "universal Doctor" or teacher not only of the queen of all sciences, theology, but also the study of all physical sciences. As St Albert taught, reason is a gift from God--to understand the natural and physical world and. Faith is given to us to learn of divine and eternal things. God may be discovered through the light of reason; but to ultimately know Him and the Knowledge of God is in Faith.<br />
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If people see Faith as opposed to reason, rationalism arises. It admits to no objective truth. All is relative in time. Human life becomes cheap, men and women become objects to be manipulated, and the immoral killing of innocent persons becomes the norm. Expediency is the measure of ethics and politics. <br />
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On the other hand, if people abandon reason, and look to faith alone, feelings and experiences become the measure of truth. Mysticism and superstition arise. Erroneous understanding of salvation becomes evident. The universal Faith that guides the World is abandoned and each person becomes the priest and prophet of his or her own church.<br />
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The Holy Scriptures tell us to worship God the Father, in spirit and in truth. This love of truth is to come to know a loving God, and it enables us to bear with our neighbors in truth and most certainly in Love.<br />
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Lay Dominicans strive to comprehend the wonders of the created order but also the truths of the Faith; to grasp the goodness and beauty of God--on the path with their neighbor to Holiness.<br />
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Blessed Margaret of Castello Chapter.John Keenan, OPLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07514688769709402691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-70142192973244490612016-10-09T15:45:00.000-06:002016-10-09T16:29:31.326-06:00Dominican Rite Mass October 14, 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fr Vincent Kelber OP is the Pastor of Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Parish and Prior of Holy Rosary Priory in Portland, Oregon. Father will be here for the Blessed Margaret of Castello Chapter of the Dominican Third Order, which will hold professions at Our Lady of the Valley starting at 10:30AM on Saturday, October 15, 2016. <br />
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The Order of Preachers was founded in 1216 by St Dominic, to combat the error and heresy of the age which was rendering the Church and causing the loss of souls. The Order has giving the Church such luminaries as Ss. Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great, Catherine of Sienna, Vincent Ferrer, and Martin de Porres. This year the Order is celebrating its 800th anniversary! As part of this celebration, Father Vincent will be offering Mass in the Dominican Rite, which is the ancient rite of the Order, at 7:30PM on Friday, October 14, 2016 at Sacred Heart.<br />
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dominicanidaho.org<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">Members of the </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">IDAHO LAY DOMINICANS</span> </span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">invite you</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">To help celebrate the
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Missa Cantata in the DOMINICAN
RITE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With Dominican Friar,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">FR. PETER HANNAH, O.P.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">Where:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Cathedral
of St John the Evangelist</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>775 N 8<sup>th</sup> St, Boise, Idaho</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">When:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Friday, April 15, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif";">Time:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>7:00
PM (set up and choir practice at 6PM)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fr. Peter Hannah, O.P. </span><br />
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The
affable campus Associate Pastor at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic
Newman Center, on the college campus at the University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, Utah, who also loves to play golf (very nearly professional),
converted to the Catholic Church from the Presbyterians; where he, in
his words, “quickly discerned a vocation to the Dominican Order since
they (a) have very sharp-looking habits, (b) like to have fun, and (c)
combine a contemplative life of prayer and study with an active life of
ministry, teaching, and preaching.” http://opwest.org/
http://stcatherineslc.org/<br />
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You are welcome to attend </div>
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For more information, please contact: Mrs Pamela Gross, O.P.<br />
208.761.1188<br />
Pam.Gross.OP@gmail.com<br />
dominicanidaho.org<br />
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<i> The Motto of the Order of Preachers: “To Bless, to Praise, to Preach” and “Veritas” (Truth). </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: small;">When:<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Saturday, April 16, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: small;">Subject:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fr. Peter Hannah, O.P. </span><br />
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The affable campus Associate Pastor at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Newman Center, on the college campus at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, who also loves to play golf (very nearly professional), converted to the Catholic Church from the Presbyterians; where he, in his words, “quickly discerned a vocation to the Dominican Order since they (a) have very sharp-looking habits, (b) like to have fun, and (c) combine a contemplative life of prayer and study with an active life of ministry, teaching, and preaching.” http://opwest.org/ http://stcatherineslc.org/<br />
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You are welcome to attend. No R.S.V.P. necessary.</div>
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For more information, please contact:
John Keenan, O.P.L.<br />
208.375.2532<br />
john@keenan.org<br />
dominicanidaho.org<br />
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<i> The Motto of the Order of Preachers: “To Bless, to Praise, to Preach” and “Veritas” (Truth).
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Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-82777943281426759442015-12-15T13:14:00.002-07:002015-12-15T13:14:27.672-07:00St Catherine's prayer against invalid consecrationNo Catholic should have to wonder if the consecration at Mass was valid. since intent is as important as form and matter, no priest should give rise to questions regarding his intent. Should a priest through his preaching put forth that he does not believe in either the priesthood or the hierarchy are of divine origin, then it follows that he also believes communion is a memorial meal in the protestant sense rather than the sacrifice of Calvary in the Catholic sense. For if Christ did not ordain those first apostles at the last supper, but rather this was the work of the primitive church... Then "this is my body..." really isn't any more than a metaphor.<br />
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Here are some of St Catherine's thoughts on the subject of invalid consecration (although in a different context) and a prayer.<br />
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CHAPTER CXXVI II.<br />
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<em>How pride reigns among these ministers, by which they lose their knowledge; and how, having lost their knowledge, they fall into the sin of seeming to consecrate, while they do not really do so.</em><br />
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“I WILL now speak to thee of the third column—that of pride—which I have placed last, for it is both last and first, for all the vices are flavored with pride, as the virtues all receive life from charity. Pride is born and nourished from sensual self-love, of which I said to thee, that it was the foundation of these three columns, and of all the evils which are committed by creatures, for he who loves himself with disordinate love, is deprived of My love. and not loving Me he offends Me, because he does not observe the commandment of the law, which is to love Me above everything, and one's neighbour as one's self. This is the reason why those who love themselves with a sensual love neither serve nor love Me, but the world; for neither sensual love nor the world have conformity with Me. There being no conformity between Me and the world, it must needs be that he who loves and serves the world with sensual love, should hate Me; while he who loves Me truly hates the world. For this reason My Truth said : ‘No one can serve two masters, for if he serve the one, he will not content the other.’ See then how self-love deprives the soul of My love, and clothes it with the vice of pride, whence through the principle of self-love is borne every kind of sin. I grieve over this in all My rational creatures, but particularly in My anointed ones, who ought to be humble, not only because every one should possess the virtue of humility, which nourishes charity, but also because they have become the ministers of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son. Are they not ashamed, and for that matter should not the whole human race be ashamed, when they see Me, God, humbled to man, giving you the Word, My Son, in your own flesh? They see My Word eagerly humbling Himself to the shameful an extent that they sometimes fall into a sin of which I will speak to thee. Some of them are such incarnate devils 'that they often appear to consecrate, when they do not in reality, through fear of My judgment, and to free themselves from any bridle and fear of sin. Such a man rises in the morning from impurity, having passed the preceding evening in disordinate banqueting, he is obliged to satisfy the people, and considering his own iniquities, sees that he cannot celebrate with a good conscience ; wherefore he fears My judgment, not through hatred of vice, but through self-love. See, dearest daughter, how blind he is; he does not have recourse to contrition, with hatred of sin and a firm purpose of amendment ; he takes the alternative remedy of not consecrating. And the blind man does not see that his error and sin is greater than before, <em>for he makes the congregation commit idolatry, causing them to adore an unconsecrated host, as if it were the body and blood of Christ, My only ‘begotten Son, wholly God and wholly man</em>. No; the Host is indeed this when it is consecrated, but otherwise it is only bread.<br />
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“ See, now, how great is this abomination, and how great the patience with which I endure it. But if they do not correct themselves, every grace of their state will turn to their perdition. What should the congregation do in order not to fall into such a snare? They should pray under condition in this wise:<br />
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<em>‘If this minister has said that which he ought to say, I truly believe that Thou art Christ the Son of the living God, given to me as food by the fire of Thine inestimable charity; and in memory of Thy most sweet passion, and the great benefit of the blood which Thou didst shed with such fire of love to wash away our iniquities.’</em> <br />
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By this means the blindness of the priest will not bring them into darkness, causing them to adore one thing for another, the guilt will attach to the miserable minister alone, the congregation will only commit a material mistake. <br />
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**By the way, this is from the 1896 edition of Algar Thorold's translation of <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wgRBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=twopage&q&f=false" target="_blank">The Dialogue</a>. The TAN book reprint is from a highly abridged version, so get the whole thing from Google Books!<br />
Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11976534.post-36560647823813328712015-09-03T15:13:00.000-06:002015-09-03T15:13:03.052-06:00Feast of the Nativity of Mary - taking the cloak off the prayer?<br />
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In a few days we will observe the Feast of the Nativity of Mary. In searching the internet for a prayer for the occasion,
we found a nice one:<br />
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<pre><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin;
give me strength against thine enemies,
and against the enemy of the whole human race.
Give me strength humbly to pray to thee.
Give me strength to praise thee in prayer with all my powers,
through the merits of thy most sacred nativity,
which for the entire Christian world was a birth of joy,
the hope and solace of its life.
When thou wast born,
O most holy Virgin,
then was the world made light.
Happy is thy stock, holy thy root,
and blessed thy fruit,
for thou alone as a virgin,
filled with the Holy Spirit,
didst merit to conceive thy God,
as a virgin to bear Thy God,
as a virgin to bring Him forth,
and after His birth to remain a virgin.
Have mercy therefore upon me a sinner,
and give me aid, O Lady,
so that just as thy nativity,
glorious from the seed of Abraham,
sprung from the tribe of Juda,
illustrious from the stock of David,
didst announce joy to the entire world,
so may it fill me with true joy
and cleanse me from every sin.
Pray for me, O Virgin most prudent,
that the gladsome joys of thy most helpful nativity
may put a cloak over all my sins.
O holy Mother of God,
flowering as the lily,
pray to thy sweet Son for me,
a wretched sinner.
Amen.</span> </em>
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This prayer is on a number of sites, Catholic and non-Catholic, either unattributed or attributed to either St Anselm of Canterbury or St Ambrose. Catholic sites range from Fisheaters to Communion and Liberation. <br />
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The opening line, "Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O Sacred Virgin" is the first line from the <em>Ave Regina Caelorum</em> but not the rest of it. A cursory internet search does not find this prayer (or any portion of it) in the works of Anselm <em>or</em> Ambrose. <br />
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In point of fact, I don't find this prayer prior to 2010.<br />
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So why was I looking? Well, it is because this prayer contains a phrase which caused my proddy-sense to tingle; that phrase is "<em>put a cloak over all my sins.</em>" - say what? does that not seem more appropriate for Martin Luther? This prayer also shows up primarily off the mainstream Catholic path.<br />
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Given that I failed to find any connection of this prayer with the purported source(s) or even anything of antiquity, I began to wonder if this prayer is akin to the so-called "Prayer of St Francis" - you know, the <em>Make me a channel of your peace</em> one that is so popular and usually attributed to St Frances even though it was first written during World War I. St Francis; not only the stigmata, but time travel! He's so cool.<br />
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Anyway, I did think of another search; instead of starting with this prayer and looking back, why not look back and see what was the prayer for the Nativity of Mary.<br />
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Bingo!<br />
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The Raccolta, replaced in 1968 by the Enchridion Indulgentiarum, contained the prayers that carry indulgences - remember indulgences? The remission of the temporal punishment for sin that has been already forgiven? uh-huh, of course.<br />
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Well, it turns out there <strike>is</strike> (oops) were a number of indulgenced prayers for Marian feasts (including her Nativity). This one is just a little different than what appears above.<br />
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Has a cloak over tradition been surreptitiously introduced? If anyone can point to a source in Anselm or Ambrose or otherwise in tradition for the first prayer, I'll put my suspicions to rest.<br />
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For now, here's a sweet one, formerly indulgenced, for not only the Marian feasts, but for all days:<br />
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<em>Heart of Mary, Mother of God, our Mother, Heart most amiable, on which the Adorable Trinity ever looks with complacency, worthy of all the veneration and tenderness of angels and of men; Heart most like the Heart of Jesus, whose most perfect image thou art; heart full of goodness, ever compassionate towards our miseries, - vouchsafe to thaw our icy hearts, that they may be changed entirely to the likeness of the heart of Jesus. Infuse into them the love of thy virtues, inflame them with that blessed fire with which thou dost ever burn. In thee let the Holy Church find safe shelter; protect it, and be its sweet asylum, its tower of strength, impregnable against every inroad of its enemies. Be thou the road leading to Jesus; be thou the channel whereby we receive all graces needful for our salvation. Be thou our help in need, our comfort in trouble, our strength in temptation, our refuge in persecution, our aid in all dangers; but especially in the last struggle of our life, at the moment of our death, when all hell will be unchained against us to snatch away our souls, - in that dread moment, that hour so terrible, whereon our eternity depends, and, yes, most tender Virgin, do thou then make us feel how great is the sweetness of thy motherly Heart, and the strength of thy power with the Heart of Jesus, by opening for us a safe refuge in the very fount of mercy itself, whereby we too may one day join with thee in Paradise in praising that same Heart of Jesus for ever and for ever. Amen.</em>Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02261197566240560777noreply@blogger.com0