Ijournal entry 090417 #35. September, Month of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Rule of St. Benedict. Quotes by St. John of the Cross, Walter Nigg, and Frederick William Faber. Article: "Grace does not "build on" nature", by Eric.M.Johnston. Book: "The Living Pyx of Jesus", compiled by a Religious, Pelligrini and Co, Australia, 1941. Audio presentation: "Refurbishing the Soul", Episode 4, by Babsie Bleasdell.
"Her sorrows were not necessary for the redemption of the world, but in the counsels of God they were inseparable from it. They belong to the integrity of the divine plan. Are not Mary's mysteries Jesus' mysteries, and His mysteries hers? The truth appears to be that all the mysteries of Jesus and Mary were in God's design as one mystery. Jesus Himself was Mary's sorrow, seven times repeated, aggravated sevenfold. During the hours of the Passion, the offering of Jesus and the offering of Mary were tied in one. They kept pace together; they were made of the same materials; they were perfumed with kindred fragrance; they were lighted with the same fire; they were offered with kindred dispositions. The two things were one simultaneous oblation, interwoven each moment through the thickly crowded mysteries of that dread time, unto the eternal Father, out of two sinless hearts, that were the hearts of Son and Mother, for the sins of a guilty world which fell on them contrary to their merits, but according to their own free will". By Fr. Frederick Faber
Info from this site:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/months/09_1.cfm
Info from this site:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/overviews/months/09_1.cfm
The Rule of St. Benedict
"Up with us then at last, for the Scripture arouseth us, saying:
"Up with us then at last, for the Scripture arouseth us, saying:
MC= We know Scripture is for teaching, correcting, training and rebuking. The wise will be open to be taught, putting their training unto practice, so there will be no need and any rebuking. At minute at hand is always the time to hear and respond, rising from sleep and utilizing the hours of life.
🍈Most beautiful of creatures, who desires so ardently to know the dwelling place of your Beloved in order to seek Him and be united with Him, you are yourself the refuge where He takes shelter, the dwelling place in which He hides Himself. Your Beloved, your Treasure, your one Hope is so close to you as to live within you". By St. John of the Cross
🌰“If the cloister is in a man's heart, it is immaterial whether the building is actually there. The cloister in a man's heart means only this: God and the soul". By Walter Nigg
🌑"We may well tremble to think what sanctuaries we are, when the Blessed Sacrament is within us". By Frederick William Faber
🌰“If the cloister is in a man's heart, it is immaterial whether the building is actually there. The cloister in a man's heart means only this: God and the soul". By Walter Nigg
🌑"We may well tremble to think what sanctuaries we are, when the Blessed Sacrament is within us". By Frederick William Faber
2 Corinthians 6:16 "You are the temple of the living God.” |
~ I Will For You Stand In Gap ~ My Child Take Your Place In My Lap ~
🕴As a good Mother, I will tell Him
🕴Worry not, my dear Jesus will never leave you hanging on a limb
🕴Faithful and true is my Divine Son
🕴Liken to Him, there is none
🕴He will help you every step of the way
🕴All of the time, minute by minute, day by day, by day
🕴With great care
🕴Even with much fanfare
🕴Your life plans
🕴So very visible they are in God's hands
🕴Safe and secure
🕴Whatever is needed for success, graces will most certainly procure
🕴So my child have no fear
🕴True faith will keep away ever tear
🕴Be confident that what God wills no one can oppose
🕴By name, every hair on your head, everything about you He knows
🕴If God is for, no one or nothing can come against, what a gift,
🕴Know that you are not wheat for any to sift
🕴If with this truth there is a gladly acceptance
🕴Most definitely there will be a boost to one's assurance
🕴As a result a tried and true faith can flourish
🕴A catalyst to the soul to strengthen and satisfactorily nourish
🕴Knowing God's providence never operates on a whim
🕴That should light up & intensify your joy so that it never grows dim
🕴Following the Master, Jesus Christ the Lord, He's the One
🕴This leads you along victorious paths, long ago the price was paid so that every battle, past,present & future could be won
🕴If you believe from the heart you'll be able to unequivocally say
🕴Amen and amen to whatever happens, knowing you'll be okay
🕴Yes, fortitude will be there
🕴Come what may, encouraged everything you'll be able to bear
🕴Feet firmly on the ground
🕴With the Holy Spirit beneath above and all around
🕴Victorious, not to be defeated & going down, the Children of God always ends up standing
🕴In time, on time, every time, with the Lord, always a safe landing
🕴Every one, it's for you, and it's for me
🕴Safely though our Lady to Jesus, we can and will be set free
🕴He hung on tree
🕴Now special privileges are ours because of what transpired on Calvary
🕴Jesus, in the past, now, and in the future always to the rescue
🕴Just up to each one of us to do are part, doing what we are suppose to
🕴When experiencing all types of troubles and woes
🕴Hesitate not, be a smart cookie, don't crumble at the sight of what or who can be considered foes
🕴Run to our Blessed Lady dressed in blue
🕴No better or faster way to obtain help you can pursue
🕴Her connection, for sure, straight to God it goes
🕴And the answers she receives are always yeses, never ever any no's
🕴Because holiness blankets her in full measure
🕴We can be assured her maternal advocacy is for us a real treasure
🕴So for those who dare the best possible experience
🕴It's through Blessed Mary to Jesus for sure deliverance
Article: "Grace does not "build on" nature", by Eric.M.Johnston
Info from this site:
http://professorjohnston.com/grace-does-not-build-on-nature/
Excerpts:
"Grace does not “build on” nature, it perfects nature. To understand this, think of the birth of Blessed Mary. What are we celebrating here?
We are celebrating promise. This little child has the possibility of union with Christ. She has the potential for Christ to be conceived in her womb. – human nature is such that Christ can be united in it.
And she has the potential to be Queen of Heaven. Grace will not do away with this person, will not replace her with something else. It will perfect her. In this child we see the possibilities of human nature.
Here the “nature” in “grace perfects nature” is not Mary’s natural effort. It’s her self. To say that grace perfects nature is to say that it is she herself who will be fulfilled by grace: her human desires and potentialities.
To celebrate the baby Mary is to think that this creature, who has not yet done anything, is the kind of thing that can become Queen of Heaven. It is to see the promise built into human nature.
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Celebrating the birth of Blessed Mary also points us backwards nine months, to the Immaculate Conception. We see that before she has made any effort at all, already God is at work in her, healing the wounds of original sin and leading her to the life of heaven.
Thus the birth of Mary points both backward, to the work of grace that precedes her natural effort, and forward, to the artwork that grace will bring about in her.
But it also points to the present: to Mary herself, as the human being in whom grace operates. The “nature” in “grace perfects nature” points to that reality: her, herself.
It is here that human effort comes in: not that our effort adds anything to God’s grace, but that it is precisely in our personal transformation, in our nature, that grace happens".
Info from this site:
http://professorjohnston.com/grace-does-not-build-on-nature/
Excerpts:
"Grace does not “build on” nature, it perfects nature. To understand this, think of the birth of Blessed Mary. What are we celebrating here?
We are celebrating promise. This little child has the possibility of union with Christ. She has the potential for Christ to be conceived in her womb. – human nature is such that Christ can be united in it.
And she has the potential to be Queen of Heaven. Grace will not do away with this person, will not replace her with something else. It will perfect her. In this child we see the possibilities of human nature.
Here the “nature” in “grace perfects nature” is not Mary’s natural effort. It’s her self. To say that grace perfects nature is to say that it is she herself who will be fulfilled by grace: her human desires and potentialities.
To celebrate the baby Mary is to think that this creature, who has not yet done anything, is the kind of thing that can become Queen of Heaven. It is to see the promise built into human nature.
***
Celebrating the birth of Blessed Mary also points us backwards nine months, to the Immaculate Conception. We see that before she has made any effort at all, already God is at work in her, healing the wounds of original sin and leading her to the life of heaven.
Thus the birth of Mary points both backward, to the work of grace that precedes her natural effort, and forward, to the artwork that grace will bring about in her.
But it also points to the present: to Mary herself, as the human being in whom grace operates. The “nature” in “grace perfects nature” points to that reality: her, herself.
It is here that human effort comes in: not that our effort adds anything to God’s grace, but that it is precisely in our personal transformation, in our nature, that grace happens".
Book: "The Living Pyx of Jesus", compiled by a Religious, Pelligrini and Co, Australia, 1941
Excerpt:
"Thank God, there still remains one sanctuary, the sacredness of which no earthly power may violate… it is the sanctuary of the human heart. It needs no fixed place for its confines, no stated time for the opening of its gates, no particular hour of silence for its prayer. A thought, a word, a moment of reflection, and by faith and by love, the soul is within the blessed refuge, and the gates are closed on the confusion of life with all its noise and tumult. It is secure against the bitterness and the pain of persecution, or hardship or trial, or hurt of body, or wound of earthly pride, or failure of worldly ambition, for there she is inviolable, sacred, impregnable in the fortress of her own spirit. ‘Entering into solitude,’ we sometimes call the seeking of this sanctuary. But it is not entering into a lonely solitude. It is hearkening to the alluring accents and appeal of a Voice that will never, in time, be stilled, but will ever sound gently in the hearing of them that love: ‘come apart with Me and rest awhile!”
Excerpt:
"Thank God, there still remains one sanctuary, the sacredness of which no earthly power may violate… it is the sanctuary of the human heart. It needs no fixed place for its confines, no stated time for the opening of its gates, no particular hour of silence for its prayer. A thought, a word, a moment of reflection, and by faith and by love, the soul is within the blessed refuge, and the gates are closed on the confusion of life with all its noise and tumult. It is secure against the bitterness and the pain of persecution, or hardship or trial, or hurt of body, or wound of earthly pride, or failure of worldly ambition, for there she is inviolable, sacred, impregnable in the fortress of her own spirit. ‘Entering into solitude,’ we sometimes call the seeking of this sanctuary. But it is not entering into a lonely solitude. It is hearkening to the alluring accents and appeal of a Voice that will never, in time, be stilled, but will ever sound gently in the hearing of them that love: ‘come apart with Me and rest awhile!”
Audio presentation: "Refurbishing the Soul", Episode 4, by Babsie Bleasdell
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http://listen.ewtn.com/~IJ/~IJ000007.mp3
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http://listen.ewtn.com/~IJ/~IJ000007.mp3