Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Be ablaze with enthusiasm...

Celebrating TWO Saints today!
Truly a double blessing!!

"All living creatures are sparks 
from the radiation of God's brilliance, 
emerging from God like the rays of the sun."
St Hildegard von Bingen


"Be not lax in celebrating.
Be not lazy in the festive service of God. 
Be ablaze with enthusiasm. 
Let us be an alive, burning offering 
before the altar of God."

St Hildegard von Bingen
Germany -- 1098-1179
Benedictine Abbess
Writer, composer, philosopher, mystic,
visionary, medical writer and practitioner
Patron of musicians and writers
Canonized and declared Doctor of the Church 
in 2012 (Pope Benedict XVI)
"Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God."
Feast Day: Sept 17


"Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, 
remain brave and strong." 
St Hildgard von Bingen
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St Hildegard von Bingen, pray for us!
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  "The school of Christ is the school of charity.  
On the last day, when the general examination takes place, 
there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle, 
the aphorisms of Hippocrates, or the paragraphs of Justinian.  
Charity will be the whole syllabus." - St Robert Bellarmine


"The Holy Eucharist is offered to us 
on our pilgrimage as food so that 
we do not faint
on the path to the fatherland,

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especially at the time when,
tired by a long journey,
our forces are apt to wane…
The Lord left His Body in the Eucharist
as a pledge of heavenly beatitude."
 St Robert Bellarmine in 
“Comments on Aquinas’ O Sacrum Convivum

St Robert Bellarmine
 Italy ~ 1542-1621
Jesuit theologian, writer, and cardinal
Key voice and action in Counter-Reformation
Dubbed: "Prince of the Apologists"
Doctor of the Church
Patron of Canon lawyers, catechists, students,
those with Down's syndrome
Feast Day - September 17

 

From St Robert Bellarmine's treatise 
On the Ascent of the Mind to God:
  "May you consider truly good 
whatever leads to your goal
and truly evil whatever 
makes you fall away from it."

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