Prospering the day...

 I rejoiced with those who said to me,

"Let us go to the House of the LORD."- Psalm 122:1

 

"Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day.

All your duties will be performed the better for it,

and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross.

The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you 

can do nothing that can give greater glory to God

or be more profitable for your soul than 

to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly.

It is the favorite devotion of the saints."  

St Peter Julian Eymard

 

Invite someone to pray the Mass with you -

and together reap both daily and eternal benefits!

Also remembering...

St Januarius

Feast Day:  September 19th

St Januarius, pray for us!

In His light we see light...

    For with you is the fountain of life; 

in your light we see light.

 Psalm 36:9

 

 

“If the Blessed Sacrament is Jesus all for us,

is it not the most legitimate of conclusions 

that we should be all for Him?

We should be all for Jesus, if Jesus is our all.

And what does this mean? Surely, among other things, 

that the Blessed Sacrament should be to us just

the single overpowering fact of the world.

 

Our hands hold Him; 

our words make Him;

our tongue rests Him;

our body compasses Him;

our souls feel Him;

our flesh feeds upon Him,

Him, the Infinite, the Incomprehensible,

the Immense, the Eternal.

 

Must not all life be looked at in this light,

just as the whole Church lies in this light

and has no other?"

Fr. Frederick W Faber

 

ABOVE: Photo image credit - Michael McGlothlen - Irelan

Be ablaze with enthusiasm...

 Celebrating TWO Saints & Doctors of the Church!

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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Hildegard von Bingen - Gregorian chant: O Euchari in Leta Via. {w/ medieval Manuscript.} - YouTube (5:48 mins)

TOP 25 QUOTES BY HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (of 64) | A-Z Quote

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,

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 Convivium”

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."

Click here: St. Robert Bellarmine - YouTube (2 mins)

Click here: Fr. Hardon Archives - St. Robert Bellarmine,

St Robert Bellarmine, pray for us!

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ALSO remembering on this day (in 1224) ...

upon the craggy slopes of Mount La Verna, St Francis received

 in his own flesh the sacred marks of Our Lord's Passion.  

He became a living Crucifix, conformed so fully to Christ through love 

that His holy wounds became visible in the world.

St Bonaventure writes that it was not merely physical suffering, 

but the fire of divine love that impressed the stigmata upon Francis. 

17 September 1224

Discovering love, discovering oneself...

  "Christ is the only way to the Father,

and those who see Christ see the Father also.

Those who are nourished by Christ's body 

are at the same time extending the graces 

that flow from the indwelling

of the Father and the Holy Spirit.

 

 

The Blessed Sacrament is not a mystery that 

separates itself from the Trinity in Heaven

and comes down to earth for the love of man. 

The Blessed Sacrament is Christ,

and Christ is God, and God is undivided.

It is when a man discovers Christ that

he discovers the Father and the Holy Spirit.

It is also then that he discovers love and 

discovers himself."- Dom Hubert van Zellar

The gift of the Queen...

   When I said, "My foot is slipping," 

your love, O Lord, supported me. 

When anxiety was great within me,

your consolation brought joy to my soul. 

Psalm 94:18,19

“Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,

reign over the afflicted;

become their consolation

through this consecrated Bread,

the gift of the Queen of Sorrows.”

Fr. Mateo Crawley-Boevey 

Remembering...

Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

September 15

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 "In martyrs, the intensity of their love 

mitigated their sufferings,

but with Mary it was different;

the more she loved, the more she suffered,

and the greater was her martyrdom." 

Richard of Saint Victor (+1173)

The Seven Sorrows of Mary:

* at the prophecy of Simeon (Luke 2:35);
* at the flight into Egypt (Matt 2:13);
* having lost the Holy Child at Jerusalem (Luke 2:48);
* meeting Jesus on His way to Calvary;
* standing at the foot of the Cross (John 19:25);
* Jesus being taken from the Cross;
* at the burial of Christ. 

Click here: The Seven Sorrows Rosary - YouTube (21:30 mins)
Click here: Our Lady’s Seven Sorrows, Seven Promises, and Fatima’s Connection | ncregister.com

O thou Mother! fount of love!
Touch my spirit from above;
Make my heart with thine accord.

Make me feel as thou hast felt;
Make my soul to glow and melt
With the love of Christ our Lord.

(Excerpt: Sabat Mater sequence)

Click here: Stabat Mater dolorosa (full text)