Leaving our narrowness...

The Lord's Day is the lord of days... 

but also remembering TODAY>>>>

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross...

   LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; 

you have made my lot secure.  The boundary lines 
have fallen for me in pleasant places; 

surely I have a delightful inheritance. - Psalm 16: 5-6

 

“To live the Eucharistic life 
means to exit the narrowness

of one’s own life...

in order to grow into 

the infinity of Christ’s life.”

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

(Edith Stein)

Germany ~ 1891-1942
Philosopher
Convert from Judaism - Carmelite nun
Martyr at Auschwitz
Patroness of Martyrs

Feast Day - August 9

"When night comes, and retrospect shows that 

everything was patchwork and much that one had 

planned left undone, when so many things 

rouse shame and regret, then take all as is, 

lay it in God's hands, and offer it up to Him. 
In this way we will be able to rest in Him, actually 

to rest and to begin the new day like a new life."

 St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

"Hail to the Cross, our only Hope!" 

 St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

"It is most important that the Holy Eucharist 

becomes life's focal point." 

 St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

"God Himself teaches us to go forward with our hand 

in His by means of the Church's liturgy." 

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

11 Quotes of Wisdom from St. Edith Stein to Live By – EpicPew

Click here: The Hidden Life of Wisdom | Crisis Magazine

Click here: Edith Stein | Sophia Institute Press
Click here: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross - YouTube (2 mins)

St Teresa Benedicta, pray for us!

The miraculous answer...

The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, 

your faithfulness too, in the 

assembly of the holy ones. - Psalm 9:10

 

The Miracle of Saint Dominic

    "During the ceremony of profession of the nuns of St Sixtus, there was a great excitement and a call for the saint to come out, since the nephew of one of the bishops who was acting with him in this case had just been thrown from his horse and was lying dead in the square outside. ...The body of the young man was brought in, badly mangled from the accident, and laid at the feet of the saint.  Dominic ordered them immediately to remove the body to another room. 

    Once more life came back at his request; this time after he had offered the Holy Sacrifice.  Bystanders testified that during the Mass they had seen him raised above the ground.  There were hundreds of witnesses to the miraculous answer when he spoke to the dead youth and commanded:  "Young man, I say to thee arise."  The youth rose up joyful and with no sign of injury and was restored to his family.  This miracle was instrumental in bringing into the (Dominican) Order two of its most famous sons; they were the brothers, Hyacinth and Ceslaus, and were later to win great renown as the apostles of the North."  

Sr Mary Jean Dorcy, OP

Saint Dominic

St Dominic

SPAIN ~ 1170-1221

Founder:  Order of Preachers (OP)

(popularly known as Dominicans)

Motto: Laudare, benedicere, praedicare

"to praise, to bless, to preach"

Known for rigorous intellect, humility,
austerity and prayerful love of God
Worked effectively against Albigensian heresy

Feast Day - August 8

 "Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword;
wear humility rather than fine clothes." - St Dominic

"One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, 

Our Lady will save the world."  - St Dominic

"We must sow the seed, not hoard it." - St Dominic

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"St Dominic responded when ... He heard his Master call ... And truly lived a pious  life ... With charity to all ... The holiest of friars who ... Were living in his time ... He fought against the ravages ... Of heresy and crime ... He founded the Dominicans ... And taught them prayer and fasting ... And that humility which leads ... To glory everlasting ... One day when he was rapt in prayer ... And dwelt on God’s commands ... Our Lady came to him and placed ... The Rosary in his hands ... And so today each bead we say ... For all the poor and sick ... Should be in loving memory ... Of good St Dominic. - From Poem Portraits of the Saints, James J Metcalfe (1956)

Click here: St. Dominic - YouTube 
Click here: The History of the Rosary 

Spiritualdirection.com| Saint Dominic's Nine Ways of Prayer 

St Dominic, pray for us!

Divine attraction...

 "Receive Communion often, very often ... there 

you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured.  

Jesus has not put this attraction in 

your heart for nothing... " - St Therese of Lisieux

"My God, Jesus my love,

uncreated goodness, what 

would have become of me if You 

had not drawn me to Yourself? 

St Gertrude

 Painting: The Communion ~ Alphonse Legros (1865)

Transfigured and veiled...

 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

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While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud 

cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a 

voice that said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom 

I am well pleased; listen to him." — Matthew 17:1-9

Mark 9:2-13; Mark 9:2-9; Luke 9:28-36

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"At His Transfiguration Christ showed His disciples 

the splendor of His beauty, to which He will shape and 

color those who are His: ‘He will reform our lowness 

configured to the body of His glory’” (Phil 3:21).

- St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae

“As He then lived upon earth,

so now He lives in our midst,

but transfigured and veiled

to the bodily eyes 
[in the Blessed Sacrament].”

Fr. Frederick Wm Faber

"Christian faith's steady gaze upon Jesus
transforms us here and now." 

Fr Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Through your Transfiguration, O Christ, you 

returned Adam's nature to its original splendor, 
restoring its very elements to the glory and 

brilliance of Your divinity." - Byzantine Liturgy

All of us, gazing on the Lord's glory 

with unveiled faces, are being transformed 

from glory to glory into His very image 

by the Lord who is the Spirit. - II Cor 3:18

AMEN and AMEN

Graces flying forth...

 "The very words we use, a 'visit to the Blessed Sacrament,'

reminds us that we go to a living person, and that He is 

no other than our blessed Savior." - Fr Francis A. Spencer, O.P

"The life of our dear Lord in the sacred Host is most active.

He remains still in the tabernacle, it is true, but graces are

flying forth from His Heart in inconceivable abundance.

From the tabernacle, Our Lord works miracles both on 

souls and bodies, as He did of old in Galilee and Judea."   ...

"Before the tabernacle great saints have communed with 

God upon the heights which we may never reach; there, too, sinners 

have come, and touched by the grace that goes out from Him, 

found the contrite and humbled heart which He will never despise.

Think of the millions of the faithful who day by day come into 

the house of God to pray. Think of the religious to whom this 

very presence is as the air they breathe, the very life and sustenance 

of their souls.  No one shall ever know all that this adorable 

Sacrament is for human souls, raising all our hearts to that 

one Heart which is the center and source of grace and love."

Fr. Francis Aloysius Spencer, O.P.

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