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Happy Feast of St. Louis Marie de Montfort!

4/28/2016

 
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The Greater Litanies

4/25/2016

 
One of the more intriguing liturgies of the Church, the Greater Litanies or Processions, falls on April 25th (also the feast of St. Mark). The Greater Litanies, so called to distinguish them from the Minor Litanies - processions of lesser importance - which fall right before the Ascension, refer to a day set aside to make amends for offenses against our Good God in the form of spiritual acts of reparation, the chief being the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass preceded by a procession of supplication. During the procession, the Litany of the Saints was sung along with other prayers imploring God's mercy and blessing. Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B, the great liturgical reformer of the 19th century, tells us that the custom of celebrating the Greater Litanies was already ancient by the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great.

Dom Prosper gives us the spiritual intentions underlying this liturgical tradition:
"After all, we are sinners, with much to regret and much to fear; we have to avert those scourges which are due to the crimes of mankind; we have, by humbling ourselves and invoking the intercession of the Mother of God and the Saints, to obtain the health of our bodies, and the preservation of the fruits of the earth; we have to offer atonement to divine justice for our own and the world's pride, sinful indulgences, and insubordination. Let us enter into ourselves, and humbly confess that our own share in exciting God's indignation is great; and our poor prayers, united with those of our holy Mother the Church, will obtain mercy for the guilty, and for ourselves who are of the number."
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Although this liturgy has not enjoyed widespread celebration for many years, it is spiritually fruitful to reflect on this liturgy and to unite ourselves in spirit to the intention of the Church in calling the minds and hearts of the faithful to the offenses against our Lord.

A Day in the Life of Sister Seamstress

4/21/2016

 
 The convent seamstress is never without things to do for her Spouse. She serves Him personally by preparing sacred linens for use at the altar. She serves Him in the person of His representatives on earth, the priests, and she serves Him by clothing his spouses.

The Triumph of the Cross

4/19/2016

 
Without the cross, there would be no Christianity and certainly no religious life. Each Christian, and particularly each consecrated person, is called to embrace the cross as the means of union and identification with Jesus Christ Crucified. St. Louis Marie de Montfort's moving poem, The Triumph of the Cross, expresses this magnificently, particularly in these excerpts:
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The Cross in mystery 
Is veiled for us below;
Without great light to see,
Who shall its splendor know?
Alone the lofty mind
Shall this high secret trace;
And none shall heaven find
Who grasps it not by grace.


XVIII
Without a Cross, the soul
Is cowardly and tame;
Like fire to a coal
The Cross sets it aflame.
One who has suffered not,
In ignorance is bound;
Only in pain's hard lot
Is holy wisdom found.
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"Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum..."


XXIII
This Sign has such a charm
That at the altar-stone
The priest can God disarm
And draw Him from His throne.
Over the sacred Host
This mighty sign he plays,
Signals the Holy Ghost,
​And the Divine obeys.

​XXIX
For life I choose thee now,
My pleasure, honor, friend,
Sole object of my vow,
Sole joy to which I tend.
For mercy's sake, print, trace
Yourself upon my heart,
My arm, my forehead, face;
​And not one blush will start.
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Final Profession

Third Sunday After Easter

4/17/2016

 
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Mary's Image

4/14/2016

 
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"If Anyone Wishes to Come After Me..."

4/11/2016

 
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We approach the feast of St. Louis Marie de Montfort (April 28), a saint dearly loved in the convent for his great treatise on total consecration to Jesus through Mary, but also valued for his lesser known works. This reflection taken from Friends of the Cross is a small excerpt from his beautiful words on Matthew 16:24:


​"If anyone will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me."



"Let him carry it, not drag it, not shoulder it off, not lighten it, nor hide it. Let him hold it high in hand, without impatience or peevishness, without voluntary complaint or grumbling, without dividing or softening, without shame or human respect...
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"Let him place it on his forehead and say with St. Paul: God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Gal 6:14)...


​"Let him carry it upon his shoulders, after the example of Jesus Christ, and make it his weapon to victory and the scepter of his empire (Is. 9:16)...
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"Let him root it in his heart and there change it into a fiery bush, burning day and night with the pure love of God, without being consumed."


~St. Louis de Montfort
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A Day in the Life of the Convent Sacristan

4/9/2016

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"And the Word became Flesh"

4/4/2016

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Transferred from March 25 because of Good Friday, we celebrated the Solemnity of the Annunciation today with a sung Mass and the renewal of our Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary.
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Preparing for Adoration
St. Josemaria Escriva tells us:
"The beginning of the way, at the end of which you  will find yourself completely carried away by love of Jesus, is a trusting love of Mary.... If you seek Mary, you will find Jesus. And you will learn a bit more about what is in the heart of a God who humbles himself, discarding all manifestations of his power and majesty to take the form of a servant."
                         From his homily "To Jesus through Mary" given in 1957
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Monthly Devotion: The Holy Eucharist

4/1/2016

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​The month of April is dedicated to honoring the Holy Eucharist. This is particularly fitting considering the month's proximity to the institution of the Most Blessed Sacrament. St. Josemaria Escriva gives the following reflection on the relationship between the Eucharist and the resurrection:
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Easter Sunday Missa Cantata

Christ is alive. Jesus is the Emmanuel: God with us. His resurrection shows us that God does not abandon his own. He promised he would not: "Can a woman forget her baby that is still unweaned, pity no longer the son she bore in her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you." And he has kept his promise. His delight is still to be with the sons of men....

In a special way Christ stays with us in the daily offering of the Holy Eucharist. That is why the Mass is the center and source of Christian life. In each and every Mass the complete Christ, head and body, is present. Per Ipsum et cum Ipso et in Ipso. For Christ is the way; he is the mediator; in him we find everything. Outside of him our life is empty.... The presence of the living Christ in the host is the guarantee, the source and the culmination of his presence in the world. 
                                              ~ From his Easter homily March 26, 1967
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