Source: The Incarnation, Birth, and Infancy of Jesus Christ 1927
1. To desire ardently to increase in the love of Jesus Christ.
2. Often to make acts of love towards Jesus Christ. Immediately on waking, and before going to sleep, to make an act of love, seeking always to unite your own will to the will of Jesus Christ.
3. Often to meditate on his Passion.
4. Always to ask Jesus Christ for his love.
5. To communicate often, and many times in the day to make spiritual Communions.
6. Often to visit the Most Holy Sacrament.
7. Every morning to receive from the hands of Jesus Christ himself your own cross.
8. To desire Paradise and death, in order to be able to love Jesus Christ perfectly and for all eternity.
9. Often to speak of the love of Jesus Christ.
10. To accept contradictions for the sake of Jesus Christ.
11. To rejoice in the happiness of God.
12. To do that which is most pleasing to Jesus Christ, and not to refuse him anything that is agreeable to him.
13. To desire and to endeavor that all should love Jesus Christ.
14. To pray always for sinners and for the souls in purgatory.
15. To drive from your heart every affection that does not belong to Jesus Christ.
16. Always to have recourse to the most holy Mary, that she may obtain for us the love of Jesus Christ.
17. To honor Mary in order to please Jesus Christ.
18. To seek to please Jesus Christ in all your actions.
19. To offer yourself to Jesus Christ to suffer any pain for his love.
20 To be always determined to die rather than commit a willful venial sin.
21. To suffer crosses patiently, saying, "Thus it pleases Jesus Christ."
22. To renounce your own pleasures for the love of Jesus Christ.
23. To pray as much as possible.
24. To practice all the mortifications that obedience permits.
25. To do all your spiritual exercises as if it were for the last time.
26. To persevere in good works in the time of aridity.
27. Not to do nor yet to leave undone anything through human respect.
28. Not to complain in sickness.
29. To love solitude, to be able to converse alone with Jesus Christ.
30. To drive away melancholy.
37. Often to recommend yourself to those persons who love Jesus Christ.
32. In temptation, to have recourse to Jesus crucified, and to Mary in her sorrows.
33. To trust entirely in the Passion of Jesus Christ.
34. After committing a fault, not to be discouraged, but to repent and resolve to amend.
35. To do good to those who do evil.
36. To speak well of all, and to excuse the intention when you cannot defend the action.
37. To help your neighbor as much as you can.
38. Neither to say nor to do anything that might vex him. And if you have been wanting in charity, to ask his pardon and speak kindly to him.
39. Always to speak with mildness and in a low tone.
40. To offer to Jesus Christ all the contempt and persecution that you meet with.
41. To look upon [religious] Superiors as the representatives of Jesus Christ.
42. To obey without answering and without repugnance, and not to seek your own satisfaction in anything.
43. To like the lowest employments.
44. To like the poorest things.
45. Not to speak either good or evil of yourself.
46. To humble yourself even towards inferiors.
47. Not to excuse yourself when you are reproved.
48. Not to defend yourself when found fault with.
49. To be silent when you are disquieted.
50. Always to renew your determination of becoming a saint, saying, "My Jesus, I desire to be all Yours, and You must be all mine."
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Rules for Fraternal Correction: For the Ninth Sunday After Pentecost (from The Pulpit Orator, Rev John Evangelist Zollner OSB,
When:
1.) We are certain the person committed the sin
2.) We believe if we do not say something they may never know it is a sin
3.) We believe the person will listen to our admonition
4.) When superiors are neglecting to make the admonition and there is nobody else fit to do it
5.) When we do not risk any serious personal loss (such as home, job, etc.)
How:
1.) With prudence (meaning on a case by case basis, with a different approach depending on the person and especially contingent upon their level of dignity/superiority over us; superiors should be corrected with reverence)
2.) With love (see 1 Cor 13)
3.) At the right time (specifically, when passions are not raised)
4.) In the right place (privately, unless the crime is public and a scandal and requires public correction)
5.) By giving a good example ourselves
Saturday, February 27, 2016
A Knight's Plea: Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem
In the last two years or so, I have spent a fair amount of time and
energy attempting to combat the rapid promulgation of liberal irrationalism.
The forum? Facebook
The audience? Either
people who get it, click “Like” and move on…
Or people who don’t get it: men and women who are “lovers of themselves, covetous,
haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, ungrateful, wicked, without affection, without peace, slanderers,
incontinent, unmerciful, without kindness, traitors, stubborn, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than of God…”[1]
My intentions? Pure. I
refuse to hide my lamp under a bushel basket.[2] I want to bring others to
Christ.
Fraternal correction and instruction of the ignorant are two of
the most important (and perhaps most abandoned) spiritual works of mercy. The
zeal for souls is a hallmark of a true Christian, the persecution that comes
with this effort a blessing.[3]
The fruits of these debates? Zero. Zilch. Nil. Trying to sway a person on Facebook is like
trying to walk through a wall.
On multiple occasions I have had to heed
the words of St. Paul, of St. John, of our Lord Himself:
- “A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition,
avoid:”[4]
- “If any man come to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive
him not into the house nor say to him, God speed you.”[5]
- “Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you; going forth from
thence, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony to them.”[6]
These people, as the Psalmist wrote, “have ears and hear not: they
have noses and smell not”[7] because “the sensual
man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is
foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually
examined.”[8] “These men blaspheme
whatsoever things they know not: and what things soever they naturally know,
like dumb beasts, in these they are corrupted.”[9]
So it is that I have more recently chosen to bite my tongue as we
continue to witness the abandonment
of reason in favor of madness.
And yet…
Did not the prophet Jeremiah, in spite of so few who would listen
and with full knowledge of the psalms, persist none the less? “Hear, O foolish
people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and
hear not.”[10]
Though our present pontiff would that I shut my mouth and be
tolerant while he continues to scandalously endorse the sins of our day, the
voices of his holy and courageous predecessors oblige me to opposite:
- Pope St. Leo the Great, “He that sees another in error, and
endeavors not to correct it. testifies himself to be in error.”
- Pope St. Felix III just the same, “Not to oppose error is to
approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and, indeed, to neglect
to confound evil men—when we can do it—is no less a sin than to encourage
them.”
- Pope St. Pius V, “All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm
Catholics.”
- Pope St. Pius X, “All the strength of Satan's reign is due to
the easygoing weakness of Catholics.”
Most clearly our Lord Jesus Christ proclaimed, “Blessed are they
that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.”[11]
Quite clearly, it is decided.
No longer will I remain silent. No longer will I hide my love of
Jesus Christ, of the Truth. A sworn and consecrated Knight of the Immaculata, I
am henceforth resolved to wage war against error and darkness. In public on my
feet and in private on my knees, I will raise my voice and lift my soul to
heaven while humbly and faithfully acknowledging that “with men this is
impossible: but with God all things are possible.”[12]
But Facebook is still not the desired forum. While it may be the modus operandi of millennial
communication, I for one will no longer exclusively hide behind my keyboard.
Instead, I will offer live conversation: a call, a Skype, a coffee.
A conversion starts in the heart, and few hearts have ever been penetrated
by polemical Facebook exchanges.
Dear friends, dear readers of my blog, will you join me?
Will you have the courage to engage people personally, in all
patience and meekness, to try to win more souls for heaven?
The peace of Christ is unlike anything the world can offer. The love
and mercy which God has shown us through the passion and death of His only
begotten Son is unmatched by that which Satan offers each of us in the desert
of our own self-love.
Arise, arise, stand up, O Jerusalem![13]
Go forth with the light of Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost
and bring souls to the redemptive font of Almighty God.
~Lumen Christi sit semper vobiscum~
Monday, October 6, 2014
Fraternal Charity in Traditional Catholicism (Fr. Eugene de Villeurbanne)
A QUOTE FROM
Rev. Fr. Eugene de Villeurbanne o.f.m.cap.
(founder of Traditional Capuchins of Morgon)
Wherever division finds a place, there anger, pride, and injustice appear. “Traditionalists” who were once in agreement on the clear and essential truths of the Faith, now place their honor in raising “issues”, in being right on questions of remote importance for the daily life of the faithful. The minds consider themselves “traditional”, but the hearts are not so anymore, if they ever were. Fraternal charity is also one of the riches of Tradition.
There is a great danger in being restricted to a traditionalism of combat – in conceiving the truths of the Faith as an occasion for fighting, for blows and for victory; in seeing dogmatic theology as an arsenal of war, or even too exclusively as the means of enlightening the intelligence while forgetting the eyes of the heart which are thirsting for hope, eager to taste the treasures of glory contained in the heritage of Jesus Christ. Great is the risk of adapting the truths of Jesus Christ and the members of Jesus Christ to one's own taste. St. Paul taught us where that could lead.
Having the faithful assist at our traditional Masses is not an end in itself nor is faith in dogmatic truths. What counts is faith which works by charity and leads to charity for God and to fraternal charity for neighbor. Christian institutions, catechesis, and theology should not only lead souls to the gates of supernatural love; they should make them progress in the limitless domain of the depths and heights of the love of God, in the dulcor caritatis. No one can be there if he is at discord with his brothers. “For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, Whom he seeth not?” Let us listen to St. Paul when he tells us“For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal, and walk according to man?” A “traditionalism” that has lost charity – is it still traditional?
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