The Curé of Ars was very humble, yet as a priest, he was conscious of being an immense gift to his people: “A good shepherd, a pastor after God’s heart, is the greatest treasure which the good Lord can grant to a parish, and one of the most precious gifts of divine mercy”.
As a child her family and her uncle and aunty shared the same house – 22 people crammed into two small flats above the family shop with no fresh tap water. The house later burned down. Her father was paralyzed at 40, her priest brother died at 33, the other brother seven years later. Schidell’s husband died of Alzheimers. Shidell said faith got her through those challenges.
I am a seminarian and I really like your editorial line, which is precise and moderate. I want to ask you the following question: Didn’t the Council simplify the liturgy and many other things? Why again do we want to complicate things with a return to a ‘rubricism’ that is now past?
When we come to the month of November it is but natural that we are mindful of our deceased faithful, as we celebrate the liturgical feast of the All Souls on November 2. It is obvious that we fix our minds on that great mystery that awaits us and that frightens us. We cannot pretend indifference to the most significant passage of our existence, the one on which some of us have bet in a Pascalian way for future life.
Lord, I desire to love You with my whole being. Increase my love for You and allow that love to overflow into every relationship I have in life. May love be the one and only mission of my life. Jesus, I trust in You.
At a young age, after his first communion, Marcel asked God for two graces: purity, so that he could love God with all his heart, and that of giving all men and women a perfect and rock solid faith.
When Jesus took on human flesh, he transformed every human thing into something holy. That includes pain and sickness. Illness can make saints of us.
The historical-critical method applied with the intent of demolition on Scripture has practically made a clean sweep of all traditional exegesis, from Genesis to the Synoptics to the Gospel of John. Nothing is left standing, it would be enough for you to read The fabricated Paul by Hermann Detering to understand how nothing remains of Saint Paul, not even the name. Applying certain intent this method makes you basically to be a denier of everything written in the Bible. If something is applied to destroy, in the end nothing remains, and this method was applied not only to the Bible, but to traditions, to hagiography, a little everything was macerated under a very specific strategy of demolition.
when the sacred places are enveloped in silence, the sacred ministers dressed in their noble liturgical garments, the rites performed with inner and outer gravity, the prayers elevated with solemn majesty, the songs and music inspired by the truth and holiness of dogma; when everything will be made docile to the law established by God and in conformity with the tradition received from the Fathers as a substantial part of the depositum fidei; then the Christian people will be respected in their rights as a priestly people and will be led by faithful shepherds to go up from visible things to the contemplation of the eternal ones.
Christian spirituality is a spirituality of charity: “Spiritualitas autem vita per caritatem est” – “The spiritual life comes from charity” (St. Thomas Aquinas). The mission of Christians is to inflame the world with Jesus’ love.
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