Thought for the Day – 10 April – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)
Easter: The Herald of Peace
“At the close of this meditation, let us ask the risen Christ to give us His peace which is the only true peace. “My peace I give to you” (Jn 14:27). Although it comes from Jesus, however, this peace requires an effort on our part too. We must build it up carefully within ourselves with the help of God’s grace. The foundations of interior peace, must be laid down, by controlling our passions, by avoiding the slightest trace of sin, by living the the life of prayer and of union with God, by loving Him above all things and creatures and by living and working for Him alone!”
Quote/s of the Day – 10 April – “The Month of the Resurrection” – Easter Monday – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/
“I Am the Resurrection and the Life”
John 11:25
“The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrises.”
St Clement of Alexandria (150-215) Father of the Church
“The people who sat in darkness, have seen a great light”
Matthew 4:16
Hymn I on the Resurrection
“Our Lord Jesus Christ Has appeared to us from the bosom of the Father. He has come and drawn us out of the shadows And enlightened us with His joyful Light.
Day has dawned for humankind, Cast out the power of darkness. For us, a Light from His Light has arisen That has enlightened our darkened eyes.
Over the world He has made His glory arise And has lit up the deepest depths. Death is no more, darkness has ended, The gates of hell are shattered.
He has illumined every creature, All the shades from times long past. He has brought about salvation and given us life; Next He will come in glory.
Our King is coming in His great glory: Let us light our lamps and go out to meet Him (Mt 25,6); Let us be glad in Him, as He has been glad in us And gives us gladness, with His glorious Light.
My friends, arise! make yourselves ready To give thanks to our Saviour King, Who will come in His glory and make us joyful With His joyous Light in the Kingdom.”
One Minute Reflection – 10 April – “The Month of the Resurrection” – Easter Monday – Acts 10:37-43, Luke 24:13-35 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/
“You know the word which hath been published through all Judea; for it began from Galilee …” – Acts 10:37
REFLECTION – “It is aptly said of our Redeemer that: “He is going on ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, as He said to you.” Galilee is interpreted: “the passing has been completed.” In truth our Redeemer had now passed from His Passion to His Resurrection, from His Death to Life, from punishment to glory, from corruption to incorruption. After His Resurrection, He was first seen by His disciples in Galilee because we will happily see the glory of His Resurrection later, if we now pass from vice to the height of virtue. There is a “passing” to be accomplished because, He, Who was proclaimed at the sepulchre, has to be seen in another place…
There were two lives. One we know about, of the other we are ignorant; One is mortal, the other immortal; One is corruptible, the other incorruptible; One ends in Death, the other in Resurrection. But the Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus (1Tim 2,5), came. He took upon Himself, the One and revealed to us, the other; the One He bore by Dying and the other He revealed by Rising. If He had promised resurrection of the body to us, who knew this mortal life but did not visibly manifest it, who would have believed His promises?” – St Gregory the Great (540-604) Pope, Father and Doctor of the Church (Homilies on the Gospels 21, 6-7).
PRAYER – O God, Who dost heal the sick world by the solemn gladness of the Passover, continue, we beseech Thee, to pour forth Thine heavenly gifts upon Thy people, until the same shall bring them into perfect liberty and finally, avail them unto life everlasting .Through Jesus Christ, Thy Son our Lord, Who lives and reigns with Thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen (Collect).
Our Morning Offering – 10 April – Easter Monday – “The Month of the Resurrection”
REMINDER: To exchange your Angelus prayer for the Regina Coeli as from Compline on Holy Saturday for the next 50 days of Eastertide, until the None (Afternoon) Prayer on the Saturday following Pentecost, inclusively. St Gregory the Great (540-604) heard Angels chanting the first three lines one Easter morning in Rome, while following barefoot in a great religious procession of the Icon of the Virgin painted by St Luke the Evangelist. He was, thereupon, inspired to add the fourth line.
Regina Coeli Queen of Heaven By Angels and St Gregory the Great (540-604)
Queen of Heaven, rejoice, Alleluia. For He whom thou didst merit to bear, Alleluia. Has Risen, as He said, Alleluia. Pray for us to God, Alleluia. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, Alleluia. For the Lord has truly Risen, Alleluia.
Let us pray. O God, Who gave joy to the world through the Resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen
Saint of the Day – 10 April – St Bademus (Died 376) Confessor, Abbot and Martyr, Founder of a Monastery. Bademus died on 10 April 376 by being stabbed countless times and finally beheaded by a wavering and frightened executioner. Also known as – Bademo, Vadim.
Bademus was a rich and noble citizen of Bethlapeta in Persia, who sold his possessions to follow Christ, then gave the greater part of the proceeds to the poor. He reserved just enough to found a Monastery near that City, to which he retired with several others and then governed it with great sanctity. He conducted his religious in the paths of perfection with sweetness, prudence and charity.
To crown his virtue, God permitted him, with seven of his Monks, to be apprehended by the followers of King Sapor in the thirty-sixth year of that King’s persecution. He lay for four months in a dungeon, loaded with chains and during this lingering martyrdom, received everyday, a cruel flagellation. But he triumphed over his torments by the patience and joy with which he suffered them for Christ.
At the same time, a Prince named Nersan, who was a Christian, was cast into prison and his goods confiscated because he refused to adore the sun. At first he seemed resolute but, at the sight of tortures,his constancy failed him and he promised to conform if he could be delivered. The King, to test whether his change was sincere, ordered Bademus to be brought where Nersan was kept in the royal palace and sent word to Nersan that if he would slay the Abbot, he would be restored to his liberty and former dignities. The apostate accepted the condition; a sword was put into his hand and he advanced to plunge it into the breast of the Abbot. But being seized with a sudden terror, he stopped short and remained for some time unable to lift up his arm to strike – he had neither courage to repent, nor heart to accomplish his crime.
Finally, he hardened himself and continued with a trembling hand to aim at the Martyr’s sides. Fear, shame, remorse and respect made his strokes forceless and unsteady and so great was the number of his victim’s wounds that the bystanders were in admiration at his invincible patience. Saint Bademus reproached his executioner, saying, “What will you do on the day when you will have to render an account of your actions and hear the sentence of your condemnation? I offer myself willingly to die for the glory of my Lord Jesus Christ but I would prefer to die by another hand, than yours!” The pagans themselves were horrified at the cruelty of the King, the long Martyrdom and the perfidious acts of the apostate.
Saint Bademus suffered on the 10th of April in the year 376. His body was cast out of the City but secretly carried away and interred by the Christians. A short time afterwards Nersan fell into public disgrace and perished by the sword – other accounts say that he committed suicide. . The disciples of the Saint were released from their chains four years later, at the death of King Sapor.
St Miguel de Sanctis O.SS.T (1591-1625) Priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives also known as the Trinitarian Order or the Trinitarians, Mystic, Penitent, Ecstatic, Apostle of prayer, mortification, of the poor and the sick, he had a special devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and would fall into ecstatic prayer during the Consecration at Holy Mass, so much so, that he became known as “El Extático”, “The Ecstatic.” Pope Pius IX Canonised Miguel on 8 June 1862. About St Miguel: https://anastpaul.com/2020/04/10/saint-of-the-day-10-april-st-miguel-de-sanctis-o-ss-t-1591-1625/
St Palladius of Auxerre St Paternus the Scot
Martyrs of Carthage – 50 Saints: A group of 50 Christians who were imprisoned in a pen of snakes and scorpions and then Martyred, all during the persecutions of Decius. Only six of their names have come down to us – Africanus, Alessandro, Massimo, Pompeius, Terence and Teodoro. Beheaded in 250 at Carthage.
Martyrs of Georgia: Approximately 6,000 Christian Monks and lay people Martyred in Georgia in 1616 for their faith by a Muslim army led by Shah Abbas I of Persia.
Martyrs of Ostia: A group of criminals who were brought to the faith by Pope Saint Alexander I while he was in prison with them. Drowned by being taken off shore from Ostia, Italy, in a boat which was then scuttled, c 115.
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