Day: September 1, 2023

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September – Month of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary and The Holy Cross

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SEPTEMBER

Month of The Seven Sorrows
of the Blessed Virgin Mary and
The Holy Cross

Bid me bear, O Mother Blest,
On my heart, the wounds imprest,
Suffered by the Crucified!

An Indulgence of 50 days each time.
Plenary Indulgence once a month under the usual conditions.

The Seven Sorrows of
the Blessed Virgin Mary

1, The prophecy of Simeon
2. The Flight to Egypt
3. Loss of Child Jesus for 3 days
4. Meeting Jesus carrying His Cross
5. The Crucifixion of Jesus
6. The Pieta – receiving Jesus’ Body
The Burial of Jesus

What Can I Say?
By St Anselm (1033-1109)
Magnificent Doctor
Marian Doctor

My most merciful Lady,
what can I say about the fountains
that flowed from your most pure eyes
when you saw your only Son before you,
bound, beaten and suffering?
What do I know of the flood
that drenched your matchless face,
when you beheld your Son,
your Lord and your God,
stretched on the Cross without guilt,
when the flesh of your flesh
was cruelly butchered by wicked men?
How can I judge, what sobs,
troubled your most pure breast,
when you heard, “Woman, behold your son,”
and the disciple, “Behold, your Mother,”
when you received as a son
the disciple in place of the Master,
the servant for the Lord?
Amen

From “The Prayers and Meditations of Saint Anselm with the Proslogion,” Benedicta Ward, trans,1973, Penguin classics, Penguin Group (UK).

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Thought for the Day – 1 September – The Problem of Evil

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Thought for the Day – 1 September – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)

The Problem of Evil

“According to St Augustine, great good can come from the evil which God permits.
In the first place, God displays His infinite goodness and mercy.
Even though He permits us to offend Him out of respect for our human liberty.
He is always ready to forgive us, even as He forgave the penitent thief.

In the second place, by permitting evil, God gives the good, an opportunity of practising virtue, especially the virtue of patience.
If there were no persecutors, there would be no Martyrs and the Church would be deprived of the glory which makes her most like her Founder, Jesus Christ.

Finally, each of us has a particular duty to fulfil in resisting the onslaught of evil.
As followers and soldiers of Christ, we cannot remain passive.
The invasion of the forces of darkness and evil, demands a counter-attack by the forces of light and good, in defence of the Faith and of the Church.
As Christians, we are the sons of Martyrs.
We must not refuse, therefore, to make our lives a continuous martyrdom for the triumph of goodness in ourselves and in others.
The faithful exercise of virtue and of the apostolate is often a form of martyrdom.”

Antonio Cardinal Bacci

PART ONE & TWO:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/01/thought-for-the-day-1-september-the-problem-of-evil/

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Quote/s of the Day – 1 September – Waiting and watching patiently …….

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Quote/s of the Day – 1 September – Ecclesiasticus Sirach 31:8-11, Luke 12:35-40 – cripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/

“Let your loins be girt about
and your lamps burning …”

Luke 12:35

“For patience is necessary for you
that, doing the Will of God,
you may receive the promise.
For yet a little and a very little while
and He that is to come, will come
and will not delay.”

Hebrews 10:36-37

“Let us listen to the holy Voice of God
which summons us from on high,
from the holy mountain top.
There, we must hasten – I make bold to say –
like Jesus, Who is our leader
and has gone before us into Heaven.
There, with Him, may the eyes of our mind
shine with His light and the features of our soul
be made new; may we be transfigured with Him
and moulded to His image,
ever becoming divine,
being transformed in an ever greater degree of glory.”

St Anastasius Sinaita (Died 6th Century)
Priest and Abbot
of St Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai

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One Minute Reflection – 1 September – ‘… Blessed are those who watch for Him … ‘

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One Minute Reflection – 1 September – St Giles (c650 – c710) Abbot – Ecclesiasticus Sirach 31:8-11, Luke 12:35-40 – – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/

“Blessed are those servants whom the Master, on His return, shall find watching.” – Luke 12:37

REFLECTION – “We must sleep in such a way as to be easily awakened. For Scripture says, “Gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when He comes and knocks.” (Lk 12:35-36). For a sleeping man is of no more use than a dead man. Therefore, we ought often to get up at night and bless God!

Blessed are those who watch for Him and so, make themselves like the Angels, whom we call “Watchers.” A man asleep is worth nothing, no more than if he were dead. But whoever has the light keeps watch and “darkness does not overcome him” (Jn 1:5) neither does sleep. Whoever has been illumined is, therefore, wakened to God and such a person is alive, “for what came to be in him was life.” (Jn 1:4) “Happy the man,” says Wisdom,“who obeys me and happy those who keep my ways, happy the man watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts” (Pr 8:34).

Therefore, “let us not sleep as the rest do but let us stay alert and sober” as Scripture says. “For those who sleep, go to sleep at night and those who are drunk, get drunk at night,” that is, in the darkness of ignorance. “But since we are of the day, let us be sober.” (1Th 5:6-8) “For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness.” (1Th 5:5).” – St Clement of Alexandria (c150- c215) Father of the Church, Theologian and Philosopher, Professor who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria (The Instructor II:9).

PRAYER – May the pleading of blessed Giles Abbo,t make us acceptable unto Thee O Lord, we pray that what we may not have through any merits of our own, we may gain by means of his patronage. 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).

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Our Morning Offering – 1 September – To Our Lady of Sorrows by St Bonaventure

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Our Morning Offering – 1 September – “Month of The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary and The Holy Cross”

To Our Lady of Sorrows
By St Bonaventure (1217-1274)
Seraphic Doctor of the Church

O most holy Virgin,
Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ,
by the overwhelming grief thou experienced
when thou witnessed the Martyrdom,
the Crucifixion and the Death,
of Thy Divine Son,
look upon me, with eyes of compassion
and awaken in my heart,
a tender commiseration for those sufferings
and a sincere detestation of my sins,
in order that,
being disengaged from all undue affection
for the passing joys of this earth,
I may sigh after the eternal Jerusalem
and that, henceforward, all my thoughts
and all my actions may be directed
towards this one most desirable object,
the honour, glory and love
of our divine Lord Jesus,
and to thee,
the Holy and Immaculate
Mother of God.
Amen.

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Saint of the Day – 1 Septembert – Saint Nivard of Rheims (Died 673)

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Saint of the Day – 1 Septembert – Saint Nivard of Rheims (Died 673) Bishop Born in the early 7th Century near Rheims, Gaul (modern France) and died on 1 September 673 at the Abbey of San Pietro di Hautvillers of natural causes and was buried there. He served the Diocese for over 20 years becoming a Co-Founder and/or builder of many Monasteries and Churches, including the one where he retired and was buried at Hautvillers. Also known as – Nivardo, Nivo.

Nivard was born of a rich family belonging to the high Merovingian nobility, in the region of Rheims, He was raised at the Court and was the brother-in-law of King Childeric II of Austria. He entered the Clergy as a fully mature adult.

Having successively received all the Orders – something uncommon at that time – in 657 he succeeded Landone as the Bishop of Rheims. This City was then the Capital of King Clovis II. Remaining extraneous to political controversies, Nivard and his Diocese did not have to suffer from changes in dynasties but rather, always benefited from the favour of the powerful.

For his part, Nivard always showed great concern for the Monks. He co-operated with St Bercarius at the foundation of the Monastery of Hautvilliers, whose rule was a fusion of that of St Benedict and that of St Columba. The choice of location gave rise to many difficulties but Nivard managed, not only to build the Abbey but to reconcile those who opposed it. Some of these even entered the Monastery whose direction had been entrusted to St Bercarius.

The

Nivard’s benevolence and financial help also extended to other famous Monasteries (Corbie, Soissons, Fontenelle, today Saint-Wandrille). He was a patron of the Churches of Rheims, especially St Maria and St Remigius which he endowed extensively.

St Nivard chosing the location of the Monastery of Hautvillers

Having obtained a privilege of immunity for Hautvilliers and full jurisdiction over the Abbey for the Bishop of Rheims, Nivard chose it as his preferred residence. There, he died on 1 September 673.

The Abbey of Hautvillers in the 9th Century became a famous school of miniatures and in the 18th Century, one of its Monks, Pérignone, perfected the “art and way of treating wines” thus inventing Champagne!

St Nivard and his building projects
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Month of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of The Holy Cross, Collection of all the Feasts of Our Lady, celebrated at Louvain, Feast of St Giles, Twelve Holy Brothers: Martyrs and all the Saints celebrated on 1 September

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“Month of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of The Holy Cross”

First Fridays

Collection of all the Feasts of Our Lady, celebrated at Louvain – 1 September:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/01/collection-of-all-the-feasts-of-our-lady-celebrated-at-louvain-and-memorials-of-the-saints-1-september/

St Giles (c650 – c 710) Monk, Hermit, Abbot.- One of the 14 Holy Helpers
About St Giles here:
https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/09/01/saint-of-the-day-1-september-st-giles/
About the 14 Holy Helpers here: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/thought-for-the-day-25-july-the-memorial-of-st-christopher-died-c-251-one-of-the-fourteen-holy-helpers/

St Abigail the Matriarch
St Aegidius
St Agia
St Anea
St Arcanus
St Arealdo of Brescia
Bl Colomba of Mount Brancastello
St Constantius the Bishop
St Donatus of Sentianum
St Felix of Sentianum

St Gideon the Judge

Blessed Giuliana of Collalto OSB (1186-1262) Benedictine Nun, Abbess, Thaumaturgist, Apostle of the poor.
Her Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/01/saint-of-the-day-1-september-blessed-giuliana-of-collalto-1186-1262/

Bl Giustino of Paris
Bl Giovanna Soderini
St Jane Soderini
St Joshua the Patriarch
St Laetus of Dax

St Lupus of Sens (Died 623) Bishop of Sens – France, Confessor, Monk, Missionary.
About St Lupus:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/09/01/saint-of-the-day-1-september-saint-lupus-of-sens-died-623-bishop/

St Lythan
St Nivard of Rheims (Died 673) Bishop
St Priscus
St Regulus
St Sixtus of Rheims
St Terentian
St Verena
St Victorious
St Vincent of Xaintes

Exiles of Campania

Twelve Holy Brothers: Martyrs of the South – A group of Martyrs who died c303 at various places in southern Italy. In 760 their relics were brought together and enshrined in Benevento, Italy as a group.
Saint Arontius of Potenza, Saint Donatus of Sentianum, Saint Felix of Sentianum, Saint Felix of Venosa, Saint Fortunatus of Potenza, Saint Honoratus of Potenza, Saint Januarius of Venosa, Saint Repositus of Velleianum, Saint Sabinian of Potenza, Saint Sator of Velleianum, Saint Septiminus of Venosa, Saint Vitalis of Velleianum.
One tradition describes Saint Boniface of Hadrumetum and Saint Thecla of Hadrumetum as their parents.