Day: September 5, 2023

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Thought for the Day – 5 September – I Am Not Able

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Thought for the Day – 5 September – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)

I Am Not Able

“The last question which we must ask ourselves, is the most difficult.
Should we choose honour or humiliation?
It is very difficult in this case to say to God: “Thy will be done.”
Yet, say it we must!

If honour, high position and success redound t0 the glory of God and to our spiritual advantage, then, let us accept them with humble gratitude.
But, if Divine Providence ordains that it is better for us to be humiliated and forgotten, we must accept this with cheerful resignation.
“Do with me what Thou will, O Lord,” we should pray.

“Grant me whatever pleases Thee, sickness or health, poverty or riches, honour or disgrace.”
We must always accept the will of God simply because, we love Him and wish to serve Him more faithfully.
Let us perform all our actions for His glory, for our eternal salvation and for the salvation of all mankind!”

Antonio Cardinal Bacci

PART ONE:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/09/05/thought-for-the-day-5-september-i-am-not-able/
PART TWO:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/01/16/thought-for-the-day-16-january-i-am-not-able/

Posted in DIVINE Mercy, Goodness, Patience, QUOTES on FORGIVENESS, QUOTES on HUMILITY, QUOTES on PRAYER, QUOTES on REPENTANCE

Quote/s of the Day – 5 September – St Lawrence Justinian

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Quote/s of the Day – 5 September – St Lawrence Justinian (1381-1455) Bishop of Venice, Confessor

“He cannot help sorrowing
for others’ sins,
who sorrows truly,
for his own.”

“The exterior works of Martha,
without the interior spirit of Mary,
cannot be perfect.
He deceives himself.
who expects, without the aid of prayer,
to succeed in the work of saving souls,
— a work as dangerous as it is sublime!
Without the reflection of prayer,
he shall certainly faint on the way!”

“Prayer, appeases the anger of God;
He pardons the sinner
when he prays with humility.”

MORE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/05/quote-s-of-the-day-5-september-st-lawrence-justinian/

St Lawrence Justinian (1381-1455)

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One Minute Reflection – 5 September – ‘ … Do as much as you can … ‘

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One Minute Reflection – 5 September – “Month of The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary and The Holy Cross” – St Lawrence Justinian (1381-1455) Bishop of Venice, Confessor – Ecclesiasticus 44:16-27; 45:3-20, Matthew 25:14-23 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/

“But he who had received the one talent, went away and dug in the earth and hid his Master’s money. ” – Matthew 25:18

REFLECTION – “You too, if you wish it, can deserve the exalted quality of the name of God’s Angel. Each one of you, insofar, as he can, insofar, as he receives an inspiration from on high, if he recalls his neighbour from his wickedness, takes care to encourage him to do good, proclaims the eternal Kingdom, or eternal punishment, to one astray – each one of you is truly an Angel of Jesus’ holy words. No-one should say, I am unable to give counsel, I am not qualified to encourage anyone. Do as much as you can, lest you be tormented for having badly kept, what you received! He who was given only one talent was more eager to hide it than to distribute it (Mt 25:14)…

Draw others, as far as you consider you have advanced; desire to have comrades on your way toward God. If any of you, my friends, is going to the market, or perhaps to the public baths, he will invite someone whom he sees to have nothing else to do, to come with him. That earthly kind of action is habitual among you. So, if you are going toward God, take care not to go to Him alone! The one who has already received, in his heart, a word of heavenly love, may also return to his neighbours an external word of encouragement.” – St Gregory the Great (540-604) Pope, Father and Doctor of the Church (Sermons on the Gospels No 5).

PRAYER – Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God that the venerable feast of Thy blessed Confessor and Bishop, may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. 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).

Posted in HOLY SATURDAY, HOLY WEEK, MARIAN HYMNS, MARIAN PRAYERS, MATER DOLOROSA - Mother of SORROWS, QUOTES on the CROSS of CHRIST, SEPTEMBER-The SEVEN SORROWS of MARY and The HOLY CROSS, The HOLY CROSS, The PASSION, The STATIONS of the CROSS

Our Morning Offering – 5 September – O Come and Mourn With Me Awhile

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Our Morning Offering – 5 September – “Month of The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary and The Holy Cross”

O Come and Mourn With Me Awhile
By Fr F W Faber C.Orat (1814-1863)

O come and mourn with me awhile,
See Mary calls us to her side;
O come and let us mourn with her.
Jesus, our Love, is Crucified.

Have we no tears to shed for Him,
While soldiers scoff and Jews deride?
Ah, look how patiently He hangs.
Jesus, our Love, is Crucified.

How fast His feet and hands are nailed,
His blessed tongue with thirst is tied,
His failing eyes are blind with blood.
Jesus, our Love, is Crucified.

O love of God! O sin of man!
In this dread act Thy strength is tried
And victory remains with love,
For He, our Love, is Crucified
Amen

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Saint of the Day – 5 September – Blessed Gerbrand of Dokkum OPraem (Died 1267) Abbot

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Saint of the Day – 5 September – Blessed Gerbrand of Dokkum OPraem (Died 1267) Priest/Canon Regular, the 4th Abbot of the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) Monastery at Dokkum, and a supporter of the Crusades. He encouraged the Frisians to join the Crusade and, in 1268, as a result of his zeal, was awarded, by Pope Clement IV, the Title of ‘Sacrae Militiae Dux‘ (Leader of the Crusade). Gerbrand was a close friend of Saint Louis IX of France (1226-1270). Born in the early 13th Century in a region of modern Netherlands and died on 11 October 1267 at the Premontres Motherhouse in Laon, France of natural cause.

St Norbert

The blessed Gerbrand joined the Premonstratensians, who are also called the Norbertines after their Founder, Saint Norbert of Xanten (c1080-1134) and also the White Canons after the colour of the Order’s Habit. Gerbrand became a Canon in their Monastery in Dokkum in Friesland in today’s Netherlands.

He was elected the 4th Abbot of the Dokkum Monastery. He was a champion of the Crusades and was a friend of Saint Louis IX of France (1226-1270), from whom he received several letters, which remain extant.

In his sermons, he invited the Frisians to participate in the expeditions to assist the Church iu Jerusalem. In 1268, Pope Clement IV, therefore, gave him the title Leader of the Crusade. He made his believers take up the cross and support the Crusade with their alms.

Gerbrand died during his Order’s General Chapter on 11 October 1267 in the Order’s Mother Monastery at Prémontré near Laon in France. A sisterof the Order from Mount Sion had a vision where she saw Gerbrand die and be taken up into Heaven. He is honoured as blessed by the Premonstratensians with a memorial day on 5 September.

The Norbertines’ Mother Monastery at Prémontré
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Notre-Dame, Folgoët / Our Lady of Folgoët, Brittany, France (1650), St Lawrence Justinian (1381-1455) and all the Saints for 5 September

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Notre-Dame, Folgoët / Our Lady of Folgoët Finistère, Brittany, France (1650) – First Sunday or the First Week of September:
HERE:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/05/notre-dame-folgoet-our-lady-of-folgoet-finistere-brittany-france-1650-and-memorials-of-the-saints-5-september/

St Lawrence Justinian (1381-1455) Bishop of Venice, Confessor, Reformer, Spiritual writer.
The Roman Martyrology states of him today: “The Feast of St Lawrence Justinian, first Patriarch of Venice, who, by glorious miracles and virtues, illustrated the Episcopal dignity which he received against his will on this day. His birthday into Heaven is 8 January.”
His Zealous Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2021/09/05/saint-of-the-day-5-september-saint-lawrence-justinian-1381-1455/

St Albert of Butrio

St Alvito de León (Died 1063) Bishop. Alvito was the Confessor to King Fernando I of León, a Monk and the Benedictine Abbot of the Sahagún Monastery.
His Life:
https://anastpaul.com/2020/09/05/saint-of-the-day-5-september-saint-alvito-de-leon-osb-died-1063/

Bl Anselm of Anchin
St Anseric of Soissons

St Bertin the Great (c615709) Benedictine Monk and Abbot, Missionary.
Biography:
https://anastpaul.com/2019/09/05/saint-of-the-day-5-september-saint-bertin-the-great-c-615-c-709/

St Charbel
Bl Florent Dumontet de Cardaillac
St Genebald of Laon
Bl Gendtilis
Blessed Gerbrand of Dokkum OPraem (Died 1267) Priest Abbot
St Guise Hoang Luong Canh
Blessed John the Good OSA (c 1168-1249) Bishop
Blessed Jordan of Pulsano Abbot

St Obdulia
Bl Phêrô Nguyen Van Tu
St Romulus of Rome
St Victorinus of Amiterme
St Victorinus of Como
Bl William Browne

Martyrs of Armenia – 1,000 Saints: A group of up to 1,000 Christian soldiers in the 2nd Century Imperial Roman Army of Trajan, stationed in Gaul. Ordered to sacrifice to pagan gods, they refused and were transferred to Armenia. Ordered again to sacrifice to pagan gods, they refused again. Martyrs. We know the names of three of them but nothing else – Eudoxius, Macarius and Zeno.

Martyrs of Capua – 3 Saints: Three Christians who were Martyred together. Long venerated in Capua, Italy. We know their names, but little else – Arcontius, Donatus and Quintius. They were martyred in Capua, Italy.

Martyrs of Nicomedia – 80 Saints: A group of 80 Christians, Lay and Clergy, Martyred together in the persecutions of Valens. We know little more than the names of three of them – Menedemo, Teodoro and Urbano. They were locked on a boat which was then set on fire on the shore of Nicomedia, Bithynia (in modern Turkey) c370.

Martyrs of Porto Romano – 4+ Saints: A group of Christians Martyred together in the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius. We know little more than their names – Aconto, Herculanus, Nonno and Taurino. c180 at Porto Romano, Italy.