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"God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus."
– Ephesians 2:4-6, which is part of today's epistle at Mass.
Painted detail from the Shrine of St Vincent de Paul in Paris.
Cada Jueves de Pasión (el anterior al Domingo de Ramos) la cofradía de la Expiración celebra la tradicional bajada del Cristo de la Expiración, que queda en besapié hasta el Viernes de Dolores, cuando se le sube a su trono.
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) surveying the Plaza Simon Bolivar from the Iglesia de San Francisco de Asis (Church of Saint of Saint Francis of Assisi) in Old Town Panama City.
"Having risen in the morning on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first to Mary of Magdala from whom he had cast out seven devils. She then went to those who had been his companions, and who were mourning and in tears, and told them. But they did not believe her when they heard her say that he was alive and that she had seen him.
After this, he showed himself under another form to two of them as they were on their way into the country. These went back and told the others, who did not believe them either.
Lastly, he showed himself to the Eleven themselves while they were at table. He reproached them for their incredulity and obstinacy, because they had refused to believe those who had seen him after he had risen. And he said to them, ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation.’"
– Mark 16:9-15, which is today's Gospel for Easter Saturday.
Fresco from the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. It shows the Risen Lord appearing to Our Lady, and to the patriarchs and saints of the Old Testament. The Latin inscription is from Apocalypse 21:4: "Death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more".
Luke 11:34
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"The Christian ideal is not a limited perfection but the true deification of the greatest possible assimilation and union with God. To achieve this, we must strive to be identified in a certain manner with God’s infinite holiness, letting ourselves fully possess the Spirit of sanctification and be configured in all things to the incarnate Word.
As a greater number of the faithful is truly sanctified by realising this sublime ideal, it is clear that the integral life and therefore the true sanctity of the whole mystical body are increased. During this development the perfection of the saints is effected more and more in the works of their ministry, and new and precious fruits of sanctification are continually appearing and ripening on this tree of life. In each new saint we can say that there appears a new form of sanctity, and in all of them together is manifested more and more clearly the treasures of virtue and life which are buried in Jesus Christ. Thus the feast of All Saints stands out in a glorious manner inasmuch as it manifests outwardly the hidden life of Jesus who is within. This excellence of perfection is nothing other than the overflowing of his Spirit which is poured out in them."
– Fr John Arintero OP, 'On Mystical Evolution'.
Today, 7 November, is the feast of All Saints of the Order of Preachers.
This fresco is in the church of San Marco in Florence.
"Being before the Blessed Sacrament one day of its octave, I received from my God signal tokens of His love, and I felt urged with the desire of making Him some return, and of rendering Him love for love."
– St Margaret Mary Alacoque, Visionary of the Sacred Heart.
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
This tabernacle door is in the Cathedral of St Patrick in New York.
"Mary stayed outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, still weeping, she stooped to look inside, and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet. They said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away’ she replied ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’ As she said this she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not recognise him. Jesus said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him.’ Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She knew him then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’ – which means Master. Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and find the brothers, and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ So Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had said these things to her."
– John 20:11-18, which is today's Gospel on Easter Tuesday.
This bronze sculpture is in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, on an altar placed on the site where Our Lord appeared to St Mary Magdalene.
Cada Jueves de Pasión (el anterior al Domingo de Ramos) la cofradía de la Expiración celebra la tradicional bajada del Cristo de la Expiración, que queda en besapié hasta el Viernes de Dolores, cuando se le sube a su trono. Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad en Úbeda (Jaén)
Cristo de la Expiración, obra de Juan Luis Vasallo (1942) Úbeda
Este texto figura en la imagen del Yacente, realizada por Francisco Palma Burgos en 1964 para la cofradía del Santo Entierro
From 'The Revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by St Margaret Mary Alacoque:
"Behold this Heart, Which has loved men so much, that It has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming Itself, in order to testify to them Its love; and in return I receive from the greater number nothing but ingratitude by reason of their irreverence and sacrileges, and by the coldness and contempt which they show Me in this Sacrament of Love. But what I feel the most keenly is that it is hearts which are consecrated to Me that treat Me thus. Therefore, I ask of thee that the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi be set apart for a special feast to honour My Heart, by communicating on that day and making reparation to It by a solemn act, in order to make amends for the indignities which It has received during the time It has been exposed on the altars. I promise thee that My Heart shall expand Itself to shed in abundance the influence of Its divine love upon those who shall thus honour It, and cause It to be honoured."
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
Statue of the Sacred Heart in the Rosary Shrine church of St Dominic in London.
"Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger." – Lamentations 1:12.
Statue of Our Lady cradling the Lord after his death, from the friary grounds of the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit in Phoenix, AZ.
"O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
and our most gentle Queen and Mother,
look down in mercy upon England, your dowry;
and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in you.
By you it was that Jesus, our Saviour and our hope,
was given to the world; and he has given you to us
that we may hope still more.
Plead for us your children whom you received
and accepted at the foot of the cross. O sorrowful Mother,
intercede for our separated brethren that, with us,
in the one true fold, we may be united to the chief Shepherd,
the Vicar of your Son.
Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works
we may be counted worthy to see and praise God,
together with you, in our heavenly home.
Amen."
This statue of Our Lady as Seat of Wisdom is in Ushaw College, and today, 29 October, is the feast of the Martyrs of Douai College, the predecessor of Ushaw.
From 'The Revelations of the Sacred Heart of Jesus' by St Margaret Mary Alacoque:
"He made known to me the ineffable marvels of His pure [love] and showed me to what an excess He had loved men, from whom He received only ingratitude and contempt."I feel this more,"[He said] "than all that I suffered during My Passion. If only they would make Me some return for My love, I should think but little of all I have done for them and would wish, were it possible, to suffer still more. But the sole return they make for all My eagerness to do them good is to reject Me and treat Me with coldness. Do thou at least console Me by supplying for their ingratitude, as far as thou art able."
My sermon for today's Solemnity can be read here.
This mosaic of the Sacred Heart with the Pope offering the world to Christ is in the apse of the famous Basilica of Sacré Coeur in Montmartre, Paris.
Questions and Answers on Dissecting the Essence of the Pharisees
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The root of the Pharisees’ resistance and condemnation of the Lord Jesus was that they did not revere God or search for the truth at all. Deep down, they were stubborn and arrogant; they did not obey the truth. The Pharisees defined God within their own conceptions and imaginings, within the literal words of the Bible. They kept the Messiah in name only. No matter how profound and correct the LordJesus’ preachings are, how His words are the truth, or how much authority or power His words have, because His name is not Messiah, the Pharisees opposed and condemned Him. Their principles of faith are exactly as Almighty Godsays, “No matter how profound Your preaching, no matter how high Your authority, You are not Christ unless You are called the Messiah”. Not only did the Pharisees not accept the truths expressed by the Lord Jesus, they tempted Him and tried to find fault with Him. For example, they tempted the Lord Jesus by asking what authority He used to perform miracles and purposely asked the Lord Jesus whether they could pay taxes to Caesar. They asked the Lord Jesus whether He was the Son of God, Christ, etc. The Lord Jesus struck back at their evil plans with truth and wisdom. The Pharisees had no strength to refute Him, yet they still did not search for the truth. They still fanatically resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus; they had the Lord Jesus arrested and demanded that He be nailed to the cross. It was just as the Lord Jesus said when He exposed them, “But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God… And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?” (Jhn 8:40, 46). Therefore, we can see that the Pharisees, in nature and essence, were satanic demons, enemies of God that hated the truth! Brothers and sisters, what kind of people can hate and condemn Christ? The Pharisees’ story clearly demonstrates one fact: All who believe in God but do not love the truth, are weary of the truth and hate the truth do not know God. In addition, these people surely resist God and take Him as their enemy. Because Christ’s essence is the truth, the way, and the life, anyone who hates the truth also hates Christ. Many people that hate the truth seem good on the outside; they follow the rules of the Bible and do not seem like evil people at all, but when Christ comes to do His work, these satanic enemies of God will be completely exposed.
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The Pharisees’ evil resistance and condemnation of the Lord Jesus completely exposes their demonic essence: They hate the truth and resist God. that when the Lord Jesus preached and did His work, He expressed many truths, displayed many miracles and gave people abundant grace. The Lord Jesus’ work shook the foundations of Judaism and shocked the Jewish state. Many people followed the Lord Jesus. The Pharisees knew that if the Lord Jesus continued to do His work, all of the faithful in Judaism would follow Him; Judaism would fall, and their positions and meal-tickets would disappear. Therefore, they decided to kill the Lord Jesus. Just as the Bible says, “Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man does many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. … Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death” (John 11:47, 48, 53). To protect their status and meal-tickets, the Pharisees colluded with the Roman government to crucify the Lord Jesus on the cross. They said, “His blood be on us, and on our children” (Matthew 27:25). As you can see, the Pharisees hated the truth and hated Christ. They reached the point where they no longer wished to co-exist with Christ long ago! They would rather forsake their sin offering than not crucify the Lord Jesus; they would rather commit monstrous sins, resist God and offend God and have their sons and grandsons cursed than not nail the Lord Jesus to the cross, He who expresses the truth of redemption for mankind. That is the genuine, satanic, truth-hating nature and substance of the Pharisees. that when the Lord Jesus was nailed to the cross, the sun became dark, the earth shook and the curtain of the temple split open. After the Lord Jesus was resurrected, He appeared before men once again. After people learned these facts, they repented for their sins and turned to the Lord Jesus. As for the Pharisees? Not only did they not repent, but they became even more antagonistic enemies of the Lord Jesus. They paid off soldiers to bear false witness and say the Lord Jesus had not been resurrected. When the apostles spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus, the Pharisees fanatically captured and persecuted them. They wanted to ban the Lord Jesus’ work to obtain their ambitions of permanently controlling the religious community. The Pharisees believed in God in name only. In reality, they hated the truth and resisted God. The essence of their resistance and condemnation of the Lord Jesus was as follows: They were trying to compete with God and size Him up; they were fighting against God. The arrogance of their resistance and hatred of the Lord Jesus completely exposed their ambitions and exposed their evil, satanic face. Plus, it exposed their demonic antichrist nature: a refusal to repent, a frenzied hatred of the truth and a hatred of God. Isn’t that how the pastors and elders of the religious community treat Almighty God? If we could clearly see how the pastors and elders resist and condemn Almighty God, we would definitely know that the Pharisees resisted and condemned the Lord Jesus in the same way.
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"John answered them all, "I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
– Luke 3:16f, which is today's Gospel for the 3rd Sunday of Advent.
Mosaic from the chapel of Our Lady of Pompeii, in the National Shrine.
"If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death."
– 1 Cor 15:17-26.
Just beneath this marble slab here is the bare stone on which the body of Jesus was laid after his death. It is from here that he rose again from the dead, alleluia!
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And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
John 8:7
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"Jesus showed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this: Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing.’ They replied, ‘We’ll come with you.’ They went out and got into the boat but caught nothing that night.
It was light by now and there stood Jesus on the shore, though the disciples did not realise that it was Jesus. Jesus called out, ‘Have you caught anything, friends?’ And when they answered, ‘No’, he said, ‘Throw the net out to starboard and you’ll find something.’ So they dropped the net, and there were so many fish that they could not haul it in. The disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’ At these words ‘It is the Lord’, Simon Peter, who had practically nothing on, wrapped his cloak round him and jumped into the water. The other disciples came on in the boat, towing the net and the fish; they were only about a hundred yards from land.
As soon as they came ashore they saw that there was some bread there, and a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it. Jesus said, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net to the shore, full of big fish, one hundred and fifty-three of them; and in spite of there being so many the net was not broken. Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples was bold enough to ask, ‘Who are you?’; they knew quite well it was the Lord. Jesus then stepped forward, took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish. This was the third time that Jesus showed himself to the disciples after rising from the dead."
– John 21:1-14, which is the Gospel for Easter Friday.
This stained glass detail comes from a window in Fairford Parish Church, made between 1500-1517, and it depicts today's Gospel passage.
Psalm 40:4
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"Acheropita" significa "immagine non fatta da mano umana".
Così è definita la figura di Cristo, realizzata a Roma nel V secolo o a Bisanzio nel VI-VII secolo, che si trova nel "Sancta Sanctorum" della "Scala Santa" di Roma.
In realtà l'immagine originaria è pressoché scomparsa, al punto che papa Innocenzo III (1198-1216) fece eseguire il rivestimento in argento sbalzato che la copre. Il volto attuale è stato riprodotto su seta in epoca medievale.
This stained-glass window depicting William Holman Hunt's "The Light of The World" was originally set in the First Methodist Church in downtown Yakima. Today, it sits in the Narthex of Wesley United Methodist Church.
Hoy es Miércoles de Ceniza, comienza la Cuaresma. En la foto, desdencimiento del Cristo de la Expiración, uno de los principales actos de la Cuaresma en Úbeda.
Con esta foto acabo el álbum de la Cuaresma 2012
"Lord God, Creator of land and sea,
bless those who work at sea.
Be with them in fair weather and foul,
in danger or distress.
Strengthen them when weary,
lift them up when down
and comfort them when far from their loved ones.
In this life, bring them safely to shore
and, in the life to come,
welcome them to your kingdom.
For Jesus Christ’s sake, Amen."
14th July 2019 is Sea Sunday, a day to pray for the seafarers and to support those who minister to them.
Stained glass from the Naval Academy chapel, Annapolis.