24 hr. Eucharistic Adoration
rhapsody November 23rd, 2008
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For All Saints Day
rhapsody November 1st, 2008
Profound words, majestic & divine -
& although we are not obligated
to believe in the private revelations
of others, even when they’ve been
approved as being authentic by the
Vatican, following are the beginning
of The Revelations of Saint Bridget
of Sweden:
I am the Creator of heaven and earth,
one in divinity with the Father and the
Holy Spirit. I am he who spoke to the
prophets and the patriarchs, the one
whom they awaited. For the sake of
their longing and in accordance with my
promise, I took flesh without sin, without
concupiscence, entering the body of the
Virgin like the sun shining through the
clearest crystal. The sun does not damage
the glass by entering it, nor was the
Virgin’s virginity lost when I took my
human nature. I took flesh but without
surrendering my divinity.
I was no less God, ruling and filling all
things with the Father and the Holy
Spirit, although I, with my human
nature, was in the womb of the Virgin.
Brightness is never separated from fire,
nor was my divinity ever separated from
my humanity, not even in death. Next I
willed for my pure and sinless body to be
wounded from the sole of my foot to the
crown of my head for the sins of all men,
and to be hung on the cross. It is now
offered each day on the altar in order
that people might love me more and
call to mind my favors more frequently.
Now, however, I am totally forgotten,
neglected and scorned, like a king cast
out of his own kingdomin whose place
a wicked thief has been elected and
honored. I wanted my kingdom to be
within the human person, and by right
I should be king and lord over him, since
I made him and redeemed him. Now,
however, he has broken and profaned
the faith he promised me at baptism.
He has violated and rejected the laws
I set up for him. He loves his self-will
and scornfully refuses to listen to me.
Besides, he exalts that most wicked
thief, the devil, above me and pledges
him his faith. The devil really is a thief,
since, by evil temptations and false
promises, he steals for himself the
human soul that I redeemed with my
own blood. It is not because he is more
powerful, as it were, than I am that
he is able to steal it, since I am so
powerful that I can do all things by a
single word, and I am so just that I
would not commit the least injustice,
not even if all the saints asked me to.
However, since man, who has been
given free will, voluntarily scorns my
commandments and consents to the
devil, then it is only just that he should
also experience the devil’s tyranny.
The devil was created good by me but
fell through his own wicked will and
has, as it were, become my servant
for inflicting retribution on the wicked.
Although I am now so despised,
nevertheless I am still so merciful that
I will forgive the sins of any who ask
for my mercy and who humble them-
selves, and I shall free them from the
evil thief. But I shall visit my justice
upon those who persist in holding me
in contempt, and hearing it they will
tremble and those who experience
it will say: ‘Alas, that we were ever
born or conceived, alas, that we ever
provoked the Lord of majesty to wrath!’
But you, my daughter, whom I have
chosen for myself and with whom I
speak in spirit, love me with all your
heart, not as you love your son or
daughter or relatives but more than
anything in the world! I created you
and spared none of my limbs in suffer-
ing for you. And yet I love your soul
so dearly that, if it were possible, I
would let myself be nailed to the cross
again rather than lose you. Imitate
my humility: I, who am the king of
glory and of angels, was clothed in
lowly rags and stood naked at the
pillar while my ears heard all kinds of
insults and derision. Prefer my will
to yours, because my Mother, your
Lady, from beginning to end, never
wanted anything but what I wanted.
If you do this, then your heart will
be with my heart, and it will be set
aflame with my love in the same
way as any dry thing is easily set
aflame by fire.
Your soul will be filled with me
and I will be in you, and all temporal
things will become bitter to you and
all carnal desire like poison. You will
rest in my divine arms, where there
is no carnal desire, only joy and
spiritual delight. There the soul, both
inwardly and outwardly delighted, is
full of joy, thinking of nothing and
desiring nothing but the joy that it
possesses. So love me alone, and you
will have all the things you wish, and
you will have them in abundance. Is
it not written that the widow’s oil did
not fail until the day that the Lord
sent rain upon the earth according to
the words of the prophet? I am the
true prophet. If you believe my
words and fulfill them, oil and joy and
exultation will never fail you for all
eternity.
to believe in the private revelations
of others, even when they’ve been
approved as being authentic by the
Vatican, following are the beginning
To read more, follow the links found
here.
Many thanks to vulle86, @ YouTube.
Lest we forget
rhapsody December 14th, 2007
“The message of the cross
is foolishness to those who are
perishing, but to us who are
being saved it is the power of
God.” (1 Corinthians 1:23,24)
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First Sunday of Advent
rhapsody December 2nd, 2007
Liturgy of the Hours: Week I of the Psalter
We do not know when “the Son of Man’ will
come again or how God’s kingdom will be
established–whether peaceably (Isaiah)
or by destruction (gospel). Yet the readings
and Advent call us to look forward to the
future with hope and expectation. Why?
Because Christ’s Second Coming will bring
to completion God’s work of salvation.
This hope undergirds our efforts in daily
life to “conduct ourselves properly” and to
“put on the Lord Jesus Christ” (second reading).
–Living Liturgy, First Sunday of Advent 2007
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The Unashamed Workman
rhapsody May 26th, 2007
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to show thyself
approved unto God, a
workman that needeth
not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.
