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The Right Hand of the Father
"Jesus ascended into heaven. And where is he now? He sits at the right hand of the Father. Do you know what the right hand means?
The right hand of God means eternal happiness. It means inestimable, inexpressible, incomprehensible beatitude."
--St. Augustine--Sermon 213, 4
Prayer: Let your right hand save me, O Lord, let it save me, so that I may stand on your right hand. I ask not health of body but that having finished the present life I may be found on your right hand among the sheep.
--St. Augustine--Commentary on Psalm 59, 7
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May 22nd - Bl. John Forest, Martyr
AT the age of seventeen John Forest entered the Franciscan convent of the Strict Observance at Greenwich, and nine years later he was sent to Oxford to study theology. His studies completed, he seems to have returned to his friary with a great reputation for learning and wisdom. Not only was he invited to preach at St. Paul’s Cross, but he was also chosen to be Queen Catherine’s confessor when the court was in residence at Greenwich, The close relations into which he was brought with the king and queen and the uncompromising attitude taken up by the Observants with regard to Henry VIII’s schemes for divorcing Catherine, rendered his position a delicate one. At a chapter in 1525 he told his brethren that the king was so incensed against them that he had contemplated suppressing them, but that he, John, had succeeded in dissuading him. The relief, however, was only temporary. In 1534, after the pope’s decision had been made known, Henry ordered that all Observant convents in England should be dissolved and that the friars should pass to other communities. Captivity was the punishment for such as proved refractory and we know from a legal report that Bl. John was imprisoned in London in the year 1534.
How long he remained there is uncertain as we have no record of the next four years. According to the testimony of his enemies he admitted to having made an act of submission “with his mouth but not with his mind”, which would appear to have gained him his liberty. On the other hand in 1538 we find him living in the house of the Conventual Grey Friars at Newgate, under the supervision of a superior who was a nominee of the crown, in a state of semi-captivity but able to minister to those who resorted to him. Because he was thought to have denounced the oath of supremacy to Lord Mordaunt and other penitents, he was arrested and brought to trial, when he was inveigled or browbeaten into giving his assent to some articles propounded to him; but when they were submitted to him afterwards for him to read and sign, and he realized that one of them would have amounted to apostasy, he repudiated them altogether. He was thereupon condemned to the stake. He was dragged on a hurdle to Smithfield and almost to the last he was offered a pardon if he would conform, but he remained unshaken. Asked if he had anything to say, he protested that if an angel should come down from Heaven and should show him anything other than that which he had believed all his life, and that if he should be cut joint after joint and member after member--burnt, hanged, or whatever pains soever might be done to his body--he would never turn from his “old sect [i.e. profession] of this Bishop of Rome”. Owing to the wind the flames took a long time in reaching a vital part, but the martyr bore his sufferings with unflinching fortitude. With him was burnt a wooden statue of St. Derfel Gadarn, much venerated in Wales, concerning which it had once been predicted that it would set a forest on fire (see April 5).
The best documented account of this martyr is that by J. H. Pollen, contained in LEM., edited by Dom Bede Camm, vol. (1904), pp. 274-326. See also Father Thaddeus, Life of Blessed John Forest.
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He that knows God and loves Him, though he be ignorant of what others know, is more learned than all the learned, who know not how to love God
What do we know? Do we know how to love God? Can we tell and show our children and our neighbour how to love God? Our spare time--to whom do we give it; to God Who is the most loveable and will not accept half-love, nor unrequited love, or to...?
28. St. Alphonsus de Liguori (The 'Useful' Doctor, 1696-1787) -"St.
Alphonsus' Devout Reflections", [Burns & Oates, 1901, p.19]:
"Blessed is he who has received from God the science of the Saints. The science of the Saints is, to know how to love God. How many in the world are well versed in literature, in mathematics, in foreign and ancient languages! But what will all this profit them, if they know not how to love God? 'Blessed is he, said St. Augustine, who knows God, even if he knows nothing else.'
"He that knows God and loves Him, though he be ignorant of what others know, is more learned than all the learned, who know not how to love God.
"O my true and perfect lover, where shall I find one who has loved me as much as Thou hast loved me? In the past I have lost my time in learning many things which have profited my soul nothing; and I have thought little of knowing how to love Thee. I see that my life has been lost."
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O Most Holy God
O most Holy God, I adore Thee, through the Adorable
Sacrament of the Altar, and I offer Thee, through the holy
hands of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, all the consecrated
Hosts on our Altars as a sacrifice of expiation, reparation,
and atonement for all the sacrileges, profanations,
impieties, blasphemies, and crimes committed against
Thee throughout the universe. - Amen.
"Jesus ascended into heaven. And where is he now? He sits at the right hand of the Father. Do you know what the right hand means?
The right hand of God means eternal happiness. It means inestimable, inexpressible, incomprehensible beatitude."
--St. Augustine--Sermon 213, 4
Prayer: Let your right hand save me, O Lord, let it save me, so that I may stand on your right hand. I ask not health of body but that having finished the present life I may be found on your right hand among the sheep.
--St. Augustine--Commentary on Psalm 59, 7
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May 22nd - Bl. John Forest, Martyr
AT the age of seventeen John Forest entered the Franciscan convent of the Strict Observance at Greenwich, and nine years later he was sent to Oxford to study theology. His studies completed, he seems to have returned to his friary with a great reputation for learning and wisdom. Not only was he invited to preach at St. Paul’s Cross, but he was also chosen to be Queen Catherine’s confessor when the court was in residence at Greenwich, The close relations into which he was brought with the king and queen and the uncompromising attitude taken up by the Observants with regard to Henry VIII’s schemes for divorcing Catherine, rendered his position a delicate one. At a chapter in 1525 he told his brethren that the king was so incensed against them that he had contemplated suppressing them, but that he, John, had succeeded in dissuading him. The relief, however, was only temporary. In 1534, after the pope’s decision had been made known, Henry ordered that all Observant convents in England should be dissolved and that the friars should pass to other communities. Captivity was the punishment for such as proved refractory and we know from a legal report that Bl. John was imprisoned in London in the year 1534.
How long he remained there is uncertain as we have no record of the next four years. According to the testimony of his enemies he admitted to having made an act of submission “with his mouth but not with his mind”, which would appear to have gained him his liberty. On the other hand in 1538 we find him living in the house of the Conventual Grey Friars at Newgate, under the supervision of a superior who was a nominee of the crown, in a state of semi-captivity but able to minister to those who resorted to him. Because he was thought to have denounced the oath of supremacy to Lord Mordaunt and other penitents, he was arrested and brought to trial, when he was inveigled or browbeaten into giving his assent to some articles propounded to him; but when they were submitted to him afterwards for him to read and sign, and he realized that one of them would have amounted to apostasy, he repudiated them altogether. He was thereupon condemned to the stake. He was dragged on a hurdle to Smithfield and almost to the last he was offered a pardon if he would conform, but he remained unshaken. Asked if he had anything to say, he protested that if an angel should come down from Heaven and should show him anything other than that which he had believed all his life, and that if he should be cut joint after joint and member after member--burnt, hanged, or whatever pains soever might be done to his body--he would never turn from his “old sect [i.e. profession] of this Bishop of Rome”. Owing to the wind the flames took a long time in reaching a vital part, but the martyr bore his sufferings with unflinching fortitude. With him was burnt a wooden statue of St. Derfel Gadarn, much venerated in Wales, concerning which it had once been predicted that it would set a forest on fire (see April 5).
The best documented account of this martyr is that by J. H. Pollen, contained in LEM., edited by Dom Bede Camm, vol. (1904), pp. 274-326. See also Father Thaddeus, Life of Blessed John Forest.
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He that knows God and loves Him, though he be ignorant of what others know, is more learned than all the learned, who know not how to love God
What do we know? Do we know how to love God? Can we tell and show our children and our neighbour how to love God? Our spare time--to whom do we give it; to God Who is the most loveable and will not accept half-love, nor unrequited love, or to...?
28. St. Alphonsus de Liguori (The 'Useful' Doctor, 1696-1787) -"St.
Alphonsus' Devout Reflections", [Burns & Oates, 1901, p.19]:
"Blessed is he who has received from God the science of the Saints. The science of the Saints is, to know how to love God. How many in the world are well versed in literature, in mathematics, in foreign and ancient languages! But what will all this profit them, if they know not how to love God? 'Blessed is he, said St. Augustine, who knows God, even if he knows nothing else.'
"He that knows God and loves Him, though he be ignorant of what others know, is more learned than all the learned, who know not how to love God.
"O my true and perfect lover, where shall I find one who has loved me as much as Thou hast loved me? In the past I have lost my time in learning many things which have profited my soul nothing; and I have thought little of knowing how to love Thee. I see that my life has been lost."
<><><><>
O Most Holy God
O most Holy God, I adore Thee, through the Adorable
Sacrament of the Altar, and I offer Thee, through the holy
hands of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, all the consecrated
Hosts on our Altars as a sacrifice of expiation, reparation,
and atonement for all the sacrileges, profanations,
impieties, blasphemies, and crimes committed against
Thee throughout the universe. - Amen.
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