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A prayer to the Angels present on the altar at Mass:
Holy Angels, who surround this altar, my faithful Guardian,
and all ye Heavenly Hosts, I entreat you to bless God for the
numberless blessings I have received from Him. Offer Him
the Holy Mass, at which I am assisting, to acknowledge His
graces, and to obtain for me the gift of perseverance.
Blessed be the Holy Trinity!
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts, the earth is full of Thy
glory! Glory be to the Father, Glory be to the Son,
Glory be to the Holy Ghost!
<<>><<>><<>>
March 29th - Blessed Ludovico of Casoria
(1814-1885)
Born in Casoria (near Naples), Arcangelo Palmentieri was a cabinet-maker before entering the Friars Minor in 1832, taking the name Ludovico. After his ordination five years later, he taught chemistry, physics and mathematics to younger members of his province for several years.
In 1847 he had a mystical experience which he later described as a cleansing. After that he dedicated his life to the poor ad the infirm, establishing a dispensary for the poor, two schools for African children, an institute for the children of nobility, as well as an institution for orphans, the deaf and the speechless, and other institutes for the blind, elderly and for travelers. In addition to an infirmary for friars of his province, he began charitable institutes in Naples, Florence and Assisi. He once said, "Christ’s love has wounded my heart." This love prompted him to great acts of charity.
To help continue these works of mercy, in 1859 he established the Gray Brothers, a religious community composed of men who formerly belonged to the Secular Franciscan Order. Three years later he founded the Gray Sisters of St. Elizabeth for the same purpose.
Toward the beginning of his final, nine-year illness, Ludovico wrote a spiritual testament which described faith as "light in the darkness, help in sickness, blessing in tribulations, paradise in the crucifixion and life amid death." The local work for his beatification began within five months of Ludovico’s death. He was beatified in 1993.
Comment:
Saintly people are not protected from suffering, but with God’s help they learn how to develop compassion from it. In the face of great suffering, we move either toward compassion or indifference. Saintly men and women show us the path toward compassion.
Saint Quotes:
Ludovico’s spiritual testament begins: "The Lord called me to himself with a most tender love, and with an infinite charity he led and directed me along the path of my life."
"The greatest gift one can receive from God in this world is wisdom, power and will to conquer himself, by denying self-will"
--St. Francis of Assisi
The Abbot Pastor had the highest opinion of this exercise, and used to say that our own will is an iron wall that disunites and separates us from God.
St. Colette, of the Order of St. Francis, often said that she thought it a greater mortification to deny one’s own judgment and will than to abandon all the riches in the world, and therefore she practiced it to the utmost of her ability.
St. Bernard also entertained the same sentiments, and said that all evils spring from a single root, which is self-will.
(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints". March - Mortification)
Bible Quote:
Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself. (Matthew 16:24)
<><><><>
The Most Holy Winding-Sheet
Luke xxiii. 53: "And taking Him down, he wrapped Him in fine linen and laid Him in a sepulchre."
The glories of that sacred winding-sheet
Let every tongue record;
Which from the cross received with honour meet
The body of the Lord.
Ah! who, beholding these sad images,
Can tears control?
Can check the throbs of swelling grief that rise
Up from his inmost soul?
O Dear Memorial! on which we see,
In bloody stains impressed,
The form sublime in awful majesty,
Of our Redeemer blest.
Jesu! my sin it was that laid Thee low,
And through Thy death I live;
That life, which to Thy torments sore I owe,
Henceforth to Thee I give.
How doth the grievous sight of Thee recall
Those dying throes to mind,
Which Christ, compassionating Adam's fall,
Endured for lost mankind.
Glory to Him who to redeem us bore
Such bitter dying pains;
Who with th' Eternal Father evermore,
And Holy Spirit reigns.
His wounded side, His hands and feet pierced through,
Mirrored in Thee appear;
His lacerated limbs, His gory brow
And thorn-entangled hair.
Holy Angels, who surround this altar, my faithful Guardian,
and all ye Heavenly Hosts, I entreat you to bless God for the
numberless blessings I have received from Him. Offer Him
the Holy Mass, at which I am assisting, to acknowledge His
graces, and to obtain for me the gift of perseverance.
Blessed be the Holy Trinity!
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts, the earth is full of Thy
glory! Glory be to the Father, Glory be to the Son,
Glory be to the Holy Ghost!
<<>><<>><<>>
March 29th - Blessed Ludovico of Casoria
(1814-1885)
Born in Casoria (near Naples), Arcangelo Palmentieri was a cabinet-maker before entering the Friars Minor in 1832, taking the name Ludovico. After his ordination five years later, he taught chemistry, physics and mathematics to younger members of his province for several years.
In 1847 he had a mystical experience which he later described as a cleansing. After that he dedicated his life to the poor ad the infirm, establishing a dispensary for the poor, two schools for African children, an institute for the children of nobility, as well as an institution for orphans, the deaf and the speechless, and other institutes for the blind, elderly and for travelers. In addition to an infirmary for friars of his province, he began charitable institutes in Naples, Florence and Assisi. He once said, "Christ’s love has wounded my heart." This love prompted him to great acts of charity.
To help continue these works of mercy, in 1859 he established the Gray Brothers, a religious community composed of men who formerly belonged to the Secular Franciscan Order. Three years later he founded the Gray Sisters of St. Elizabeth for the same purpose.
Toward the beginning of his final, nine-year illness, Ludovico wrote a spiritual testament which described faith as "light in the darkness, help in sickness, blessing in tribulations, paradise in the crucifixion and life amid death." The local work for his beatification began within five months of Ludovico’s death. He was beatified in 1993.
Comment:
Saintly people are not protected from suffering, but with God’s help they learn how to develop compassion from it. In the face of great suffering, we move either toward compassion or indifference. Saintly men and women show us the path toward compassion.
Saint Quotes:
Ludovico’s spiritual testament begins: "The Lord called me to himself with a most tender love, and with an infinite charity he led and directed me along the path of my life."
"The greatest gift one can receive from God in this world is wisdom, power and will to conquer himself, by denying self-will"
--St. Francis of Assisi
The Abbot Pastor had the highest opinion of this exercise, and used to say that our own will is an iron wall that disunites and separates us from God.
St. Colette, of the Order of St. Francis, often said that she thought it a greater mortification to deny one’s own judgment and will than to abandon all the riches in the world, and therefore she practiced it to the utmost of her ability.
St. Bernard also entertained the same sentiments, and said that all evils spring from a single root, which is self-will.
(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints". March - Mortification)
Bible Quote:
Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself. (Matthew 16:24)
<><><><>
The Most Holy Winding-Sheet
Luke xxiii. 53: "And taking Him down, he wrapped Him in fine linen and laid Him in a sepulchre."
The glories of that sacred winding-sheet
Let every tongue record;
Which from the cross received with honour meet
The body of the Lord.
Ah! who, beholding these sad images,
Can tears control?
Can check the throbs of swelling grief that rise
Up from his inmost soul?
O Dear Memorial! on which we see,
In bloody stains impressed,
The form sublime in awful majesty,
Of our Redeemer blest.
Jesu! my sin it was that laid Thee low,
And through Thy death I live;
That life, which to Thy torments sore I owe,
Henceforth to Thee I give.
How doth the grievous sight of Thee recall
Those dying throes to mind,
Which Christ, compassionating Adam's fall,
Endured for lost mankind.
Glory to Him who to redeem us bore
Such bitter dying pains;
Who with th' Eternal Father evermore,
And Holy Spirit reigns.
His wounded side, His hands and feet pierced through,
Mirrored in Thee appear;
His lacerated limbs, His gory brow
And thorn-entangled hair.
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