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On Avoiding Distractions
CHRIST.
. My son, you must needs be ignorant of many things: so consider yourself as dead and crucified to the whole world. (Col.3:3; Gal.6:14)
THE DISCIPLE.
Lord, to what a pass have we come? We grieve over a worldly loss; we labor and hustle to gain some small profit, forgetting the harm to our souls and seldom recalling it. We attend to matters of little or no value and neglect those of the greatest importance. For when a man devotes all his energies to material affairs, he rapidly becomes immersed in them, unless he quickly recovers his senses.
--Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3 Ch 44
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July 19th - Servant of God Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés, O.F.M.,
The Servant of God Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés, O.F.M., (April 12, 1738 - July 18, 1781) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who served as a missionary and explorer in the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. He explored much of the southwestern region of North America, including present day Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, and the U.S. states of Arizona and (southern) California. It was he who gave the Colorado River its name.
Garcés was murdered along with his companion friars during an uprising by the Native American population, and they have been declared martyrs for the faith by the Catholic Church. The cause for his canonization has been officially opened by the Church.
Garcés was born April 12, 1738, in Morata de Jalón, Valdejalón, in the province of Zaragoza, north-central Spain. He entered the Franciscan Order about 1758 and was ordained a priest in 1763 in Spain.
Garcés travelled to New Spain (Mexico) and served at the Franciscan college of Santa Cruz in Querétaro. In 1768, when the King of Spain expelled the Jesuits from their extensive mission system in northwestern New Spain (within present-day Baja California, northwestern Mexico, and the southwestern United States), Garcés was among the Franciscan replacements. He was assigned to Mission San Xavier del Bac in the Sonoran Desert, near present-day Tucson, Arizona.
The expulsion of the Jesuits by the Spanish King set in motion a sequence of dramatic events in the missions. The Franciscans from the college of Santa Cruz in Querétaro took over responsibility in the Sonoran Desert missions region in the present-day Mexican state of Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona. Meanwhile, other Franciscans from the college of San Fernando in Mexico City under the leadership of Junípero Serra, were assigned to replace the Jesuits in the Baja California missions of the lower Las Californias Province.
Serra's Baja California Franciscans were also charged in 1769 with expanding a Spanish presence in the unsettled upper Las Californias Province (Alta California, present day California). In 1773, control of the Baja California missions was transferred to the Dominican friars. The Viceroy of New Spain and local Franciscans recognized the importance of establishing on overland connection between upper Las Californias and central New Spain - for defense, trade, and travel - through the Sonoran Desert, crossing the lower Colorado River and the Colorado Desert, and through the Peninsular Ranges to the Alta California missions and presidios (forts) in the new coast region.
Garcés became a key player in this effort, conducting extensive explorations in the Sonoran, Colorado, and Mojave Deserts, the Gila River, and the Colorado River from the Gulf of California and Lower Colorado River Valley to the Grand Canyon.[2] He encountered and recorded accounts of the Native American tribes in their desert and riparian valley homelands, and established peaceable relations for the Crown, including with the Quechan, Mojave, Hopi, and Havasupai.[2] Many journeys were explorations on his own in the deserts. He accompanied soldier-explorer Juan Bautista de Anza part way in both his large overland expeditions: the legendary 1774 De Anza Expedition - the first to reach Alta California's Pacific coast; and the 1775-76 Anza Colonizing Expedition - with the first European sighting of the San Francisco Bay. The route Garcés took to the coast became known to later travelers as the Mojave Road.
In 1779 Garcés and Juan Diaz established two mission churches on the lower Colorado River at Yuma Crossing, as part of a new pueblo (secular settlement), in the homeland of the Quechan peoples (Yuma or Kwítsaín). Garcés tried to keep peace between all parties. The formerly peaceful rapport with the Quechan was lost due to Spanish settlers violating the treaty with the native peoples, such as loss of crops and farmlands. In July 1781 Garcés, Diaz and their fellow friars were among those killed in a civil resistance uprising at the Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer, known as the Yuma Uprising and Yuma Revolt.
Garcés' body was later re-interred at Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama. He and the other friars killed at those missions are considered martyrs by the Catholic Church.
Saint Quote:
"If we fear to preach the truth because that causes us some inconvenience, how, in our gatherings, can we chant the combats and triumphs of our holy martyrs?"
--St. Cyril of Alexandria.
Bible Quote
But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them. 26. It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister: 27. And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant. 28. Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many. (Matthew 20:25-28)
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St. Paul told the Corinthians
(1 Cor 12:26): "If one member [of Christ] suffers, all the members suffer. For we are naturally bound together, we form one body in Christ. An old Rabbis said it well, Simeon ben Eleazar: "Someone has committed a transgression. Woe to him! He has tipped the scale to the side of debt for himself and for the world. For any sin of someone harms all. There is no such a thing as a victimless crime.
So the Holiness of God wants the scales rebalanced because He loves what is right in itself. He also wants it rebalanced because the imbalance is harmful to all the other members of Christ.
But one member can make up for another. So St. Paul said (Col 1:24): "I fill up the things that are lacking to the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for His body, which is the Church." Of course, Christ lacked no suffering. His suffering was beyond telling. But the whole Christ, that is, Christ with His members, can lack something. For we are not saved as individuals. We are saved in as much as we are members of Christ. And of course that means we must be like Him--like Him in the matter of making rebalance for sin. St. Paul knew that many members of Christ were not doing their part--but he, Paul, could make up for them. So he did.
CHRIST.
. My son, you must needs be ignorant of many things: so consider yourself as dead and crucified to the whole world. (Col.3:3; Gal.6:14)
THE DISCIPLE.
Lord, to what a pass have we come? We grieve over a worldly loss; we labor and hustle to gain some small profit, forgetting the harm to our souls and seldom recalling it. We attend to matters of little or no value and neglect those of the greatest importance. For when a man devotes all his energies to material affairs, he rapidly becomes immersed in them, unless he quickly recovers his senses.
--Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Bk 3 Ch 44
<<>><<>><<>>
July 19th - Servant of God Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés, O.F.M.,
The Servant of God Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés, O.F.M., (April 12, 1738 - July 18, 1781) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who served as a missionary and explorer in the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. He explored much of the southwestern region of North America, including present day Sonora and Baja California in Mexico, and the U.S. states of Arizona and (southern) California. It was he who gave the Colorado River its name.
Garcés was murdered along with his companion friars during an uprising by the Native American population, and they have been declared martyrs for the faith by the Catholic Church. The cause for his canonization has been officially opened by the Church.
Garcés was born April 12, 1738, in Morata de Jalón, Valdejalón, in the province of Zaragoza, north-central Spain. He entered the Franciscan Order about 1758 and was ordained a priest in 1763 in Spain.
Garcés travelled to New Spain (Mexico) and served at the Franciscan college of Santa Cruz in Querétaro. In 1768, when the King of Spain expelled the Jesuits from their extensive mission system in northwestern New Spain (within present-day Baja California, northwestern Mexico, and the southwestern United States), Garcés was among the Franciscan replacements. He was assigned to Mission San Xavier del Bac in the Sonoran Desert, near present-day Tucson, Arizona.
The expulsion of the Jesuits by the Spanish King set in motion a sequence of dramatic events in the missions. The Franciscans from the college of Santa Cruz in Querétaro took over responsibility in the Sonoran Desert missions region in the present-day Mexican state of Sonora and the U.S. state of Arizona. Meanwhile, other Franciscans from the college of San Fernando in Mexico City under the leadership of Junípero Serra, were assigned to replace the Jesuits in the Baja California missions of the lower Las Californias Province.
Serra's Baja California Franciscans were also charged in 1769 with expanding a Spanish presence in the unsettled upper Las Californias Province (Alta California, present day California). In 1773, control of the Baja California missions was transferred to the Dominican friars. The Viceroy of New Spain and local Franciscans recognized the importance of establishing on overland connection between upper Las Californias and central New Spain - for defense, trade, and travel - through the Sonoran Desert, crossing the lower Colorado River and the Colorado Desert, and through the Peninsular Ranges to the Alta California missions and presidios (forts) in the new coast region.
Garcés became a key player in this effort, conducting extensive explorations in the Sonoran, Colorado, and Mojave Deserts, the Gila River, and the Colorado River from the Gulf of California and Lower Colorado River Valley to the Grand Canyon.[2] He encountered and recorded accounts of the Native American tribes in their desert and riparian valley homelands, and established peaceable relations for the Crown, including with the Quechan, Mojave, Hopi, and Havasupai.[2] Many journeys were explorations on his own in the deserts. He accompanied soldier-explorer Juan Bautista de Anza part way in both his large overland expeditions: the legendary 1774 De Anza Expedition - the first to reach Alta California's Pacific coast; and the 1775-76 Anza Colonizing Expedition - with the first European sighting of the San Francisco Bay. The route Garcés took to the coast became known to later travelers as the Mojave Road.
In 1779 Garcés and Juan Diaz established two mission churches on the lower Colorado River at Yuma Crossing, as part of a new pueblo (secular settlement), in the homeland of the Quechan peoples (Yuma or Kwítsaín). Garcés tried to keep peace between all parties. The formerly peaceful rapport with the Quechan was lost due to Spanish settlers violating the treaty with the native peoples, such as loss of crops and farmlands. In July 1781 Garcés, Diaz and their fellow friars were among those killed in a civil resistance uprising at the Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer, known as the Yuma Uprising and Yuma Revolt.
Garcés' body was later re-interred at Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama. He and the other friars killed at those missions are considered martyrs by the Catholic Church.
Saint Quote:
"If we fear to preach the truth because that causes us some inconvenience, how, in our gatherings, can we chant the combats and triumphs of our holy martyrs?"
--St. Cyril of Alexandria.
Bible Quote
But Jesus called them to him, and said: You know that the princes of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that are the greater, exercise power upon them. 26. It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister: 27. And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant. 28. Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many. (Matthew 20:25-28)
<><><><>
St. Paul told the Corinthians
(1 Cor 12:26): "If one member [of Christ] suffers, all the members suffer. For we are naturally bound together, we form one body in Christ. An old Rabbis said it well, Simeon ben Eleazar: "Someone has committed a transgression. Woe to him! He has tipped the scale to the side of debt for himself and for the world. For any sin of someone harms all. There is no such a thing as a victimless crime.
So the Holiness of God wants the scales rebalanced because He loves what is right in itself. He also wants it rebalanced because the imbalance is harmful to all the other members of Christ.
But one member can make up for another. So St. Paul said (Col 1:24): "I fill up the things that are lacking to the tribulations of Christ in my flesh for His body, which is the Church." Of course, Christ lacked no suffering. His suffering was beyond telling. But the whole Christ, that is, Christ with His members, can lack something. For we are not saved as individuals. We are saved in as much as we are members of Christ. And of course that means we must be like Him--like Him in the matter of making rebalance for sin. St. Paul knew that many members of Christ were not doing their part--but he, Paul, could make up for them. So he did.
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