Homily #090207 ( 04min) Play – IN 976, Sergius, a nobleman of Ravenna, quarrelled with a relative about an estate, and slew him in a duel. His son Romuald, horrified at his father’s crime, entered the Benedictine monastery at Classe, to do a forty days’ penance for him. This penance ended in his own vocation to religion. After three years at Classe, Romuald went to live as a hermit near Venice, where he was joined by Peter Urseolus, Duke of Venice, and together they led a most austere life in the midst of assaults from the evil spirits. St. Romuald founded many monasteries, the chief of which was that at Camaldoli, a wild desert place, where he built a church, which he surrounded with a number of separate cells for the solitaries who lived under his rule. His disciples were hence called Camaldolese. He is said to have seen here a vision of a mystic ladder, and his white-clothed monks ascending by it to heaven. Among his first disciples were Sts. Adalbert and Boniface, apostles of Russia, and Sts. John and Benedict of Poland, martyrs for the faith. He was an intimate friend of the Emperor St. Henry, and was reverenced and consulted by many great men of his time. He once passed seven years in solitude and complete silence.
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Rosary Procession around property.

Around Sacred Heart pond.

Marian talk at “Our Lady’s Hill”.

Lunch.

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Fr Josemaria gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Mar 07, 2020, on how first Saturday is a time to recall how we are to do reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and through her Heart. He discusses what sacrifices Mary asked of us at the apparitions at Fatima.

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Mass: Saturday 1st Week of Lent – Wkdy
Readings: 
1st: deu 26:16-19
Resp: psa 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8 0
Gsp: mat 5:43-48

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Fr. Ignatius gives the First Saturday reflection talk for December at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center in Bloomington, IN on the purpose of Advent and whether it is a season of penance or joy.

Notes:

The season of Lent and Fridays throughout the year are times of penance. But there is a history of doing penance during advent as a preparation for the joyful season of Christmas and to prepare for the coming of Christ in our hearts in preparation for His final coming at our death. Three comings of Christ Bethlehem as the little babe, a sacrificial lamb, and at the end of time as Christ the King for judgment on the whole human race, living and dead, and the final will be at our own death.

Advent starts a new liturgical year after the previous ended with considerations of the coming of Christ the King and his kingdom.

Pressure to not bring religious devotions into the public.

This is the time for mercy but he is also infinitely just

The day of the Lord will be a day of terror, but only  for those who are opposed to Christ and his rule

Christians, friends of God look forward to and pray for the second coming. Staying in the grace of God is how we stay prepared.

Experienced in different ways, begins with fire…

2 Peter, 1 Cor, Jerome, talk about fear of God, even of the friends of God but his a salutary fear, that keeps to the straight path.

Friends of God will go to heaven but without bodies

On judgment day the saints will come down from heaven and will be given back their bodies but glorified with the deeds by which they glorified God with these bodies, and the damned will come up from hell and united with their bodies with which they offended God, which will be horrible.

Blessed are those who do penance for their sins and those of others

St. Peter Alcantra did much penance, appeared to St Theresa of Avila after his death, “O blessed penance.”

After the resurrection, everyone will be summoned to the valley of Jehoshaphat, where the good and the bad will be separated, right and the left.

Jesus’ main suffering is knowing that His suffering redemption will be ignored by many and thus lost to them.

Our Lady pastures the young goats, the sinners who still have hope for their conversion. She is a spiritual mother and co-redeemer

Those that persist in sin till death will see everlasting fire.

The Day’s events include Outdoor Rosary, confession, a talk, and mass.

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