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Quote of the day, 20 March: Blessed Francis Palau y Quer

God in His providence has ordained not to cure our ills or grant us grace without the intervention of prayer. He wishes us to help in saving each other by means of our prayer (cf. Jas 5:16f). If the heavens showered down dew and the clouds rained the righteous One, if the earth opened to bring forth the Savior (cf. Is 45:8), it was God’s good pleasure that His coming should be preceded by the prayers of that singular Virgin who by the beauty of her virtues drew into her womb the uncreated Word of God.

The Redeemer came, and by constant prayer, He reconciled the world to the Father. If Christ’s prayer and the fruits of His redemptive work are to be applied to any nation or people, or if the gospel message is to enlighten them and they are to have someone to administer the sacraments, it is indispensable that someone or even many persons should have previously won them over and reconciled them to God by earnest entreaties and supplications, by prayers and sacrifices.

Christ prayed throughout His entire life, whereas He spent only three years preaching. Since God does not distribute His graces to men except through prayer, because He wishes us to recognize Him as the source from which all good things flow; in like manner, He does not wish to save us from danger, or cure our wounds, or console us in affliction, except by means of this same exercise of prayer.

Blessed Francis Palau y Quer

From his spiritual writings

Note: Born in Aytona (Lérida) on December 29, 1811, Blessed Francis Palau y Quer entered the Carmelite Order in 1832 and was ordained in 1836. Amid civil unrest, he lived for years in exile. Returning to Spain, he founded the School of Virtue in Barcelona, later suppressed, and was again exiled—this time to Ibiza (1854–1860), where he lived in solitude at El Vedrá and deepened his mystical insight into the mystery of the Church. He went on to found the Teresian Carmelite Missionary Brothers and Sisters and devoted himself to preaching and Marian devotion. He died at Tarragona on March 20, 1872, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980.

Catholic Church 1993, Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Rev. and augm.), Institutum Carmelitanum, Rome.

Featured image: Background: Es Vedrá is an islet in the Balearic Islands, near Ibiza, in Spain. It is part of the natural reserve of Es Vedrá, Es Vedranell and els illots de Ponent. The statue of Blessed Francis is found in the chapel of the Teresian Carmelite Missionary Sisters, Tarragona.
Image credits: Alejandro Tapia / Adobe Express (photo of the Balearic Islands) and bocachete / Wikimedia Commons (photo of the statue, public domain)

Quote of the day, 29 December: Hermann Cohen

We love happiness, and Jesus Christ—true happiness, the only happiness possible—is not loved.

We love riches, and Jesus Christ, the inexhaustible treasure of the Father, abundance itself, eternal superabundance, is not loved.

We love pleasure, and Jesus Christ, the purest of delights, is not loved.

Whence then, my brothers and sisters, comes a contradiction so glaring, so revolting?

Ah! It is because He is not known. If you knew Him, my brothers and sisters, you would all love Him.

We study and examine everything—except Jesus, whom we ought to know above all. Jesus Christ is not known.

At this thought, the hermit leaves his retreat, the missionary crosses the seas, the martyr ascends the scaffold. And what do they seek? They seek to make people happy by leading them to know Jesus Christ.

Who, then, is Jesus Christ? From where does He come? Who is His Father, His homeland?

To this question, the prophet Isaiah, seized by holy enthusiasm, cries out: Generationes eius quis enarrabit? —
“Who shall ever recount His sublime generation?” (Who could have imagined his future, Is 53:8).

Let us attempt it nevertheless, my brothers and sisters. And whatever modern Jews may say—those who, in disputing the mysteries of the Trinity, appeal to this text of Moses: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God is one Lord” (Dt 6:4).

Let us answer them: God is infinitely simple—simple in essence, simple in substance, simple by His infinite nature; yet He is also infinitely good, and goodness, by its very nature, seeks to impart itself.

Since, therefore, the goodness of God is infinite, it must necessarily impart itself in an infinite manner. Yet it cannot do so with the creature, since the creature is finite.

It is therefore necessary that God impart Himself to Himself in an ineffable and infinite manner. And this He does by imparting His essence, His nature, to distinct persons—without separating it, without dividing it—while remaining one and the same God.

It is thus, my brothers and sisters, by this blessed necessity of imparting Himself infinitely, that God begets His only Son, His beloved Son.

Servant of God Augustine Mary of the Blessed Sacrament (Hermann Cohen)

Le bonheur n’est qu’en Dieu (Sermon, Saint-Sulpice, 1854)

Augustin-Marie du Très-Saint Sacrement 2020, Qui nous fera voir le bonheur? : sermons et autres textes, ed. S-M Morgain, Éditions du Carmel, Toulouse.

Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

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The personality of the prophet

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. Jeremiah 1.1-3

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https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/the-personality-of-the-prophet/

The cloud of darkness over the earth

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1.4-5

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