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A quotation from Herbert Hoover
In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…
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A quotation from Herbert Hoover
In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #mortification #penance #president #reminder #repentance #sinfulness #trouble
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A quotation from Herbert Hoover
In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #mortification #penance #president #reminder #repentance #sinfulness #trouble
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A quotation from Herbert Hoover
In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #herberthoover #humility #mortification #penance #president #reminder #repentance #sinfulness #trouble
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A quotation from Herbert Hoover
In the Middle Ages it was the fashion to wear hair shirts to remind one’s self of trouble and sin. Many years ago I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The President differs only from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, US President (1929-33)
Speech (1929-12-14), Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.More about this quote: wist.info/hoover-herbert/10950…
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Today In Metal History 🤘 August 28th, 2024🤘
IRON MAIDEN, KIX, BROKEN HOPE, MORTIFICATION, MOTÖRHEAD, METALLICA#IronMaiden #KIX #BrokenHope #Mortification #Motorhead #Metallica #BruceDickinson
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Let us go on to other things that are also quite important, although they may seem small. Everything seems to be a heavy burden, and rightly so, because it involves a war against ourselves. But once we begin to work, God does so much in the soul and grants it so many favors that all that one can do in this life seems little….
Why should we, then, delay in practicing interior mortification? For interior mortification makes everything else more meritorious and perfect, and afterward enables us to do the other things with greater ease and repose. This interior mortification is acquired, as I have said by proceeding gradually, not giving in to our own will and appetites, even in little things, until the body is completely surrendered to the spirit [cf. Way, chap. 11, no. 5: “this determination is more important than we realize”].
The least that any of us who has truly begun to serve the Lord can offer Him is our own life. Since we have given the Lord our will, what do we fear? It is clear that if someone is a true religious or a true person of prayer and aims to enjoy the delights of God, he must not turn his back upon the desire to die for God and suffer martyrdom.
For don’t you know yet, Sisters, that the life of a good religious who desires to be one of God’s close friends is a long martyrdom? A long martyrdom because in comparison with the martyrdom of those who are quickly beheaded, it can be called long; but all life is short, and the life of some extremely short.
And how do we know if ours won’t be so short that at the very hour or moment we determine to serve God completely it will come to an end? This is possible.
In sum, there is no reason to give importance to anything that will come to an end. And who will not work hard if he thinks that each hour is the last? Well, believe me, thinking this is the safest course.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The Way of Perfection, Chap.12, nos. 1–2
Note: St. Teresa encouraged her nuns to actively prepare and practice for martyrdom, according to the accounts of 16th-century historian Belchior de Santa Ana, O.C.D. He indicates that Mother Maria de San José Salazar, O.C.D. carried the tradition of these pious recreations to the Carmel of Lisbon.
Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: These metal stolperstein (“stumbling stones”) bear Edith and Rosa Stein’s names, marking the site of their arrest in front of the Carmel of Echt, Bovenstestraat 48. Image credit: Qwertzu111111 / Wikimedia Commons (Some rights reserved)
https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/08/08/stj-longmartyrdom/
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Let us go on to other things that are also quite important, although they may seem small. Everything seems to be a heavy burden, and rightly so, because it involves a war against ourselves. But once we begin to work, God does so much in the soul and grants it so many favors that all that one can do in this life seems little….
Why should we, then, delay in practicing interior mortification? For interior mortification makes everything else more meritorious and perfect, and afterward enables us to do the other things with greater ease and repose. This interior mortification is acquired, as I have said by proceeding gradually, not giving in to our own will and appetites, even in little things, until the body is completely surrendered to the spirit [cf. Way, chap. 11, no. 5: “this determination is more important than we realize”].
The least that any of us who has truly begun to serve the Lord can offer Him is our own life. Since we have given the Lord our will, what do we fear? It is clear that if someone is a true religious or a true person of prayer and aims to enjoy the delights of God, he must not turn his back upon the desire to die for God and suffer martyrdom.
For don’t you know yet, Sisters, that the life of a good religious who desires to be one of God’s close friends is a long martyrdom? A long martyrdom because in comparison with the martyrdom of those who are quickly beheaded, it can be called long; but all life is short, and the life of some extremely short.
And how do we know if ours won’t be so short that at the very hour or moment we determine to serve God completely it will come to an end? This is possible.
In sum, there is no reason to give importance to anything that will come to an end. And who will not work hard if he thinks that each hour is the last? Well, believe me, thinking this is the safest course.
Saint Teresa of Avila
The Way of Perfection, Chap.12, nos. 1–2
Note: St. Teresa encouraged her nuns to actively prepare and practice for martyrdom, according to the accounts of 16th-century historian Belchior de Santa Ana, O.C.D. He indicates that Mother Maria de San José Salazar, O.C.D. carried the tradition of these pious recreations to the Carmel of Lisbon.
Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: These metal stolperstein (“stumbling stones”) bear Edith and Rosa Stein’s names, marking the site of their arrest in front of the Carmel of Echt, Bovenstestraat 48. Image credit: Qwertzu111111 / Wikimedia Commons (Some rights reserved)
https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/08/08/stj-longmartyrdom/
#desire #determination #DiscalcedCarmelites #martyrdom #martyrs #monasticLife #mortification #offering #religiousLife #selfDenial #StTeresaOfAvila
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[L]et’s be Carmelites; but in the full sense of the word. It’s the greatest vocation, since Our Divine Master told Mary Magdalene: “you have chosen the better part.” The most Holy Virgin was a perfect Carmelite.
Our Lord spent 30 years of His life in retirement and prayer, and only dedicated but three years to evangelizing. In the Most Holy Sacrament, He continues that uninterrupted prayer. In heaven, the occupation of souls will be to adore and to love. Let us begin, then, on earth what we’ll be doing for all eternity!
A Carmelite, as I think of her, is nothing but an adoring victim. Let us be victims, dear Isabel, hosts, but very pure ones. Let us live completely immersed in God.
I’ll tell you what I do: I consider my soul as a heaven where the Most Holy Trinity resides, whom I cannot penetrate nor see, because I consider it as an immense fire, infinite in light. Very close to that fire, I imagine the Most Holy Virgin inundated with light and love. Near the Most Holy Virgin is my Father, Saint Joseph and all the angels and saints, each one with his corresponding place.
And much lower, in the last one, I see myself as a dark point in that halo of light, and there I live, contemplating and adoring that most Perfect One. The task is not to interrupt that praise of glory interiorly.
Although on the outside we are busy, let’s keep silence interiorly; that is to say, let’s permit no thought foreign to that adoration, rejecting even thoughts about our own person, because we might have thoughts about vanity or whatever disturbs us.
Let’s live always in God’s presence, rejecting any thought of creatures. When we must deal with them, let’s see God in them and treat them with deference, considering ourselves as their slaves. Let’s give them first place, sacrificing ourselves for them and sanctifying ourselves through them.
Let us not have, Isabel, any desire but to glorify God by fulfilling His Will at every moment. Let’s think joyfully that at every moment we are fulfilling and adoring that Divine Will. May our deeds be done with the awareness that God will judge them. And so we will do them perfectly.
And we’ll do everything as you reminded me: for love. And ever with the intention of fulfilling God’s will rather than pleasing people. We’ll need mortification of the flesh in order to live in continuous prayer, otherwise, if we are taken up with our comfort, we’ll fail to take care of our soul.
But since we’re not permitted much penance, let’s try to mortify our senses, so that, when we want to look at something to satisfy our curiosity, let’s try not to do it. The same with the other senses, particularly taste: not eating anything impulsively. Whenever we eat, we mustn’t do it for pleasure and to indulge in what pleases us. Let’s eat our food quickly, without savoring or lingering over it so that we can temper our appetite. As for bodily functions let us do everything simply, since it is necessary for life.
Let’s humble ourselves, seeing our lowliness, and let’s raise our spirit to God. May we always live joyfully. God is infinite joy.
Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes
Letter 101 to Elisa Valdes Ossa
14 May 1919Griffin, M D & Teresa of the Andes, S 2023, The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: Detail from the last photo taken of St. Teresa of the Andes, where she is embroidering a purificator. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites
https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/05/13/andes-infinitejoy/
#adoration #Carmelite #contemplation #DivineWill #HolyTrinity #love #mortification #prayer #presenceOfGod #selfDenial #silence #StJoseph #StTeresaOfTheAndes #vocation
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„The parallels between the killings on Jeju and those in Gaza might have struck the several thousand people gathered at the Peace Park on Jeju for a ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of sa sam, or “four three”. That is in reference to April 3, 1948, the day of the outbreak of the campaign to wipe out those opposed to the government in Seoul.“
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Today In Metal History 🤘 August 28th, 2023🤘 IRON MAIDEN, KIX, BROKEN HOPE, MORTIFICATION, MOTÖRHEAD, METALLICA#IronMaiden
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