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Quote of the day, 8 May: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Virgo fidelis”: that is, Faithful Virgin, “who kept all these things in her heart.” [Lk. 2:19] She remained so little, so recollected in God’s presence, in the seclusion of the temple, that she drew down upon herself the delight of the Holy Trinity: “Because He has looked upon the lowliness of His servant, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed!” [Lk. 1:48]

The Father, bending down to this beautiful creature, who was so unaware of her own beauty, willed that she be the Mother in time of Him whose Father He is in eternity.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Heaven in Faith, 39

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2014, I Have Found God, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity Volume 1: Major spiritual writings, translated from the French by Kane, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (detail), Pierre Mignard (French, 1612–1695), oil on canvas, 1635. Image credit: Private collection / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Quote of the day, 1 May: Père Jacques

Mary spent delightful months of divine friendship while she was carrying Jesus. But we too, my brothers, carry God within us; we too are certain to possess within us the living God, so long as our souls remain in a state of grace.

Oh! my brothers, if this mystery could appear before your eyes. If your gaze were one day to grasp the presence of God in the most intimate depth of your hearts, how your life would be changed—what a transformation in your whole being!

Let us, then, resolve to develop within ourselves the habit of thinking of the presence of God. We are God-bearers; the good God lives in us.

Oh! from time to time, in the course of our days, may our souls recollect themselves for a moment—just a few seconds perhaps. Let us close our eyes. Let us descend within ourselves. And there, encountering God—the good God—let us look upon Him with a gentle smile. Then, in a kind of holy “madness,” let us lose ourselves in Him in an affectionate embrace.

Oh yes, may each hour of our life bring us a greater intimacy with the divine Guest who rests in our souls. This will be our joy, our consolation; Mary will help us in this and will be our example.

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Sermon, Marian devotions, 1927

 Carmes de Paris. 2014 Carmelite Advent Online Retreat: “Devenir lumière dans la nuit.” Accessed April 29, 2026. https://retraites.carmes-paris.org/meditation-chretienne-en-ligne/avent-2014-avec-le-pere-jacques-de-jesus-devenir-lumiere-dans-la-nuit/

Featured image: Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (Italian, 1609–1685), The Virgin in Prayer (Madonna in preghiera), oil on canvas, c. 1640–1650. This work is held in the collections of the National Gallery, London. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

‘Recollection’ Trailer – ‘Black Mirror’-Esque Sci-Fi Thriller Will Erase Memories in March

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"Religion, right, ethics, and everything spiritual in human beings, is merely aroused. We are implicitly spirit, for the truth lies within us and the spiritual content within us must be brought into consciousness."

Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Lectures of 1827, p. 161

#Hegel #Recollection #Anamnesis #Philosophy #Religion #Ethics #Spirit #Consciousness #Mysticism #GermanIdealism

A #recollection - a story, if you will - that doesn't have a particular purpose. I'm not trying to influence you to think something in particular, just relating something I thought about recently.

Many years ago, towards the end of my senior year in high school, the #school day had just ended and I was getting a ride home from a friend. I was in the passenger seat of his car, on a beautiful late-spring day, and had just fastened my seat belt as we prepared to leave the parking lot.

Three guys were walking by in front of the car. One, "J", was a guy I'd been #friends with in elementary school, but fell out of contact with in high school. I don't think we'd talked or interacted in years. He had no reason or motive for what followed, except perhaps #peer pressure from one of the other two guys. *That* guy was a former friend who disliked me because I'd #dated his #sister for a while. He'd spent much of the last year slagging me off to anyone who would listen, and I have no doubt he influenced Former Friend J.

As they walked by the front of the car, J stared at me and #flipped me off. I laughed and did the same back to him. They stopped, he came around to my side of the car, and sucker-punched me through the window, breaking my #nose. My friend drove me to the hospital a few blocks away, where the doc straightened it - I'd broken it before, as a kid, so this actually made it better.

Today, it would probably result in #police etc. Then, it was "just kids". #Weird.

A #recollection - a story, if you will - that doesn't have a particular purpose. I'm not trying to influence you to think something in particular, just relating something I thought about recently.

Many years ago, towards the end of my senior year in high school, the #school day had just ended and I was getting a ride home from a friend. I was in the passenger seat of his car, on a beautiful late-spring day, and had just fastened my seat belt as we prepared to leave the parking lot.

Three guys were walking by in front of the car. One, "J", was a guy I'd been #friends with in elementary school, but fell out of contact with in high school. I don't think we'd talked or interacted in years. He had no reason or motive for what followed, except perhaps #peer pressure from one of the other two guys. *That* guy was a former friend who disliked me because I'd #dated his #sister for a while. He'd spent much of the last year slagging me off to anyone who would listen, and I have no doubt he influenced Former Friend J.

As they walked by the front of the car, J stared at me and #flipped me off. I laughed and did the same back to him. They stopped, he came around to my side of the car, and sucker-punched me through the window, breaking my #nose. My friend drove me to the hospital a few blocks away, where the doc straightened it - I'd broken it before, as a kid, so this actually made it better.

Today, it would probably result in #police etc. Then, it was "just kids". #Weird.

Dahl Reflects on Club World Cup: Benfica Move, Storms, Security Dogs

#ClubWorldCup #Dahl #dog #Recollection
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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

   If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
   Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/77853/

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Quote of the day, 11 March: St. Teresa of Avila

Now, then, let us speak again to those souls I mentioned that cannot recollect or tie their minds down in mental prayer or engage in reflection. Let’s not mention here by name these two things, since you are not meant to follow such a path. As a matter of fact there are many persons seemingly terrified by the mere term “mental prayer” or “contemplation,” and perhaps one of these might come to this house, for as I have also said not everyone walks by the same path.

Well what I now want to counsel you about (I can even say teach you, because as a Mother, having the office of prioress, I’m allowed to teach) is how you must pray vocally, for it’s only right that you should understand what you’re saying.

And because it can happen that those who are unable to think about God may also find long prayers tiring, I don’t want to concern myself with these. But I will speak of those prayers we are obliged as Christians to recite (such as, the Our Father and the Hail Mary) so that people won’t be able to say of us that we speak and don’t understand what we’re speaking about—unless we think it is enough for us to follow the practice in which merely pronouncing the words is sufficient. I’m not concerned with whether this is sufficient or not; learned men will explain [the matter to those persons to whom God gives light to ask the question. And I’m not meddling with what doesn’t belong to our state.]

What I would like us to do, daughters, is refuse to be satisfied with merely pronouncing the words. For when I say, “I believe,” it seems to me right that I should know and understand what I believe.

And when I say, “Our Father,” it will be an act of love to understand who this Father of ours is and who the Master is who taught us this prayer.

What we ourselves can do is to strive to be alone; and please God it will suffice, as I say, that we understand to whom we are speaking and the answer the Lord makes to our petitions. Do you think He is silent? Even though we do not hear Him, He speaks well to the heart when we beseech Him from the heart.

And it is good for us to consider that He taught this prayer to each of us and that He is showing it to us; the teacher is never so far from his pupil that he has to shout, but he is very close. I want you to understand that it is good for you, if you are to recite the Our Father well, to remain at the side of the Master who taught this prayer to you.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection, chap. 24, nos. 1–2, 5

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: Jude Beck / Unsplash (Stock photo)

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Quote of the day, 14 January: Brother Lawrence

Reverend and Dear Mother,

I received from Miss N. the rosaries that you gave her. I am surprised you haven’t let me know what you think of the book I sent you. You must have received it. Put it diligently into practice in your later days. Better late than never.

I cannot understand how religious people can remain content without the practice of the presence of God. As for me, I keep myself recollected in him in the depth and center of my soul as much as possible, and when I am thus with him I fear nothing, though the least deviation is hell for me.

This exercise does not hurt the body. It is nonetheless appropriate to deprive it occasionally, and even with some frequency, of some innocent, permissible, little consolations. For God will not permit a soul desirous of being entirely his to find consolation other than with him, and that is more than reasonable!

I do not say we must put ourselves to a great deal of trouble to do this; no, we must serve God in holy freedom. We must work faithfully, without turmoil or anxiety, gently and peacefully bringing our minds back to God as often as we find ourselves distracted.

We must, however, place all our trust in God and let go of all our cares, including a multitude of private devotions, very good in themselves but often carried out for the wrong reason, for these devotions are nothing more than the means to arrive at the end. If, then, we are with the one who is our end by this practice of the presence of God, it is certainly useless to return to the means. We can continue our loving exchange with him, remaining in his holy presence sometimes by an act of adoration, praise, or desire, other times by acts of oblation, thanksgiving, or anything else that our minds can devise.

Do not be discouraged by the repugnance you feel on the side of nature. You must do it violence. In the beginning you may often think you are wasting your time; nonetheless, you must continually resolve to persevere until death in spite of all the difficulties. I commend myself to the prayers of your holy community and to yours in particular and I am in Our Lord,

Yours,

From Paris, November 3, 1685

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, O.C.D.

Letter 4, to the same nun as Letter 3
Saturday, 3 November 1685

Lawrence of the Resurrection, B; De Meester, C 1994, Writings and Conversations on the Practice of the Presence of God,  translated from the French by Salvatore Sciurba, OCD, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Photographer Mark Notari captures this image of pots and pans on a stove in a commercial kitchen within a market in Oaxaca, Mexico. Image credit: notarim / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

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A quotation from Barrie, James:

«
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5612/

#quote #quotes #quotation #drawer #memory #mess #recollection #remembrance

A quotation from Barrie, James:

«
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5612/

#quote #quotes #quotation #drawer #memory #mess #recollection #remembrance

A quotation from Barrie, James:

«
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5612/

#quote #quotes #quotation #drawer #memory #mess #recollection #remembrance

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

MN 68 From… Naḷakapānasutta: At Naḷakapāna

“Recollecting that laywoman’s faith, ethics, learning, generosity, and wisdom, she applies her mind to that end.…”

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Mercurial Heart and Re:Collection boxes are now available in stores. I picked up Tristan this weekend. Here is the deck list

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Mercurial Heart and Re:Collection boxes are now available in stores. I picked up Tristan this weekend. Here is the deck list

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Mercurial Heart and Re:Collection boxes are now available in stores. I picked up Tristan this weekend. Here is the deck list

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Mercurial Heart and Re:Collection boxes are now available in stores. I picked up Tristan this weekend. Here is the deck list

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“Virgo fidelis”: that is, Faithful Virgin, “who kept all these things in her heart.” [Lk. 2:19] She remained so little, so recollected in God’s presence, in the seclusion of the temple, that she drew down upon herself the delight of the Holy Trinity: “Because He has looked upon the lowliness of His servant, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed!” [Lk. 1:48] The Father bending down to this beautiful creature, who was so unaware of her own beauty, willed that she be the Mother in time of Him whose Father He is in eternity.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Heaven in Faith, Tenth Day

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2014, I Have Found God, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity Volume 1: Major spiritual writings, translated from the French by Kane, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple (detail) by Italian artist Cima da Conegliano (1459–1518) was executed in oil on panel in 1497. It comes from the collections of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. Image credit: Jean Louis Mazieres / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/05/07/mdj2024-08/

#beauty #faithful #HeavenlyFather #Magnificat #MotherOfChrist #recollection #solitude #StElizabethOfTheTrinity #VirgoFidelis

Mary was a silent prayer; and it was in the silence of this silent, withdrawn prayer that Mary heard the Angel’s voice. She would not have heard it had she not been in silence.

Retreat for the Third Order (OCDS) of the Carmel of Chaville, 1936

And Mary? Her whole life slips into silence. Her soul is saturated with silence. The fullness of grace within her draws her soul into astonishing depths of silence.

Retreat for the Carmel of Gravigny, 1936

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Note: These two quotes were translated into English for the first time for the Carmelite Online Lenten Retreat in 2024.

Prayer for the Beatification of Père Jacques de Jésus

Father of Infinite Goodness,
You gave Père Jacques de Jésus
from childhood on the desire to love You
and to love all people
with an undivided heart.

You lavished him with talent
for the education of young people,
You chose him to become a priest,
You called him to enter the Order of Carmel.

Among the inhuman horrors of the concentration camps
You made him a fervent witness of faith and love,
until the perfect offering of his life.

Grant us the graces which we ask of You
by his intercession and,
if it is Your will,
glorify him in Your Church,
through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior.

Reports of favors received can be sent to:

Vice-Postulation de la cause du Père Jacques
1, rue Père Jacques – 77215 AVON Cedex
FRANCE

Learn about Père Jacques de Jésus

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

Featured image: This is a detailed view of The Annunciation, an oil on copper painting by Flemish artist Frans Francken II (1581–1642). The painting dates to 1615–1625 and comes from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago. Image credit: Art Institute of Chicago (Public domain)

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/05/05/mdj2024-ep05/

#archangelGabriel #God #listening #PèreJacquesDeJésus #prayer #presence #recollection #ServantOfGod #VirginMary

#Spiritualité : Dans les #souks de #Tunis, l'ermitage de Sidi #Belhassen
Outre le #mausolée qui se trouve à la sortie sud de #Tunis, sur les hauteurs du #Djellaz, #Sidi Belhassen disposait d'un lieu de #recueillement dans la #médina.

https://www.webdo.tn/fr/actualite/les-billets-de-hatem-bourial/spiritualite-dans-les-souks-de-tunis-l-ermitage-de-sidi-belhassen/212368

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#Spiritualité : Dans les #souks de #Tunis, l'ermitage de Sidi #Belhassen
Outre le #mausolée qui se trouve à la sortie sud de #Tunis, sur les hauteurs du #Djellaz, #Sidi Belhassen disposait d'un lieu de #recueillement dans la #médina.

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Outre le #mausolée qui se trouve à la sortie sud de #Tunis, sur les hauteurs du #Djellaz, #Sidi Belhassen disposait d'un lieu de #recueillement dans la #médina.

https://www.webdo.tn/fr/actualite/les-billets-de-hatem-bourial/spiritualite-dans-les-souks-de-tunis-l-ermitage-de-sidi-belhassen/212368

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La Valigia (2014) [13 min] by Pier Paolo Paganelli | #Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ip2JMqtNDg

#StopMotion #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Memories #Recollection #Souvenir #StudioCroma

La Valigia (2014) [13 min] by Pier Paolo Paganelli | #Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ip2JMqtNDg

#StopMotion #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Memories #Recollection #Souvenir #StudioCroma

La Valigia (2014) [13 min] by Pier Paolo Paganelli | #Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ip2JMqtNDg

#StopMotion #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Memories #Recollection #Souvenir #StudioCroma

La Valigia (2014) [13 min] by Pier Paolo Paganelli | #Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ip2JMqtNDg

#StopMotion #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Memories #Recollection #Souvenir #StudioCroma

La Valigia (2014) [13 min] by Pier Paolo Paganelli | #Italy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ip2JMqtNDg

#StopMotion #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Memories #Recollection #Souvenir #StudioCroma

@leftout @alex Ummm…. k,

I’mma Trekkie. All my life.

I gotta say thank you and also admit that I’m embarrassed ss a result of spreading that falsehood for prolly two decades. It was based on my direct recollection that our minds shape within us as we add and recall various experiences in life.

Let me take this opportunity to say, “Fuck your therapist” too, for had you cited, S1:E18 TNG I would have been awkwardly embarrassed, outraged at myself, and thought you a dikhed for thrashing me publicly. You are too kind, and a statesman in trekkering (if that’s even a freaking word, lolz).

Because of your subtle pointer, not pointing to the episode itself butt to the provenance of the saga’s chronology, I took your queue and went to the sources at StarTrek .com, Etc., and did my due diligence.

“Home Soil” was in fact the episode with Captain Picard and crew, and Ugly… Ugly giant bags of mostly water was the actual line converted over communication links off the Enterprise obo the:

• Crystal life form (wikis)
• Microbrains (IMDb, but I think this is wrong)
• Crystalline Entity (something from my own recollections, but I think I may be conflating with another episode again)

In the second utterance, where the quote comes from, it’s:

“Ugly bags of mostly water” which is kinda fucked up if you’re the ugly bag and you think you’re the bees knees of the universe, lolz.

Anyway, I need to go back and watch the episode again and regain my clarity.

From one Trekkie to another, thanks for the nudge in the right direction, fuck your therapist (again, cuz your instincts were better than his/hers), and here’s some personal questions, stuffs, I have for you…

My all time fav episodes:

1. The Balance of Terror (S1:E14 TOS - 1966) - Romulan Captain played by the same actor (Mark Lenard) as Sarek in later episodes, series (like TNG), and movies, through s few franchises.
2. The Inner Light - after either ten minutes or a whole lifetime, Picard returns to his cabin to play a flute bestowed upon him by a strange probe of remembrance of a people past, and sadly, extinct - he carries with him their hopes, loves, and dreams, the rest of his natural days, as a complete life experience.
3. Don’t fuck this up coz I’ll gig your ass, lolz - What we’re Captain Kirk’s last words?
4. Another major fav of mine is TNG’s, “Yesterday’s Enterprise” who’s Captain had even more balls than Captain Janeway, who in turn, had more balls than Captain Kirk, lolz.

As my profile and contact info clearly states, I’m a FOSS and Privacy Advocate, shoulder that mantle quite seriously, and even though I thought him initially to be a dweeb write in, came to appreciate Will Wheaton as Wesley Crusher and note that it was not one of our finest hours when we let the destructive child snimals out of their respective cages to drive him from the Fediverse - yeah, I was there when those teenage pieces of shit did that to him - even @Gargron , who held great sway back then, couldn’t contain or filter those 💩’s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/9bimug/why_did_mastodon_run_off_wil_wheaton/

You have a wonderful day, evening, or afternoon, whatev time it is where you’re at and thanks again for the gentle bump to fact check myself with this errata.

#tallship #Star_Trek #Star_Trek_you_bitches #Kirk #Picard #Janeway #TOS #TNG #humanity #sacrifice #rememberance #conflation #memory #recollection #I_can_haz_Cheezburgerz? 🍔

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A quotation from Martial:

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A good man can expand his life: he lives
twice over whose past life can be enjoyed.
[Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est
Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martial/38766/

#quote #quotes #quotation #guilt #happiness #life #memory #nostalgia #past #recollection #regret #shame

A prevalent implication about #recollection nowadays has been first asserted by Bartlett back in 1932 that by creating new ideas in the process of trying to remember, we can never precisely recall an old memory as well, that any ‘retrieved details actually become surprisingly unreliable’ and by our effort of getting them back to the forefront, we necessarily distort what was once there.

Language's imperfect, that your mental processes will differ slightly from how you recorded them.

St. John of the Cross Novena, Day 2: Self-giving

Reading

All for me and nothing for you. All for you and nothing for me.

Sayings of Light and Love, 110–111

Scripture 

I believe nothing can happen that will outweigh the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For him, I have accepted the loss of everything, and I look on everything as so much rubbish if only I can have Christ and be given a place in him. I am no longer trying for perfection by my own efforts, the perfection that comes from the Law, but I want only the perfection that comes through faith in Christ, and is from God and based on faith. All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by reproducing the pattern of his death. That is the way I can hope to take my place in the resurrection of the dead. Not that I have become perfect yet: I have not yet won, but I am still running, trying to capture the prize for which Christ Jesus captured me. I can assure you my brothers, I am far from thinking that I have already won. All I can say is that I forget the past and I strain ahead for what is still to come; I am racing for the finish, for the prize to which God calls us upward to receive in Christ Jesus. We who are called “perfect” must all think in this way. If there is some point on which you see things differently, God will make it clear to you; meanwhile, let us go forward on the road that has brought us to where we are.

Philippians 3:8-16

Meditation

“Nothing for me.” The nada—that absolute, naked, utter nothing—of Saint John of the Cross can seem so stark, even off-putting to a novice reader of the Church’s Mystical Doctor. Nothing for me? How can this be?

In order to unpack these absolutes, it helps to have a reference point. Saint Paul can help us to understand the purpose of striving for such nakedness, such emptiness, the possession of nothing to the point of being nothing.

In the verses preceding our Scripture reading, St. Paul lists all the reasons that he had to boast of his “Hebrew-ness”. He even calls himself a “Hebrew of Hebrews.” That’s a rather bold statement. Yet despite all of his reasons to boast of his Hebrew and Pharisee pedigree, he says that “nothing can happen that will outweigh the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus.” (Ph 3:8) There’s that absolute qualifier again: nothing.

But Paul doesn’t stop there, he goes further: “For Him, I have accepted the loss of everything, and I look on everything as so much rubbish.” St. Paul is getting out his virtual work gloves, his virtual broom, dustpan, trash bags, and taking inventory of his life as one would assess their home and property with an insurance adjuster after a fire or natural disaster, understanding that all one possessed is a total loss, ready to be hauled away with the garbage.

Ah, but there’s a reason for rejoicing—clearing away the rubbish creates total and absolute room for Christ: “if only I can have Christ and be given a place in Him.”

This contrast of self-emptying to be filled with something greater in St. John of the Cross and St. Paul the Apostle reminds us of the self-emptying in the life of Christ:

Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name (Ph 2:6-9).

And as we look at St. Paul’s words, it is interesting to look further at his all-or-nothing contrasts. We know what he considers to be nothing, a pile of rubbish. With what does he seek to replace it? Let’s search his text for the simple word, all. “All I want is to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to share his sufferings by reproducing the pattern of his death… All I can say is that I forget the past and I strain ahead for what is still to come” (Ph 3:10,13). Yes, nothing for me leaves all for you. That is, essentially, what St. John of the Cross said, in the stark all-and-nothing contrast of his saying, todo para ti y nada para mí.

If the nada of St. John of the Cross and the rubbish-heap imagery of St. Paul still leave us wondering how to attain such noble, holy aspirations, it is St. Paul’s great disciple, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity who can show us the way. In her retreat Heaven in Faith (First Day, second prayer) she writes:

We must not, so to speak, stop at the surface, but enter ever deeper into the divine Being through recollection. “I am still running,” exclaimed St. Paul (Ph 3:12); so must we descend daily this pathway of the Abyss which is God; let us slide down this slope in wholly loving trust. “Deep calls to deep” (Ps 42:8). It is there in the very depths that the divine impact takes place, where the abyss of our nothingness encounters the Abyss of mercy, the immensity of the all of God. There we will find the strength to die to ourselves and, losing all vestige of self, we will be changed into love…. “Blessed are those who die in the Lord” (Rev 14:13)!

Prayer

O St. John of the Cross
You were endowed by our Lord with the spirit of self-denial
and a love of the cross.
Obtain for us the grace to follow your example
that we may come to the eternal vision of the glory of God.

O Saint of Christ’s redeeming cross
the road of life is dark and long.
Teach us always to be resigned to God’s holy will
in all the circumstances of our lives
and grant us the special favor
which we now ask of you.

Mention your request

Above all, obtain for us the grace of final perseverance,
a holy and happy death and everlasting life with you
and all the saints in heaven.
Amen.

Let’s continue in prayer

Day 1 — Self-trust
Day 2 — Self-giving
Day 3 — Cleansing
Day 4 — Walking in love
Day 5 — Trust
Day 6 — Prayer
Day 7 — Humility
Day 8 — Eternal Silence
Day 9 — Silent love

The novena prayer was composed from approved sources by Professor Michael Ogunu, a member of the Discalced Carmelite Secular Order in Nigeria.

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2014, I Have Found God, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity Volume 1: Major spiritual writings, translated from the French by Kane, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

All scripture references in this novena are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Joseph.

Let us unite in prayer

#abyss #all #deep #elizabethCatez #heavenInFaith #icsPublications #johnOfTheCross #love #nada #nothing #nothingness #novena #pharisee #recollection #rubbish #sabeth #sanJuanDeLaCruz #stElizabethOfTheTrinity #stJohnOfTheCross #stPaul #stTherese #stThereseOfLisieux #stThereseOfTheChildJesus #todo #transformation

Thor sent this root vegetable special from New York City after attending Maira Kalman’s holiday sale. Weirdly wonderful, stored it in the fridge not sure exactly how to preserve it outside of a photograph. In hindsight I wonder if it may have found a forever life sealed in acrylic like those dandelion paperweights (see image below).

Recollection

This was post was published on December 16, 2023 after my morning reflection.

Just off the telephone with Thor after asking him if this was a beet, radish or rutabaga. That detail was inconclusive but we had a lovely conversations about:

• The fact that he popped into Maira’s 2024 Holiday Pop-up today.
• Her son’s Mmuseumm
• The tableware used in nice restaurants featured in this CBS Sunday Morning segment
• A conversation and cookbook with Daniel Humm
• My upcoming birthday
• Holiday plans
• Adding Auntie Mame (1958) to my watch list

https://chrisglass.com/2016/12/08/a-root-vegetable-by-maira-kalman/

#art #fridge #Pepsi #recollection #vegetable