Volume II/Issue 22/February 2018

From The Editorial Desk:

Dear Readers,

Well Lent is upon us! Its one of the most joyous times on the Church calendar!

I am guessing that you think I am crazy. But the fact is we should be going through lent with a smile on our faces. At least that is what Jesus said to do.

"And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face; That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee." (Matthew 6:16-18)

In simpler terms, " When you fast, don’t make yourselves look sad like the hypocrites. They put a look of suffering on their faces so that people will see they are fasting. The truth is, that’s all the reward they will get. 17 So when you fast, wash your face and make yourself look nice. 18 Then no one will know you are fasting, except your Father, who is with you even in private. He can see what is done in private, and he will reward you."

Now that we got that out of the way. I wanted to give you some Basic purposes for fasting:

• Fasting to gain spiritual alertness to overcome temptation

Jesus Christ was led to to fast forty days-Matthew 4:2

• Fasting to seek God's will in a specific matter

The Israelites fasted to determine direction in battle-Judges 20:26

Paul and Barnabas prayed with fasting before ordaining Priest-Acts 14:23

• Fasting in repentance for sin

The Israelites fasted and repented and put away false gods- I Samuels 7:6

David fasted and repented of his sins.-II Samuel 12:16;21-23

Ahab fasted and repented after causing Naboth's death-I King 21:27

Hearing God's word Israel fasted, confessing their sins-Nehemiah 9:1-3

Daniel fasted and repented for himself and the people for not having walked in the laws of the Lord. and because they didn't, God's chastisement was to come-Daniel 9:3

Joel called for a fast because of the Lords chastening-Joel 1:14,2:12 and 15

The people of Nineveh repented in fasting-Jonah 3:5

• Fasting for concern for the work of the Church

Nehemiah fasted over the condition of Jerusalem-Nehemiah 1:4

Abstinance in marriage allowed for times of prayer and fasting-I Corinthians 7:5

• Fasting as a prerequisite for spiritual authority

Jesus Christ identified demons which could only be cast out by prayer and fasting-Matthew 17:21; Mark 9:29

• Fasting for deliverance or protection

Jehoshaphat and all Judah fasted for deliverance in battle-II Chronciles 20:3

Ezra and the people fasted for the Lord's deliverance-Ezra 8:21-23

The Jews fasted and grieved after King Ahassuerus' decree-Esther 4:13,16

God delivered the Jews from Haman's plot-they fasted and rejoiced-Esther 9:31

People fasting for repentance and deliverance but God will not hear-Jeremiah 14:12

• Fasting to humble oneself before God

David humbled himself before God-Psalms 69:10,11,13

• Fasting as a part of Worship

Anna served God through prayers and fastings daily-Luke 2:37

The early church was fasting and worshipping God-Acts 13:2,3

Cornelius, feared God, gave alms, prayed, and fasted-Acts 10:2,30

• Fasting when in deep sorrow

Sorrow over the death of Saul and his sons-I Samuel 31:13, II Samuel 1:11,12

David grieved over the life of his child-II Samuel 12:16;21-23

David prayed and fasted for his enemies' troubles- Psalms 35:13

King Darius fasted when Daniel was in the lions' den-Daniel 6:18

In conclusion:

Fast for the purpose of great effectiveness in discerning and achieving God's purposes (Isaiah 58:6). Do it secretly and God will reward you openly (Matthew 6:16-18).

And remember: Don't fast to achieve selfish purposes-(Isaiah 58:3-5). and don't fast to impress others with your spirituality-(Zecharaiah 7:5; Matthew 6:16-18; Luke 18:12).

God bless

Saint Andrew Corsini

The Breviary tells us: “This Andrew was born at Florence, of the noble family of Corsini. His birth was a special answer to prayer, and his parents vowed him to the Blessed Virgin.” Do we ever stop to think of praying for our children and consecrating to Almighty God? Newly married people should pray for their future children and ask God for the grace and guidance to be good parents. We should anticipate the graces we will need in the future. There is a custom for boys and girls to pray for their future spouse, while they are yet children.

Let us return to the Breviary: “God foreshewed even before his birth what he was to be. While his mother was great with child she dreamt that she brought forth a wolf, which ran to the Carmelite Church and was changed into a lamb as soon as it reached the porch.” God sometimes chooses people for special tasks He has in mind. The Prophet Jeremias writes: “And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.” (Jeremias 1:4-5) God has a plan for all of us and has had us in His mind since creation.

Parents, let us consider this from the Breviary: “The boy was brought up in godliness and learning becoming his rank, but turned to bad courses; whereupon his mother often rebuked him.” Parents have a solemn duty to bring their children up properly. And this means that parents must be examples of holiness and virtue. The idea of: “Don't do as I do, do as I say do,” will not work. Even when parents do all they should, a child may go wrong. However, bad parents usually raise worse children, as Scripture says: “Praise not any man before death, for a man is known by his children.” (Ecclesiasticus 11:30) And neglectful parents are responsible for the sins of their children, their grand children, etc. If by our bad living we scandalize others and lead them into sin, we bear some responsibility for that sin. It is like the domino effect. Our sin by scandal begets another sin, which by scandal begets another.

Saint Andrew came out well in the end, as the Breviary tells us: “Nevertheless, when he knew how his parents had vowed him to the Maiden Mother of God, the love of God touched his heart, and the vision of his mother moving him, he betook himself to the Institute of the Carmelites. In that place the devil exercised him with many and divers temptations, but could not break him off from his determination to profess as a friar.”

There is much to learn from the beginning of his life. Saint John Vianney tells us that not all of the saints began well, but they all ended well. Saint Augustine lived badly for many years before he finally converted. Our saint as well was trained well, then went the wrong way, but through the grace of God was brought to repentance. If we have lived badly, let us follow his example and return to Almighty God. 

February Gloom and Glory

The Funny Pharmacy

Proverbs 17:22

A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

 The Sunday School teacher was describing that when Lot's wife looked back at Sodom she turned into a pillar of salt, when Bobby interrupted. "My mommy looked back once while she was driving," he announced, "and she turned into a telephone pole."

  The church was badly in need of a coat of paint. So the pastor decided he'd do the job himself. But all he had was one bucket of paint. So he got a bunch of buckets and some water, and he thinned the paint enough to cover the entire church. Then he spent all day painting. That night it rained—very hard—and washed all the paint off. The pastor was quite discouraged and asked God, 'Why...why God, did you let it rain and wash off all my hard work?'
      To which God thundered his reply, 'Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!'

The Pope Speaks: February 2018 

Concerning the Lenten Fast and its Proper Spirit

February 14, 2018 is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.

Lent is a spiritual Spring cleaning. It is a time to check up on how well we are performing our duties. To do this, we should make a list of our duties and examine our conscience on how well we are performing them. From this we make resolutions to fulfill our duties better. We then choose those mortifications that are necessary to fulfill these resolutions.

This brings us to the main point of mortification. The purpose of mortification is to remove all obstacles to prayer and fulfilling our duties. And so our mortifications should be chosen with these two goals in mind.

Let us cite some examples. In order to spend more quality time with his wife and children a man might resolve to give up television after dinner, as well as not surfing the net, etc. In order to spend more time at prayer, people might give up the same things before going to work in the morning, spending time with God rather than with acquiring useless information from the television or internet. And yes, much of what is broadcast is basically about useless to helping us save our souls and perform our duties.

“Penance for the Christian is not satisfied by withdrawing from sin, by detesting a past life badly lived, or by the sacramental confession of these same sins. Rather, penance also demands that we satisfy divine justice with fasting, almsgiving, prayer and other works of the spiritual life.” (Pope Clement XIII, Appente Sacro)

There are seven kinds of penance outlined here:

The first penance is necessary, withdrawing from sin. Sin is the only real evil in the world. It is absolutely necessary to remove all mortal sin. We should also remove all deliberate sins from our life, because the only thing deliberate venial sin lacks that mortal sin has is seriousness of matter. We should never deliberately will to sin, no matter how trivial the matter may seem. Deliberately sinning is also deliberately turning away from God.

Secondly we have all lived our lives badly. Two practices will help us see this. The first is to take a week and track how we use our time. How many of us spend a whole day, 24 hours, in front of some sort of screen. And how little time do we spend in prayer? The other is tracking how we spend our money for a month. Oh, how we pamper ourselves. Buying a special coffee daily costs over a hundred dollars a month. Couldn't that money be spent more wisely? How much do we spend on ourselves and how little do we give to Almighty God and His work? How we spend our time and money shows what we truly hold to be important.

Thirdly Pope Clement includes Sacramental Penance as a penance we all need to do. We need to come clean before God and the priest He has sent to us through His Church and 'get real'. We need to admit that we are our a sinner and admit what are sins actually are.

We must satisfy Divine Justice by fasting. And this must go beyond the minimums required by Ecclesiastical Law.

(A brochure explicating the current laws in regard to the Lenten Fast is available for download here.)

We shall consider this more deeply in a moment.

Fifth we consider almsgiving, which is more than checkbook charity. It includes all of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. The Catechism tells us: “The chief spiritual works of mercy are seven: To admonish the sinner, to instruct the ignorant, to counsel the doubtful, to comfort the sorrowful, to bear wrongs patiently, to forgive all injuries, and to pray for the living and the dead. … The chief corporal works of mercy are seven: To feed the hungry, to give drink to the thirsty, to clothe the naked, to ransom the captive, to harbor the harborless, to visit the sick, and to bury the dead.” Let us remember that almsgiving comes after we have tithed to the Church, which is an obligation binding under pain of sin.

Sixthly we need to pray. It is interesting that this Pope enumerated prayer as a penance. Prayer takes us away from something else, because it takes time to make serious prayer. Lent is a good time to set aside an hour a day for prayer, and to take a moment to recollect our self at other times, rather than distract ourselves.

And finally we need to perform the other works of the spiritual life, which include spiritual reading, reading the lives of the saints, pilgrimages, etc. Like prayer, these also take time and take us away from our own pleasures and thus are a necessary mortification and penance.

The World Takes No Heed of Lent

These words come from the public admonitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes. And how much more so is this today? When Mary appeared at LaSalette, Friday and Saturday were days of complete abstinence. And the Lenten fast was stricter. Now we are permitted a full meal with meat, except on Fridays and Ash Wednesdays, when meat is forbidden. We are permitted a small repast in the morning and evening in order to maintain strength, which must be meatless. We are allowed to exchange the noon meal with the evening repast, thus eating our main meal in the evening and taking a small repast around noon time. The two repasts, when added together should not equal a full meal.

The big problem of today is gluttony and the Fathers of the Church tell us we must overcome gluttony before we can overcome lust and the other vices. If you have a problem with vice, consider its may be growing out of gluttony, which may be feeding it.

Saint Paul said: “For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping), that they are enemies of the cross of Christ; Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things.” (Philippians 3:18-19)

Is our belly our god? Do we live to eat or do we eat to live?

We should eat in order to live, not live in order to gratify our self in eating.

There are four ways of being gluttonous:

1. Eating when there is no need, eating between meals, and for no other reason than that of indulging our greed.

2. Seeking delicacies or daintily prepared meats, the more to enjoy their relish.

3. Eating with avidity, with greed, after the manner of certain animals.

4. Going beyond their appetite or need, gorging oneself with food or drink with danger to health.

Let us consider these four ways:

We eat in order to maintain our strength and to live. Eating for pleasure alone has been condemned as sinful by the Church. How often should we eat? Saint Thomas Aquinas asks if three in the afternoon is the appropriate time for the faster's only meal. Because of our weakness the Church has allowed food to be consumed twice more. Let us go to a catechism published a century ago, which describes fasting as: “In taking only one meal a day, to which a refection and a collation may be added.” The main meal had been moved to noon, but it is permitted to move it to the evening and move the collation back to noon time. The refection is a light breakfast to maintain strength. And the catechism says: “The collation is a slight refreshment which we are permitted to take towards evening, amount to about one fourth of an ordinary meal.” The current law is easier than this. We should live in the spirit of fasting, enduring some discomfort as long as it is not injurious to our health.

We eat very fancy foods, when we should eat plainer foods, especially on fast days. Let us consider the delicacies that we take for granted that were not available a few decades ago. There is no problem in enjoying the food we eat to maintain our health.

Today many have a bad habit of eating rapidly, when we should sit down at the table and eat slowly and moderately. We recall training a child, who had the habit of eating too fast. We made him set his fork down between bites to teach him to slow down.

Saint Alphonsus says: “It is also a sin willfully to produce any serious illness, by eating to excess, or by eating food injurious to health; for we are bound to preserve our life, and to avoid all danger of death.” And Saint John Vianney, holy Cure of Ars said. said: “intemperance and debauchery are the support of doctors.” How many of us have health problems caused by what we eat or at least made worse by it. Let your food be your medicine. We should choose foods that will strengthen our body, not weaken it.

Today many things are sold to us as 'food', which are actually dangerous and may even be destroying our body and mind. Do a little research. When we eat a proper diet, we will find that it takes less to support our life.

Let us resolve to make this the best Lent in our lives. Let us ask God to give us the grace to place Him first and foremost in our life. Let us then work with the grace He sends us to change our lives for the better.

Pope Michael

Dear soul, it is a joy to write to you again. This month, we are going to continue with what we began the last time I wrote. Do you remember? We were discussing the life of prayer and looking some of the "Chapters" on prayer by Evagrius of Pontus. I hope that you have found the lessons in the Chapters to be helpful. This month, we are going to move on to the next few Chapters to see what awaits us there. I think you'll find the information to be useful to you, especially as we are now entering into the season of Lent.

More than at any other time of the year, during Lent we ought to take an inventory of our lives, of our selves, of that which we do, of that which we have not done, of the opportunities for grace, and for charity, and for works of mercy. We must take an honest look at the occasions of spiritual growth that we have accepted, and even those which we have not accepted.

Most fundamentally, we must make an inventory of our own interior life, our life of prayer.

I think here we would do well just to refresh our memories very quickly on what we learned the last time from Evagrius

First we learned that if we are to pray, we must offer prayer according to the proper proportions, which is nothing less than being genuine in our prayer, and to act within the Church and under the guidance of spiritual authority. This is only reasonable, dear soul, for if we truly wish to embark upon the life of prayer, our prayer must be genuine. We must not place obstacles in its way, and we must offer our prayer according to the mind of the immaculate bride of Christ, the Church.

Second we learned that in our life of prayer we must have balance. This balance comes as a consequence of our prayer being genuine and our prayer being guided and our work being directed along the safe paths shown to us by trusted spiritual guides. Should we discover that we have lost our balance, let us look to see what we lack - either in being genuine with our prayer, or in being guided by sound spiritual guide.

Third we learned that the life of prayer is continual. It is not an intermittant thing, turned off and on at will, but it is rather a constant state of soul after which we are to strive.

To be sure, this is not a mater simply of saying prayers continually. Even though I always hasten to point out, dear soul, that the saying of prayers in an indispensable part of the greater life of prayer, it is by no means the only part by. But it is indispensible. Give no ear to those who would in any way reduce the imporance of the simple and heartfelt saying of prayers, espeically those prayers which are part of the liturgial life of the Church. It is by these prayers that the immaculate bride of Christ renders worship unto her divine Spouse. When we participate in the Liturgy, and when we lend our mouths to give voice to these prayers, we participate so intimately in this pure and right glorification of God!

But even that is not enough to constitute the life of prayer. as our Lord himself within the scriptures tells us: "Ye hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me." - Gospel according to Saint Matthew 15:7-8.

No, it is not enough simply to give praise with the mouth if the heart is far from Him. We must awaken our hearts, and have them illumined and vivified by the light and power of divine grace.

That is what we will be investigating this month, dear soul, in way that is fundamental and even elementary, but which I know will serve you well.

I left you last time last month with the question: "What state of soul is required?" in regard to the swift attaining of genuineness, balance, and a soul which is continual in prayer.

This month we have the first answers. Let us read the next "Chapter" from Evagrius:

4. When Moses tried to draw near to the burning bush he was forbidden to approach until he had loosed his sandals from his feet (Exodus 3:5). If, then, you wish to behold and commune with Him who is beyond sense-perception and beyond concept, you must free yourself from every impassioned thought.

This speaks directly to us as we're about to enter into the season of the Great Lent, dear soul. If we are to truly live a life of prayer that is genuine, balanced, and continual, we must necessarily free ourselves from every impassioned thought as Evagrius assures us.

This is so because impassioned thoughts will cause us to seek after our own disordered desires and lack genuineness in our prayer. We will seek our own selfish ends rather than seek God Himself. Impassioned thoughts likewise are deadly to balance, for they allow no other consideration to take precedence to them, including the considerations of prayer. Finally, impassioned thoughts will seek to interrupt our state of continual prayer by constantly calling the attention and the affection of our hearts to themselves, and away from communication with God.

But what does this mean, exactly: to free ourselves from every impassioned thought? Well, we are given an illustration in the form of Moses. We see that when Moses tried to draw near the burning bush, he was forbidden to approach until he had loosened the sandals from his feet.

You will find two considerations to have there, dear soul. First, the sandals indicate the cares and the works of the world. For as we walk along in the world, the sandals bring along a lot of what we've walked through, the dust, dirt, grime, mud, whatever you can imagine. Any dirt clings to the bottom of the sandals. The cares of the world, in other words. Those things which we've gone through

Second, sandals are protection to us as we walk about. We wear the sandals so that we do not cut the bottoms of our feet on things. So that we can walk across the hot sands of the desert, or across sharp stones. They help give us purchase if we are climbing a steep path. They keep us from being stung, should we step on a bee, or even a scorpion. They are a protection to us.

But in order to truly approach God in the right spirit, we must put aside all pretense of self-protection. We must come to him in the state in which He has created us. We put aside our own shields. We put down our defenses. We must be willing to stand in our brokenness before our Creator. We must be willing to be seen as we are.

In the removal of the sandals, we see the illustration that we must set aside all that which is clinging to us from our daily journey within this fallen world, and we must also set aside our own worldly protections.

Let down your defenses, dear soul, so that you can truly come to Him! Thus it is that you free yourself from every impassioned thought, both those from without and also those from within. Those that would distract, or those that would impede.

5. First pray for the gift of tears, so that through sorrowing you may tame what is savage in your soul. And having confessed your transgressions to the Lord, you will obtain forgiveness from Him.

Have you ever noticed, dear soul, in a time of trial, in times of difficulty, in times of sorrow, how quickly all frivolity and levity is swept away? They become unimportant in times of sorrow, in those times in which we tend more to focus on that which is most important and most fundamental. We focus on ourselves, we focus on our relationships, we focus on family, and on each other. That's as it should be.

So also it is when we come before God, we must strip away all pretense, all frivolity, all pride, and pray to God that we may come to Him with the gift of tears. Not manufactured tears, and certainly not tears simply of emotion, dear soul. The gift of tears is something beyond. The gift of tears is truly a gift from God to the interior self, the noetic self. We will speak more on that self very soon.

Now the gift of tears is not always manifested in exterior, material tears, though it certainly often is. In this gift, we speak not merely of the tears of the eyes, but the sorrowing of the heart, the tears of the soul, which weep for the disfigurement within itself of the image of God, disfigured by sin.

For the heart seeks Him out, weeping over its own participation in this continual disfigurement. As a gift of God’s grace, its tears are a signification of the disfigurement of the soul being repaired. It is by the tears of the soul that our Lord washes clean the soul, and most wonderfully refashions it. These tears are both a fruit of the work of grace within the soul and the solvent which breaks asunder the chains of our own passions which keep us bound.

Pray for tears, dear soul, that it might be granted! But do not force yourself through impassioned, emotional feelings and thoughts to bring about such a thing, for this would be to counterfeit the gift of God. Never forget the necessity of genuineness in your prayer!

6. Pray with tears and all you ask will be heard. For the Lord rejoices greatly when you pray with tears.

Finally, dear soul, you see here that we are not speaking of impassioned thoughts or of emotions, but rather a state of the soul: The soul that is bringing forth the fruits of repentance in tears, within itself. This is the gift of tears of which the fathers speak.

For our Lord does not rejoice in our sorrowing or our weeping, nor does our Lord rejoice solely in our tears. Our Lord rejoices, rather, when we pray with tears. The fruit of grace is found in the tears of the soul, but the genuine and effectual gift is given when we pray.

For here, our purpose is not to achieve an emotional state, not to elicit a feeling, but to build a state of spiritual being. Prayer with tears is a state of spiritual operation which is granted to the sincere seeker. It is granted by our Lord, the only One Who can give this gift truly, for it is the action of reparation in the soul.

And that, dear soul, is the lesson that we should take with us this month. As we prepare ourselves to enter into Lent, let us remove our sandals, both to leave behind the cares and pollution of the world, and to set aside our defenses before Him. Let us stand before Him unprotected from all gifts that he may wish to give us, even the gift of tears. And then let us pray there, for all that we ask will be heard. The Lord rejoices greatly when one of His children trusts so completely and loves so totally that He can give them a gift so great as the gift of tears.

Let us remember this as we enter into Lent!

Good books to help make a good Lent!

Meditations For Lent

This work commences with Septuagesima Sunday. Septuagesima Sunday Going out about the third hour He saw others standing in the market place idle. And He said to them: Go you also into my vineyard and I will give what shall be just. In these words we may notice four things. 1. The goodness of the Lord, going out, that is, for his people's salvation. For that Christ should go out to lead men into the vineyard of justice was indeed an act of infinite goodness. ... There is an instruction for every day from Septuagesima Sunday two and a half weeks before Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday. This gives eight weeks of instructions or 56 instructions to sanctify this most holy season for the year, Septuagesima and Lent.

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Lentil Vegetable Soup with Wild Rice

A satisfying and nutritious soup that can be served on days of fast and abstinence. 

Minutes to Prepare: 15
Minutes to Cook: 45
Number of Servings: 4

Ingredients

3/4 cup lentils, sorted and rinsed
3/4 cup diced carrot
3/4 cup diced celery
3/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup wild rice
1/4 cup converted rice (like Uncle Ben's)
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
5 cups water
4 teaspoons vegetable bouillon seasoning
1 bay leaf
1 14-1/2 oz. can cut up tomatoes
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
2 tablespoons minced fresh basil, optional
V-8 or tomato juice or water, optional

Directions

Combine all ingredients on the list through the canned tomatoes in a large pot (do not add the Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, parsley or basil yet). Bring to a boil, then simmer until lentils and rice are tender (about 35-45 minutes). Remove the bay leaf. Scoop out about two cups of the soup and blend well in the blender. Return the blended soup to the pot. Now stir in the Worcestershire sauce, the apple cider vinegar, the fresh parsley (and the fresh basil if using). You should have about 8 cups of soup. If you don't have 8 cups, or if you prefer a thinner soup you can stir in some V-8, tomato juice, or water as you wish. Makes 4 servings, 2 cups each.

Number of Servings: 4

Video sermons and instructions: Oldies but goodies! 

Sexagesima Sunday, 2012.

Quinquagesima Sunday, 2012.

First Sunday in Lent, 2012.

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