Past Points Archive - August 2007
from the bulletin of 5th August 07
“In the Passion and death of Christ our sins are consumed by fire. If we accept that in faith, and if we accept the whole Christ in faith-filled surrender, which means that we choose and walk the path of the imitation of Christ, then he will lead us ‘through his Passion and cross to the glory of his resurrection’’”.
(Among the last words written by St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross before her death in Auschwitz)
from the bulletin of 12th August 07
"The Assumption of Mary - Our Lady in harvest time, the corn gathered in - is both a beginning and an end. 'In the glory which she possesses in body and soul in heaven, she is the image and beginning of the Church as it is to be perfected in the world to come' (Vatican II). Taken up into heaven, she assumes, she begins, in a new way, her role of intercessor, of mother in the order of grace. At the same time, as when anyone passes from this world to the Father, it is natural to look back at her whole life - re-reading it in the light of her end. Whichever way we look, it seems to me, we see the centrality of prayer, her prayer. We see Mary as a person of prayer, as the person of prayer, par excellence."
(Abbot Hugh Gilbert OSB of Pluscarden)
from the bulletin of 19th August 07
"When her mother reproached her for caring for the poor and the sick at home, St Rose of Lima said to her: "When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbours, because in them we serve Jesus."
(Anon on St Rose of Lima - Feast Day 23rd August)
from the bulletin of 26th August 07
The Compendium of the Catechism puts the question "On what is human equality based?" and answers it thus: "All persons enjoy equal dignity and fundamental rights insofar as they are created in the image of the one God, are endowed with the same rational soul, and are called in Christ, the one and only Saviour, to the same divine beatitude.
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