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Martes, 9 De Abril : Santa Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz

Martes, 9 De Abril : Santa Teresa Benedicta de la Cruz

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¿Quién eres tú, dulce luz que me llena e ilumina las tinieblas de mi corazón? Tú me conduces como la mano de una madre y si me soltaras, no sabría dar un solo paso. Tú eres el espacio que envuelve todo mi ser y lo cobija en ti. Abandonado de ti, me hundiría en el abismo de la nada de donde lo has sacado para levantarlo hasta la luz. Tú, más próximo cercano a mí que no lo estoy yo de mí misma, más íntimo que lo más profundo de mi alma, y sin embargo inalcanzable e inefable, más allá de todo nombre, ¡Espíritu Santo, Amor eterno! ¿No eres Tú el dulce maná que del corazón del Hijo fluye en el mío, alimento de los ángeles y de los bienaventurados? Él, que ha pasado de la muerte a la vida también a mí me ha desvelado desde el sueño de la muerte a una vida nueva. Y día tras día me sigue dando una vida nueva la plenitud de la cual un día me inundará toda entera, vida de tu vida, sí, Tú mismo, ¡Espíritu Santo, Vida eterna!

Lecturas Católicas Romanas – rosary.team

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Tuesday, April 9 : Saint Bernard

Tuesday, April 9 : Saint Bernard

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Only the hearing that catches the word possesses the truth…”Do not touch me,” says the Lord. He meant: depend no longer on this fallible sense; put your trust in the word, get used to faith. Faith cannot be deceived. With the power to understand invisible truths, faith does not know the poverty of the senses; it transcends even the limits of human reason, the capacity of nature, the bounds of experience. Why do you ask the eye to do what it is not equipped to do? And why does the hand endeavor to examine things beyond its reach? What you may learn from these senses is of limited value. But faith will tell you of me without detracting from my greatness. Learn to receive with greater confidence, to follow with greater security, whatever faith commends to you. “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father.” As if after he had ascended he wished to be or could be touched by her! And yet he could be touched, but by the heart, not by the hand; by desire, not by the eye; by faith, not by the senses. “Why do you want to touch me now?” he says… “Do you not remember that, while I was still mortal, the eyes of the disciples could not endure for a short space the glory of my transfigured body that was destined to die? I still accommodate myself to your senses by bearing this form of a servant (Phil 2,7) which you are accustomed to seeing. But this glory of mine is too wonderful for you… Defer your judgment therefore… With its fuller comprehension, faith will define it more worthily and more surely… She therefore will touch me worthily who will accept me as seated with the Father (Mk 16,19; Ps 110[109],1), no longer in lowly guise, but in my own flesh transformed with heaven’s beauty. Why wish to touch what is ugly? Have patience that you may touch me in my beauty.”
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Tuesday, April 9 : Saint Augustine

Tuesday, April 9 : Saint Augustine

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“This is the day the Lord has made” (Ps 118[117]:24). Call to mind what the world was like in the beginning: “Darkness covered the abyss while God’s Spirit swept over the waters. Then God said: ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God then separated the light from the darkness. God called the light ‘day’ and the darkness he called ‘night’” (Gn 1:2f.)… “This is the day the Lord has made.” It is the day the apostle Paul spoke about: “You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord” (Eph 5:8)… Isn’t it true to say that Thomas was a man, one of the disciples, one of the crowd so to speak? His brethren said to him: “We have seen the Lord”. But he said: “Unless I touch him, unless I put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” The evangelists bring you the news and you don’t believe it? The world believed but a disciple did not believe?… The day the Lord has made had not yet happened; darkness still covered the abyss, the depths of darkness of the human heart. Let him come who is the sign of day, let him come and, without anger, let him who brings healing patiently, gently say: “Come. Come, touch and believe. You declared that: ‘Unless I touch him, unless I put my hand into his side, I will not believe.’ Come, touch, put in your hand and do not be unbelieving but believe. I understand your wounds; it is for you I have kept my scars.” In putting out his hand this disciples is able to bring his faith to full completion. Indeed, what is faith’s completion? Not to believe that Christ is only man, not even to believe that Christ is only God, but to believe that he is man and God… And so the disciple whom the Saviour granted to touch his bodily members and scars, cried out: “My Lord and my God.” He touched the man, he recognised the God. He touched the flesh, he turned towards the Word, for “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (Jn 1:14). The Word permitted his flesh to be hung on the wood…; the Word permitted his flesh to be placed in the tomb. The Word raised up his flesh, showed it to the disciples’ face, offered it to their touch. They touched, they cried out: “My Lord and my God!” This is the day the Lord has made!
Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team

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الثلاثاء، ٩ أبريل : القدّيس بِرنَردُس

الثلاثاء، ٩ أبريل : القدّيس بِرنَردُس

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إنّ حاسّة السّمع هي الوحيدة الّتي يمكنها الوصول إلى الحقيقة، لأنّها الحاسةّ الّتي بإمكانها سماع كلمة الله… قال الرّب (لمريم المجدليّة): “لا تُمسِكيني”، أي لا تتّكلي بعد الآن على حواسّك الخادعة، بل ارتكزي على كلامي واعتادي على الإيمان. إن الإيمان لا يمكن أن يُخطئ، إذ إنّه يفهم الأشياء الخفيّة ولا يكترث إلى قصور الحواس. إن الإيمان يتخطّى حدود المنطق البشري، واستخدامات الطّبيعة وأطراف الاختبارات (العلميّة). لماذا تريدين أن تتعلّمي من عينيكِ ما لا تستطيعان معرفته؟ ولماذا تصرّ يداكِ على تَلمُّسِ ما لن تستطيع بلوغه أبدًا؟ إنّ ما تستطيع عيناكِ ويداكِ أن تتعلّمانه منّي هو بالشّيء القليل. إن على إيمانك أن يتكلّم عنّي دون انتقاصٍ من جلالي؛ تعلّمي أن تؤمني بيقينٍ أكبر وأن تتبعي بثقة ما يقوله إيمانكِ لكِ. قال الرّب: “لا تُمسِكيني، إِنِّي لم أَصعَدْ بَعدُ إِلى أَبي” وكأنّه عليه أو إنه يستطيع أن يُلمَس بعد صعوده: نعم بكل تأكيد، فإنّه بالإمكان لمسه إنّما بالقلب فقط وليس باليدين، بالشّوق والرّغبة وليس بالعينين، بالإيمان وليس بالحواس. “لماذا تريدين إمساكي الآن…”؟ ألا تذكرين حين كنت لا أزال في الجسد البشريّ الفاني أن أعين تلاميذي لم تستطع تحمل مجد جسدي المتجلّي (راجع مت 17: 1-8) وهذا الجسد كان سيموت؟ إنّي أعطيكِ هذه النعّمة مرّة أخرى بأن أجعلكِ ترينني “مُتَّخِذًا صُورةَ العَبْد” (في 2: 7) غير أن مجدي سوف يبعدني عنك منذ الآن فصاعدًا… أجّلي إذًا حُكمَكِ… واتركي للإيمان المجال بإيضاح هذا السرّ الكبير… من أجل أن تستحقّي لمسي، عليك أن تتأمّلي بي “جَالسًا عَن يَمينِ الله” (مر 16: 19 + مز 110[109]: 1)، ليس بحالة التّنازل الّتي كنت أعيشها إنّما بحالة جسدي الممَجَّد. إنّه الجسد نفسه إنّما بمظهرٍ مختلف. لماذا بحالتي “البشعة”؟ انتظري أن تستطيعي إمساكي في حالة الجمال.
maronite readings – rosary.team

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Tuesday, April 9 : Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein]

Tuesday, April 9 : Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein]

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Who are you, sweet light, that fills me And illumines the darkness of my heart? You lead me like a mother’s hand, And should you let go of me, I would not know how to take another step. You are the space That embraces my being and buries it in yourself. Away from you it sinks into the abyss Of nothingness, from which you raised it to the light. You, nearer to me than I to myself And more interior than my most interior And still impalpable and intangible And beyond any name: Holy Spirit-eternal love! Are you not the sweet manna That from the Son’s heart Overflows into my heart, The food of angels and the blessed? He who raised himself from death to life, He has also awakened me to new life From the sleep of death. And he gives me new life from day to day, And at some time his fullness is to stream through me, Life of your life-indeed, you yourself: Holy Spirit, eternal life!
Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team

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Monday, April 8 : Saint John Eudes

Monday, April 8 : Saint John Eudes

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Mary looks on us and loves us as though we were her son, her own children, who bear this glorious quality for two reasons. First, because as mother of the Head she is therefore mother of the members (cf. :19). Second, because our Savior on the cross gave us to his mother as her children. He gave us to her, not simply in her capacity as queen and sovereign, but in that capacity that is of the greatest imaginable advantageousness for us, namely as mother, saying to each one of us what he said to his beloved disciple: “Behold your mother”. And he gave us to her, not simply as servants or slaves – which would have been a great honor for us – but as children. “Behold your son”, he said to her, referring to each one of us in the person of Saint John, as though he were saying to her: “Behold all my members, who I give to you as your children; I am putting them in my place so that you can consider them as myself and love them with the same love with which you love me; as I love them, love them too”. Mother of Jesus, you look on us and love us as your children and as brothers of Jesus, your son, and with the same heart. And you love, and will love us eternally, with the same motherly love with which you love him. And so, my brethren, in all your business, your needs, your anxieties and afflictions, have recourse to the heart of our so charitable mother. It is a heart that is always watching over us and over the slightest of things that concern us. It is a heart so full of kindness, sweetness, mercy and liberality that none of those who invoke it with humility and trust ever returns without being consoled.

Roman Extraordinary (Tridentine) Daily Readings – rosary,team

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Lunes, 8 De Abril : Santa Catalina de Siena

Lunes, 8 De Abril : Santa Catalina de Siena

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¡Oh inefable y tierna Caridad! ¡Qué bondadosa es la unión que ha asumido con el hombre! Nos ha demostrado su inefable amor con las gracias y las bondades innumerables que acordó a sus criaturas, particularmente por la gracia de la encarnación de su Hijo. Hemos visto la soberana Grandeza descender a la bajeza de nuestra humanidad. (…) Mi queridísimo Padre, verdaderamente, en ese tierno y bendecido campo de María, el Verbo, unido a su carne, es semejante a la semilla que germina al calor del sol, muestra su flor y su fruto y deja su envoltura en la tierra. Igualmente ocurre con el calor y el fuego de la divina caridad de Dios hacia el género humano, cuando pone la semilla de su Palabra en el campo de María. ¡Oh bienaventurada y tierna María! ¡Nos ha dado la flor del bondadoso Jesús! (…) No olvide, piense siempre en su corazón, en su memoria, en su alma, que ha sido ofrecido y dado a María. Pídale que ella lo presente y dé a su bondadoso hijo Jesús. Esta tierna Madre, esta tierna Madre de misericordia lo presentará. No sea ingrato ni desmemoriado, ya que ella nunca olvida la oración que le hacen, sino que la recibe con bondad. Sea fiel, (…) corra generosamente con ese deseo, con María, que lo hará siempre buscar el honor de Dios y la salvación de las almas.

Lecturas Católicas Romanas – rosary.team

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Monday, April 8 : Saint Gregory the Great

Monday, April 8 : Saint Gregory the Great

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At this point we must stop and reflect upon the ardent love in the heart of this woman who would not leave the Lord’s grave even after his own disciples had gone away. She continued seeking him whom she could not find; in tears she kept searching; and, afire with love, she yearned for him whom she believed had been removed. Thus it happened that she alone saw him, she who had remained behind to seek him, simply because a truly good act involves the virtue of perseverance. For the lips of Truth itself have said: “Whoever perseveres to the end shall be saved” (Mt 10,22)… Holy desires grow with delay: if they fade through delay they are no desires at all. Such must be the love that inflames anyone who is reaching out for the truth. This is why David says: “My soul thirsts for the living God; when shall I come and behold the face of God?” (Ps 41[42],3). And the Church says in the Song of Songs, “I am wounded by love”, and again, “My soul failed me” (Sg 2,5). “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?” She is asked the cause of her sorrow so that her longing may increase, for when she names the one she seeks she burns with yet greater love for him. “Jesus said to her: Mary.” First of all he called her by the title common to all her sex, and she did not recognize him. Now he calls her by her own name, as if to say plainly: “Now recognize the one who recognizes you. For I know you, not in some general way along with other people, but personally.” Addressed by her own name, Mary recognizes her maker and straightway calls him “Rabboni”, that is “Teache”. Outwardly it was he who was the object of her search, but inwardly it was he who was teaching her to search for him.
maronite readings – rosary,team

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Monday, April 8 : Saint Catherine of Siena

Monday, April 8 : Saint Catherine of Siena

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O ineffable and very sweet charity! How gentle is the union you have contracted with man! You have shown us your ineffable love by the graces and the good deeds without number that you have given to your creatures, especially by the benefit of the incarnation of your son, when we saw your sovereign grandeur descending to the baseness of our humanity. (…) Really, my very dear father, in this sweet and blessed field of Mary, the Word, united with flesh has, like the grain which germinates in the heat of the sun, shown its flower and its fruit, and leaves its envelope to the earth. He really did the same by the warmth and fire of the divine charity that God had for the human race, when he threw the seed of his Word in the fertile field of Mary. O blessed and sweet Marie! You gave us the flower of the sweet Jesus. (…) Do not forget, and always think in your heart, in your memory, in your soul, that you have been offered and given to Marie; Pray to that she presents you and gives you to her sweet Son Jesus, and this sweet mother, this tender mother of mercy will present you. Do not be ungrateful and forgetful, because she does not reject the prayer made to her, but she welcomes her with kindness. So be faithful, (…) run generously with this desire of Mary, who will always make you seek the honor of God and the salvation of souls.

Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team

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الاثنين، ٨ أبريل : القدّيس غريغوريوس الكبير

الاثنين، ٨ أبريل : القدّيس غريغوريوس الكبير

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يجب قياس قوّة الحبّ الّذي اجتاح نفس هذه المرأة التي لم تبتعد عن قبر الربّ، حتّى عندما تركه التلاميذ. كانت تبحث عن الّذي لم تكن تجده، كانت تبكي وهي تبحث عنه، وإذ كانت مشتعلة بنار حبّها، كانت تشتعل أيضًا رغبةً بالذي كانت تعتقد أنّه أُخِذَ. لذلك كانت هي الوحيدة التي رأته، هي الّتي ظلّت لتبحث عنه، لأنّ فعاليّة العمل الصالح تكمن في الثبات، وقد قال مَن هو الحقيقة: “الَّذي يَثبُتُ إِلى النِّهاية فذاكَ الَّذي يَخلُص” (مت 10: 22)… فالانتظار يجعل الرغبات المقدّسة تكبر. إذا جعلها الانتظار تضمحلّ، هذا يعني أنّها لم تكن رغبات حقيقيّة. بحبّ كهذا اشتعل جميع الّذين استطاعوا بلوغ الحقيقة. لذلك يقول داود: ” ظَمِئَت نَفْسي إِلى الله، إِلى الإِلهِ الحَيّ متى آتي وأَحضُرُ أَمامَ الله؟” (مز42[41]: 3). وتقول الكنيسة أيضًا في نشيد الإنشاد: “قَد أَسقَمَني الحب” (نش 2: 5). “لِماذا تَبْكينَ، أَيَّتُها المَرأَة، وعَمَّن تَبحَثين؟” تُسأل عن سبب ألمها، لكي تكبر رغبتها، ولكي، وهي تلفظ اسم مَن تبحث عنه، تجعل حبّها له أكثر اضطرامًا. “فقالَ لها يسوع: مَريَم!”. بعد كلمة “امرأة” البسيطة، ها هو يناديها باسمها. كأنّه يقول لها: “اعرفي مَن يعرفُكِ. أنا لا أعرفك بشكل عامّ كالأخريات، بل أعرفك بصورة شخصيّة”. عندما ناداها باسمها، عرفت مريم خالقها فنادته فورًا “رابوني”، أي “يا معلّم”، لأنّ الّذي كانت تبحث عنه ظاهريًّا، هو نفسه كان يعلّمها باطنيًّا أن تبحث عنه.
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