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Tuesday, May 13 : Saint Cyril of Alexandria

Tuesday, May 13 : Saint Cyril of Alexandria

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The mark of Christ’s sheep is their willingness to hear and obey, just as the sign of those who are not his is their disobedience. We take the word “Hear” to imply obedience to what has been said. People who hear God are known by him. No one is entirely unknown by God, but to be known in this way is to become his kin. Thus, when Christ says, “I know mine,” he means, “I will receive them, and give them permanent mystical kinship with myself.” It might be said that inasmuch as he has become man, he has made all human beings his kin, since all are members of the same race; we are all united to Christ in a mystical relationship because of his incarnation. Yet those who do not preserve the likeness of his holiness are alienated from him… . “My sheep follow me,” says Christ. By a certain God-given grace, believers follow in the footsteps of Christ. No longer subject to the shadows of the Law they obey the commands of Christ, and guided by his words rise through grace to his own dignity, for they are called children of God. When Christ ascends into heaven, they also follow him.
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Tuesday, May 13 : Saint Augustine

Tuesday, May 13 : Saint Augustine

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With what meaning do we suppose the words, “to put it under a bushel basket” were said? To express concealment simply, or that the bushel basket has a special signification? The putting the lamp under the bushel basket means the preferring bodily ease and enjoyment to the duty of preaching the Gospel, and hiding the light of good teaching under temporal gratification. The bushel basket aptly denotes the things of the body, whether because our reward shall be measured out to us, [2 Cor 5:10] as each one shall receive the things done in the body; or because worldly goods which pertain to the body come and go within a certain measure of time, which is signified by the basket, whereas things eternal and spiritual are contained within no such limit. He places his lamp upon a stand, who subdues his body to the ministry of the word, setting the preaching of the truth highest, and subjecting the body beneath it. For the body itself serves to make doctrine shine more clear, while the voice and other motions of the body in good works serve to recommend it to them that learn. Christ Himself has lighted this lamp, when He filled the earthen vessel of human nature with the fire of His Divinity, which He would not either hide from them that believe, nor put under a bushel that is shut up under the measure of the Law, or confine within the limits of any one oration. It is not absurd if any one will understand the house to be the Church. Or, the house may be the world itself, according to what He said above, Ye are the light of the world. And therefore it follows, “and they shall glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Had He said, only “That they may see your good works,” He would have seemed to have set up as an end in itself the praises of men; but by adding, “and glorify your Father”, he teaches that we should not seek as an end to please men with our good works, but referring all to the glory of God, therefore seek to please men, that God may be glorified.

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الاثنين، ١٢ مايو : القدّيس أنطونيوس البادوانيّ

الاثنين، ١٢ مايو : القدّيس أنطونيوس البادوانيّ

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“لَكِنِّي أُرْسِلُ ٱلشِّبَاكَ بِناءً عَلَىٰ قَوْلِكَ”. إِنَّ شَبَكَةَ ٱلتَّبْشِيرِ يَجِبُ أَنْ تُلْقَىٰ بِناءً عَلَىٰ أَمْرِ ٱلنِّعْمَةِ ٱلسَّمَاوِيَّةِ وَٱلْإِلْهَامِ ٱلْفَائِقِ ٱلطَّبِيعَةِ. وَإِلَّا، فَإِنَّ ٱلْوَاعِظَ يُلْقِي خُيُوطَ كَلَامِهِ عَبَثًا. لَا يَحْصُلُ إِيمَانُ ٱلشَّعْبِ مِنْ خِلَالِ ٱلْخِطَابَاتِ ٱلْمَكْتُوبَةِ بِعِنَايَةٍ، بَلْ بِنِعْمَةِ ٱلدَّعْوَةِ ٱلْإِلٰهِيَّةِ… يَا لَلتَّوَاضُعِ ٱلْمُثْمِرِ! حِينَمَا يَضَعُ هَؤُلَاءِ ٱلَّذِينَ لَمْ يَكُونُوا قَدِ ٱصْطَادُوا شَيْئًا ثِقَتَهُمْ فِي كَلِمَةِ ٱلرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ ٱلْمَسِيحِ، فَإِنَّهُمْ يَصْطَادُونَ ٱلْعَدِيدَ مِنَ ٱلْأَسْمَاكِ… “لَكِنِّي أُرْسِلُ ٱلشِّبَاكَ بِناءً عَلَىٰ قَوْلِكَ”. كُلُّ مَرَّةٍ أَلْقَيْتُ ٱلشَّبَكَةَ مِنْ تِلْقَاءِ نَفْسِي، كُنْتُ أُرِيدُ أَنْ أَحْفَظَ لِنَفْسِي مَا هُوَ لَكَ. وَأَكُونَ قَدْ وَعَظْتُ عَنْ ذَاتِي وَلَيْسَ عَنْكَ؛ وَلَفَظْتُ كَلِمَاتِي لَا كَلِمَاتِكَ. لِذٰلِكَ لَمْ أَصْطَدْ أَيَّ شَيْءٍ. أَوْ إِذَا ٱصْطَدْتُ شَيْئًا، فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ سَمَكًا، بَلْ ضَفَادِعَ، تَصْلُحُ لِتُسَبِّحَنِي بِثَرْثَرَتِهَا… “لَكِنِّي أُرْسِلُ ٱلشِّبَاكَ بِناءً عَلَىٰ قَوْلِكَ”. إِنَّ إِلْقَاءَ ٱلشَّبَكَةِ بِناءً عَلَىٰ كَلِمَةِ ٱلرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ، إِنَّمَا يَعْنِي عَدَمَ نِسْبِ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ لِنَفْسِنَا، بَلْ نِسْبَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ لَهُ؛ يَعْنِي ٱلْعَيْشَ وِفْقًا لِـمَا نَعِظُ بِهِ. عِنْدَهَا نَصْطَادُ كَمِّيَّةً كَبِيرَةً مِنَ ٱلْأَسْمَاكِ.

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Lunes, 12 De Mayo : San John Henry Newman

Lunes, 12 De Mayo : San John Henry Newman

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    “Y al ver a la muchedumbre, sintió compasión de ella, porque estaban vejados y abatidos como ovejas que no tienen pastor” (Mateo 9,36)… Las ovejas estaban dispersas porque no tenían pastor… Así estaba el mundo entero cuando Cristo, en su infinita misericordia, llegó a él “para reunir en unidad a los hijos dispersos de Dios” (Juan 11,52). Y si, por un momento, de nuevo quedaron sin guía, cuando en su lucha contra el enemigo el Buen Pastor dio su vida por sus ovejas – según la profecía: “¡Hiere al pastor, que se dispersen las ovejas (…)!” (Za 13,7) – sin embargo, pronto, Éste resucitó de entre los muertos para vivir por siempre, según esta otra profecía: “El que dispersó a Israel lo reunirá y lo guardará como un pastor a su rebaño” (Jeremías 31,10).       Como él mismo dijo en la parábola que nos propuso, “Y una a una llama a sus ovejas por su nombre, y camina delante de ellas. Cuando ha sacado todas las suyas, va delante de ellas, y las ovejas le siguen, porque conocen su voz”. Así, el día de su resurrección, como María lloraba, Él la llamó por su nombre (Juan 20,16), y ella se dio la vuelta y reconoció, al oírlo a aquel que no había reconocido al verlo. De igual modo le dijo a Simón Pedro: “Simón, hijo de Juan, ¿me amas?”, y agregó: “Soy yo” (Juan 21,15.19). Del mismo modo, él y su ángel le dijeron a las mujeres: “Él les espera en Galilea”; “Id, avisad a mis hermanos que vayan a Galilea; allí me verán”. (Mateo 28,7.10). Desde aquel momento, el Buen Pastor, que ocupó el sitio de sus ovejas y murió para que ellas pudieran vivir por siempre, las espera y ellas “siguen al Cordero a dondequiera que vaya” (Apocalipsis 14,4).

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Monday, May 12 : Saint John Henry Newman

Monday, May 12 : Saint John Henry Newman

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“When Jesus saw the multitudes He was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd” (Mt 9,36)… The sheep were scattered, because there is no shepherd …So was it all over the world when Christ came in His infinite mercy “to gather in one the children of God that were scattered abroad” (Jn 11,52) And though for a moment, when in the conflict with the enemy the good Shepherd had to lay down His life for the sheep, they were left without a guide – according to the prophecy already quoted, “Smite the Shepherd and the sheep shall he scattered” (Za 13,7) – yet He soon rose from death to live for ever, according to that other prophecy which said, “He that scattered Israel will gather him, as a shepherd doth his flock.” (Jr 31,10) And as He says Himself in the parable before us, “He calleth His own sheep by name and leadeth them out, and goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice,” so, on His resurrection, while Mary wept, He did call her by her name (Jn 20,16), and she turned herself and knew Him by the ear whom she had not known by the eye. So, too, He said, “Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me?” And He added, “Follow Me” (Jn 21,1.19). And so again He and His Angel told the women, “Behold He goeth before you into Galilee … go tell My brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see Me” (Mt 28,7). From that time the good Shepherd who took the place of the sheep, and died that they might live for ever, has gone before them: and “they follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth” (Rv 14,4).

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Monday, May 12 : Baldwin of Ford

Monday, May 12 : Baldwin of Ford

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“The word of God is living and effective, more piercing than any two-edged sword” (Heb 4:12). What greatness of power, what wealth of wisdom in the Word of God is shown by these words of the Apostle to those that seek Christ, who is himself the word, the power, and the wisdom of God. In the beginning, this word was with God, coeternal with him; in his time he was revealed to the prophets, proclaimed by them, and received humbly in the faith of his believing people. We have, therefore, the word in the Father, the word in the mouth, and the word in the heart. The word in the mouth is the expression of the word that is in the Father and also the expression of the word that is in the heart of man. The word in the heart of man is either the understanding of the word or faith in the word or the love of the word when the word is either understood or believed or loved. When these three are united in one heart so that the word of God is at one and the same time understood, believed and loved, then Christ, who is the word of the Father (…) dwells in the heart by faith. And with wonderful condescension he who is God in the heart of the Father descends even to the heart of men (…). This Word of God (…) is living, and the Father granted to him that he should have life in himself as the Father has life in himself (Jn 5:26). On this account he is not only living, but life; as he says of himself: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (Jn 14:6).Because he is life, he lives in such a way that he is able to give life, for “as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will” (Jn 5,:1).

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Sunday, May 11 : Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Sunday, May 11 : Saint Gregory of Nyssa

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Now the reign of life has come and the power of death overturned. Another birth has appeared together with another life, another way of being, a transformation of our very nature. This birth is not the result of “the will of man nor the desire of the flesh, but of God” (Jn 1,13)… “This is the day the Lord has made” (Ps 118[117],24). It’s a very different day from those in the beginning because on this day God creates a new heaven and a new earth, as the prophet says (Is 65,17). Which heaven? The firmament of faith in Christ. Which earth ? A true heart, as the Lord says: earth that is saturated with the rain that falls on it and that brings forth an abundant harvest (Lk 8,15). In this creation the sun equals the pure life; the stars are the virtues; the air is transparent behaviour; the sea is the rich depths of wisdom and knowledge; the grass and herbage are God’s solid doctrine and teachings where the flock – that is, the people of God – finds pasture; the fruit-bearing trees are the practice of the commandments. On this day true man was created, made in the image and likeness of God (Gn 1,27). Is this not an entire world that is begun for your sake in “the day the Lord has made” ?… The greatest privilege of this day of grace is that it has destroyed the sufferings of death and given birth to the firstborn from the dead (Col 1,18)…, he who says: “I am going to your Father and to my Father, to my God and to your God” (Jn 20,17). O what excellent, what good news! He who for our sakes became like us to make us his brothers and sisters, carries his own humanity to the Father so as to bear all humankind along with him.

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Domingo, 11 De Mayo : San Gregorio Magno

Domingo, 11 De Mayo : San Gregorio Magno

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Añade: “Conozco a mis ovejas, es decir, las amo, y ellas me conocen a mi.” Es como si dijese con toda claridad: «Los que me aman me obedecen.» Pues el que no ama la verdad es que todavía no la conoce. Ved, hermanos, si sois verdaderamente ovejas suyas, ved si de verdad lo conocéis, ved si percibís la luz de la verdad. Me refiero a la percepción no por la fe, sino por el amor y por las obras. Pues el mismo evangelista Juan, de quien son estas palabras, afirma también: Quien dice: «Yo conozco a Dios», y no guarda sus mandamientos, miente. (1 Jn 2,4) Por esto el Señor añade, en este mismo texto: Como el Padre me conoce a mí, yo conozco al Padre y doy mi vida por mis ovejas, lo que equivale a decir: «En esto consiste mi conocimiento del Padre y el conocimiento que el Padre tiene de mí, en que doy mi vida por mis ovejas; esto es, el amor que me hace morir por mis ovejas demuestra hasta qué punto amo al Padre».

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الأحد، ١١ مايو : القدّيس بطرس خريزولوغُس

الأحد، ١١ مايو : القدّيس بطرس خريزولوغُس

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“فقالَ ٱلتَّلْمِيذُ ٱلَّذِي أَحَبَّهُ يَسُوعُ لِبُطْرُسَ: إِنَّهُ ٱلرَّبُّ”. إِنَّ ٱلْمَحْبُوبَ يَرَى أَوَّلًا؛ ٱلْمَحَبَّةُ تُلْقِي عَلَىٰ كُلِّ ٱلْأَشْيَاءِ نَظْرَةً ثَاقِبَةً؛ مَنْ يُحِبُّ يَشْعُرْ دَائِمًا بِـحَيَوِيَّةٍ أَكْبَرَ… مَا هِيَ ٱلصُّعُوبَةُ ٱلَّتِي جَعَلَتْ تَفْكِيرَ بُطْرُسَ بَطِيئًا لِدَرَجَةٍ مَنَعَتْهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ ٱلْأَوَّلَ ٱلَّذِي يَتَعَرَّفُ عَلَىٰ يَسُوعَ، كَمَا فَعَلَ فِي ٱلسَّابِقِ؟ أَيْنَ هِيَ هٰذِهِ ٱلشَّهَادَةُ ٱلْفَرِيدَةُ ٱلَّتِي جَعَلَتْهُ يَصْرُخُ: “أَنْتَ ٱلْمَسِيحُ ٱبْنُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلْـحَيِّ”؟ (مَت ١٦: ١٦). أَيْنَ هُوَ؟ كَانَ بُطْرُسُ قَدْ دَخَلَ لَدَى قَيَافَا، عَظِيمِ ٱلْكَهَنَةِ، حَيْثُ سَمِعَ بِسُهُولَةٍ هَمْسَ خَادِمَةٍ، غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ تَأَخَّرَ فِي ٱلتَّعَرُّفِ عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ. “فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ سِمْعَانُ بُطْرُسُ أَنَّهُ ٱلرَّبُّ، ٱئْتَزَرَ بِثَوْبِهِ، لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ عُرْيَانًا، وَأَلْقَىٰ بِنَفْسِهِ فِي ٱلْبُحَيْرَةِ…” كَمْ هٰذَا غَرِيبٌ أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِخْوَةُ! … يَصْعَدُ بُطْرُسُ إِلَى ٱلْمَرْكَبِ عَارِيًا، وَيُلْقِي بِنَفْسِهِ فِي ٱلْبُحَيْرَةِ بِمَلَابِسِهِ!… ٱلْمُذْنِبُ يَتَغَطَّىٰ دَائِمًا لِيَخْتَبِئَ. هٰكَذَا، مِثْلُ آدَمَ، يَرْغَبُ بُطْرُسُ ٱلْيَوْمَ أَنْ يُغَطِّيَ عُرْيَهُ بَعْدَ خَطَئِهِ؛ قَبْلَ أَنْ يُخْطِئَا (أَي آدَمَ وَبُطْرُسَ)، لَمْ يَكُنِ ٱلِٱثْنَانِ يَرْتَدِيَانِ سِوَىٰ عُرْيٍ مُقَدَّسٍ. “ٱئْتَزَرَ بِثَوْبِهِ… وَأَلْقَىٰ بِنَفْسِهِ فِي ٱلْبُحَيْرَةِ”. كَأَنَّهُ كَانَ يَأْمُلُ بِأَنْ تَغْسِلَ ٱلْبُحَيْرَةُ هٰذَا ٱللِّبَاسَ ٱلْقَذِرَ ٱلَّذِي هُوَ ٱلْخِيَانَةُ. أَلْقَىٰ بِنَفْسِهِ فِي ٱلْبُحَيْرَةِ لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَكُونَ ٱلْأَوَّلَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى، هُوَ ٱلَّذِي مُنِحَتْ لَهُ أَعْظَمُ ٱلْمَسْؤُولِيَّاتِ (مَت ١٦: ١٨). ٱئْتَزَرَ بِثَوْبِهِ، لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ يَجِبُ أَنْ يَتَزَرَ بِمَعْرَكَةِ ٱلشَّهِيدِ، بِحَسَبِ كَلَامِ ٱلرَّبِّ: “…شَدَّ غَيْرُكَ لَكَ ٱلزَّنَّارَ، وَمَضَىٰ بِكَ إِلَىٰ حَيْثُ لَا تَشَاءُ” (يُو ٢١: ١٨). “وَأَقْبَلَ ٱلْآخَرُونَ بِٱلسَّفِينَةِ، يَجُرُّونَ ٱلشَّبَكَةَ بِمَا فِيهَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَكِ” (يُو ٢١: ٨). بِجُهْدٍ كَبِيرٍ يُعِيدُونَ مَعَهُمُ ٱلْـكَنِيسَةَ ٱلْمَرْمِيَّةَ فِي رِيَاحِ ٱلْعَالَمِ. هِيَ ٱلَّتِي حَمَلَهَا ٱلرِّجَالُ فِي شَبَكَةِ ٱلْإِنْجِيلِ نَحْوَ نُورِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَٱلَّتِي أَخْرَجُوهَا مِنَ ٱلْهُوَّةِ لِيَقُودُوهَا إِلَى ٱلرَّبِّ.

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Sunday, May 11 : Saint Gregory the Great

Sunday, May 11 : Saint Gregory the Great

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      “I am the good shepherd. I know my own – by which I mean, I love them – and my own know me”. In plain words: those who love me are willing to follow me, for anyone who does not love the truth has not yet come to know it. My dear brethren, you have heard the test we pastors have to undergo. Turn now to consider how these words of our Lord imply a test for yourselves also. Ask yourselves whether you belong to his flock, whether you know him, whether the light of his truth shines in your minds. I assure you that it is not by faith that you will come to know him, but by love; not by mere conviction, but by action. John the evangelist is my authority for this statement. He tells us that “anyone who claims to know God without keeping his commandments is a liar” (1Jn 2:4). Consequently, the Lord immediately adds: As the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for my sheep. Clearly he means that laying down his life for his sheep gives evidence of his knowledge of the Father and the Father’s knowledge of him. In other words, by the love with which he dies for his sheep he shows how greatly he loves his Father.

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