CALENDARIUM ROMANUM FORMA ORDINARIA

Alas, what is not our misery! We remain far from God and we suffer so little that we don’t even feel it! I believe that the cause of our lukewarmness lies in the fact that as long as we have not tasted God, we cannot know what it is to be hungry, nor what it is to be satisfied. This is why we are not hungry for him and that we never have enough of creatures. Our heart remains cold, it is divided between God and created things, it is lazy, without strength and has no taste for the things of God. Now the Lord wants at His service, not lukewarm souls, but hearts enkindled with the fire which he brought on earth and that he wants to see burning (cf. LC 12,49). For this fire to burn, he let himself be consumed on the cross. He wanted us to collect wood from the Cross, in order to warm us to His flame and respond with love to His immense love; Because it is just that we are cut with a sweet wound of love when we see that he is not only hurt, but put to death for our love. Yes, it’s just that we are the prey of the love of the one who gave himself out of love to cruel hands(…) If the fire begins to alight in us, take care to cover it for fear that the wind would not extinguish it. Hide it under the ashes of humility and silence, and he will not die. But above all, let’s approach the fire that is lit and burning, I mean Jesus Christ our Lord to the Blessed Sacrament. Let’s open our souls, the mouth of our desire and let’s run quench our thirst at the source of living water.

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If we wonder what this measure of wheat is, Saint Paul tells us: “It is the measure of faith that God has distributed to you” (Rm 12,3). What Christ calls a measure of wheat, Paul names a measure of faith to teach us that there is no other spiritual wheat than the venerable mystery of the Christian faith. This measure of wheat , we give it to you in the name of the Lord each time, enlightened by the spiritual gift of grace, we tell you according to the rule of true faith. This measure, you receive it by the servants of the Lord every day you hear from the mouth of the servants of God the word of truth. May it be our food, this wheat that God gives usa share. Let’s add the condiment of our good conduct in order to reach the reward of eternal life. Let us believe in the One who gives himself to us as food so that we do not falter on the way, and who reserves Himself as our reward so that we find joy in the Fatherland. Believe and hope in him; Let’s love Him above all and in everything. Because Christ is our food and will be our reward. Christ is the food and comfort of journeying travelers ; It is the satisfaction and the exultation of the blessed in their rest.

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Oh man! why do you despise yourself so, seeing that you are so precious to God? And why do you demean yourself in this way when God honors you by Christ’s birth in our flesh? Why search out how you were made and not enquire what you were made for? Was not this whole dwelling, this world that you see, made for you? For your sake light spreads abroad and causes darkness to fade; for your sake night is ruled and day measured; for you heaven shines with the varied splendors of sun and moon and stars; for you the earth is spangled with flowers, trees and fruits; for you was created this amazing mass of animal life, in the air, the fields, the loveliness of water, so that no dismal solitude should spoil the new world’s joy. (…) Besides this, the Creator seeks out what else he can add to your dignity: he sets his image within you (Gen 1:27) so that your visible image might make present upon earth the invisible Creator, and to you he entrusts the care of earthly goods so that so vast a domain as this is should not be lacking a representative from the Lord. (…) And what God accomplished in you by his power he graciously assumed into himself: he wanted to be truly manifested in the man in whom, hitherto, he had only appeared in image. He enabled us to become in reality what had only been a mere likeness before. (…) And so Christ is born to restore all its integrity to fallen nature.
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