CALENDARIUM ROMANUM FORMA ORDINARIA

O God, who are happiness in Your very self and have no need of creatures to make You happy, because of Yourself You are the fullness of love; yet, out of Your fathomless mercy You call creatures into being and grant them a share in Your eternal happiness and in Your life, that divine indwelling life which You live, One God in Three Persons. In Your unfathomable mercy, You have created angelic spirits and admitted them to Your love and to Your divine intimacy. You have made them capable of eternal love. Although You bestowed on them so generously, O Lord, the splendor of love and beauty, Your fullness was not diminished in the least, And if You have allowed them to participate in Your happiness and to exist and to love You, that is only due to the abyss of Your mercy. This is Your unfathomable goodness, for which they glorify You without end, humbling themselves at the feet of Your majesty as they chant their eternal hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy Be praised, merciful God, One God in the Holy Trinity, Unfathomable, infinite, incomprehensible, Immersing themselves in You, their minds cannot comprehend You, So they repeat without end their eternal: Holy. Be glorified, O merciful Creator of ours, O Lord, Omnipotent, but full of compassion, inconceivable. To love You is the mission of our existence, Singing our eternal hymn: Holy Be blessed, merciful God, Eternal Love. You are above the heavens, the sapphires, the firmaments. Thus the host of pure spirits glorifies You, With its eternal hymn: Thrice Holy.
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It is easier to get angry than to bear quietly, to threaten the child than to persuade him; I would even say that our impatience and our pride are better to impose punishment on recalcitrants rather than correcting them firmly and supporting them gently. Yet it is the charity of Paul that I recommend to you, the charity he had for the fresh converts , he who went to tears and supplication when he didn’t find them docile to his love or even inaccessible. Be careful not to act by impulse. By punishing it is difficult to maintain this equality of soul which is necessary so that we do not believe that we act to display power or to give free rein to our feelings. Let’s look at [the boys in our care] as sons on which we have a power to train. Let us become their servants, exactly like Jesus, who came to obey and not to command; Do not be ashamed to dominate in Christ’s way, and only dominate them to better serve them. This is what Jesus did with the apostles, who were ignorant and coarse; Much more, he bore with them when they were not faithful enough, and he showed a goodness and a friendship comfortable with sinners, so that some were amazed, others scandalized, and others finally, came to hope for the forgiveness of God. This is why he ordered us to be gentle and humble at heart.

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