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الخميس، ٢٩ يناير : إسحَق السريانيّ

الخميس، ٢٩ يناير : إسحَق السريانيّ

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إِنَّ عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ تَنْظُرَانِ إِلَى ٱلْمُتَوَاضِعِينَ لِيَفْرَحُوا، أَمَّا وَجْهُ ٱلرَّبِّ فَيَحِيدُ عَنِ ٱلْمُتَعَجْرِفِينَ لِإِذْلَالِهِمْ. يَتَلَقَّى ٱلْمُتَوَاضِعُ ٱلشَّفَقَةَ مِنَ ٱللَّهِ دَائِمًا… ٱجْعَلْ نَفْسَكَ صَغِيرًا فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَأَمَامَ جَمِيعِ ٱلنَّاسِ، فَتُرْفَعَ أَعْلَىٰ مِنْ أُمَرَاءِ هٰذَا ٱلْعَالَمِ. سَابِقْ كُلَّ ٱلْكَوَائِنِ، وَقَبِّلْهُمْ، وَٱنْحَنِ أَمَامَهُمْ، فَسَتُكْرَمُ أَكْثَرَ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ يُقَدِّمُونَ ذَهَبًا. ٱنْزِلْ إِلَىٰ أَدْنَىٰ مِنْ نَفْسِكَ، فَسَتَرَىٰ مَجْدَ ٱللَّهِ فِيكَ، لِأَنَّهُ حَيْثُ يَنْبُتُ ٱلتَّوَاضُعُ، يَنْتَشِرُ مَجْدُ ٱللَّهِ… وَإِنْ كَانَ لَدَيْكَ ٱلتَّوَاضُعُ فِي قَلْبِكَ، فَٱللَّهُ يُظْهِرُ لَكَ مَجْدَهُ فِيهِ. لَا تُحِبَّ ٱلْإِجْلَالَ، فَلَنْ تَتَعَرَّضَ عِنْدَئِذٍ لِلْخِزْيِ. فَإِنَّ ٱلْإِجْلَالَ يَفِرُّ أَمَامَ مَنْ يَسْعَىٰ وَرَاءَهُ، وَلٰكِنَّهُ يُلَاحِقُ مَنْ يَهْرُبُ مِنْهُ وَمَنْ يُعْلِنُ لِجَمِيعِ ٱلنَّاسِ تَوَاضُعَهُ. وَإِنِ ٱحْتَقَرْتَ نَفْسَكَ كَيْ لَا يُمْجَدَكَ ٱلنَّاسُ، فَٱللَّهُ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي يُظْهِرُكَ. وَإِنْ لُمْتَ نَفْسَكَ مَحَبَّةً بِٱلْحَقِّ، فَسَيَسْمَحُ ٱللَّهُ أَنْ تُوصَفَ بِٱلْمَدْحِ أَمَامَ جَمِيعِ خَلَائِقِهِ. وَهِيَ سَتَفْتَحُ أَمَامَكَ بَابَ مَجْدِ خَالِقِكَ وَتَمْدَحُكَ، لِأَنَّكَ بِٱلْحَقِيقَةِ عَلَىٰ صُورَتِهِ كَمِثَالِهِ (رَاجِعْ تَكْ ١: ٢٦).

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Jueves, 29 De Enero : Santa Teresa de Calcuta

Jueves, 29 De Enero : Santa Teresa de Calcuta

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Es posible que no sea capaz de fijar mi atención totalmente en Dios durante mi trabajo. Dios no me lo pide de ninguna manera. Con todo, yo puedo desear plenamente y procurar cumplir mi trabajo con Jesús y por Jesús. Hermosa tarea. Ésta es la que Dios quiere. Quiere que nuestra voluntad y nuestro deseo se dirijan a él, a nuestra familia, a nuestros hijos, a nuestros hermanos y a los pobres. Cada uno de nosotros somos un instrumento pobre. Si observas la composición de un aparato eléctrico, encontrarás un ensamblaje de hilos grandes y pequeños, nuevos y gastados, caros y baratos. Si la corriente eléctrica no pasa a través de todo ello, no habrá luz. Estos hilos somos tú y yo. Dios es la corriente. Tenemos poder para dejar pasar la corriente a través de nosotros, dejarnos utilizar por Dios, dejar que se produzca luz en el mundo… o bien rehusar ser instrumentos y dejar que las tinieblas se extiendan.

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Thursday, January 29 : Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Thursday, January 29 : Saint Teresa of Calcutta

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It is possible that I may not be able to keep my attention fully on God while I work, but God doesn’t demand that I do so. Yet I can fully desire and intend that my work be done with Jesus and for Jesus. This is beautiful and that is what God wants. He wants our will and our desire to be for Him, for our family, for our children, for our brethren, and for the poor. Each one of us is merely a small instrument. When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, often you see small and big wires, new and old, cheap and expensive lined up. Until the current passes through them there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, produce the light of the world. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.

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Thursday, January 29 : Isaac the Syrian

Thursday, January 29 : Isaac the Syrian

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The eyes of the Lord look on the lowly to make them glad. But the face of the Lord turns away from the proud to humble them. The lowly always receive pity from God… Make yourself small before everyone and you will be raised up higher than this world’s princes. Make all creatures go before you, embrace them, humble yourself before them, and you will be honored more than those who make an offering of gold. Descend lower than your own self and you will see God’s glory within you. For where humility sprouts, God’s glory spreads… If you have humility in your heart, God will reveal his glory to you in it… Do not love honor and you will not be dishonored. Honor flees before someone who runs after it. But honor pursues the one who flees it and makes known to everyone his humility. If you despise yourself so as not to be honored, God will make you known. If you accuse yourself for love of the truth, God will permit you to be praised in front of every creature. They will open before you the door to the glory of your Creator and praise you. For you are truly made in his image and likeness (Gn 1,26).
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Thursday, January 29 : Saint Augustine

Thursday, January 29 : Saint Augustine

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Brethren, the apostles are lamps enabling us to wait for the coming of Christ’s day. Our Lord tells them: “You are the light of the world.” And since they cannot believe themselves to be a light like that of which it is said: “He was the true light who enlightens everyone” (Jn 1,9), he at once teaches them what that true light is. Having declared to them: “You are the light of the world”, he continues: “No one lights a lamp to put it under a bushel basket.” I have called you lights, he says, but I must clarify: you are only lamps. So don’t give in to the stirrings of pride if you don’t want to see this wick burning out. I’m not putting you under the bushel basket but on the lampstand to cast light over everything with your rays. What sort of candlestick is this that bears such a light? I will teach you. Be lamps yourselves and you will have a place on this lampstand. Christ’s cross is one great lampstand. Whoever wants to shine out should not be ashamed of this wooden candlestick. Listen to me and you will get the point: the candlestick is the cross of Christ… “So will your light shines before others so that they may see your good works and glorify” Glorify whom? Not yourself since to seek your own glory is to want to be extinguished! “Glorify your heavenly Father.” Yes, that they may glorify him, your heavenly Father when they see your good works… Listen to the apostle Paul: “May I never glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Gal 6,14).

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Wednesday, January 28 : Saint Vincent de Paul

Wednesday, January 28 : Saint Vincent de Paul

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Where is the heart that loves? On the thing it loves. Therefore, where our love is, there our heart is held captive. It cannot leave it; it cannot be lifted higher, it cannot go either to the right or the left; see, it is fixed. Where the miser’s treasure is, there is his heart; and where our heart is, there is our treasure. And what is so deplorable is that the things that hold us in servitude are, for the most part, such unworthy things. And what is this? Some nothing, some imagination, a bitter word spoken to us, a lack of gracious welcome, a little refusal, the mere thought that someone doesn’t think much of us: all these things wound and put us out to such an extent that we are unable to let them go! Self-love attaches us to these imaginary wounds; we don’t know how to escape them, we are always inside ourselves. And why? Because we are prisoners of this emotion… Are we in “the freedom of the children of God”? (Rm 8,21). Or are we chained to goods, comforts, honors?… O Savior, you have opened up the door of liberty to us; teach us to find it! Make us understand the importance of our enfranchisement; make us turn to you to come to it. Enlighten us, O my Savior, that we may see what we are attached to, and please set us in the freedom of the children of God.

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الأربعاء، ٢٨ يناير : القدّيسة تيريزيا – بينيديكت الصليب

الأربعاء، ٢٨ يناير : القدّيسة تيريزيا – بينيديكت الصليب

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فيما يخصّ الكنيسة، المفهوم الأسهل الذي يدركه العقل البشري هو مفهوم جماعة المؤمنين. كلّ مَن يؤمن بالرّب يسوع المسيح وبإنجيله ويرجو إتمام وصاياه، كلّ مَن هو مرتبط به من خلال إحساس محبّة ويطيع وصاياه، يجب أن يكون متّحدًا بكلّ الذين يتقاسمون الرُّوح نفسه من خلال مشاركة روحيّة قويّة وارتباط محبّة. إنّ الذين تبعوا الربّ خلال إقامته على الأرض، كانوا البراعم الصغيرة الأولى للجماعة المسيحيّة؛ كانوا هم الذين نشروها، ونقلوا بالوراثة، على مرّ الزمن حتّى أيّامنا هذه، ثروات الإيمان من حيث استمدّوا تماسكهم. لكن يمكن لجماعة إنسانيّة طبيعيّة أن تكون أكثر من مجرّد جمعيّة أفراد منفردين، يمكن أن تكون اتّفاقًا وثيقًا قد تصل إلى الوحدة العضويّة؛ هذا الأمر حقيقي أكثر بالنسبة إلى جماعة الكنيسة الفائقة الطبيعة. إنّ اتّحاد النّفس مع الرّب يسوع المسيح هو مختلف عن الاتحاد بين شخصين أرضيّين؛ هذا الاتّحاد الذي يبدأ بالمعموديّة ويثبّت باستمرار في الأسرار الأخرى، هو اندماج ونمو للنسغ، كما أشار إليه رمز الكرمة والغصن. إنّ فعل الاتّحاد مع الرّب يسوع المسيح يُؤدّي إلى التقرّب بين الأعضاء عند المسيحيّين كلّهم. هكذا تأخذ الكنيسة صورة جسد الرّب يسوع المسيح السرّي. إنّ هذا الجسد هو جسد حيّ، والرُّوح الذي يحييه هو روح الرّب يسوع المسيح الذي، بدءًا من الرأس، يجري إلى الأعضاء كلّها (راجع أف 5: 23، 30)؛ إنّ الرُّوح المنبثق من الرّب يسوع المسيح هو الرُّوح القدس والكنيسة هي هيكل الرُّوح القدس (راجع أف 2: 21-22).
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Wednesday, January 28 : Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein]

Wednesday, January 28 : Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross [Edith Stein]

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The notion of the Church as community of the faithful is the most accessi· ble to human reason. Whoever believes in Christ and His gospel, hopes for the fulfillment of His promises, clings to Him in love, and keeps His commandments must unite with all who are like-minded in the deepest communion of mind and heart. Those who adhered to the Lord during His stay on earth were the early seeds of the great Christian community; they spread that community and that faith which held them together, until they have been inherited by us today through the process of time. But, if even a natural human community is more than a loose union of single individuals, if even here we can verify a movement developing into a kind of organic unit, it must be still more true of the supernatural community of the Church. The union of the soul with Christ differs from the union among people in the world: it is a rooting and growing in Him (so we are told by the parable of the vine and the branches) which begins in baptism, and which is constantly strengthened and formed through the sacraments in diverse ways. However this real union with Christ implies the growth of a genuine community among all Christians. Thus the Church forms the Mystical Body of Christ. The Body is a living Body, and the spirit which gives the Body life is Christ’s spirit, streaming from the head to all parts (Eph 5,23.30). The spirit which Christ radiates is the Holy Spirit; the Church is thus the temple of the Holy Spirit (Eph 2,21-22).
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Miércoles, 28 De Enero : San Cesáreo de Arlés

Miércoles, 28 De Enero : San Cesáreo de Arlés

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Hermanos, hay dos clases de campos: uno es el campo de Dios, el otro el del hombre. Tú tienes tu propio dominio; también Dios tiene el suyo. Tu dominio es la tierra; el dominio de Dios es tu alma. ¿Es justo que cultives tu dominio y dejes sin cultivar el de Dios? Si tú cultivas tu tierra y no cultivas tu alma, ¿es porqué quieres poner en orden tu propiedad y dejar sin cultivar la de Dios? ¿Esto es justo? ¿Acaso merece Dios que seamos negligentes con nuestra alma a la que Dios tanto ama? Te alegras viendo tu dominio bien cultivado, ¿por qué no lloras viendo tu alma sin cultivar? Nuestros campos nos darán para vivir en este mundo un cierto número de días; el cuidado de nuestra alma nos hará vivir sin fin en el cielo… Dios se ha dignado confiarnos su dominio, que es nuestra alma; con su ayuda pongámonos a trabajar con todas nuestras fuerzas, para que en el momento en que él vendrá a visitar su dominio lo encuentre bien cultivado y en perfecto orden. Que encuentre en él una cosecha y no zarzas; vino y no vinagre; más trigo que cizaña. Si en él encuentra todo lo que le complace, nos dará a cambio las recompensas eternas, y las zarzas serán consumidas por el fuego.

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Wednesday, January 28 : Saint Caesarius of Arles

Wednesday, January 28 : Saint Caesarius of Arles

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Brethren, there are two kinds of field: the first is God’s field, the second is man’s. You have your property; God has his, too. Your own property is your land; God’s property is your soul. Is it right that you should cultivate your property and leave God’s lying fallow? If you cultivate your land but fail to cultivate your soul, is this because you want to set your own property in order but leave God’s fallow? Is that right? Does God deserve that we should neglect the soul he holds so dear? You are delighted when you see your property well cultivated; why don’t you weep when you see your soul lying fallow? We cause the fields on our property to come alive for a few days in this world; caring for our souls will enable us to live forever in heaven… God has deigned to entrust our souls to us as his property; so let us set to work with all our might, by his help, so that when he comes to visit his property he will find it well cultivated and in perfect order. May he find a harvest and not thorns; may he find wine and not vinegar, corn rather than chaff. If he finds everything in it that can be pleasing in his eyes, he will give us an eternal reward in exchange, but thorns will be committed to the fire.

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