Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar

Who then is God? He is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one God. Do not look for any further answers concerning God. Those who want to understand the unfathomable depths of God must first consider the world of nature. Knowledge of the Trinity is rightly compared with the depth of the sea. Wisdom asks: Who will find out what is so very deep? As the depths of the sea are invisible to human sight, so the Godhead of the Trinity is found to be beyond the grasp of human understanding. If any one, I say, wants to know what he should believe he must not imagine that he understands better through speech than through belief; the knowledge of God that he seeks will be all the further off than it was before. Therefore, seek the highest wisdom, not by arguments in words but by the perfect and right action of your life, not by speech but by the faith which proceeds from purity and simplicity of heart, not from the learned speculations of the unrighteous. If you search by means of discussions and arguments for the God who cannot be defined in words, He will depart further from you than He was before. If you seek for Him by faith, wisdom will stand where wisdom lives, at the gates. Where wisdom is, wisdom will be seen, at least in part. Wisdom is, in a certain sense, truly attained when the invisible God is the object of faith, in a way that is beyond our demanding to understand Him; we must believe in God, invisible as He is, though He can be partly seen by a heart that is pure.

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Day after day, your order I hear it through my corporel hearing, Not to swear at all, Neither by the things of the earth, nor by heaven. As for me, plugging the ears of my soul, I do not let the word enter it; But I behave in an opposite way, And I disobeyed the commandment. (…) But you who gave speech as a tool Thought and language, ethereal breath, Open my mouth by your Spirit, Fill it with spiritual blessing, So that I speak of the divine law, Of the good news of the New Testament, Of the wisdom of theory And the mystery of practice. Keep from me the word that divides, Unredeemable blasphemy, And complaint with slander, Murmuring with detraction. The deception of neighbor, And treason of the treacherous, The oath of perjury, The lies that is characteristic of the Evil one; (…) Diabolic loquacity, And the junction of the presumptuous; And in general all the waves of words Which, once pronounced, are regretted. And give me the Word, oh you, incarnated Word, To always speak with your word, To give it as thanksgiving to my listener, For the edification of the demolished soul.

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There must be simplicity in one’s intention and purity in one’s affection. Simplicity seeks God; purity finds him and savors him. No good work will be difficult for you if you are interiorly free of all disordered affection. If you want only what God wants and what is useful for your neighbor, you will enjoy interior freedom. If your heart were upright then every creature would be for you a mirror of life and a book full of holy instruction. There is no creature so small and so base that it does not show some image of God’s goodness. If you had enough innocence and purity within you, you would see everything without hindrance. A pure heart penetrates heaven and hell. Each person judges what is outside according to what he is within himself. If there is any joy in the world, the pure heart possesses it.

Roman Catholic Ordinary Calendar – rosary,team