tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3360061387465329922024-02-08T15:11:38.831-05:00HOLY ROSARY, HOLY MASSA series of meditations on the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary, showing their intimate and indispensable connection with the traditional Catholic Mass.Father Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316341790635263310noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-336006138746532992.post-2768253077508753692017-02-25T22:00:00.003-05:002017-02-25T22:01:35.158-05:00THE TRUE MASS<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">When we discuss the Mass in these pages, we
must note that it is the traditional Catholic Mass to which we refer—the Mass
given to the Apostles at the Last Supper and handed down to us by his
successors, essentially unchanged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More
specifically our references are to the Roman rite of that Mass, although their
application to the Divine Liturgies of the various Eastern rites would have
been equally appropriate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Many of us still attend this traditional
Latin Mass in spite of the devil's attempts to rob us of its graces.
Others today no longer have access to the traditional Mass, but the older
ones will no doubt remember it, uneasily aware that what they see going on in
their local church today is far removed from the Mass of their youth.
Others are too young to know anything at all about the traditional Mass,
and for them it is as foreign as the language in which it is celebrated. Others
still are too corrupted by the endless barrage of modernist propaganda to even
care there was a break between the Catholic Mass and the new Protestant-style
service in their churches today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But no
matter who you are, if you say the Rosary, you are being drawn, whether you
realize it or not, whether you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like</i>
it or not, to the wealth of graces contained only in the traditional Holy
Apostolic Mass, that most essential gift our divine Savior left us immediately before
he died for our sins: "Who on the night he was betrayed, took bread
into his sacred hands..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">This Mass is our inheritance and our
birthright, and no one has the right to deny it to us. Christ our Saviour
commanded his apostles:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i> in remembrance of me!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i>,
not any manufactured substitute devised by man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our Lord's parting gift was passed down intact by the apostles and their
successors, until in 1969 it was suddenly abolished by Paul VI. And yet this
traditional Apostolic Mass continues through the perseverance of those
Catholics who are now referred to, often with contempt, as "traditionalists."
Who are these traditionalists? Just a group of old-fashioned reactionaries
on the right-wing fringe of the Church, clinging to the ancient ways out of
nostalgia? Or is there more to it than that? In truth, the Church should
not be divided into right- and left-wing factions. The Church has no
divisions, she is One, united in her beliefs and worship of God. She is
also Holy, Catholic and (let's not forget) Apostolic. We inherit our
beliefs and our form of worship from the apostles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">The word “tradition” comes from the Latin
word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">traditio</i>, which means the
passing down of something from one person or generation to another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be a “traditionalist” therefore means that
we accept the FAITH passed down to us from the apostles to whom God revealed
it, as well as the form of WORSHIP he commanded them to continue “in
remembrance of me.” Moreover, it means that we must continue passing on that
Faith and Worship to the generations that succeed us. “</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Therefore,
brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=336006138746532992#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">
Without tradition, we are not Catholic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Without it the Catholic Church would never have survived.</span></div>
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Thessalonians 2 : 15<o:p></o:p><br />
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Father Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316341790635263310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-336006138746532992.post-43962350916190408072017-02-22T08:56:00.001-05:002017-02-22T08:56:07.694-05:00THE PURPOSE OF OUR MEDITATIONS<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The series of meditations that follow are an
attempt to identify God’s plan of salvation for us, as contained in both the
Rosary and the Mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many are the
distractions the devil sends our way when we try to pray our beads properly and
keep our minds focused on the Holy Sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nevertheless, we struggle on in the knowledge that it is God’s will that
we do so. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The meditations contained in
this book are a humble attempt to provide us with more “food for thought” when
we approach the mysteries contained in both Rosary and Mass, that we may better
understand them, and thus come to love God more fervently and unite with him
more completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Both the Rosary and Mass play a key role in God’s
eternal plan for our salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To grasp
just how important they are, our approach must be to invoke the help of our
Blessed Mother and her Son, who gave us these tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, who better than they can fill our
minds with the knowledge of the depths of God's love contained in the fifteen
mysteries and in the words and actions of the Mass? I hope that the
following meditations will allow the reader to peer into those depths and find
for himself a little of the truth and love of God that the sacred mysteries
contain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any words that attempt to
describe such divine love must necessarily be flawed and inadequate, but, with your
good will and indulgence, I hope we can all find in these pages a useful
outline from which to approach both Rosary and Mass afresh, refocusing our
thoughts and rekindling in us the fire of God's love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In these
meditations we will learn how the Rosary leads us inevitably to the Mass.
This progression is natural and logical—the Rosary tells the story of our
Redemption, while the Mass applies the graces of that Redemption to us today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rosary and Mass represent our Faith and our
Worship, the very essence of our religion. Just as our faith leads us to
worship God, so the mysteries of the Rosary lead us to the fulfillment of those
mysteries in the Mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rosary and immerse ourselves in the story of Redemption they portray, we are gathering
together into one unified narrative the very basic truths of our Faith.
When we get over the fact that this Redemption story isn't just a legend,
but actual reality, we very quickly realize that we have to participate
actively in that reality ourselves. We do so by trying to return to God
some of the love he showed for us throughout the joyful and sorrowful events
contained in our meditations. When he gave us the Mass he showed us exactly
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how</i> he wanted us to return that love
as fully as we poor humans are capable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No finite sacrifice devised by mortal man could ever be sufficient to
repay God for the love he showed by creating us and then restoring us to the
grace we lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But God himself has
provided us with a sacrifice of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">infinite</i>
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only the sacrifice of his
only-begotten Son is sufficient to please God, and he allows that extraordinary
and eternal act of love offered on Calvary to be continued by his Church in the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We adore God
in the way he instructed us to do so, through that traditional Holy Sacrifice,
and most especially, by uniting with him in the reception of his most sacred Body
and Blood in Holy Communion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Father Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316341790635263310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-336006138746532992.post-64353711426922137852016-09-10T10:31:00.001-04:002016-09-10T10:34:56.956-04:00UNION WITH GOD<div class="MsoNormalIndent" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "cambria";"> If God wants man to be united with him in the
perfect love that the Blessed Trinity always had, has, and will have, then man
must do whatever it takes to achieve and maintain that loving union with God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To
help us attain to that everlasting union, God has given us three gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By these gifts, we may come to know, love and
serve God in this life, so that we may be happy with him forever in the
next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These three distinct gifts together
form a pathway that will lead us to our final end if we continue to walk along
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";">The first of these gifts is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holy Scripture</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is the
Word of God, presented to mankind as God’s revelation of his love for
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By it we may come to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i> God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In its most basic analysis it contains the three
fundamental elements of the Story of Redemption—man’s creation, his fall from
grace, and his restoration to the life of grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holy Rosary</i> is God’s second gift to
man. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time he gave it through the
hands of his Blessed and Immaculate Mother, reminding us of her essential role
in our Creation and Redemption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her
Rosary encapsulates the scriptural Story of Redemption, highlighting its
essential events so that we may see the big picture without distraction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we encounter these events in the context
of the joys, sorrows and glories of Our Divine Saviour and his Blessed Mother, we
naturally apply them to our own life experience with all its own joys and
sorrows. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Rosary is our instruction
manual on how to correspond to God’s love for us by means of the daily joys and
sorrows we face in our lives, and the glories that are promised to us hereafter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Rosary shows us how to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love</i> God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At
the Last Supper, God gave us his third gift of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Divine Worship</i>—the means by which man is enabled to adore God perfectly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This supremely acceptable form of worship would
be by sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Old Testament,
man had struggled and failed to offer to God something worthy to atone for his
sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now, after Christ’s Passion
and Death, there would be finally be a sacrifice that would be sufficiently
pleasing to God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be the
sacrifice of the Blood of a New and Everlasting Covenant between God and man,
the Blood of God’s only-begotten Son shed in the Sacrifice of Calvary, the same
Blood of Christ offered to his Father in the Sacrifice of the Mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The perpetuation of the graces of Calvary through
the Sacrifice of the Mass enables his faithful followers to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">serve</i> God worthily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But
this third gift did not end there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Mass would contain an extra element, a sacramental element that would allow us
to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know, love and serve</i> God in this
life, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> be happy with him forever
in the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be the miraculous
transformation of bread and wine into Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, but
still under the form of bread and wine that could then be received
sacramentally in Holy Communion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finally, man could achieve union with God, the union that would be his
final destiny and which God desires for himself and for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Is it any wonder, then, that there are so
many connections between the Rosary and the Mass?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both have their source in God and his
revelation to us of the path of salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They both answer our inmost yearnings for union with God, the Rosary by
describing that union, and the Mass by actualizing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Catholics, we must cling to both Rosary
and Mass in order to make sure we never deviate from the path they lay out before
us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">As with all prayer, the purpose of the Mass
is to unite us with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we do
this in a spiritual sense whenever we pray, the Mass allows us to experience a
more intensely intimate union with God, which we would not dare attempt if we
had not been commanded to do so by our Lord himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We feel ourselves unworthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i>
we are unworthy, and yet God commands it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">God's delight is to dwell among the
children of men.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=336006138746532992#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He was made flesh and dwelt amongst us for this reason. He wants us
to save our souls for this same reason, so that we might dwell with him
forever. This is the reason we were created. Each Mystery of the Rosary carries
us in spirit a step further towards that ultimate union with God in
heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, in this life, God
wants us to be as close to him as we can, not only spiritually but
physically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has provided us with the
means of achieving true spiritual and physical union with him through the
reception of his Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity in Holy Communion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">While
our Lord gave us the Mass, his Blessed Mother gave us the Rosary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This should not come as a surprise to
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, she is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our</i> Mother too. She wants us to
save our souls so that God’s will may be fulfilled, her Son may be glorified in
our salvation and we, her children, may be happy. She wants to lead us to
her Son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For this reason she gave us her
Rosary, with each of its beads a signpost on the road to salvation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These signposts all point us towards the Mass.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knows that our salvation can be achieved
only through the graces that flow from the Holy Apostolic Mass and the union
with God that is its fruit.</span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so she points the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the Mass through the Rosary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To Jesus through Mary.</span></div>
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Father Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316341790635263310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-336006138746532992.post-39548611126469065002016-08-10T15:42:00.001-04:002016-08-10T15:42:40.335-04:00IN THE BEGINNING<div class="MsoNormalIndent" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;">The first words of Holy Scripture introduce us to a new world,
created by God.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;">It is a world in which Time
begins to exist.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;">The words “In the beginning”
convey a concept wholly dependent on the existence of time. </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;">Indeed, before this “beginning” referred to in
the first verse of Genesis there was no time.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;">But that is not to say that before time began there was nothing.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria; text-indent: 0.5in;">There was, and had always been, an eternity
in which God had existed. In that eternal existence God had enjoyed the
perfection of his own loving and triune Being, Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
supremely complete in his divine essence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">God never “needed” to create the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never “needed” man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So why did he create us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s think for a moment of God’s eternal and
perfect fullness without man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now let’s jump
from that thought to the image of the hands and feet of the divine Son of God being
nailed to a cross in order to save this mankind he could so happily never have created.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is the true mystery of God’s love,
one that we can only marvel at and accept with true humility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Having done so,
we must then proceed to practical thoughts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What is required of us by God in return for the gift of our
existence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What must we do to make
reparation for hammering those nails through the mortal Body of an immortal
God?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does God ask of us if we are to
be the creatures he wants us to be?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The answer is
clear, certain, and supremely sufficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In return for God’s love in creating us, we must love him in return with
all our heart and mind and soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
wants our love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it is only through love that we truly
reflect the divine essence of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were made in his image and likeness, and so if “God is love” then it follows
that our own love can be nothing other than a reflection, no matter how pale
and imperfect, of that divine love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Any real love
that we as humans have cannot have as its chief object anyone or anything <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">other than God</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To entertain such love, to place such an
object or person above God would be a perversion of what love truly is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Indeed, this is the first of the commandments
given to Moses, that “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=336006138746532992#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we do love our neighbor, we do so because
God loves our neighbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We love our
neighbor for God’s sake, whether that neighbor be our spouse, parent, child, or
enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the same goes for our love
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<span style="font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Here then is the
essence of love, that it reflects the Divine Essence of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the triune Godhead is an eternal love that
unites the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity, so our own virtue of love
unites us with that same Divine Being.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
if we love well, that union of God and man shall be our ultimate destiny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the reason God made us, to be happy in
union with him in his eternal presence. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Father Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316341790635263310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-336006138746532992.post-5148614865839730332016-03-11T23:46:00.000-05:002016-05-11T08:17:24.880-04:00THE ROSARY AND THE MASS<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As Catholics, we know the Rosary well enough. And certainly, we know the Mass. But do we know how many connections there are between them? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This series of meditations is taken from my book </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Holy Rosary, Holy Mass. </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am hoping you will find it useful when you pray the Rosary. How often do we find ourselves distracted when we pray our beads! The devil is desperate to fill our minds with idle thoughts—anything to prevent us from realizing the depths of God's love contained in the fifteen mysteries. Our meditations include a new approach to each of those mysteries which I hope will help us refocus our thoughts and rekindle in us the fire of God's love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The prism through which we are going to examine each mystery of the Rosary is that of the traditional Roman Catholic Mass. Many of us still attend this Mass in spite of the devil's attempts to rob us of its graces. Others no longer have access to the traditional Mass but remember that it was unlike anything they see today. Others are too young to know anything at all about the traditional Mass. No matter who you are, if you say the Rosary, you are being drawn, whether you realize it or not, to the wealth of graces contained only in the traditional Holy Apostolic Mass, the last and most essential gift our divine Savior left us before he died for our sins: "Who on the night he was betrayed, took bread into his sacred hands..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This Mass is our inheritance and our birthright. Our Lord's parting gift was passed down intact by the apostles and their successors, until in 1969 it was suddenly abolished by Paul VI. And yet it continues through the perseverance of those Catholics who are dubbed "traditionalists." Who are these traditionalists? Just a group of reactionaries on the right-wing fringe of the Church, clinging to the old ways out of nostalgia? Or is there more to it than that? In truth, the Church is not divided into right- and left-wing factions. The Church has no divisions, she is One, united in her beliefs and worship of God. She is also holy, catholic and (let's not forget) apostolic. We inherit our beliefs and our form of worship from the apostles. To be a traditionalist means simply to accept the FAITH God revealed to those apostles and the form of WORSHIP he commanded them to use, and to continue passing them on from one generation to the next. This is the essence of what Catholic tradition is. Without tradition, we are no longer Catholic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In these meditations we will learn just how intimately connected the Rosary and the traditional Mass are. This shouldn't be surprising—the Rosary contains the essential elements of the traditional FAITH in the story of our Redemption, while the Mass is the form of WORSHIP Christ gave us at the Last Supper and fulfilled on the Cross of Calvary. Together, Faith and Worship form the essence of our religion. What we believe, and how we worship God must always be the dual focus of our lives as Catholics. W</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">hen we meditate on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary and immerse ourselves in the story of Redemption they portray, we are bringing together the very basic truths of our Faith. When we get over the fact that this Redemption story isn't </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>just</i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> a story, but reality, we very quickly realize that we have to participate actively in that reality ourselves. We do so by returning to God some of the love he showed for us in the Redemption story. We are drawn to obey his commandments and adore God in the way he instructed us, through the traditional Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and in particular by uniting with him in the reception of his most sacred Body and Blood in Holy Communion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">All our prayers are intended to unite us with God. Not because we feel ourselves worthy to do so, but because God has commanded it. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">God's greatest joy is to dwell among the children of men. He was made flesh and dwelt amongst us for this reason. He wants us to save our souls for this same reason so that we might dwell with him forever. This is the reason we were created. Every Mystery of the Rosary points to our ultimate union with God in some way, and of course that union is truly achieved in this life only through the reception of the Divine Eucharist in Holy Communion.</span><br />
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The Blessed Virgin Mary is our Mother. She wants us to save our souls so that her Son may be glorified in our salvation and so that we, her children, may be happy. For this reason she gave us her Rosary, with each of its beads a signpost on the road of salvation, a salvation we can achieve only through the Holy Apostolic Mass and the union with God that is its fruit.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We hope to begin our series of excerpts shortly. The complete book will be available from <b><a href="http://www.confraternitybooks.com/">CONFRATERNITY BOOKS</a></b> during the summer of 2016.</span></div>
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