tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33053946448890571732024-03-13T19:11:31.004-07:00Rosary PriestFr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-7488555585348802852011-01-04T04:22:00.000-08:002011-01-04T08:56:09.254-08:00Seeds of life<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TSNRHwRO_8I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/ac4yr64rQIs/s1600/tn.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 100px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TSNRHwRO_8I/AAAAAAAAAUQ/ac4yr64rQIs/s400/tn.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558375558763446210" border="0" /></a><br /><br />It may come as a surprise to you, to know that in the original Mass of the Rosary as celebrated by Dominicans, the Gospel text is that of the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Sower who goes out to cast seed on the earth. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Much</span></span> of the seed comes to nothing as it falls on bad ground. But the seed planted on good soil brings forth a rich harvest. Jesus was speaking of how the word of God should be received. The picture with these thoughts was sent to me by two good friends from the USA-- Barbara and Stephen. They have produced several superb pictures illustrating the hands of Priests and Preachers.<br /><br />The early Dominicans saw the Rosary as a practical and fruitful way the Mysteries of the Kingdom. They would have been conscious of the words Jesus added to the Parable of the Sower: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">To you is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom. </span>For them, the Rosary was the Gospel on its knees. The Hail Mary-- at least the first part of it is nothing more, nothing less that a proclamation of the Good News that the Lord is with each one of us-- as he is with Mary. Praying the Rosary, might be compared to turning over the pages of the Gospels and taking them to heart.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">email: hartygabriel@yahoo.co.uk</span>Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-75959803162845411762010-11-18T12:00:00.000-08:002010-12-24T09:42:22.595-08:00The Lost Treasure of the Rosary Confraternity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TOWICiRR2YI/AAAAAAAAAT8/nd7o9tz7zKk/s1600/Knockwindow.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 94px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TOWICiRR2YI/AAAAAAAAAT8/nd7o9tz7zKk/s200/Knockwindow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540984493689657730" border="0" /></a><br />Dominicans of an earlier time preached a deep spirituality that underpinned the Confraternity of the Rosary. The term Confraternity does not always enjoy the respect and dignity that this Brother/Sisterhood deserves.<br /><br />St. Louis Marie de Montfort who was singled out by the Master of the Dominican Order for his preaching of the Rosary lamented the fact that in his day, there was no true Confraternity of the Rosary. This led him to propose his own Treatise on the True Devotion to Mary. His end product which lay hidden for many years is a recall to the original thrust of the Golden Rosary years of the Dominican Friars.<br />Much literature and many websites are still repeating the Holy Algebra approach to the Confraternity. They set down a list that says do this and get that--say these prayers and gain these benefits. Fine, as far as it goes, but the truth is that this approach lacks spiritual depth. To get to the deep waters one has to go back centuries and pick up what many seem to have forgotten. De Montfort refers to the golden days of Alan de la Roche, who proclaimed the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Holy Slavery of Jesus and Mary in the chain of the Rosary. </span>One can see from where De Montfort drew his terminology.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">William Pepin</span>, in his work, Salutate Mariam, republished by the Dominican Rosary Centre in Santa Maria Novella, Florence opens up a whole wonderland of teaching in regard to the Confraternity of the Rosary. He uses the parable of the Prodigal to explain how one should live out the true spirit of a Brother/Sister of the Rosary. ‘ Listen,’ he says ‘to the Father who says to the Elder Brother: <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">All that I have is thine</span>. Lk:15,31. A true elder member of the Confraternity entrusts all that he is and all that he has to Jesus and Mary and responds to their gracious response: Beloved all that I have is yours. Take it and use it in the service of the whole Rosary family.<br /><br />A true elder member of the Rosary Confraternity must not be jealous or even like the younger brother looking for his own share of the property. He must be willing to rejoice with and celebrate the others. Since all that the Father has is his, he himself has the right and indeed the obligation to put the robe of mercy on his brother’s back, the shoes on his feet and the ring of union on his finger. These are covenant terms and they symbolise the covenant of love and mercy that should pertain between the members.<br /><br />Becoming a member of the Confraternity implies both a<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> Contrac</span>t and a <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Covenant</span>. A contract is an exchange of goods or services. A Covenant goes further and implies an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">exchange of persons</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">. </span> The prayers to be said and the indulgences to be gained—the exchange of goods, as it were, point to the contract. They are the external and secondary practices. But the inner soul of the society goes beyond a simple contract to reach the heights of a sacred covenant. Both find expression in the words of commitment: <span style="font-style: italic;">I am all yours and all I have is yours.</span><br /><br />A member with this rich understanding of the Rosary Confraternity gives up existing out of his own meagre ration. He enters the treasure–house of the King and lives out of his infinite supply. A member of this True Rosary Confraternity is no longer waiting in the dole-queue of his own poverty or giving out of his own begging bowl. In keeping with the Book of Revelation: 3:21 - <span style="font-style: italic;">The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne...</span> the true elder member is seated on the throne and acts with the authority of the royal household behind him. Such a one reaches out to bless others with a boldness that moves mountains with an expectant faith the works even miracles.<br /><br />Before ever members of the Confraternity meet to form a formal gathering or sodality, there is a depth of spirituality that needs to be unearthed. It is a lost treasure that lies deep in our Dominican tradition. I believe the time has come to reclaim and proclaim it.<br />www.rosarium.op.org<br />worldpriest.com Click on Daily Prayer<br />Blog: http://blogrosary.blogspot.com<br />Email: hartygabriel@yahoo.co.ukFr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-55580912839939675482010-11-11T12:35:00.000-08:002010-11-11T12:47:35.083-08:00Confessional Chapel Knock<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TNxU86kmfnI/AAAAAAAAAT0/OrAyBmCB0Zo/s1600/KnockConfess.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TNxU86kmfnI/AAAAAAAAAT0/OrAyBmCB0Zo/s200/KnockConfess.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538395047250525810" border="0" /></a>
<br />The weather in Knock on this 11th of November 2010 is wild and windy. Yet still the silence subsists beneath the blustery day. I have been hearing Confessions and just snapped the attached picture of the lovely wood-carving that dominates the Confessional Chapel. Both Our Lady and St. John embrace the dead Christ that they may find the grace of the new life that is born of his death.
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<br />Please know that throughout the day I am here, I am holding you in my heart and in my prayers, as dear St. Paul wrote to his listeners long ago.
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Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-31621025080168153632010-11-10T09:14:00.000-08:002010-11-10T09:30:01.970-08:00At the Shrine of Our Lady, Knock<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TNrWYeIHbGI/AAAAAAAAATs/NNdUNbz4KqA/s1600/Knock.bmp"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TNrWYeIHbGI/AAAAAAAAATs/NNdUNbz4KqA/s200/Knock.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537974407697755234" border="0" /></a><br />I have been asked to supply here at Our Lady's Shrine, Knock in the West of Ireland. The work is light and there is plenty time to sit and look. Looking and lingering in love is very much part of the spirit of this place. After all, there were no words spoken during the Apparition and the splendour of Knock is its silence. Sitting silently in the Shrine at the gable end of the church, one is led to be still during the prayer of the Rosary. I like to stop for a considerable time between the decades and just look at the Lamb on the altar and at the other figures to the side.<br /><br />My old friend, Pere Bernard of Toulouse comes to my aid. Remembering what he wrote some hundred years ago, I cease looking at the pictures and statues in the King's throne room and prefer to gaze at the King himself. In practice this means putting aside all complicated meditation and letting the vocal prayers resound like silver bells in the background. I learn to rest in the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. I may even stop fingering th beads-- only to take them up again as the Spirit moves me.<br /><br />If you find this interesting or if you may want to question it, here is my email: hartygabriel@yahoo.co.ukFr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-57273071547668422742010-11-10T09:09:00.000-08:002010-11-10T09:13:01.986-08:00The Lost treasure of the Rosary Confraternity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TNrSQTNd6VI/AAAAAAAAATk/T_YH1rq1YVQ/s1600/BibleBeads.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TNrSQTNd6VI/AAAAAAAAATk/T_YH1rq1YVQ/s200/BibleBeads.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537969869281945938" border="0" /></a>
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<br /><o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";" >Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the <span style=""> </span>earth.</span></i></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" > --<span style=""> </span><i style="">Archmides 220 BC</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><span style=""> </span>In the Rosary we have a lever and in whatever place we stand with the beads in our hands we can build a brother/sisterhood that will move the world. This I know, is a mighty claim, but being old and bold, I dare to take my stand. The Brother/Sisterhood I have in mind is what I call the Confraternity of the Rosary.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><span style=""> </span>I am tired of hearing that the Order of Preachers has no specific spirituality. A certain young friar remarked that the Jesuits have the <i style="">Exercises of Ignatius</i> and the Carmelites the <i style="">Dark night, more lovely than the dawn</i>, and asked what was characteristic of Dominican spirituality. He was told that the OP’s did not have anything special. They just lived the Gospel.<span style=""> </span>The Novice master went on to illustrate the point, by saying that if you went to a Jesuit doctor, he would prescribe some pills or potions. But if you had recourse to a Dominican doctor, he would just say:<span style=""> </span><i style="">Take a break or have a holiday in the sun! </i><span style=""> </span>Fine! But let me quote from no less than the Holy Father, <span style="">Pius X1<i><span style=""> </span><span class="googqs-tidbit1">The Rosary of Mary is the principle and foundation on</span> which the very Order of Saint Dominic rests for making perfect the life of its members and obtaining the salvation of others." <span style=""> </span>Quoted by </i></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";" >Robert Feeney, a lay Dominican, author of "The Rosary: The Little Summa</span></i></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 525pt;" width="700" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >De Monroy<span style=""> </span>a Master of the Order<span style=""> </span>made the strong statement that <span style=""> </span><i style="">The Holy Rosary is the fairest flower of our Order. Should it come to pass that this flower withers, simultaneously the beauty and lustre of our Institute is seen to fade and disappear. And on the other hand, when that flower revives, forthwith it draws down on us the heavenly dew, imparts to our stem an aroma of grace and causes it to bring forth, as from a root of piety, fruits of virtue and of honour.’</i></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></i></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >If <span style=""> </span>that does not offer a lever and a place to stand, I don’t know what does.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >The Dominicans of<span style=""> </span>an earlier time preached the deep spirituality that underpinned the Brother/Sisterhood of<span style=""> </span>the Rosary. I put it like that, because the term <b style=""><i>Confraternity</i></b> does not always enjoy the respect and dignity it deserves. Interestingly enough St. Louis Marie de Montfort who was singled out by the Master of the Dominican Order for his preaching of the Rosary, lamented the fact that in his day, there was no <b style=""><i>true</i></b> Confraternity of the Rosary. This led him to propose his own <b style=""><i>Treatise on the True Devotion to Mary</i></b>. His end product which lay hidden for many is more or less a recall to the original thrust of the Golden Rosary years of<span style=""> </span>Dominican Friars.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Having looked at the numerous Rosary Websites from all over the world, I am saddened that they are still repeating what I call the <i>Holy algebra</i> approach to the Confraternity. They are simply setting down a list that says <i>do this and get that</i>--say these prayers and gain these benefits. It is alright as far as it goes, but the truth is that is a sandwich with no meat inside. To get to the meat you have to go back centuries and pick up what<span style=""> </span>Dominicans of our time seem to have have forgotten. De Montfort refers to the golden days of Alan de la Roche and Michael de Insulis. <span style=""> </span>Alan had written of the <i>Holy Slavery of<span style=""> </span>Jesus and Mary in the chain of the Rosary</i>. One can see from where De Montfort drew his terminology.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >As to the De Insulis who is frequently quoted in publications prior to De Montfort, I searched for him in many quarters in Italy but could not unearth his work.<span style=""> </span>Arriving at the National Library in Paris, and remembering that his French name was Francois de Lille, I found several copies his writings. The copy I was given was ornately illustrated, like a miniature Book of Kells.<span style=""> </span>On inquiring why there was nothing of his work in Italy, the librarian told me that the four copies in Paris were Napoleonic war booty.<span style=""> </span>If the Dominican authorities in Rome happen to see this note, I pray that they may intercede with Paris for the return of at least one copy to its true home. It would <span style=""> </span>help in the rediscovery of lost treasure of the Rosary Confraternity. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Lesser known but more accessible is the splendid presentation of the Rosary Confraternity by Pepinus in his work, <i>Salutate Mariam</i>, republished by the Dominican Rosary Centre in Santa Maria Novella, Florence. He uses the parable of the Prodigal to explain how we should live out the true spirit of a Brother/Sister of the Rosary. ‘We should listen,’ he says to the Father who says to the Elder Brother: <b style=""><i>All that I have is thine. </i></b><i>Lk:15,31 <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >A true elder member of the Rosary Confraternity is not like the younger brother looking for <span style=""> </span>his own share of the property. He must be willing to rejoice with and celebrate the other members. Since all that the Father has is his, he himself has the right and the obligation to put the robe of mercy on his brother’s back, the shoes <span style=""> </span>on his feet and the ring of union on his finger. These are covenant terms and they symbolise the covenant of<span style=""> </span>love and mercy that should pertain between the members.<span style=""> </span>The prayers to be said and the indulgences to be gained—the exchange of goods, as it were, point to the <b style=""><i>contract</i></b><span style=""> </span>we make on joining the Confraternity.<span style=""> </span>They are what I have called the bread around the sandwich.<span style=""> </span>But <span style=""> </span>the bonds that hold the members together and form the rich meat of the sandwich go beyond<span style=""> </span>contract to reach the heights of a <b style=""><i>sacred covenant</i></b> which embraces the person saying: <i>all that is mine is yours---Totus tuus</i> as John Paul 11 put it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >A member with this rich understanding of the Rosary Confraternity gives up existing out of his own meagre ration. He enters the treasure–house of the King and lives out of his infinite supply. This is the secret of sharing and interceding on behalf of the other members.<span style=""> </span>A member of the True Rosary Confraternity <span style=""> </span>is no longer waiting in the dole-queue of his own poverty or giving out of his own begging bowl.<span style=""> </span>In keeping with the<span style=""> </span>Book of<span style=""> </span>Revelation: 3:21 - <span style=""> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne...</span></i></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;color:black;" > </span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >the true elder member is seated on the throne and <span style=""> </span>acts with all the authority of <span style=""> </span>the royal household behind him. Such a one reaches out to bless others with a boldness that moves mountains with an expectant faith the works even miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >This is the Rosary Confraternity to which I attach the claim of Archimedes: <i>Give me a lever and I will move the world.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-52688791119312477762010-10-26T08:00:00.000-07:002010-10-26T08:24:11.912-07:00Be still and wait<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TMbwznsybEI/AAAAAAAAATU/HwZy8Jn014U/s1600/BlueBeads.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 192px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TMbwznsybEI/AAAAAAAAATU/HwZy8Jn014U/s200/BlueBeads.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532373961892064322" border="0"></a><br /><meta name="Title" content=""><meta name="Keywords" content=""><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><font size="3">The first requirement for meditation is stillness, stillness of body but more importantly, stillness of the heart “Be still and know that I am God.”</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">“Be still before the Lord and wait for him.” (Psalm 37,7) The New American Bible puts it forcibly: “Leave it to the Lord.” It is a kind of letting go and letting God. Psalm 131 invites us to rest like a child in the arms of the Lord: </font><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" size="3">I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a child quieted at it’s mother’s breast.</font><font size="3"><o:p></o:p></font></font></font><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>329</o:Words> <o:characters>1879</o:Characters> <o:company>Rosary</o:Company> <o:lines>15</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>3</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>2307</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1287</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:18.0pt; font-family:Times; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p><font size="3">Christian contemplation does not end in the mind or the heart. It is not merely a mental exercise, but goes on to engage the whole personality and to overflow in love of others. The fruit of Rosary meditation shows in the transformation it effects. The words of St.Paul in Romans 12: 2 are pertinent: </font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-style: italic;" size="3">Do not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.</font><font size="3"><o:p></o:p></font></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p><font size="3"><br /></font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><font size="3">As we look to the Lord, we radiate something of his glory. It is told of Moses that on coming down from the mountain where he had conversed with God, the</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">people could see the radiance on his face, so much so that he had to</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">keep a veil over it. This is what St. Paul was referring to when he wrote: </font><font style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" size="3">All we, with unveiled faces, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.</font><font size="3"> (2 Cor. 3: 18)</font><o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><font size="3">We too are being changed into his likeness. Meditation or contemplation is nothing more than this looking, this lingering in love with the Lord. All one has to do is to recall the scene, to picture Jesus in the inner heart, to recognise his presence, enfolding you in his love. Underpinning all fifteen secrets of the Rosary is this one all pervading secret, that as you surrender to it’s graced process you are being renewed, restored, revitalised, transformed. Do not be diverted from this lingering in love with the Lord himself, by the multiplicity of mysteries and</font><font size="3"> </font><font size="3">vocal prayers. A lot of things in books and sermons on prayer, are simply the gathering of bricks and boards for the building of your house. When the labour of building is over, just sit at the fire and enjoy your home and dream along with the lover of your soul. This undestanding can bring a whole new delight and frutifulness to your Rosary.</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><font size="3"><font size="12pt"><o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><font size="3"> </font><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-6283691046521827532010-10-19T13:03:00.000-07:002010-10-19T13:23:22.650-07:00Legion Pilgrimage at Knock<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TL3-KyfIrpI/AAAAAAAAATM/k6dFMnCS4OE/s1600/imgres.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 153px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TL3-KyfIrpI/AAAAAAAAATM/k6dFMnCS4OE/s200/imgres.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529855378785349266" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">His Eminence Sean Cardinal Brady</span> spoke these gracious words to very large group of members of the Legion Pilgrimage at Knock this September.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">I have chosen the following to form an Allocutio to the Curia of Our Lady, Spouse of the Holy Spirit in the Dublin area:</span><br /><br />It is a delight for me to be here in Knock in the company of the Legion of Mary, that great and dedicated army of Mary’s faithful and loving servants - you who serve the Church – the Body of Christ – the Son. What a joy to be here with you – you whose object is the glory of God and not the glory of self.<br /><br />Today we are here to plead, through the intercession of Mary, for a special blessing on your visitation of families, and of the sick – especially of the lonely, the terminally ill and those in their last agony – both at home and in hospital. Long may your co-operation in every apostolic work and missionary undertaking, sponsored by the parish, continue to flourish and bear fruit and be blessed by the Lord. Long may the message of the Servants of God, Frank Duff, Edel Quinn and Alfie Lambe sustain you and implore you. May the day of their beatification soon draw near.<br /><br />It was the genius of Frank Duff that he saw clearly that the Church is the Body of Christ. He talked about it all the time but he did not just talk – he translated his words into action! Frank Duff was ahead of his time. He opened the way for the Legion of Mary. He did so at a time when the role of the lay faithful still had to struggle for full recognition. Many would say that this is still the case – that lay people have still not been given their proper place in the Church.<br /><br />His genius was to translate doctrine into action. “Christ – the Head depends on His followers” he would say. “If they do not lend themselves to Him his purposes are frustrated”. Frank Duff’s favourite papal statement was that of Paul VI who said: “What I like most about the Legion is that it empowers the little people to become apostles”. I would say it empowers not just the little people – but all the people who care to try.<br /><br />The Legion of Mary has no other reason for existing but to help people to reach their final destiny – to help people into Heaven - or to use the older phraseology: the salvation of souls. They are called to have Mary’s maternity of souls: to work in the spirit of Mary, in communion with her.Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-20641176309036319462010-09-28T04:47:00.000-07:002010-09-28T04:52:47.664-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TKHW_YKLvXI/AAAAAAAAAS8/dgL4a0kMwsg/s1600/prayercard.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TKHW_YKLvXI/AAAAAAAAAS8/dgL4a0kMwsg/s200/prayercard.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521931002438204786" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The following is from a talk to mark thirty years of the Charismatic Prayer Group in the Dominican Priory, Tallaght.</span><br />In keeping with the First Reading of our Mass, we too can praise God this night and say: The Lord our God has carried us as a father carries his son, all the way we went until we have reached this place. This has been the secret of our thirty years of praise and thanksgiving in this place.<br />The text is taken from the farewell of Moses to his people as he has brought them through the desert to the gateway to the Promised Land: Already he has told them how the Lord has carried them on eagle’s wings and in Chapter 33 he gives them the assurance that <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">“The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms”</span><br />One might recall the story of the boy caught in the blaze at the window of the Burning house. His father is standing beneath and calling: Jump, son.<br />The lad hesitates crying <span style="font-style: italic;">Daddy The smoke is blinding my eyes. I can’t see.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">That’s all right, son, I can see you.</span><br />The lad made the leap of faith and was caught in the outstretched arms of the Father beneath.<br /><br />We thank God this night,that the eyes of the Lord have been upon us. This has been the blessing of the Charismatic Renewal. It has helped us make that leap of faith, that surrender of all that we are and all that we have into the caring arms of the Lord. Even if we sometimes doubt and fail to see the hand of God, we are assured that he sees us.<br />Underneath all our striving and all sorrows and joys have been the everlasting arms and we rejoice the Father has carried us on eagles wings all the way to this place and this time.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">email: hartygabriel@yahoo.co.uk</span>Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-60306073675528095002010-09-14T10:44:00.000-07:002010-09-14T10:53:49.647-07:00Frank Duff Prayer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TI-1R37u7-I/AAAAAAAAASs/77-U68nxQA0/s1600/Enemeties.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 122px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TI-1R37u7-I/AAAAAAAAASs/77-U68nxQA0/s200/Enemeties.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516827387229040610" border="0" /></a>
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.MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%;} @page WordSection1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> </style><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">God our Father, You inspired your servant Frank Duff with a profound insight into the <b style="">mystery of your Church</b>, the Body of Christ, and of the <b style="">place of Mary the Mother of Jesus in this mystery.<span style=""> </span></b><span style=""> </span>In his immense desire to share this insight with others and in filial dependence on Mary he formed her Legion.</span> <o:p></o:p></span> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Here we have what might be called the founding message of the Legion and the key to our own Legion of Mary life. The primary principle of the founder was not a mere pragmatic one. In other words, <span style=""> </span>apostolic outreach was not the driving force that moved Frank Duff to give birth to the Legion of Mary. Rather was it that others might share his vision. Frank was a prophet, a mystic with a dream that brought him to the heart of the Church the Body of Christ and the role of Mary in that Mother and Child Scheme of Salvation. That dream, that vision is our privilege to share and to promote. The vision is described in the Legion of Mary Handbook in the section entitled: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="">Mary and the Mystical Body of Christ</b></span><span style="font-size:100%;">: <i style="">The various offices which Mary fulfilled, of nourishing, tending, and loving the actual body of her Divine Son, are still her offices in regard to each member of the Mystical Body, the least brethren as well as the most honourable. So that, when "the members may have the same care for one another" (1 Cor 12:25), they do not act independently of Mary, even when, through thoughtlessness or ignorance, they fail to recognise her presence. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;"><i style="">They but join their efforts to Mary's efforts. <b style="">It is already her work, and she has been exquisitely busied on it from the time of the Annunciation to this very day.</b> </i></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Legion work, can never be chore or a mere service. We have been chosen to share a work already in the hands and the heart of our heavenly Mother. In a sense she has need of no one, but it is God’s plan and purpose that we should have the privilege of lending her our hands and hearts. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The Legion system embodies a profound spirituality a whole mystical way of life. While it inserts us into the institutional life of the church, it immerses us in the mystery of the Church as the Body of Christ, making us members of that body and taking us to its very heart which is the Immaculate Heart of his Mother. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Every meeting , every prayer and every breath we breathe in our Legion life, is more than a simple devotional exercise.<span style=""> </span>It is a sharing in the very life of Christ. Like St. Paul we can exclaim<i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >: </span></i><i style=""><span style=";font-family:";" >It is no longer I who live, but <span style="">Christ lives in me</span>.</span></i></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" > Gal 2:20</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:14pt;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-45560409443586872602010-09-08T09:41:00.000-07:002010-09-08T10:53:26.273-07:00Our Lady’s Birthday<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TIe9Gp0KzpI/AAAAAAAAASc/4AWa-5jeMIQ/s1600/Goldennrose.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TIe9Gp0KzpI/AAAAAAAAASc/4AWa-5jeMIQ/s200/Goldennrose.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514584190739992210" border="0" /></a>
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mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><b style=""><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ></span></sup></b><span style="font-size:100%;"><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">Welcome to this celebration of Our Lady’s Birthday. If you have the heart of a child, then its a party and all are invited. Here are some things to remember when invited to a party.<o:p></o:p></span></sup></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><b style=""><sup>Acknowledge</sup></b></em><em><b style=""><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></sup></b></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></sup></em><em><sup> </sup></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">situation and respond appropriately. You dare not ignore or forget. Either<b style=""> </b></span></sup></em><em><b style=""><sup>Accept </sup></b></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">graciously </span></sup></em><em><sup>or<b style=""> </b></sup></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">express<b style=""> regret</b> that<b style=""> </b>you cannot come. <o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><b style=""><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">Focus </span></sup></b></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">on the one whose Birthday it is, rather be wrapped up in yourself.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><b style=""><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">Have a good time</span></sup></b></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"> but above all reach out and rejoice with your host. The food and drink are important, but more important are the relatives and friends around the table with you. When we pray we have words and thoughts to share, but above all we try to be totally present to the sacred persons we are meeting with.<o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">Since it is our Mother Mary’s Birthday we are speaking of I am reminded of a four-year old child who was pestering his Mum for something that was not good for him, she gently said: “No!”<o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">“</span></sup></em><em><sup>You stink!</sup></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">” he snapped</span></sup></em><em><sup> </sup></em><sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">“Is that so son?” Mum quietly </span></sup></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">replied.<o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">Remembering what he heard in play- school from his pals, the four-year old came back. “Yes, y</span></sup></em><em><sup>ou stink the whole world!</sup></em><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">”<o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">There are times when we adults act like that four year old and treat God and his Blessed Mother in more or less the same fashion. How often we hear the remark: “I’m sick and sore of asking. If I don’t get my request this time, that’s the end of it. I’m giving up on prayer and going to Mass. It’s all a cod or a con job!” <o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">Perhaps <span style=""> </span>Our Lady replies in her gentle way. “Is that so child?” Mothers being what they are understand our frustration and what is really best for us. <o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">But surely we are called to grow up and find a better way of relating to life and to the ways of heaven.<span style=""> </span>The secret is to realise that heaven knows what is best for us.<span style=""> </span>At the Birthday party we take the focus off ourselves and reach out to the one who has invited us. <o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;">Mary is a Mother, with a large family to care for. So our prayer should never be self-centred or selfish. We should have something of her mind and heart and pray But mothers But mothers as she did: </span></sup></em></span><em><sup><span style="font-size:24pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Behold the Handmaid of the Lord. Let your word be done unto me.</span><o:p></o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><em><sup><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:24pt;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><sup><span style="font-size:24pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></p> Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-12452778409624248602010-08-03T10:37:00.000-07:002010-08-03T10:46:00.614-07:00Rosary Retreat<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TFhVy-eOrtI/AAAAAAAAASE/dklH1YtXbng/s1600/ComputerOP.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TFhVy-eOrtI/AAAAAAAAASE/dklH1YtXbng/s200/ComputerOP.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501241279084670674" border="0" /></a><br />I am looking forward to meeting you, even for a day or two at the Six day Retreat that begins as the Dominican Retreat Centre, Tallaght Village. It begins Saturday August 14, at 7.30pm.<br /><br />The Theme I hope to share with you is: <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The Rosary-- Stepping Stones to Silence.</span><br />If coming for part or for the whole of the Retreat, please contact:<br />The Secretary,<br />Dominican Retreat Centre,<br />Tallaght, Dublin 24<br />Tel: 01-- 404 8189 0r 404 8123<br />email; retreathouse@eircom.net<br /><br />God bless you<br />Fr. GabrielFr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-79387221598710461612010-08-03T10:24:00.000-07:002010-08-03T10:35:34.284-07:00A Home in Heaven<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TFhTVjm7dpI/AAAAAAAAAR8/wLdno5mkDgE/s1600/circlejesus"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TFhTVjm7dpI/AAAAAAAAAR8/wLdno5mkDgE/s200/circlejesus" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501238574633940626" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Ascension Day</span> is a day of Mercy,-- the day when Jesus goes to prepare a home for us:<br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I go to my Father and to your Father, I go to prepare a place for you. In my Father’s House, there are many mansions. </span><br /><br />It helps me appreciate this work of mercy, when I think of my own earthly Father and mother who went to such trouble preparing a home for us. It happened quite a lot because we never really owned a home but simply rented a place, and every few years depending on working situations, we were on the move to a new home. So I have vivid memories of all the loving caring work of preparation. Carpets, curtains, lights and mirrors not to mention the mountains of bedding and kitchen stuff.<br /><br />In this work of preparing a home in heaven, God wants our co-operation. He has a great task in hands-- keeping this whole creation ticking over, seeing to it that souls are saved and getting all his faithful ones into heaven. He could do it all on his own, but he calls us to share in his work. While God has an infinite supply of mercy to pour out on the world, he ask us to share in his outpouring by being merciful ourselves.<br /><br />The Almighty has no need of our acts of mercy. But as <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Leon Bloy </span>has written: <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">We have the privilege of being needed by him who has need of no one.</span> We are asked to give from the little we possess, but only to receive much more in return: By way of illustration let me tell of a couple who loved to work together in their garden. But this day husband was on his own in the back garden. He was preparing to dig out the stubborn roots of an old tree. He toiled and sweated for over an hour until at last he knew it was coming. There was a surge of pride.... but then another emotion took over. He wanted his wife to share his little victory with him. He wanted her to have the thrill of pulling the old root out together with him.<br /><br />He didn’t really need any assistance. At least not in the physical sense. He had all the strength he needed for that. For love’s sake however he needed her. He knew that she would like to part of his achievement. So he called her and together they pulled the old root out and dumped it.<br /><br />Don’t we all want to be needed? On the other hand there is the trauma of not being needed not wanted. Not on the team. Surplus to requirement. Rejected redundant. In God’s plan of mercy, we all pull together. There is no redundancy. We have the privilege of being needed by the One who has need of no one. Let's work together with our heavenly Father to build the home in heaven where we hope to spend eternity.<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">hartygabriel@yahoo.co.uk</span>Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-45826046977062673062010-07-12T09:01:00.000-07:002010-07-12T09:09:51.621-07:00Teresa of Calcutta<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TDs-P6qr4kI/AAAAAAAAAR0/AIxWDyOVP1Y/s1600/madre_teresa_calcutta.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TDs-P6qr4kI/AAAAAAAAAR0/AIxWDyOVP1Y/s200/madre_teresa_calcutta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493052613675704898" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have loved Jesus in the night:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Teresa of Calcutta</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A Secret revealed by Paul Murray,OP</span><br />Darton, Longman & Todd<br /><br />This is more than a book about a saint. It is a treasure in a whole field of literature around Mother Teresa. Paul Murray writes as a poet and a mystic and from beginning to end, this is a work that scintillates and shines in the darkness. Fr. Paul brings us into the heart of the Saint and reveals something of the inner secret of her being.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Three characters</span> came across to me as I eagerly read through these pages: I was introduced to the light that shone in the night for Mother Teresa herself. The references to John of the Cross were a welcome ray of light in the darkness that for so many, surrounds this Spanish saint. Thirdly, the person of the author himself seems to speak as he writes in intimate personal tones, weaving a mystic magic into the heart of the reader. He certainly did that for me.<br /><br />Page 92 tells of the Desert Father whose fingers became like lamps of fire and said <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">if you will, you can become all flame. </span>I could only rejoice that the fingers that typed out the words of this beautiful book are indeed lamps of fire and I believe that many of its readers may become <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">all flame. </span><br /><br />A credit to the publishers who have presented a delightful production, the kind of thing one would want to give as a Birthday or Christmas present. Looking at the photos of Fr. Paul communing, (not just speaking) with Mother Teresa, I felt like one who had slipped in secretly on sacred moments.Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-79012893872987993122010-07-07T04:20:00.000-07:002010-07-07T04:39:05.001-07:00Stand in your Presence<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TDRnMVD1FII/AAAAAAAAARs/79-5Cp7wczQ/s1600/stonewalk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TDRnMVD1FII/AAAAAAAAARs/79-5Cp7wczQ/s200/stonewalk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491127307180774530" border="0" /></a><br />At Mass say: We thank you for counting us worthy to stand in your presence and serve you. The presence of God in our lives is what enlightens our darkness and keeps us from fainting on the way. We are called to be totally present to the One who is the<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Ps: 5:5</span> "The arrogant cannot stand in your presence." There is a time for standing in readiness to serve, as there is a time for resting and being refreshed<span style="font-style: italic;">. Come aside and rest awhile.</span> This is what takes place during our meditation when we wait upon the Lord. Meditation prepares us to take our stand. We wait with expectation with patient an hope-filled expectation. For what?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Isaiah 40:31</span> Shows both the <span style="font-weight: bold;">resting</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">serving </span>in one magnificent statement: <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. </span> Strength is for action, to enable us to serve. Meditation is meant to overflow in service to God and to others.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Mount up like eagles</span><br />An eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks It will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it. The eagle does not escape the storm, it simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm. When the storms of life come upon us ... and all of us will experience them ... we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God.<br /><br />The storms do not have to overcome us, we can allow God's power to lift us above them. God enables us to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure, and disappointment into our lives. We can soar above the storm. This heaven-inspired soaring is what gives us the strength to stand in the Divine Presence and serve the King of Heaven.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">They shall run and not be weary :</span> Walking is too slow sometimes, to reach the prize, There is a need to pay the price and RUN towards it. The secret of coming into the presence of God or any human being, is being ourselves totally present, with all our attention and all our faith in the other. Lack of faith in God's power and God’s love for us, sets up a new god. For if there be anything which usurps the power of God, something that is more potent than God, then that something must be god!Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-24221470537500430132010-06-30T04:56:00.000-07:002010-06-30T05:20:32.871-07:00DOOR INTO THE SACRED<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TCs0tFUxg8I/AAAAAAAAARk/Q9ZM4z0e7RA/s1600/murray+pic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 95px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TCs0tFUxg8I/AAAAAAAAARk/Q9ZM4z0e7RA/s200/murray+pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488538520009147330" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This new work by Fr. Paul Murray is a <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Meditation on the Hail Mary</span>. In his introduction, the author writes: "My hope in writing this tiny book is that, by giving space to some of the most moving and most profound reflections ever written on the Hail Mary, a door will open for the reader into a world in which the strenuous task of thinking and the easeful grace of feeling can both be considered sacred, and where wisdom and enchantment, theology and devotion, are found, at core, to be one and the same thing. For almost an entire millennium the most commonly repeated prayer in the Church, apart from the Our Father, has been the Hail Mary. It’s a prayer that, with great simplicity and ease, brings us at once into the mystery of God incarnate, the mystery of Jesus, son of Mary. For countless numbers of people over the centuries it has proved to be a threshold of grace, a real opening into the mystery and meaning of God’s love, a<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> ‘holy door’."</span><br /><br />For myself, I find this latter to be so true. How often on entering an old Church in Italy or France, I have observed the Angel Gabriel carved on one side of the main door and the Virgin Mary on the other side. It made me feel that I was being ushered in to the wonderland of the sacred and secret mystery of God. I hope to have this precious work of Fr. Paul available for our <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Rosary Retreat in the Retreat Centre, in Tallaght</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">August 14th--20. </span>If you cannot make the full five days it i possible to drop in for a single day or more.Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-13360280674373313042010-06-22T13:20:00.000-07:002010-06-22T23:56:45.871-07:00Rosary Video<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TCEeiIPOG_I/AAAAAAAAARU/73__fdhQQww/s1600/Annunciation+047.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 194px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TCEeiIPOG_I/AAAAAAAAARU/73__fdhQQww/s200/Annunciation+047.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485699392789683186" border="0" /></a><br />The picture shows Dominican Friars singing the Night Office with Our Lady watching over them as they sign the Salve Regina-- Hail Holy Queen!<br />www.worldpriest asked me to put a Nine minute talk on their Website. Hope you like it.Look up the site below.<br /><br />Rosary <a href="http://worldpriest.com/home/rosary">Videohttp://worldpriest.com/home/rosary<br /></a><br />Fr. Gabriel at the Dominican Priory, Tallaght Village, Dublin 24Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-49957872994194464512010-06-16T09:11:00.000-07:002010-06-16T09:24:36.947-07:00Beads for Meditation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TBj6p03hkkI/AAAAAAAAARM/0GaNSq--GDY/s1600/monk_beads_200.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TBj6p03hkkI/AAAAAAAAARM/0GaNSq--GDY/s200/monk_beads_200.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483408142796689986" border="0" /></a><br />For those who may be shy of producing the Catholic beads in public, it may be of help to know that they are not alone when they pray the Rosary. Hindus, Buddhists and many other folk, use the beads as an aid to meditation. They sit still and pass the beads through their fingers while they repeat a sacred word or mantra. Touching the beads enables them to be serene and secure. The sacred word is more sounded in the depth of the being than spoken by the lips.<br /><br />So never be tempted to think that the Catholic Rosary is elitist or out of date. Praying with the beads is universal and belongs to every age and civilization. See picture of Buddhist monk meditating with his beads in his hands. You can read more about all this in my book: The Riches of the Rosary, published by Veritas, Dublin.Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-39370628214231037362010-06-15T13:27:00.000-07:002010-06-15T13:35:20.009-07:00The Catena of the Legion of Mary<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TBfj6MP8PaI/AAAAAAAAARE/cK02XMc7r9k/s1600/legion_home_mary-298x240.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 161px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TBfj6MP8PaI/AAAAAAAAARE/cK02XMc7r9k/s200/legion_home_mary-298x240.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483101660206874018" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Catena</span> is the Latin word for link or chain. It is the sign of the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Holy Slavery of Jesus and Mary </span>as taught by St. Louis Marie de Montfort. It reminds Legionaries that they are bound by the sweet chain of Love and Loyalty to Mary and to each other. Members of the Legion of Mary are not lone rangers working on their own. They are in the service of the Queen of Heaven and they stand shoulder to shoulder in army that has set itself to conquer the world.<br /><br />Even those who have left are encouraged to pray the Catena and thereby keep a connection with the Legion. The opening Antiphon of the Catena is a panorama of the whole role of Mary: <span style="font-style: italic;">Fair as the Moon, Bright as the Sun, and like an Army in battle array! </span>At once attractive and awesome!<br /><br />In the Magnificat Mary does what we all need to do: She points to the Lord. For our part we often focus on ourselves -- our projects and our problems and make them still larger. Mary sweetly and surely makes the problems into possibilities as she teaches us instead to magnify the Lord. She is the Magnifier of God and his kingdom. Like her Son, she prays <span style="font-weight: bold;">thy</span> name, <span style="font-weight: bold;">thy </span>Kingdom,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> thy</span> will. As we grow in this spirit of Mary, the apostolate becomes no longer <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">my</span> kingdom <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">my</span> project, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">my</span> problem. As our little kingdom decreases, so does the Kingdom of God take root and grow great.<br /><br />Pride is the most destructive force in the world and blocks the stream of grace. The Lord scatters the proud hearted. We know this to be true from our own experience and have seen that how it can destroyed or gravely diminish even Mary’s own Legion. Humility on the other hand is the foundation on which the Kingdom is established.<br /><br />Mary acknowledges that anything that is good in her is the work of the Lord. Her soul proclaims the greatness of God. She knows that God has saved her and she rejoices in God my Saviour. Legionaries should remember the words of St. Ephraem so well: ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">May the spirit of Mary be in every soul to glorify the Lord.’</span><br /><br />Fr. Bede the Head spiritual director of the Legion of Mary suggests that while we pray the Magnificat together at all our meetings sometimes we should pray and meditate over it personally and in solitude.Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-64247402165271537322010-06-08T04:52:00.000-07:002010-06-23T02:59:24.097-07:00worldpriest.com<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TA4xK1ojK_I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/Z6FaWDnjVyc/s1600/benPope.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 167px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/TA4xK1ojK_I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/Z6FaWDnjVyc/s200/benPope.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480371858822081522" border="0" /></a><br />Recently I was given the opportunity of appearing live on the<br />Website entitled: worldpriest.com<br /><br />The occasion, was the close of the Year for Priests and they asked me to say a few words on <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">the Rosary in the life of a Priest. </span> You can look the site up for yourself and I trust it may bring us a little closer. What I was trying to get across in the short time available, was that in the hands of the Priest, the Rosary was not only a prayer, but that a valuable instrument of preaching the Good News of Jesus and Mary.<br /><br />For the Rosary is a summary of the Scriptures and Sacred Tradition. Pere Lacordaire spoke of it as L'evangile a genoux-- <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Gospel on its knees.</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can see and listen live by clicking on the following:</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /><a href="http://www.worldpriest.c/home/rosary_relay_video.php">http://www.worldpriest.c/home/rosary_relay_video.php</a><br /></span>Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-49377547815693716502010-05-12T04:29:00.000-07:002010-05-12T04:50:17.521-07:00God needs each one of us<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S-qV6AbyqeI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/_szJP0RdBR4/s1600/LambJesus.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S-qV6AbyqeI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/_szJP0RdBR4/s200/LambJesus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470349521176406498" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Ascension Day:</span><br /><br />This is a great day of Mercy. It is the final work of mercy when Jesus goes to prepare a home for each one of us:<span style="font-style: italic;"> I go to my Father and to your Father, I go to prepare a place for you. In my Father’s House, there are many mansions. </span><br /><br />It helps me appreciate this work of mercy, when I think of my own earthly father and mother who went to such trouble preparing a home for us. It happened quite a lot because we never really owned a home but simply rented a place, and every few years depending on working situations, we were on the move to a new home. I have vivid memories of all the loving caring work of preparation: carpets, curtains, lights and mirrors not to mention the mountains of bedding and kitchen stuff.<br /><br />And in this work of preparing a home in heaven, the Heavenly Father wants our co-operation. God our Father has a great task in hands-- keeping this whole creation ticking over, seeing to it that souls are saved and getting all his faithful ones into heaven. He could do it all on his own, but he calls us to share in his work. While God has an infinite supply of mercy to pour out on the world, he ask us to share in his outpouring by being merciful ourselves.<br /><br />Jesus says: <span style="font-style: italic;">Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.</span><br />And in the Fifth Beatitude: <span style="font-style: italic;">Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.</span> It would seem that to pour out his mercy, The Almighty has need of our acts of mercy. As the Frenchman, Leon Bloy has written: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">We have the privilege of being needed by him who has need of no one.</span> We are asked to give from the little we possess, but only to receive much more in return:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they will pour into your lap. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.</span> Luke 6:38<br /><br />By way of illustration let me tell of a couple who loved to work together in their garden. But this day the husband was on his own in the back garden. He was preparing to dig out the stubborn roots of an old tree. He toiled and sweated for over an hour until at last he knew it was coming. There was a surge of pride.... but then another emotion took over. He wanted his wife to share his little victory with him. He wanted her to have the thrill of pulling the old root out together with him. He didn’t really need any assistance. At least not in the physical sense. He had all the strength he needed for that. For love’s sake however, he needed her. He knew that she would like to part of his achievement. So he called her and together they pulled the old root out and dumped it. Together is better.<br /><br />You notice the same thing when a strong man wins a seat in Parliament. He calls up his wife to stand beside him to share his hour of glory. Don’t we all want to share, to be needed, to be part of the project. <span style="font-style: italic;">As long as he needs me, </span>goes the song. On the other hand there is the trauma of not being needed not wanted, not on the team. It must be terrible to hear those words: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Surplus to requirement! Rejected! redundant!</span><br />In God’s plan of mercy, there is no redundancy. We all in it together. We have the privilege of being needed by the One who has need of no one. He has entrusted some work of Divine mercy to me which he has committed to none other. He wishes me to work alongside him in his own mission of mercy. Let me do so that I may find mercy in my hour of need.Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-21660430068410566652010-04-28T07:39:00.001-07:002010-04-28T08:01:07.031-07:00Eucharistic Tent of Meeting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S9hMVprj3cI/AAAAAAAAAQs/TaHd0S-MKTw/s1600/monstran.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S9hMVprj3cI/AAAAAAAAAQs/TaHd0S-MKTw/s200/monstran.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465202082663620034" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Domine quo vadis? </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Lord with are you going</span>, asked Peter as he was running away from Rome to escape death.<br />Jesus met him on the way and replied:<br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Peter, I go to Rome to be crucified again.</span><br />Peter understood that the Christ who promised to be with us until the end was suffering in the mystical body which is his people.<br /><br />Despite the storms and the scandals of our times, we have this blessed assurance that the Lord is still with us—until the end of time. If we are experiencing crucifixion, the Lord is enduring in the midst of us. He is meeting up with us.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Tent of Meeting </span><br />And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting… and all the people would rise up---each at his own door and observe. Whatever we meet up with as the ground seems to be taken from under us in so many fields -- sacred and secular we have this <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">inner tent</span>—this inner meeting place with the Lord. This is where we go when we sit and meditate each morning and evening.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Living in the Presence of God</span><br />For the Jewish people the big question was not the Existence of God, whether there is a God or not, but whether God was with them or not. Speaking to the successor of Moses, the Lord said: <span style="font-style: italic;">As I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will never forsake you.</span> That means : Behind you, supporting and encouraging you, going before you, as a Pillar of fire by night and as a Cloud of Glory by day.<br /><br />The word to the Prophets and Leaders always was: I the Lord am with you. To Mary: Hail full of grace, the Lord is with you.<br /><br />Little wonder that this promise and blessing has found it way into the Eucharist: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Dominus Vobiscum</span>. And we keep in mind the words of Paul: <span style="font-style: italic;">If the Lord is with us, who can be against us!</span><br /><br />This is one of the characteristics of love: to stay around. A small boy came home and told his Mammy about his Grandad who was sitting alone crying. “But its all right now,” he continued: “I sat with him and helped him to cry.”<br /><br />This is what gives us security and inner peace and lets us sit still in meditation. We know that the Lord himself sits with us, gathers up our tears and enfolds in his love. We do like that small boy, we sit with each other and live in the presence of each other.<br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Fr. Gabriel: Dominican Priory, Tallaght, Dublin 24, Ireland. </span><br />EMAIL: hartygabriel@yahoo.co.ukFr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-88193632754253649022010-04-28T07:39:00.000-07:002010-06-22T13:47:43.522-07:00The Tent of Meeting<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Domine quo vadis? Lord with are you going, </span>asked Peter as he was running away from Rome to escape death.<br />Jesus met him on the way and replied:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Peter, I go to Rome to be crucified again.</span><br />Peter understood that the Christ who promised to be with us until the end was suffering in the mystical body which is his people.<br /><br />Despite the storms and the scandals of our times, we have this blessed assurance that the Lord is still with us—until the end of time. If we are experiencing crucifixion, the Lord is enduring in the midst of us. He is meeting up with us.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-weight: bold;">Tent of Meeting</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And everyone who sought the Lord would go out to the tent of meeting… and all the people would rise up---each at his own door and observe. </span>Whatever we meet up with as the ground seems to be taken from under us in so many fields -- sacred and secular we have this <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">inner tent</span>—this inner meeting place with the Lord. This is where we go when we sit and meditate each morning and evening.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Living in the Presence of God</span><br />For the Jewish people the big question was not the<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"> Existence</span> of God, whether there is a God or not, but whether <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);">God was with them or not.</span><br /><br />Speaking to the successor of Moses, the Lord said: <span style="font-style: italic;">As I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will never forsake you. </span> That means : Behind you, supporting and encouraging you, going before you, as a Pillar of fire by night and as a Cloud of Glory by day. The word to the prophets and leaders always was: <span style="font-style: italic;">I the Lord am with you.</span> To Mary: <span style="font-style: italic;">Hail full of grace, the Lord is with you.</span><br /><br />Little wonder that this promise and blessing has found it way into the Eucharist: <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Dominus Vobiscum.</span> And we keep in mind the words of Paul: If the Lord is with us, who can be against us!<br /><br />This is one of the characteristics of love: to stay around. A small boy came home and told his Mammy about his Grandad who was sitting alone crying. “But its all right now,” he continued: “I sat with him and helped him to cry.”<br /><br />This is what gives us security and inner peace and lets us sit still in meditation. We know that the Lord himself sits with us, gathers up our tears and enfolds in his love. We do like that small boy, we sit with each other and live in the presence of each other.<br /><br />You can write to me at <span style="font-style: italic;">Dominican Priory, Tallaght Village, Dublin 24, Ireland</span> or email: hartygabriel@yahoo.co.ukFr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-37505365296624693822010-04-15T02:51:00.000-07:002010-04-15T03:12:29.492-07:00Motherhood of souls<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S8bme-MObZI/AAAAAAAAAQk/PfGHUh1V2uQ/s1600/Annunciation.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S8bme-MObZI/AAAAAAAAAQk/PfGHUh1V2uQ/s200/Annunciation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460305017998044562" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Motherhood of souls is Mary’s essential function</span>. Without participation in that, there can be no real union with her. True devotion comprises the service of souls. It is not enough to praise, we are called to imitate, identify with Mary herself. She is a Queen Mother with a family as extensive as the whole Kingdom of God. Just as it is not enough to pray, thy kingdom come ,so we have to work to bring about that Kingdom. We have to play an active part. St. Paul used the daring expression: I fill up in my body what is wanting to the passion of Christ. Without our Legion apostolate of sharing in the motherhood of Mary, there would be something wanting to our devotion.<br /><br />A mere verbal offering of our services to Mary can be as empty. Apostolic duties will not descend from Heaven on those who content themselves with waiting passively for that to happen. Those who stand idly by will continue in their state of unemployment. The only effective method of offering ourselves as apostles is to undertake apostleship. We have just to take the first simple step in faith and love and at once Mary embraces our activity and incorporates it in her motherhood.<br /><br />How could the Virgin so powerful be dependent on the aid of persons so weak? It is a part of the divine arrangement which requires human co-operation. Mary's treasury of grace is superabundant, but she cannot spend from it without our help. If she could use her power according to her heart alone, the world would be converted in the twinkling of an eye. But she has to wait till the human agencies are available to her. Deprived of them, she cannot fulfil her motherhood, and souls starve and die.<br />Legionaries are no dead instruments of Mary's action. There is question of a living and life-giving co-operation with her for the purpose of enriching and ransoming souls. Where the spirit of this partnership is honoured, Mary is never be found wanting. The fate of the enterprise may be said to depend entirely on the legionary, so that he must bring to it all his/her intelligence and strength, perfected by careful method and by perseverance.<br /><br />One must pray as if all depended on that prayer and nothing on one's own efforts, and then one must strive as if absolutely everything depended on that striving.<br />There is nothing lost of anything which is committed to the hands of the careful housewife of Nazareth. The legionary looks to Mary to supernaturalise the natural. She who is full of grace will see it that our human endeavour walks hand in hand with the grace of GodFr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-12476582651042296932010-03-17T05:03:00.000-07:002010-03-17T05:10:57.346-07:00Dealing with recession and depression<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S6DGM5QAQKI/AAAAAAAAAQc/GmDA6ERQmRs/s1600-h/SeaFlowers.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S6DGM5QAQKI/AAAAAAAAAQc/GmDA6ERQmRs/s200/SeaFlowers.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449573473946976418" border="0" /></a>
<br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">All over the world these days, the TV and radio are beating out a continuous story about the financial crisis that is upon us. The more we listen to the torrent of depressive words that are rolling over us, like a sunami the more we need to find a way of rising above the waves of doom and gloom.</span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: times new roman;font-family:times new roman;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is where the daily dose of meditation such as the Rosary provides can come to our aid. The time set aside to ponder enter the wonderland of the Rosary seems to roll back the waters of darkness and depression. One ceases to let the tide of distress take over. We find ourselves at ease as we discover the inner land where Jesus and Mary live and all things are well.<span style=""> </span>Miracles of healing and well-being are there for the asking.
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<br />I am reminded of the miracle that the Lord worked for the Israelites as the might forces of Pharo and the Egyptians was bearing down on them. With the burning sands of the desert behind them and the terror of the Red Sea ahead, the Lord opened a way through for them. Moses lifted up his rod, and with the might of the Lord on his side, made the waters pile up to provide a solid dry ground, so that the people could pass safely through on to the Land that flowed with wine and milk and honey.
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<br />That journey to the physical land is a symbol of the pilgrim soul moving in meditation to the </span><b style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><i>inner land </i></b><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">of the heart.</span> There exists an inner space where amid the desert of desolation one may find security and serenity. The peace and the stability generated in those sacred times, radiate to the rest of the day.
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<br />The fragrance of those precious moments permeates our being, and brings all our ways to a creativity, and a consummation beyond our dreaming. We learn to live, no longer out of our own </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">meagre</i><span style="font-style: normal; font-family: times new roman;"> resource, but out of the </span><b style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><i>infinite supply</i></b><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: times new roman;"> of the heavenly Father. We rest in those words of Jesus, that the Father who feeds the birds of the air and clothes the lilies of the field is constantly looking after us.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <link style="font-family: times new roman;" rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/gabrielharty/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>4</o:Words> <o:characters>27</o:Characters> <o:company>Rosary</o:Company> <o:lines>1</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>33</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1282</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:0 2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:ArialMT; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-alt:Arial; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:auto; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Arial; color:black;} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><i>Email:</i><b> hartygabriel@yahoo.co.uk</b></span><span style=";font-family:ArialMT;font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment--> <p></p> <!--EndFragment--> Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305394644889057173.post-21485255132658906062010-03-17T04:44:00.000-07:002010-03-17T04:52:32.672-07:00God made of her tears—the Rosary<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S6DCJuaqxoI/AAAAAAAAAQU/j-jmAsoExaM/s1600-h/BlueBeads.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 192px; height: 192px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2ZdJ-_EE8Kw/S6DCJuaqxoI/AAAAAAAAAQU/j-jmAsoExaM/s200/BlueBeads.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449569021452797570" border="0" /></a>Verse 3 and the last, of this poem came from an old woman in America. Fr.Placid Nolan, op added the other verses
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Our Lady wept sweet tears of joy</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">When first she held her baby boy;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Her son, foretold by angel bright,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">New dawn on earth of heaven’s light.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span><!--[endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The time had come as well she knew,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The mighty power of God to show;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">And Mary wept soft tears of light<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">In Cana, where the best wine flowed</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span><!--[endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">There, she stood beneath the Cross,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Her lovely head on her bosom bowed;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">And Mary’s tears fell one by one,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">As she beheld her dying son.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span><!--[endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">God crowned her Queen, and now</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Her tears, like raindrops fall,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Each one a healing, loving touch</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">On all her children, when they call</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span><!--[endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">But all those tears were saved,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">As if by miracle;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">And God in wondrous mystery,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Made of her tears-- the Rosary.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> Fr . Gabriel Harty OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04117697129548073278noreply@blogger.com0