tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55807733110263946602023-06-20T08:49:42.943-05:00Men of GalileeA Blog for Catholic Men, Called by Jesus Christ to Follow Him
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349244560249666995noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580773311026394660.post-16324536588317728012014-09-01T06:00:00.000-05:002014-09-01T06:00:09.034-05:00Who Are the "Men of Galilee" Today?<div style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I chose the title “Men of Galilee” for a blog addressed to Catholic men, and so you’ve probably concluded that I voted for “C” above, and that I’m wrong. Otherwise, Christ’s words to the “daughters of Jerusalem” (Luke 23:28) are pertinent only to women, or only to Jewish women, or only to Jewish women residing in Jerusalem who are witnesses to Christ’s Passion.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">So is there anything particular to any particular group smaller than all of Christ’s followers in yesterday’s passage, or any other portion of the Gospel? Careful! Jesus’ teaching about the poor: only about the poor, or only about certain kinds of poor, or about everybody because, gosh, aren’t we all poor? W.S. Gilbert cautions (in “The Gondoliers”), “If everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.” We preachers, at least, can be a bit clumsy in our exegetical universalism. </span></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349244560249666995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580773311026394660.post-30225253677436585862014-08-30T06:00:00.000-05:002014-08-30T06:00:00.499-05:00Stand.<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">On Saturdays, the focus of this blog will be “Men
Preparing for Sunday Mass”: Understanding, participating in, and appropriating
the full graces of the Mass as Catholic men.</span><br />
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When you stand at Mass, stand like
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This may seem like a rather paltry
bit of advice to Catholic men as they attend Mass. And no, this is not a
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Well, actually, it is.</div>
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A man comes to Mass to stand before
His Lord and Savior, offering praise, thanksgiving, repentance, petitions … and
himself. Romans 12:1: “I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” A man standing at
Mass is a man standing at attention. “Attending” is a word used for
servants and soldiers. Standing is a posture of loyalty and
readiness. A Catholic man at Mass is prepared to receive, prepared to
offer.</div>
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When a seminarian learns how to
preside at Mass, the professors do not hesitate to instruct him in his posture,
his “bearing.” No slouching allowed at the Altar or the Chair. We
are attending to God as His priestly ministers. (And now, are you ready
for some behind-the-scenes Priest Trivia? A future priest is taught to stand
with the back of his legs slightly pressed against the front edge of his chair,
for reasons that I hope are obvious. I once saw a priest at Mass sit back
down onto nothingness, and that was enough to convince me to observe the ol’
leg-against-chair trick.) </div>
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And have you noticed that I am not
venturing near the kneeling-vs.-standing issue that crops up from time to
time? Another topic, for another day. But allow me to note
that I have observed men kneeling at Mass in a reverent, even obsequious
manner, only to rise into a slouch worthy of the most bored of teenagers.
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Outward posture reflects
-- and shapes -- inward disposition. Do we understand
what is happening at every Mass? Something worth standing for
attentively. Some<i>one</i> worth standing before attentively.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349244560249666995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580773311026394660.post-9226100310718014182014-08-29T06:00:00.000-05:002014-08-29T06:00:01.596-05:00Go Once a Month.*<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each Friday, this blog will focus on “Men Preparing for
Confession”: Practical advice for Catholic men in the Sacrament of
Reconciliation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catholic must go to Confession as often as he has
committed a mortal sin.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catholic must go to Confession at least once a year,
traditionally before Easter (the “Easter Duty”), in fulfillment of one of the
Precepts of the Church.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Catholic may choose to go to Confession more frequently
than once a month, according to his spiritual condition and the counsel of his
Confessor. Many Catholic men do.</span></li>
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for men about going to Confession once a month. Why monthly?</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confession once a month is frequent enough to measure your
progress, and infrequent enough to give you time to make progress. As
many saints have said about the moral life, real change is typically slow
change. It’s not that God cannot act immediately, but our own souls tend
to be sluggish. Moreover, if our sin is habitual, we all know how hard it
is to break a bad habit all at once.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We live in a world of calendars and schedules. This
coming Monday is September 1. Okay, so it’s a new month, time to get to
Confession. We don’t need to mull over our spiritual condition, should I
go, maybe, maybe not. Rather, it’s the start of a new month, time for the
Sacrament of Reconciliation. Period.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A month provides enough duration to make a specific
resolution, and then return to review how you’ve done in keeping that
resolution. I frequently recommend to penitents, “After you’ve prayed
your Penance, give the Lord a few extra minutes back in the Church to listen
prayerfully to the Holy Spirit, asking Him if He has any concrete direction for
you. Try not to leave the Church before you’ve made a clear resolution
about one of the sins you’ve just confessed.” It might be as simple as
resolving not to look at your computer or cellphone after 9:00 p.m., or
resolving to visit the Blessed Sacrament in a neighborhood Church each
afternoon on your way home from work. So many Catholic men are
frustrated, and even despairing, that they come back to Confession again and again
with the same sins. God has a pathway to moral freedom.
Listen to Him as He shows you the next step to take.</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349244560249666995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580773311026394660.post-13478334466466474012014-08-28T06:00:00.000-05:002014-08-28T06:00:07.945-05:00ISIS, the Persecution of Christians, and the Execution of James Foley: How Shall a Catholic Father Prepare His Children?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursdays on this blog are focused on “Interpreting the
Signs of the Times”: Reviews of movies, books, art, and media of interest to
Catholic men.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each Friday I meet with a wonderful group of home-schooled
children and their parents. We have Confessions, Mass, lunch, and then I
offer a short conference on various subjects. The children are bright,
and we will soon be embarking on the task of memorizing G. K. Chesterton’s
great poem, “Lepanto” (1915).* No, I don’t expect the youngest children
to memorize more than a portion of this piece, but I have also learned never to
underestimate the capacity of little ones to commit a great poem or story to
memory. Our goal is to have a joint recitation of “Lepanto” on October 7,
the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, traditionally known as the Feast of Our
Lady of Victory. Pope St. Pius V established this Feast in 1573.
The purpose was to thank God for the remarkable naval victory of the
outnumbered Christians over the Turks at Lepanto, off the coast of western
Greece, on Oct. 7, 1571 -- a victory attributed to the praying of the
Rosary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will need more than poems in this present darkness.
Nevertheless, a mighty song of victory, through the intercession of Our Lady of
Victory, is no small arrow in the quiver of Catholic men and their children
today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*For more information about the Battle of Lepanto and a
detailed explanation of Chesterton’s poem, see <i>Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton,
with Explanatory Notes and Commentary</i>, Dale Ahlquist, Editor (Ignatius
Press, 2004). See also H.W. Crocker III, “Lepanto, 1571: The Battle that
Saved Europe” (<a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7391">www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7391</a>).</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/g-k-chesterton"><span style="color: #043d6e;">G. K. Chesterton</span></a> </span></span><span class="birthyear"><span style="color: #4d493f; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; letter-spacing: .6pt; text-transform: uppercase;">1874–1936</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">White founts falling in the courts of the sun,</span><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men
feared,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The cold queen of England is looking in the glass;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">That once went singing southward when all the world was young,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In that enormous silence, tiny and unafraid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John of Austria is going to the war,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Stiff flags straining in the night-blasts cold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In the gloom black-purple, in the glint old-gold,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Torchlight crimson on the copper kettle-drums,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Then the tuckets, then the trumpets, then the cannon, and he
comes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John laughing in the brave beard curled,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Spurning of his stirrups like the thrones of all the world,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Holding his head up for a flag of all the free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Love-light of Spain—hurrah!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Death-light of Africa!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John of Austria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Is riding to the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mahound is in his paradise above the evening star,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>Don John of
Austria is going to the war.</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He moves a mighty turban on the timeless houri’s knees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">His turban that is woven of the sunset and the seas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He shakes the peacock gardens as he rises from his ease,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And he strides among the tree-tops and is taller than the trees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Giants and the Genii,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Multiplex of wing and eye,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Whose strong obedience broke the sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">When Solomon was king.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They rush in red and purple from the red clouds of the morn,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">From temples where the yellow gods shut up their eyes in scorn;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They rise in green robes roaring from the green hells of the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Splashed with a splendid sickness, the sickness of the pearl;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They swell in sapphire smoke out of the blue cracks of the
ground,—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They gather and they wonder and give worship to Mahound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And he saith, “Break up the mountains where the hermit-folk can
hide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And sift the red and silver sands lest bone of saint abide,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And chase the Giaours flying night and day, not giving rest,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">For that which was our trouble comes again out of the west.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">We have set the seal of Solomon on all things under sun,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Of knowledge and of sorrow and endurance of things done,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate ;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It is he whose loss is laughter when he counts the wager worth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Put down your feet upon him, that our peace be on the earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>Don John of
Austria is going to the war.</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Sudden and still—hurrah!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Bolt from Iberia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John of Austria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Is gone by Alcalar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">St. Michael’s on his mountain in the sea-roads of the north<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>Don John of
Austria is girt and going forth.</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Where the grey seas glitter and the sharp tides shift<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And the sea folk labour and the red sails lift.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He shakes his lance of iron and he claps his wings of stone;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The noise is gone through Normandy; the noise is gone alone;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The North is full of tangled things and texts and aching eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Trumpet that sayeth ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Domino gloria!</span></em><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John of Austria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Is shouting to the ships.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">King Philip’s in his closet with the Fleece about his neck<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>Don John of
Austria is armed upon the deck.</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The walls are hung with velvet that, is black and soft as sin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And little dwarfs creep out of it and little dwarfs creep in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He holds a crystal phial that has colours like the moon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He touches, and it tingles, and he trembles very soon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And his face is as a fungus of a leprous white and grey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Like plants in the high houses that are shuttered from the day,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And death is in the phial, and the end of noble work,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">But Don John of Austria has fired upon the Turk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John’s hunting, and his hounds have bayed—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Booms away past Italy the rumour of his raid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Gun upon gun, ha! ha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Gun upon gun, hurrah!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John of Austria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Has loosed the cannonade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Pope was in his chapel before day or battle broke,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>Don John of
Austria is hidden in the smoke.</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The hidden room in man’s house where God sits all the year,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The secret window whence the world looks small and very dear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">He sees as in a mirror on the monstrous twilight sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The crescent of his cruel ships whose name is mystery;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They fling great shadows foe-wards, making Cross and Castle
dark,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They veil the plumèd lions on the galleys of St. Mark;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And above the ships are palaces of brown, black-bearded chiefs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And below the ships are prisons, where with multitudinous
griefs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Christian captives sick and sunless, all a labouring race
repines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in the mines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They are lost like slaves that sweat, and in the skies of
morning hung<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The stair-ways of the tallest gods when tyranny was young.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">They are countless, voiceless, hopeless as those fallen or
fleeing on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Before the high Kings’ horses in the granite of Babylon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his
cell,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>But Don John of
Austria has burst the battle-line!</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John pounding from the slaughter-painted poop,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Purpling all the ocean like a bloody pirate’s sloop,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Vivat Hispania!</span></em><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Domino Gloria!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Don John of Austria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Has set his people free!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>Don John of
Austria rides homeward with a wreath.</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the
blade....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #505050; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">(<em>But Don John of
Austria rides home from the Crusade.</em>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pope Francis is great for many reasons. One of those
reasons is his wise and piercing counsel to priests. Over the past
sixteen months I’ve learned that, before I start to read his exhortations to
priests, I need to take a deep breath and prepare to be socked between the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an audience* at the Vatican with the priests and
seminarians of the Pontifical Leonine College of Anagni on April 14, 2014, Pope
Francis challenged these men to consider the real meaning of a priestly
vocation: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12.75pt;">The
seminary is not a refuge for those who have “psychological problems” or lack
the courage “to get on in life”. The seminary is a place where one develops
their vocation, gaining an in-depth understanding of the Gospel, Confession,
the Eucharist and prayer</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12.75pt;">. “If you are not willing to follow this path with
these attitudes and these experiences, – and I say this from the heart, without
meaning to offend anyone - it is better to have the courage to seek another.”</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Dear
seminarians, what you are preparing for is not a profession, you are not
training to work in a business or a bureaucratic organization. <b>We have
so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to
go the whole way; they have something of the employee in them, something of the
bureaucrat in them and this is not good for the Church</b>. Please be careful
you don’t fall into this! You are becoming pastors in the image of Jesus, the
good pastor. Your aim is to resemble him and act on behalf of him amidst his
flock, letting his sheep graze.” </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We
respond to this vocation in the same way as the Virgin Mary does to the angel:
‘How is this possible?’ Becoming ‘good shepherds in the image of Jesus is
something very great and we are so small. <b>Yes, it is true, it is too
great; but it is not our work! It is the work of the Holy Spirit, with our
collaboration.” <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">As is his
custom, Pope Francis added spontaneous comments to his prepared speech. “It is
about humbly giving oneself, like clay that is to be moulded, letting God the
potter work the clay with fire and water, with the Word and the Holy Spirit.”
It is true that “at the beginning intentions are not completely righteous, and
it is hard for them to be so. All of us have had moments when our
intentions were not completely righteous but in time this changes with everyday
conversion. <b>Think of the apostles! Think of James and John. One of them
wanted to be prime minister and the other a minister of the economy because it
was a more important role. The apostles’ mind was elsewhere but the Lord
patiently corrected their intention and in the end the intention of their
preaching and martyrdom was incredibly righteous.” </b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Being
good shepherds means “meditating on the Gospel every day to pass its message on
through one’s life and preaching.” It also means experiencing God’s mercy
through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.” “It is vital to always go to
confession so you can become generous and merciful ministers because you will
feel God’s mercy upon you, encouraging you to become generous and merciful
ministers.” </span>It means feeding on faith and love of the Eucharist in
order to provide nourishment to the Christian people.” “It means being men of
prayer so as to become the voice of Christ that praises the Father and
constantly intercedes for their brothers<b>.” </b><b><span lang="EN-GB">If you are not willing to follow this path,
with these attitudes and these experiences, – and I say this from the heart,
without meaning to offend anyone - it is better to have the courage to seek
another.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> There are
many ways, in the Church, to bear Christian witness and there are many paths
that lead to sainthood. <b>Following in Christ's ministry allows no place for
mediocrity, which always leads to using the holy people of God to one's own
advantage.</b> Woe to bad shepherds who feed themselves and not their flock! –
the prophets said. Augustine quotes this prophetic phrase in the <i>De
pastoribus</i>, which I advise you to read and meditate on. <b>Woe to bad
shepherds because the seminary is not a refuge for the many shortcomings we may
have; it is not a refuge for psychological problems or a refuge for those who
do not have the courage to go on in life and see the seminary as a place that
will defend them.</b> No, that is not what it is. If that is what your seminary
was it would become a mortgage for the Church! No, the seminary is there for
people to move forward, along this path and when we hear the prophets exclaim
the word “Woe” it should lead you to reflect seriously on your future. <b>Pius
XI once said it was better to lose a vocation than to risk accepting a
candidate who is not sure. </b></span><b>He was a mountain climber, he
knew about these things.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boom. Right between the eyes. Or, as St.
Francis de Sales says a bit more profoundly, <i>“Cor cordi loquitur”:</i>
“Heart speaks to heart.” </span></div>
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April 4, 2014 address to priests and seminarians, see: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/Francesco/en/speeches/2014/april/documents/papa-francesco_20140414_pont-collegio-leoniano-anagni.html.">w2.vatican.va/content/Francesco/en/speeches/2014/april/documents/papa-francesco_20140414_pont-collegio-leoniano-anagni.html.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few years ago, I had the privilege of hearing Lieutenant
General Josiah Bunting III speak about the formation of leaders as young
men. In his address, “The First and Greatest Generation and Its
Successor,”* he identified a fascinating connection between the Founding
Fathers and the leaders of the American armed forces in World War II.
Both groups of extraordinary men, in their earliest years, were steeped in the
knowledge of the great men of ancient Greece and Rome. General Bunting
did not consider this a coincidence. Rather, he contrasted this sort of
formation with the influences on today’s boys and young men: decadent athletes,
rock stars, and other “celebrities” (once caustically defined by Malcolm
Muggeridge as people who are famous for being famous).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each Tuesday I will present a short entry by some wise
man - in our Church, in our history - who has something to teach
us. That’s the easy part. More challenging is the task put forward
by General Bunting: The resolve to bring our sons, and all young Catholics,
into a deep appreciation for men of character and honor. The next
generation will not be a great generation if they are left to their own devices
in choosing their own role models.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the good fortune in second grade of having a volunteer
school librarian introduce me to the “Discovery” series of biographies for
children. Thomas Jefferson, Luther Burbank, Booker T. Washington,
Theodore Roosevelt -- these were the objects of my curiosity as a
seven-year old, not some grinches or cats-in-hats. They were, and remain,
heroes to me. Not perfect men, but great men. Have our sons ever
heard of them? Our task is to tell them.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349244560249666995noreply@blogger.com06133 15th Street North, Oakdale, MN 55128, USA44.969914 -92.98311000000001119.447879500000003 -134.291704 70.4919485 -51.674516000000011tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5580773311026394660.post-23867062145610296052014-08-25T09:00:00.000-05:002014-08-25T11:15:10.866-05:00<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I am beginning a new blog, “Men of Galilee.”
This will be a daily blog, with updates six days each week:</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Sundays</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">: No updates; Priests should not
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Mondays:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “A View to the Horizon from the
Galilee Shore”: Considering the meaning of events in our Church and culture for
Catholic men.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tuesdays:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “Wise Men Still Follow Him”:
Wisdom from Catholic men, past and present, to Catholic men today.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Wednesdays:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “Priest to Priest”:
Testimonials from priests in support of their brother priests.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Thursdays:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “Interpreting the Signs of the
Times”: Reviews of movies, books, art, and media of interest to Catholic men.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Fridays:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “Men Preparing for Confession”:
Practical advice for Catholic men in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Saturdays:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “Men Preparing for Sunday
Mass”: Understanding, participating in, and appropriating the full graces of
the Mass as Catholic men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am offering this blog in my capacity as the Pastor of
Transfiguration Catholic Church (Oakdale, MN), as the Chaplain of the Men’s
Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, and as the former
Rector of Saint John Vianney College Seminary (Saint Paul, MN), who seeks to
assist my former seminarians, some of whom are now following Jesus Christ as
priests throughout the United States, and others who are now following Jesus Christ
as young Catholic husbands and fathers, as professionals, teachers and lay
ministers throughout the Church.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349244560249666995noreply@blogger.com0Transfiguration Catholic Church, 6133 15th Street North, Oakdale, MN 55128, USA44.969914 -92.98311000000001139.366803000000004 -103.3102585 50.573025 -82.655961500000018