Saint of the Day (St. Pius V)
This is the pope whose job was to implement the historic Council of Trent. If we think popes had difficulties in implementing Vatican Council II, Pius V had even greater problems after Trent than four centuries earlier.
During his papacy (1566-1572), Pius V was faced with the almost overwhelming responsibility of getting a shattered and scattered Church back on its feet. The family of God had been shaken by corruption, by the Reformation, by the constant threat of Turkish invasion and by the bloody bickering of the young nation-states. In 1545 a previous pope convened the Council of Trent in an attempt to deal with all these pressing problems. Off and on over 18 years, the Church Fathers discussed, condemned, affirmed and decided upon a course of action. The Council closed in 1563.
Pius V was elected in 1566 and was charged with the task of implementing the sweeping reforms called for by the Council. He ordered the founding of seminaries for the proper training of priests. He published a new missal, a new breviary, a new catechism and established the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) classes for the young. Pius zealously enforced legislation against abuses in the Church. He patiently served the sick and the poor by building hospitals, providing food for the hungry and giving money customarily used for the papal banquets to poor Roman converts. His decision to keep wearing his Dominican habit led to the custom of the pope wearing a white cassock.
In striving to reform both Church and state, Pius encountered vehement opposition from England’s Queen Elizabeth and the Roman Emperor Maximilian II. Problems in France and in the Netherlands also hindered Pius’s hopes for a Europe united against the Turks. Only at the last minute was he able to organize a fleet which won a decisive victory in the Gulf of Lepanto, off Greece, on October 7, 1571.
Pius’s ceaseless papal quest for a renewal of the Church was grounded in his personal life as a Dominican friar. He spent long hours with his God in prayer, fasted rigorously, deprived himself of many customary papal luxuries and faithfully observed the spirit of the Dominican Rule that he had professed.
Comment:
In their personal lives and in their actions as popes, Pius V and Paul VI (d. 1978) both led the family of God in the process of interiorizing and implementing the new birth called for by the Spirit in major Councils. With zeal and patience, Pius and Paul pursued the changes urged by the Council Fathers. Like Pius and Paul, we too are called to constant change of heart and life.Quote:“In this universal assembly, in this privileged point of time and space, there converge together the past, the present, and the future. The past: for here, gathered in this spot, we have the Church of Christ with her tradition, her history, her councils, her doctors, her saints; the present: we are taking leave of one another to go out toward the world of today with its miseries, its sufferings, its sins, but also with its prodigious accomplishments, values, and virtues; and the future is here in the urgent appeal of the peoples of the world for more justice, in their will for peace, in their conscious or unconscious thirst for a higher life, that life precisely which the Church of Christ can give and wishes to give to them” (from Pope Paul’s closing message at Vatican II).Quote:
“In this universal assembly, in this privileged point of time and space, there converge together the past, the present, and the future. The past: for here, gathered in this spot, we have the Church of Christ with her tradition, her history, her councils, her doctors, her saints; the present: we are taking leave of one another to go out toward the world of today with its miseries, its sufferings, its sins, but also with its prodigious accomplishments, values, and virtues; and the future is here in the urgent appeal of the peoples of the world for more justice, in their will for peace, in their conscious or unconscious thirst for a higher life, that life precisely which the Church of Christ can give and wishes to give to them” (from Pope Paul’s closing message at Vatican II).
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You fill all things
In the tomb with the body, in hell with the soul as God, in paradise with the thief and on the throne with the Father and the Spirit, You fill all things, O boundless Christ.
- A prayer, said by the Orthodox priest during the Divine Liturgy
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Notes from Church Simplified: April 15, 2012
Pastor Bebo BharwaniMost of us start with a sense of awareness that we need God’s blessing in our lives. So we spend our lives trying to crack the code on God. We go to “holy people”, we pilgrimage to “holy places”, we develop our own formulas to find God. We often ask, ‘God, What does it take to get to you?’
- In Michelangelo’s painting The Creation of Adam, you see that it has been God reaching out to Adam. He has been the one extending Himself to us, that sometimes to see Him, all we need is to lift a finger.
- We usually ask God, “Where are you?” but the asking originates from God looking for Adam at the garden of Eden. Since the beginning, He’s the one always looking and looking for us. (Genesis 3:9)
- The story of the whole Bible isn’t about man’s search for God; it’s completely upside down. It’s about God pursuing man.
- The things that happen in our life are chosen by God for you to seek and reach out for Him (Acts 17:27)
- God isn’t hiding from us. We don’t need an elaborate system to get to Him. He’s always the One making a way so we can connect to Him. It may be in form of successes, trials, or anything.
- When playing the game Where’s Waldo?, there are times Waldo is easy to spot, and there are times when it’s really hard. BUT the author of the book made sure that if you look for Waldo, you’ll find him. That he is there, all the time.
- Having a hard time spotting Him isn’t actually a bad thing as it builds up faith.
- Having faith in God is putting trust on the thing that’s True: the most repeated scripture in the Bible is I am with you.
- Jesus is Emmanuel, which means God is with you.
- The question is not “Where is God?” He’s already promised to be with us. The question for us is, how can we cultivate an awareness of his presence in our lives so that we can better spot him?
- What’s keeping you from touching God?
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Sabi ko nga.: From Mr. Ken Abante himself
You have to say no in order to make a bigger yes. In decisions involving two “goods”, it isn’t a question of why not choose the other, but why choose the one you chose.
The world isn’t black and white.
There are people who fall into the trap of reductionism; no’s are painful, but when given…
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The Dalai Lama visits Thomas Merton’s grave in 1997 at the Abbey of Gethsemani
“And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech,and it is beyond concept.
Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear brothers, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.”
~ Thomas Merton from his Asian journal
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Greatest picture I seen on tumblr.
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This is one of the saddest things I’ve seen. A lot of other people want an education while a portion of those who were given an opportunity to finish their education don’t even care. :(
