tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post8200801718134002602..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Sweetest, Holy Patroness: Sermon on the MagdalenFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-58656635847588245152011-07-25T00:20:37.968+01:002011-07-25T00:20:37.968+01:00That is excellent; well done Father.That is excellent; well done Father.Richardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-87562069448564912742011-07-24T08:05:56.666+01:002011-07-24T08:05:56.666+01:00The Sermon not given is very Roman Catholic.
It r...The Sermon not given is very Roman Catholic.<br /><br />It reminds me of the words of the Dies Irae by Thomas of Celano.<br /><br />*Pablo the Mexicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09384415590309803327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-88676686086233872822011-07-24T03:20:08.274+01:002011-07-24T03:20:08.274+01:00“Magister Adest, Et Te Vocat Te”
Saint Mary Magda...“Magister Adest, Et Te Vocat Te”<br /><br />Saint Mary Magdalene was the first person called by name, before the Blessed Sacrament.<br /><br />Among the Saints, The Sinner is called the greatest of all the Saints.<br /><br />She was the sister of Lazarus and Martha; she owned the town of Magdala. She was wealthy.<br /><br />At the supper at the house of Simon, the rich man, she barged her way in past the guards who were pretty good at roughing people up.<br /><br />They were afraid of the Sinner, she was a fearsome presence.<br /><br />At the feet of our Divine Master, she became a little girl, and shed tears; she wept.<br /><br />And her weeping moved Christ to remark “Her sins are forgiven, because she has loved much”.<br /><br />As a woman weeps, her tears are filled with a perfume that occurs naturally. The more heartfelt her emotions, the more perfume. Smelling her tears, our Lord knew what was in her heart.<br /><br />“Master Gardener, where have they taken Him?”<br /><br />“You are right to call Me a gardener, for I am a gardener of souls”<br /><br />“Mary”<br /><br />Upon hearing this, the second person to see Christ resurrected fell at His feet and tried to wash them as before.<br /><br />“Noli Me Tangere”.<br /><br />(The Holy Mother was the first to see the Resurrected Christ)<br /><br /><br />*Pablo the Mexicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09384415590309803327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-52679133487363101562011-07-23T19:55:32.203+01:002011-07-23T19:55:32.203+01:00Aplogies, Father, Anon was me.Aplogies, Father, Anon was me.georgemnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-50843406718506958472011-07-23T19:53:39.340+01:002011-07-23T19:53:39.340+01:00I'm with Physiocrat. There's rich worship...I'm with Physiocrat. There's rich worship "in spirit and in truth", and there's stucco and tinsel, effeminate theatricality and debased, naturalistic art by people you'd never in a million years entrust with a liturgical <i>text</i>. The former is Catholic; the latter is Reformation functioning as Counter-reformation. A plague on't.Anagnostishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03706938507885553293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-82379616835311837422011-07-23T12:56:44.251+01:002011-07-23T12:56:44.251+01:00Marvelous! Especially appreciated were the Baroque...Marvelous! Especially appreciated were the Baroque bits!Fr. S.A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-66899440007655131972011-07-23T11:33:38.674+01:002011-07-23T11:33:38.674+01:00We need to find our own contemporary way of doing ...We need to find our own contemporary way of doing magnificence.<br /><br />Victorian Gothic and Counter Reformation Baroque have become loaded with all sorts of connotations that can get in the way of the message. The time may come when they can be revived but it is not now.<br /><br />My hunch is that the way to go is to recover some of the Byzantine/Romanesque influences on both the liturgy and within Catholic Church architecture and art.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbNV0gXay2o&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Russian Orthodox procession</a><br /><br />This is by no means foreign to us. The 11th century wall paintings in Sussex churches such as Clayton and Coombes show the strong contemporary Byzantine style that persisted into the early middle ages. <br /><br />This idiom is both part of the Western church tradition, a heritage from the earliest church and is not loaded with the baggage that more recent styles carrry with them.Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-34178009671145402492011-07-23T10:56:01.915+01:002011-07-23T10:56:01.915+01:00Much food for thought here, Father. It strikes an ...Much food for thought here, Father. It strikes an uncomfortable chord about my own spiritual meanness.<br />It also strikes me that if such a one can fall at Our Lord's feet in penitential reverence and supplication then who are we to deny Him the same when we receive Him in Holy Communion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-11939669123144179102011-07-22T23:24:26.186+01:002011-07-22T23:24:26.186+01:00Buona Festa!Buona Festa!Fr Dentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18386518289770898938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-65687111425767130542011-07-22T19:51:09.899+01:002011-07-22T19:51:09.899+01:00Lovely. And you are so right: "meaness is a v...Lovely. And you are so right: "meaness is a vice". People can be so economical with what they give of themselves: I'm not necessarily talking money here. It's often easy to literally throw some coins in someone's hat and walk past, duty done. I love that in Brighton I see people stop and actually chat to homeless people, find out about them and engage with them. Generosity is a smile, a word, a step towards someone; it's free and yet priceless.<br />I have no idea how Mary Magdalen came to be seen as such a sinner, nor how she came by her jar of costly ointment. Whatever her story, whatever her vices and woes, whatever even her deeper motives, she gave of herself.<br />I have never really thought about that definition of "demeaning" oneself in quite that literal way before. Thanks for a thoughtful and thought provoking post.Gigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13592406521067190359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-52287018149291432902011-07-22T17:32:19.541+01:002011-07-22T17:32:19.541+01:00Wonderful, much to think about.Wonderful, much to think about.Jamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076215213828545013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-38847531784948069092011-07-22T16:12:14.972+01:002011-07-22T16:12:14.972+01:00Happy Feast Day! Thank you for your homily, spoken...Happy Feast Day! Thank you for your homily, spoken and unspoken.<br /><br />The feast and the uncertainty about the saint's 'past' reminded me of what happened at the funeral of the saintly King Baudouin of the Belgians in 1993: <br /><br />'The King's funeral Mass, Saturday, included tributes to his actions on behalf of immigrants and AIDS victims, and the moving testimony of a Filipina prostitute who had appealed to him against the trade that brings Asian women to Europe as maids and puts them into massage parlors and escort agencies' [ http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-08-12/news/1993224041_1_baudouin-belgium-congo ].Fr Seán Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432610859468495578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-42299588277003734002011-07-22T15:36:09.568+01:002011-07-22T15:36:09.568+01:00I love this, especially the controversial part! T...I love this, especially the controversial part! This is in line with thoughts I have been nurturing about the attempt to abolish the Tridentine Mass and traditional Catholic devotions. The liberals keep us on a spiritual starvation diet and call it "holy" poverty.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-45261489414708112482011-07-22T14:59:58.882+01:002011-07-22T14:59:58.882+01:00Happy Feast Day!Happy Feast Day!Fr. John Zuhlsdorf o{]:¬)http://wdtprs.com/blognoreply@blogger.com