(1145,'April 1, 2013','april-1-2013','','<p>With Paschal praise be Christ proclaimed. His love for us unfolds, astounds, for by his lifeblood we are freed to live with him beyond death’s bounds.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-31 12:15:16',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,253,'robots=\nauthor='),(1141,'March 31, 2013','march-31-2013','','<p><strong>Easter</strong>&nbsp; <br />For neither death’s horrendous hold, nor stone immense before the tomb, nor guards in vigil, nor the seal could keep apart the Bride and Groom. The Lenten spring is past and gone. The earth is vibrant with new life, the Cross now rooted, breaks in bloom as all is gathered into Christ.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-24 12:38:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-03-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,260,'robots=\nauthor='),(1143,'Resting in God','resting-in-god','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>August 16-18, 2013</strong><br /><strong>Fr. Robert Hal, OSB</strong><br /><strong>Resting in God</strong></p>\r\n<p>Our is a restless society, and it can be difficult for us to avoid a restless, frenetic lifestyle, given all the pressures on us. This retreat will explore classic Christian and monastic spiritual practices enabling us to find more peace i the \"Peace of God.\"</p>','',-2,13,0,39,'2013-03-28 13:49:04',67,'','2013-03-28 13:51:34',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-03-28 13:49:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,0,'','',0,1694,'robots=\nauthor='),(1144,'Acknowledging God-given openness in our lives: ways to widen through cosmic, artistic, mystic expressions','acknowledging-god-given-openness-in-our-lives-ways-to-widen-through-cosmic-artistic-mystic-expressions','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>September 27 - 29, 2013</strong><br /><strong>Br. Ivan Nicoletto, OSB Cam</strong><br /><strong>Acknowledging God-given openness in our lives: ways to widen through cosmic, artistic, mystic expressions</strong></p>\r\n<p>During the retreat we will try to awake to the mystery of God as Openness, beyond our search for certainty, assurance, and comfort. We will then explore ways to keep our heart open to this buried treasure through the path of cosmos, art, and mystic experience.</p>','',-2,13,0,39,'2013-03-28 13:51:39',67,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-03-28 13:51:39','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,0,'','',0,1656,'robots=\nauthor='),(1146,'April 2, 2013','april-2-2013','','<p>Amid his friends, awake with fear, Christ comes among them breathing peace, that peace the world can never give, his gift to us, ours to increase.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-31 12:17:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,254,'robots=\nauthor='),(1147,'April 3, 2013','april-3-2013','','<p>The dawn’s new light bedecks the sky, the heavens shout their victory cry, the glad earth lifts her voice on high, death’s vanquished realm makes loud reply.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-31 12:18:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,261,'robots=\nauthor='),(1148,'April 4, 2013','april-4-2013','','<p>Ours is a paradise undreamed, whose fruit the Tree of Life now bears. Ours is, by death’s defeat, the gift, which Christ in us now fully shares.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-31 12:19:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,247,'robots=\nauthor='),(1152,'April 8, 2013','april-8-2013','','<p><strong>THE ANNUNCIATION</strong>&nbsp; <br />My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my Savior. He has looked on the lowliness of his servant; all generations to come will call me blessed.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-07 13:20:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,255,'robots=\nauthor='),(1149,'April 5, 2013','april-5-2013','','<p>O Abba, now in Christ behold the world as first it came to you. See in our joy your living breath, O God who ever makes things new.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-31 12:20:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,270,'robots=\nauthor='),(1150,'April 6, 2013','april-6-2013','','<p>Ours is the manna, here consumed, bread blessed and broken, shared yet whole. Ours is the name we each now bear, breathed deep within our heart and soul.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-31 12:21:01',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,263,'robots=\nauthor='),(1151,'April 7, 2013','april-7-2013','','<p>All praise be yours, O risen Lord, from death to endless life restored; ruler of all, with us abide through out this joyful Eastertide.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-03-31 12:21:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,243,'robots=\nauthor='),(1153,'April 9, 2013','april-9-2013','','<p>Give thanks to the most high God, who has raised up for us a mighty Savior; his own Son and Son of David, the Dayspring, Jesus Christ our Lord.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-07 13:21:30',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,256,'robots=\nauthor='),(1154,'April 10, 2013','april-10-2013','','<p>All praise be yours, risen Lord, to life endless from death restored. To the Father all praise now be and the Spirit eternally.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-07 13:22:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,247,'robots=\nauthor='),(1155,'April 11, 2013','april-11-2013','','<p>What boundless love this must have been to share the anguish of our sin, to bear the horror of the Cross that life might trample death and win.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-07 13:23:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,245,'robots=\nauthor='),(1156,'April 12, 2013','april-12-2013','','<p>As spring buds forth your praise, O Christ, we too proclaim you Lord enthroned. For in your person we have passed from exile to our Abba’s home.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-07 13:24:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,241,'robots=\nauthor='),(1157,'April 13, 2013','april-13-2013','','<p>Although you descended into the grave, O immortal One, you destroyed the power of hell. You rose again as victor, O Christ God.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-07 13:25:37',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,234,'robots=\nauthor='),(1159,'April 15, 2013','april-15-2013','','<p>My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my Savior.&nbsp; He has looked on the lowliness of his servant; all generations to come will call me blessed.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-14 20:58:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,212,'robots=\nauthor='),(1158,'April 14, 2013','april-14-2013','','<p>Said the angel to the women, “Why seek the living among the dead? He is Risen, he is not here, alleluia, alleluia.”&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-07 13:26:33',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,235,'robots=\nauthor='),(1160,'April 16, 2013','april-16-2013','','<p>I will thank the Lord with all my heart in the meeting of the just, in their assembly. Great are the works of the Lord to be pondered by all who love them.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-14 20:58:53',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,221,'robots=\nauthor='),(1161,'April 17, 2013','april-17-2013','','<p>Let us celebrate with joy in the presence of our God, alleluia, alleluia. &nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-14 20:59:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,213,'robots=\nauthor='),(1162,'April 18, 2013','april-18-2013','','<p>Our joy indeed our very life is hidden now with you, O Lord, who by the Father have been raised the Savior of a world restored.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-14 21:00:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,223,'robots=\nauthor='),(1163,'April 19, 2013','april-19-2013','','<p>New growth springs up where all seemed dead; now open is the tomb once sealed. The stone is rolled away that we to resurrection-life might yield.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-14 21:01:22',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,220,'robots=\nauthor='),(1166,'April 22, 2013','april-22-2013','','<p>Lord God whose breath all being breathes, revealing life in Jesus Christ our restless hears seek rest in you who loved us first despite the price.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-22 01:16:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,221,'robots=\nauthor='),(1164,'April 20, 2013','april-20-2013','','<p>Christ has been raised from the dead, first fruit of those who have fallen asleep. For as by one person came death, by one person has come the raising of the dead.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-14 21:02:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,213,'robots=\nauthor='),(1165,'April 21, 2013','april-21-2013','','<p>Said the angel to the women, “Why seek the living among the dead? He is risen, he is not here, alleluia, alleluia”.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-14 21:03:26',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,223,'robots=\nauthor='),(1167,'April 23, 2013','april-23-2013','','<p>The splendor of Christ risen from the dead has shone on us today, alleluia.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-22 01:17:37',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,215,'robots=\nauthor='),(1168,'April 24, 2013','april-24-2013','','<p>Majestic and glorious God’s work, whose justice stands firm forever.&nbsp; God makes us remember these wonders. The Lord is compassion and love.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-22 01:18:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,224,'robots=\nauthor='),(1169,'April 25, 2013','april-25-2013','','<p><strong>SAINT MARK</strong>&nbsp; <br />Your little book was first to give a written gospel form and show bow Peter preached, how all believed, that every coming age might know.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-22 01:19:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,232,'robots=\nauthor='),(1173,'April 29, 2013','april-29-2013','','<p><strong>SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENNA</strong></p>\r\n<p>Holy Spirit, come into my heart; draw it to Thee by Thy power, O my God, and grant me charity with filial fear. Preserve me, O ineffable Love, from every evil thought; warm me, inflame me with Thy dear love, and every pain will seem light to me. My Father, my sweet Lord, help me in all my actions. Jesus, love, Jesus, love. Amen.<br /><em>– Prayer of Saint Catherine to the Holy Spirit</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-29 00:53:26',63,'','2013-04-29 18:38:48',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,7,'','',0,228,'robots=\nauthor='),(1170,'April 26, 2013','april-26-2013','','<p>We give thanks to you, O Christ, to the Father and the Holy Spirit; you have made us remember your wonders, the bread and wine of the new covenant.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-22 01:19:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,224,'robots=\nauthor='),(1171,'April 27, 2013','april-27-2013','','<p>Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. Praise the Father, the Son and the Spirit both now and forever.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-22 01:20:45',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,235,'robots=\nauthor='),(1172,'April 28, 2013','april-28-2013','','<p>I saw water flowing from the right side of the temple, alleluia. It brought God’s life and his salvation and the people sang in joyful praise, alleluia, alleluia.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-22 01:21:31',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,226,'robots=\nauthor='),(1174,'April 30, 2013','april-30-2013','','<p>Compassion like the winter’s rains has raised a radiant world restored; flung open is a realm of life to all whose life proclaims you, Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-29 00:54:44',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-04-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,232,'robots=\nauthor='),(1175,'May 1, 2013','may-1-2013','','<p>Praise our God, all you servants, you who fear him, both great and small, Alleluia. The Lord, our God sovereign over all has entered on his reign, alleluia.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-29 00:55:33',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,245,'robots=\nauthor='),(1176,'May 2, 2013','may-2-2013','','<p><strong>SAINT ATHANASIUS</strong> &nbsp;&nbsp; <br />See how the Lord in love shows us the way of life, alleluia.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-29 00:56:32',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,247,'robots=\nauthor='),(1177,'May 3, 2013','may-3-2013','','<p>Said the angel to the women, “Why seek the living among the dead? He is risen, he is not here, alleluia, alleluia.”&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-29 00:57:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,238,'robots=\nauthor='),(1178,'May 4, 2013','may-4-2013','','<p>Ours is the dayspring dawning bright, whose light now burns within our heart. Ours is the garment woven white, yes, ours the very throne of God.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-29 00:58:22',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,242,'robots=\nauthor='),(1180,'May 6, 2013','may-6-2013','','<p>Christ is risen, truly risen, alleluia, alleluia. Dying he destroyed our death, alleluia.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-06 00:35:51',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,253,'robots=\nauthor='),(1179,'May 5, 2013','may-5-2013','','<p>Lord, send out your Spirit and renew the face of the earth, alleluia. We give thanks to you, O Christ, to the Father and the Holy Spirit; you have made us remember your wonders, the bread and wine of the new covenant.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-04-29 00:59:18',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,246,'robots=\nauthor='),(1181,'May 7, 2013','may-7-2013','','<p>We have known the risen Lord, alleluia, in the breaking of the bread, alleluia.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-06 00:36:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,245,'robots=\nauthor='),(1182,'May 8, 2013','may-8-2013','','<p>The chains of hell are loosed at last, the days of mourning now are past; an angel robed in light has said, “The Lord has risen from the dead.”<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-06 00:37:24',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,254,'robots=\nauthor='),(1183,'May 9, 2013','may-9-2013','','<p>With Pascal praise be Christ proclaimed. His love for us unfolds, astounds, for by his lifeblood we are freed to live with him beyond death’s bounds.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-06 00:38:03',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,252,'robots=\nauthor='),(1184,'May 10, 2013','may-10-2013','','<p>As spring buds forth your praise, O Christ, we too proclaim you Lord enthroned. For in your person we have passed from exile to our Abba’s home.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-06 00:38:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,252,'robots=\nauthor='),(1187,'May 13, 2013','may-13-2013','','<p><strong>OUR LADY OF FATIMA</strong>&nbsp; <br />Queen of the Rosary, sweet Virgin of Fatima, who hast deigned to appear in the land of Portugal and hast brought peace, both interior and exterior, to that once so troubled country, we beg of thee to watch over our dear homeland and to assure its moral and spiritual revival. Bring back peace to all nations of the world, so that all, and our own nation in particular, may be happy to call thee their Queen and the Queen of Peace.&nbsp; Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for our country. Our Lady of Fatima, obtain for all humanity a durable peace. Amen.&nbsp; <br />– <em>Prayer to Our Lady of Fatima</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:44:59',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-13 14:44:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,19,'','',0,257,'robots=\nauthor='),(1185,'May 11, 2013','may-11-2013','','<p><strong>ABBOTS OF CLUNY</strong>&nbsp; <br />A fruitful silence was their call, the womb which bears God’s fruitful word: as always working what it wills, its grace in every word is heard.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-06 00:39:31',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,262,'robots=\nauthor='),(1186,'May 12, 2013','may-12-2013','','<p><strong>FEAST OF THE ASCENSION</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />O Christ our joy gone up on high to take your throne above the sky, your days of mortal weakness over all power is yours for evermore.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-06 00:40:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,258,'robots=\nauthor='),(1188,'May 14, 2013','may-14-2013','','<p>Today, our Camaldolese Assembly is meeting. Please hold all who gather in your prayers.</p>\r\n<p><br /><strong>SAINT MATTHEW</strong>&nbsp; <br />I no longer call you servants, but my friends.&nbsp; I have shared with you all that my Father revealed to me, alleluia.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:47:01',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,18,'','',0,248,'robots=\nauthor='),(1189,'May 15, 2013','may-15-2013','','<p>Today, our Camaldolese Assembly is meeting. Please hold all who gather in your prayers.</p>\r\n<p><br /><strong>SAINT PACHOMINUS</strong>&nbsp; <br />Come children and hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:48:29',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,17,'','',0,241,'robots=\nauthor='),(1190,'May 16, 2013','may-16-2013','','<p>Today, our Camaldolese Assembly is meeting. Please hold all who gather in your prayers.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><br />The dawn’s new light bedecks the sky, the heavens shout their victory cry, the glad earth lifts her voice on high, death’s vanquished realm makes loud reply.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:49:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,16,'','',0,236,'robots=\nauthor='),(1191,'May 17, 2013','may-17-2013','','<p>Today, our Camaldolese Assembly is meeting. Please hold all who gather in your prayers.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><br />You of all, console the best.&nbsp; You alone the perfect guest.&nbsp; Freshening presence, gift of peace.&nbsp; Happy joyous blessed light, bring our ravaged hearts delight.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:50:23',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,15,'','',0,231,'robots=\nauthor='),(1192,'May 18, 2013','may-18-2013','','<p>Heal the scars our minds renew, slake our dryness with your dew; wash, refresh us like the sea. Bless us now, your faithful here sevenfold with gifts to share, this we confidently plead.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:51:14',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,14,'','',0,243,'robots=\nauthor='),(1193,'May 19, 2013','may-19-2013','','<p><strong>PENTECOST</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />They were filled with God’s Spirit, and spoke his praises in many tongues: How great are your works, O God, alleluia, alleluia.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:51:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,13,'','',0,233,'robots=\nauthor='),(1194,'May 20, 2013','may-20-2013','','<p>Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, he has visited and ransomed his people. He has raised up for us a mighty Savior, born of the house of his servant, David.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:53:16',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,12,'','',0,219,'robots=\nauthor='),(1195,'May 21, 2013','may-21-2013','','<p>Through the loving kindness of our God, the Dayspring from on high shall visit us illumining those in darkness and shadowed by death and guiding our steps in the path of peace.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:54:02',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,11,'','',0,227,'robots=\nauthor='),(1196,'May 22, 2013','may-22-2013','','<p>With evening here, stay with us Lord, that this day’s joy may never end.&nbsp; In you we find our peace and life, in you we each are sacrament.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:54:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,10,'','',0,239,'robots=\nauthor='),(1197,'May 23, 2013','may-23-2013','','<p>Lord God whose breath all being breathes, revealing life in Jesus Christ, our restless hearts seek rest in you who loved us first despite the price.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:55:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,9,'','',0,238,'robots=\nauthor='),(1198,'May 24, 2013','may-24-2013','','<p>Give thanks to the most high God who has raised up for us a mighty Savior, his own Son and Son of David, the dayspring, Jesus Christ our Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:56:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,227,'robots=\nauthor='),(1206,'Camino III: The inner journey','camino-iii-the-inner-journey','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>June 27 &amp; 28, 2014<br />Fr. Michael Fish, OSB Cam<br /></strong></p>\r\n<p>Following his previous retreats and his completion of the pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago, Fr. Michael invites you to walk with him on the inner Camino of self discovery, healing and Divine encounter. Together we shall explore spirituality for today and develop ways to nourish and sustain a life of balance and joy. There will be ample opportunity for rest, reflection and solitude in the beautiful environs of the Hermitage and the Big Sur. It is not necessary to have attended \"Camino I or II\" to participate in this retreat.</p>\r\n<p>Please note that there is an additional fee of $30 for materials in the form of a Camino Journal.</p>','',1,13,0,39,'2013-02-19 14:50:01',67,'','2014-02-06 14:18:19',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-02-19 14:50:01','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,7,'','',0,3296,'robots=\nauthor='),(1199,'May 25, 2013','may-25-2013','','<p><strong>BEDE THE VENERABLE&nbsp;</strong> <br />And I pray, loving Jesus, that as you have graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of your knowledge, so you would mercifully grant me to attain one day to you, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before your face.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Prayer of Bede the Venerable</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 14:56:45',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,240,'robots=\nauthor='),(1244,'July 1, 2013','july-1-2013','','<p><strong>Blessed Junipero Serra</strong>&nbsp; <br />O God, in Your ineffable mercy, You chose Blessed Junipero Serra as a means of gathering many peoples of the Americas into Your Church. Grant that through his intercession our hearts may be united in You in ever-greater love. <br /><em>– Novena to Junipero Serra</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-01 23:10:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-01 23:10:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,216,'robots=\nauthor='),(1200,'May 26, 2013','may-26-2013','','<p><strong>TRINITY SUNDAY</strong>&nbsp; <br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has chosen us in the Holy Spirit to give praise to the glory of God.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 15:21:44',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,238,'robots=\nauthor='),(1201,'May 27, 2013','may-27-2013','','<p>From the rising to the setting of the sun praised be the name of the Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 15:22:33',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,224,'robots=\nauthor='),(1202,'May 28, 2013','may-28-2013','','<p>Father that we may sleep to wake as fellow carers for our earth, grant us your Spirit through you Son and we shall know our human worth.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 15:23:12',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,221,'robots=\nauthor='),(1203,'May 29, 2013','may-29-2013','','<p>Our God raises up the poor and gives the lowly one a seat of honor.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 15:23:53',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,225,'robots=\nauthor='),(1204,'May 30, 2013','may-30-2013','','<p>What boundless love this must have been to share the anguish of our sin, to bear the horror of the Cross that life might trample death and win.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 15:24:29',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,216,'robots=\nauthor='),(1205,'May 31, 2013','may-31-2013','','<p><strong>FEAST OF THE VISITATION</strong>&nbsp; <br />And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost; and she cried out with a loud voice and said: Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Luke 1: 39 – 42</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-05-13 15:25:08',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-05-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,216,'robots=\nauthor='),(1207,'June 1, 2013','june-1-2013','','<p>In the first light no song is heard and still are all the silent glades till buried life shall rise again and light shall conquer all the shades. Amen.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-01 17:29:50',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-01 17:29:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,228,'robots=\nauthor='),(1209,'June 3, 2013','june-3-2013','','<p>O light that fires the stars and suns, rekindled in our evening flame, your blinding radiance yet is dimmed before the One from whom you came.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-02 20:22:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,220,'robots=\nauthor='),(1208,'June 2, 2013','june-2-2013','','<p><strong>Feast of Corpus Christi</strong>&nbsp; <br />Christ gives to us in two-fold kind his sacred body and his blood; our two-fold selves receive from him our body’s and our spirit’s food.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-01 17:31:18',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,225,'robots=\nauthor='),(1210,'June 4, 2013','june-4-2013','','<p>O sister dawn, how light your touch, your hand so gentle over earth. Aroused is all by your caress as consciousness now comes to birth.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-02 20:23:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,220,'robots=\nauthor='),(1211,'June 5, 2013','june-5-2013','','<p>For signs and seasons, days and years the sun and moon the stars at night, to frame our human time and still divide the darkness from the light.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-02 20:24:05',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,224,'robots=\nauthor='),(1212,'June 6, 2013','june-6-2013','','<p>In the deep sea a new life stirs on the fifth day, birds on the wing cleave upper air, soar in the skies, while in the trees the songbirds sing. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-02 20:24:54',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,243,'robots=\nauthor='),(1213,'June 7, 2013','june-7-2013','','<p>We bless you, Father, Lord of life, to whom all living beings tend, the source of grace and holiness, our first beginning and our end. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-02 20:25:36',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,227,'robots=\nauthor='),(1214,'June 8, 2013','june-8-2013','','<p><strong>Immaculate Heart of Mary</strong>&nbsp; <br />Be near us in our work and prayer; keep the house pure, our hearts alive to every truth, each guiding wind, each claim of love that may arrive. Then to the Father render thanks, and Son and Spirit ever one, that in their love, and by your prayer, our way to heaven may always run.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-02 20:26:22',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,218,'robots=\nauthor='),(1216,'June 10, 2013','june-10-2013','','<p>The universe will not be shamed, delighting God in endless ways, for neither human sin nor pride can silence unceasing praise. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-09 12:24:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,220,'robots=\nauthor='),(1215,'June 9, 2013','june-9-2013','','<p>This day at your creating word, upon the earth your light was poured, this day, O God, upon us shine and fill our hearts with light divine.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-02 20:27:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,227,'robots=\nauthor='),(1217,'June 11, 2013','june-11-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Barnabas, Apostle</strong>&nbsp; <br />You took the gospel to the poor, the word of God alight in you, which in our day is told again, that timeless word, forever new.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-09 12:25:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,221,'robots=\nauthor='),(1218,'June 12, 2013','june-12-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Parisius</strong>&nbsp; <br />Our hermit saints in solitude spent lives in union with the One who taught them how to live the Son and love all else with grace imbued. We praise you, Source of life and love for Christ the Word who set us free to let your Holy Spirit be our teacher, comfort from above. &nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-09 12:25:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,226,'robots=\nauthor='),(1219,'June 13, 2013','june-13-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Anthony of Padua</strong>&nbsp; <br />“Sweet Jesus, is there anything sweeter than you? To remember you is more delightful than everything else. Your name is joy; it is the true gate of our salvation. What else are you, Jesus, if not our Savior? Be our Redeemer. Give us the virtues of hope and love, just as you have given us faith, our primary joy. Give us the words that we need to praise you always. With the help and through the prayers of your mother. You who are blessed throughout the ages. Amen.”&nbsp; <br /><em>– Prayer of Saint Anthony.</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-09 12:26:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,231,'robots=\nauthor='),(1220,'June 14, 2013','june-14-2013','','<p>We bless you, Father, Source of Life, we bless you, Christ, creative Word, we bless you Spirit, breath and light, through all the earth your praise is heard. Amen.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-09 12:27:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,218,'robots=\nauthor='),(1223,'June 17, 2013','june-17-2013','','<p>Majestic and glorious God’s work, whose justice stands firm forever. God makes us remember these wonders. The Lord is compassion and love.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-16 13:59:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,233,'robots=\nauthor='),(1221,'June 15, 2013','june-15-2013','','<p>God’s glory, Christ, our new dawned Day, in deep compassion for our earth has raised what we had left for dead and healed what sin had brought to birth. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-09 12:28:33',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,221,'robots=\nauthor='),(1222,'June 16, 2013','june-16-2013','','<p>This day the Holy Spirit cam with fiery tongues of cloven flame: O Spirit fill our hearts this day with grace to hear and grace to pray.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-09 12:29:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,218,'robots=\nauthor='),(1224,'June 18, 2013','june-18-2013','','<p>O world so free and profligate reveals your loving hand, O Lord. With dawn and all the gifts of day we praise you Abba, Breath and Word. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-16 14:00:16',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,227,'robots=\nauthor='),(1225,'June 19, 2013','june-19-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Romuald</strong>&nbsp; <br />This is your feast day, Romuald, our Father, true son of Benet, living in the cloister yet called to solitude, both ways of living aptly combining. Joy with the brethren, when at work or praying, joy in the cell, in silence there to listen for every word, he says, God’s every coming patiently waiting.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-16 14:01:08',63,'','2013-06-19 11:51:31',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,5,'','',0,224,'robots=\nauthor='),(1226,'June 20, 2013','june-20-2013','','<p>O dazzling light which dims the stars arousing in its turn all things, our planet springs to life in you and each, its song, your glory sings. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-16 14:01:58',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,222,'robots=\nauthor='),(1227,'June 21, 2013','june-21-2013','','<p>Let them praise God’s name with dancing and make music with timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes delight in his people and crowns the poor with salvation. Amen.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-16 14:02:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,213,'robots=\nauthor='),(1230,'June 24, 2013','june-24-2013','','<p><strong>Birth of John the Baptist</strong>&nbsp; <br />O John the Baptist lead our song, who danced for joy before your birth in greeting to the Lord of life, but just begun his life on earth. Then later on the Jordan’s bank you yielded to his heart’s desire, to cleanse the waters, bless the flood that waited for the Spirit’s fire.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-23 20:57:32',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,212,'robots=\nauthor='),(1228,'June 22, 2013','june-22-2013','','<p>No more shall dark be quite so dark, nor night be longer than the day while patient hearts await the light that leads to the eternal day.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-16 14:03:24',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,214,'robots=\nauthor='),(1229,'June 23, 2013','june-23-2013','','<p>O day of light and life and grace from earthly toil a resting place. These hours, God’s gift of love give we again to God above.<br /><em>– Sabbath Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em><br /><br /></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-16 14:04:02',63,'','2013-06-19 11:50:50',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,8,'','',0,211,'robots=\nauthor='),(1231,'June 25, 2013','june-25-2013','','<p>To mortals and beasts you give protection. O Lord, how precious is your love. My God, the children of the earth find refuge in the shelter of your wings.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-23 20:58:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,212,'robots=\nauthor='),(1232,'June 26, 2013','june-26-2013','','<p>The gift of time, renewed each day comes with your other gifts, O Lord, time to mature, to grow and know the riches of your living word.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-23 20:59:08',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,213,'robots=\nauthor='),(1233,'June 27, 2013','june-27-2013','','<p>We glorify you, God of light, your Word enfleshed, your Spirit’s breath.&nbsp; In you creation lives and moves, in you all life will come to rest. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-23 20:59:54',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,216,'robots=\nauthor='),(1234,'June 28, 2013','june-28-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Irenaeus</strong>&nbsp; <br />“The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.” ?<em><br />– Saint Irenaeus</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-23 21:00:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,211,'robots=\nauthor='),(1237,'July 1, 2013','july-1-2013','','<p><strong>Blessed Junipero Serra</strong>&nbsp; <br />O God, in Your ineffable mercy, You chose Blessed Junipero Serra as a means of gathering many peoples of the Americas into Your Church. Grant that through his intercession our hearts may be united in You in ever-greater love.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Novena to Junipero Serra</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-30 15:32:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-07-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,214,'robots=\nauthor='),(1235,'June 29, 2013','june-29-2013','','<p><strong>Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles</strong>&nbsp; <br />Love’s loyal martyrs, you we pray: protect the churches in your care. You gave them birth, now guide them well and ever hold them in your prayer. O Christ, who chose these tireless men; choose now new witnesses of faith that all the world may see and know you hold the church in your embrace.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-23 21:01:39',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,217,'robots=\nauthor='),(1236,'June 30, 2013','june-30-2013','','<p>To God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, Three in One, all honor, praise and glory be both now and in eternity.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-23 21:02:38',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-06-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,215,'robots=\nauthor='),(1238,'July 2, 2013','july-2-2013','','<p>Your love, Lord, reaches to heaven; your truth to the skies. Your justice is like God‚Äôs mountain, your judgment like the deep.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-30 15:33:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,214,'robots=\nauthor='),(1245,'July 8, 2013','july-8-2013','','<p>The earth has yielded its fruit for God, our God has blessed us. May God still give us blessing until the ends of the earth stand in awe.&nbsp; Let the peoples praise you, O God.&nbsp; Let all the peoples praise you.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-07 18:13:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,209,'robots=\nauthor='),(1239,'July 3, 2013','july-3-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Thomas</strong>&nbsp; <br />Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed.&nbsp; <br /><em>– John 20:29</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-30 15:34:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,212,'robots=\nauthor='),(1240,'July 4, 2013','july-4-2013','','<p>So life unbounded, uncontained, ordained the oceans teem with life, the skies above then filled with flight, the world with fish and fowl was rife.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-30 15:35:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,210,'robots=\nauthor='),(1241,'July 5, 2013','july-5-2013','','<p>On the sixth evening you gave back the human spirit you once gave, that we might all receive again the life that saves us from the grave.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-30 15:35:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,207,'robots=\nauthor='),(1242,'July 6, 2013','july-6-2013','','<p>Sing praise with resounding cymbals sing praise with crashing cymbals. Let everything that lives and breathes praise the Father, the Word, and the Spirit.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-30 15:36:44',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,222,'robots=\nauthor='),(1243,'July 7, 2013','july-7-2013','','<p>Praise God, sun and moon, praise him shining stars. Praise God highest heavens and waters above the heavens.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-06-30 15:37:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,210,'robots=\nauthor='),(1246,'July 9, 2013','july-9-2013','','<p>By God’s word the heavens were made, by the breath of his mouth all the stars. God collects the waves of the ocean and stores up the depths of the sea.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-09 01:26:41',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,215,'robots=\nauthor='),(1249,'July 12, 2013','july-12-2013','','<p>Father, forgive us where we fail to further your redeeming ways. O Son and Spirit lead us back to live in your eternal days.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-09 19:36:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,216,'robots=\nauthor='),(1250,'July 13, 2013','july-13-2013','','<p>So human hearts and human minds must grow and grope and feel their way back to the likeness all divine, where hearts shall know the word to say.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-09 19:37:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,213,'robots=\nauthor='),(1251,'July 14, 2013','july-14-2013','','<p>No more shall dark be quite so dark, nor night be longer than the day, while patient hearts await the light that leads to the eternal day.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em> </p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-09 19:38:02',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,207,'robots=\nauthor='),(1252,'July 15, 2013','july-15-2013','','<p>The stone which the builders rejected had become the cornerstone. This is the work of the Lord, a marvel in our eyes.&nbsp; This day was made by the Lord, we rejoice and are glad.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OS</em>B</p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-15 10:59:39',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-15 10:59:39','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,212,'robots=\nauthor='),(1253,'July 16, 2013','july-16-2013','','<p>Let faith restore love\'s primal gift, a sharing in the unseen light that ruled the heart before the rift, which thrust the Maker from the made.&nbsp; <br />–<em> Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-16 11:20:20',63,'','2013-07-16 11:23:54',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-16 11:20:20','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,1,'','',0,220,'robots=\nauthor='),(1254,'July 17, 2013','july-17-2013','','<p><strong>Saints Andrew and Benedict (Poland)</strong>&nbsp; <br />If you would be my servants, take up your cross and follow me.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-17 11:45:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-17 11:45:47','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,206,'robots=\nauthor='),(1255,'July 18, 2013','july-18-2013','','<p>In the morning fill us with your love, we shall exult and rejoice all our days. Give us joy to balance our affliction for the years when we knew misfortune.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-18 11:24:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-18 11:24:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,211,'robots=\nauthor='),(1256,'July 19, 2013','july-19-2013','','<p>My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my Savior. He has looked on the lowliness of his servant: all generations to come will call me blessed<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-19 10:59:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-19 10:59:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,221,'robots=\nauthor='),(1257,'July 20, 2013','july-20-2013','','<p>Made, Lord, in love, saved by your love, we pray, be still the very same, heal all the wounds apply the salve that makes us recognize your name.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-19 11:00:06',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,210,'robots=\nauthor='),(1259,'July 22, 2013','july-22-2013','','<p><strong>Mary Magdalene</strong>&nbsp; <br />I sought him whom my heart desires; I sought him in the squares and streets. At last I found God\'s Chosen One, the faithful servant, Prince of Peace.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-21 11:51:35',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,219,'robots=\nauthor='),(1258,'July 21, 2013','july-21-2013','','<p>You crown the year with your goodness. Abundance flows in your steps, in the pastures of the wilderness it flows.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-19 11:00:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,218,'robots=\nauthor='),(1260,'July 23, 2013','july-23-2013','','<p>O light that stays when day departs, shine as before the worlds you shone, shine ever in our darkened hearts to give anew what once you gave.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-21 11:52:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,219,'robots=\nauthor='),(1261,'July 24, 2013','july-24-2013','','<p>Good is the earth that once you made, fitted for trees and plants and all beauty and life in seed and fruit wonders that pass beyond recall.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-21 11:53:36',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,212,'robots=\nauthor='),(1262,'July 25, 2013','july-25-2013','','<p><strong>Saint James</strong>&nbsp; <br />Apostles all are witnesses but James, you of the special three, were called at times to have your share, and be where it was good to be.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-21 11:54:30',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,213,'robots=\nauthor='),(1267,'July 29, 2013','july-29-2013','','<p>All you works of the Lord, bless the Lord. Angels of the Lord, bless the Lord. Heavens and waters above the heavens, bless the Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-28 14:30:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,203,'robots=\nauthor='),(1263,'July 26, 2013','july-26-2013','','<p>In the deep sea a new life stirs. On the fifth day birds on the wing cleave upper air, soar in the skies, while in the trees the songbirds sing.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-21 11:59:15',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,209,'robots=\nauthor='),(1264,'July 27, 2013','july-27-2013','','<p>We bless you, Father, Lord of life, to whom all living beings tend, the source of grace and holiness, our first beginning and our end.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-21 12:00:08',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,210,'robots=\nauthor='),(1265,'July 28, 2013','july-28-2013','','<p>In the first light no song is heard and still are all the silent glades, till buried life shall rise again and light shall conquer all the shades.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-21 12:00:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,212,'robots=\nauthor=');
INSERT INTO `jos_content` VALUES (1266,'We Do it for You (Homily on the Occasion of the Installation of the New Prior)','we-do-it-for-you-homily-on-the-occasion-of-the-installation-of-the-new-prior','','<p><em>Father Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>Today (July 20, 2013) on the Church\'s calendar we have the option of celebrating a little known saint, Saint Apollinaris, who was said to have been consecrated a bishop by Saint Peter himself, and then was sent to Ravenna in Italy as a missionary where he was martyred under the reign of Emperor Claudius. What makes that so auspicious for us is that Saint Romuald, the founder of our congregation, entered the monastery of Saint Apollinaris in Classe, just outside of Ravenna after Apollonaris appeared to him, twice. Actually he appeared to him again later urging him to return to San Apollonaris as abbot. (None of those times turned out too well: the first time his brother monks tried to throw him off the second floor balcony; the second time the abbot himself tried to strangle him, but never mind that...)</p>\r\n<p>I myself have a connection to all of this. Back when I was finishing my BA and studying Art History, I fell in love with Romanesque architecture and specifically with the mosaics of Ravenna, both at the mausoleum in town called the Galla Placidia (whence comes that mosaic of the two birds drinking out of the fountain that is our <em>stemma</em> and the symbol of the World Community for Christian Meditation), and then in the grand basilica in Classe, long before I had ever heard anything about Romuald or this rag tag bunch of monks called Camaldolese. The first time I was there it was as a monk, and I could barely enter in the church, I was so overcome with emotion to see it all up close.</p>\r\n<p>When we were beginning to make preparations for this celebration of the installation of the new prior, I was consulted, as much as the liturgist as a candidate. I made it known in the strongest terms possible that I would really like to see it be a very small celebration, mainly for the community, maybe our support staff and one or two invited guests. Instead it was decided that there would be a more or less open invitation, on the heels of the recent Camaldolese Assembly at Asilomar Conference Ground, because this would be a big deal for our friends as well. So you see just how much influence I have, the sheer gravitas of my presence and the weight of my personality! I say that with a bit of humor and with absolutely no bitterness, mainly to make the point that actually either way would have been valid, and somehow the tension between those two options points right to a tension that I see in monastic life in general and in our Camaldolese charism in particular, that tension between withdrawal and belonging, you might say, between being alone and being available.</p>\r\n<p>I chose to stay with the readings of the day today, mainly the gospel,<sup>i</sup>&nbsp;for two reasons. First of all, because Matthew cites the very line from the prophet Isaiah in regards to Jesus, that Saint Benedict points to in reference to the attitude an abbot (or a prior as the case may be) should have in regards to his brother monks: \"He is to distrust his own frailty and remember <em>not to crush the bruised reed</em>.\"<sup>ii</sup> The other reason is that that same tension that I mentioned seems to be going on in this little scene from the gospel.</p>\r\n<p>In some ways, I have always thought that the dichotomy that we place between the active and contemplative life in Western Christianity is what my philosopher friend calls a \"false dilemma.\" These two energies are only distant from each other because we are so distant from our own true selves. Father Bede Griffiths was very fascinated with a concept he got from India called <em>sahaj samadhi</em>. <em>Samadhi</em> is the final stage of yoga, when one is, as I like to translate it, \"absorbed\" in some way into the Divine, whatever that word means to you. And <em>sahaj</em> means something like natural; and so <em>sahaj samadhi</em> means \"natural contemplation\" and the best example of it according to Father Bede was Jesus, who had gone beyond the categories of active and contemplative. Whether he was in the desert or in the marketplace teeming with lepers, priests and prostitutes, he was a pure contemplative, as Bede wrote, \"always abiding with the Father as the source of his being, and always seeing what the Father does as the source of his action. He is in that state of transcendent awareness in which he is one with the Father, and at the same time perfectly natural and human.\"<sup>iii</sup> \"Perfectly natural and human\"; that reminds me of Athanasius\' description of Antony the Great when his friends came and broke down the gates of the deserted fort where he had been living for twenty years and Antony emerges and he is <em>kata physin</em>, Athanasius tells us––according to nature, \"all balanced, as one governed by reason and standing in his natural condition.\" The ascetical life did not destroy Antony; he was deified, and deification made him into a real human being.</p>\r\n<p>What I note about Jesus is how often we see him go off to a remote place to pray, on a mountain often; and sometimes he takes his disciples and tells them, \"Come away with me to a lonely place.\"<sup>iv</sup> But, notice, when he is off by himself and his disciples come looking for him he never says, \"Go away, I\'m on a desert day.\" When crowds come looking for him and his disciples, sometimes the disciples want to send the crowd away, but Jesus always welcomes them. And sometimes, like today, it seems that he brings the whole crowd with him––\"he withdrew from that place. Many people followed him,\" Matthew tells us.<sup>v</sup> And as was said about the early monks in Egypt, \"the desert becomes a city.\"</p>\r\n<p>The spiritual life for Jesus was––and I suppose the ideal of the spiritual life for us could be––like breathing in and breathing out, as simple as that. Breathing in the love of God, breathing out the love of God. Breathing in strength, breathing out compassion. Breathing in the fire, breathing out justice. Or, simply put, breathing in the Spirit and then delivering it over, as he did with his last breath of his life on this earth.</p>\r\n<p>Please don\'t misunderstand me, I think that for most of us mere mortals it is not that easy, and I think that there will always be a place for the purely contemplative life. And our constitutions say right at the beginning that, \"In both the hermitage and the monastery\" we monks are to \"attend to the contemplative life above all else.\"<sup>vi</sup> And the reason I think that there will always be a place for the purely contemplative life is this: we are one body, the body that is the church, the body that is the human race; and a conservative guess would say probably 90% of the body is active almost all the time, and so some part of the body has to be contemplative to give it some equilibrium. My friend John likes to quote Thich Nhat Hahn who says that when the boat is rocking on a stormy sea someone in the boat needs to sit still. That\'s our job, to sit still. The Katha Upanishad says, \"every now and then some wise souls seeking immortality turn the gaze inward.\" That\'s our job––to turn the gaze inward. But we don\'t do it just for our own sakes; we do it for the body, the body that is the human race, the body that is the church, the Body of Christ, and even in some way, as Saint Paul intuits, the body that is \"all creation that is groaning and in agony\"<sup>vii</sup> while we work this out. We are not separate from the Body; we are part of the body, as our Don Emanuele put it, \"an image of the praying church.\" Abhishktananda said that the monk is not supposed to worry too much about the canals downstream, he is supposed to stay close to the well. Not because we\'re better, not because we are wiser or holier; just because that\'s our job; it\'s what we do for the sake of the body, the body of the church, the body of humanity, the Body of Christ.</p>\r\n<p>I remember so distinctly September 11, 2001, the day of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington D.C., we were on retreat with Laurence Freeman; and I remember at Mass that morning looking around the rotunda at all my brothers with their arms raised singing the Our Father, and I thought to myself, \"This is exactly where we are supposed to be.\" While the rest of the country and many in the world were running around dazed and horrified (and rightly so!), while jets were being scrambled over the sky and military units mobilized, here we were standing in our silly white robes with our hands stretched up to the sky murmuring our prayers––and that is exactly where we were supposed to be. Even in the midst of that crisis, someone had to remember the holy words, someone had to sing the holy songs, someone had to remember the stream of life-giving water that promised to flow from out of the believer\'s heart, someone had to remember that Jesus ordered us to \"Love your enemy, and pray for those who persecute you,\" especially then when no one else could remember.</p>\r\n<p>We monks sometimes make the mistake of thinking that we are the center of this life, of this monastery. But we are not. I love the altar in the middle of our rotunda; it always reminds me what or, better, <em>who</em> is the center of our life: God in Christ. That altar there for me is like a well, and those who stay close to that well stay close to the center of our life, because they stay close to God in Christ. That altar is like a cauldron, that\'s what the center of our life is, and so all those who stay close to that cauldron, stay close to what Saint Bonaventure calls \"the raging fire that carries the soul to God with intense fervor and burning love.\" If I may stretch the metaphors a little more, that altar is like the foundational stone that Jews say is buried deep inside of Mount Moriah over which the Temple was built, and which they think is the very center of the world; this altar is like the <em>ka\'ba</em> in Mecca, cleansed of all its idols, around which the pilgrims on <em>hajj</em> process as if the whole world were swirling around it in surrender to God the Merciful and Compassionate; it\'s like Mount Arunachala in South India, a symbol of the Shiva-lingam, around which pilgrims circumambulate singing songs, that is meant to melt the ego of anyone who meditates on it in their hearts. We\'re not the center of this life; we\'re circling around the center, God in Christ is the center, our practice is the center, all those things that will remain after more than one generation of us are in our graves; and whoever stays near to that altar, that well, that raging fire is at the center of our life.</p>\r\n<p>But what I really mean to stress is that we\'re here for <em>you,</em> and we need to stay here for you. We do our job for the Body because you do your job for the Body. We get up at 5:15 in the morning and croak out our feeble prayers because you get up at the crack of dawn and feed your children. We show up here four times a day to pray because you show up at your work five, six days a week, 8 to 10 hours a day to build a world of justice and peace. We fast and pray and keep vigil in our cells because you bear such pain and loneliness and we want to bear it with you. We take care of each other here in our lives of charity because we have learned from you how to do that, how to care for a sick friend, how to guide a dying loved one to death\'s door with dignity; we do this because you feed the hungry and clothe the naked. We do our job because you do yours.</p>\r\n<p>All that to say that this is your monastery too. If we lack sometimes in extraverted energy and social skills, if not all of us travel around the world doing concerts or writing books or preaching retreats and sermons, please don\'t think we have forgotten you or what our job is. We are here close to the well to keep the waters flowing for you too, so that the waters flow downstream and so you can come and dip in any time you need to. We keep the fire burning so that the whole world can see it, and so you can come and warm yourself and re-light that spark of divinity within you whenever you need to. We keep murmuring these sacred words and holy songs over and over again in case you forget them and need to hear them again to be reminded. We stay near this altar to remind you that the altar around which we really circumambulate is the altar of the heart, our hearts, your own heart, because that\'s where God is, in Christ: the Spirit poured into our hearts, so that we can be deified, and in being deified become truly human for the sake of the Body.</p>\r\n<p><sup><span><span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif;\">i&nbsp;</span></span></span></sup> Mt 12:14-21<br /><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif; font-size: medium;\"><sup>ii</sup>&nbsp;</span>Is 42:3; RB 64:13<br /><sup><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif;\">iii&nbsp;</span></sup>Bede Griffiths, <i>River of Compassion</i>, 273.<br /><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif; font-size: medium;\"><sup>iv</sup>&nbsp;</span>Mk 6:31<br /><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif; font-size: medium;\"><sup>v</sup>&nbsp;</span>Mt 12:15<br /><span style=\"font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif; font-size: medium;\"><sup>vi</sup>&nbsp;</span><i>Constitutions and Declarations</i>, I.4<br /><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif;\"><sup>vii</sup> Rom 8:22</span></p>','',1,3,0,6,'2013-07-22 17:16:59',67,'','2013-07-22 18:22:25',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-22 17:16:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,1,'','',0,5794,'robots=\nauthor='),(1268,'July 30, 2013','july-30-2013','','<p>O light that fires the stars and suns, rekindled in our evening flame, your blinding radiance yet is dimmed before the One from whom you came.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-28 14:32:17',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,198,'robots=\nauthor='),(1269,'July 31, 2013','july-31-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Ignatius Loyola &nbsp;</strong><br />Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, all I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace. That is enough for me.<br /><em>– Prayer of Saint Ignatius</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-28 14:33:18',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-07-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,208,'robots=\nauthor='),(1270,'August 1, 2013','august-1-2013','','<p>The gift of time, renewed each day comes with your other gifts, O Lord, time to mature, to grow and know the riches of your living word.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-28 14:36:32',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,196,'robots=\nauthor='),(1271,'August 2, 2013','august-2-2013','','<p>O dazzling light, which dims the stars arousing, in its run all things; our planet springs to life in you and each its song, your glory sings.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-28 14:37:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,205,'robots=\nauthor='),(1272,'August 3, 2013','august-3-2013','','<p>In his days, justice shall flourish and peace till the moon fails. He shall rule from sea to sea from the Great River to earth’s bounds.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-28 14:38:02',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,192,'robots=\nauthor='),(1273,'August 4, 2013','august-4-2013','','<p>I remember the days that are past; I ponder all your works. I muse on what your hand has wrought and to you I stretch out my hands.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-07-28 14:38:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,189,'robots=\nauthor='),(1275,'August 6, 20013','august-6-20013','','<p><strong>Transfiguration of the Lord.</strong>&nbsp; <br />The three apart, they see him now who always has been very near; his face shines like the summer sun, like winter’s snow his clothes appear.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-06 00:53:55',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,214,'robots=\nauthor='),(1274,'August 5, 2013','august-5-2013','','<p>This day at your creating word upon the earth your light was poured, this day O God upon us shine and fill our hearts with light divine.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-05 01:36:09',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,200,'robots=\nauthor='),(1276,'August 7, 2013','august-7-2013','','<p>Look toward God and be radiant, let your faces not be abashed.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-06 00:54:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,191,'robots=\nauthor='),(1277,'August 8, 2013','august-8-2013','','<p>This dawning day is splendor-filled, our God is self-revealed through light. &nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-06 00:55:35',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,199,'robots=\nauthor='),(1278,'August 9, 2013','august-9-2013','','<p>The evening came and morning came, the fifth day filling air and sea. Life overflowing and outpoured created in the Trinity.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-06 00:56:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,185,'robots=\nauthor='),(1279,'August 10, 2013','august-10-2013','','<p><strong>Feast of Saint Lawrence.</strong>&nbsp; <br />Oh Lawrence, one with us in prayer, true mirror to our risen Lord; Christ came to serve, not to be served, and you so clearly heard his word.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-06 00:57:15',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,179,'robots=\nauthor='),(1282,'August 12, 2013','august-12-2013','','<p><strong>Feast of Saint Raniero</strong>&nbsp; <br />The white-robed men and women heard a call to summon courage, faith and simple heart. They lived a graceful life and though apart, remained one body focused all in All.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-11 14:47:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,182,'robots=\nauthor='),(1280,'August 11, 2013','august-11-2013','','<p>In the first light no song is heard, and still are all the silent glades till buried life shall rise again and light shall conquer all the shades.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-06 00:58:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,187,'robots=\nauthor='),(1281,'THE SEED AND THE WORD AND THE CULTURE','the-seed-and-the-word-and-the-culture','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>On July 26, we celebrated the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne. I have to quote Fr. Bruno\'s line about it: \"we\'re not <em>exactly</em> sure who Mary\'s parents were, but we knew she had them––it was a Jewish custom at the time.\" But actually the significant thing is that she had parents, and that Jesus had grandparents, because that means that Jesus was born in history, and that God chose to get involved in the muddy mess of human history.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">I\'ve been fascinated with the word \"culture\" for some time, ever since a friend of mine used it in a very specific way, regarding behavior in the school where he teaches. Whatever kind of behavior they allow at the school is forming a culture around it. Is there a culture of hazing, a culture of drinking and drugging, partying, a culture of jocks or hipsters, a culture of prayer and works of mercy, a culture of mutual respect and inclusivity, a culture of intellectual enquiry and creativity? Many children and teenagers come from a culture of violence and abuse and poverty, for instance, and bring that with them. Can they be offered a new culture? As our Br. Bede says, \"It\'s the little things sometimes.\" If I allow this, what culture will start building around it. Paula Huston\'s excellent talk at the recent Camaldolese Assembly addressed this same issue. What I took away from it is just this: culture is always embedded and concrete, everything we do creates a culture. So we can speak of a \"monastic culture,\" for instance. I also like the word \"culture\" in the context of today\'s gospel (Mt 13:18-23), the third part of this parable about the sower and the seed, because it reminds us that \"culture,\" even though it is used in a lofty way, is really a very earthy word, that derives from the Latin </span><em style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">cultus</em><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">, which really means adoration. Maybe it means that whatever we say we believe in, whatever we cultivate, is what we really adore; and vice versa: whatever we adore is what we cultivate.</span></p>\r\n<p>We hear all these images in the gospel of the place where the seed can fall––the path where it gets trampled, the rocky ground where it can sink no root, among thorns where it gets choked, and then finally the rich soil where it bears fruit and yields a hundred, sixty, thirty-fold. These are of course all metaphors, but for what are they metaphors? All kinds of things. Certainly the ground is the ground of our being, and I love the word in that context––the <em>ground</em> of our being where things get planted. How do we cultivate our own depths––our minds, our souls (if those words mean something different to you)? How do we cultivate our bodies, too, as the garden of our soul? A human body was a place where the Word is planted as it was deep in Mary\'s womb and was received with such great welcome that it indeed brought fruit abundantly, it became an embryo, a fetus, a little boy, the man Jesus. What kind of culture are we forming in our rooms, in our cells? Is it a pleasant dwelling for the Word?</p>\r\n<p>But this image could also be spread wider. Families create a culture in their homes, you know it as soon as you walk in the door! Perhaps this is also where we could use the example of Joachim and Anne to remind us that a family too is a culture, as well as Mary and Joseph. These things are not unimportant to us; that is why we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family as well, and feasts of Mary and Joseph, and why it is significant that Joseph\'s name got added into the Eucharistic Prayers. Sometimes the family is referred to as a garden in which the children grow. Is the family home a footpath, with landmines of passive-aggressive behavior? Or rocky soil of depression, choked with thorns of bitterness and sarcasm when the Word comes planted there? And we can ask the same about our communities. What kind of culture are we cultivating by our little decisions, by our behaviors?</p>\r\n<p>And it could go wider too. The story of the giving of the Ten Commandments, which we also hear today, is poignant in this context; this was a covenant offered to a certain people at a certain time, a culture, and an ethnic group. What was the state of the evolution of their consciousness at the time? To what specific issues were these commandments addressed, and how did they receive them? Was Israel like a footpath or rocky ground or thorny, or was it a rich soil? I suppose as for every culture at different times they were in different places, different states of receptivity, and different states of moral uprightness. This of course is what the prophets addressed and what Jesus came to address, and in some way you could also say that Jesus came to advance, to raise––the evolution of his own people\'s consciousness, their spiritual maturity and understanding of God, to re-cultivate the ground of the consciousness with a fresh new way of thinking.</p>\r\n<p>So we should carry our microcosm and macrocosm both together today to the altar, and commit ourselves to cultivating in our own bodies and souls, in our individual cultures, as well as in our community (communities), in our state and country, in our world, a rich soil, a pleasant shelter for the Word to make a home.</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-08-06 12:56:09',67,'','2013-08-06 12:59:21',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-06 12:56:09','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,16,'','',0,398,'robots=\nauthor='),(1283,'August 13, 2013','august-13-2013','','<p>How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-11 14:48:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,183,'robots=\nauthor='),(1284,'August 14, 2013','august-14-2013','','<p>Glorify the Lord with me. Together let us praise God’s name.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-11 14:49:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,180,'robots=\nauthor='),(1291,'Raniero & Martyrdom ','raniero-a-martyrdom-','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>I was talking to my brothers in Chapter the other day about this article that our former prior general Emanuele wrote, in which he spoke about the tensions of the continuities within our Camaldolese charism, seemingly contradictory things that our charism tries to hold together. And the story of Saint Raniero, who we celebrate August 12th, highlights two of the tensions that Emanuele lists. First of all, on the one hand there is the rigorous monastic commitment within the environs of the monastery, and on the other hand there is service to the Church. How to hold those two together, or see the continuity between them? And another one Emanuele mentions is solitary asceticism on the one hand and martyrdom on the other, martyrdom \"to the point of the actual shedding of blood or at least (the martyrdom) of unconditional love.\" What\'s the continuity between those two? Saint Raniero is one of those who holds the tensions together very well.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">As for the first one, Raniero was an early member of Fonte Avellana. We don\'t know whether he was a hermit or a cenobite, since both lived together comfortably there. But we do know that Fonte Avellana was a place of rigorous monastic observance given the legacy of Saint Peter Damian, that other monk prelate. Then, again similar to Peter Damian, Raniero had to face being bishop, in the diocese of Cagli, of a disobedient clergy because their \"excessive lifestyle often left them overwhelmed by the care of property and possessions\" (as Lino Vigilucci tells it), <em>the greed that is actually idolatry</em>,<sup>1</sup> as Paul calls it. I was reminded of a story from when I was in seminary. There was a bishop on campus one day, and one of the sacristans who kind of liked playing dress-up, snuck in the back and tried on the bishop\'s miter, when suddenly, unbeknownst to him, the bishop came in, and caught him admiring himself in the mirror. And the bishop said, \"I hope you can feel the crown of thorns underneath that miter.\" There are all kinds of martyrdom. It might have been a real honor and the crowning glory of his career for Saint Raniero to be named bishop, but I think we could easily suspect that it might have been a real martyrdom too. He might have wanted to stay within the environs of the cloister, since that was the first vocation that he chose. But maybe that is what the third good of our congregation, that is always supposed to inspire our lives, really is anyway: absolute availability, to God, to the Church, to the world, to our community. This too is a kind of martyrdom, unconditional acceptance of the will of God.</span></p>\r\n<p>We speak of different kinds of martyrdom: the red martyrdom––shedding your blood for the sake of Christ, and then white martyrdom which the renunciation of the monastic life is meant to be; and even green martyrdom such as some of the Irish monks practiced, being exiled and wandering without a home. But there ought to be another martyrdom––I am not sure what color––the ordinary everyday martyrdom of stepping up to the plate and getting the job done no matter what the cost, just because it needs to get done and<em> Here I am Lord; I come to do your will</em>.<sup>2</sup> And the cost was in this case that after his martyrdom of service to the church, after being driven out of his first diocese due to the recalcitrant clergy, Bishop Raniero was sent up to modern Croatia––a kind of green martyrdom of exile, perhaps––where things didn\'t get any better, and he actually did receive the crown of red martyrdom. He was murdered for standing up to the princes while trying to safeguard the church\'s property that was meant to go toward sustaining those who were needy, in other words, he was protecting the poor and helpless from the rich and powerful.</p>\r\n<p>It is sort of ironic in this context to hear this gospel passage (Lk 17:22-27), at least the way the Church presents it to us today. We first have those few sentences where Jesus is predicting his death, and<em> they were overwhelmed with grief</em>; and then in the next passage they are haggling with the tax collectors of the temple tax. I think<em> my</em> reaction might have been, \"Who cares?! This is not what matters! Pay the tax! I\'m being led to my death here!\" When one is facing sure death, these kinds of questions must seem rather trivial. Once when Saint Peter Damian was challenged about a monk, someone who was supposed to have died to the world, being in a position of leadership in the church, he replied, \"Who better to lead than someone who has already died to the world?\"</p>\r\n<p>We are none of us probably going to be called upon to reform a recalcitrant clergy or face death over defending the poor against greedy princes, but I love that Emanuele adds that beautiful line: perhaps we are not called to the shedding of blood but we are all called at least to the martyrdom of unconditional love. And maybe that is just another way of saying that we are all called to \"<em>Circumcise our hearts</em>\" as Moses tells the people of Israel. Perhaps that is also another way of saying what unconditional love means: we don\'t need outward signs of religion as much as we need visible signs of mercy and compassion and justice and kindness made manifest in our lives––like <em>executing justice for the orphan and the widow, befriending aliens, feeding and clothing them</em>. (Dt 10) These are things that matter¬¬—not the temple tax! And this is our martyrdom¬¬—doing justice; this is our witness that we are children of the God of Abraham and Sarah, and followers of the gospel of Jesus Christ.</p>\r\n<p>There are all kinds of martyrdom, but somehow they are all only one martyrdom––that one to which we are all called, the martyrdom of unconditional love, the martyrdom of absolute availability, the martyrdom of servant leadership that serves without serving up a bill, the martyrdom of love that gives without asking for anything in return. It\'s that absolute availability of the circumcised heart, the unconditional love that asks nothing in return, that resolves the tensions and provides the continuity between antitheses. \"Love––unconditionally––and do what you will,\" that whatever we do will witness to the gospel and to the God of mercy and compassion.</p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p><em><sup>1</sup> Col 3:10<br /><sup>2</sup> Ps 40:8</em></p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-08-15 14:40:42',67,'','2013-08-15 14:49:08',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-15 14:40:42','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,15,'','',0,522,'robots=\nauthor='),(1285,'August 15, 2013','august-15-2013','','<p><strong>Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary</strong>&nbsp; <br />O glorious Virgin throned above the heavens, God who first graced you, formed the Word within you, you bore our Savior, whom you nursed and cradled to earth’s great wonder.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-11 14:50:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,187,'robots=\nauthor='),(1286,'August 16, 2013','august-16-2013','','<p>When two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst, says the Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-11 14:51:11',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,181,'robots=\nauthor='),(1287,'August 17, 2013','august-17-2013','','<p>Lord, who will not fear and praise your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and adore you for the many acts of justice you have shown.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-11 14:51:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,190,'robots=\nauthor='),(1288,'August 18, 2013','august-18-2013','','<p><strong>Feast of Blessed Angelo</strong>&nbsp; <br />Come children and hear me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-11 14:52:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,184,'robots=\nauthor='),(1292,'August 19, 2013','august-19-2013','','<p>Let them praise the name of the Lord who alone is exalted. The splendor of the name of the Lord reaches beyond heaven and earth.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-19 11:01:48',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-19 11:01:48','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,194,'robots=\nauthor='),(1289,'Everything\'s on Fire','everythings-on-fire','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>I tend to see Jesus\' experience of the Transfiguration as a midpoint between two other realities. I\'m exploring with the brothers this idea of two different elements––the energy and the vessel, and how monasticism, for instance, is both: monasticism is first an energy, but the life is also the vessel for that energy. And some attention has to paid to both.</p>\r\n<p>I first ran into this idea in Ronald Rolheiser\'s <em>The Holy Longing</em>. He was writing about the soul and I thought about how it could be applied to spirituality in general. As Rolheiser says, it\'s like the dance between chaos and order, fire and water, energy and integration, even passion and chastity.<sup>1','</sup></p>\r\n<p>For me the best image for the interplay between the energy and the vessel is in Exodus 2, the burning bush which Moses saw, unconsumed by the flames, in which he meets God. Think for a moment of the \"I AM\" of God as the energy, and the bush as the container, the vessel. This \"I AM\" of God, God-Who-Is-Being-Itself, is not a static thing: it\'s a burning bush, a cauldron of creativity. Let\'s say the bush symbolizes that stability of God, the \"unchanging-ness,\" the immutability, of God. But that fire in the vessel––the fire is the symbol of God\'s fiery creativity, the fiery creativity, the <em>creation continua</em> of I AM.</p>\r\n<p>When Abhishiktananda writes about Jesus\' experience of union with God, he centers it around Jesus\' Baptism in the Jordan as recorded in the synoptic gospels. And in that moment God passes that I AM on to Jesus by saying: <em>You are!</em> Jesus knew, at least from this experience, that his identity was union with God, so much so that he could appropriate to himself the Divine Name that had been revealed to Moses in the burning bush. Hence the great \"I AM\" sayings in the Gospel of John––not just \"<em>I am the way, the truth and the life</em>\", but \"<em>before Moses came to be, I am!</em>\"</p>\r\n<p>Now think of the image of Jesus at his Transfiguration in that context, a kind of parallel to the Baptism, the other time when we hear this voice over Jesus\' head. Jesus climbs up a mountain with Peter, James and John and <em>he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white</em>.<sup>2</sup> Now Jesus has become the burning bush, unconsumed by the flame! His body, his very being is the burning bush unconsumed by the flames, holding the energy of \"I am\". By tradition this takes place on Mount Tabor, just outside of Nazareth in the Galilee, and so the light that emanates from Jesus\' body is known as the Taboric light. This inner glory was permeating Jesus\' very body, even his clothes! (Mark is at pains to add that little detail as well: his clothes were<em> such as no one on earth could bleach them.</em><sup>3</sup>) Matter was not being cast off; it was being affected by the power of spiritual transformation. The body itself, matter itself, was the field of transformation.</p>\r\n<p>However, I said this is the midpoint because it doesn\'t end there! The Christian spiritual life and sacramental life is Jesus passing that fire of I AM on to us through the waters of Baptism and the life of self-emptying and self-donation. In his letter John tells us that <em>we shall be like him!</em> Paul says,<em> he will transfigure our lowly bodies into glorious copies of his own!</em> God is the burning bush, unconsumed by the flame. Jesus was a burning bush. We are meant to be burning bushes. The life in Christ is a life permeated by the power and energy of the Holy Spirit. Life with Jesus means being fused into a single faith with him. <em>I am the vine; you are the branches.</em><sup>4</sup> And the sap that runs through the branches is fire, the fiery I am of God.</p>\r\n<p>And that\'s what I mean when I talk about the energy of monasticism. This is the energy of monasticism. One of my all-time favorite stories from the Desert monastic tradition tells of when Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, \"Abba, as far as I can, I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and meditate. I live in peace and as far as I can, I purify my thoughts. What else can I do?\" Then the old man stood up and stretched his hands towards heaven. His fingers became like ten lamps of fire and he said to him, \"If you will, you can become all flame!\"</p>\r\n<p>But there is still one more step and this is something much more worked out in Eastern Christianity. According to the biblical concept, we believe that in our Fall, in the Fall of Adam and Eve, we human beings somehow dragged nature down with us. We have articulated that rather clearly in Western theology. But what the East really underlines is that while we are working this out for ourselves, while we are bringing ourselves back into right relationship with Spirit, we are also working it out for all of creation, preparing a renewal for all of creation. So Saint John Chrysostom could teach that nature is going to be \"incorruptible again for our sake.\" That\'s the true aim of the ascetical life for a Christian: not contempt for the world, but a re-embrace of it, a transfiguring of the world, enriching creation, as the priests of creation, raising creation to a higher plane, \"even to the fullness of a transfigured life,\" as the Russian Pavel Florensky says. And not only matter; Saint Basil said that even time itself is transfigured: the aim of the spiritual life is to live in history and to \"transfigure time,\" to grasp the eternal in the temporal.<sup>5</sup> In other words, everything is meant to be transfigured, nothing gets left behind, and <em>God will be all in all in Christ who is everything and in everything</em>. Ultimately everything is a burning bush.</p>\r\n<p>Fr. Bede Griffiths put it this way: in Christ the world of space and time is not annihilated, nor does it disappear, but it is transfigured, and that is what Paul means when he speaks of a \"new creation.\" The very matter of the universe is taken up into the Godhead. That is the Christian mystery. In Jesus, in the Christ event, the same matter that burst forth in the Big Bang twenty billion years ago is transfigured. In Jesus divine consciousness takes full possession of matter, and matter is spiritualized. The matter of the universe itself is made totally conscious and becomes one with God, in the Godhead.<sup>6</sup></p>\r\n<p>I was giving a form of this teaching to some young people in Malaysia last winter and at the end of the retreat conference I asked, \"Does everybody understand what I\'m saying?\" And my young friend Ian, who was also my host there, said to me, \"<em>Hoi-yo</em>, Father! Everything\'s on fire!\"</p>\r\n<p>That\'s right, Ian. Everything\'s on fire. In Christ, everything\'s on fire.</p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p><sup style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\">1</sup><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"> The Holy Longing,14-15.<br /></span><sup>2</sup> Mt 17:1-2.<br /><sup>3</sup> Mk 8:3, see also Lk 9:28-35.<br /><sup>4</sup> Jn 15:5.<br /><sup>5</sup> Spidlik, Spirituality of the Christian East (vol. 1), 141-143.<br /><sup>6</sup> Bede Griffiths, New Vision of Reality, 167-168.</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-08-13 12:38:08',67,'','2013-08-15 15:07:46',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-13 12:38:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',11,0,14,'','',0,500,'robots=\nauthor='),(1290,'Installation of New Prior','installation-of-new-prior','','<p><a href=\"images/stories/newsletters/tidings_fall_2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img style=\"margin-right: 6px; float: left;\" src=\"images/stories/newsletters/tidings_fall_2013.jpg\" alt=\"tidings fall 2013\" width=\"150\" height=\"193\" /></a></p>\r\n<p>Camaldolese Tidings 2013</p>\r\n<p><a title=\"Tidings Spring 2012\" href=\"images/stories/newsletters/tidings_fall_2013_2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF</a></p>','',1,11,0,46,'2012-03-20 21:45:58',63,'','2013-08-20 00:58:42',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2012-03-20 21:45:58','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',7,0,2,'','',0,30,'robots=\nauthor='),(1293,'Fall 2013','fall-2013','','<p><a href=\"images/stories/newsletters/tidings_fall_2013.pdf\"><img style=\"margin: 0px 10px; float: left;\" alt=\"tidings fall 2013\" src=\"images/stories/newsletters/tidings_fall_2013.jpg\" height=\"193\" width=\"150\" />Download PDF</a></p>','',0,11,0,46,'2013-08-19 17:22:16',63,'','2013-08-19 17:30:21',63,68,'2013-10-29 22:16:04','2013-08-19 17:22:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,1,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(1294,'August 20, 2013','august-20-2013','','<p>The doctrine of the Assumption is of supreme importance... because it means that there is still in the world, there will always be in the world, a voice to affirm and a power to defend the dignity and the ultimate glory of matter, of material things, of human flesh and blood, of the lovely mystery of human love, of the beauty which is the work of [human] hands. There is a voice which affirms, there is a power which defends, all the material things which make life worth while; and they bid us be of good heart because we can hope in the end to achieve our own lives, full, rich, unified, free, not by escaping from the flesh and material things, but by the healing and sanctifying of the flesh and material things.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Gerald Vann, The Water and the Fire</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-20 00:48:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,189,'robots=\nauthor='),(1295,'August 21, 2013','august-21-2013','','<p>My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my savior.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-20 00:50:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,187,'robots=\nauthor='),(1296,'August 22 , 2013','august-22-2013','','<p>Everything visible and everything invisible, thrones, dominations, sovereign ties and powers, all things were created through him and for him.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-20 00:50:41',63,'','2013-12-22 17:25:15',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,1,'','',0,81,'robots=\nauthor='),(1297,'August 23, 2013','august-23-2013','','<p>And we, for whom day can seem night, are gently held in your embrace, for you took on our flesh and death, revealing on the Cross God\'s face.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-20 00:51:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,166,'robots=\nauthor='),(1298,'August 24, 2013','august-24-2013','','<p><strong>Feast of Saint Bartholomew</strong>&nbsp; <br />O rising Lord none were so near as those first martyrs of your light, kindling more torches far and wide, bright flames to guide us in the night.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-20 00:52:00',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,173,'robots=\nauthor='),(1300,'August 26, 2013','august-26-2013','','<p>Give thanks to the Lord, all you hosts, you servants who do God\'s will. Give thanks to the Lord, all his works in every place where God rules. My soul gives thanks to the Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-25 22:19:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,178,'robots=\nauthor='),(1299,'August 25, 2013','august-25-2013','','<p>You care for the earth, give it water, you fill it with riches. Your river in heaven brims over to provide its grain and thus you provide for the earth.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-20 00:52:48',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,183,'robots=\nauthor='),(1301,'August 27, 2013','august-27-2013','','<p>This day be joy the whole way through, restraint its early morning light, faith its high noon, and may the heart escape the onset of the night.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-25 22:20:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,177,'robots=\nauthor='),(1302,'August 28, 2013','august-28-2013','','<p>Praise be to you for this day\'s use, maker most kind of all you lent us.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-25 22:21:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,181,'robots=\nauthor='),(1306,'Two Baptisms','two-baptisms','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior<br /></em></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Fr. Bruno made a distinction in his book <em>The Future of Wisdom</em> which I really like and which I have used often. He wrote about these two moments in the Christian life: there is the Baptismal moment and there is the Eucharistic moment. If I may express it in my own words: at Baptism we find out who we are (at least we are meant to); we\'re supposed to discover our union with God as our identity. But in the Eucharistic moment we are broken open for the world, inserting ourselves in the world in creativity and service. But I want to add something to that: when adults are received into the Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation, after they are baptized and before they receive Eucharist for the first time they are also confirmed; they receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. There\'s another moment there: in some way you could think of Confirmation as the rest of Baptism, the seal of Baptism, maybe even a second Baptism. Maybe the first christening is the Baptism of Water and the chrismation of Confirmation is the Baptism of Fire. Maybe Eucharist is our presence and action in the world, but the fire of the Spirit is the energy behind that eucharistic participation. Baptism is the promise; Confirmation leads us to the fulfillment of that promise in the Eucharist, and our lives as Eucharist. We need all three: Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist––<em>the Spirit, the water and the blood</em>.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>The gospels too tell us about these two baptisms: the baptism of water and the baptism of fire. Earlier in the Gospel of Luke, John the Baptist had warned that the baptism of fire was coming, just before he baptizes Jesus in the Jordan. When the people that John was baptizing were wondering whether he himself might be the Messiah, John answered by saying: \"I am baptizing you in water, but there is one who is to come who is mightier than I... He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire\". And that fire, John goes on to say, is the same fire that will burn the chaff that has been separated from the wheat on the threshing floor. But no one is spared from it: it doesn\'t just consume the wicked; it\'s a fire that also purifies the just. Now in today\'s gospel we hear Jesus tell us about that fire in the next baptism that he himself has to undergo, which of course is his being plunged into his passion. The fire that he is going to light in the world is going to be sparked off by his death and Resurrection and Ascension. And that fire that they are going to bring is going to bring conflict, not peace, at least at first.</p>\r\n<p>It\'s of course ironic, you might have already noted, that the angels sing about peace in this very gospel of Luke in the beautiful idyllic stories surrounding Jesus\' birth, quoted every Sunday in the \"Glory to God\" that we sing at Mass. Maybe that\'s the peace of the first Baptism, the peace of the promise, the knowledge of our union with God, the experience of our inner nature, our hearts into which the love of God is poured. But that love of God is also meant to flow back out of our hearts like a stream of life giving water (so John says) or, perhaps even better, like a river of fire, the fire of justice, the fire of mercy, the fire of the gospel.</p>\r\n<p>The problem is, if we\'re not careful, that first peace, the peace of the baptism of water, the peace of the promise, could wind up being what John Cassian (in Conference IV.7) calls a pax perniciosa––\"pernicious peace,\" where we sit on the laurels of our religiosity or our presumed sanctity or our smug self-righteousness, all of which Jesus is always pillarying. Cassian uses that phrase––pax perniciosa––to describe a state where there seems to be no conflict between flesh and spirit, and then he suggests that, this side of heaven, there is always going to be some kind of conflict between flesh and spirit; that\'s the normal state of affairs. That peace, once God has invaded our heart, doesn\'t stay peaceful for long. It sets us at odds with all that is not godly; it starts up a new conflict, the conflict with the disordered self, what Paul calls the \"old self.\" Mind you, that doesn\'t necessarily mean what we think it means; it\'s not necessarily the war of the body against the soul. It means more the war between the ways of God and the ways of \"the world.\" Those ways of the world, Paul tells us, are things like fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire and especially the greed that is actually idolatry, not to mention anger, temper and insults. But none of those things are really sins of the flesh itself, nor are they the fault of earth or creation. Those are all really sins of the mind, not of the body. Evagrius taught that it\'s not even emotions or passions themselves that are the problem, but disordered passions, things that are out of right relationship with spirit.</p>\r\n<p>John Main wrote about this pax perniciosa a lot also in regards to meditation and prayer, warning about \"a kind of anaesthetized, floating piety,\" and the sopor letalis––the \"lethal sleep\" that Cassian writes about in Conference X.8. This is a real temptation in the spiritual life we have to watch for. Even in prayer, only if we lose our life, only if we allow our life to be burned up and purified, even to somehow experience prayer as a kind of dying––to our small self, to our petty desires, to our unhinged will run riot, even dying to our thoughts and imagination––only then will we find our real self hidden with Christ in God.</p>\r\n<p>There is a section of C. S. Lewis\' book The Great Divorce that I loved so much I turned it into a song:</p>\r\n<p>Things grow farther apart as they reach perfection;<br />good becomes different from evil and then becomes<br />different from other goods.<br />We don\'t live in a world where all the<br />roads go \"round and round\" in circles:<br />every road forks in two, and two again,<br />and we always choose.</p>\r\n<p>There is a popular saying that \"All roads lead up the mountain.\" Of course, that is not true. I do believe that there are many paths up God\'s mountain, and that \"everything that rises must converge,\" as Flannery O\'Connor quoted Teilhard. But some roads don\'t rise, some don\'t lead up any mountain at all; they go into the valley or they go \"round and round\" in circles. And some are just dead ends! And some roads lead up one mountain, while others lead up a whole different mountain! I think it was Hans Urs von Balthasar who warned of the facile mindset that assumed everything was equally valid by saying that not only do not all roads lead up the mountain, you might find at the end of the road that you are on the wrong mountain and you are looking at your friends across a deep valley. It gets subtler and subtler, more and more refined: good becomes different from evil and then becomes different from other goods. There is always a pruning and a focusing, a purifying going on. We must beware of the pernicious peace. Sometimes we have to get off the road we\'re on, go backwards for a time¬¬—even on the spiritual journey—and re-find the right road.</p>\r\n<p>The problem is, I don\'t think we really want peace; I think we want lack of conflict, which is not the same thing. Sometimes peace is only won at the far side of a certain kind of conflict. I\'ll give you an example. Last week I was giving a retreat in which I kept mentioning this idea about the evolution of consciousness and living gently on the earth as a part of our Christian spiritual practice, instead of exploiting all the goods of the earth as resources, good stewardship and ecological concerns, etc., etc. Well, a woman stood up during the Q&A period at the end of the retreat and vociferously lambasted me, \"I hear what you\'re saying about evolution of consciousness and the Cosmic Christ and all that stuff, but I gotta tell ya\', I do not want to change my lifestyle. I like my lifestyle! I like my meat [I had never mentioned a thing about vegetarianism, mind you.] and I don\'t want to have to eat beans all the time. I like my car and I don\'t want to stop driving.\"</p>\r\n<p>Alright, that\'s fine. But then, you obviously don\'t want peace with the planet. This was a major theme for Pope Benedict; he entitled his New Year\'s address in 2009, \"If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation.\" They go together, especially in this day and age. If we want to cultivate peace, we have to protect creation. To gain that peace is going to take some conflict. Not war with another nation, mind you (though if we don\'t change our ways it might come to that, over oil, over water, over food, which is what the pope was warning about), but mainly it\'s going to be a conflict with our own lifestyle and our Western developed-nation sense of entitlement to it. That\'s what it means to be \"worldly.\" And that may be where there will be a generational split, father against son, daughter against mother, as Jesus warns, because I think young people are much more literate about and sensitive to this.</p>\r\n<p>For another example, I am told that the majority of both Israelis and Palestinians want peace, but there are many in both regions who are not willing to do the hard sacrifice that peace will take, perhaps for the Israelis to stop building settlements in the disputed territories and allow Palestinians water rights (which the UN and the US have demanded of them); perhaps that means for the Palestinians to stop resorting to violence and to recognize the State of Israel. In order to have peace there will need to be a conflict, a conflict with our natural human tendency to build walls around our own interests. This of course is what the Prophet (Peace be upon him!) called the greater jihad anyway––the jihad al nafs, the war against the self and against self-interest. That\'s the sword that has to be swung, the conflict in which we must engage. I think we generally don\'t really want peace; we want complacency and a lack of conflict, and we want religion and spirituality to provide it. But they don\'t. This is what is going on in this story from the prophet Jeremiah, too: he is asking them to do something counterintuitive––to submit to the pagan king. What they don\'t know is that this exile is going to be their purification. We generally don\'t really want peace; we want complacency and a lack of conflict, and we want religion and spirituality to provide it. But they don\'t. At least the gospel doesn\'t.</p>\r\n<p>I was thinking about all this in relationship to the breath, of all things. Did you ever notice that the breath comes in cool but leaves the body hot? It undergoes some kind of change inside of us, like water turning into fire. And so there are cool things and hot things in the spiritual life and we need them both, just as we need to breathe in and breathe out. We can\'t float on the lotus pad of spiritual coolness all the time! The first baptism of water is breathing in; the second baptism of fire is breathing out. Baptism is cool; Confirmation is hot. If you know anything about Eastern spirituality this will make sense: the Upanishads are cool; the Bhagavad Gita is hot. Zen is cool; Yoga is hot. Bede Griffiths was cool; Abhishiktananda was hot. These days, actually anything Eastern is cool; but the West if hot. The Buddha is cool; Saint Francis of Assisi is hot. Meister Eckhart is cool; John of the Cross is hot. Monks are cool; missionaries are hot. It\'s not that one is better than the other; but they go together, they have to go together like breathing in and breathing out.</p>\r\n<p>And the Gospel? Sometimes the Gospel of Jesus is cool; but usually it\'s on fire, like today. This is from Fr. Lucien Deiss:</p>\r\n<p>The Gospel is a fire which burns, a flame which purifies.<br />The Good News is a sword which cuts; it penetrates our heart<br />and makes there the bitter and sweet wounds through which life will enter.<br />And sometimes it is really necessary that God break our heart<br />to enlarge it to infinity and open it to the dimensions of his love.<br />Sometimes it is really necessary that he awaken us from our lethargy<br />so that we may get up and walk by the breath of his Spirit.</p>\r\n<p>Let\'s pray that God will break our hearts and enlarge them to infinity, and open them to the dimensions of divine love. Let\'s pray that we would be awakened from our lethargy so that we may get up and walk by the fiery breath of the Spirit.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p><em> </em></p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-08-30 19:21:24',68,'','2013-09-04 21:21:29',68,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-30 19:21:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,13,'','',0,438,'robots=\nauthor='),(1303,'August 29, 2013','august-29-2013','','<p><strong>Death of John the Baptist</strong>&nbsp; <br />John\'s voice proclaimed the coming Light, whose radiance frees the darkened heart; who levels mountains, paves the way, proves love, not hate, the better part.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-25 22:22:08',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,181,'robots=\nauthor='),(1304,'August 30, 2013','august-30-2013','','<p>Father, forgive us where we fail to further your redeeming ways. O Son and Spirit lead us back to live in your eternal days.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-25 22:22:59',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,182,'robots=\nauthor='),(1308,'September 1, 2013','september-1-2013','','<p>In the first light no song is heard, and still are all the silent glades, till buried life shall rise again and light shall conquer all the shades.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-31 22:07:48',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,172,'robots=\nauthor='),(1305,'August 31, 2013','august-31-2013','','<p>If I say, \"Let the darkness hide me and the light around me be night\", even darkness is not dark for you, and the night is as clear as the day.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-08-25 22:23:53',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,166,'robots=\nauthor='),(1309,'September 2, 2013','september-2-2013','','<p>This day at your creating word upon the earth your light was poured, this day, O God, upon us shine and fill our hearts with light divine.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-01 13:42:05',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,178,'robots=\nauthor='),(1307,'Augustine','augustine','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p />There could scarcely be a thinker more influential than Saint Augustine in church history. Certainly he was the greatest influence on Medieval theology, quoted almost as much as Scripture in the Summa Theologiae. He is the foundation for many of the thinkers of the Reformation, too, especially, mostly because of his doctrine on grace. Even today, there are by far more excerpts from the writings of St Augustine in the Roman Office of Readings than any other source. What I mostly focus on though is this amazing conversion experience, a sort of ambush of grace that enabled him to do what he could not do for himself.','</p>\r\n<p>There is a similar phenomenon that happens in regard to Saint Augustine as happens to Saint Paul. Perhaps it is especially in modern times, but you know how Paul often gets accused of having re-invented Jesus and therefore of having invented Christianity; and then through his epistles the accusation is that he passed on all his own cultural prejudices to Christianity, especially in regards his position on women and slavery. People get so caught up in that (and perhaps rightly so at times) that they miss the incredible mystical intuition that lies at the heart of Paul\'s gospel. And the same thing happens with Augustine, again perhaps not without some justification, though our Fr. Aelred Squire among others says it is usually from people who haven\'t really read Augustine. And so he gets dismissed for his over emphasis on grace and his own tendencies to struggle with Pelagianism and Manicheism, and the inner core, the mystical experience that is the intuition behind all of his teaching and the impetus behind his amazing output, gets covered over.</p>\r\n<p>Some say that Augustine has a great mystical experience of interiority at his conversion experience and then never mentions it again. But I have a kind of visual image of this: that there is this core, the core of the conversion, that\'s like the molten lava at the heart of a volcano, and that\'s the reason why one comes to the spiritual life in general. And then there are all these layers that surround that core, and those layers may be the theology that is trying to express the meaning of the experience, or the philosophy that is trying to articulate the implications of all this concerning the meaning of life and the cues for building a just society based on this experience, and even the rituals that are trying to pass on and foster the experience for others. And those layers might get a little harder and harder the more you get to the surface, the farther you are removed from the core and the original experience, until you reach the crusty surface. And perhaps that\'s all some people ever experience of Saint Augustine, or Saint Paul, that crusty surface. That may even be due to their own failings as human beings, or maybe it\'s just the natural tendency of human beings, like Jesus\' screeds against the scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that we have been hearing these past three days. The warning shot across the bow for us then is the same thing: I am not saying it actually did happen to Saint Augustine, but it could happen to us, as happened to the poor scribes and Pharisees, that we get so caught up in the exterior, so caught up in the outer layers¬¬ and maybe even in the crust—the rules and regulations, the provisional policies for basic observance, even our concepts and opinions—, and we forget the main thing.</p>\r\n<p>The thing is, Augustine\'s conversion experience specifically addresses this: he was obviously a brilliant intellectual, always searching for the truth through his thoroughgoing study of philosophy. But, as he says in his conversion story, he kept plunging into the lovely things that God had created, but all that was somehow outside of him. It wasn\'t until he plunged within himself that the real conversion took place. I never ever tire of these lines: You were within me; I was on the outside! You were with me; I was not with you. ... On entering into myself, I saw... what was beyond the eye of my soul, beyond my spirit: I saw your immutable light.</p>\r\n<p>That\'s the incredible mystical intuition that lies at the heart of all Augustine\'s teaching, the core of those layers upon layers of theology and philosophy and discourses, sermons and screeds. Now, so much of Augustine\'s doctrine that follows is based on grace, for example his fight against the Pelagians (and the so-called semi-Pelagians of which Evagrius and John Cassian were accused). Pelagians thought that we human beings can take the initial and fundamental steps toward salvation by our own efforts, apart from Divine Grace. But Augustine learned from his own experience that it\'s all grace! It\'s all the grace of God working, a grace that we have to surrender to, but even that ability to surrender is itself a grace. The lesson of Augustine is just that––I can\'t, we can\'t, do it, not of our own power. We have this treasure in clay jars, so that it be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.</p>\r\n<p>And yet, where does this Power-Greater–Than Ourselves lie, where is it to be found? Therein lies the irony. It comes from someplace else, someone else deep, but it is within us! \"You were within me, and I was outside, and it was there I searched for you...\" In some way, in having an experience of grace, Augustine had also met himself and found himself worthy, a worthy vessel. He had an experience of grace, an experience of a power greater than himself, a power beyond himself and all created things, and he simultaneously discovered that that power was within him, grace at the ground of his being, grace as the ground of his being, and working within him, able to do for him what he could not do for himself––hence finally able to conquer his own addiction, you might say, to concupiscence. And that power was the ground of his being and, Martin Laird would say, the ground of his consciousness. And that\'s why he says in his Confessions that \"the very light that shone in my eyes was mine no longer.\"</p>\r\n<p>And that is the only reason that those external layers of religion exist—and here I am actually quoting a line of Bruno\'s that I have used over and over again, and as the poet David Whyte might say, this is an \"only\" that you could say over and over again; an \'only\' that contains multitudes—the only, only, only, only, only, etc. reason that external religion exists with its rites, dogmas and institutional structures, with its philosophy and theology, is \"to bring people to the personal experience of this mystery.\" Martin Laird says that that\'s the significance of Augustine\'s comments on Christ\'s resurrection and ascension, the Christ \"has gone from our sight so that we should return to our heart and find him there.\" Not on the outside, but inside. The only reason that external religion exists is to bring people to discover this grace at the ground of being. \"All external forms, all the \'language\' of religion, has to be continually revised\"—as it was revised by Augustine as he baptized Plato and then later by Thomas Aquinas as he revised Augustine by baptizing Aristotle—\"All external forms, all the \'language\' of religion,\" all the philosophy and theological language \"has to be continually revised if it is to communicate the mystery to people of a new age.\" But at the same time, the mystery actually \"already dwells in the heart of every human being.\" Why is that? Not only because grace builds on nature, but grace is behind nature, grace at the ground of our being, grace as the ground of our being.</p>\r\n<p>Without that personal experience of the mystery, instead of being earthen vessels that hold this incredible power inside of us––God\'s own immutable light, beyond our soul, beyond our spirit––we become whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside, but inside full of the bones of the dead and every kind of filth. But with it, as Augustine understands Jesus to tell him about the Eucharist, \"You will not change me into yourself, like bodily food, but you will be changed into me.\"</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-08-30 19:48:04',68,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-08-30 19:48:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,12,'','',0,458,'robots=\nauthor='),(1310,'September 3, 2013','september-3-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Gregory the Great &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>A monk within your cloistered heart, a pastor for your changing times; God\'s servant of God\'s servants true, your leadership still stands a sign.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-01 13:42:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,182,'robots=\nauthor='),(1316,'Gregory the Great: Servum Servorum. Feast day September 3.','gregory-the-great-servum-servorum-feast-day-september-3','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p>For a tiny little congregation of monks we sure do lay claim to a lot of great saints. Of course Pope Saint Gregory the Great was not a monk in the Romualdian tradition, but we did inherit some very nice property from him––San Andrea on the Caelian Hill is now the Camaldolese monastery of San Gregorio Magno. Gregory the Great (540–604) was the son of a Roman senator. He himself served for a time as prefect of the city of Rome, but eventually sold his vast property and gave the money to the poor. He founded seven monasteries, six in Sicily and one in Rome, which he joined himself. After some years of monastic life, the Pope forced him out to be one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome and then to be the <em>apocrisiarius</em> at the Imperial Court of Constantinople. He got to back to his monastery in Rome only to serve as abbot there for a short while before he was elevated to the papacy. And then went on to have an astounding career as a statesman, pastor, teacher, writer and reformer.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>I often like to tell people that in my work and study in interreligious dialogue one of the criticisms I ran into all the time is that Christians are too focused on our \"cult of the dark night\" and all our <em>Sturm und Drang</em>, as opposed to other mystical traditions that seem to be bursting with light and serenity. I\'ve even read criticism of a master of the spiritual life such as Gregory the Great, for dwelling too much on the pain and effort involved in the approach to God, and focusing too much on how the soul has to fight its way out of the darkness that is its natural element. Maybe that\'s true––historically Christians have often fallen into the trap of getting caught up in Good Friday and forgetting about Easter Sunday––but it\'s only true up to a point. We have to remember, for instance, that St. John of the Cross wrote his mystical verses about the dark night while he was trapped in a prison cell, and put there by his own brothers, for instance; and that Gregory the Great was forced into the papacy while the Roman Empire was collapsing, the Emperor had abdicated, Rome was infected with famine and pestilence, floods and earthquakes, the Greeks and the barbarians were invading, and he had to take over, when all he wanted to do was be a simple monk. There actually was a lot of \"storm and stress,\" a lot of darkness. The amazing thing is that either of them continued to hope at all. It\'s easy for us to talk about light and serenity while we sit sleek and well fed in hot tubs and air-conditioning––what I call the \"spirituality of prosperity\"––when the lot of many in our world is great darkness, innocent, unmerited suffering and abject poverty. What\'s remarkable is that someone like Gregory in spite of all that could still say that \"we must not allow obstacles to turn us aside from the joy of the heavenly feast. Those who are determined to reach their destination are not deterred by the roughness of the road that leads to it.\"</p>\r\n<p>What\'s notable is that in the readings that the Church chooses to honor Gregory––the first one from Ezekiel 34 (11-16), <em>I myself will pasture my sheep, I myself will give them rest</em> and John 10 (11-16), <em>I am the good shepherd, I know my flock and they know me</em>––is that while we are honoring a pope saint, in the Ezekiel reading it is actually the LORD GOD who is speaking through the prophet, so this is God as the shepherd; and of course Jesus is referring to himself as shepherd. I couldn\'t help but think of what Ronald Rolheiser said over and over again during the retreat that he gave us: \"If you act like God you get to feel like God!\" But the thing about shepherds is, who\'s really in charge? It seems to me that a shepherd is totally indentured to the sheep! You can\'t turn your back for a second! Your life is not your own! And sometimes you have to lay your very life down for the sake of the sheep! So who is the master? And who is the servant? That\'s why the shepherd is such a good image of Christian leadership. In some way it\'s like being a parent: from what I have seen from my young married friends, your life is not your own anymore! One of my friends used to have as a signature on his e-mails something like this: \"I must hurry and catch up with my people / for they are far ahead of me / and I am their leader.\" There are many reasons why Gregory could be called the Great––his brilliant theological writings, his reform of the liturgy, his wise and prudent guidance of the church and secular Rome itself during the Barbarian invasions and all those other calamities, for instance. But I think that the main reason that Gregory was \"Great\" was the reason that Jesus gives for someone being great: the greatest among you must be the one who serves, the first one among you must meet the needs of all. It was Gregory who coined the phrase for popes -  <em>servum servorum</em>––the servant of servants, the slave of the slaves. But that\'s what God is like, and that\'s what Jesus is like, and if you act like God you get to feel like God––God the servant, God the humble, God the shepherd. And, as we read in his beautiful Homilies on Ezekiel, Saint Gregory knew that it wasn\'t he that ultimately was doing the work. He complains that he no longer had his former recollection as he had once had in the monastery, but no matter: God has said, <em>I myself will pasture my sheep</em>. Gregory knew himself to be only a vessel, an instrument, like the famous image of the Holy Spirit singing the so-called \"Gregorian\" chants into his ear and a scribe on the side behind a curtain writing them down. \"The omnipotent Creator and Redeemer can give me, unworthy though I am, lofty inspirations and an effective tongue.\"</p>\r\n<p>What does all this have to say to us, living our tranquil life far removed from the <em>Sturm und Drang</em> of \"the world\"? Classically monasticism is usually marked by a certain separation from the world, as ours is; and that is what Gregory wanted, separation from the world, after years serving as a government official, now to be a monk instead. But that separation from the world wasn\'t an end for him, not unlike our silence or solitude, which shouldn\'t be an end for us. At first we might think that we shouldn\'t have to do this or that because it\'s so-called \"worldly,\" or \"un-monastic.\" But at some point ascetical withdrawal is supposed to light the whole world up with an inner glow so that nothing is not-holy. I suppose that\'s why Saint Benedict could say that the tools of the monastery should be treated with the same respect as the vessels of the altar. Nothing is not holy when seen in right relationship, because ours is an incarnational religion, and to the extent that classical monasticism as an anthropological phenomenon is anti-world then it\'s not Christian, and Christianity can provide that corrective. It is not less holy to feed the poor, negotiate with the invading tribes, and find a cure for the plague, nor less holy to reform the liturgy, just as it\'s not un-monastic to wash the dishes and or un-contemplative to take care of one of my brothers who is ill. At first I might think to myself, \"Man, I am so tired of all this trivia!\" But then I have to think, \"Nothing is trivial when seen in the right light.\" We are supposed to raise all things from the trivial status to sacramental status, like the bread and the wine become Eucharist, until we discover the \"sacramentality of the world,\" as our Emanuele Bargellini put it; or like the famous story recounted by Bede the Venerable of Pope St. Gregory encountering Anglo-Saxon slaves in the market place and saying about them, <em>Non Angli, sed angeli</em>––a pun that works even in English––\"I don\'t see Angles; I see angels.\"</p>\r\n<p>Just as Rome and the Lombards came crashing in on the cloister walls of Saint Andrew\'s monastery, so every day the world comes crashing in on our peaceful lives here, in the form of guests who are to be treated as Christ, in the form of the duties we are asked to perform for the common good, in the form of relatives and friends who are sick and dying, in the form of sarin gas attacks in Syria and wildfires in California.</p>\r\n<p>You see, the other thing about this notion of servum servorum––\"servant of the servants\" is this: Gregory does not only see the pope as a servant; he sees himself as the servant of the servants, the slave put in charge of the other slaves. We are all servants by virtue of being followers of Jesus; the leader is only prima intra pares––the first among equals, leading by example, as Jesus did at the Last Supper––so you also must do. As Paul says, Imitate me as I imitate Christ. So let\'s pray that we may imitate Gregory who imitated Jesus who was the ikon of God, God the humble, God the servant, God the shepherd.</p>\r\n<p>The other option for our first reading today could have been this section from the letter to the Colossians. Let me end my reflection with that, because I think it could be one of those readings (like Romans 12) that could supply for a monastic rule. It\'s all there:</p>\r\n<p><em>As God\'s chosen ones, holy and beloved,</em><br /><em>let\'s clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness,</em><br /><em>humility, meekness, and patience.</em><br /><em>Let\'s bear with one another and,</em><br /><em>if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other;</em><br /><em>just as the Lord has forgiven us, so we also must forgive.</em><br /><em>Above all, let\'s clothe ourselves with love,</em><br /><em>which binds everything together in perfect harmony.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>And let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts,</em><br /><em>to which indeed we were called in the one body.</em><br /><em>And let us be thankful!</em></p>\r\n<p><em>May the word of Christ dwell in us richly;</em><br /><em>may we teach and admonish one another in all wisdom;</em><br /><em>and with gratitude in our hearts</em><br /><em>sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.</em></p>\r\n<p><em>And whatever we do, in word or deed,</em><br /><em>may it be in the name of the Lord Jesus,</em><br /><em>giving thanks to God the Father through him.</em></p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-09-04 18:57:24',68,'','2013-09-04 21:23:23',68,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-04 18:57:24','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',5,0,11,'','',0,433,'robots=\nauthor='),(1311,'September 4, 2013','september-4-2013','','<p>A world so free and profligate reveals your loving hand, O Lord. With dawn and all the gifts of day we praise you, Abba, breath and word.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-01 13:43:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,178,'robots=\nauthor='),(1312,'September 5, 2013','september-5-2013','','<p>Glory to you, O Lord of life, no shade upon your morning falls that you would bless our morning too, hear how the whole creation calls.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-01 13:44:24',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,185,'robots=\nauthor='),(1313,'September 6, 2013','september-6-2013','','<p>Where the long ships will one day go the silent shoals of fishes roam, and in the reaches of the depths the whales delight to make their home.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-01 13:45:11',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,187,'robots=\nauthor='),(1314,'September 7, 2013','september-7-2013','','<p><strong>Saint John of Lodi</strong>&nbsp; <br />Our hermit saints in solitude spent lives in union with the One who taught them how to live the Son and love all else with grace imbued.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-01 13:45:54',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,180,'robots=\nauthor='),(1315,'September 8, 2013','september-8-2013','','<p><strong>Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary</strong>&nbsp; <br />O first-born daughter of God\'s grace, you lead the vast array of all who sing God\'s holy name through time to endless day.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-01 13:46:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,189,'robots=\nauthor='),(1317,'September 9, 2013','september-9-2013','','<p>O day of light and life and grace, from earthly toil a resting place. These Sabbath hours, God\'s gift of love give we again to God above.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-09 12:05:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-09 12:05:49','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,180,'robots=\nauthor='),(1318,'September 10, 2013','september-10-2013','','<p>O Christ, indwelling source of life, reflecting fair your Abba\'s face, your radiance brightens all the earth as we awake to your embrace.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-09 12:06:26',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,181,'robots=\nauthor='),(1319,'September 11, 2013','september-11-2013','','<p><strong>Blessed Giovanna</strong>&nbsp; <br />These white-robed men and women heard a call to summon courage, faith and simple heart; they lived a graceful life and though a part, remained one body focused on the All.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-09 12:07:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,175,'robots=\nauthor='),(1320,'September 12, 2013','september-12-2013','','<p>With all that lives and moves and breathes, astir at dawn, absorbed in praise, we waken to our Abba-God and sing the promise of this day.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-09 12:08:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,182,'robots=\nauthor='),(1321,'September 13, 2013','september-13-2013','','<p>Pervading presence, ground of strength, you gather all, are everywhere. Our planet\'s rhythms all reveal your canticle, your priestly prayer.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-09 12:08:48',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,186,'robots=\nauthor='),(1322,'September 14, 2013','september-14-2013','','<p><strong>Triumph of the Cross</strong>&nbsp; <br />The Cross gives life that once brought death, brings joy to those who were forlorn. Life-bearing tree, bring hope to birth in hearts that know a dark despair, answer with love a world of hate and shed your fragrance everywhere.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-09 12:09:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,186,'robots=\nauthor='),(1324,'September 16, 2013','september-16-2013','','<p>O Lord in whom the first day dawned, who clothed creation wondrously, that you should clothe yourself in flesh is even more wondrous to see.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-15 18:30:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,185,'robots=\nauthor='),(1323,'September 15, 2013','september-15-2013','','<p>The hills are girded with joy, the meadows covered with flocks, the alleys are decked with wheat, they shout for joy, yes, they sing.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-09 12:10:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,185,'robots=\nauthor='),(1331,'Triumph of the Cross: Stay with the pain','triumph-of-the-cross-stay-with-the-pain','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p />In Pope Benedict\'s book <em>Great Christian Thinkers</em> he has an essay on our Saint Peter Damian that reminded me that \"the Cross was Christian mystery that was to fascinate Peter Damian more than all others.\" He is quoted as saying, \"Those who do not love the cross of Christ do not love Christ\" and he called himself <em>Petrus cruces Christi servorum famulu</em>–\"Peter, servant of the servants of the cross.\" But, severe ascetic and disciplinarian that he was, the cross was not a symbol of penance or pain and suffering; it was \"the example of the supreme act of God\'s love for humankind of God, who has given us salvation.\" Jesus shows us who God is, and so by the cross we know that God too is crucified love.','</p>\r\n<p>When I was about to enter the seminary, in my early thirties, I was seeing a spiritual director who was a tough old bird, a former Dominican, sober in AA for years. He\'s the one who got me started on what we like to call around here the \"inner work.\" And he had this phrase that he used to say over and over again that used to drive me crazy. He\'d say, \"Stay with the pain! Stay with the pain!\" I had no idea what he was talking about at first and then stuff started coming up and I\'d talk to him about it and he say, \"Stay with the pain! Stay with the pain!\" So I entered the seminary, and I was not at all ready for it, and I really hit bottom emotionally, I knew as soon as I got there that I did not have a vocation to the diocesan priesthood, and I hated the place, but that made all my stuff really start to come up, things I had never dealt with. I had a really wonderful spiritual director there, a Vincentian, who was a gentle holy man. And when things started to get really rough and I decided that I wanted to leave after the first year, he said to me, \"Maybe you should stay with the pain.\" And I said, \"Did you just say, \'Stay with the pain\'? \'Cuz if you did I\'m gonna walk right outta here.\" They were both right. What I\'ve learned along the way about myself and I think it applies to human nature in general is that so much of our sinful behavior, acting out behavior, which is quite often really addictive compulsive behavior is about two things: augmenting pleasure, but even augmenting pleasure is not a pure motive––it\'s really about avoiding pain. And the two biggest pains, in my mind, that I think we are trying to avoid are reality and, especially, the reality of death.</p>\r\n<p>I have always been really captivated by this image that we hear today from the Book of Numbers, that the only way the Israelites could be healed is to gaze at the bronze serpent, to look at what bit them. In other words, they had to stay with the pain. We human beings generally don\'t want to look at the pain, at the darkness, we don\'t want to feel our wounds, and so we cover them over, with alcohol and drugs, perhaps, but those are only the most obvious palliatives. We could cover the pain over with any kind of thing we ingest to ease our pain, or with constant work, or with TV or Internet or any other kind of distraction. We could hide in somebody else\'s arms, in someone else\'s affection or esteem and never have to face our own solitude or stand on our own two feet. But I suppose this is exactly what the ascetical demand of the spiritual life is first and foremost: if you are going to make any progress here, you gotta stay with the pain, face it head on, grieve, wail, scream to high heaven in anguish––but you gotta stay with the pain. And I think the biggest step is the first one of all––it may not seem like such a big thing: it\'s something like acceptance. And again, acceptance of two things: reality and death, or maybe the reality of death.</p>\r\n<p>There was a great line from the novelist James Carrol in his book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Terrible Beauty</span>, \"When I turned thirty I realized that the world was a lot harsher place than I thought it was... and so was I!\" This may be for may of us the gateway to this deeper reality, to be able to face life on life\'s terms and suffer the pain of our fantasies and illusions dying. \"This is not what I want life to be like! This is not the world that I want!\" And so we grieve, wail, scream to high heaven in anguish––but stay with the pain until we reach the point of acceptance; <em>then</em> we can move forward. And next we might find along the way that we really don\'t like <em>ourselves</em> very much either. \"This is not who I want to be! I want to be ___________. (Fill in the blank.)\" The first step is to accept myself as I am. This is a very important step in the spiritual life. And then, as the author of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cloud of Unknowing</span> says, we \"offer your blind and naked being to the naked being of God.\" There is a death there, a death of our illusions, that must necessarily come before our birth to Reality, and the real beauty it really contains.</p>\r\n<p>But the biggest hurtle of course is death itself. I have heard it argued rather convincingly that all our sins at their root are actually a fear of death, and a staving off of death. I steal to shore up my wealth, to stave off death. I augment pleasure to keep away pain, which is really death. At the end of the wonderful movie \"Moonstruck,\" the woman whose husband has been cheating on her and has been going around asking every man she could, \"Why do men fool around?\" finally gets an answer from the idiot of the movie. He says, \"Fear of death?\" And that\'s what we really stare at when we stare at this serpent on the cross––our fear of death, our fear of annihilation. And so in John 3 Jesus himself does a <em>midrash</em> on the Numbers reading when he says, \"Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of Man will be lifted up.\" This is amazing: Jesus becomes death, he becomes sin––he becomes the serpent! You gotta look at what bit you. You gotta stay with the pain. The ultimate point of the cross, which is to say the ultimate meaning of the Resurrection, seems to be this: Our real self, <em>hidden with Christ in God,</em> like Jesus\' own self, cannot be annihilated! If we stay with the pain, if we empty ourselves of all that is not God, of all that is keeping us from reality, if we stop protecting ourselves from what hurts, <em>if we have died with him, we will rise with him</em>. Death might hurt a little, but it won\'t kill you.</p>\r\n<p>This is all about eternal life, yes, but eternal life is not just about the body dying and the soul going to heaven. There are two other places where we experience this dying and rising all the time: in love and in prayer. I don\'t know anything about love––except for that wonderful aphorism of Mother Teresa, \"If we love until it hurts in the end we will discover that there\'s no more hurt, only more love\"––; but I\'ve read a lot about prayer, so let me end with this. <em>We can have the mind of Christ!–</em>–Christ-consciousness; and Paul tells us the formula for it today in this luminous Philippians Canticle, and it too is a form of dying, the dying of emptying–<em>kenosis</em>, which our master Romuald urges us to do as well. Emptying of what? Back to the beginning: empty ourselves even of everything we fantasized about the world and ourselves being, and even of everything that we wished God would be, as Jesus did on the cross, grieving, wailing, screaming to high heaven in anguish, \"My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?\" That may be why the author of the Cloud talks about \"the naked being of God.\" And what is the promise of that emptying? Resurrection, and more: Christ\'s consciousness. Really, those are the same thing, resurrection-consciousness.</p>\r\n<p>This is from Fr. John Main:</p>\r\n<p>...to enter into Christ\'s consciousness, to open to it fully is to pass beyond all limitations imposed on us by our thought patterns, our cultural patterns, our capacity for delusion and fantasy; to open to Christ\'s consciousness is to travel beyond all that into the mystery of his unlimited life... everyone of us not only has this call but has this capacity to transcend the limitations we impose on ourselves by illusion, by desire. To enter into eternal life by opening our human consciousness to the human consciousness of Jesus is to enter <em>now, in this life,</em> into unlimited life, unlimited peace, unlimited joy: a peace that is way beyond all understanding...\"</p>\r\n<p>...if we but stay with the pain, gaze at the cross, put on the mind of Christ, empty ourselves completely and sit waiting, content with the grace of God.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p> </p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-09-16 18:20:12',68,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-16 18:20:12','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,10,'','',0,624,'robots=\nauthor='),(1325,'September 17, 2013','september-17-2013','','<p>O God, be gracious and bless us and let your face shed its light upon us. So will your ways be known upon earth and all nations learn your saving help. Let the peoples praise you, O God. Let all the peoples praise you.&nbsp; <br />–<em> Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-15 18:31:45',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,181,'robots=\nauthor='),(1326,'September 18, 2013','september-18-2013','','<p>Praise the Lord among all the people, the God of all goodness and compassion.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-15 18:32:38',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,184,'robots=\nauthor='),(1332,'September 23, 2013','september-23-2013','','<p>As for us, our days are like grass, we flower like the flower of the field the wind blows and we are gone and our place never sees us again.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-22 13:19:06',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,168,'robots=\nauthor='),(1327,'September 19, 2013','september-19-2013','','<p>Unfolding now before our hearts, God\'s presence fills a wondering world: Earth\'s beauty and diversity like cosmic banner are unfurled.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-15 18:33:23',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,179,'robots=\nauthor='),(1328,'September 20, 2013','september-20-2013','','<p>When two or three are together in my name, there am I in their midst, says the Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-15 18:34:05',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,171,'robots=\nauthor='),(1329,'September 21, 2013','september-21-2013','','<p><strong>Feast of Saint Matthew</strong>&nbsp; <br />Himself, he knew what he would do that Lord who called them from their trades for purposes beyond their ken, molded as only grace persuades.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-15 18:34:45',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,181,'robots=\nauthor='),(1330,'September 22, 2013','september-22-2013','','<p>With you is Wisdom, she knows your works, who was present when you made the world, she understands what is pleasing in your sight and what agrees with your commands.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-15 18:35:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,175,'robots=\nauthor='),(1333,'September 24, 2013','september-24-2013','','<p>In this embrace we sing our praise, transcendent God who nurtures all; day\'s dawning splendor sends us forth to answer with our lives your call.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-22 13:19:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,167,'robots=\nauthor='),(1334,'September 25, 2013','september-25-2013','','<p>By God\'s word the heavens were made, by the breath of his mouth all the stars. God collects the waves of the ocean and stores up the depths of the sea.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-22 13:20:33',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,164,'robots=\nauthor='),(1335,'September 26, 2013','september-26-2013','','<p>You sweep us away like a dream, like grass which springs up in morning. In morning it springs up and flowers by evening it withers and fades.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-22 13:21:14',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,171,'robots=\nauthor='),(1336,'September 27, 2013','september-27-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Vincent de Paul &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>Clothed in white linen the saint rejoice with Christ, they follow the Lamb wherever he goes.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-22 13:25:14',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,161,'robots=\nauthor='),(1337,'September 28, 2013','september-28-2013','','<p>On the sixth evening you gave back the human spirit you once gave, that we might all receive again the life that saves us from the grave.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-22 13:26:02',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,158,'robots=\nauthor='),(1339,'October 1, 2013','october-1-2013','','<p>The earth has yielded its fruit for God, our God has blessed us. May God still give us blessing until the ends of the earth stand in awe. Let the peoples praise you, O God. Let all the peoples praise you.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-29 14:34:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,170,'robots=\nauthor='),(1338,'September 29, 2013','september-29-2013','','<p><strong>Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael&nbsp;</strong> <br />You who pierce the dazzling darkness clothed in light and robed in flame, ceaseless in your rounds of worship of the awesome nameless name.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-22 13:26:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-09-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,167,'robots=\nauthor='),(1340,'October 2, 2013','october-2-2013','','<p><strong>Guardian Angels</strong>&nbsp; <br />Angels of God, you see the Father\'s face and share his splendor, clothed in fire and flame; give worship to the terrible and great and sing forever holy is his name!&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-29 14:35:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,182,'robots=\nauthor='),(1341,'October 3, 2013','october-3-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Theodora Guerin</strong>&nbsp; <br />\"What strength the soul draws from prayer! In the midst of a storm, how sweet is the calm it finds in the heart of Jesus.\"&nbsp; <br /><em>– Saint Theodora Guerin prayer</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-29 14:36:44',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,175,'robots=\nauthor='),(1342,'October 4, 2013','october-4-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Francis of Assisi &nbsp;</strong><br />\"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.\" ?<br /><em>– Saint Francis of Assisi quote</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-29 14:37:32',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,177,'robots=\nauthor='),(1343,'October 5, 2013','october-5-2013','','<p>So human hearts and human minds must grow and grope and feel their way back to the likeness all divine, where hearts shall know the word to say.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-29 14:38:32',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,175,'robots=\nauthor='),(1345,'“Who do you say that I am?” -  Feast of Saint Vincent de Paul ','who-do-you-say-that-i-am-feast-of-vincent-de-paul-','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>This is the perennial question, isn\'t it? The question that Jesus asks of us, \"Who do you say that I am?\" It is the question that people from other traditions ask of us, implicitly or explicitly, \"Who is this Jesus?\" It is the question that the Church asks of us, especially when dealing in matters of theology, Christology, soteriology, perhaps with a hermeneutic of suspicion––\"Alright, Father Cyprian, before we let you publish your next book, tell us, please: who do you say Jesus is?\"</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n','\r\n<p>Maybe it\'s my own failsafe and defense mechanism, but I always do tend to go for the philosophical mystical answers first: Paul\'s definition from Colossians comes to mind immediately: \"You are the one in whom the fullness of the godhead dwelt bodily.\" Or John\'s prologue: \"You are the Word, the Logos, the very intelligence principle of the universe made flesh\" that the contemplative tradition can interpret to mean that Jesus is the very ground of consciousness. Martin Laird says when Paul looks inside himself he no longer sees Paul but he sees Christ, \"... I no longer who live but Christ who lives in me...\" This is Christ as awareness itself, the very ground of consciousness. Or there is the Teilhardian answer, a favorite of mine these days, that Christ is not only the summit of the evolutionary trajectory, but Christ is also the source of it, the energy behind it, both pulling us to himself and pushing toward our end, \"He holds all things together in himself.\"</p>\r\n<p>It\'s only then that I go to the more personal and I think of the people I love the most in my life and I remember how they keep unfolding for me, how each of us is a mystery. I thought I knew you and then something happens, a crack in the façade maybe, or a moment of crisis in which you show your true mettle, for better or for worse, or I suddenly catch you in an unguarded moment, un-self-conscious and unguarded, and I see you in your innocent joy or in your woundedness and I realize how each person is a fathomless mystery. The people we love keep revealing themselves over and over, it\'s like peeling an onion. And it is the same with Jesus. I have been hanging around him for several decades now, and still every now and then I get these moments when I say, \"Oh, wow, I never noticed that about you before.\" And sometimes I get scared and run away as his disciples did often and other times I love Jesus more deeply and more committedly.</p>\r\n<p>But there is a third answer to this question that comes up especially these days, a very practical one, the answer that Mother Teresa, Pope Francis and Saint Vincent de Paul (whose feast day was September 27) would probably give instinctively. They find Christ in the poor, in the other. Saint Vincent\'s spirituality was totally based on meeting Christ in the needs of others. Mother Teresa spoke of Christ \"in disguise in the poor.\" And this is not just a metaphor! This is taking very literally what Jesus says of himself, \"whatever you do for the least of these you do for me.\" The connection of course with today\'s gospel (Lk 9:18-22) is how Matthew, Mark and Luke all add on the warning that Jesus\' glory is predicated on his suffering and being rejected, or, as Paul sings, in him emptying himself of self. The glory and the humility, the power and the utter poverty always go hand in hand in the Christian dispensation. Jesus had absolutely no problem associating himself with the utterly abject, and is not in the least bit squeamish hanging out with the utterly rejected; as a matter of fact he seems to prefer it! And this is the sign of true spiritual greatness, not the glory but the humility. We must never forget this! It is absolutely essential to the Christian way.</p>\r\n<p>This was also some of the brilliance of the Vincentians who from the first hour, were founded to serve the poor and form the clergy. Now, there\'s a good combination, two things that belong together, as the opening prayer for the feast of Saint Vincent recalls: \"...relief of the poor and formation of the clergy\"! All of my philosophical answers don\'t matter much if they don\'t resolve themselves in meeting Christ in his disguise in the lonely and the poor, in the other. All my falling in love must ultimately be procreative if it is to prove itself as real love and move beyond the love nest of the honeymoon. \"All rules end in charity,\" Saint Vincent said. But ironically, when we see in the face of the poor, of another, the beautiful face of Jesus, then we become the face of Christ to them. And so, where is Christ not? And old song we used to sing by Tom Conry went like this: \"We are called, we are chosen, / we are Christ to one another...\"</p>\r\n<p>Who do I say that you are? You are the sum of all these mystical philosophical teachings, and I find you in the still small voice. You are my Lord whom I love and adore. You are in the face of my brother and my sister, the poor and the needy, all those I am called to serve. And I look in the mirror and I see your face too: I am your feet, your lips, your hands––your presence in the world.</p>\r\n<p>And so (again as the opening prayer for Saint Vincent prays), we pray that we, \"afire with the same spirit that animated Vincent de Paul..., would love what he loved and put into practice what he taught,\" in the name of Jesus, the Christ of God.</p>\r\n<p><em> </em></p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-10-06 14:55:29',68,'','2013-10-06 15:09:07',68,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-06 14:55:29','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,9,'','',0,399,'robots=\nauthor='),(1344,'October 6, 2013','october-6-2013','','<p>You crown the year with your goodness. Abundance flows in your steps, in the pastures of the wilderness it flows.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-09-29 14:39:50',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,165,'robots=\nauthor='),(1346,'Ezra and Marmion ','ezra-and-marmion-','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>On October 3, we in the Benedictine world had the option of celebrating Abbot Columba Marmion. He was a mountain of a man, both in his physical stature and his fame in the late 19th and 20th century Benedictine monasticism. He started out as a diocesan priest in Ireland, but he eventually inserted himself into a long line of Irish missionary monks, like his namesake Columba of Iona (who underwent voluntary exile for the sake of the gospel), joining Maredsous Abbey in Belgium. Eventually, he became abbot of that same monastery, but he also he traveled extensively throughout Europe preaching, in his words, \"bringing people to God and God to people.\"</p>\r\n<p />','</p>\r\n<p>In addition to celebrating Abbot Marmion, October 3rd was the 26th Thursday in Ordinary Time and we had two powerful readings in the ordinary cycle, from the prophet Nehemiah and from the Gospel of Luke.</p>\r\n<p>I had the great good fortune to work with Father Lucien Deiss in the 1980s. He was like a French version of Cipriano Vagaggini, a scripture scholar and a patristic scholar, a <em>peritus</em> at the 2nd Vatican Council, and a multi-linguist as well as a liturgist (besides being a brilliant musician as well as a missionary). I once heard Fr. Deiss give a whole conference on this reading from the prophet Nehemiah (Neh 8:1-12) which he said was one of the most beautiful passages of the Bible. The thing is, when Fr. Deiss explained the meaning of this passage to us that day he actually did the same thing that Ezra and the Levites did for the returned exiles in this reading. I will explain this in a moment.</p>\r\n<p>What\'s going on here in Nehemiah is that after years of exile, Ezra is reading the covenant to the newly returned repatriates, but he is reading it to them in Hebrew. The problem is that this is a language that the people no longer understand¬¬ after their years in exile. So the Levites are translating it from Hebrew into the language that had become their new vernacular, Aramaic, which was the dominant language in Assyrio-Babylonia where they had been living. And then the Levites are explaining to them what all this means. And the people are wild with joy, with shock and surprise. Most of these people are hearing their scriptures, the covenant, their own story as a chosen people, their own place in salvation history, for the very first time.</p>\r\n<p>You might not have been expecting that on the Thursday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time, but this little story chronicles one of the greatest moments in the history if Israel. Some scholars refer to it as the day of the birth of Judaism and this is why Ezra is sometimes called the father of Judaism. He is the one who established which books were sacred and canonical. Israel as it was known in the pre-exilic period is no more and a new \"people of the book\" appears. From the time of Ezra on, the chosen people of Israel aren\'t called Israelites anymore, but Jews.</p>\r\n<p>Two lessons can be drawn from this reading. First of all, herein lies our own understanding of the Word, and especially our liturgical understanding of the Word of God. The 2nd Vatican Council was at pains to make Catholicism a more biblical church again, and especially to re-root the liturgy in scripture. <em>Sacrosanctum Concilium</em> 34 says, \"In the readings, the table of God\'s word is laid before the people and the treasures of the Bible are opened to them.\" Fr. Deiss thought that this story of the exiles hearing the Word of God for the first time was symbolic of what was going on in the church after the Council. Imagine what it would have been like for some Catholics to hear, for the first time, the story of the Prodigal Son read at Mass (it wasn\'t in the old lectionary). After the Council, not only was there a more ample selection of scripture (in the vernacular) throughout the liturgical year, but a greater emphasis on homiletics, breaking open the Word as if it were a loaf of bread and revealing what is on the inside. There was a special emphasis on the real presence of Christ when the Word is proclaimed (one of the four presences of Christ taught by <em>Sacrosanctum Concilium</em>) and super-eminently so at the Gospel. And so we have here a little re-enactment of Ezra\'s celebration every time the Gospel is proclaimed. We stand; we sing \"Alleluia\" to welcome the Lord really present in our midst; we say \"Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!\" at the end; on Sundays and bigger feasts we even incense the Book of the Gospels. But it is not the Book itself we are acclaiming and worshipping: it is the Lord Jesus in the Gospel.</p>\r\n<p>The second lesson is that the Word always elicits, nay, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">demands</span> a response. In this reading the people are yelling out \"Amen, Amen!\" and they are bowing and prostrating themselves on the ground because they are so moved by hearing about this covenant, which was in their history but not in the range of their awareness or memory. But Nehemiah and Ezra and the Levites are telling them Do not weep! <em>Today is holy! Go, eat rich foods and drink sweet drinks and allot portions to the poor!</em> And they did so. We should all be so moved, hearing this Word proclaimed. I couldn\'t help but think of Saint Romuald who had his enlightenment experience of the Word through reading Psalm 32 and all the meaning of scripture opened up to him and he received the gift of tears. Will the Word ever penetrate so deeply in our beings? And what will be our response?</p>\r\n<p>I was thinking of a few different ways of responding to the Word. One way of responding might be the missionary way: what we see the seventy-two doing in the gospel reading for today (Lk 10:1-12). They had the great luxury of hearing this Word from the Source himself and were sent out as laborers for the harvest to proclaim the saving word, to carry the message of God\'s peace, to cure the sick, to proclaim the reign of God and somehow to be the presence of the reign of God.</p>\r\n<p>Another response might be the monastic way: like that of Anthony of the Desert who hears the Word of God and goes instead to explore the mission land of interiority instead. As Abbot Marmion wrote: \"If we lay open our soul to God, the Divine gaze penetrates this abyss of which we cannot see the bottom. It goes into the most hidden recesses and brings us strength and light.\" So there is the exterior response and the interior response, both equally valid, and perhaps at some point not constituting two different paths, but a breathing in and a breathing out, as they seem to have been to Abbot Marmion.</p>\r\n<p>But there is one other response that we are called to as well, contemplative monks as well as missionaries: our liturgical response to having heard the Word is to go to that altar. The Liturgy of the Eucharist is a continuation of, a fulfillment of, and, even more, a response to the Liturgy of the Word. That\'s why I love the choreography of our liturgy here with its two separate spaces. It\'s as if every day we have an \"altar call.\" Each day the scripture is proclaimed and each day the Lord asks us through the church, \"Now that you have heard, will you still come and lay your life down on this altar and allow it to be lifted up and transformed into the Body and Blood of Christ?\" The Eucharist is now the rich food and the sweet drink that we are called to consume in ratification of the covenant.</p>\r\n<p>So we pray that we would receive the Word as deeply as Columba Marmion did, that it would reveal its meaning to us, and that we could respond with joy: by spreading the liberation and peace of the gospel, by making the journey to the abyss, the hidden recesses of our own being with the penetrating Divine gaze, and most of all by laying our lives on this altar and allowing them to be lifted up in the form of bread and wine, so that we too may be changed into what we receive.</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-10-06 15:09:57',68,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-06 15:09:57','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,408,'robots=\nauthor='),(1347,'October 7, 2013','october-7-2013','','<p><strong>Our Lady of the Rosary</strong>&nbsp; <br />We share the fruit of life through you, O daughter blest by the Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-06 20:12:08',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,168,'robots=\nauthor='),(1348,'October 8, 2013','october-8-2013','','<p>Let faith restore love\'s primal gift, a sharing in the unseen light that ruled the heart before the rift, which thrust the Maker from the made.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-06 20:13:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,167,'robots=\nauthor='),(1349,'October 9, 2013','october-9-2013','','<p>Your love, Lord, reaches to heaven, your truth to the skies. Your justice is like God\'s mountain, your judgments like the deep.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em> </p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-06 20:13:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,167,'robots=\nauthor='),(1354,'October 14, 2013','october-14-2013','','<p>Praise God, sun and moon, praise him shining stars. Praise God highest heavens and waters above the heavens.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-13 13:26:39',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,158,'robots=\nauthor='),(1350,'October 10, 2013','october-10-2013','','<p>In the morning fill us with your love, we shall exult and rejoice all our days. Give us joy to balance our affliction for the years when we knew misfortune.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-06 20:14:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,163,'robots=\nauthor='),(1351,'October 11, 2013','october-11-2013','','<p>My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my Savior. He has looked on the lowliness of his servant: all generations to come will call me blessed.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-06 20:15:29',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,165,'robots=\nauthor='),(1352,'October 12, 2013','october-12-2013','','<p>Made Lord in love, saved by your love, we pray. Be still the very same, heal all the wounds, apply the salve that makes us recognize your name.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-06 20:16:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,157,'robots=\nauthor='),(1353,'October 13, 2013','october-13-2013','','<p>Sing praise with resounding cymbals sing praise with crashing cymbals. Let everything that lives and breathes praise the Father, the Word and the Spirit.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-06 20:17:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,151,'robots=\nauthor='),(1355,'October 15, 2013','october-15-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Teresa of Avila</strong>&nbsp; <br />\"Let nothing trouble you; let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.\"&nbsp; <br /><em>– Saint Teresa of Avila prayer</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-13 13:27:30',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,156,'robots=\nauthor='),(1356,'October 16, 2013','october-16-2013','','<p>Keep in the middle way, we beg, the doings of the newborn day that in between the high and low, your servants always find their way.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-13 13:28:18',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,154,'robots=\nauthor='),(1357,'October 17, 2013','october-17-2013','','<p>O send forth your light and your truth, let these be my guide. Let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-13 13:31:44',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,147,'robots=\nauthor='),(1361,'October 21, 2013','october-21-2013','','<p>The stone which the builders rejected had become the cornerstone. This is the work of the Lord, a marvel in our eyes. This day was made by the Lord, we rejoice and are glad.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-20 17:47:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,155,'robots=\nauthor='),(1358,'October 18, 2013','october-18-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Luke</strong>&nbsp; <br />I no longer call you servants, but my friends. I have shared with you all that my Father revealed to me.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-13 13:32:29',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,161,'robots=\nauthor='),(1359,'October 19, 2013','october-19-2013','','<p>So human hearts and human minds must grow and grope and feel their way back to the likeness all divine, where hearts shall know the word to say.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-13 13:33:17',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,158,'robots=\nauthor='),(1360,'October 20, 2013','october-20-2013','','<p>You crown the year with your goodness. Abundance flows in your steps, in the pastures of the wilderness it flows.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-13 13:34:03',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,161,'robots=\nauthor='),(1362,'October 22, 2013','october-22-2013','','<p>In the morning let me know your love for I put my trust in you. Make me know the way I should walk, to you I lift up my soul.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-20 17:48:51',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,161,'robots=\nauthor='),(1368,'October 28, 2013','october-28-2013','','<p><strong>Saints Simon and Jude</strong>&nbsp; <br />O Christ, who chose these tireless men; choose now new witnesses of faith, that all the world may see and know you hold the church in your embrace.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-27 13:55:39',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,150,'robots=\nauthor='),(1363,'October 23, 2013','october-23-2013','','<p>My soul, give thanks to the Lord, all my being bless God\'s holy name. My soul, give thanks to the Lord and never forget all God\'s blessings.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-20 17:51:23',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,150,'robots=\nauthor='),(1364,'October 24, 2013','october-24-2013','','<p>This day be joy the whole way through, restraint its early morning light, faith its high noon, and may the heart escape the onset of the night.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-20 17:52:32',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,158,'robots=\nauthor='),(1365,'October 25, 2013','october-25-2013','','<p>Praise be to you for this day\'s use, maker most kind of all you lent us.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-20 17:54:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,160,'robots=\nauthor='),(1366,'October 26, 2013','october-26-2013','','<p>The gift of time, renewed each day comes with your other gifts, O Lord, time to mature, to grow and know the riches of your living word.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-20 17:55:06',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,158,'robots=\nauthor='),(1367,'October 27, 2013','october-27-2013','','<p>O dazzling light, which dims the stars arousing, in its run all things; our planet springs to life in you and each its song, your glory sings.&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-20 17:56:09',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,150,'robots=\nauthor='),(1369,'October 29, 2013','october-29-2013','','<p>I remember the days that are past; I ponder all your works. I muse on what your hand has wrought and to you I stretch out my hands.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-27 13:57:09',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,158,'robots=\nauthor='),(1370,'October 30, 2013','october-30-2013','','<p>This day at your creating word upon the earth your light was poured, this day O God upon us shine and fill our hearts with light divine.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-27 13:57:53',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,148,'robots=\nauthor='),(1371,'October 31, 2013','october-31-2013','','<p>Light shines forth for the just and joy for the upright of heart. Rejoice you just in the Lord, give glory to God\'s holy name.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-27 13:58:44',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-10-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,148,'robots=\nauthor='),(1376,'November 4, 2013','november-4-2013','','<p>This day at your creating word upon the earth your light was pored, this day, O God, upon us shine and fill our hearts with light divine.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-03 13:45:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,141,'robots=\nauthor='),(1372,'November 1, 2013','november-1-2013','','<p><strong>All Saints Day</strong>&nbsp; <br />O you, God\'s blessed spirits all; you holy ones, you mighty throng: anticipate our every step and go before us, faithful, strong.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-27 14:02:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,142,'robots=\nauthor='),(1373,'November 2, 2013','november-2-2013','','<p><strong>All Souls Day</strong>&nbsp; <br />How great the glory, greater still the joy that floods the endless Sabbath with its light; and happy they who now have gone ahead where God is All and in all, their delight.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-27 14:04:12',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,137,'robots=\nauthor='),(1374,'November 3, 2013','november-3-2013','','<p>In the first light no song is heard, and still are all the silent glades, till buried life shall rise again and light shall conquer all the shades.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-10-27 14:06:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-03 04:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,141,'robots=\nauthor='),(1383,'All Saints\' Day and Ignatius\' Simple Profession','all-saints-day-and-ignatius-simple-profession','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>There are these little leaps I\'ve noticed take place on the spiritual journey in general, and in the monastic journey, the contemplative journey in particular. One of the biggest is this: I thought that maybe Fr. Thomas had made up some kind of New Age claptrap when I first got here and we sang the antiphon that we use for Christmas: \"O wondrous exchange! Christ became a human child so that every child of Eve might become God.\"<sup>1</sup> But sure enough, there it was in Saint Augustine. And there it was again in Saint Basil the Great, \"Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspiration––we become God.\"</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>Now there are lots of theological subtleties to that and all kinds of fine print and sub-clauses in that contract, but still... that\'s not something I heard about at St. Andrews\' Parish growing up. That\'s enough to last a lifetime, unpacking that. I often say, after I proclaim that in a homily or a retreat talk, \"I have no idea what that means, by the way––that we become God––but I can\'t wait to find out!\" But it doesn\'t stop there. I remember when one of my friends left the monastic life to get married, I was really heart broken because we had become very close friends. He wrote a beautiful letter to the community in which he quoted Johannes Metz, a variation on Saint Augustine: \"God became human so that we might become human.\" Ah, that\'s it too. Even becoming divinized is not an end; it\'s the beginning. Like Saint Anthony coming out of the tombs as one with right reason and abiding in a natural state. Athanasius is showing through Anthony what a deified human being is like, and he is still <em>kata physin</em>–according to nature. We are somehow not destroyed by our encounter with grace; we are brought to who we are, who we are meant to be. My friend found that monastic life had helped him discover his humanity, and he fell in love with a wonderful woman and is now a husband and a father. But I decided that very day, not to denigrate his choice in any way, that if I was going to remain a monk, I was also going to be a full human being, that this was possible even, maybe especially, in monastic life.</p>\r\n<p>But there\'s also a step before all this as well. Fr. Robert loves to quote don Benedetto\'s famous maxim, \"Before a man can be a monk he must be a Christian. Before being a Christian he must be a human being.\" At times I must admit, with all due respect, I found that a little too facile as well: one can make the argument that spirituality is not something added on to the human person. But sure enough, again I found it in the Patristic era. Saint Irenaeus writes, \"How could you be God when you have not yet become human? How could you be complete when you have only just been created?\"<sup>2</sup> That reminded me of a famous quip of the great yoga teacher B. K. Iyengar: \"How can I teach you how to meditate when you don\'t even know where your legs are?\" So the first step in spiritual life is to make us into human beings. The next step is to become divinized. The next step is to become human again.</p>\r\n<p>And so with the saints, they are not necessarily extraordinary people at first––from Saint Peter with his clumsiness and cowardice, Saint Paul with his bitter zeal, through Saint Jerome and his biting sarcasm, Saint Thomas with his protruding stomach so big they had to cut a space in the table for him to sit, and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux who had such gastric troubles that no one wanted to sit next to him in choir for the smell, Saint Teresa of Avila with her love for steak, all the way up to John XXIII smoking French cigarettes in the Vatican garden, John Paul II with his Polish propensity to stubbornness, and Mother Teresa of Calcutta with her gnarled up toes and her dark despair that lasted fifty years. These are not necessarily extraordinary people at first, but ordinary people doing extraordinary things.</p>\r\n<p>But you could say it the other way around too, and that\'s what I\'ve discovered in monastic life. Every now and then in my first years here I would have these <em>ah-ha!</em> moments, and I\'d say to myself, \"Oh now I get it! <em>That\'s</em> what this life is all about.\" And they still happen sometimes, but they aren\'t always or even usually in choir. The other day when I saw Bruno and Robert speaking to each other outside of church, or Bro. Emmanuel picking up some food in the kitchen to take back to his cell, or when I watch Gabriel or Joshua carefully folding the altar cloth quietly every day after Mass humming to themselves, Benedict cleaning off the Sriracha bottles on the tables in the refectory––and I say, \"Oh <em>that\'s</em> it! That\'s what monastic life is all about!\" In this case it\'s people that I think are pretty extraordinary, doing very ordinary things, but in an extraordinary way, with attention, with care, with prayer under their breath.</p>\r\n<p>And that\'s when there is another one of those <em>ah-ha!</em> moments, too. It\'s a big step to realize that God<em> is in us</em>, again something I never heard spoken of when I was a little Catholic boy growing up. That too is a big leap, and you have already heard that so many times here that you might already be sick of hearing about it. But it\'s true and it\'s real, and it\'s as orthodox as anything. And our prayer, our monastic prayer, is particularly suited to realizing that indwelling presence. But there\'s another step too, and that is the next step that the saints take: to realize that we are in God! That\'s even more mind blowing (!), because that\'s what saves us from closing in on ourselves; that saves our mysticism from quietism and solipsism and all kinds of –isms and schisms and makes us realize that we are part of something bigger, a community, a body, the Body of Christ which is the church, but the body of all humanity which is somehow one being as well, but also somehow intimately connected to all created reality from the mud to the stardust. That\'s our sacramental view of the universe. And that\'s what allows that awareness to bear fruit, to become incarnate, and that enables us to truly be participants in the divine nature, co-creators. And, as far as I am concerned, that is what we are doing here on this beautiful little spot 55 miles from civilization 1300 feet above the ocean: building a whole new way of life based on those realizations, a little village of human beings with right reason and sound bodies, a domestic church built on common worship and charity, realizing the reign of God in our midst.</p>\r\n<p>So God became human so that we might become divine, so that we might become human. We discover God is in us and then discover that we are in God. We are ordinary people doing extraordinary things, so that we might become extraordinary people doing very ordinary things with joy, with attention, with love. So, Ignatius, I pray that that is what this life will do for you: help you be human so that you can become divine––a saint!––so that you can become human; realize God within you so that you and me and all of us realize that we are swimming in the ocean that is God, and so to build the city of God, so that God\'s kingdom come, God\'s will be done on earth, in you, as it is in heaven.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>1 (Cap. 9, 22-23: PG 32, 107-110), Office of Readings, 632.<br />2 Olivier Clement, The Roots of Christian Mysticism, 87.</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-11-04 17:26:16',68,'','2013-11-04 20:24:14',68,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-04 17:26:16','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,6,'','',0,414,'robots=\nauthor='),(1375,'Prayer and the Mirror of Humility','prayer-and-the-mirror-of-humility-','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>There\'s some debate about how to translate the Greek of this text. The NRSV may be more accurate<sup>1</sup> but another variation is funnier and perhaps more descriptive:<em> the Pharisee stood there praying to himself</em>. And that\'s what he seems to be doing. I remember a writing of a Carthusian who warned about prayer becoming just that, a projection, the ego deified.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>This Pharisee is looking up to heaven, but all he sees is himself! On the other hand the tax collector <em>would not raise his eyes to heaven</em>, and yet it is as if the prayer is going on <em>within</em> him. The one guy is praying outside to himself, the other one is praying inside to God, a prime example of the famous line from the climax of St. Augustine\'s confessions where he says: <em>You were within me, but I was on the outside</em>. That\'s why the tax collector <em>has chosen the better part and it shall not be taken away from him</em>,<sup>2</sup> because prayer really is a kind of interior conversation. The problem is that quite often, if we must admit it, the only response we get to this interior conversation is silence. Maybe that\'s when prayer really becomes the path of self-knowledge, and the path of humility.</p>\r\n<p>Once Herman Hesse was asked which one of the characters he saw himself in, in his famous novel <em>Narcissus</em> and <em>Goldmund</em>. Was he Narcissus, the studious monk who ever left the cloister or was he Goldmund, the young artist wandering the world in search of beauty and love? Hesse replied that he thought there was a little of each of them in him. And so I think at one level we could approach this story in the same way: there is a little of each of these guys in each one of us––part of us thinking we\'re the greatest thing since Velcro, and part of us feeling hopelessly inadequate.</p>\r\n<p>I sometimes think that the interior life of the wounded ego is like a hall of mirrors in a funhouse at the carnival. At one moment I look in one mirror and I laugh out loud because I\'m so tall. But in the next moment I\'m looking in another mirror and suddenly I\'m elfin and all squished down. Sometimes we go through our day like that: a moment of joy or a small success leads us to this great ego inflation; and the next moment someone doesn\'t say hello to me, and I\'m spiraling down into the abyss of self-loathing. This is where the great teachers of the inner life, from Evagrius and Patanjali through Dogen and John of the Cross, come in handy: anyone who has spent any time practicing meditation, or periods in silence and solitude will recognize this right away. The psychologist Sam Keen, writing about the lessons he learned from Tibetan Buddhism, says that our feelings are always oscillating \"between the extremes of grandiosity and debasement. We either think too much or too little of the self.\" But, he says, \"To be enlightened we [have to] reject both extremes.\"<sup>3</sup></p>\r\n<p>I remember so clearly once when I was a teenager, a prince of a man named Fr. Stempora was the rector of our seminary high school; he was also the Latin teacher. He used to call us all <em>domine</em> instead of \"sir\" or \"mister.\" I was going down the hall and he complimented me on something I had done, and I dismissed his compliment with the usual, \"Aw, shucks, it wasn\'t really that good... etc., etc.\" And he raised himself up on the balls of his feet, as was his wont when he was about to make a pronouncement during a teachable moment, and he said, \"Humility is truth, <em>domine</em>. It comes from the Latin word <em>humus</em> for \'dirt.\' There\'s nothing wrong with dirt. It\'s the ground we grow in.\" Humility is truth. If I may switch images for a second, in this hall of mirrors that is our inner emotional life, humility is like a plain clear undistorted mirror, in which we see ourselves as we truly are, with all our glory and all our weaknesses. But not only does the mirror have to be clear; so does our sight need to be clear, and that only comes after a long process of self-observation, rigorous honesty. To have a realistic and humble understanding of oneself actually requires a whole lot of courage, and a little bit of confidence, maybe a pinch of hope.</p>\r\n<p>I think that we sometimes have the idea that spirituality, mysticism, religion in general are for the spiritual elite. The problem with what Ken Wilber calls seriously and I call somewhat jokingly, the \"Atman Project,\" us dabbling in non-duality as it\'s expressed in other mystical traditions, is that it often leads to a kind of a spiritual ego inflation; the wrong part of us hears that we are divine. Our wounded ego hears that little whispered message, \"You are God!\" and it says, \"<em>I knew it</em>!\" And we put our <em>persona</em> on a pedestal and ask everyone else to worship around it. We don\'t realize that that which is divine in us is whatever\'s left after everything else dies. That may be why Jesus is always with the outcast instead, rather than with the elite. He\'s with those who don\'t fit into the world\'s categories––the weak, the oppressed, the orphan and widow we heard about in Sirach<sup>4</sup>. As Nathan Mitchell says, God doesn\'t come to those who have \"the right stuff\"; God comes to those who bottom out, \"the disempowered, the inarticulate, the pushed-around.\" That\'s what we learn from John of the Cross\'s teaching about the Dark Night of the Soul, too (this is from Iain Matthews again), that the spiritual life \"is taking us not to some soiree for a self-preoccupied elite, but to the heart of the world\'s suffering.\" Our wounds are the place \"through which God may graciously enter,\"<sup>5</sup> as Jesus showed by carrying his wounds even in his glorified body.</p>\r\n<p>So you might consider this for a second:</p>\r\n<p>What is the prayer you say when you think the plane is going to crash?<br />What is the prayer you say when you lose or think you have lost or are about to lose the person you love the most in the world?<br />What is the prayer you say when your child is in danger?<br />Or when you think you\'re going to have a heart attack?</p>\r\n<p>I think that\'s the closest thing to authentic prayer. No matter what prayers we have received from the outside it\'s the ones that come from the inside that count.</p>\r\n<p>What are the first words that come to your mouth when you come around the corner over the hill and you notice that the landscape you\'ve been living in for years is suddenly shrouded with light and color, and you realize just how incredibly beautiful it is and you get to live here?<br />Or when you\'re overwhelmed with gratitude for an act of kindness or blown away by someone\'s generosity?</p>\r\n<p>(If those moments never happen to us or if there\'s no response at all we had better have a look at that too.) Dr. Freud (and Fr. Michael Fish) are always reminding us that our little child will always be a part of us, and I think that there is something childlike about authentic prayer. Again, this is why someone like Evagrius is considered the great psychotherapist of the desert, because in prayer, like in psychotherapy, we dig deep to recover, uncover that innocent, primal voice in us that puts words to the most primal stirrings: fear, need, abandonment, grief, pain, confusion. Just listen to the psalms! Prayer is the voice that utters those deepest stirrings. It will always be there in us, the voice of that child; we only need to find it,<sup>6</sup> and in doing so we find our true selves.</p>\r\n<p>That to me is when prayer becomes a mirror. That\'s the prayer of humility, because it\'s the prayer of truth, the prayer of dirt, unfiltered and raw. When we reach the crisis of our limitations and honestly say, \"This is it, I\'ve done my absolute best; I can\'t do any more,\" that can actually be a moment of real strength and courage, a moment of truth. The same thing when we stand before God and acknowledge our limitations as well as our strengths: that takes courage, and that\'s humility. Unfortunately, it usually takes some kind of a crisis to get us there, but it doesn\'t have to be a moment of groveling and self-hatred, any more than Saint Benedict\'s steps of humility (RB 7) are. It\'s a moment of courage, a moment of self-knowledge, but also a moment of recognition––that I am part of something greater than me. I\'m dependent on, yes, but more importantly I\'m a part of, and the moment I say, \"I am not worthy\" the voice of God through Jesus swoops in and says, \"Yes, you are. <em>I have made you little less than gods</em>.\" As soon as we say, \"Lord, have mercy,\" God invites us to<em> participate in the divine nature</em>. As soon as we admit how far we feel from God, God says through Jesus <em>I am the vine you are the branches</em>. As soon as I say, <em>I am a worm and no man</em>, God says, <em>Blessed are the poor in spirit</em>.\"</p>\r\n<p>Now back to that silence I mentioned at the beginning. There\'s a line from a song called \"The Pearl\" by Emmylou Harris that my friend John and I like to sing:</p>\r\n<p>          The path is worn, our feet are poorly shod.<br />          We lift up our prayers against the odds<br />          and fear the silence is the voice of God.</p>\r\n<p>When we sing that song I always want to say, \"That silence is the voice of God!\" But we don\'t have to fear it. It\'s the golden silence underneath our groanings, and the great saints and mystics tell us that the truest, purest prayer leads us to that place, that silence. It\'s the silence of humility, and it\'s a mirror too, a pure clean undistorted mirror, in which we know ourselves as we truly are, an image of God, a vine on a branch, part of something Greater. That\'s the moment when the boundary between the fine point of my soul and the Holy Spirit seems to disappear, and I discover that the Other who I have been addressing is actually the Ground of my being and consciousness, and we are entwined beyond any possibility of separation. That\'s the place of real humility, when self is forgotten and God is remembered––<em>no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me</em>. That\'s also the silence out of which God speaks the Word in which all of creation is contained, and all of creation is––and I myself am––brought into existence, and any and every moment we can start all over again, our whole being flooded with the light, wind, breath of that Spirit.</p>\r\n<p><em>Those who humble themselves will be exalted, and the prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds</em><sup>7</sup>. As soon as we say, <em>Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter into my house, but only say the word</em>... God says, in Jesus, \"Come and eat of my flesh, and drink of my blood. Come to the feast I\'ve prepared for you, the wedding banquet of the Lamb.</p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>1 The NRSV, \"standing by himself.\"<br />2 Lk 10:42.<br />3 Sam Keen, In the Absence of God, 127.<br />4 Sir 35: 12-14, 16-18.<br />5 Iain Matthews, The Impact of God, 57.<br />6 Keen, Absense, 135.<br />7 Sir 35:16</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-10-29 21:31:02',68,'','2013-10-29 22:45:09',68,68,'2013-11-01 13:22:17','2013-10-29 21:31:02','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',7,0,7,'','',0,737,'robots=\nauthor='),(1377,'November 5, 2013','november-5-2013','','<p>O may the dawn forever grow, dawn open out its total store, Son in the Father wholly given, Father in Son for evermore.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-03 13:46:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,145,'robots=\nauthor='),(1378,'November 6, 2013','november-6-2013','','<p>A world so free and profligate reveals your loving hand, O Lord. With dawn and all the gifts of day we praise you, Abba, breath and word.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-03 13:47:08',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,133,'robots=\nauthor='),(1379,'November 7, 2013','november-7-2013','','<p>Glory to you, O Lord of life, no shade upon your morning falls that you would bless our morning too, hear how the whole creation calls.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-03 13:47:55',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,137,'robots=\nauthor='),(1380,'November 8, 2013','november-8-2013','','<p>Where the long ships will one day go the silent shoals of fishes roam, and in the reaches of the depths the whales delight to make their home.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-03 13:48:37',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,125,'robots=\nauthor='),(1381,'November 9, 2013','november-9-2013','','<p>Turn to me and be saved all you ends of the earth, for I am God, there is no other.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-03 13:49:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,131,'robots=\nauthor='),(1382,'November 10, 2013','november-10-2013','','<p>The Lord\'s voice resounding on the waters, the Lord on the immensity of waters, the voice of the Lord full of power, the voice of the Lord, full of splendor.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-03 13:50:12',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,131,'robots=\nauthor='),(1384,'November 11, 2013','november-11-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Martin of Tours</strong>&nbsp; <br />Almighty God our Heavenly Father, guide the nations of the world Into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Prayer to Saint Martin of Tours</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-11 13:39:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-11 13:39:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,132,'robots=\nauthor='),(1385,'November 12, 2013','november-12-2013','','<p>O Christ, indwelling source of life, reflecting fair your Abba\'s face, your radiance brightens all the earth as we awake to your embrace.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-11 13:40:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,128,'robots=\nauthor='),(1386,'November 13, 2013','november-13-2013','','<p>Aroused, awakened and aware hands turn to labor, hearts to pray; what yesterday was only glimpsed stands now as fresh and clear as day.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-11 13:41:02',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,137,'robots=\nauthor='),(1387,'November 14, 2013','november-14-2013','','<p>With all that lives and moves and breathes, astir at dawn, absorbed in praise, we waken to our Abba-God and sing the promise of this day. <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-11 13:41:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,128,'robots=\nauthor='),(1391,'November 18, 2013','november-18-2013','','<p>O Lord in whom the first day dawned, who clothed creation wondrously, that you should clothe yourself in flesh is even more wondrous to see.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-17 16:13:58',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,126,'robots=\nauthor='),(1388,'November 15, 2013','november-15-2013','','<p>Let them praise God\'s name with dancing and make music with timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes delight in his people, and crowns the poor with salvation.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-11 13:42:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,132,'robots=\nauthor='),(1389,'November 16, 2013','november-16-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Gertrude, Abbess</strong>&nbsp; <br />No preparation for death can be better than to offer and resign ourselves anew to the Divine Will—humbly, lovingly, with unbounded confidence in the infinite mercy and goodness of God.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Saint Gertrude writings</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-11 13:43:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,123,'robots=\nauthor='),(1390,'November 17, 2013','november-17-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Elizabeth of Hungary</strong>&nbsp; <br />I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth.?Let my soul glory in the LORD; the lowly will hear and be glad. ?Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Psalm 34 2-3</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-11 13:43:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,131,'robots=\nauthor='),(1398,'Death and Hope','death-and-hope','','<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Death and resurrection are not singular events<br />but the essence of the life force that animates us,<br />the divine creation encrypted in our flesh.<br />I am a-borning self in an a-borning universe.<br />My gestation period is eternal.<br />My end is not knowable.<br />Therefore I hope.<sup>1</sup><br />                         <em>Sam Keen</em></p>\r\n<p> November of course is the month we commemorate and pray for our dead, beginning with All Souls\' Day on November 2<sup>nd</sup>, stretching through the month, with the dozens of prayer requests that have come pouring in. Not to mention all the deaths we\'ve been surrounded by in our little world...</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>I am not sure if it was intentional, but it\'s at least interesting that this would also be the time of year when liturgically we start to turn our attention to the end of time, or the fullness of time, and all our eschatological musings. They really go together, don\'t they? Our own death is going to be the end of the world, in some sense, the end of our current relationship with time and space and the beginning of a whole new something.</p>\r\n<p>I think we often do the same thing with our speculations about death and the afterlife that we do with God: we tend to reduce them to our limited way of thinking. We represent eternal life just like earthly life, only better––a more beautiful landscape, endless supplies of pizza and beer, or, what seems to be everybody\'s favorite, more and more conjugal love. So the Sadducees in the Gospel today want to make an absurdity out of the injunction from Deuteronomy, that a brother must take up the wife for a deceased brother and raise up his offspring, and then spin that out to the point of absurdity, asking whose wife she will be in heaven after seven brothers––as if that were the point! Jesus could have used the same words he used in Mk 12: 24: <em>Are you not in error because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?</em> You are not acknowledging the infinite majesty and mystery of God! You are reducing heaven and the afterlife to what you can imagine. Even the resurrected body––we have no idea what kind of form it can or will take. Death and whatever lies beyond this life has got to be both more fascinating than anything we could imagine, definitely more awe-inspiring than reducing it to everything we like on earth with all the edges taken off.</p>\r\n<p>I want to suggest that just as we have an apophatic approach to God, a negative approach in which we let all of our imaginings and images go slowly one by one, so perhaps we need to have an apophatic approach to death too, and admit that whatever lies beyond this life is probably more fascinating, but definitely more awe-inspiring than anything we could imagine, just like God.</p>\r\n<p>Sometimes we refer to the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience as eschatological signs and it is specifically this Gospel that is pointed to as a reference. According to this way of thinking, the vows point to the kingdom of God, the vows already point to heaven. Especially the vow of chastity or the promise of celibacy, which diocesan priests take, for instance, points to the time, as Jesus says,<em> when they will neither marry nor be given in marriage</em>. But I think there\'s something more to the vows, too; they\'re a preparation for death. To willingly embrace poverty, a lack of ownership, is also a reminder that all things are passing, and that we are going to have to let them go one day anyway. Of course that doesn\'t make us hate the things of earth; if anything it makes us appreciate them more! The guys have heard me say often that line from G. K. Chesteron\'s Fr. Brown mysteries, \"No one knows how to enjoy a meal so much as someone who knows how to fast.\" The vow of obedience points toward a time when we will have to let go of everything we are holding on to. And all of our decision-making, our opinions and our preferences may be harder to let go of than our material possessions. I will never forget sitting at Br. Philip\'s bedside as he was dying, and he was holding on, holding on, and when he finally did pass and the bell rang signaling his death, Raniero and I both yelled out at the same time, \"He did it!\" Meaning, he finally let go! Every one of the vows we take is a little death, a letting go. And the big one,<em> conversatio morum</em>, is the biggest rehearsal of all, to constantly be asking our way of life, what else of my way do I need to let go of?</p>\r\n<p>There\'s an ancient Latin phrase<em> memento mori</em>–\"remember death.\" I was trying to find the origins of it <em>memento mori</em>. Some say it is a pre-Christian phrase (and this is a story worthy of Daniel Manger). In ancient Rome either when a general was either when he was about to march into battle, or when he was parading through the streets after a great victory in battle, his slave would stand behind him saying just loud enough for him to hear:<em> Memento mori</em>. Both great occasions for it: \"Remember that all this fame is going to end,\" and \"Remember how fragile you are.\" According to legend, Trappist monks are also thought to greet each other this way, at least on their first meeting:<em> Frater, memento mori</em>, to inspire their meditation (though I have never been greeted thus by a Trappist). St. Benedict doesn\'t use the exact phrase<em> memento mori</em> in the Rule, but he does have the same thought in Chapter 4: ...<em> mortem cotidie ante oculos suspectam habere</em>––\"Day by day remind yourself that you are going to die¬¬.\" I think that goes with the<em> conversatio morum</em>. And then he follows that with, \"Hour by hour keep careful watch over all you do...\" (RB 4:47-48) What\'s most telling about that is that St. Benedict includes this in the \"tools for good works.\" This is a tool for good works, to keep death before our eyes, to keep careful watch over all you do! How can that awareness be a tool that helps craft good works?</p>\r\n<p>Remember you are going to die and what? Often <em>memento mori</em> is associated with <em>memento vivere</em>––Remember death and remember to live! No one knows how to live so well as someone who is ready to die. Remember you are going to die, and Wake up!! Pay attention! Remember death and be humble in the face of eternity, and the grandeur of the universe! Tibetan Buddhism has a serious practice of reflecting on death, and they would say, remember death and have compassion! Why? This is from the Tibetan teacher Sogyal Rinpoche: because \"When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.\"<sup>2</sup> As the famous Mary Oliver poem ends, \"Doesn\'t everything die at last, and too soon? / Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?\"</p>\r\n<p>Remember death and what? Especially this, I think: Remember death and have hope! There is something tied in here too with our notion of time in the prophetic traditions. The injunction in Deuteronomy to carry on your brother\'s lineage is marvelous in the sense that there\'s an assumption that we need to carry on the work that went before us into the future. This is where hope comes in: the belief that they were carrying on their brothers\' lineage means that time has some trajectory to it, that history has a direction, a purpose. The same thing applies to these martyrs that we hear about in the book of Macabbees: they know that their death is worth while, not only because they will go to heaven, but because their blood will be, as we say in the Christian tradition, the seed of the faith. Their lives are about something bigger. This is the amazing thing about martyrs of every stripe, in any tradition, religious or secular. The thing to be admired is that they are willing to give their lives for something greater than themselves, something that will outlast them that they may never even get to see. Hope lies not just in the assurance of going to heaven; hope lies in the fact that life is worth continuing, and that building a world of justice and peace is worth dying for so that others may live. The same thing applies to soldiers and peace officers who lay their lives on the line to protect the innocent, as well as for protesters in Syria, Tiananmen Square or Tahrir Square, or civil rights marchers in Selma, who know that their lives are in danger every time they show up to face evil and injustice. I can only imagine that kind of courage, facing the awesome mystery of death every day. I feel so small in the face of this, all the little deaths I have to face.</p>\r\n<p>Lastly, it\'s notable how often the nuptial imagery comes up. In that time some Jewish teachers thought that in the kingdom of the resurrection would be endless conjugal bliss, in the writings of the 1st century rabbi Gamaliel, for instance. It has also become well known, unfortunately, in this day and age of suicide bombers, that there is a belief among certain Muslims, that someone who died for the faith would have 72 wives in heaven. (Islamic scholars tell us this is actually a misreading of the Qur\'an and the <em>hadith</em> or sayings of the Prophet.) As angry as it makes us, we should also feel sad for those who get lured into suicide seduced by those materialistic myths, reducing heaven to earthly images and fleshly pleasures. I don\'t recall us having it quite that blatant in the Christian tradition, but I think there is something right about the nuptial, marriage imagery, it\'s just that for us it\'s eros of a different sort. It\'s the eros of God drawing us to himself, of the reign of God drawing all of creation to itself. And for us individually, it is the soul being wedded to God, as is the Christian interpretation of the Song of Songs; it is the wedding feast of the Lamb, a little taste of which we celebrate every time we gather at this Eucharistic table, realized eschatology, already-and-not-yet.</p>\r\n<p>So let\'s remember death and have hope! Let\'s remember death and be compassionate! \"Be kind; it\'s been a rough day on the planet for everyone.\" Let\'s remember death and live! Wake up! Pay attention! Let\'s remember death and build a world of justice and peace! Let\'s remember death and prepare ourselves for the wedding feast of the Lamb.</p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>[1] Sam Keen, In the Absence of God, 120</p>\r\n<p>[2] Quoted in Keen, 108-109.</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-11-19 19:27:46',68,'','2013-11-19 19:41:43',68,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-19 19:27:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,5,'','',0,365,'robots=\nauthor='),(1392,'November 19, 2013','november-19-2013','','<p>The hills are girded with joy, the meadows covered with flocks, the alleys are decked with wheat, they shout for joy, yes, they sing.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-17 16:14:33',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,141,'robots=\nauthor='),(1393,'November 20, 2013','november-20-2013','','<p>Praise the Lord among all the people, the God of all goodness and compassion.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-17 16:15:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,138,'robots=\nauthor='),(1394,'November 21, 2013','november-21-2013','','<p><strong>Presentation of Mary&nbsp;</strong> <br />My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my Savior. He has looked on the lowliness of his servant; all generations to come will call me blessed. For me has he done great deeds, he the mighty, whose name is holy. His mercy is on all who revere him, from one generation to the next.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-17 16:16:03',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,132,'robots=\nauthor='),(1395,'November 22, 2013','november-22-2013','','<p>May his name be blessed forever and endure like the sun. Every tribe shall be blessed by him, all nations bless his name.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-17 16:16:45',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,134,'robots=\nauthor='),(1400,'November 25, 2013','november-25-2013','','<p>Do not be angry, O Lord, nor remember iniquity forever, your holy cities are a desert, Sion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation: your holy and beautiful house where our ancestors praised you.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-24 15:53:23',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,142,'robots=\nauthor='),(1396,'November 23, 2013','november-23-2013','','<p>He spoke through the mouths of his holy ones, those who were his prophets in ancient times, he promised to free us from our enemies and from the hands of all our foes.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-17 16:17:35',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,136,'robots=\nauthor='),(1397,'November 24, 2013','november-24-2013','','<p>They are happy who dwell in your house, forever singing your praise. They are happy whose hope is in you, in whose hearts are the roads to Zion.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-17 16:18:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,145,'robots=\nauthor='),(1399,'Albert the Great: Fides et Ratio','albert-the-great-fides-et-ratio','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p> </p>\r\n<p>Even though it\'s is only an optional memorial, I want to point out three things about Saint Albert the Great that strike me as salient even in our day and age. The first two go together. He is credited with being the thinker who really separated theology from philosophy. Now, there can be a down side to that, in the sense that this is the crossover into Scholasticism, and the moment in the evolution of consciousness when the rational mind starts conquering the mythic one and the slow decline of the sapiential learning that was more common in the patristic era.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>But the up side of it is the fact that the separation between philosophy and theology shows that there is no conflict between faith and reason; they are in a sense two different kinds of intelligences. Saint Albert referred to theology as \"emotional knowledge,\" whereas philosophy is more rational knowledge. They need each other. The inheritors of this tradition are Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. This is the argument that Pope Benedict tried to make so often (mostly falling on deaf ears to the right and the left), that reason lets us figure out such things as that terrorism is not true religion, even that fundamentalism is not authentic religion. Of course there many examples of religion being used to condone all kinds of crazy behavior but this one struck me recently: it was about a group of ultra-traditionalist Roman Catholics from the Society of Pius X who also denies the Holocaust. They openly challenged Pope Francis by disrupting an interfaith ceremony that was meant to promote religious harmony on the anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust, one of the pope\'s favorite events, in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires. That might have been a good time for rationality to step in.</p>\r\n<p>The second part of this thing about Saint Albert and philosophy that gets pointed to often folds right into that; he did it by using Aristotle. That may not seem shocking to us except for the fact that Aristotle had two things going against him: he was a pagan, and his philosophy was being translated and diffused around Europe by Arab Muslims. This was a shock to people of his time, especially church people. How could you use a pagan philosopher translated by who-were-thought-to-be-heretics to explain Christian theology? Again, the argument not only for faith and reason, and their compatibility, but the argument for <em>semine verbi</em>, the seeds of the Word that Justin Martyr taught had been scattered everywhere and were bearing fruit, even in the philosophy of a pagan translated by someone from a faith that was at the time usually considered to be antagonistic to Christianity.</p>\r\n<p>That brings me to John Paul II in his encyclical <em>Fides et Ratio</em> [72], this paragraph of which I practically memorized as a defense of the study of comparative religion and work I did for ten years in inter-religious dialogue:</p>\r\n<p>In preaching the Gospel, Christianity first encountered Greek philosophy; but this does not mean at all that other approaches are precluded. Today, as the Gospel gradually comes into contact with cultural worlds that once lay beyond Christian influence, there are new tasks of inculturation ... [Then he says] \"<em>My thoughts turn immediately to the lands of the East</em>, so rich in religious and philosophical traditions of great antiquity... Among these lands, India has a special place.\"</p>\r\n<p>We are constantly finding new ways to express the Gospel of Jesus for a new era, because we are constantly finding the truth springing up in hidden unexpected places.</p>\r\n<p>The third thing, right in the same line, is that Saint Albert was named the doctor <em>universalis</em>­–the universal doctor (could we say, the \"catholic doctor\"?) because of his fascination with and writings on botany, zoology, physics, chemistry, and astronomy. He shows us that not only is there no conflict between faith and reason, even though there has been historically, there ought to be no conflict between faith and science. This is why it has never ever been an issue for me as a Roman Catholic to believe in evolution, for instance. I\'m reminded of Teilhard\'s phrase again: not to worship creation, but nor to merely worship God. Rather, to worship God <em>through </em>creation.</p>\r\n<p>Let us pray with Saint Albert the Great and the author of the Book of Wisdom that:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If out of joy in the beauty of creatures, we think them gods, </em><em>may we know how far more excellent is the original source of beauty that fashioned them.</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em></em><em>Or if we are struck by the might and energy of creatures, let us realize how much more powerful is the One who made them.</em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For from the greatness and the beauty of created things their original author is seen. (Wis 13:1-9)</em></p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-11-19 19:42:19',68,'','2013-11-27 21:56:55',68,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-19 19:42:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,4,'','',0,370,'robots=\nauthor='),(1401,'November 26, 2013','november-26-2013','','<p>The Dayspring dawns, the Orient; ablaze with healing in its rays. Arise, awake, Jerusalem. Salvation comes to you today.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-24 15:54:08',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,138,'robots=\nauthor='),(1402,'November 27, 2013','november-27-2013','','<p>A lamb is sent from heaven above to set us free from every due. Like tears and sighs our sorrow prove that we may know forgiveness true.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-24 15:54:51',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,138,'robots=\nauthor='),(1403,'November 28 , 2013','november-28--2013','','<p><strong>Thanksgiving Day &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all of my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple. Lord, I thank you for your faithfulness and love.&nbsp; </p>\r\n<p><em>– Psalm 138:1-2</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-24 15:55:34',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,137,'robots=\nauthor='),(1404,'November 29, 2013','november-29-2013','','<p>In the deep sea a new life stirs, on the fifth day birds on the wing cleave upper air, soar in the skies, while in the trees the songbirds sing.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-24 15:56:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,139,'robots=\nauthor='),(1407,'December 2, 2013','december-2-2013','','<p>Far on to evening as the day, when from your tent you stepped and there so like a bridegroom came to us, the Son the virgin\'s womb did bear.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-01 15:53:50',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,140,'robots=\nauthor='),(1405,'November 30, 2013','november-30-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Andrew &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>You are the light of the world, a city built on a hill. I no longer call you servants, but my friends. I have shared with you all that my father revealed to me.&nbsp; </p>\r\n<p><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-24 15:57:06',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-11-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,141,'robots=\nauthor='),(1406,'December 1, 2013','december-1-2013','','<p>Kind maker of the light of stars, true lasting light of faith alone, hear now, O Christ, our humble prayer, redeemer kind of everyone.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-11-24 15:59:45',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,127,'robots=\nauthor='),(1414,'In the Center and Outside the Walls','in-the-center-and-outside-the-walls','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p />On November 18th we celebrate the anniversary of the dedication of two different basilicas, Saint Peter\'s Basilica at the Vatican and the Basilica of Saint Paul on the Ositian way in Rome. It\'s notable that liturgically Saint Peter never actually gets a feast all to himself. There is the feast of Saint Peter and Paul; then there is the Chair of Peter, which celebrates the primacy of the Petrine office. Even today when we celebrate his titular church it doesn\'t stand alone; he has to share it with Saint Paul. There\'s something right about that, though, for this reason: the Basilica of Saint Paul is usually referred to as Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls, because it was outside of the old city of Rome.','It\'s a powerful symbol, really, the one church at the center of the city and the other outside the walls, as Peter is known for the Petrine office and Paul is known as the great missionary. They need each other and should never be separated from each other. The institution needs to be reminded of the mission, as much as the mission needs to be rooted in the rest of the church, like someone who sits still in a rocking boat.</p>\r\n<p>In some sense we\'ve gone back and forth with the last few popes. After this great energy that was released by John XXIII and then Paul VI at the Second Vatican Council, opening the windows and having commerce with the outside world after 500 years of self-preservation, John Paul II and especially Benedict were trying to rein the church in again and bring it back to the center. And now Francis is going outside the walls again. Just hours before they elected him as the new pope, Francis made a speech before the College of Cardinals in which he urged the Vatican to eschew self-absorption and refocus its energies outward. \"The church is called on to emerge from itself and move toward the peripheries,\" he said, not only the geographic ones but also existential ones, \"those of sin, suffering, injustice, ignorance and religious abstention, thought and all misery.\" And he warned about the dangers of stagnation saying that, \"When the church does not emerge from itself to evangelize, it becomes self-referential and therefore becomes sick. ... The evils that, over time, occur in ecclesiastical institutions have their root in self-referentiality, a kind of theological narcissism.\" And that\'s what he thought the pope should be, someone who could help \"the church to emerge from itself toward the existential outskirts.\"<sup>1</sup></p>\r\n<p>Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls is also a Benedictine monastery, and I think that\'s where monasticism is best located too, even if inside the walls of a cloister, still outside the walls of the city, in those existential outskirts. Maybe that\'s a lofty poetic philosophical way of describing the new desert that we are called to inhabit––\"the existential outskirts.\" We have to be on guard against the same thing, we monks: spiritual narcissism, being self-absorbed and self-referential. Every now and then we too need to send someone outside the walls.</p>\r\n<p>Let me add one more thing: feasts of dedications of churches take precedence over all other feasts, even of Our Lady or apostles or martyrs. Why? Because they are never about buildings: they are considered to be feasts of Christ, Christ as the person of Jesus, but also Christ as the whole Body with all its members, and the full Christ toward which we are heading and which we are becoming, the church that<em> is the fullness of the One who fills all things</em> (Eph 1:23). And that fullness is at the center, and also outside the walls, in unexpected places, in the existential outskirts and deserts, among the poor and the lost, in hidden canyons and alleyways, lone voices crying from the rooftops and crying out in the wilderness.</p>\r\n<p>Let\'s pray with Saint Peter that we could always have the mind of the church and stay close to the center, through the scripture, the sacraments and the tradition. And let\'s pray with Saint Paul that we would have the courage to spread the liberating Word, and explore the new deserts of the world, and especially the wilderness of our hearts.</p>\r\n<p><hr /></p>\r\n<p>1 Then-Cardinal Bergoglio\'s gave him a handwritten version his comments, and also gave him permission to divulge its contents. It was published by a Roman Catholic magazine in Cuba. (ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press, March 25, 2013.)</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-12-02 21:23:59',68,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-02 21:23:59','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,267,'robots=\nauthor='),(1408,'December 3, 2013','december-3-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Francis Xavier&nbsp;</strong> <br />Thousands upon thousands, and millions upon millions are waiting to hear God\'s Word.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Writings of Saint Francis Xavier</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-01 15:54:35',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,142,'robots=\nauthor='),(1409,'December 4, 2013','december-4-2013','','<p>That when light comes some other day and many hearts are filled with dread, guilty he push us not away but keep us kindly, as he said.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-01 15:55:36',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,137,'robots=\nauthor='),(1417,'December 10, 2013','december-10-2013','','<p>To you our kindly king, O Christ, be glory and your Father too and to the Spirit, Comforter, both now and all the ages through.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-08 18:31:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,133,'robots=\nauthor='),(1410,'December 5, 2013','december-5-2013','','<p>Born before dawn, he is the One long before promised by the seers, whom Gabriel has now announced its Lord on earth at last appears.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-01 15:56:16',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,134,'robots=\nauthor='),(1411,'December 6, 2013','december-6-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Nicholas &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>We call upon Your mercy, O Lord. Through the intercession of Saint Nicholas, keep us safe amid all dangers so that we may go forward without hindrance on the road of salvation. Amen.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Prayer to Saint Nicholas</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-01 15:56:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,139,'robots=\nauthor='),(1412,'December 7, 2013','december-7-2013','','<p>Emmanuel, God now with us, the still small voice the great \"I AM\', the Holy at the heart of earth: Come! Consummate your Father\'s plan.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-01 15:57:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,139,'robots=\nauthor='),(1413,'December 8, 2013','december-8-2013','','<p><strong>Feast of the Immaculate Conception &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>Hail, O handmaid, God\'s beloved, led by God from lowest place; mother to the poor and lowly; God and earth in you embrace.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-01 15:58:26',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,132,'robots=\nauthor='),(1415,'Saint Cecelia: Beauty Holds Court Within','saint-cecelia-beauty-holds-court-within','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p />In the Office of Readings for the Roman liturgy, the church offers a beautiful discourse on the psalms by Saint Augustine for the feast of Saint Cecelia. In it Augustine is explaining the meaning of the phrase, <em>Sing to God with songs of joy</em>. \"How is this to be done?\" he asks.','Well, first we have to understand that words cannot express the things that are sung by the heart, and Augustine gives the example of people singing while they are harvesting in the fields or other kinds of strenuous work. They start out singing using words, he says, but then after a little while there is a change. \"As if so happy that words can no longer express what they feel, they discard the restricting syllables. They burst out into a simple sound of joy, of jubilation. Such a cry of joy is a sound signifying that the heart is bringing to birth what it cannot utter in words...\" That reminds me of something in African and Mideastern music that\'s called ululation, or the improvisatory sections in Indian classical music. Or in jazz what\'s called \"scat singing\"; it comes from the charismatic music of the tradition of gospel music and spirituals. Outside of jazz, it\'s something that is virtually lost in sophisticated Western music, though there was a time that the cadenzas in classical sonatas were actually improvised. \"If words will not serve, and yet you must not remain silent,\" Augustine says, \"what else can you do but cry out for joy? Your heart must rejoice beyond words, soaring into an immensity of gladness, unrestrained by syllabic bonds.\" What I note here is that Augustine is speaking about music the way Saint Paul speaks about prayer:<em> We do not know how to pray as we ought but the Spirit prays in us in sighs to deep for words</em> (Rm 8:26).</p>\r\n<p>I remember hearing as a kid a weird, kind of ghoulish, detail about the death of Saint Cecelia (maybe because we Italians, and Sicilians especially, have a kind of morbid interest in saints\' bodies). Legend has it that she was martyred by being struck three times in the neck with a sword, but that she lived like that for three days, time enough for her to ask the pope to build a church on the site of her home. And the reason that Cecelia is the patron saint of organists is that as she lay there dying, music came out of the wounds in her neck, like music coming out of the pipes of an organ. As strange as that sounds, what a rich mythic symbol that is for this what Augustine is talking about: there is a music inside of us, just like there is prayer inside of us.</p>\r\n<p>One place where this comes together for me is in a poem by Jessica Powers (the late cloistered Carmelite nun, Sister Miriam of the Holy Spirit) that she calls simply \"The Kingdom of God.\" In the second half of the first verse she says:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Beauty holds court within</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a slim young virgin in a dim shadowy place.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Music is only the echo of her voice,</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">earth is only a mirror for her face.</p>\r\n<p>She is speaking about Beauty here, as a personification of the Divine, and she keeps reminding the reader that this Beauty is not \"toward the stars,\" not \"on the hills of moon,\" not \"in some quiet arms,\" not under the lighted leaves. Rather, \"Beauty holds court within,\" so come home and find \"a timeless heart under your own heart beating, / a bird of beauty singing under your mind.\" I carried that poem around for months wanting to set it to music, and suddenly one day I was inspired to add to it a refrain from the words of Saint Augustine\'s <em>Confessions</em>, the climatic moment of his conversion when he calls out to God, \"O Beauty ever ancient, O Beauty ever new, how late have I come to love you. You were within me, but I was on the outside.\" He too intuits this, knows this, believes this––that the ever ancient, ever new Beauty that is the Divine is within us. It is the source of songs beyond the syllables, the well of the <em>sighs to deep for words</em>.</p>\r\n<p>This is a little known secret that is at the heart of Christianity: that we have a great Beauty inside of us. If God is the fullness of Beauty (one of the philosophical transcendentals), and if we are in the image of God, then that Beauty is th foundation of our own being. We keep looking for it outside of us like deer that sniff around for the musk, not knowing that the musk is coming from inside of them! There\'s a great contemporary jazz singer-songwriter named Kurt Elling who I like very much. His songs are sprinkled with all kinds of allusions to spirituality. One is called \"The Beauty of All Things.\" It goes like this:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is something within you,</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">there is something in everything that is:</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">unbelievable beauty,</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">flowing from deep inside,</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">don\'t be shocked or surprised if I</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">lift your disguise.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Realize that</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I can see it in all things, all,</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but especially you.</p>\r\n<p>That\'s why Jesus cleanses the Temple. as we heard about in today\'s gospel (Lk 19:45ff.). We hear it over and over again, so I won\'t trace every detail of it, but at first the Temple is a building; and then we find out, in John\'s gospel, for example, that the Temple has become a person––Jesus––when John tells us <em>He was talking about the temple of his own body</em> out of which was to flow the water from the right side bringing life and salvation from the cross, that image for Ezekiel that we sing at Easter time to refer to the Crucified One. But then, Jesus tells us,<em> that springs of living water shall flow from out of the believer\'s heart</em> (Jn 7:39), and Paul clarifies that<em> the temple of God is holy and you are that temple</em> (1 Cor 3:16-17). That\'s why the temple is cleansed; that\'s why the temple of our beings, our bodies and souls are cleansed––not because they are bad or evil, but because they are filled with great beauty, and we cleanse them to empty them, to purify them in order to set that song free, to awaken that prayer of the Holy Spirit praying within us, to unleash that spring of life giving water from within us to flow from our hearts and make glad the city of God. That is why our Saint Romuald tells us to \"empty ourselves completely,\" because when and if we do we\'ll find that the Beauty ever ancient, ever new, holds court within.</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-12-02 21:32:37',68,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-02 21:32:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,366,'robots=\nauthor='),(1416,'Do You Know What Time It Is?','do-you-know-what-time-it-is','','<p><em>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam, Prior</em></p>\r\n<p>One of the strongest images I have from my brief intense trip to Jerusalem is of Rabbi Eli, probably the closest thing to an Old Testament prophet I have ever met. This was a guy who had been arrested several times for standing in solidarity with Palestinians, protesting the human rights violations and protecting their land against the Zionists and fanatics.</p>\r\n','\r\n<p>We were standing outside at a high spot in East Jerusalem looking out over the disputed territories, he was pointing out the various iterations of the security wall making its serpentine way through Palestinian land, and showing us a map of a new settlement about to begin construction in total defiance of the UN and the US, called E4, which would effectively cut Palestine in half thus preventing any possibility of Palestinians ever having a contiguous piece of land to call their state, thus also effectively destroying the so-called two state solution. And, here\'s my point, he said, \"And so we are asking ourselves: what time is it? Is it a quarter to midnight? Is it five minutes to midnight? With this development I think it\'s one minute to midnight. It\'s almost too late.\" That line seared so deeply in my mind––\"one minute to midnight\"––that on the way home I wrote a whole song about it, the closest thing to a \'60s protest song I had ever written, and it included lines from this first reading from the prophet Isaiah, too: \"We\'ve beaten our ploughshares back into swords / and made spears of our pruning hooks. / We\'ve turned revelation to a battle of words / and made weapons of our holy books.\" \"Do you know what time it is?\" That\'s what a prophet asks, like Rabbi Eli: they don\'t predict the future; they predict the present. Prophets tell us what time it is, in our personal lives as well as in our communal lives, and they say, \"If you keep on this course, this is what is going to happen.\"</p>\r\n<p>Advent is different from Lent in subtle ways. It\'s not really so much a penitential season as it is a prophetic season. And we speak of the microcosm and the macrocosm at the same time, the big picture and our individual lives, and everything in between. We start out talking about the end of time and we move backwards, swim upstream to talk about the birth of Jesus, the beginning of the fullness of time. We are asking ourselves individually, \"What time is it in my life?\" in the same way we are asking ourselves as a church, as a species, as a world, \"What time is it? Where are we headed?\" They\'re all related, those questions, inextricably linked. \"How long can I continue to abuse my body before it\'s too late to turn it around and I descend into some kind of debilitating health condition?\" My Dad never quit smoking until he had his quadruple bypass; my uncle never quit drinking until he died of sclerosis of the liver. \"When am I going to heal that relationship with my parents, my old friend, my co-worker? When am I going to do my own inner work before I have let my dysfunctional relationships tear my family or my community or my workplace apart? Well, maybe I\'ll do it later: right now I need a nap.\" Wake up! Do you know what time it is? Another huge storm ripped through the US over the Thanksgiving holiday, this one was named Boreas after the ancient Greek god of the north wind. While we were eating our lunch on Thanksgiving Day, at least 14 people were killed and another 58 million people were impacted by being stranded or by loss of power. Climate science predicts that extreme weather events of all types are going to increase in their frequency and their severity, and there is overwhelming agreement that our carbon fuel based way of life is a huge contributing factor––we are changing the very course of evolution. And yet, the United Nations summit on climate change last week in Warsaw was considered to be the most ineffectual ever. We, as a human race, are still not willing to have the conversation about how our lifestyles may have to change, from our approach to transportation and architecture to our consumer habits. Do you know what time it is? In this case it may actually be one minute to midnight, not only to late to turn it around, but also too late to stop it.</p>\r\n<p>I know in my own life I have often had a tendency to think, \"When I get it all together, then I am going to take care of this, or that, or the other thing.\" This is an avoidance of our own mortality and a denial of the fragility of human existence. <em>The day of the Lord may come</em> for us<em> like a thief in the night</em>. Maybe we think, \"After I\'m fully enlightened, then I\'ll start to give my life in service; then I\'ll worry about other people; then I\'ll start to pay attention to what\'s going on around me.\" <em>It doesn\'t work that way</em>! The same applies to charity, at every level from the individual through the communal and the corporate: we\'re not supposed to wait to take care of the poor in our midst until we\'re comfortable. Just as there is no way to peace––peace itself is the way, so we\'re not compassionate once we are enlightened––compassion is the way to enlightenment. In his book<em> In the Absence of God</em>, Sam Keen has a pretty strong critique of contemporary spirituality. For years he has been a big supporter of all kinds of investigations into alternate especially non-Western forms of spirituality, but he wrote that he has recently grown dissatisfied, partially because the whole movement \"has largely been irrelevant to the great social, political and economic problems we face.\" It doesn\'t do soup kitchens, civil rights\' marches or protests. \"Amid all the offering on holistic healing, awareness, opening the heart, oneness, knowing God, and sacred bodywork, there is little or no reference to justice.\" So it\'s no surprise, he says, that the new spiritual movements haven\'t produced a Deitrich Bonhoffer or a Rienhold Neibhur, a Gandhi, a Dorothy Day, a Martin Luther King, Jr. or a Cesar Chavez.<sup>1</sup> Do we really know what time it is?</p>\r\n<p>Pope Francis is getting criticized for being too social in his message, but he is in more continuity with the last four popes, especially Pope Benedict, than most people realize. As John Allen says, both popes addressed contemporary Catholic sociology as much as if not more than doctrine or discipline. Pope Benedict tried over and over again to address the seeming split between the church\'s pro-life and peace-and-justice wings, in the same way as Francis is addressing the division between those Catholics who are invested in what Pope John Paul II called the \"new evangelization\" as opposed to those who are more interested in the so-called \"social Gospel\"––the poor, immigrants and the environment, our opposition to war, the arms trade, the death penalty and so on ––as if they were two different things! In <em>Caritas in Veritate</em>, for instance, Benedict XVI insisted on the link between what he called \"human ecology,\" meaning the church\'s teaching on pro-life issues, and \"natural ecology,\" including the environment as well as the economy, and that defending the unborn child and defending the poor are two sides of the same coin. His 2010 message for World Peace Day was entitled \"If You Want Peace, Protect the Environment.\" Pope Francis is doing the same thing in his new apostolic exhortation, \"The Joy of the Gospel.\" He says that there is a \"social dimension of evangelization\" that we are to free to ignore. And \"If this dimension is not properly brought out,\" he writes, \"there is a constant risk of distorting the authentic and integral meaning of the mission of evangelization\" because \"both Christian preaching and life are meant to have an impact on society.\"</p>\r\n<p>This image from the prophet Isaiah is so strong, it gets repeated several times<sup>2</sup>: <em>In the days to come the mountains of the Lord\'s house will be raised above the hills</em>. In the contemplative reading of scripture, we find these different layers of meaning. Jerusalem is first of all the historical city in its specific geographic location. But I came away from my time in Israel realizing that we cannot count on the actual city of Jerusalem on Mount Moriah in the Jewish state of Israel to be that for us: the place where <em>ev\'ry nation shall coming streaming to walk the way of peace; it\'s not going to be the place where they shall beat their swords to plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; it\'s not going to be the place where the nations shall not lift the sword against another land, nor train for war again</em>. One other place in the prophet Isaiah where this image occurs is in chapter 9: <em>In the days to come the boots of tramping warriors and the garments rolled in blood shall be burned as fuel for fire</em>. That\'s the reading from Isaiah that we\'ll read at Midnight Mass on Christmas, which means that we as a church think that that is what the birth of Jesus was meant to inaugurate. That\'s the society that the followers of Jesus are supposed to build ought to be:<em> for unto us a child is born</em> to inaugurate a whole new way of being in the world. It hasn\'t happened yet because Christ has not yet been fully born in us. There\'s a line from the book of Revelation––<em>I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven adorned like a bride</em>. I found out this little arcane fact, that that image was the most quoted line of scripture in the patristic era in regards to the church. That is what the followers of Jesus are meant to become, to be, not necessarily in a geographic place––the new Jerusalem, the place where, as Isaiah says in chapter 56, <em>anyone from any nation who will call the name of God I will bring them to this mountain, make them joyful when they pray, and my house shall be a house of prayer for everyone who calls, and I shall gather all the lost!</em> As far as I\'m concerned that is what we monks are doing here too, even if we never leave the property: we\'re building a new Jerusalem, a new way to live on the earth in accord with the dictates of the Gospel. This is also the mandate of every community, especially wherever two or three are gathered in the name of Jesus, and the mandate to every individual human person: that we become Jerusalem, for each other, for the world. Jerusalem happens whenever Jerusalem happens.</p>\r\n<p>Do you know what time it is in your life? Do we know what time it is in our life as a community, as a church? Well, I\'ll tell you what time it is: it\'s late, but it\'s not too late. Even if the Earth were about to melt down, even if civilization were poised on the brink of crumbling, even if we feel it\'s too late to do anything about our physical beings or our psycho-emotional growth, Advent tells us, in the tender mercy of God, it\'s never too late to prepare the way in the wilderness of our hearts, and then wait in joyful hope to see what miracles ensue because of the Word planted deeply there.</p>\r\n<hr />\r\n<p> [1] Keen, 167-169</p>\r\n<p>[2] Is 2, 9, 25, 56.</p>',1,4,0,8,'2013-12-02 21:40:19',68,'','2013-12-02 21:49:54',68,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-02 21:40:19','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,1,'','',0,646,'robots=\nauthor='),(1418,'December 9, 2013','december-9-2013','','<p>O radiant Christ, O joyous light, who mothers forth the stars in mirth: the Father fullness far out poured beyond the fragile hopes of Earth.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-08 18:31:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,141,'robots=\nauthor='),(1419,'December 11, 2013','december-11-2013','','<p>My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my Savior. He has looked on the lowliness of his servant: all generations to come will call me blessed.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-08 18:32:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,134,'robots=\nauthor='),(1420,'December 12, 2013','december-12-2013','','<p><strong>Our Lady of Guadalupe</strong>&nbsp; <br />Most gracious Virgin of Guadalupe, in your apparitions to St. Juan Diego at Tepeyac you promised to show mercy and compassion to all who sought your help and protection. In love and trust, I place my petitions before you (here mention your requests) and ask for your motherly care. I come to you hopeful and confident that, relying on your heavenly intercession, nothing can trouble or harm me. As you have remained with us through your admirable image, O Blessed Lady, so now obtain for us the graces we need.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-08 18:33:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,126,'robots=\nauthor='),(1424,'December 16, 2013','december-16-2013','','<p>You are my witnesses says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen that you may know me and believe in me: I even I, am the Lord and beside me there is no Savior, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-15 16:13:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,133,'robots=\nauthor='),(1421,'December 13, 2013','december-13-2013','','<p>Clear is the voice that now resounds, reaching the deepest depths and cries, \"Dreams are now banished out of bounds. The light of Christ breaks in the skies!\"&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-08 18:33:54',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,128,'robots=\nauthor='),(1422,'December 14, 2013','december-14-2013','','<p><strong>Saint John of the Cross</strong>&nbsp; <br />We must then dig deeply in Christ. He is like a rich mine with many pockets containing treasures: however deep we dig we will never find their end or their limit. Indeed, in every pocket new seams of fresh riches are discovered on all sides. For this reason the apostle Paul said of Christ: In him are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God.&nbsp; <br /><em>– From \"A Spiritual Canticle\" by John of the Cross</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-08 18:34:37',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,134,'robots=\nauthor='),(1423,'December 15, 2013','december-15-2013','','<p>On the day when the radiant star of morning shall rise in your heart, on the day when the glory of the Lord will shine forth in splendor, on the day when the Lord will wipe away all the tears from your eyes, that day face to face you shall see your God and Savior.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-08 18:35:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,119,'robots=\nauthor='),(1438,'December 30, 2013','december-30-2013','','<p>O Jesus, Virgin-born to you be glory, and your Father too, and to your kindly Spirit due, both now and all the ages through. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-29 23:34:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,114,'robots=\nauthor='),(1425,'December 17, 2013','december-17-2013','','<p>O Wisdom from the mouth of the Almighty God come forth. You reach from the beginning to the end. You order everything with both sweetness and strength. Come and teach us how to live in you.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Antiphon, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-15 16:14:39',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,124,'robots=\nauthor='),(1426,'December 18, 2013','december-18-2013','','<p>O Adonai and ruler of the house of Israel, appearing as a fire in the bush, who from the mountaintop has handed down the Holy Law, come and hold us in redemption\'s arms.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Antiphon, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-15 16:18:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,111,'robots=\nauthor='),(1427,'December 19, 2013','december-19-2013','','<p>O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign to all the world, before you every ruler silent bows, and to you every nation will one day return for help. Come and save us, we can wait no more.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Antiphon, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em> </p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-15 16:19:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,120,'robots=\nauthor='),(1428,'December 20, 2013','december-20-2013','','<p>O Key of David, scepter of the house of Israel, you open and you close without contest. To us who sit in darkness and the shadow of the grave, come unlock our prisons and our chains.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Antiphon, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-15 16:19:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,122,'robots=\nauthor='),(1430,'December 22, 2013','december-22-2013','','<p>O King of all the Gentiles and Desired One of all, the Cornerstone that binds the two in one, you fashion us from out of clay, we live among the poor. Come and save the ones who wait for you. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Antiphon, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-22 17:25:31',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-22 17:25:31','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,113,'robots=\nauthor='),(1429,'December 21, 2013','december-21-2013','','<p>O Rising Dawn, and radiance of the light that never ends, O Sun of Justice shining for the world, our days are filled with terror, we are frightened by the night. Come and chase the shadows from the dark.&nbsp; <br /><em>– Antiphon, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-15 16:20:37',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,125,'robots=\nauthor='),(1431,'December 23, 2013','december-23-2013','','<p>O Emmanuel our Ruler and the Giver of All Law, the One that every land is longing for, O Saving One once promised to the house of Israel, Come and save us. Be our Christ, our God.<br /><em>– Antiphon, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-22 17:30:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,122,'robots=\nauthor='),(1432,'December 24, 2013','december-24-2013','','<p>A humble virgin gave birth to a king: the joy of a mother was hers. Never before was seen such a wonder. <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-24 05:00:00',63,'','2013-12-22 23:15:48',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,6,'','',0,123,'robots=\nauthor='),(1433,'December 25, 2013','december-25-2013','','<p>Christ the Lord is born, the savior has appeared. Earth echoes songs of angel choirs archangels songs of praise. Glory to God in the highest. <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-22 17:33:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,119,'robots=\nauthor='),(1434,'December 26, 2013','december-26-2013','','<p>She brings to birth the very boy the angel\'s word had said would be, the one whom John had known was there when each the other could not see. <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-22 17:34:05',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,116,'robots=\nauthor='),(1435,'December 27, 2013','december-27-2013','','<p>Saint John the Apostle We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. <br /><em>– 1 John 4:16</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-22 17:35:38',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,117,'robots=\nauthor='),(1436,'December 28, 2013','december-28-2013','','<p>The choir of heaven exults for joy and praise to God the angels sing, while to the shepherds is made known the Shepherd who made everything. <br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-22 17:37:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,110,'robots=\nauthor='),(1437,'December 29, 2013','december-29-2013','','<p><strong>Saint Thomas Becket</strong> <br />O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising, you discern my purpose from afar. You mark when I walk or lie down, all my ways lie open to you. <br /><em>– Psalm 138 Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-22 17:41:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,106,'robots=\nauthor='),(1439,'December 31, 2013','december-31-2013','','<p>The blessed Creator of the world takes up the body of a slave, lest he should lose the ones he made he takes their flesh, the flesh to save. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-30 21:06:03',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2013-12-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,106,'robots=\nauthor='),(1440,'January 1, 2013','january-1-2013','','<p>The Savior is born of a virgin: Behold the Lamb of God, alleluia. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,35,'2013-12-31 22:26:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,105,'robots=\nauthor='),(1441,'January 2, 2013','january-2-2013','','<p>O shepherds, tell us what you saw. Who has appeared upon the earth?<br />\"We saw choirs of angels and the Babe in a manger, alleluia, alleluia\". &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-31 22:27:35',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,106,'robots=\nauthor='),(1442,'January 3, 2013','january-3-2013','','<p>Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-31 22:28:38',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,95,'robots=\nauthor='),(1443,'January 4, 2013','january-4-2013','','<p>Your Son O David, will sit upon your throne and his Kingdom will have no end. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-31 22:29:41',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,99,'robots=\nauthor='),(1446,'January 7, 2014','january-7-2014','','<p>This lovely star is brighter far than any shining of the sun, and tells that God has come to earth in earthly flesh for everyone.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-05 13:53:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,105,'robots=\nauthor='),(1444,'January 5, 2014','january-5-2014','','<p>O wondrous exchange. Christ became a human child so that every child of Eve might become God. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-31 22:30:38',63,'','2014-01-05 13:52:27',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,8,'','',0,100,'robots=\nauthor='),(1445,'January 6, 2014','january-6-2014','','<p>We have seen his star in the East and we come with gifts to worship the Lord, alleluia. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2013-12-31 22:31:49',63,'','2014-01-05 13:52:44',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,7,'','',0,101,'robots=\nauthor='),(1447,'January 8, 2014','january-8-2014','','<p>This then is every nation\'s King, King of the Jewish people\'s race that from our father Abraham its lasting line shall ever trace.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-05 13:54:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,102,'robots=\nauthor='),(1448,'January 9, 2014','january-9-2014','','<p>Jesus, to you all glory be who show yourself to every race, with Father and with Spirit too, the lasting source of every grace.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-05 13:55:30',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,98,'robots=\nauthor='),(1449,'January 10, 2014','january-10-2014','','<p>The Word has pitched his tent, alleluia, and dwelt among us. Alleluia.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-05 13:56:15',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,95,'robots=\nauthor='),(1450,'January 11, 2014','january-11-2014','','<p>The angels witnessed his coming; the Gentiles heard the good news. God made faith in him fill the whole world and then took him up in glory.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-05 13:56:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,92,'robots=\nauthor='),(1452,'January 13, 2014','january-13-2014','','<p>You light the Father\'s splendor you the lasting hope of everything bend down your ear now to the prayers your servants from the whole world bring. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-13 02:28:05',63,'','2014-01-17 18:41:29',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-13 02:28:05','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,3,'','',0,93,'robots=\nauthor='),(1451,'January 12, 2014','january-12-2014','','<p><strong>Baptism of Our Lord</strong></p>\r\n<p>You from your Father come to us, His and the Virgin\'s only Son; baptismal waters blest by you, new birth in faith for every one. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-05 13:57:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,100,'robots=\nauthor='),(1458,'January 15, 2014','january-15-2014','','<p>Glory to you, O Spirit blest, who from the Father, for the Son, are sent to take his earthly place, keep us with them forever one. Amen. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-15 00:35:23',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,103,'robots=\nauthor='),(1453,'Retreat for Musicians','retreat-for-musicians','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>July 4 &amp; 5, 2014</strong><br /><strong>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, OSB Cam and Gitanjali Lori Rivera</strong></p>\r\n<p>This is a retreat for musicians and lovers of music. The act of playing music is to step outside of one\'s limited self. In this retreat Fr. Cyprian and Gitanjali will explore music as a vehicle into the spiritual, and how music can transfigure our mundane experience into the realms of light and glory. Gitanjali Rivera, who will be presenting with Fr. Cyprian, is a long time student of Pir Shabda Khan, in the Sufi lineage of the Indian musician and mystic Hazrat Inyat Khan.</p>','',1,13,0,39,'2014-01-14 14:38:30',67,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-14 14:38:30','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,678,'robots=\nauthor='),(1454,'Realizing God','realizing-god','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>August 1 &amp; 2, 2014</strong><br /><strong>Fr. Thomas Matus, OSB Cam</strong></p>\r\n<p>We \"realize\" God when we become aware and grasp who God is for us here and now. We also grasp what God does for us and for the cosmos, from creation through the paschal mystery of Jesus and into the future. Our mediation is \"God-realization\" within and beyond the limits of time and space.</p>','',1,13,0,39,'2014-01-14 14:39:25',67,'','2014-02-06 14:22:16',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-14 14:39:25','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,5,'','',0,776,'robots=\nauthor='),(1455,'Dreams in Spiritual Stewardship of the Disciple','dreams-in-spiritual-stewardship-of-the-disciple','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>August 8 &amp; 9, 2014</strong><br /><strong>Fr. Daniel Manger, OSB Cam</strong></p>\r\n<p>Fr. Daniel will present on the usefulness of “dreamwork” in the spiritual life of disciples. Drawing upon biblical and hagiographic stories of the saints and modern insights based upon the Jungian school of psychology the participant will be facilitated to explore and ponder the dream narrative in their life as complimentary to their development in wholeness.</p>','',1,13,0,39,'2014-01-14 14:40:08',67,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-14 14:40:08','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,815,'robots=\nauthor='),(1456,'Vocations: Come and See – Explore your life path','vocations-come-and-see--explore-your-life-path','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>August 15 &amp; 16, 2014</strong><br /><strong>Fr. Cyprian Consiglio, Fr. Raniero Hoffman, Br. Bede Healey, Novice James Makil</strong></p>\r\n<p>Author Sam Keen writes: “The call of vocation seems to issue from the future rather than the past. It encourages me to be and to become who I am meant to be – to live up to the promise that has animated me since the beginning.” Through talks and group discussions as well as individual sessions with some of the monks, spend a weekend considering your future, the animating spirit calling out to you – religious life, marriage, priesthood – whatever your sacred path is.</p>','',1,13,0,39,'2014-01-14 14:40:45',67,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-14 14:40:45','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,742,'robots=\nauthor='),(1457,'The Groaning of God and of Creation','the-groaning-of-god-and-of-creation','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>September 26 &amp; 27, 2014</strong><br /><strong>Br. Ivan Nicoletto, OSB Cam</strong></p>\r\n<p>Both God and Creation are involved in the labor pains of a birth (Rm 8:22-23). Both need a place to be born. How do we generate the Divine, and are generated by the Divine? In the course of this retreat we will experience a journey of birthing with the assistance of caring midwives: scriptures, arts, mystics, and Nature. A rhythm of reflection, silence, and sharing will accompany this re-generative weekend.</p>','',1,13,0,39,'2014-01-14 14:41:23',67,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-14 14:41:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,630,'robots=\nauthor='),(1459,'January 14, 2014','january-14-2014','','<p>Don\'t you believe that there is in each human person a depth so profound as to be hidden even to that person? &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Augustine of Hippo</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-15 00:36:11',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-15 00:36:11','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,96,'robots=\nauthor='),(1460,'January 16, 2014','january-16-2014','','<p>God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Augustine of Hippo</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-15 00:38:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,95,'robots=\nauthor='),(1461,'January 17, 2014','january-17-2014','','<p>God loves each of us as if we were the only person on earth. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Augustine of Hippo</em></p>','',-1,9,0,35,'2014-01-15 00:40:04',63,'','2014-01-17 18:45:03',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',3,0,1,'','',0,102,'robots=\nauthor='),(1462,'January 18, 2014','january-18-2014','','<p>On the sixth evening you gave back the human spirit you once gave, that we might all receive again the life that saves us from the grave. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-15 00:41:05',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,88,'robots=\nauthor='),(1463,'January 19, 2014','january-19-2014','','<p>The God who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Saint Augustine of Hippo</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-15 00:42:18',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,95,'robots=\nauthor='),(1464,'January 20, 2014','january-20-2014','','<p>Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? The human person is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of our heads are easier by far to count than our feeling, the movements of our hearts.<br /><em>–&nbsp;Saint Augustine of Hippo</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-20 12:19:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-20 12:19:40','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,93,'robots=\nauthor='),(1465,'January 21, 2014','january-21-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Agnes</strong></p>\r\n<p>O glorious St. Agnes, you served God in humility and confidence on earth and are now in the enjoyment of His beatific Vision in heaven because you persevered till death and gained the crown of eternal life. Remember now the dangers that surround me in the vale of tears, and intercede for me in my needs and troubles. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Prayer to Saint Agnes</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-20 12:39:50',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,91,'robots=\nauthor='),(1466,'January 22, 2014','january-22-2014','','<p>I will bless the Lord at all times, God\'s praise always on my lips; in the Lord my soul shall make its boast. The humble shall hear and be glad. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-20 12:41:23',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,91,'robots=\nauthor='),(1467,'January 23, 2014','january-23-2014','','<p>For signs and seasons, days and years the sun and moon, the stars at night, to frame our human time and still divide the darkness from the light. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-20 12:42:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,82,'robots=\nauthor='),(1468,'January 24, 2014','january-24-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Francis de Sales</strong></p>\r\n<p>It is an error, or rather a heresy, to say devotion is incompatible with the life of a soldier, a tradesman, a prince, or a married woman.... It has happened that many have lost perfection in the desert who had preserved it in the world. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Francis de Sales</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-20 12:43:25',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,83,'robots=\nauthor='),(1471,'January 27, 2014','january-27-2014','','<p>Kind maker of the light of stars, true lasting light of faith alone, hear now, O Christ, our humble prayer, redeemer kind of every one. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-26 16:39:29',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,78,'robots=\nauthor='),(1469,'January 25, 2014','january-25-2014','','<p><strong>Conversation of Saint Paul</strong></p>\r\n<p>He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all the energy Christ so powerfully works in me. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Paul</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-20 12:44:34',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,84,'robots=\nauthor='),(1470,'January 26, 2014','january-26-2014','','<p>Walk as children of light, for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true and try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Paul</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-20 12:45:39',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,73,'robots=\nauthor='),(1472,'January 28, 2014','january-28-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Thomas Aquinas &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Thomas Aquinas</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-26 17:01:53',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,78,'robots=\nauthor='),(1473,'January 29, 2014','january-29-2014','','<p>Keep in the middle way, we beg, the doings of the newborn day that in between the high and low your servants always find their way. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-26 17:03:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,79,'robots=\nauthor='),(1474,'January 30, 2014','january-30-2014','','<p><strong>Saint John Chrysostom &nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p>O Lord Jesus Christ, ?open the eyes of my heart, ?that I may hear Your word ?and understand and do Your will, ?for I am a sojourner upon the earth. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><em>– Prayer of Saint John Chrysostom</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-26 17:04:00',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,77,'robots=\nauthor='),(1476,'February 1, 2014','february-1-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Brigid of Ireland &nbsp;</strong><br />I would like the angels of Heaven to be among us. I would like an abundance of peace. I would like full vessels of charity. I would like rich treasures of mercy... &nbsp;<br /><em>– Prayer attributed to Saint Brigid</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:50:49',63,'','2014-02-01 15:43:05',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,9,'','',0,82,'robots=\nauthor='),(1475,'January 31, 2014','january-31-2014','','<p>For me has he done great deeds, he the mighty whose name is holy. His mercy is on all who revere him from one generation to the next. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-26 17:04:58',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,10,'','',0,80,'robots=\nauthor='),(1477,'February 2, 2014','february-2-2014','','<p><strong>Presentation of Jesus &nbsp;</strong><br />The parents bring the Christ-child in, offering within the holy house, the One who chose to keep the Law, though his own temple knew no sin. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:51:42',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,84,'robots=\nauthor='),(1478,'February 3, 2014','february-3-2014','','<p>In the scroll of the book it stands written that I should do your will. My God, I delight in your law in the depth of my heart.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:52:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,74,'robots=\nauthor='),(1479,'February 4, 2014','february-4-2014','','<p>Great in our midst is Jesus, the Holy One of God, in whom the Father has done great deeds manifested in the Holy Spirit.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:53:32',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,71,'robots=\nauthor='),(1480,'February 5, 2014','february-5-2014','','<p>He spoke through the mouths of his holy ones, those who were his prophets in ancient times. He promised to free us from our enemies and from the hands of all our foes.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:54:21',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,71,'robots=\nauthor='),(1481,'February 6, 2014','february-6-2014','','<p>Show forth your work to your servants; let your glory shine on their children. Let the favor of the Lord be upon us. Give success to the work of our hands. <em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:55:02',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,69,'robots=\nauthor='),(1482,'February 7, 2014','february-7-2014','','<p>Through the loving kindness of our God, the Dayspring from on high shall visit us, illumining those in darkness and shadowed by death and guiding our steps in the path of peace.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:55:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,69,'robots=\nauthor='),(1483,'February 8, 2014','february-8-2014','','<p>As for you, O Child, you shall be called a prophet of the most high God for you shall go ahead of the Lord to lay out straight paths before him that his people may know their salvation in the remission of all their sins.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:56:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,63,'robots=\nauthor='),(1484,'February 9, 2014','february-9-2014','','<p>Lord, listen to my prayer; turn your ear to my appeal. You are faithful, you are just, give answer. Do not call your servant to judgment for no one is just in your sight.</p>\r\n<p><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-01-31 19:57:11',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,68,'robots=\nauthor='),(1486,'February 10, 2014','february-10-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Scholastica &nbsp;</strong><br />O loving God convert our hearts, and Son reveal your deep designs. Your spirit fosters all that heals and leads us where your love combines. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-10 12:10:13',63,'','2014-02-10 14:53:24',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-10 12:10:13','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,1,'','',0,60,'robots=\nauthor='),(1485,'Christian Contemplation','christian-contemplation','','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>August 22 &amp; 23, 2014</strong><br /><strong>Fr. Robert Hale, OSB Cam</strong></p>\r\n<p>We shall explore three dimensions of Christian contemplative prayer, and their mutual interpenetration:</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>prayer throughout the day, with references to \"the practice of the presence of God\" and \"the sacrament of the present moment\"</li>\r\n<li>prayer in silent sitting, with referenece to the \"Cloud of Unknowing\", the \"prayer of Jesus\" and recent meditation practices</li>\r\n<li>contemplative prayer in liturgy, especially Eucharist, but also psalmody.</li>\r\n</ol>','',1,13,0,39,'2014-01-14 14:41:23',67,'','2014-02-06 14:28:18',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-01-14 14:41:23','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,531,'robots=\nauthor='),(1487,'February 11, 2014','february-11-2014','','<p>Hear the voice of my pleading as I call for help, as I lift up my hands in prayer to your holy place.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-11 13:04:54',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-11 13:04:54','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,67,'robots=\nauthor='),(1488,'February 12, 2014','february-12-2014','','<p>This dawning day is splendor-filled: our God is self-revealed through light. Creation is renewed afresh awakening to its Lover\'s sight.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-12 00:37:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,60,'robots=\nauthor='),(1489,'February 13, 2014','february-13-2014','','<p>Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp, with the sound of music. With trumpets and the sound of the horn acclaim the King, the Lord. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-12 00:38:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,62,'robots=\nauthor='),(1490,'February 14, 2014','february-14-2014','','<p>For the love of my family and friends I say, \"Peace be upon you.\"<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-12 00:39:41',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,63,'robots=\nauthor='),(1491,'February 15, 2014','february-15-2014','','<p>May his name be blessed forever and endure like the sun. Every tribe shall be blessed in him, all nations bless his name. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OS</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-12 00:40:36',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,63,'robots=\nauthor='),(1493,'February 17, 2014','february-17-2014','','<p>God put a new song into my mouth, praise of our God. Many shall see and fear and shall trust in the Lord. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-16 18:18:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,64,'robots=\nauthor='),(1492,'February 16, 2014','february-16-2014','','<p>Sing praise with sound of trumpet, sing praise with lute and harp, sing praise with timbrel and dance, sing praise with strings and pipes. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-12 00:41:29',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,58,'robots=\nauthor='),(1494,'February 18, 2014','february-18-2014','','<p>To fear the Lord is the first stage of wisdom. All who do so prove themselves wise. God\'s praise shall last forever. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-16 18:18:57',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,62,'robots=\nauthor='),(1500,'Please join us for our annual retreat in May 2014, \"The New Evangelization\"','please-join-us-for-our-annual-retreat-in-may-2014-qthe-new-evangelizationq','','<p><a href=\"images/stories/retreat_2014_flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"images/stories/retreat_2014_flyer.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"185\" alt=\"retreat 2014 flyer\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"images/stories/retreat_2014_flyer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click to view and/or download the Retreat flyer and registration form.</a></p>','',1,5,0,10,'2014-02-19 21:26:32',67,'','2014-02-19 21:37:40',67,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-19 21:26:32','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',4,0,1,'','',0,1514,'robots=\nauthor='),(1495,'February 19, 2014','february-19-2014','','<p>May your love be upon us, O Lord, as we place all our hope in you. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-16 18:19:58',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,56,'robots=\nauthor='),(1496,'February 20, 2014','february-20-2014','','<p>Our God raises up the poor and gives the lowly one a seat of honor. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-16 18:20:54',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,68,'robots=\nauthor='),(1497,'February 21, 2014','february-21-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Peter Damian</strong> &nbsp;<br />...Turn, then, toward us, so that we may also be able to go and see you in heaven. For the greatest glory that we can have, after seeing God, will be to see you, to love you, and to be under your protection. ... &nbsp;<br /><em>– Marian Prayer of Saint Peter Damian</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-16 18:21:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,55,'robots=\nauthor='),(1501,'February 24, 2014','february-24-2014','','<p>For as the heavens are high above the earth so strong is God\'s love for the God-fearing; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our sins. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-24 00:37:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,61,'robots=\nauthor='),(1498,'February 22, 2014','february-22-2014','','<p><strong>Chair of Saint Peter</strong> &nbsp;<br />Jesus, we thank you for the Church, your body. Keep us all one with you and with each other, one with our bishop, one with our chief shepherd, Peter\'s successor. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-16 18:22:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,56,'robots=\nauthor='),(1499,'February 23, 2014','february-23-2014','','<p>The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-16 18:24:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,53,'robots=\nauthor='),(1502,'February 25, 2014','february-25-2014','','<p>When I am lifted up I will draw all people to myself, says the Lord.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-25 11:48:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-25 11:48:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,59,'robots=\nauthor='),(1503,'February 26, 2014','february-26-2014','','<p>Not bread alone the bread you ate when waiting in the wilderness, the Father\'s word, your very food becomes in you the Bread we bless. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-26 12:08:03',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-26 12:08:03','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,56,'robots=\nauthor='),(1504,'February 27, 2014','february-27-2014','','<p>Living in Him, we shall not die, though we may die a thousand deaths. His Father and His Spirit, will keep us for eternity. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-27 01:30:11',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,57,'robots=\nauthor='),(1505,'February 28, 2014','february-28-2014','','<p>It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O most high, to proclaim your love in the morning and your truth in the watches of the night on the ten-stringed lyre and the lute, with the murmuring sound of the harp. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-27 01:31:09',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-02-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,62,'robots=\nauthor='),(1508,'March 3, 2014','march-3-2014','','<p>Not bread alone the bread you ate when waiting in the wilderness; the Father\'s word, your very food becomes in you\'re the bread we bless. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-03 02:13:01',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,58,'robots=\nauthor='),(1506,'March 1, 2014','march-1-2014','','<p>O Lord, in whom the first day dawned, who clothed creation wondrously, that you should clothe yourself in flesh is even more wondrous to see. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-27 01:34:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-01 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,61,'robots=\nauthor='),(1507,'March 2, 2014','march-2-2014','','<p>Led by the Spirit let us choose to offer daily, not deny what we have offered in his joy and ever on his strength rely. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-02-27 01:36:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,58,'robots=\nauthor='),(1509,'March 4, 2014','march-4-2014','','<p>There silence shall set free the will, the heart to one desire restore. There each restraint shall purify and strengthen those who seek the Lord. &nbsp;</p>\r\n<p><em>–&nbsp;Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-04 01:40:36',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,59,'robots=\nauthor='),(1510,'March 5, 2014','march-5-2014','','<p><strong>Ash Wednesday &nbsp;</strong><br />But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Matthew 6:6</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-05 01:19:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,58,'robots=\nauthor='),(1511,'March 6, 2014','march-6-2014','','<p>Days in the desert swiftly go if only we will raise our eyes to where the dawn is growing bright the day that sees our Lord arise. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OS</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-06 13:11:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-06 13:11:28','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,48,'robots=\nauthor='),(1513,'March 9, 2014','march-9-2014','','<p>From the dawning of creation you have loved us as your own; stay with us through all temptation, make us turn to you alone. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-09 15:29:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-09 15:29:13','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,48,'robots=\nauthor='),(1512,'March 7, 2014','march-7-2014','','<p>There bread from heaven shall sustain and water from the rock be struck. There shall his people hear his word, the living God encounter there. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-07 01:21:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,49,'robots=\nauthor='),(1514,'March 10 , 2014','march-10--2014','','<p>Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has visited and ransomed his people. He raised up for us a mighty Savior, born of the hours of his servant David. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-10 11:11:34',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-10 11:11:34','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,49,'robots=\nauthor='),(1516,'March 12, 2014','march-12-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Gregory the Great &nbsp;</strong><br />The proof of love is in what it does. Where love exists, it does great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Saint Gregory the Great</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-12 00:40:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,49,'robots=\nauthor='),(1515,'March 11, 2014','march-11-2014','','<p>The Lord Jesus Christ has conquered death and through the gospel revealed eternal life.&nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',1,0,0,0,'2014-03-11 01:43:20',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-11 01:43:20','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(1517,'March 13, 2014','march-13-2014','','<p>Destroy this temple says the Lord; in three days I will raise it up again. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-12 00:42:14',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,52,'robots=\nauthor='),(1518,'March 14, 2014','march-14-2014','','<p>With joy and by the Spirit led the church of Christ seeks desert paths, all else forgotten God alone to worship and to follow there.&nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-12 00:43:17',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,51,'robots=\nauthor='),(1519,'March 15, 2014','march-15-2014','','<p>Through the loving kindness of our God the Dayspring from on high shall visit us, illuming those in darkness and shadowed by death and guiding our steps in the path of peace. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-12 00:44:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-15 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,51,'robots=\nauthor='),(1520,'March 16, 2014','march-16-2014','','<p>In our call to be a blessing may we be a blessing true; May we live and die confessing Christ as Lord of all we do. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-12 00:45:16',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,48,'robots=\nauthor='),(1521,'March 17, 2014','march-17-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Patrick &nbsp;</strong><br />Christ shield me this day: Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every person who thinks of me, Christ in the eye that sees me, Christ in the ear that hears me\" &nbsp;<br /><em>– The Breastplate of St. Patrick</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-17 00:49:13',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,56,'robots=\nauthor='),(1522,'March 18, 2014','march-18-2014','','<p>O Lord you are merciful to all and you hate nothing that you have created but love everything that is. You over look the sins of humankind and bring them to repentance. Have mercy on me, God have mercy, for in you my soul has taken refuge. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-17 00:50:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,47,'robots=\nauthor='),(1523,'March 19, 2014','march-19-2014','','<p><strong>Saint Joseph &nbsp;</strong><br />We have so little word of you, how hidden Joseph was your life. Yet what you chose to do speaks much in taking Mary as your wife. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-17 00:51:43',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,44,'robots=\nauthor='),(1524,'March 20, 2014','march-20-2014','','<p>The standards of the king fly high. The cross in mystic radiance shines. Upon it there our life was slain. That death of his brought life again. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-17 00:53:24',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,44,'robots=\nauthor='),(1525,'March 21, 2014','march-21-2014','','<p><strong>Transitus of Saint Benedict &nbsp;</strong><br />Gracious and holy Father, please give me:<br />intellect to understand you; reason to discern you; diligence to seek you; wisdom to find you; a spirit to know you; a heart to meditate upon you; ears to hear you; eyes to see you; a tongue to proclaim you; a way of life pleasing to you; patience to wait for you; and perseverance to look for you. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Prayer of Saint Benedict</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-17 00:54:26',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-21 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,43,'robots=\nauthor='),(1528,'March 24, 2014','march-24-2014','','<p><strong>Archbishop Oscar Romero &nbsp;</strong><br />We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.<br />This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord\'s grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future that is not our own. Amen. &nbsp;<br /><em>– A Prayer of Oscar Romero</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:12:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-24 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,39,'robots=\nauthor='),(1526,'March 22, 2014','march-22-2014','','<p>Toward our ancestors he was ever merciful, keeping in mind his holy covenant, the oath he had sworn to our father Abraham that rid of fear and safe from the foe, we might serve him all the days of our lives and stand in his presence a just and holy people. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB &nbsp;</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-17 00:55:35',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-22 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,41,'robots=\nauthor='),(1527,'March 23, 2014','march-23-2014','','<p>Living water of salvation, be the fountain of each soul; springing up in new creation, flow in us and make us whole. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-17 00:56:39',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,9,'','',0,37,'robots=\nauthor='),(1529,'March 25, 2014','march-25-2014','','<p><strong>Annunciation of the Lord &nbsp;</strong><br />And coming to her, he said, \"Hail, favored one! The Lord is with you.\" But she was greatly troubled at what was said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. Then the angel said to her, \"Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in&nbsp;your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Luke 1 28-31.</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:14:28',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,41,'robots=\nauthor='),(1530,'March 26, 2014','march-26-2014','','<p>My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my savior. He has looked on the lowliness of his servant:&nbsp;all generations to come will call me blessed.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:16:07',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,38,'robots=\nauthor='),(1531,'March 27, 2014','march-27-2014','','<p>For me has he done great deeds, he the mighty, whose name is holy. His mercy is on all who revere him, from one generation to the next. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:17:26',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,38,'robots=\nauthor='),(1536,'April 1, 2014','april-1-2014','','<p>With Paschal praise be Christ proclaimed. His love for us unfolds, astounds, for by his lifeblood we are freed to live with him beyond death\'s bounds. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-01 10:56:05',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-01 10:56:05','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,38,'robots=\nauthor='),(1532,'March 28, 2014','march-28-2014','','<p>How good it is to keep the fast which prophets kept in ages past and which our own Incarnate Lord has sanctified by deed and word.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:18:24',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,38,'robots=\nauthor='),(1533,'March 29 , 2014','march-29--2014','','<p>Lord make haste and answer, for my spirit fails within me. Do not hide your face lest I become like those in the grave. In the morning let me know your love for I put my trust in you. Make me know the way I should walk; to you I lift up my soul.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:19:34',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-29 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,35,'robots=\nauthor='),(1534,'March 30, 2014','march-30-2014','','<p>Give us eyes to see you clearly, make us children of your light; give us hearts to live more nearly, as your gospel shining bright.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:20:24',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,37,'robots=\nauthor='),(1535,'March 31, 2014','march-31-2014','','<p>O Lord, you are merciful to all, and you hate nothing that you have created but love everything that is. You overlook the sins of humankind and bring them to repentance. He mercy on me, God have mercy. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB &nbsp;</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-03-24 00:21:24',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-03-31 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,33,'robots=\nauthor='),(1537,'April 2, 2014','april-2-2014','','<p>Amid his friends, awake with fear, Christ comes among them breathing peace, that peace the world can never give, his gift to us, ours to increase. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-01 23:47:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-02 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,37,'robots=\nauthor='),(1538,'April 3, 2014','april-3-2014','','<p>The dawn\'s new light bedecks the sky, the heavens shout their victory cry, the glad earth lifts her voice on high, death\'s vanquished realm makes loud reply.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-01 23:48:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-03 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,37,'robots=\nauthor='),(1539,'April 4, 2014','april-4-2014','','<p>Ours is a paradise undreamed, whose fruit the Tree of Life now bears. Ours is, by death\'s defeat, the gift, which Christ in us now fully shares.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-01 23:49:56',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-04 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,35,'robots=\nauthor='),(1542,'April 7, 2014','april-7-2014','','<p>Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he has visited and ransomed his people. He has raised up for us a mighty Savior, born of the house of his servant David. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-07 00:12:40',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-07 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,7,'','',0,35,'robots=\nauthor='),(1540,'April 5, 2014','april-5-2014','','<p><strong>SAINT VINCENT FERRER &nbsp;</strong><br />Lord Jesus Christ, You do not will that anyone should perish and never is a prayer made to you without hope of mercy. You have promised: \"All things that you ask in my name, shall be done for you\". Therefore, I ask you, O Lord, for your holy Name\'s sake, to grant me at the hour of my death full consciousness and the power of speech, sincere contrition for my sins, true faith, firm hope and perfect charity, that I may be able to say to you with a clean heart: Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit: you have redeemed me, O God of truth, who are blessed for ever and ever. Amen. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Prayer of Saint Vincent Ferrer</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-01 23:50:45',63,'','2014-04-05 19:44:18',63,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-05 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',2,0,2,'','',0,42,'robots=\nauthor='),(1541,'April 6, 2014','april-6-2014','','<p>Ours is the manna, here consumed, bread blessed and broken, shared yet whole. Ours is the name we each now bear, breathed deep within our heart and soul. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-01 23:51:45',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-06 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,8,'','',0,40,'robots=\nauthor='),(1543,'April 8, 2014','april-8-2014','','<p>My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my whole being finds joy in God my Savior. He has looked on the lowliness of his servant; all generations to come will call me blessed. &nbsp;<br />–<em> Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-07 00:13:54',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-08 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,33,'robots=\nauthor='),(1544,'April 9 , 2014','april-9--2014','','<p>Give thanks to the most high God, who has raised up for us a mighty Savior; his own Son and Son of David, the Dayspring, Jesus Christ our Lord. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-07 00:14:41',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-09 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,31,'robots=\nauthor='),(1545,'April 10, 2014','april-10-2014','','<p>All praise be yours, risen Lord, to life endless from death restored. To the Father all praise now be and the Spirit eternally. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-07 00:15:31',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-10 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,29,'robots=\nauthor='),(1546,'April 11, 2014','april-11-2014','','<p>How good it is to keep the fast which prophets kept images past and which our own incarnate Lord has sanctified by deed and word. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB&nbsp;</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-07 00:17:50',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-11 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,30,'robots=\nauthor='),(1547,'April 12, 2014','april-12-2014','','<p><strong>SAINT TERESA OF THE ANDES &nbsp;</strong><br />\"I can say that my life is a continuous prayer, for everything I do, I do it out of love for my Jesus\". \"It is in prayer that the soul learns to know Jesus and thus to love him. Since love cannot be satisfied with difference but with equality, the result is union in similarity\". &nbsp;<br /><em>– From Letters 52 and 141 of Saint Teresa of the Andes</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-07 00:18:51',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-12 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,27,'robots=\nauthor='),(1549,'April 14 , 2014','april-14--2014','','<p>Mary took a pound of costly ointment of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. &nbsp;<br /><em>– John 12: 3</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-14 00:39:14',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-14 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,19,'robots=\nauthor='),(1548,'April 13, 2014','april-13-2014','','<p><strong>PALM SUNDAY</strong><br />The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, \"Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!\" Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:&nbsp;\"Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey\'s colt.\" &nbsp;<br /><em>– John 12 12:19</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-07 00:20:09',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-13 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,26,'robots=\nauthor='),(1550,'April 15, 2014','april-15-2014','','<p>From barren rock behold the wonder. The staff of Moses once drew water but we have something new to drink; the drink of deathless life from the rock that was his tomb for in him is all our might. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-15 14:07:50',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-15 14:07:50','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,20,'robots=\nauthor='),(1551,'April 16, 2014','april-16-2014','','<p>O lovely and resplendent tree with royal purple nobly hung; the wood was chosen as the best on which his sacred limbs might rest. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-15 14:08:23',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-16 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,20,'robots=\nauthor='),(1552,'April 17, 2014','april-17-2014','','<p><strong>MAUNDY THURSDAY &nbsp;</strong><br />Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God, rose and girded himself with a towel. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples\' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. &nbsp;<br /><em>– John 13 3:5</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-15 14:09:01',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-17 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,15,'robots=\nauthor='),(1553,'April 18, 2014','april-18-2014','','<p><strong>GOOD FRIDAY &nbsp;</strong><br />And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. At the ninth hour, Jesus cried, \"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?... And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, \"Truly this man was the Son of God\". &nbsp;<br /><em>– Mark 15 33:39</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-15 14:09:47',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-18 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,17,'robots=\nauthor='),(1554,'April 19, 2014','april-19-2014','','<p><strong>HOLY SATURDAY &nbsp;</strong><br />New growth springs up where all seemed dead; now open is the tomb once sealed. The stone is rolled away that we to resurrection-life might yield. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-15 14:10:33',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-19 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,14,'robots=\nauthor='),(1555,'April 20, 2014','april-20-2014','','<p><strong>EASTER &nbsp;</strong><br />For neither death\'s horrendous hold, nor stone immense before the tomb, nor guards in vigil, nor the seal could keep apart the Bride and Groom. The Lenten spring is past and gone. The earth is vibrant with new life, the Cross now rooted, breaks in bloom as all is gathered into Christ. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-15 14:11:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-20 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,12,'robots=\nauthor='),(1556,'April 21, 2014','april-21-2014','','<p>Said the angel to the women, \"Why seek the living among the dead? He is risen, he is not here, alleluia, alleluia\". &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-21 11:02:10',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-21 11:02:10','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,10,'robots=\nauthor='),(1557,'April 22, 2014','april-22-2014','','<p>Lord God whose breath all being breathes, revealing life in Jesus Christ our restless hears seek rest in you who loved us first despite the price.<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-22 12:12:46',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-22 12:12:46','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,12,'robots=\nauthor='),(1558,'April 23, 2014','april-23-2014','','<p>The splendor of Christ risen from the dead has shone on us today, alleluia. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-22 22:26:59',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-23 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,10,'robots=\nauthor='),(1559,'April 24, 2014','april-24-2014','','<p>Majestic and glorious God\'s work, whose justice stands firm forever. God makes us remember these wonders. The Lord is compassion and love. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB &nbsp;</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-24 13:23:37',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-24 13:23:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,10,'robots=\nauthor='),(1560,'April 25, 2014','april-25-2014','','<p><strong>SAINT MARK &nbsp;</strong><br />Your little book was first to give a written gospel form and show bow Peter preached, how all believed, that every coming age might know. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-24 13:24:14',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-25 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,8,'robots=\nauthor='),(1561,'April 26, 2014','april-26-2014','','<p>We give thanks to you, O Christ, to the Father and the Holy Spirit; you have made us remember your wonders, the bread and wine of the new covenant. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-24 13:24:52',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-26 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,10,'robots=\nauthor='),(1563,'April 28, 2014','april-28-2014','','<p>I saw water flowing from the right side of the temple, alleluia. It brought God\'s life and his salvation and the people sang in joyful praise, alleluia, alleluia. &nbsp;<br />–<em> Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese M</em>onks, OSB</p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-28 00:49:05',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-28 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,3,'robots=\nauthor='),(1562,'April 27, 2014','april-27-2014','','<p>Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever. Praise the Father, the Son and the Spirit both now and forever. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-24 13:25:27',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-27 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,10,'robots=\nauthor='),(1564,'April 29, 2014','april-29-2014','','<p><strong>SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENNA &nbsp;</strong><br />Holy Spirit, come into my heart; draw it to Thee by Thy power, O my God, and grant me charity with filial fear. Preserve me, O ineffable Love, from every evil thought; warm me, inflame me with Thy dear love, and every pain will seem light to me. My Father, my sweet Lord, help me in all my actions. Jesus, love, Jesus, love. Amen. &nbsp;<br />–<em> Prayer of Saint Catherine to the Holy Spirit</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-29 13:14:06',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-29 13:14:06','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,6,'','',0,1,'robots=\nauthor='),(1565,'April 30, 2014','april-30-2014','','<p>Compassion like the winter\'s rains has raised a radiant world restored; flung open is a realm of life to all whose life proclaims you, Lord. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',-1,9,0,36,'2014-04-29 13:28:35',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-04-30 05:00:00','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,5,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(1566,'May 1, 2014','may-1-2014','','<p>Praise our God, all you servants, you who fear him, both great and small, Alleluia. The Lord, our God sovereign over all has entered on his reign, alleluia. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',1,9,0,36,'2014-04-29 13:29:19',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-05-01 05:00:00','2014-05-02 05:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,4,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(1567,'May 2, 2014','may-2-2014','','<p><strong>SAINT ATHANASIUS &nbsp;</strong><br />See how the Lord in love shows us the way of life, alleluia. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',1,9,0,36,'2014-04-29 13:33:06',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-05-02 05:00:00','2014-05-03 05:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,3,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(1568,'May 3, 2014','may-3-2014','','<p>Said the angel to the women, \"Why seek the living among the dead? He is risen, he is not here, alleluia, alleluia.\" &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',1,9,0,36,'2014-04-29 13:34:04',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-05-03 05:00:00','2014-05-04 05:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,2,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor='),(1569,'May 4, 2014','may-4-2014','','<p>Ours is the dayspring dawning bright, whose light now burns within our heart. Ours is the garment woven white, yes, ours the very throne of God. &nbsp;<br /><em>– Lauds and Vespers, Camaldolese Monks, OSB</em></p>','',1,9,0,36,'2014-04-29 13:34:49',63,'','0000-00-00 00:00:00',0,0,'0000-00-00 00:00:00','2014-05-04 05:00:00','2014-05-05 05:00:00','','','show_title=\nlink_titles=\nshow_intro=\nshow_section=\nlink_section=\nshow_category=\nlink_category=\nshow_vote=\nshow_author=\nshow_create_date=\nshow_modify_date=\nshow_pdf_icon=\nshow_print_icon=\nshow_email_icon=\nlanguage=\nkeyref=\nreadmore=',1,0,1,'','',0,0,'robots=\nauthor=');

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