John Cardinal Newman
<http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/Card.Nwmn.8.Day.Med.html>http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/Card.Nwmn.8.Day.Med.html An Eight Day Meditation <Newmans_Second_Sunday_Med.htm>Sunday Meditation 2 - Our Lord Sunday OUR LORD 1. PLACE yourself in the presence of God, kneeling with your hands clasped. 2. Read slowly and devoutly <http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/Meditation_Sunday.html>The Apocalypse as at last <http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/Meditation_Sunday.html>Sunday. 3. Bring all you have read before you at once, as if you saw our Lord. 4. Then say, "His head and hairs were white like white wool, and as snow." (1) Thy hair is white, 0 Jesus, because you art the Ancient of days, as the Prophet Daniel speaks. From everlasting to everlasting you art God. You did come indeed to us as a little child - you did hang upon the Cross at an age of life before as yet gray hairs come - but, 0 my dear Lord, there was always something mysterious about Thee, so that men were not quite sure of Thy age. The Pharisees talked of Thee as near fifty. For you have lived millions upon millions of years, and Thy face awfully showed it. And even when you were a child, Thy hair shone so bright that people said, "It is snow." (2) 0 my Lord, you art ever old, and ever young. You have all perfection, and old age in Thee is ten thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful youth. Thy white hair is an ornament, not a sign of decay. It is as dazzling as the sun, as white as the light, and as glorious as gold. 5. Conclusion. Jesus, may I ever love Thee, not with human eyes, but with the eyes of the Spirit, which sees not as man sees. ---------- The Catholic Catechism states that "meditation engages thought, imagination, emotion and desire. This mobilization of faculties is necessary in order to deepen our convictions of faith, prompt the conversion of our heart, and strengthen our will to follow Christ." <http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P9L.HTM#6W>Sec. 2708 (emphasis added). "Meditation is above all a quest. The mind seeks to understand the why and how of the Christian life, in order to adhere and respond to what the Lord is asking... We are usually helped by books [especially scripture]." <http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P9L.HTM#3>Sec. 2705. "To meditate on what we read helps us to make it our own by confronting it with ourselves." <http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P9L.HTM#2P>Sec. 2706. <http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ccc.html>Catechism of the Catholic Church.In these meditations, Cardinal Newman suggests you use your imagination to enrich scripture and prayer. "Don't forget that it was St. Ignatius of Loyola who strongly promoted the use of imagination in meditation. His work, the<http://WWW.CCEL.ORG/ccel/ignatius/exercises.html> Spiritual Exercises, is a monumental classic of the Catholic Tradition. In it he shows how fantasy will enhance our understanding and appreciation of Scripture, and how we can talk to Christ using the imagination. When we read something, a story or a novel, we create a picture of it in our minds. St. Ignatius simply builds on this natural tendency. Thus, in the material for the second week of the Spiritual Exercises he says, " The first Prelude is a composition, seeing the place: ...here [we] see with the sight of the imagination, the synagogues,[5] villages and towns through which Christ our Lord preached." From our page, <http://landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/prayer.html#meditation>Awaken to Prayer, How to Pray as a Catholic. ---------- NRSV scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved. The text of the meditations is from Cardinal Newman's Meditations and Devotions, Longmans, Green and Co. (1893) pp. 207-224. <*}}}>< <http://halfthekingdom.mofuse.mobi/>Half the Kingdom! on your Mobile <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/>Half the Kingdom! Blog <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the Kingdom! Main Site <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/by-the-by/>Half the Kingdom! By the by <*}}}>< Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue with Your help, so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. <*}}}>< <http://halfthekingdom.mofuse.mobi/>Half the Kingdom! on your Mobile <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/wordpress/>Half the Kingdom! Blog <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the Kingdom! Main Site <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/by-the-by/>Half the Kingdom! By the by <*}}}>< Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue with Your help, so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. 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