Catholic Word of the Day: SOLITUDE, 10-02-09

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SOLITUDE

In Christian asceticism, the conscious and deliberate withdrawal from creatures in order to be more closely united with God. The beata solitudo (blessed solitude) of monasticism, praised by St. Benedict, is the best known and most widely infuential in Christian history. Solitude may by physical or spiritual or both. It is physical (or exterior) insofar as a person withdraws from the company of people and worldy affairs, either permanently, as a hermit or monk; or partially, as every member of a religious institute; or temporarily,k as in a retreat. Physical solitude is not escapism or isolationism, but a means to an end, the end being spiritual solitude. In spiritual solitude the soul is alone with God, attentive to him in preference to creatures, even though it has to deal with creatures. (Etym. Latin solitudo, from solus, alone.)

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Are many of us fearful of embracing solitude these days?

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No, you're not seeing things! 

 

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Book of Zechariah	Temple (biblical)	Capsula
Holy Mary	Anaphora	Diana of the Ephesians
Evangelism	Eucharistic Oblation	Last Judgment
Veneration of Images	Aggiornamento	Pectoral Cross
Dark Night of the Soul	Solitude

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I yearn for it.

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No ... since I wouldn’t kill for solitude, I never have any. Not even in the bathroom.

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Spiritual Espousals	Addiction	Coenobium
Irascible Appetite	Development of Doctrine	Equiprobabilism
Advocate	Latency Period	Seven Sacraments
Rosary	Epiklesis/Epiclesis	Consubstantiation
Restitution	Tabgha	Our Lady of Divine Love
Excommunication	The Holy Pillar	Imperfect Contrition
White Russian Byzantines	Lust	Pursuivants
La Salette	Liturgy	Andacollo
Kings, Book of	Physiologus	Old Catholics
Baltimore Catechism	Armagh, Book of	Nature
Eulogia	Orders, Sacrament of	Missionary
Dominus Vocbiscum	Ichthus-Fish	Abbacy of St.Jerome
Invalid	Doctrinal Demythology	Metaphysics
Ecclesia Docens	Apostolic Signatura	Octaves
Religion as feeling	Temperament	Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Congregation for Catholic Education	Sponsor	Mystery Play
Paschal Candle	Imitation of Christ	Voluntarism
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Gabbatha	Gregorian Masses	Ordo
Resolution of Amendment	Supreme Evil	Archives, Vatican
Pride	Solovyevism	Natural Law
Revealed Law	Presbyter	First Saturdays
Alma Redemptoris Mater	Divorce	Jubilee
Procession	Teilhardism	Hysteron Proteron
Bodily Immortality	Vicar Forane	Intercommunion, Eucharistic
Proclamation	Consecration to the Sacred Heart	Nominalism
Rules of Conscience	St. John Lateran	Hermeneutics
Doctrinal Universalism	Good Friday	Our Father
Soul of the Church	Latin Cross	Book of Sentences
Liber Pontificalis	Paraclete	People of God
Bodily Resurrection	Cardinal Electors	Subsidiarity
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Titular Sees	Wake	Knowledge
Polygenism	Sede Vacante	Peace Plate or Tablet
Heroic Act	Abbey Nullius	Vulgate
Founder	Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples	Vow
Impassibility	Vitandus	Dedication of the Months
Solemn Vows	Species	Dark Night of the Soul
Social Sin	Dialectical Materialism	Pharisaical Scandal
Inquisition	Precedence	Holy Chrism
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Cleopas	Inputation	Solemn Profession
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Sampietrini	Lyre	John Mark
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Ammonian Sections	Icxc Nika	Interstices
Ave Regina Caelorum	Hyperdulia	Crosier
St Paul's Outside the Walls	Doctrinal Pluralism	Bodmer Codex
Liturgiae Instaurationes	Cardinal Electors	Theocracy
Intrinsic Evidence	Internal Grace	Aquila
Book of Zechariah	Temple	Capsula
Holy Mary	Anaphora	Diana of the Ephesians
Evangelism	Eucharistic Oblation	Last Judgment
Veneration of Images	Aggiornamento	Pectoral Cross
Dark Night of the Soul	Solitude