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Posted on 07/01/2010 9:03:55 AM PDT by Mad Dawg

Litany of Humility

Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.


From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being extolled, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being honored, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being praised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being preferred to others, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being consulted, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being approved, Deliver me, Jesus.

From the fear of being humiliated, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being despised, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of suffering rebukes, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being calumniated, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being forgotten, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being ridiculed, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being wronged, Deliver me, Jesus.
From the fear of being suspected, Deliver me, Jesus.

That others may be loved more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be esteemed more than I, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That, in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I may decrease,Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be chosen and I set aside, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be praised and I unnoticed, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may be preferred to me in everything, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.
That others may become holier than I,
provided that I may become
as holy as I should, Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.


Closing Prayer

Dominicus Gabriel Mariae


O most gracious Lord Jesus:
To redeem an undeserving humanity
You gave up everything you had.

In your mercy, grant us the grace
of despising all things but you
and your love

That we may know the joy
you brought to us
through your dolorous Passion
and Death,

Who live and reign in might and bliss
with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
One God, in everlasting glory.



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To: boatbums; mockingbyrd; Amos the Prophet; Natural Law; Tax-chick; trisham; Salvation; ...

Let’s all join in that great hymn:

Morning has broken;
I didn’t do it.
Blackbird has spoken;
It’s not my fault. ...

There are plenty of things that are not our fault, and plenty of things that are. Shall we neglect to improve the things we can improve because they are not our fault? Shall we wallow in guilt because of the things that are?

While in justice, “fault” and “guilt” have important meanings, within fallen humanity they are also perverted into ways to avoid doing what we can, while an obsession on guilt can lead to what one of my teachers called “bad infinity: I’m so oppressed by FEELINGS of guilt that I do nothing ... and then feel guilty about that ... lather, rinse, repeat.

Here’s the deal for people in that loop: You’re just thinking about YOU! Yeah, you’re guilty. The birds still sing, the sun still rises, and most important of all, God still loves you. Are you going to focus on the little, minuscule greasy black smudge of your guiltiness or on the birds, the light, the Love?

Me, I’m a party animal. Song, Light, Love for me. The former things have passed away; behold, the new has come.

God bless us all today.


621 posted on 08/13/2010 4:36:46 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg

Good morning. I’ll be hauling the Horde to Confession today. Frank didn’t throw up, but he also didn’t sleep much. You take what you can get ...


622 posted on 08/13/2010 4:53:18 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Large realities dwarf and overshadow the tiny human figures reacting to them.")
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To: Tax-chick

Small mercies, even extremely small ones, are still mercies.


623 posted on 08/13/2010 5:10:49 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg

Yes. And being up all night gives me the opportunity to pray for those who have real problems. I’m sure the Lord understands the intention behind, “Oh, huh?”


624 posted on 08/13/2010 5:43:56 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Large realities dwarf and overshadow the tiny human figures reacting to them.")
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To: Mad Dawg
Shall we neglect to improve the things we can improve because they are not our fault?

Eeets not my yob, mon ....

625 posted on 08/13/2010 5:49:35 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Mad Dawg; Alamo-Girl; boatbums; mockingbyrd; Amos the Prophet; Natural Law; Tax-chick; trisham; ...
...an obsession on guilt can lead to what one of my teachers called “bad infinity: I’m so oppressed by FEELINGS of guilt that I do nothing ... and then feel guilty about that ... lather, rinse, repeat.

A marvelously penetrating observation, Mad Dawg!

May God's blessings be with you today, and with all of us!

626 posted on 08/13/2010 8:54:28 AM PDT by betty boop (Those who do not punish bad men are really wishing that good men be injured. — Pythagoras)
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To: betty boop

Thanks for the ping! Day #44?


627 posted on 08/13/2010 9:10:49 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
Day #44?

Looks like it, trisham! And counting....

628 posted on 08/13/2010 10:08:24 AM PDT by betty boop (Those who do not punish bad men are really wishing that good men be injured. — Pythagoras)
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To: betty boop; Mad Dawg

I hope it’s helping. Sometimes I wonder. :/


629 posted on 08/13/2010 10:13:32 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Mad Dawg

The plan to go to Confession fell through; the secretary hadn’t checked Father’s schedule with him right at the minute she made the appointment. Oh, well. If I get hit by a trash truck, God will give me an A for effort. And we dropped off some school supplies for the poor, picked up some papers for the Raffle Committee, talked to the custodian about storage, and agreed with the gardening committee that it’s too hot to garden.


630 posted on 08/13/2010 11:27:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Large realities dwarf and overshadow the tiny human figures reacting to them.")
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To: betty boop; Mad Dawg

Indeed. Thank you for the beautiful insights, dear Mad Dawg!


631 posted on 08/13/2010 9:10:23 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: ArrogantBustard

LOL.

In vaguely related news, when people talk to me or I complain to myself about crazy-making childhoods (and I do not want in any way to minimize those) I think, “It may be their fault, but it’s my problem.”


632 posted on 08/14/2010 3:49:57 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Tax-chick

Wow!

To do all that and on not very much sleep!

I’m impressed.

D.V. I’ll get shriven today. It’s chapter - Mass, Rosary, Morning prayer, confessions for them as wants it, non-health food, bidnis meeting, discussion of confirmation.

When I grow up I want to be a contemplative — or at least allowed to take two naps a day.


633 posted on 08/14/2010 3:54:03 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl

And thank YOU both for prayers, kind words.


634 posted on 08/14/2010 3:55:21 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: trisham

Oh, I think God is working in us. We are knocking; will He not open?

It IS like praying for patience. God does not so much send us a spirit of calm acceptance but a lot of opportunities to practice patience.

FR is an excellent place to notice how proud and vain we are. In fact, I think that will be my morning alleged thought.


635 posted on 08/14/2010 3:57:43 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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Saturday.

I think every Saturday it is good to think at least a minute about the Great Sabbath of the Lord, when Jesus rested in death.

And about His saying that “My father is working still, and so am I,” (or words to that effect.)

Dear Trisham wonders if our prayers are “working.” My first answer is always, “What kind of jerk would I be if I were NOT praying?”

But in any event, I think we must say that it is God who works. Somehow our prayers make one of the materials, so to speak, that He likes to work with. But our prayers do not ‘work’ anymore than the lumber in a house builds the house. The builder builds. Even if we haul the lumber to the building site (and surely it is the Spirit that does that) we are not the builder.

If the builder is a good builder, how foolish of the house to complain, “I don’t want to be like THIS, I want to be THAT sort of house, and I want to be completed by the weekend.” God knows what sort of house it is best for us to be, and His time is more reliable than our schedule.

Vanity is to pile foolishness on folly. In my vanity I stop worrying about the sort of house I am being built to be, and start worrying about what the neighbors think.

When the neighbors fail to display what I think is the proper respect or, even, awe, then I get upset, because I am looking into their eyes to find signs of my worth.

And that’s why I got into “humility” in the first place: because it hit me one day that a lot of my anger is a product of my vanity. And that vanity is really a species of idolatry: I am looking for my salvation not to the God who lovingly builds me as I am supposed to be, but to my neighbors, who however good and wise they may be, really have no clue about God’s plan for me.

“Sophomore” means foolishly wise. That would be me, well, except maybe for the wise part.


636 posted on 08/14/2010 4:11:17 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg

Good morning! We’ve had a reasonable amount of sleep, for a change, and almost 24 hours without a spew. Maybe it’s a trend.


637 posted on 08/14/2010 5:30:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Large realities dwarf and overshadow the tiny human figures reacting to them.")
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To: Mad Dawg

Right.

Pointing fingers doesn’t solve problems, whether they spiritual or secular.

Question for examination of conscience: What spiritual “painted possums” do I have in my life?


638 posted on 08/14/2010 6:26:19 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

I had to go back and check on that ;-). Things that I should be cleaning up, no matter how they happened to get that way. Hmmm.


639 posted on 08/14/2010 6:30:12 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Large realities dwarf and overshadow the tiny human figures reacting to them.")
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To: Mad Dawg

:) Day #45!


640 posted on 08/14/2010 8:47:26 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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