I am reflecting today, as I ride on the number 446 bus to the green line, from which I get off in El Segundo to work.
I am reflecting on the importance of consecration. This is not something to take lightly. I was once a Catholic going through the motions of my faith, but always longing to do, well actually to be more. I say be more because, as I heard yesterday, it is not what we do for God it is what we are. After all what can I, a creature, who had to be taught to tie my own shoes, posssibly have to offer God. What would the Creator need from me
Through consecration I more deeply acknowledge that fact. The fact that I am His creature, and so an attitude of humility is called for. After all, if God Himself came to us and humbled Himself by taking human form and be born from woman in order to show us who He is then, should I not practice the same humility to show Him who I am -- nothing more than his creation. (As if he does not know).
I am created and thus dependent on the creator for the very air I breathe and the ability to take a breath. So, I chose consecration to Our Blessed Mother the conduit through which God entered this life. I found the consecration of St’ Louis de Montefort. This consecration calls for an annual renewal. I believe John Paul II made this consecration renewal a daily practice. I do not pretend to have his humility, nor his heart for our Lord. I am not a priest. I cannot preside over the consecration of the bread and wine into the body and blood of our Lord and savior, our soul food – the Holy Eucharist.
And so while I cannot take communion today, I am actually late for work in this penultimate week for me on this job, I can mediate on it, say the rosary and do the daily readings ,and hear a homily all from a website.
Soul food. I shall like to mediate on the idea of the Eucharist as soul food. My soul encased in my body goes up to the priest or Eucharistic minister. It is the body and mind that are the vehicle through which Jesus, through faith, carries the soul to it’s nourishment.
We would have perished without His humility and that of Our Blessed Mother
copyright 2009 Fred Celio
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Challenging Days
Today is a new day. Yesterday was one fraught with challenges. I am looking at impending layoff on September 1st, but I must get my regular work done, leave a proper written turnover of what I do, and look for a job (which itself is a full time job).
All the while doing the work necessary to get through the trauma having a perpetrator attempting to murder me after I was molested having been molested. This occurred between the ages of 4 through 9. It was easier before these things were at the level of consciousness.
But my Faith sustained me. I can't imagine going through this without my faith, and yet there was I time when I had given up on the Catholic church, which is giving up on Jesus. I was not molested by a priest, in fact it was Monseigneur O'Brien, my pastor, who in those days was the only one with the sensitivity to understand what had happened and who tried to help me. He was an important benefactor. And an important symbol of the vast majority of priests, during a time when the priesthood has undeservedly been disparaged, by the sick acts of a very small minority.
Monsignor O'Brien was and is the rule for priests not the exception. His sensitivity understanding and the an honest desire to help me are key to understanding the truth about the priesthood.
These men who live in obscurity, giving up much, and yet doing such prodigious acts, for which the go unrecognized.
THIS IS THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
I have put together a web site http://www.stmichaelgodskinght/ .com I am in the process of transforming it into a one stop for Catholics who may not have time for daily mass. It is not a substitution for daily mass because there is no Eucharist. but from it one can learn about our faith and follow the liturgical year thought he daily scripture readings and live homilies, and soon the daily office. to help anyone to follow the liturgical year and thus truly walk withthe Lord.
Peace be with you
All the while doing the work necessary to get through the trauma having a perpetrator attempting to murder me after I was molested having been molested. This occurred between the ages of 4 through 9. It was easier before these things were at the level of consciousness.
But my Faith sustained me. I can't imagine going through this without my faith, and yet there was I time when I had given up on the Catholic church, which is giving up on Jesus. I was not molested by a priest, in fact it was Monseigneur O'Brien, my pastor, who in those days was the only one with the sensitivity to understand what had happened and who tried to help me. He was an important benefactor. And an important symbol of the vast majority of priests, during a time when the priesthood has undeservedly been disparaged, by the sick acts of a very small minority.
Monsignor O'Brien was and is the rule for priests not the exception. His sensitivity understanding and the an honest desire to help me are key to understanding the truth about the priesthood.
These men who live in obscurity, giving up much, and yet doing such prodigious acts, for which the go unrecognized.
THIS IS THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
I have put together a web site http://www.stmichaelgodskinght/ .com I am in the process of transforming it into a one stop for Catholics who may not have time for daily mass. It is not a substitution for daily mass because there is no Eucharist. but from it one can learn about our faith and follow the liturgical year thought he daily scripture readings and live homilies, and soon the daily office. to help anyone to follow the liturgical year and thus truly walk withthe Lord.
Peace be with you
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