Our Lord said to His Father: Father, do not punish them! . There are some who suffer like the good thief, and others like the bad thief. The greater sinners we are, the more tenderness and compassion does she feel for us. But we ask Him to feed our soul, which is the best part of ourselves; and the earth is too small to furnish enough to satisfy it; it hungers for God, and nothing but God can satiate it. We say sometimes that God chastises those whom He loves. When we cannot come to church, let us turn towards the tabernacle: a wall cannot separate us from the good God; let us say five Patres and five Aves to make a spiritual communion. How shameful it is that man should descend so low, when God has placed him so high! But, no. Advance towards the light which offers itself to you as to its sons, and descends of itself into your hearts. To those to whom it was given to assist at these catechisms, two things were equally remarkable the preacher and the hearer. St. John Vianney | Discover Mass The latter is the friend of God; but the priest holds His place. Once St. Hilarion, followed by a great number of his disciples, going to visit the monasteries under his rule, came to the abode of an avaricious solitary. We are like little children: we do not know how to walk on the road to Heaven; we stagger, we fall, unless the hand of the good God is always ready to support us. He is indeed a good Guide; and to think that there are some who will not follow Him. If someone said to us, At such an hour a dead person is to be raised to life, we should run very quickly to see it. Take a fish out of the water, and it will not live. The Holy Spirit is like a gardener cultivating our souls. He commands us to pray only because He wills our happiness, and our happiness can be found only in prayer. If someone were to ask you, pointing to the tabernacle, What is that golden door? That is our storehouse, where the true Food of our souls is kept. At other times we speak quickly, profiting by the moment when the priest is not very attentive to get over the great sins. Then our bodies will come out of the ground like linen that has been bleached. The life of St. John Vianney began in 1786 in Lyons, France. As the earth can produce nothing unless it is fertilised by the sun, so we can do no good without the grace of the good God. As the saint spoke, new and clear views opened to the mind: Heaven and earth, the present and the future life, the things of time and of eternity, appeared in a light that you had never before perceived. Those who heard the Cur of Ars had something else to do they had to pass judgment on themselves. The picture of its whole life! . ENVY, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, my children, if we really wish to be saved we must determine, once for all, to labor in earnest for our salvation; our soul is like a garden in which the weeds are ever ready to choke the good plants and flowers that have been sown in it. See, the good God does not say to us, Ask such and such a thing, and I will grant it; but He says in general: If you ask the Father anything in My name, He will give it you. See, Cain killed his brother Abel out of jealousy; Saul wished to take away the life of David; Theodosius caused the massacre of the inhabitants of Thessalonica, to revenge a personal affront. Bulletins. But love; oh, we shall be inebriated with it! Hers is a beautiful soul, very pleasing to the good God, such as are still to be found now and then in the world, and they prevent the world from coming to an end. The fear of crosses increases them. This person has a desire to do great penances, to pass half the night in prayer; if he is well instructed, he will say, No, I must not do that, because then I could not fulfil my duty tomorrow; I should be sleepy, and the least thing would put me out of patience; I should be weary all the day, and I should not do half as much work as if I had rested at night; that must not be done. 1.800.803.0118info@crossroadsinitiative.com. , CHAPTER 4 : Catechism on the Blessed Virgin. On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. All School Liturgy Daily Mass / Misa Diaria 8:30 AM (Monday-Saturday) (English) 6:00 PM (Lunes a Viernes) (Espaol) Weekend Masses / Misas de fin de semana Saturday / Sbado 5:00 PM (English) 7:00 PM (Espaol) Sunday / Domingo 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM (English) 1:00 PM (Espaol) June 24, 2023 there will be no 8:30 am Daily Mass You cannot recall one single blessing from God without finding, side by side with this recollection, the image of the priest. Today's Readings. See, they fall into Hell as the leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter. Let us cast our eyes, my children, upon Jesus fastened to the Cross. . 716-674-9133 . if Adam, our first father, had not sinned, and if we did not sin every day, how happy we should be! No, no, my children, none of these persons love the good God; for we must love Him with a love of preference, with an active love! The good God will place us as an architect places the stones of a building each one in the spot to which it is adapted. The Prophets published the glory of Mary before her birth; they compared her to the sun. There is a certain measure of grace and of sin after which God withdraws Himself. . this man takes his knife, gives himself great blows with it and makes himself worse than he was before. M. Vianney had certainly never read St. Thomas, which makes this coincidence the more remarkable; and, indeed, it is inexplicable to those who are ignorant of the workings of grace, and who do not comprehend those words of the Divine Master: Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones. . My children, we must ask earnestly for repentance. Click here to find all archived Masses. Holy Week Schedule. Well, our thoughts ought to be where our treasure is. He wears two pairs of spectacles, that he may see nothing. This real power of his word supplied in him the want of talent and rhetoric; it gave a singular majesty and an irresistible authority to the most simple things that issued from that venerable mouth. How many enemies to vanquish the devil, the world, and ourselves. To exalt the benefits of the Sacrament of Penance, he made use of metaphors and parables: A furious wolf once came into our country, devouring everything. . Is it more difficult for us to secure our salvation, having Him constantly with us? but we pay no attention to them. To love the good God is not to be faithful in fulfilling part of our duties and to neglect the rest. . Alas! He had advanced towards the light, and the light had descended of itself into his heart. In the morning, we must do like the little child in its cradle. There are some persons who think they are never treated well enough; they seem as if they had a right to everything. . Then St. Benedict said, My child, go back and put it where you found it. . We may refrain from warming ourselves; if we are sitting uncomfortably, we need not try to place ourselves better; if we are walking in our garden, we may deprive ourselves of some fruit that we should like; in preparing the food, we need not eat the little bits that offer themselves; we may deprive ourselves of seeing something pretty, which attracts our eyes, especially in the streets of great towns. Click on the headings below to go to the link that meets your needs. Look at that man, who is so active and restless, who makes a noise in the world, who wants to govern everybody, who thinks himself of consequence, who seems as if he would like to say to the sun, Go away, and let me enlighten the world instead of you. What a cry of joy when the soul shall come to unite itself to its glorified body to that body which will never more be to it an instrument of sin, nor a cause of suffering! My children, how sad it is! We should never more wish to part from Him. Yes, says this great saint, seek for a love that does not manifest itself in works, and you will find none: What! And man, who is created to love God, to possess God, to contain God, what will he do with all the powers that have been given to him for that end? Instructions. . The priest must feel the same joy, at seeing Our Lord whom he holds in his hands. thou hast had today two or three hours of resemblance to Jesus Christ. . We do not see the good God, my children, but He sees us, He hears us, He wills that we should raise towards Him what is most noble in us our mind and our heart. A good Christian, seeing that they were fatigued, was interiorly excited to relieve them; he asked them as a favour to let him help them to carry their burdens. See how good He is! And what is still more deplorable, my children, we are carried to these excesses for a trifle, for a word, for the least injustice! . We can receive the good God only once a day; a soul on fire with love supplies for this by the desire to receive Him every moment. Their pleasure was to feed on Jesus Christ! When he was finally ordained, he was assigned to a rural parish in the town of Ars of the diocese of Belley. We commit sin; we plunge ourselves into the mire. Like a beautiful white dove rising from the midst of the waters, and coming to shake her wings over the earth, the Holy Spirit issues from the infinite ocean of the Divine perfections, and hovers over pure souls, to pour into them the balm of love. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 511 E John Carpenter Fwy Ste 500 Look at the saints: they pass their life in penance, and we would pass ours in the midst of enjoyments and pleasures. 53005* Let us ask pardon of God for having hitherto abused the graces He has given us, and let us humbly pray Him to grant us more. Where, then, is its food? . They are all earthly, all brutish, and think of nothing but temporal things, . Check theEWTN Mass schedule, which includes a Mass with Pope Francis.CatholicTVs Sunday Massis live at 10 a.m. If the good God sends us crosses, we resist, we complain, we murmur; we are so averse to whatever contradicts us, that we want to be always in a box of cotton: but we ought to be put into a box of thorns. Some people, on the contrary, look quite inflamed with passion. The Holy Ghost, my children, says that we shall be examined on our words, our thoughts, our actions; we shall be examined even on the good we ought to have done, and have not done, on the sins of others of which we have been the cause. Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray! When he spoke of prayer, the most pleasing and ingenious comparisons fell abundantly from his lips: Prayer is a fragrant dew; but we must pray with a pure heart to feel this dew. What happiness do we not feel in the presence of God, when we find ourselves alone at His feet before the holy tabernacles! How many have listened to the secret history of their failings, of their temptations, of their combats, of their uneasiness, and of their remorse! Past Bulletins En Espaol June 25, 2023 25 de Junio, 2023 June 18, 2023 18 de Junio, 2023 June 11, 2023 11 de Junio, 2023 June 4, 2023 But the fingers of the priest, that have touched the adorable Flesh of Jesus Christ, that have been plunged into the chalice which contained His Blood, into the pyx where His Body has lain, are they not still more precious? . On August 4, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. John Vianney, patron of priests. He who listens to you, listens to Me; he who despises you despises Me. St. John Vianney | Discover Mass . . Our Lord shows us the way in the person of Simon the Cyrenian; He calls His friends to carry His Cross after Him. We must take great care not to lose it. How sad it is! Oh my God, why hast Thou sent me into the world? To save your soul. . . A man who holds the place of God a man who is invested with all the powers of God. He was a champion of the poor as a Third Order Franciscan and a recipient of the . He who does not see, does not know; he who does not know does not love; he who does not love God loves himself, and at the same time loves his pleasures. See, the more we possess God, the more He pleases; the more we know Him, the more attractions and charms we find in the knowledge of Him. I know two very certain ways of becoming poor: they are working on Sunday and taking other peoples property. . How unhappy we are, my children, thus to be the sport of demons? Dust and ashes, which He could annihilate with a single look. those are the people to whom we should do good by preference. Is it not pitiful? In order to do things well, we must do them as God wills, in all conformity with His designs. CORONAVIRUS UPDATES. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. . We can all, my children, acquire this happiness. The Heart of Mary is so tender towards us, that those of all the mothers in the world put together are like a piece of ice in comparison to hers. if I had never known you, I should not be so guilty!. He died in 1859 and is well known as the patron saint of diocesan priests. . . My children, if we understood the value of Holy Communion, we should avoid the least faults, that we might have the happiness of making it oftener. A DAY WILL come, perhaps it is not far off, when we must bid adieu to life, adieu to the world, adieu to our relations, adieu to our friends. Anointing of the Sick . We must always choose the most perfect. The Holy Spirit reposes in just souls like the dove in her nest. We have begun badly; let us end well, and we shall go one day and meet them in Heaven. Purgatory is in those souls that are not dead to themselves; Hell is in the heart of the impious; Paradise in that of the perfect, who are closely united to Our Lord. She is scarcely three-and-twenty, and she is rich very rich indeed. We have nothing else to do in this world. The image of God is reflected in a pure soul, like the sun in the water. . In short, the good God multiplies His graces upon us; and how sorry we shall be at the end of our lives that we did not profit by them! CHAPTER 20 : Catechism on the Cardinal Virtues. Now, we cannot offer to Him slanders, calumnies, injustice, anger, blasphemy, impurity, theatres, dancing; yet that is all that people do in the world. Go, said Our Lord to the priest; as My Father sent Me, I send you. It is the same with our soul, in regard to Jesus Christ, the true Sun of justice; it has no interior beauty but through sanctifying grace. Wilt thou crucify Me afresh? Cast your eyes on Our Lord fastened to the Cross, and say to yourself, That is what it cost my Saviour to repair the injury my sins have done to God! A God coming down to earth to be the victim of our sins, a God suffering, a God dying, a God enduring every torment, because He would bear the weight of our crimes! NO SINS, my children, ruin and destroy a soul so quickly as this shameful sin; it snatches us out of the hands of the good God and hurls us like a stone into an abyss of mire and corruption. But where had this poor country cur learnt his flowers of eloquence? In fact, my children, it is sin that brings upon us all calamities, all scourges, war, famine, pestilence, earthquakes, fires, frost, hail, storms all that afflicts us, all that makes us miserable. When the heart is pure, it cannot help loving, because it has found the source of love, which is God. Take your hearts out of your breasts, and give them to Him who speaks to you, and He will fill them with deific splendour, and you will be sons of light and angels of God. The Holy Virgin is like a mother who has a great many children she is continually occupied in going from one to the other. . . There was so extraordinary a majesty, so marvellous a power, in his voice, in his gestures, in his looks, in his transfigured countenance, that it was impossible to listen to him and remain cold and unmoved. St. Augustine says that it is as bad as to take the chalice after the Consecration and to trample it underfoot. . Easter. receive me into thine arms, withdraw me from among men, and restore me to my Master, who redeemed me through thee. Then, when death comes, we are quite ready; we are happy to go to Heaven. . Oh, how beautiful it is, my children! . Pure souls feel it always, and in this union consists their strength and their happiness. We also know the value of our soul by the efforts the devil makes to ruin it. Oh, ingratitude! You imagine that everything depends on your working; but there comes an illness, an accident. Jesus Christ came upon earth, became incarnate, was born poor, lived in poverty, died on a gibbet, between two thieves. I do not know how we are ever to get where they are. Oh, how great is a priest! . Have we no graces to ask for? His care for his parishioners was extraordinaryhis mortification, prayer and good works became the talk not only the town, but of the entire region. If the damned were asked: Why are you in Hell? Does not that make us tremble? The beast, which has not reason, knows nothing but its appetites. O my children! Mass Times. Why do we, my children, put ourselves into such a state? He will eat his breakfast, and mortify himself in some other way. My Flesh, said Our Lord, is meat indeed. . . Who placed Him there, in that tabernacle? St. Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal, fasted all Advent, and also from St. John Baptists day to the Assumption. Irving, TX 75062 . Well, said St. Antony, here I am, ready to fight again; no, thou shalt not be able to separate me from Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God. Get Your Free eBook download on the Eucharist! . It is not God who casts us into Hell; we cast ourselves into it by our sins. . . . . Let us represent to ourselves, my children, an everlasting day always new, a day always serene, always calm; the most delicious, the most perfect society. And now they are condemned to curse Him through all eternity. See, He wills that we should work today and tomorrow; and after that, an eternity of joy, of happiness, awaits us in Heaven. THAT WE MAY understand how horrible and detestable is this sin, which the demons make us commit, but which they do not commit themselves, we must consider what a Christian is. . The pure soul is disengaged from matter, from earthly things, and from itself. St. John Vianney is a welcoming, liturgical community calling all members to Christ-action. There is not division in their heart. Heart of the Nation is a locally filmed, nationally televised Sunday Mass. My children, there is so little faith now in the world that people either hope too much, or they despair. 1245 Clark St. Janesville, WI 53545. You would wish to pray to the good God, to pass your whole day in the church; but you think it would be very useful to work for some poor people that you know, who are in great need; that is much more pleasing to God than your day passed before the holy tabernacle. . . . Sunday 11:00 AM* Family Mass Contradictions bring us to the foot of the Cross, and the Cross to the gate of Heaven. If you would like to volunteer for this program, please email Jeannie Moran, Director of Religious Education: [emailprotected]. . Nothing could be more graceful and brilliant than the picture he drew, a few days ago, of spring. . Oh, how beautiful it would be! The Holy Spirit is our servant. And when St. Maur was gone, he added, My brethren, do you know why that animal is so gentle with that child? We continue to provide pastoral and spiritual resources, including weekly Scripture Readings, Gospel Reflections and the Liturgy of the Word. How would our soul be surprised! Alas! Our faults are like a grain of sand beside the great mountain of the mercies of the good God.. He instituted an admirable Sacrament, in which He communicates Himself to us under the Eucharistic veil; and in this Sacrament He undergoes the most extraordinary humiliations. 0 my children! St. Paul said that those who give themselves to excess in eating and drinking shall not possess the kingdom of God. Lazarus! We know very well that there is a Hell, but we live as if there were not; we sell our souls for a few pieces of money. He can be satisfied only when he turns towards God. Purity comes from Heaven; we must ask for it from God. What a happiness to be able to say, Jesus Christ died for me; He has opened Heaven for me; it is my inheritance. I believe it is so, my children, because few confess with tears of repentance. If the Saviour of the world, addressing Himself to each one of us separately, were now to ask us the same question that He formerly asked St. Peter: Simon, son of John, lovest thou Me? could we answer with as much confidence as that great Apostle, Yea, Lord, Thou knowest that I love Thee? The lost do not accuse God; they accuse themselves. I believe, my children, that a person who does not hear the Word of God as he ought, will not be saved; he will not know what to do to be saved. . The Cur of Ars sometimes made edifying reflections on recent events and circumstances which had made an impression upon himself; and, though he did it with reserve, we have in this way gained some valuable information, which would otherwise have been lost. The Vianney Show. How good, how great a thing it is to know, to love and serve God! For now, this crime is so common in the world, that it is enough to make one tremble. What makes us alive to the beauty of virtue, inspires us with the desire of Heaven? O man, how great thou art! Embrace all this, adds the saint, and continue in it. Imagine to yourselves, my children, a soul at its departure from this life. Pastor's . It is not less remarkable that, though he spoke only in the incorrect and common French natural to the people brought up in the country, one might say of him as of the Apostles, that he was heard by all the nations of the world, and that his voice resounded through all the earth. . . The priest. . . 8:00 AM & 11:00 AM O my children, we are too happy! English English EN. How many bad habits to overcome, how many passions to subdue, how many sins to efface! Its the best! We have, however, set down a few words, in which we find more than a remembrance. Church of St. John Vianney, South St. Paul, MN The Cross gave peace to the world; and it must bring peace to our hearts. His mere presence was a manifestation of the Truth; and of him it might well be said that he would have moved and convinced men even he would have moved and convinced men even by his silence. Alas! In the presence of this beautiful Sacrament, we are like a person dying of thirst by the side of a river he would only need to bend his head; like a person still remaining poor, close to a great treasure he need only stretch out his hand. 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