Good Morning Friends & Digital Neighbors! In Cath-O-Land today is the Feast of All Souls and praying for our beloved dead. Catholics are urged to pray for the dead everyday of the year, but today and the rest of November is a more intentional time. Even if you are not a member of Cath-O-Land, everyone has a relationship with the dead.
Love the, hate them, miss them or glad they are gone, everyone has someone on the list of their dead that they think about frequently, and in some cases pray for on the other side. Perhaps you hope they find mercy or justice, healing or retribution for the things left undone or unaddressed in their life.
For my Beloved Dead, I pray that they find healing and wholeness on the other side of the Veil. I pray they come to terms with their sins and brokenness of their life as well as the a refinement of the best of their traits that they possessed. Mom, Dad, Jerry & Jimmy along with a host of other people are on my daily list of people I lift up to Divine Mercy.
If you are not the praying type or a believer in the Divine and some sort of afterlife, I hope you have a friend with whom you can chat about your dead, beloved or damn glad they are gone. Trying to understand the whatness of past relationships is usually important if you want to move forward in either gratitude for the good people of your life or lessons learned from the evil-bad-selfish-crazy ones of your past. That spectrum seems to be the best way for me to understand the difficult people I have seen in life. Evil people need to be opposed, bad ones restrained, selfish ones avoided, and the crazy ones helped, treated or genteelly handled.
Whatever this day holds for you, celebrate life, honor the good, protect what is worthwhile and remember your beloved dead and shake the dust off of those who made your life difficult or miserable. Remembering the past is what it is for, living there is to forfeit your future more often than not. On to quotes and a photo - perhaps a autumn cemetery.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. - Brian Clough
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. - Steve Jobs
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. - George Eliot
The Gettysburg National Cemetery in the Autumn
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Blessed Sabbath and Happy Saturday to all of you digital neighbors scattered across the internet. In Cath-O-landia we are celebrating the Solemn Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Since about the 5th century the devotion has been recognized in various communities within the Church. By the time of St. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Bonaventure it was a widespread devotion and belief among the faithful.
In short, at the moment of her death, the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed body and soul into Heaven. Our Orthodox brothers and sisters speak of the Dormition (the “falling asleep”) of the BVM, whose soul was received into Heaven at death and whose body was translated there and reunited with her soul. I am not sure how many, if any, outside of Catholicism and Orthodoxy celebrate it, since it is not explicitly in the Bible. Some see it as “Mary worship,” and sadly there are disciples who mistakenly or errantly place too much emphasis on the BVM and lose sight of the fact that ...
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
