Just one look, that's all it took...COME HOLY GHOST

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COME HOLY GHOST

Let flesh, and heart, and lips, and mind,
sound forth our witness to mankind;
and love light up our mortal frame,
till others catch the living flame.

St. Ambrose of Milan
4th Century

On this Feast of Christ the King let us be moved by the Holy Spirit to consider anew the Holy Sacrament of the Altar, the Holy Eucharist, the Holy Divine Action that saves us.

Light, life and love are bound together in one—three-in-one—in the Holy Eucharist.  Would we expect anything different from our Triune God? 

What is the significance of this? EVERYTHING

Deeply, let us ponder these following triads from Holy Mass.

Holy, Holy, Holy…

Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are filled with your glory, Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.

Who is this HE?  The Father? Jesus Christ the Son?  The Holy Spirit?  Or all three?

At the offertory, the Holy Spirit sanctifies our offering in the unbloody holocaust of Holy Mass. Jesus is the eternal High Priest; our prayers are His prayers. Our prayers are united in faith with the three elements—the bread, water and wine—and at this moment, executing His divine power and might, the Holy Spirit ignites the spiritual bonfire and sends its smoke to the Father, who accepts it as He did when Jesus first offered Himself both at the Last Supper and at Calvary. This incense (in a special sense) seeds the spiritual clouds of heaven for the raining down of God’s merciful and just love during Holy Communion.  This incense is key to our understanding Mass.

(Just an aside: consider OT/NT fire and the fact that it is triune. Light, heat and smoke are its constituent parts and each is fire. This can also be said of a nuclear explosion.)

Benjamin Franklin offers the following:

At the epiclesis, the Holy Spirit shrouds the sacred altar in mystery.  He hovers above and veils the eternal moment that breaks through space and time.  Eyes of faith can truly perceive the Holy of Holies that is the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  The OT shekinah light in the tabernacle,  pillar of fire and pillar of cloud prefigure this impending moment just as the Ark of the Covenant prefigures the tabernacles of our Catholic Churches.

(Just as an aside: please call to mind the Shroud of Turin and consider the sign that light irradiation has left us to ponder 2000 years after the Resurrection. New Life in this First Glorious Mystery leaves an exact image of the crucified Body of Christ. Science cannot explain it but there are clues… The speed of light is absolute in a vacuum. It is ever so close to 3 x 10 ⁸ meters/second. Hmmmmm?)

At the consecration, the Holy Spirit mystically streams Light from Light to the altar, two return strokes of spiritual lightning, executed as the Words of Consecration are spoken by the Priest (in persona Christi): “This is My Body.” “This is My Blood.”  The Holy Spirit effects this transubstantiation in silence, as befits the “small still voice” that “blows where He wills.” We mortals mark and in some ways fill this silence with three reverential bells ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding.

(Just as an aside: please consider the scientific fact that at 3° centigrade this bell’s sound travels at 333 meters/second. IMHO this is not a coincidence. No, it is a God incidence, pure and simple)

Timeless? Yes   But would it be wrong to say this happens at God’s Perfect Light Speed?

Where there was no life, there is now Jesus’ perfect life: His Body, Blood Soul and Divinity.

And is this not His perfect love...the innocent, blemishless Lamb who lays down His life for the eternal life of the guilty and soiled….His friends.

Now let us consider the following three prayers as one:

1. Our Father– This is “our daily bread,” the Holy Eucharist from this altar, a real memorial of the Last Supper and Calvary. Supersubstantial bread = Body of Christ.

2. Fraction of the Host– The priest breaking and separating the host represents Christ giving up His Spirit while dying on the Cross at Calvary.  “Father into your hands, I commend my Spirit.” We are all taken to the foot of the Cross to receive the outpouring of grace. Body: blessed, broken and given and Blood: New and Everlasting Covenant.

3. Lamb of God–This is the Divine Liturgy in Heaven as recorded in Sacred Scripture. We are part of this Universal and Eternal Mass as we are part of God’s plan.

The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him, and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.  John 1:29

And I saw: and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing as it were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes: which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.  Rev. 5:6

And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no curse any more; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.  And they shall see his face: and his name shall be on their foreheads. And night shall be no more: and they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten them, and they shall reign for ever and ever.  Rev. 22:1-5

And I saw no temple therein. For the Lord God Almighty is the temple thereof, and the Lamb. And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it, and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. And the nations shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour into it.  Rev. 21:23-24

 

 

(http://www.lamb-of-god.com/timeline for some perspective on the attack by those who set themselves against God.)

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio


Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

The Truth: Light, Life and Love

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One view of how the Trinity relates its light, life and love.

In the Gospel of John, Jesus "the Light of the World" gives us a great opportunity to explore the deep relationship that exists between those three haloed words: LIGHT, LIFE, AND LOVE and the hoped for promise of salvation.

John 5:31-47

"If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is not true; there is another who bears witness to me, and I know that the testimony which he bears to me is true. You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me. And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness to me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen; and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent.

You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from men. But I know that you have not the love of God within you. I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words."

Moses witnessed to the Light of the Son of man at the Transfiguration.

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ!

See you on the High Ground!

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Where have all the Rainbows gone?

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This morning I found a very comprehensive site
on the subject of Rainbows and the Bible, and sacred art.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~colmusic/rainbow.htm

But landscapes with rainbows were extremely rare in both secular and religious art - even as late as the 17th century, those of Rubens, and in Jacob van Ruisdael's "The Jewish Cemetery", were exceptions.    In religious art, the rainbow throne was fading from prominence as a new iconography emerged. Images of the bow had begun to lose their colour, often reduced to a pale or golden band with minimal indication of its stripes. So it also appeared in scenes of classical mythology, catering to the interests of private clients. No longer would sacred figures front the viewer in the time-honoured Byzantine fashion, sitting on a rainbow, and confined by borders to their heavenly sphere. They began to disport themselves more freely about the sky, walking among the clouds, with not a rainbow in sight. The new arrangement could be applied to the Last Judgement, justified by the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. On the last day, mankind would see "the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory". This glory of the resurrected Christ was shown as a burst of golden light, if at all. It no longer manifested in perfected colour, "just as variously coloured glass derives its splendour from the sun's radiance", as Thomas Aquinas had put it (evidently, drawing his analogy from 13th century stained glass.) As the Bible was read afresh during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, its stories took on a new appearance.

It appears to this observer that the Reformation
fundamentally broke the back of the rainbow
as it relates to God's covenant. 

King Henry VIII probably hated them too! 

So now we know why it is so easy for the forces in the world
who are trying to destroy the covenant of marriage
to proudly march under the rainbow banner.

The Fullness of Truth
will set them free.

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Seek and you shall find

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Seek and you shall find!
Do it with all your heart!


ULTIMATE AND
ABSOLUTE TRUTH
IS JESUS CHRIST

This is an outstanding teaching on reality
I found on my search this morning

Dr. Peter Kreeft is right on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq4A0vf4eeI&feature=related

I received three gifts from this:

1. He mentions E=mc²; and Jesus in the same breath (27:03).

2. He talks to the four chambers of the heart (29:33).

3. He mentions the rainbow as a light-filled bridge to truth (30:35).

Earlier this morning on this search I received a gift when I was taking a screen shot of a book on the Rainbow Bridge and it merged with one of the many images that serves as a desktop background.

This never happened before and the result was quite striking.

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

A Very Small Beginning...

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HERE IS THE PAPER

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio,

 Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God
Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Sometime in the Morning, A simple thought may occur to you...

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Much space and time has elapsed since my last post—over five long months. Giving space to a particle of thought and allowing time to just flow, like a clear stream through a open field has its benefits. 


I'm at peace and my mind is at rest.


I've found that since 2007 when I first came home to this blog and searched for updates on what is out there in cyberland relative to the Holy Eucharist and E=mc² I am often surprised.

This morning was yet another fruitful return:

1. An etymological search on the origin of the word mass (physics) reveals that it is deeply related to both unleavened bread and curiously transubstantiaton in Holy Mass. Hmmmm...

http://web.gnowledge.org/episteme3/pro_pdfs/05-mashood.pdf


Historico-Critical Analysis of the Concept of Mass:
From Antiquity to Newton  
Mashood K.K. 

Theological and Metaphysical Roots

In physics the word mass or its Latin equivalent massa came into common usage at the beginning of the 17th century. In his Lexicon technicum, John Harris states that "Masse, this word is used by the natural philosophers to express the Quantity of Matter in any body" (Jammer, 1964, p.7). In Latin masse means a lump of dough. Slowly the notion was generalized to signify a lump of anything. The Latin masse is derived from the Greek maza, where it means barley cake. In the ancient Greek literature maza denotes a kind of bread inferior in quality to the wheaten bread (artos).

If we delve a little deeper into the etymological roots, then things get somewhat murky. Divergent schools of thought emerge. One view is that the Greeks borrowed it from Hebrew, where it connotes unleavened bread. A dramatically opposite view is that the Cretan term found its way into Hebrew – courtesy the warlike Philistines.

2. Mass and gravity are still less known and still more mysterious...

"Sometime during the next few years a great discovery will be unveiled, with appropriate fanfare. The headlines will read "ORIGIN OF MASS DISCOVERED".

     http://www.hep.yorku.ca/what_is_higgs.html

3. The search for the Higgs Boson, a.k.a. the God Particle is continuing...

     "The origin of mass is one of the most intriguing mysteries of nature."

     http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/oct/05/mass-higgs-boson

4. There is a sense of humor pervading all of this speculation...

A Higgs-Boson walks into a church, the priest says, "We don't allow Higgs-Bosons in here." The Higgs-Boson says, "But without me how can you have mass?"

     http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_En4TrWQcWAJ:www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/a7x4e/a_higgsboson_walks_into_a_church_the_priest_says/+humor+higgs+boson&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us




I take these developments in stride, still hoping that someone better suited than yours truly will pick up on the breadcrumbs that I am dropping in the darkened forest.

If only I could scream from the top of the Empire State Building, "Wisdom be attentive" and get the world to stop, listen and ponder the significance.

We are so close yet so very far. 

For any new readers of this blog, I'd like to direct you to the point paper of a project named Reflecting Pool.  I wrote this in December 2004. http://thebreadoflifeemc2.blogspot.com/

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

THE MOST HOLY TRINITY

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THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
Pre-eminent Light, Life and Love

Light, Life, Love

Three words are absolutely of God—light, life, and love. Light shows us the way and the Truth. Life abiding in Jesus is the way. Love in the Spirit is the bond that holds all things together. We cannot separate these. God the Father is pure unapproachable light; Jesus is the Light of the World; the Holy Spirit is the fire of the Apostolate. God the Father is the Source of Life; Jesus is the Word of Everlasting Life; the Holy Spirit is the Lord and Giver of Life. Abba’s love—He offered up His only begotten Son. Jesus’ love—He willingly gave up His life for his friends; the Holy Spirit—defined as the love between Abba Father and his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. When God acts, these three are operative because they are who He is. We cannot live in eternity without these essentials because we cannot live without God.

Light: In the beginning as God created, the Word went forth, “Let there be light,” and light filled good creation. Then God brought forth life. As John tells us: “And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:5-7).

We are to be in fellowship with God—to have daily communion with Him (Our Daily Bread). From this Holy Communion, we must go forth and witness true and meaningful charity to one another. We must walk in the light as He is in the light. Light brings forth growth. But how do we walk in the light? It is by following the True Light of the World, the Lord Jesus, who said: “I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:12).

Practically speaking, what does this mean? It simply means that we must walk in Christ. Paul told the Colossian believers: “As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him” (Colossians 2:6). If we are not walking in Christ, then we are not in the light. We will not know where to go or how to proceed. We have no light to see our way. It is a dark path.

John gives us the key to walking in Christ, and it is in the word abide.In 1 John, we are told many times to abide in Him. This means that we make our daily home in the Lord—to dwell in Him, to continue in Him, to endure in Him, to remain in Him. The Holy Eucharist is the superative means of such abiding.  The exchange of hearts that occurs each and every time we“Lift up our hearts to the Lord” to “give Him thanks (eucharistia) and praise” is abiding in Him, for He abides in us and we have fellowship with one another. In other words, we are one in Christ in thought word and deed. 

Life: When the light of God shines, the life of God comes forth. When Jesus said He is the Light of the World, He also said that He is the Light of Life. Who spoke the words “Let there be light”? It was the Word of God, who is the Son of God, the Word of Life (1 John 1.1). In other words, when the light of God comes, we have life, God’s life. Where is the life? John tells us that the life is in the Son, and he who has the Son has the life (1 John 5:11-12).

But what does this mean practically to us? In the natural world, light shines upon the earth and vegetation springs forth from the ground. We see life coming forth when light shines upon the soil. The vegetation produces seeds, which results in more plants coming forth. The principle is that light brings forth life, and then life begets more life. No one tells a plant to bear seed and give forth more life; it just happens. This is the same principle we are to see in God’s people. When His light shines in our hearts, the darkness is driven away; we have communio with God and one another, and spiritual life flourishes. And this life brings forth even more life—it is a multiplicative effect. This is what the Mystical Body of Christ  is in essence. His body is organic in nature. Organisms have one main purpose, and that is to live and to continue to bear fruit. Spiritually the same rule is manifest.  We are—as the 60's church hymn reminds us—“one in the Spirit, we are One in the Lord.”

The key to life is abiding: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:4-5). Like a plant, we are to abide in our living vine, the Lord Jesus. When we do, more fruit comes forth for the glory of God. If we do not abide, there is no fruit. We can do nothing apart from Him. It is His life that bears the fruit. A branch merely takes life from the rooted vine. Cut the roots of the vine, and the branches all die. Cut off the branches, and they will no longer bear fruit; they wither and die.

Love: The last element is the quintessential one. Light and life come forth because they are birthed out of the love of God. Love is the very source of the light and the life. Love is what holds all things together. Love is from God, for God is love. As with light and life, we must abide in love. Daily abiding in love is essential. St. John tells us to know and believe the love that God has for us. “We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” (1 John 4:16). Do you know this love? Do you believe in this love? Before the Lord Jesus was crucifued, He prayed to His heavenly Father: “Just Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee: and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have made known thy name to them, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.” (John 17:25-26).

Light shows us the way. Life is the way. Love is the bond, the New and Everlasting Covenant, that holds all things together in Christ. Let us live in the light and be vessels of love so that the world may believe that God sent the Son of His love.

NOTE:  The above essay is a partially completed rewrite of the original non-Catholic version which can be found at http://www.kingdomandglory.com/tuc/tuc78.pdf.  My thanks to the author, Stuart H. Pouliot.

MARY, THE NEW ARK OF THE COVENANT,
PRAY FOR US

HAPPY FEAST DAY!

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Miracle of the Son/Sun

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Image credit: NASA/Steele Hill

It's not a just a coincidence

Although this NASA computer enhanced image is not to scale—distancewise, the Earth at this scale should be about eight feet away from the quarter (25¢) sized Sun—the message is clear. There is a great similarity between the Son of God, the self-described The Light of The World and the light of the world.

The accidents of the Holy Eucharist reflect  the Son—for Jesus is the ultimate Sign of Contradiction and the host is too. And is it any wonder that if you view the sun about 20 minutes before sunset (when the  ophthalmologists warn it is "still not permissible" to look directly at it) you observe an elevated disk that seems to have a side, as if it were embossed, like the Holy Eucharist when it is raised at the consecration.

Did you ever wonder what our ancestors did at sunset?  Without ophthalmologists, sunglasses or cameras, do you think that humankind turned away from God's magnificent handiwork at sunset because of a "health hazard"?

When Jesus comes again in the clouds,
will He be recognized by a Western World
that has largely turned its back to the Son?

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: 
Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
 O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Could it really be that simple?

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The Institution of the Eucharist
(Fifth Mystery of Light of the Rosary)

Color illustration by Elizabeth Wang.
Copyright (c) Radiant Light 2004.
All rights reserved. Radiant Light

Artist's interpretation of the painting: At the Last Supper Jesus gave to his Church the sacred rite of the Eucharist, through which his once-for-all sacrifice on Calvary could be re-presented and offered for sinners through all ages to come. 'It is by God's will that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all' (Heb 10:10).

The absolute power of Holy Eucharist is so beyond human awareness that we neglect to see how IN JESUS we might still all be saved.

Ponder this what if:

What if every human being agreed to let down their guard, suspend judgment, and give their fiat to humble reception of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ—just once?

Do you think maybe that is the end condition that Our Lord is seeking in Matthew 28?

Do you think maybe that is when He will return in glory?

Could it really be that simple?

Just maybe...

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

 Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

The Call Back

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It has been over a year since my last post. As I keep trying to be led by the Spirit, I feel it is time to post again. I'll connect the dots in the hope that someone will catch the fire that still burns in me.

I found a video that helps. It can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsRfh3hYBFc .

 Watch: God of Wonders – E=mc²

Think: Holy Eucharist

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary

Become like Jesus

Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ

 See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:

 Jesus, Mary and Joseph;

O Beata Trinitas;

St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

After the Dawn (or West of Eden) The Co-opting of Catholic America

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We must thank Dawn Eden with a "well done" for her exposure of President Obama's co-opting of Catholicity.  First Acorn co-opted the Catholic Campaign for Human Development; then the media co-opted the Catholic vote on November 8th; now President Obama is personally co-opting Catholic universities.  Pay attention Notre Dame.

The term co-opt is jargon in the legal profession.  Lawyers co-opt clients, judges and juries with regularity.

It reminds me of the cult movie, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  We are witnessing the socialist machine incubating pod versions of America's citizens.  After fully co-opting their natural being (will and intellect) an Obamaized clone is released back into the mainstream to do his bidding.

The problem is...this is real life.


From: http://dawneden.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Obama's messianic jargon hits 'rock' bottom ...
and G'town removes the Holy Name to accommodate The One

At Georgetown University today, while sitting in the press section at Gaston Hall awaiting the arrival of President Obama for a "major address" on economics, I overheard a reporter discussing the advance text of the speech.

The reporter said that senior presidential adviser David Axelrod had compared Obama during his European trip to one planting seeds for a harvest. Along the same lines, he noted, in today's speech, Obama was set to use another Gospel analogy: that of the "house built upon a rock."

And so it came to pass, beneath Gaston Hall's beautiful painting of Morality, Faith, and Patriotism, with gold letters on the wall behind him spelling the Jesuit motto "Ad majorem Dei gloriam"—"To the greater glory of God"—Obama shared his prosperity gospel at the nation's oldest Catholic university.

But there was one thing missing: Jesus' name.

I'm not just talking about Obama's failing to mention Jesus—though he did pointedly fail to mention the name of the One—that is, for him, the other "One"—who first told the "parable" he shared.

No, Jesus' very name, in the form of the ancient monogram IHS, which had been in gold lettering on the wooden archway above Gaston Hall's dais, was painted over (or otherwise expertly camouflaged) prior to Obama's arrival. Apparently, the Name that is above every other name is not permitted to be above Obama.  [emphasis mine]

(I became aware of the cover-up after the speech, when it was pointed out by pro-life advocate Larry Cirignano in an e-mail forwarded to me. Whether Georgetown University initiated it or did it at the request of the White House is unknown at this time.)

As for Obama's address, here is how the most pro-abortion, pro-infanticide elected official in history appropriated the words of Our Saviour:

There is a parable at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that tells the story of two men. The first built his house on a pile of sand, and it was destroyed as soon as the storm hit. But the second is known as the wise man, for when "…the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house…it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock."

We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand. We must build our house upon a rock. We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity – a foundation that will move us from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest; where we consume less at home and send more exports abroad.

No mention of Jesus. It's just a parable about a house built upon a rock.

In Obama's hands, the words of Our Lord become just another way to tell the story of the Three Little Pigs.

He resumed the analogy as he capped off his speech:

There is no doubt that times are still tough. By no means are we out of the woods just yet. But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers of hope. And beyond that, way off in the distance, we can see a vision of an America’s future that is far different than our troubled economic past. It’s an America teeming with new industry and commerce; humming with new energy and discoveries that light the world once more. A place where anyone from anywhere with a good idea or the will to work can live the dream they’ve heard so much about.

It is that house upon the rock. Proud, sturdy, and unwavering in the face of the greatest storm. We will not finish it in one year or even many, but if we use this moment to lay that new foundation; if we come together and begin the hard work of rebuilding; if we persist and persevere against the disappointments and setbacks that will surely lie ahead, then I have no doubt that this house will stand and the dream of our founders will live on in our time.

When he had finished these words, the Georgetown crowd was astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

Kyrie eleison.

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Blessing of the Son/14 Nisan/Blessing of the Sun

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

"Father, into your hands I commend my Spirit."

Tuesday, April 8, 2009 was special,
but did you catch it?
    

Tuesday, April 8, 2009
coincided with the Hebrew, 14 Nisan

The Gospel of John (e.g., 19:14, 19:31, 19:42) implies that Nisan 14 was the day that Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem. A close read of the synoptics reveals the same, Chirst died during the 24 hour period of 14 Nisan.

This year, 14 Nisan was also
the Hebrew Hachama (Blessing on the Sun)

The event Birkat Hachama or Blessing on the Sun occurs once every 28 years. But it has only ever occured on this exact date on the Hebrew calendar, the 14th of Nisan, three times;

1) Prior to the Jews escaping slavery and being redeemed from Egypt

2) Prior to the miracle of Purim

3) And in the year 6759 (now! - 2009 in the Gregorian calendar)

Once every 28 years, the Sun returns to the position it occupied when it was created at the beginning of the fourth day of creation.

And Hashem made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night and the stars. And Hashem placed them in the sky of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from darkness; and Hashem saw that it was good. And it was evening and it was morning, a fourth day.

Why does Birkat Hachama take place only every 28 years?

The starting point is Tuesday at 6:00 pm. Now, since a year lasts 365 1/4 days - or 52 weeks plus a remainder of 1 1/4 days - it follows that after one year, the Sun will return to the spring equinox, but will fall 1 1/4 days later in the week: Wednesday at midnight. After two years, the Sun will return to the spring equinox, but it will now be 2 x 1 1/4 days later in the week: Thursday at 6:00 am. Only after 28 years, will the Sun return to the spring equinox on Tuesday at 6:00 pm.

http://www.threes.com/cms/index.php

Albert Einstein once wrote: 

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

To this let us reply:

"People like us, who believe in the Triune God, know that in eternity, there is no past, present or future---God is not bound by space nor time for He is the persistently real and now."

The Blessing of Brother Sun
by St. Francis of Assisi

Praised be You my Lord with all Your creatures,
especially Sir Brother Sun,

Who is the day through whom You give us light.

And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour,

Of You Most High, he bears the likeness.


Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

Mystery of Light, Mystery of Life, Mystery of Love

On Holy Thursday we celebrate the Institution

of the Holy Eucharist that begins the Sacred Triduum.

Pondering the three days—Christ's Passion, Death and Resurrection,

we see numerous points of Mystery; we see His Light, Life and Love;
we see the corresponding negations (Darkness, Death, and Hate)
at every turn in the compelling narrative.

Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa
(the preacher of the Papal Household) 

offers this advice—Contemplate the Trinity...

The symbol that best sums up this vision of the sacrifice of Christ is that of the Lamb of God. The New Testament prefers it to “scapegoat” precisely because it expresses perfectly the meekness of the victim. A lamb can only receive evil, it can never inflict it.

The resurrection of Christ is for the spiritual universe what the Big Bang, according to a recent theory, was for the physical cosmos: a cataclysmic explosion of energy starting the whole movement of expansion of the universe that is still going on after billions of years. In fact, everything that exists and moves in the Church, the sacraments, doctrine, institutions draws its strength from Christ's resurrection. It is the new creation as the liturgy inculcates by choosing the story of creation, in Genesis 1, as the first reading for the Easter vigil. It is the new fiat lux!, Let there be light!, said by God.

There is a profound similarity between that which occurred in the resurrection and that which occurs in the Eucharist: there, the Father, through his Spirit, gave life to Christ’s body lying in the sepulchre; here, with the same Spirit, he gives life to the bread and transforms it into his Son’s body.

The cry “Behold the Lamb!”, which resounds at every Mass ... is therefore an invitation addressed to all believers in Christ not to let themselves be contaminated by the violence of our world, but to respond to it with the meekness and the strength of love. It is a constant reminder of the words of Jesus: “Look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves” (Mt 10,16).

http://www.cantalamessa.org/en/articoloView.php?id=66

Jesus Christ—the Lamp, Lamb and Lord
of the New and Everlasting Covenant

A prayer, stemming from the Gelasian Sacramentary of the 7th century is still in use in the Easter Vigil; it proclaims solemnly: "Let the whole world see and recognize that all that is destroyed is reconstructed, all that is old is renewed, and everything returns to its integrity, through Christ who is the principle of all things." http://www.cantalamessa.org/en/predicheView.php?id=276

1 cross + 3 nails = 4 given

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Mike Rizzio, SOLT

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for: Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas; St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael