Saint Louis Catholic

30 April 2009

10 comments:

Peter said...: Love this picture and encourage everyone to read 'The 40 Dreams of St. John Bosco' that it was drawn from.
May we anchor ourselves to the Blessed Mother and Christ in the Eucharist!; 01 May, 2009 08:39
jane chantal said...: What a riveting and mysterious image. I'm embarrassed to say I don't know what it depicts, but would certainly like to. Help, anybody?; 01 May, 2009 08:58
cmziall said...: The month of MARY! Flood the gates of heaven with roses to our Blessed Mother! Remember your daily Rosary!; 01 May, 2009 10:03
Peter said...: Jane...
It is from one of St. John Bosco's mystical dreams. In the dream he saw a ship (the Church) with a man in white (the HolyFather) at the helm on a tulmutuous sea during a storm and it was being attacked by cannons, pirates and books that were destroying the ship. The man in white fell and was replaced by another (possibly a reference to John Paul II) who continued to direct the ship to be anchored between 2 pillars a beautiful lady (Mary) and the Eucharist where it was never damaged.
I think I remember that correctly.; 01 May, 2009 10:15
Anonymous said...: I thoughy my St. Louis friends might enjoy this.

I am an American Dominican priest (formerly assigned to St. Louis) who teaches at the Pontifical Dominican University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. We can see the Vatican very well from several locations in our cloister in the Angelicum Priory. My cell is in the most remote corner of the cloister, and at the end of that hallway there is the window through which we can best see the Vatican (St. Peter’s dome, the papal apartments and several other familiar structures).

The other evening I was in the area of that window and a young Austrian friar was there who said to me “He’s working late tonight.” I asked “Who is working late?” and he replied “The Holy Father.” I asked him how he knew that and he showed me an Angelicum secret I had not yet known about. From that window, as soon as it gets dark, the windows of the papal apartment are very clearly visible to us. The closest window, the one with the Pope’s bedroom, is dark, but the second and third windows (his work office featuring the window from which he often blesses people) are perfectly visible to us in the evening when those rooms are lit! I have sometimes wondered why I often see friars pause there in the evening to look out that window. Now I know and I have joined them: we are praying for the Holy Father while he is still at work late in the evening. The light always seems to go out sometime between 10:30 and 10:45 p.m.

It's consoling to know that just as the Holy Father is calling it a day and getting some rest, many people in Saint Louis, in early evening (especially our Pink Sisters and the other parishes ahd convents with Night Adoration) are getting prepared to pick up the baton and take up the guard by participating in Night Adoration before the Most Blessed Sacrament.; 01 May, 2009 11:05
Long-Skirts said...: THE
LILY

("The martyrs were bound, imprisoned, scourged, racked, burnt, rent, butchered —and they multiplied." St. Augustine)

NO BURNING, TEARING,
SCOURGING SKIN.
IT'S PSYCHOLOGICAL,
ALL WITHIN.

NO ROTTING FLESH
OR PUTRID BLOOD
IT'S STERILE, CLEAN
NO RANCID CRUD

FOR BUTCHERED, TORTURED,
BOUND UP SKINS,
REVEALS THE TRUTHS
OF BISHOPS SINS.

THEY WANT IT NICE,
THEY WANT IT HUSHED,
WITH VEINS OF ICE
GOOD SOULS ARE CRUSHED.

THE SILENT COLD,
IS BETTER, YET,
FROZEN, SOLID,
CAN'T BEGET.

FOR MARTYRED BLOOD
REVEALS THE CHURCH,
BLIND SOULS SEE TRUTH
AND END THEIR SEARCH.

"WE CAN'T HAVE THAT!"
SOME BISHOPS' SAY.
"SO LET'S IGNORE...
THEY'LL GO AWAY.

ENLIGHTENED MEN,
DON'T SCOURGE THE SKIN.
ENLIGHTENED MEN,
KEEP BLOOD, WITHIN."

BUT THEY FORGOT...
THE WOMAN BLEEDS,
AND MONTHLY, MAKES
A BED FOR SEEDS.

WHERE "NICE" AND "HUSHED"
THEY'LL GROW TO MEN
AND SEIZE THE OARS
FROM WRISTS THAT BEND...

ON PETER'S BARK
WHERE BLOOD STILL FLOWS,
FROM WOMAN'S WOMB...
THE LILY GROWS!; 01 May, 2009 11:32
Latinmassgirl said...: To the Dominican Priest;

Thank you for sharing that touching story of seeing our dear pope's window filled with light from him working into the night. I know I will never have a chance to see the Vatican, but I appreciate the vivid imagery from one who is there.

God bless you, Father and your holy work.; 01 May, 2009 15:35
jane chantal said...: Thank you, Peter :-); 01 May, 2009 15:37
Anonymous said...: DREAM OF TWO PILLARS BY FR. JOHN BOSCO on Miracle of the Rosary Mission web site [http://www.miraclerosarymission.org/bosco.html]; 02 May, 2009 22:06
Anonymous said...: The anonymous Dominican Father is Fr. Michael Monshau, who taught homeletics at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary and who was just sent to the Angelicum to teach.; 02 May, 2009 22:29

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