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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2024
- In the previous video, tinyurl.com/4x..., we looked at how the monastic concept of 'separation from the world', i.e. the worldly spirit is essential for a fulfilling spiritual life and how not having this separation leads to spiritual and even physical illnesses. In this video we look at 6 simple steps to facilitate that separation in the most painless way possible.
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Thank you. This was very meaningful ~
This brought peace.
Thank youfor enriching my walk with Jesus.. May you have a beautiful Holy Week.
Very helpful Brother Brian. Thank you.
Thank you Br Brian
Thank you...🙏🙏
Thank you. I enjoyed this. I wish you a Happy Easter and a wonderful Holy Week before and after during the Easter season days. I must confess I enjoy the Saturday Vigil Mass with candles at night time. Similar to Christmas Eve. The dear Saints/followers did not understand Jesus so they were terribly sad, but we know better so our hearts should be full of expectation and joy. Yes, remember his Great Passion, but Jesus spent a small amount of time in that and being dead. For all time then He was/is ALIVE which should bring to us great joys of all kinds. I wish our Church would promote the Saturday Vigil a little more as we should fill our hearts with joy to burst forward on the morning to come. Jesus Risen. Easter. Beautiful!❤🔥🫂🐑🐣🐤🐥🐇🐰🌷🍇🍞⛲🌀🌈🌞👑✝
I love your comment and I agree with it 100%. Only, I think we are allowed a little nervousness in the Garden of Gethsemani where we are asked to drink the cup that Jesus has to drink. I think it is okay for us to cut ourselves a little slack for this. But yes, as you say, we should not stay there but move on to the joy of the Resurrection. Then again some of us move a little slower than others and that is okay too.
Mary is my help when unwelcome thoughts (blasphemous, scrupulous, self-reproaching, etc) come to mind. Like a child with a sharp object I offer these to Mary saying, “You take care of this”. Without examining the thought or fussing over the thought I simply hand it to Mary who uses all things to give glory to God. When this is my intention (as it is always Mary’s intention) it hardly gives the devil any reason to supply more ammunition to Mary!
I love your comment. It is very beautiful. I do this too. It creates greater love and trust between ourlselves and God and the demon definitely does not want to stick around in that environment. It is too much for him.
Happy Easter Brother Brian. Thanks for the videos.
Hi Brother, I like Eucharistic adoration, as well. Pope Benedict XV1 said, and I'm paraphrasing, that bodily posture is important in worship. So it helps me to be on my knees, or touch my head to the floor, or lie prostrate on the ground. That helps me to position myself properly to worship.
Thanks for this comment. It is much appreciated. People watch my videos, I think, because it helps connect them to the ancient tradition of monastic wisdom going back to the very early Church. Eucharistic adoration is a legitimate devotional practice but it is a more modern one stemming from the counter-reformation period. Therefore treasured devotion that it is, it is not a part of ancient monastic tradition. I would caution against using one good devotional practice in a way that might somehow question the validity of another tradition in the Church that does not have that particular devotion. That type of tendency comes from the evil spirit of division. Not from the Holy Spirit who promotes unity. If you find counter-reformation spirituality helpful then stay with it. But any hint or suggestion that other traditions that do not have this practice are somehow lacking or betraying the Lord is from the demonic spirit. I am not saying that this is your intention in your comment but it definitely could be read that way. Hence my need to make a clarification. Thanks again for the comment.
Hi brother, please clarify how I was questioning the validity of practices in the early Church. However, I did not mention in my comment that I simply use my time at chapel to make my 30 minutes of mental prayer. A place set apart from the world. Thanks for the information about how Eucharistic adoration is from the counter Reformation period. That's cool to know, though.
I just don't see how it's a divisional comment. Do you mean divisional in periods of the Church?
Thanks so much for the conversation.
@@johnpaul3362 Okay I can see there is probably a misunderstanding here. I think we would both have to have been living under a rock for the last twenty years if we were not aware that there is a militant right wing of the Catholic Church that considers Eucharistic Adoration as the benchmark for 'authentic' Catholicism. It amounts to a weaponization of the Eucharist to cancel others and to control those that are left. They possess all the criteria for a cult. I was just trying to highlight that your comment could very easily have been interpreted as coming from that source even if it was not coming from that source. So my apologies for the misunderstanding and I would ask you for a greater awareness of this divisive movement in the Church and not allow it close us off from equally, or perhaps more important, traditions of prayer and devotion in the Church.
I had no idea of this weaponization. How sad and misguided. I will definitely be aware of it now and will also choose my words more carefully. I think my choice of the word "properly" could have been better. Thank you for your responses. I learned some new things and do appreciate it.
Thank you so much Br. Brian.....this information was exactly what I needed to hear. Two issues on my mind lately have been the salvation of my family ( who don't seem to care about their own spiritual life....or maybe they think they're too far gone because of previous divorces and remarriages) .....and the second issue I've been having is blasphemous thoughts ( like curse words) while I'm trying to pray to Mother Mary and Jesus. The more I try not to think about these evil thoughts...the more they seem to happen while I'm praying.....Any suggestions? It's possibly coming from bitterness in my heart towards the things of God.
I think a good spiritual director would tell you to ignore these thoughts completely. Do not feed them with any unnecessary extra attention. Let them grab the involuntary attention but not the voluntary attention. I was told once that our mind is like a train heading to a distant destination. The train cannot control what passengers get on board the train. The train's only purpose is to focus on reaching its destination. So you cannot control the thoughts that take over your mind but you can focus on your destination and purpose. During Holy Week focus on the Lord and his Resurrection. That is your destination. Allow the thoughts/passengers to come along for the ride. Stop giving them attention they crave and watch them get off at the next stop. You stop fretting and worrying and they get bored and get off the train. But either way, don't worry, your final destination is what is important.
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So helpful. Another thing I try when plagued by unwelcome thoughts is to offer them to Mary in the same way that a child would bring to his/her mother a piece of broken glass so that no one would be hurt by it. This doesn’t require dwelling on the thought, only to attach your intention to any random thought that it be given to Mary for the glory of God. That is so contrary to the devil’s intention that he will desist in giving you any distractions to be handed over to Mary. Now that all random thoughts are Mary’s possession you don’t have to worry about what becomes of them
Thank you Br Brian