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Another word to consider is work. God’s children are not stoics, waiting for their luck to somehow turn for the better. Rather Ignatius gives us concrete proven actions we can do to lessen the miseries of spiritual desolation, and thus hasten spiritual consolation. Rather as Rule 7 states by resisting with the grace the Good Lord always supplies, we grow stronger in resisting future spiritual desolations.

Not to be exhaustive but worth stating for clarity and reference

Rule 6 Petition, prayer both during and before spiritual desolation, meditation on SS about the faithful love of God, examination (consider the source is it because of sin, is it for our growth, humility, use of prayer journal to reflect on past instances of faithfulness and the ways one grew during desolation), suitable penance, breaking spiritual silence Rule 13 someone knowable SD, regular confessor, wise spiritual person, Rule 14 consider the weakness of each, personal principal sin and temperament, and make provision for attack before it occurs, strengthen weakest point.

Think back to good things Lord, where are you lately? Mothers of teenagers, put out their baby pictures. Find live in heart at the innocent foibles. Same position of concupiscence. No lack of grace, store up for a rainy day. Adoration, confession, against desolations.

We are people of hope, many resources to help during desolation.

Spiritual desolation versus physical desolation. Physical and moral evils not to be tolerated.

Rule 13, Break Silence.

Isaiah 43:1-7 See addendum

Humble in our wants. Mother of God, natural expectation born in a palace. Her joy was complete in the manger. Nothing lacked. Perfect for her Child. Poetry exquisite from this place.

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Mother Love new book released similar to printing of Practical Meditation

Devotions for mothers, not a calendar, how to be a good mother

Universal prayer book vs specific to mothers

Even though the author mentions religious, this remark in most suitable for anyone seeking the Lord in sincerity.

Element of hope, Ignatian Silent Retreat, similar format

Modern prayer don’t begin from an appropriate starting part. First place ourselves before the Lord, direct thoughts to the Lord

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A simple summary of Ignatian Discernment

Ignatius wrote that the Exercises: “have as their purpose the conquest of self and the regulation of one’s life in such a way that no decision is made under the influence of any inordinate attachment.” [1] See prior shows on a fuller discussion of Ignatius of Loyola his life and work.

 It includes spiritual reading and daily meditations for the liturgical year. Efficient and easy-to-use, Practical Meditations is not encumbered by long-winded or overly sentimental verbiage. Rather, these meditations are refreshing, sincere, powerful, and brief. Written with the betterment of souls in mind, each meditation is comprised of points and considerations on the Life of Christ, with constructive applications to daily life. Learn to live life in closer union with God by taking small but consistent steps each day to deepen your faith.

Each meditation is structured around a specific theme or aspect of the life of Jesus and includes biblical references and reflections on how these teachings can be applied in the modern world. The book is suitable for anyone seeking to deepen their spiritual practice and gain a deeper understanding of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

[1] https://jesuit.ie/who-are-the-jesuits/prayer-and-spirituality/spiritual-exercises/  accessed August 13, 2024

[2] https://angeluspress.org/products/practical-meditations  accessed August 13, 2024

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Unsure of the notes, check video before and after

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Modernism briefly summarized, see prior shows for a fuller discussion, is an attack on the fundamentals of the faith, atheistic in nature, denies possibility of divine revelation and objective truth, contempt for virtue and beauty. Man is the ultimate creature in the universe, inevitable leads to self-worship, a rejection of self-restraint, embracing of moral relativism, loss of authentic reason.

Satan capable of mimicry, high level counterfeit, fools many people. JPII Denver Freed do what one ought. Ought and want sound similar. Many substituted to do want, libertine, licentiousness. Suffer gravely from heresy.

Prayer books written maximum social capital before watered down, reenter mind heart and soul lived Christianity without the infection. Go back to early documents.

Globalism, a derivative of Modernism, has nothing to do with religion or the protection of religion. Globalism is at the root of the policy emanating from various institutions around the world (i.e. Vatican & China, suggested 2B/yr to Rome Cardinal Zen, Steve Mosher, muted/silent response to opening closing ceremonies in Paris Olympics Summer 2024). Practical Meditations is an antidote to these forces.

A Practical Meditation is an antidote to these serious ills. It is rooted in authentic faith, practical virtue, love of supernatural- God.

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How do mothers teach?  Short and sweet. Some hold these rules gave to Ignatius. Fitting gesture exact thing a mother tell her child. Succinct and packed into each word. Comes from a master of spiritual life. Archangel, message Mother of God, profound interior life, asks how can this be I do not know man? More to do with discernment of spirit. How this comes about without loss of perpetual virginity. Virgin and mother. Succinct fiat discerned better God’s will for her life.

Pope wept at their beauty. Profoundly perfect. Help form interior life in each individual. Repetition is the mother of learning.

Three-Fold Paradigm

Ignatian retreat profoundly changing. Changes how look at the world. True Devotion to Mary foundational books.

[1] Gallagher 113 John of the Cross

[2] Gallagher 3

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Accompany someone who have lived a life well lived. Angels surround the bed of the dying, we would be in awe at the value of the soul. Be motivated I have great value and the Lord wants for us is eternal joy.

Joy is not pleasure, not hedonism, all encompassing

Fr. Gaitley Consoling the Heart of Jesus

The dead person is not gone, more profound relationship with the dead, outside of time, don’t see things as we do. Pray for the expiation, beatific vision, only desire is to help us through charity. Will the good for us that we be with God forever. Increase of faith, hope, charity inspired to do better. Expansiveness of love.

XIV Exhortation Importance of preparing for death while a live & instructing someone to make Catholic decisions for oneself.

NB preparing for death gives one a virtuous happy life now and a more peaceful death. As [Proverbs shows walking with the Lord provides health, wealth, and righteousness.]

Resources

Dominican Friar Explains “The Art of Dying” September 18, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-T8DE50Voo&t=3s   accessed July 10, 2024

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1858 Creation Confraternity of Christian Mothers, same time frame. Women in Church gravely concerned about children and husbands.

Christians tale between legs, people bearing brunt of chaos is mothers, children, and families

Noble woman in France, Rio, husband & children caught up in socialist atheist ideas

Rapidly approved by Vatican, daily prayer created, number of ways to gain indulgence

Obtain graces to fight against a material heresy. Expanded rapidly, in USA within USA.

Many of Confraternities in Europe have gone defunct. Largest in USA

Prayer Book, written in France, accumulating beautiful language of prayer against onslaught against women & children

Percy Shelly radical, down on marriage, easy divorce, material problems.

Don’t want discomfort, want radical solution. Rise in sinfulness innocent suffer the most.

New website https://www.christianmothers.org

Mother Love prayer book https://www.christianmothers.org/mother-love

175 yr anniversary of Confraternity

Band together with other Catholic Mothers, grace available to achieve that end

Indulgenced prayer, Holy Mass, spiritual director

Specifics commit to say short litany of saints who are patrons

how to join based out of Pittsburg PA

Parish affiliation, monthly meeting, Mass, dues based on intent

Not another women’s group, contemplative mother’s movement within the heart of the Church

Not fundraising, bake sales, altar cloths rather formation of the mothers, and Christian education of husbands & children

Older women keeping movement alive, more traditionally minded parishes rediscovering our patrimony with younger mother

Grandmothers & mothers married together for an active Faith in children & husband

Zellie Martin attended some of the early meetings

Intercessory prayer current and past members incredible help

10K praying for the members plus deceased

Mother Love (brand new compilation of prior book) formal prayer book common to Practical Meditations

These prayers, profoundly beautiful

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Timothy M. Gallagher was ordained to the priesthood in 1979 as a member of the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary.

In 1983, he obtained his doctorate from The Pontifical Gregorian University, and became a spiritual director and retreat leader.

He has taught at St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, and Our Lady of Grace Seminary Residence, Boston, both in Massachusetts.

In 2015, Father Gallagher accepted the St. Ignatius Chair for Spiritual Formation at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver.  He has written over twenty books on spiritual themes, published articles in Catholic periodicals, appears frequently on Catholic television, and records many podcasts, radio interviews, series on YouTube, and virtual events used throughout the English-speaking Catholic world. https://www.frtimothygallagher.org

Catholic Podcasts dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. https://www.discerninghearts.com/catholic-podcasts/fr-timothy-gallagher-discernment-of-spirits/

Many people led astray inappropriate spirituality. Easy to go astray. Divine Will in our life and interactions of principalities and powers wage a battle over each soul. Angels’ superior intellect. Appeal to our guardian angel and not be easily swayed by the world.

The second conviction is that since these rules are born of experience, they are best explained by constant references to experience[2] (realistic epistemology one of our Guide posts, sound reasoning, Aristotelian)

Ignatius composed these rules for those who guide others in the Spiritual Exercises, a time of prayer and of seeking God’s will. He presumes that these guides will know the rules well and will explain them to the retreatants.[3]

Rules studied over 30 day of time, constant immersion, intense directed approach engage with things Christological.

Eastern mysticism tends to speak of void, nothingness. Christian mysticism relationship with someone. Rules know ourselves so we can purge hindrance with this relationship, motivate strengths directed towards the end.

Not wordy packed with meaning. Rules given to Ignatius from our Lady, completely written from Blessed Mother how to avoid difficulties and open to a life of grace.

[1] Gallagher xv

[2] Gallagher 4

[3] Gallagher 5

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The Art of Dying

Ignatian Spiritual Discernment

Get Married

Prepare for Eternal Live

True Devotion to Mary

Weidenkopf & Shreck Revolutions & Modernism[2]

Secular:

The Enlightenment philosophy from Descartes 1641 (I think there I am) had flowered into

Kant Critique of Pure Reason (we can’t know anything, and if we know is something it is very little) 1781 see prior shows for a fuller discussion

Darwinism 1859

Karl Marx rejection of the Church 1867

Battle of Waterloo Napoleon 1815

Ecclesial

50 yrs prior the suppression of the Jesuit order by Pope Pius VII 1814

Immaculate Conception 1854

Lourdes 1858

Syllabus of Errors 1864 (leads to St. Pius X Modernism synthesis of all heresies)

Terrible seeds during Revolutionary period in France, and throughout Europe bears noxious fruit.

Holy people somehow break through. Good will come from this somehow.

1858 Creation Confraternity of Christian Mothers, same time frame. Women in Church

[1] Practical Meditations For Every Day of the Year (Angelus Press: Saint Marys, KS 2022)

[2] Steve Weidenkopf & Alan Schreck, Epic: A Journey Through Church History (Ascension Press: West Chester, PA 2009) cf 181 and chart

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