Friday, July 24, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Mass at Corpus Christi
sermon para el Septimo Domingo despues de Pentecostes
“So by their fruits you will know them”.
The Gospel of today teaches us two different aspects by means of a comparison of that good tree. Two arguments- warned about false teachings-we are told that in order to enter into the kingdom of God good works are required.
Means of baptism last Sunday by which the Christian has been made free by sin and has a share in the merits of Christ. Sin is destroyed . Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
“Without me you can do nothing”, God has given us sufficient grace in order to be saved, every thing that is good comes from Him.
"God does not command the impossible, but by commanding He teaches you both to do what you can and to ask what you cannot not do, and He helps you that you may be able" (St. Augustine, quoted at the Council of Trent, Denz., no. 804).
"Christ is the propitiation for our sins, for some efficaciously, but for all sufficiently, since the price of His blood is sufficient for the salvation of all" (St. Thomas on I Tim. 2:5, and elsewhere).
Man must cooperate with the grace received in the sacrament. The sacrament of faith is called the Baptism because faith is the beginning of human salvation. The foundation and root of all justification.
Having been made friends of God, we are justified gratuitously, presenting our bodies in mortification advancing in virtue from day to day, them as instruments of justice unto sanctification through the observance of the commandments of God and of the Church, in this justice received through the grace of Christ “faith cooperating with good works”. Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only? wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Man receives with justification that state in which man is born a child of the first Adam to the state of grace the adoption of the sons. He receives the justification, remission of the sins and these gifts infused at the same time: faith, hope and charity. For faith, unless hope and charity be added to it, neither unites one perfectly with Christ, nor makes him a living member of his body. If Matt 19,7 If we want to enter into life you need to keep my commandments, we need to preserve that baptismal garb in all purity and right intention. In baptism, We ask for faith which bestows life eternal, without hope and charity faith cannot bestow.
No one should think that by faith alone he is made an heir and will obtain the inheritance, even though he may not suffer with Christ. “And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him”. Rom 8.17. Trent c.9 etc. Not everyone that says to me Lord, lord shal enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
"The help of grace is twofold: one, indeed, accompanies the power; the other, the act. But God gives the power, infusing the virtue and grace whereby man is made capable and apt for the operation; whereas He confers the operation itself according as He works in us interiorly, moving and urging us to good" (St. Thomas on Ephes. 3:7).
Aug., Serm.in Mont., ii, 25: From this speech the Manichees suppose that neither can a soul that is evil be possibly changed for better, nor one that is good into worse. As though it had been, A good tree cannot become bad, nor a bad tree become good; whereas it is thus said, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," nor the reverse. The tree is the soul, that is, the man himself; the fruit is the man's works. An evil man therefore cannot work good works, nor a good man evil works. Therefore if an evil man would work good things, let him first become good. But as long as he continues evil, he cannot bring forth good fruits. Like as it is indeed possible that what was once snow, should cease to be so; but it cannot be that snow should be warm; so it is possible that he who has been evil should be so no longer; but it is impossible that an evil man should do good..
The application of the words of Our Lord is describing probably to the Scribes and Pharisees Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
If we consider that we at times have been like these wolves in sheep’s clothing. We can attempt to deceive others by our passions and sins but most of all ourselves by excuses, Saint Catherine of Siena remarks that self-love, is a tree on which grow nothing but fruits of death, putrid flowers, and stained leaves.
The soul who lives virtuously, places the root of her tree in the valley of true humility but those who live thus miserably are planted on the mountain of pride, whence it follows that since the root of the tree is badly planted, the tree can bear no fruits of life but only of death (Mt. 7,17). Here are not two trees but two wills: our good will which produces fruits of light and that of a bad will which is darkness.
Every Christian may consider himself a tree in the Lord’s vineyard; the Divine gardener, Jesus Himself, has planted in it productive ground and our sanctification should be the genuine fruit of our Christian life, let us see how much progress have we made in our resolutions, are we making progress in virtue? How is our response to the calling of God? How are the flowers of the tree of our soul? Stinking thoughts of the heart, and full of hatred and unkindness towards the neighbour? Or a pleasant smell of sanctity?
Ask this grace to Our Lord who said: John: 15:5 “ I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
El Evangelio del dia de hoy no habla acerca de dos diferentes aspectos por medio de la comparasion del arbol y sus frutos: nos previene acerca de los falsos profetas y de la necesidad de las buenas acciones para alcanzar el reino de los cielos.
· El bautismo y sus efectos borra el pecado oiginal y somos llamados hijos adoptivos por la gracia en Nuestro Senor.
· El bautismo es llamado el sacramento de la fe, por El compartimos en los meritos de Cristo, el pecado es destruido, vemos la necesidad para la salvacion: a menos que un hombre no nazca de nuevo de agua y del espiritu, no entrara en el Reino de Dios.
· “Sin mi no podes hacer nada”, por el precio de su Redencion los meritos de la salvacion son aplicados a todos, El murio por todos por el precio de su sangre I Tim. Su Gracia es suficiente para cumplir con los mandamientos ya que El no manda lo imposible, su gracia es necesaria par alcanzar la salvacion. Dios no manda lo imposible pero mandando te ensena que hagas lo que puedas hacer y que pidas lo que no puedas hacer y El te ayudara para que lo puedas alcanzar.
· Cristo murio para la propiciacion de nuestros pecados, y con su sangre nos alcanza la salvacion de manera suficiente pero no eficiente. Por el sac. Del bautismo es llamado el de la fe ya que en el por la fe es el principio de la salvacion humana la raiz y la fundacion de nuestra salvacion. Resulta de aquí que en la misma justificación, además de la remisión de los pecados, se difunden al mismo tiempo en el hombre por Jesucristo, con quien se une, la fe, la esperanza y la caridad; pues la fe, a no agregársele la esperanza y caridad, ni lo une perfectamente con Cristo, ni lo hace miembro vivo de su cuerpo. Por esta razón se dice con suma verdad: que la fe sin obras es muerta y ociosa; y (TRENTO - CAP. VII. Que sea la justificación del pecador, y cuáles sus causas.)
Por esta razón se dice con suma verdad: que la fe sin obras es muerta y ociosa; y también: que para con Jesucristo nada vale la circuncisión, ni la falta de ella, sino la fe que obra por la caridad. Esta es aquella fe que por tradición de los Apóstoles, piden los Catecúmenos a la Iglesia antes de recibir el sacramento del bautismo, cuando piden la fe que da vida eterna; la cual no puede provenir de la fe sola, sin la esperanza ni la caridad. De aquí es, que inmediatamente se les dan por respuesta las palabras de Jesucristo: Si quieres entrar en el cielo, observa los mandamientos.
Debemos cooperar con la gracia que hemos recibido en e bautismo. ¿Mas oh hombre vano, quieres saber que la fe sin obras es muerta? Santiago 2,20.
Hablar de que no hay dos arboles sino solo uno que puede cambiar con la cooperacion a la gracia recibida.
De aquí deducen los maniqueos que un alma no puede volverse buena, ni una buena en mala, como si se hubiese dicho: "No puede un árbol bueno convertirse en malo, ni un árbol malo volverse bueno". Lo que se ha dicho es: "No puede un árbol bueno producir malos frutos", ni lo contrario. El árbol es el mismo hombre. Los frutos son las acciones del hombre. No puede, por lo tanto, un hombre malo hacer obras buenas, ni uno bueno hacerlas malas. Luego si el malo quiere obrar bien, es preciso que primero se haga bueno. Mientras uno es malo, no puede hacer obras buenas. Puede suceder que lo que fue nieve no lo sea, mas no que la nieve sea caliente. Así puede suceder que el que fue malo no lo sea, pero no se podrá conseguir que el que es malo haga cosas buenas, pues aunque alguna vez es útil, esto no lo hace él, sino que se realiza en él, haciéndolo la divina Providencia.
Por nuestra vida y por los frutos que rindamos se conocera que tal arbol somos pues no esta todo en tener buenas palabras sino en la Sabiduria que descansa en la roca de la fe, guiarse por el Espiritu Santo, no perder la gracia recibida en el bautismo.
The Gospel of today teaches us two different aspects by means of a comparison of that good tree. Two arguments- warned about false teachings-we are told that in order to enter into the kingdom of God good works are required.
Means of baptism last Sunday by which the Christian has been made free by sin and has a share in the merits of Christ. Sin is destroyed . Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
“Without me you can do nothing”, God has given us sufficient grace in order to be saved, every thing that is good comes from Him.
"God does not command the impossible, but by commanding He teaches you both to do what you can and to ask what you cannot not do, and He helps you that you may be able" (St. Augustine, quoted at the Council of Trent, Denz., no. 804).
"Christ is the propitiation for our sins, for some efficaciously, but for all sufficiently, since the price of His blood is sufficient for the salvation of all" (St. Thomas on I Tim. 2:5, and elsewhere).
Man must cooperate with the grace received in the sacrament. The sacrament of faith is called the Baptism because faith is the beginning of human salvation. The foundation and root of all justification.
Having been made friends of God, we are justified gratuitously, presenting our bodies in mortification advancing in virtue from day to day, them as instruments of justice unto sanctification through the observance of the commandments of God and of the Church, in this justice received through the grace of Christ “faith cooperating with good works”. Do you see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only? wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Man receives with justification that state in which man is born a child of the first Adam to the state of grace the adoption of the sons. He receives the justification, remission of the sins and these gifts infused at the same time: faith, hope and charity. For faith, unless hope and charity be added to it, neither unites one perfectly with Christ, nor makes him a living member of his body. If Matt 19,7 If we want to enter into life you need to keep my commandments, we need to preserve that baptismal garb in all purity and right intention. In baptism, We ask for faith which bestows life eternal, without hope and charity faith cannot bestow.
No one should think that by faith alone he is made an heir and will obtain the inheritance, even though he may not suffer with Christ. “And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him”. Rom 8.17. Trent c.9 etc. Not everyone that says to me Lord, lord shal enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
"The help of grace is twofold: one, indeed, accompanies the power; the other, the act. But God gives the power, infusing the virtue and grace whereby man is made capable and apt for the operation; whereas He confers the operation itself according as He works in us interiorly, moving and urging us to good" (St. Thomas on Ephes. 3:7).
Aug., Serm.in Mont., ii, 25: From this speech the Manichees suppose that neither can a soul that is evil be possibly changed for better, nor one that is good into worse. As though it had been, A good tree cannot become bad, nor a bad tree become good; whereas it is thus said, "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit," nor the reverse. The tree is the soul, that is, the man himself; the fruit is the man's works. An evil man therefore cannot work good works, nor a good man evil works. Therefore if an evil man would work good things, let him first become good. But as long as he continues evil, he cannot bring forth good fruits. Like as it is indeed possible that what was once snow, should cease to be so; but it cannot be that snow should be warm; so it is possible that he who has been evil should be so no longer; but it is impossible that an evil man should do good..
The application of the words of Our Lord is describing probably to the Scribes and Pharisees Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
If we consider that we at times have been like these wolves in sheep’s clothing. We can attempt to deceive others by our passions and sins but most of all ourselves by excuses, Saint Catherine of Siena remarks that self-love, is a tree on which grow nothing but fruits of death, putrid flowers, and stained leaves.
The soul who lives virtuously, places the root of her tree in the valley of true humility but those who live thus miserably are planted on the mountain of pride, whence it follows that since the root of the tree is badly planted, the tree can bear no fruits of life but only of death (Mt. 7,17). Here are not two trees but two wills: our good will which produces fruits of light and that of a bad will which is darkness.
Every Christian may consider himself a tree in the Lord’s vineyard; the Divine gardener, Jesus Himself, has planted in it productive ground and our sanctification should be the genuine fruit of our Christian life, let us see how much progress have we made in our resolutions, are we making progress in virtue? How is our response to the calling of God? How are the flowers of the tree of our soul? Stinking thoughts of the heart, and full of hatred and unkindness towards the neighbour? Or a pleasant smell of sanctity?
Ask this grace to Our Lord who said: John: 15:5 “ I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
El Evangelio del dia de hoy no habla acerca de dos diferentes aspectos por medio de la comparasion del arbol y sus frutos: nos previene acerca de los falsos profetas y de la necesidad de las buenas acciones para alcanzar el reino de los cielos.
· El bautismo y sus efectos borra el pecado oiginal y somos llamados hijos adoptivos por la gracia en Nuestro Senor.
· El bautismo es llamado el sacramento de la fe, por El compartimos en los meritos de Cristo, el pecado es destruido, vemos la necesidad para la salvacion: a menos que un hombre no nazca de nuevo de agua y del espiritu, no entrara en el Reino de Dios.
· “Sin mi no podes hacer nada”, por el precio de su Redencion los meritos de la salvacion son aplicados a todos, El murio por todos por el precio de su sangre I Tim. Su Gracia es suficiente para cumplir con los mandamientos ya que El no manda lo imposible, su gracia es necesaria par alcanzar la salvacion. Dios no manda lo imposible pero mandando te ensena que hagas lo que puedas hacer y que pidas lo que no puedas hacer y El te ayudara para que lo puedas alcanzar.
· Cristo murio para la propiciacion de nuestros pecados, y con su sangre nos alcanza la salvacion de manera suficiente pero no eficiente. Por el sac. Del bautismo es llamado el de la fe ya que en el por la fe es el principio de la salvacion humana la raiz y la fundacion de nuestra salvacion. Resulta de aquí que en la misma justificación, además de la remisión de los pecados, se difunden al mismo tiempo en el hombre por Jesucristo, con quien se une, la fe, la esperanza y la caridad; pues la fe, a no agregársele la esperanza y caridad, ni lo une perfectamente con Cristo, ni lo hace miembro vivo de su cuerpo. Por esta razón se dice con suma verdad: que la fe sin obras es muerta y ociosa; y (TRENTO - CAP. VII. Que sea la justificación del pecador, y cuáles sus causas.)
Por esta razón se dice con suma verdad: que la fe sin obras es muerta y ociosa; y también: que para con Jesucristo nada vale la circuncisión, ni la falta de ella, sino la fe que obra por la caridad. Esta es aquella fe que por tradición de los Apóstoles, piden los Catecúmenos a la Iglesia antes de recibir el sacramento del bautismo, cuando piden la fe que da vida eterna; la cual no puede provenir de la fe sola, sin la esperanza ni la caridad. De aquí es, que inmediatamente se les dan por respuesta las palabras de Jesucristo: Si quieres entrar en el cielo, observa los mandamientos.
Debemos cooperar con la gracia que hemos recibido en e bautismo. ¿Mas oh hombre vano, quieres saber que la fe sin obras es muerta? Santiago 2,20.
Hablar de que no hay dos arboles sino solo uno que puede cambiar con la cooperacion a la gracia recibida.
De aquí deducen los maniqueos que un alma no puede volverse buena, ni una buena en mala, como si se hubiese dicho: "No puede un árbol bueno convertirse en malo, ni un árbol malo volverse bueno". Lo que se ha dicho es: "No puede un árbol bueno producir malos frutos", ni lo contrario. El árbol es el mismo hombre. Los frutos son las acciones del hombre. No puede, por lo tanto, un hombre malo hacer obras buenas, ni uno bueno hacerlas malas. Luego si el malo quiere obrar bien, es preciso que primero se haga bueno. Mientras uno es malo, no puede hacer obras buenas. Puede suceder que lo que fue nieve no lo sea, mas no que la nieve sea caliente. Así puede suceder que el que fue malo no lo sea, pero no se podrá conseguir que el que es malo haga cosas buenas, pues aunque alguna vez es útil, esto no lo hace él, sino que se realiza en él, haciéndolo la divina Providencia.
Por nuestra vida y por los frutos que rindamos se conocera que tal arbol somos pues no esta todo en tener buenas palabras sino en la Sabiduria que descansa en la roca de la fe, guiarse por el Espiritu Santo, no perder la gracia recibida en el bautismo.
sermon del proximo Domingo
What shall I do because My Lord has taken away from me the stewardship?
The several parts of the parable proposed to us convey a deep teaching.
Saint Francis of Assisi dedicated to the business as a merchant with his father called Peter Bernardone, from a wealthy life going once into the bishop’s room he stripped himself of his garments and placed on them the money of his father, he stood naked before the eyes of the bishop, his father and all present. This man was the one who once said:” Listen to all of you I have called Peter Bernardone my father but because I am resolve to serve God, I return the money and the clothes that are his and from now on I will say : Our Father who art in Heaven and not father Peter Bernardone…” . It was this man of Assisi, the one who could understand the words of this parable most perfectly and rejected the goods of this earth for that precious treasure of Heaven. He was a faithful administrator for the eternal things.
God is the rich man represented here for to Him alone belongs the direct and absolute dominium over all things and the steward of the rich man is each individual in the service of God.
· By which Saint Ambrose observes that morally teaches that: “By which we say it is not to be the owner itself, but rather the faculty of being the administrator of foreign goods. At first, we say that we are not the owners of our own riches, but dispensers of the things of others, so that we may administer well as He commands. For it behooves that amongst men we are owners of our works, however with respect to God, whom we are its own He is the owner of those things of which we are dispensers; all those goods we will have to produce in us fruitfully, and usefully”.
· Such graces to be administrators of these goods, and everybody in the time of judgment will be asked not only for the evils committed, but of the good deeds through which negligence of things omitted to Christ in the judgment we must therefore render an exact account.
· Render to others and God will ask the account of those goods in our death at judgment. What shall I do, when God shall rise you to judge? And when He shall examine, what shall I answer Him? Job XXXI, 14.
· I Corinthians 4, 1: Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.
· I Peter 4, 10: As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
· To sum up, then, what has been said: Whoever has received from the divine bounty a large share of temporal blessings, whether they be external and material, or gifts of the mind, has received them for the purpose of using them for the perfecting of his own nature, and, at the same time, that he may employ them, as the steward of God's providence, for the benefit of others. "He that hath a talent," said St. Gregory the Great, "let him see that he hide it not; he that hath abundance, let him quicken himself to mercy and generosity; he that hath art and skill, let him do his best to share the use and the utility hereof with his neighbor."(17)
· It is an erroneous opinion to be held that we are the masters of the things of this life as the owners of goods. For we are just as alien hosts now who everyone must withdraw and steward foreign goods of which to us it must be assumed in the humility and modesty of a steward; for nothing is ours, but all of those things are given by God. Therefore you have received an emblem of intelligence, sound judgment, wisdom and eloquence those things are a gift from God.
· The attitude of the steward of spreading the riches entrusted for his care, it teaches us that alms whether spiritual or corporal, secure us powerful friends for that awful day of judgment. Rerum Novarum It is a duty, not of justice (save in extreme cases), but of Christian charity - a duty not enforced by human law. But the laws and judgments of men must yield place to the laws and judgments of Christ the true God, who in many ways urges on His followers the practice of almsgiving - ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive";(15) and who will count a kindness done or refused to the poor as done or refused to Himself - "As long as you did it to one of My least brethren you did it to Me."(16) Himself to mercy and generosity; he that hath art and skill, let him do his best to share the use and the utility hereof with his neighbor.
· It is that man who by using the things of this world, iniquity, he by good actions he recovered his function not by bad deeds but through that prudence which led him to deal with that situation with cleverness. Our Lord does not praise the fraud but that prudence of the administrator. It is by that worldly prudence that He draws the moral parable. That zeal manifested in dealing with temporal affairs we should also show it as children of light to make the use of the things of iniquity in order to be accepted in the eternal dwelling.
· Prudence is more than doing good and avoiding evil, it is more than that. In general terms, is that cardinal virtue which allows us to use our minds well to think clearly and correctly, and thus, on a regular basis, successfully to arrive at the truth of things.
· Prudence is right reason applied to human conduct which we call it a practical virtue which enable us to order the means to arrive at the achievement of an end and ultimately our final end as human beings.
· We cannot read the future but…
· A prudent person by his understanding of the present and memory of the past can apply it to the future knowledge.
· Acts of the virtue: counsel –judgment and command enable us to reflection, and a right estimation of the circumstances (circumnspection), docility to understand, and not negligence and precipitation and to put those principles into action. The wise administrator by his knowledge of the past , caution and foresight(regards for those things distant) he could find his way out and be taken and praised by the rich man and did not loose his job. Our Lord demonstrates by this that the consideration of our Eternal end as sons of light should be our priority and apply this virtue of prudence for obtaining the Eternal dwelling.
· Why are you seeking the servant in place of the Lord? Was the question that Saint Francis had in a vision. He changed his carnal inclinations and became a master of the spiritual. Thus, we do the contrary and act not in a prudent way by fraud a vice opposed to prudence since we are the ones who dissipate the goods which we have received from God, and by our negligence and temporal solicitude we are more concern in using the iniquity of this world for our temporal affairs and what about the spiritual?
· Come oh! Holy Spirit! Let us pray with the collect prayer of this Mass which begs the spirit of always thinking what is right. In this time after Pentecost let the action of the Holy Spirit with the Gift of counsel enable to pour fourth His light to our practical intellect to see and judge what we should do in a particular case and the means that we should employ. Enkindle in our souls the fire of His love!!!
Que hare pues El Senor me quita la administracion de sus bienes?... en el nombre del Padre y...
L a parabola de hoy en sus diversas partes contiene ricas ensenanzas.
· Dios es aquel hombre rico representado aqui ya que es a El solo a quien le pertenecen el directo y absoluto dominio sobre todas las cosas, y el administrador es cada individuo, nosotros, en el servicio de Dios.
· Administrador es la palabra clave de esta parabola. Todo Cristiano es un administrador del Senor, El hombre rico de nuestra existencia el unico que posee los bienes es Dios.
· En la parabola se repite por siete veces el termino de mayordomia o administracion, esto para hacernos dar cuenta de que todos somos administradores de lo que El Senor nos ha confiado. San Pablo dice: “Cada uno se considere ministro de Cristo y administrador de sus bienes”. I Cor. 4,15. Cada uno según el don que ha recibido, adminístrelo a los otros, como buenos dispensadores de las diferentes gracias de Dios”. I Peter 4,10.
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· Todo lo cual se resume en que todo el que ha recibido abundancia de bienes, sean éstos del cuerpo y externos, sean del espíritu, los ha recibido para perfeccionamiento propio, y, al mismo tiempo, para que, como ministro de la Providencia divina, los emplee en beneficio de los demás. «Por lo tanto, el que tenga talento, que cuide mucho de no estarse callado; el que tenga abundancia de bienes, que no se deje entorpecer para la largueza de la misericordia; el que tenga un oficio con que se desenvuelve, que se afane en compartir su uso y su utilidad con el prójimo»(15).Leon XIII Reum Novarum.
· Importancia de que estos dones no deben caer en vano. –no somos duenos de lo que tenemos. Dios es El que nos da todo.
· Crisóstomo. Una opinión errónea, agravada en los hombres, que aumenta sus pecados y disminuye sus buenas obras, consiste en creer que todo lo que tenemos para las atenciones de la vida debemos poseerlo como señores y , por consiguiente, nos lo procuramos como el bien principal. Pero es todo lo contrario, porque no hemos sido colocados en la vida presente como señores en su propia casa, sino que somos huéspedes y forasteros llevados a donde no queremos ir y cuando no pensamos. El que ahora es rico, en breve será mendigo. Así que, seas quien fueres, has de saber que eres sólo dispensador de bienes ajenos y se te ha dado de ellos uso transitorio y derecho muy breve. Lejos, pues, de nosotros el orgullo de la dominación y abracemos la humildad y la modestia del arrendatario o casero. (CATENA AUREA EN ESPAÑOL 10601)
· Usar los bienes de este mundo para nuestra propia salvacion,la misma astucia pero para procurar aquel tesoro que la polilla no corrompe y que el ladron no puede robar, aquel tesoro del cielo. El celo manifestado en administrar los bienes temporales pero como hijos de la luz para ser aceptados en las eternas moradas como lo hizo este mayordomo nosotros por medio de la limosna espiritual y material podemos cubrir nuestras malas acciones y recuperar lo que perdimos por dilapidar y malgastar los dones que Dios nos ha dado.
· La prudencia es aquella virtud que El senor nos quiere ensenar el dia de hoy en esta parabola es la de este arrendatario que quien tuvo la intuicion clara del futuro, y es por ser tan previsor que nuestro Senor lo alaba y le su amo le devuelve su trabajo. La prudencia es esa virtud que es la “recta razon en el obrar”, una virud cardinal la prudencia regula las demas virtudes porque ordena los medios para llegar al fin ultimo que es Dios.
· Hombre prudente es aquel que utiliza la memoria del pasado, la inteligencia de lo presente para la providencia en el futuro saber fijarse bien en el bien lejano y que medios oportunos utilizar para prever las consecuecias de lo que puede seguir del acto que queremos realizar. Una persona prudente es un cuadro de racionalidad y realismo ya que el futuro de alguna manera no lo sorprende, siendo que vive de esta manera docilidad para aprender, reflexion y cautela.
· Es esto lo que el mayordomo hizo con su amo y como actuo con aquellos que le debian. Los actos de la prudencia son el consejo, el juicio la consideracion y el imperio o mandato para llevarlo a cabo. Un hombre que no es prudente es negligente y precipitado que lo lleva a buscar solo los bienes de este mundo y persistir en el pecado.
· Pidamos al espiritu Santo,el Don del consejo esta Luz mediante la cual el entendimiento practico nos de la gracia de ver y juzgar lo que se debe hacer en un caso concreto y nos muestre los medios que ha de emplearse para ser buenos administradores de los bienes que El nos ha dado. Para que asi, practicando esta virtud de la prudencia poco y nada tengamos miedo cuando el Senor universal nos viniere a pedir cuentas de la administracion de los bienes y talentos que nos deposito en nuestra alma.
The several parts of the parable proposed to us convey a deep teaching.
Saint Francis of Assisi dedicated to the business as a merchant with his father called Peter Bernardone, from a wealthy life going once into the bishop’s room he stripped himself of his garments and placed on them the money of his father, he stood naked before the eyes of the bishop, his father and all present. This man was the one who once said:” Listen to all of you I have called Peter Bernardone my father but because I am resolve to serve God, I return the money and the clothes that are his and from now on I will say : Our Father who art in Heaven and not father Peter Bernardone…” . It was this man of Assisi, the one who could understand the words of this parable most perfectly and rejected the goods of this earth for that precious treasure of Heaven. He was a faithful administrator for the eternal things.
God is the rich man represented here for to Him alone belongs the direct and absolute dominium over all things and the steward of the rich man is each individual in the service of God.
· By which Saint Ambrose observes that morally teaches that: “By which we say it is not to be the owner itself, but rather the faculty of being the administrator of foreign goods. At first, we say that we are not the owners of our own riches, but dispensers of the things of others, so that we may administer well as He commands. For it behooves that amongst men we are owners of our works, however with respect to God, whom we are its own He is the owner of those things of which we are dispensers; all those goods we will have to produce in us fruitfully, and usefully”.
· Such graces to be administrators of these goods, and everybody in the time of judgment will be asked not only for the evils committed, but of the good deeds through which negligence of things omitted to Christ in the judgment we must therefore render an exact account.
· Render to others and God will ask the account of those goods in our death at judgment. What shall I do, when God shall rise you to judge? And when He shall examine, what shall I answer Him? Job XXXI, 14.
· I Corinthians 4, 1: Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and the dispensers of the mysteries of God.
· I Peter 4, 10: As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another: as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
· To sum up, then, what has been said: Whoever has received from the divine bounty a large share of temporal blessings, whether they be external and material, or gifts of the mind, has received them for the purpose of using them for the perfecting of his own nature, and, at the same time, that he may employ them, as the steward of God's providence, for the benefit of others. "He that hath a talent," said St. Gregory the Great, "let him see that he hide it not; he that hath abundance, let him quicken himself to mercy and generosity; he that hath art and skill, let him do his best to share the use and the utility hereof with his neighbor."(17)
· It is an erroneous opinion to be held that we are the masters of the things of this life as the owners of goods. For we are just as alien hosts now who everyone must withdraw and steward foreign goods of which to us it must be assumed in the humility and modesty of a steward; for nothing is ours, but all of those things are given by God. Therefore you have received an emblem of intelligence, sound judgment, wisdom and eloquence those things are a gift from God.
· The attitude of the steward of spreading the riches entrusted for his care, it teaches us that alms whether spiritual or corporal, secure us powerful friends for that awful day of judgment. Rerum Novarum It is a duty, not of justice (save in extreme cases), but of Christian charity - a duty not enforced by human law. But the laws and judgments of men must yield place to the laws and judgments of Christ the true God, who in many ways urges on His followers the practice of almsgiving - ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive";(15) and who will count a kindness done or refused to the poor as done or refused to Himself - "As long as you did it to one of My least brethren you did it to Me."(16) Himself to mercy and generosity; he that hath art and skill, let him do his best to share the use and the utility hereof with his neighbor.
· It is that man who by using the things of this world, iniquity, he by good actions he recovered his function not by bad deeds but through that prudence which led him to deal with that situation with cleverness. Our Lord does not praise the fraud but that prudence of the administrator. It is by that worldly prudence that He draws the moral parable. That zeal manifested in dealing with temporal affairs we should also show it as children of light to make the use of the things of iniquity in order to be accepted in the eternal dwelling.
· Prudence is more than doing good and avoiding evil, it is more than that. In general terms, is that cardinal virtue which allows us to use our minds well to think clearly and correctly, and thus, on a regular basis, successfully to arrive at the truth of things.
· Prudence is right reason applied to human conduct which we call it a practical virtue which enable us to order the means to arrive at the achievement of an end and ultimately our final end as human beings.
· We cannot read the future but…
· A prudent person by his understanding of the present and memory of the past can apply it to the future knowledge.
· Acts of the virtue: counsel –judgment and command enable us to reflection, and a right estimation of the circumstances (circumnspection), docility to understand, and not negligence and precipitation and to put those principles into action. The wise administrator by his knowledge of the past , caution and foresight(regards for those things distant) he could find his way out and be taken and praised by the rich man and did not loose his job. Our Lord demonstrates by this that the consideration of our Eternal end as sons of light should be our priority and apply this virtue of prudence for obtaining the Eternal dwelling.
· Why are you seeking the servant in place of the Lord? Was the question that Saint Francis had in a vision. He changed his carnal inclinations and became a master of the spiritual. Thus, we do the contrary and act not in a prudent way by fraud a vice opposed to prudence since we are the ones who dissipate the goods which we have received from God, and by our negligence and temporal solicitude we are more concern in using the iniquity of this world for our temporal affairs and what about the spiritual?
· Come oh! Holy Spirit! Let us pray with the collect prayer of this Mass which begs the spirit of always thinking what is right. In this time after Pentecost let the action of the Holy Spirit with the Gift of counsel enable to pour fourth His light to our practical intellect to see and judge what we should do in a particular case and the means that we should employ. Enkindle in our souls the fire of His love!!!
Que hare pues El Senor me quita la administracion de sus bienes?... en el nombre del Padre y...
L a parabola de hoy en sus diversas partes contiene ricas ensenanzas.
· Dios es aquel hombre rico representado aqui ya que es a El solo a quien le pertenecen el directo y absoluto dominio sobre todas las cosas, y el administrador es cada individuo, nosotros, en el servicio de Dios.
· Administrador es la palabra clave de esta parabola. Todo Cristiano es un administrador del Senor, El hombre rico de nuestra existencia el unico que posee los bienes es Dios.
· En la parabola se repite por siete veces el termino de mayordomia o administracion, esto para hacernos dar cuenta de que todos somos administradores de lo que El Senor nos ha confiado. San Pablo dice: “Cada uno se considere ministro de Cristo y administrador de sus bienes”. I Cor. 4,15. Cada uno según el don que ha recibido, adminístrelo a los otros, como buenos dispensadores de las diferentes gracias de Dios”. I Peter 4,10.
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· Todo lo cual se resume en que todo el que ha recibido abundancia de bienes, sean éstos del cuerpo y externos, sean del espíritu, los ha recibido para perfeccionamiento propio, y, al mismo tiempo, para que, como ministro de la Providencia divina, los emplee en beneficio de los demás. «Por lo tanto, el que tenga talento, que cuide mucho de no estarse callado; el que tenga abundancia de bienes, que no se deje entorpecer para la largueza de la misericordia; el que tenga un oficio con que se desenvuelve, que se afane en compartir su uso y su utilidad con el prójimo»(15).Leon XIII Reum Novarum.
· Importancia de que estos dones no deben caer en vano. –no somos duenos de lo que tenemos. Dios es El que nos da todo.
· Crisóstomo. Una opinión errónea, agravada en los hombres, que aumenta sus pecados y disminuye sus buenas obras, consiste en creer que todo lo que tenemos para las atenciones de la vida debemos poseerlo como señores y , por consiguiente, nos lo procuramos como el bien principal. Pero es todo lo contrario, porque no hemos sido colocados en la vida presente como señores en su propia casa, sino que somos huéspedes y forasteros llevados a donde no queremos ir y cuando no pensamos. El que ahora es rico, en breve será mendigo. Así que, seas quien fueres, has de saber que eres sólo dispensador de bienes ajenos y se te ha dado de ellos uso transitorio y derecho muy breve. Lejos, pues, de nosotros el orgullo de la dominación y abracemos la humildad y la modestia del arrendatario o casero. (CATENA AUREA EN ESPAÑOL 10601)
· Usar los bienes de este mundo para nuestra propia salvacion,la misma astucia pero para procurar aquel tesoro que la polilla no corrompe y que el ladron no puede robar, aquel tesoro del cielo. El celo manifestado en administrar los bienes temporales pero como hijos de la luz para ser aceptados en las eternas moradas como lo hizo este mayordomo nosotros por medio de la limosna espiritual y material podemos cubrir nuestras malas acciones y recuperar lo que perdimos por dilapidar y malgastar los dones que Dios nos ha dado.
· La prudencia es aquella virtud que El senor nos quiere ensenar el dia de hoy en esta parabola es la de este arrendatario que quien tuvo la intuicion clara del futuro, y es por ser tan previsor que nuestro Senor lo alaba y le su amo le devuelve su trabajo. La prudencia es esa virtud que es la “recta razon en el obrar”, una virud cardinal la prudencia regula las demas virtudes porque ordena los medios para llegar al fin ultimo que es Dios.
· Hombre prudente es aquel que utiliza la memoria del pasado, la inteligencia de lo presente para la providencia en el futuro saber fijarse bien en el bien lejano y que medios oportunos utilizar para prever las consecuecias de lo que puede seguir del acto que queremos realizar. Una persona prudente es un cuadro de racionalidad y realismo ya que el futuro de alguna manera no lo sorprende, siendo que vive de esta manera docilidad para aprender, reflexion y cautela.
· Es esto lo que el mayordomo hizo con su amo y como actuo con aquellos que le debian. Los actos de la prudencia son el consejo, el juicio la consideracion y el imperio o mandato para llevarlo a cabo. Un hombre que no es prudente es negligente y precipitado que lo lleva a buscar solo los bienes de este mundo y persistir en el pecado.
· Pidamos al espiritu Santo,el Don del consejo esta Luz mediante la cual el entendimiento practico nos de la gracia de ver y juzgar lo que se debe hacer en un caso concreto y nos muestre los medios que ha de emplearse para ser buenos administradores de los bienes que El nos ha dado. Para que asi, practicando esta virtud de la prudencia poco y nada tengamos miedo cuando el Senor universal nos viniere a pedir cuentas de la administracion de los bienes y talentos que nos deposito en nuestra alma.
Misa Solemne en San Benito Abad donde se casaron mis abuelos tomo la comunion mi padre y velaron a mi tia abuela de 16 años
Esta es la Foto de la Primera Misa Solemne de San Benito con dos Diáconos Roberto Cano, Nicaraguense y el otro P. Miguel Stinson y el ceremoniero Peter Bauchnecht. La participación del coro con la dirección coral de Nestor Andrenacci. Los musicos que participaron fueron Guillermo Masutti quien toco el tambor junto con Gabriel Archilla la trompeta ejecutaron la Trompeta Voluntaria y la participación de Angel Mahler en el órgano durante el ofertorio. Dios se los pague!! gracias!!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
imágenes de Ntra. Señora de Luján Diócesis de San Isidro
Algunas imágenes de La Iglesia parroquial de Ntra. Señora de Luján en San Isidro, en donde celebramos la Santa Misa. Gratias tibi ago al Rvdo. P. Julio Muñiz, párroco.
Viaje a la Argentina para la ordenación sacerdotal
Estas son las diferentes fotos que se archivaron como recuerdo de mi viaje a la Argentina despues de mi ordenación sacerdotal, celebre la Sta. Misa en varias localidades y varios de mis colegas en ese momento Diáconos y ahora sacerdotes me estuvieron acompañanado. Lo quiero compartir en este blog.
diferentes fotos de Luján, Iglesia del Pilar,recepción,Iglesia de San Benito y San Isidro
Aquí, tenemos un collage de diferentes fotos, la primera a la izq. un detalle del crucifijo en la Iglesia de Pilar en capital. Reazando el Confíteor en el altar lateral del altar Argentino, que fue preparado para la ocasión.
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