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St Romuld's "Little Rule"

10/30/2013

 
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The "Little Rule" of St. Romuald

Sit in your cell as in paradise;
put the whole world behind you and forget it;
like a skilled angler on the lookout for a catch
keep a careful eye on your thoughts.

The path you follow is in the psalms -- don't leave it. 
If you've come with a novice's enthusiasm and can't 
accomplish what you want, take every chance you can find to sing the psalms in your heart and to understand them with your head; if your mind wanders as you read
don't give up but hurry back and try again.

Above all realize that you are in God's presence;
hold your heart there in wonder as if before your sovereign.

Empty yourself completely;
sit waiting, content with God's gift,
like a little chick tasting and eating nothing
but what its mother brings.

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Bishop Wedgwood, on Incense

10/23/2013

 
“In the use of incense we make a varied appeal to human consciousness. We appeal to the imagination through the familiar medium of symbolism, for the world without and the world within are intimately connected. The smoke of the incense as it rises upward before the altar is beautifully associated by our holy mother the church with the prayers of the saints rising before the throne of God. The offering of incense is to us an outward expression of the sacrifice of ourselves, our souls and bodies, a sacrifice offered in union with that of the whole church past and present, militant, expectant and triumphant, and with that One Great Sacrifice – the great offering of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity – by which the world is nourished and sustained. This appeal to the imagination through the sense of sight is heightened by the rhythmic movement of the servers which satisfies our sense of order, by the perfume which makes its own appeal through the appropriate sense, and even by the clanking of the chains which through a third sense marks certain points of the rhythm. Besides all this, the incense serves another purpose; it is an instrument as well as a symbol. The scent which it diffuses has in itself an influence which is normally beneficent and tends to devotion and purity of feeling; and the incense spreads this abroad wherever its perfume may pass, as well as the spiritual power poured into it at the blessing by the priest.”
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From Bishop Wedgwood, on the Eucharist

10/23/2013

 
“Why do we celebrate the Holy Eucharist? We do so because Our Lord himself said to His apostles and their successors: “Do this in remembrance of Me”. We can picture how the disciples were sad and perplexed as on the eve of His passion He told them of His impending departure. And we can see him breaking the Bread and blessing the Cup as He told them He was bequeathing to them a rite which should keep His presence perpetually among them and help them to maintain that unity and sense of fellowship which they had found in their common devotion to Him. 'As oft as men shall do these things,' He said – if we may slightly paraphrase the utterance - 'they shall do them in remembrance of Me.' How wonderful the gift that He has left to us, only to those who know and day after day seek Him in the silence and peace of their hearts. How exquisite the thought that by His incorporation in ourselves and the merging of our consciousness into Him, we grow more and more like unto Him Who is our Sun of Righteousness, the very life and nectar of our being. ….. He is with us upon a thousand altars daily and the whole world is blessed by His Presence.” 
(from "The Place of Ceremonies in the Spiritual Life" by the Rt Revd James Ingall Wedgwood)
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A Celtic Prayer by Revd David Adam

10/21/2013

 
"I weave a silence on to my lips
I weave a silence into my mind
I weave a silence within my heart
I close my eyes to distractions
I close my eyes to attractions
I close my heart to temptations.
Calm me, O Lord, as You stilled the storm
Still me, O Lord, keep me from harm
Let all the tumult within me cease
Enfold me, Lord, in Your peace."
(by Revd David Adam)
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