IF YOU THANK THE LORD
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Posted:Jul 3, 2008 3:53 am
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IF YOU THANK THE LORD
Daniel 2:23
“To Thee, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise,
For Thou hast given me wisdom and power,
Even now Thou hast made known to me what we requested of Thee,
For Thou hast made known to us the king’s matter.”
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Philippine Sports Fiasco
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Posted:Jun 22, 2008 8:07 pm
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Philippine Sports Fiasco
A group of young and promising athletes from the Association of Advancement of Karatedo (AAK), will compete this June 2008 in Italy. However, the Italian Embassy here in the Philippines is giving the players and their parents a hard time in securing a sports visa. Why? Because of Mr. Edgardo Ponce, the suspended now ousted, President of the Philippine Karatedo Federation. Mr. Ponce was arrested last December 2007 for human trafficking. He is now behind bars in Mindoro and facing criminal charges.
What Mr. Ponce did was to send national athletes to Italy to be trained in preparation for SEA and ASIAN games. However, Mr. Ponce included non athletes to the roster of the national team in exchange for a huge amount of money. As a result, the Italian government deported one of the non-athlete Filipinos whom Mr. Ponce sent. The deported Filipino complained to the Philippine authorities, which led to Mr. Ponces’ arrest and imprisonment.
I talked to one of the parents going to Italy. They will know their fate on June 25: if they will be granted a visa or not.
It is a pity that other should suffer for the actions of other Filipinos who do immoral and illegal deeds. Mr. Ponce should pay for this crime, because he is a disgrace to Philippine Sports and to the Filipino people as a whole.
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Long wait finally over for Garnett
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Posted:Jun 19, 2008 3:36 am
Last Updated:Jun 19, 2008 3:48 am 2436 Views
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Long wait finally over for Garnett
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Y Sports
Jun 18, 5:58 am EDT
BOSTON ‒ Everyone else rushed the Garden floor, dissolving into a dizzy delirium. Even now, Kevin Garnett had his own path, his own private journey. He marched to center court, dropped to his knees and K.G. kissed the leprechaun.
All his life, he had been searching for somewhere to belong, something to make him forever. For so long, the Minnesota Timberwolves had no history. They had no banners. They had nothing but him. He had resisted this trade to the Boston Celtics, but Paul Pierce told him: Give this city a reason to love you, and they’ll never stop. He always found himself stealing glances to the banners above him, stopping a moment before flipping that No. 5 jersey over his head and running his fingers over that logo of his uniform.
He’s such an old school character born of a different day, a different time. He has such traditional values about basketball and family, but circumstance never allowed him to be part of something with staying power, something with fabric, something forever. Soon, he turned around and there was his conscious waiting for him, the ghost of Celtics past, the standard of it all.
“I got my own!” Garnett yelled into Bill Russell’s ear. “I got my own!”
“I hope we made you proud.”
Over that deafening din, Garnett had to hear that cackling laugh that forever echoes a Celtics’ championship celebration. Eventually, someone passed him the trophy in a private moment on the bench, and Garnett cradled it like a newborn, talking to the golden orb between kisses of its shiny dome.
The Celtics didn’t just beat the Lakers four games to two in the NBA Finals, they administered an ass-kicking of historic proportion. In losing 131-92 in Game 6, in quitting this way, the Lakers committed a stunning and shameful championship series crime.
Paul Pierce deserved the MVP of these NBA Finals, but Garnett changed everything for the Celtics. Garnett made the Celtics matter again. Around the rim, he inspired such visions of Russell, those long arms reaching forever to block shots and frighten foes.
Russell had a soft spot for Garnett, one of those young players who treated history with respect, who carried himself with so much honor and dignity. Russell had been blessed with Red Auerbach as the architect of his championship destiny and felt for Garnett that he had been cursed with Kevin McHale.
They had shared an awkward television moment on that cheerleading network a month ago, when Russell promised to give up one of his 11 rings should Garnett never earn his own. For the original Big Three’s greatness, Celtics championships were never won with defense. With Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, Boston had the greatest frontline in NBA history. They didn’t win with defense in the 1980s, the way that Russell’s teams did back in the ’50s and ’60s.
“It’s like coming into a frat,” Garnett said. He always dresses like an Ivy League undergrad, but he never spent a day on a college campus. The Timberwolves had been constructed for him to be its epicenter, but he’s always been the reluctant franchise player.
He fulfills the duties with ethic and leadership and accountability, but he never had what so many of his peers did: The shots, the stories, the spotlight. In all those photo spreads this season, all those magazine covers, did you ever notice Garnett posing alone? Never. Because he wouldn’t do it. K.G.’s ground rules never changed: Paul Pierce and Ray Allen had to be with him.
“They let you know right away here that it’s about tradition, and it’s about team,” Garnett said. “That’s right up my alley. I’ve never been a selfish guy, or a selfish player. It’s so much motivation coming in here every day with the banners on the wall, and seeing the ex-players coming in. As soon as you come through the doors, see those banners and see the jerseys and the pictures, you know that you’re around something special.”
It was past 1 a.m. now, and Garnett had been waiting for Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo to leave the interview podium. He carried with him a golden Spalding ball, and a tortured soul that finally seemed to let go. There’s intense, and there’s Garnett. All season, the man would sit wide awake on the team’s charter flights home, wired, and so everyone else ‒ Doc Rivers included ‒ fought off sleep out of respect for him.
“I ain’t gonna sleep all week!” he yelled backstage.
His wife rolled her eyes and laughed. He was spinning in circles, all that nervous energy manifesting itself into something seldom ever seen out of stone-cold serious K.G.: silliness. His generation of superstars had won their titles, and he was the best player of his era still waiting, still pining, still most doubted. When Allen returned behind the curtain, Garnett had one more long embrace for him, one final rhetorical question.
“What are they gonna say now, boy?”
Garnett had been so loyal in Minnesota. He always understood that part of the responsibility of a franchise player came in the good and bad times, and he never publicly pined for an escape hatch. In some ways, he had become so insulated in Minneapolis, he had lost perspective on the big world beyond the Twin Cities. It didn’t take long for Boston to fascinate him, throwing out a first pitch at Fenway Park to the kind of ovation that told him he was wanted, that he was home.
His sneaker company sent an oversized billboard to commemorate his trade to the Celtics a year ago and hung it outside the Boston Garden. Before training camp, the team shipped it to Garnett’s Malibu home and he couldn’t believe what covered it: “It has like 100,000 signatures on it,” he marveled. More or less, all the fans’ notes revolved around the same thing: Bring us that 17th banner.
Winning mattered so deeply to Garnett, because he always did the things that made it possible. He was the hardest worker, the model citizen, one of the most gifted 7-footers the sport’s ever seen. Still, his career carried a stigma, a label, a series of one-and-done performances in the Western Conference playoffs. To win at the ultimate level, well, the doubts that he could do that dogged him for most of his 13 years. They always wondered whether he contracted in tough times, whether he was wound so tight that he would implode over and over.
“You ever go to school and you had that bully mess with you every day?” Garnett asked late Tuesday night. “It’s like I knocked that bully’s ass out. I knocked his ass clean out. That’s what it feels like.”
So, Kevin Garnett grabbed that golden basketball and started his way back down the corridor of the Garden, down back toward the champagne celebration that washed him in validation. He could still hear that Russell cackle, smell that stale cigar smoke and Kevin Garnett marched down the corridor with a trophy and his own words still lingering in the air.
“I’ll be forever linked to this city,” said Garnett, a Celtics champion now and forever.
He got his own. Yes, he got his own.
Beneath those dusty 16 championship banners, K.G. dropped to his knees and kissed that parquet floor. Finally, Kevin Garnett belonged.
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BOSTON CELTICS NBA CHAMP 2008
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Posted:Jun 17, 2008 9:12 pm
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BOSTON CELTICS NBA CHAMP 2008
Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers in game 6 131-92 and win the series 4-2 at Boston Garden after 21 years of waiting . Congrats Boston Celtics and to the Boston fans who believe. Boston Celtics 17th NBA title.
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THE WA OF PURIFICATION AFTER CONVERSION - The Man of Faith
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Posted:Jun 17, 2008 6:00 pm
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THE WAY OF PURIFICATION
AFTER CONVERSION
CHAPTER 38
The Man of Faith
CHRIST,
MY , My loyal follower is not rebellious at the unpleasant things which I permit in his daily life. He is a man of faith, that is, he believes My words and follows My teachings in his daily life. He sees My wisdom guiding his life at all times.
2. This supernatural faith helps him keep his peace of soul, even when humans seem to complicate his life by meddling and interference.
3. What I send is not always easy to understand. It may even seem unjust or foolish to those wo are living only for his world. The man of faith takes all from My Hands, knowing that I plan all things for the best.
4. Do not depend on your natural judgment alone, but learn to consult Me and My Church in all matters of importance.
THINK,
I must be a man of faith, with a bright vision of God in my daily life. He is ever near, ever interested, ever helping me. With such an interior vision I will not be disturbed by the sayings and doings of those around me. The supernatural man is not fooled by external appearances. He knows only too well that what looks good may sometimes be wrong, and what seems undesirable is sometimes the only thing to do. He sees clearly that God sometimes chooses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.
PRAY,
Father of wisdom and goodness, my God, when will I see things with Your glorious, eternal outlook? Let me not be influenced by the wrong standards of worldly people. I will dare to be different when the humans around me disagree with You. Though they may mock and criticize what You have commanded, give me courage and strength to follow what You want of me. Your wisdom will conquer the foolish wisdom of this world. The folly of sin will one day be condemned and put to shame. Let me hate what is wrong and fear all sin in my daily life. Amen
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My
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CONFRATERNETY
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Book 1 ‒ The Way of Purification
Part 2 ‒ After Conversion
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Rivers’ success began with a father’s lesson
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Posted:Jun 15, 2008 4:26 pm
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Rivers’ success began with a father’s lesson
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Y Sports
Jun 14, 2:43 am EDT
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. ‒ Hank Raymonds can count on the call every week, the old Marquette coach still grateful that Glenn Rivers takes the time to reach him in Milwaukee. Through the years, Raymonds has had a rule on reaching out to his ballplayers: Call them when times are tough.
“They don’t need help when things are going well,” Raymonds said.
Raymonds recruited Glenn Rivers out of Chicago, the of a police sergeant. Grady Rivers didn’t need his ’s character molded in college. He had done the job himself.
“Teach him to play defense,” the father said.
Grady Rivers had been his ’s first coach, a man who kept his squad car close to the ball field so that he could hear a distress call when tossing batting practice in Maywood, Ill. He grew up in difficult racial times just outside Chicago, and his father walked the line between a proud cop and realistic black man. When the police inevitably pulled you over, don’t come with an attitude. And don’t ever make a foolish move.
Don’t ever give them a reason, Grady warned Glenn.
“His dad made him toe the line,” Raymonds said by phone recently. “There was a young man who never wondered about right and wrong, who had always done the right thing for as long as I’ve known him.”
Raymonds has been a father figure, but Glenn Rivers never needed a substitute for Grady Alexander Rivers. Only now, perhaps Rivers finds some solace in that sage old wisdom of his father’s generation. When Boston desperately wanted to run him out of town a year ago, his father was one of those voices delivering him balance and perspective. Raymonds thinks about that when Rivers calls, but he understands: As much as Doc Rivers loves his old coach, there had been just one bigger-than-life figure in his life: His old man.
As the Celtics reach the cusp of an NBA championship with Game 5 on Sunday, the irony is too painful to miss: On Father’s Day, with Grady’s funeral just seven raw months ago, Glenn Rivers has a chance to be a champion. When I asked Rivers about his father on Friday, he was quickly overcome with teary eyes and a quivering lip. For a half minute, he tried nobly to gather himself on the interview podium.
What Doc Rivers wouldn’t give for one more Father’s Day, for a championship celebration with the man responsible for instilling the resolve and resiliency in him through a life with its share of persecution and pain. As much as anyone, Grady never let his carry the bitterness with him, never let that sunny disposition of Doc’s become sullied with cynicism.
“He’s just very important in my life,” Rivers said. “It’s still very difficult for me to talk about because I haven’t had a lot of time to reflect on it. It happened during the season unexpectedly. It’s very, very difficult. But I do think about it.
“I think about it a lot.”
He thinks about it all with Grady Rivers. He thinks about a father who was always there when so many of young ’s teammates and friends were without one. He thinks about a father who was there when his and future -in-law, Kris, had their tires slashed and epithets were scribbled on sidewalks to protest a young black man dating a white woman on campus. He thinks about a father there when his , wife and had their home burned to the ground in San Antonio in an arson that they still believe was racially motivated. He thinks about a father who was on the telephone throughout a 24-victory season a year ago, when Grady was always there to tell him that winning and losing was never the measure of the man.
Rivers has had his finest hour with these Celtics, a franchise that stood with him through a disastrous season when people were calling loudly for his firing. From ownership to GM Danny Ainge, the Celtics wanted Rivers to succeed badly in Boston. He is the nice guy everyone wants to see finish first. There probably isn’t a more popular, more likable figure in the league.
“My partners and I believe we should stay with Doc because he had not been given a team that was good enough to succeed on the court,” Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck said. “What he had been given was a collection of young players that he had been asked to ‘coach up’ into valuable emerging NBA players. And that’s exactly what he did.
“But he’s unquestionably a leader, someone who has the players’ respect. When he talks, they listen.”
Rivers cuts a commanding presence, a good offensive mind and motivator, who is secure enough to turn his defense over to an assistant coach, Tom Thibodeau. Together, they turned the Celtics into the NBA’s best, turned Kevin Garnett into the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, and guided this team within one victory away from a championship. For the validation that has come for Rivers this year, several league sources believe he has contemplated the idea of leaving coaching when the season’s over.
For reasons people should’ve understood after that family trauma in San Antonio, he’s never pushed his wife, Kris, and to uproot from a good life in Orlando and live with him full-time in Boston. He has been willing to withstand the criticism of using off days to travel back to Florida to see his wife and , or perhaps visit a Big East arena to watch his , Jeremiah, play for Georgetown.
Now, Austin, his 15-year-old, is one of the best high school players in the nation and those who know Rivers well understand that his heart tugs at him, that his commitment to be there the way that his own father had been has created an understandable push and pull within him. Once Rivers gets past the emotion of a long season, perhaps the perspective of stepping back will make it easier to stay on the sideline.
Even so, one Celtics executive even told a peer in a rival front office that he wouldn’t be surprised at all if Rivers walked away when the season was over, whether or not the Celtics had won the title. Rivers says he has no intentions of leaving, but when asked about Rivers’ future with the Celtics, a cheery Grousbeck turned sullen and closed, insisting that he would not speak about contract matters.
Nevertheless, Hank Raymonds has never heard a word about it and doubts that Rivers could walk away from the team of his life. From Milwaukee, Raymonds watches the Celtics’ games and marvels over the way Rivers molded his team into a reflection of his own toughness and tenacity.
“He has a tremendous rapport with his players,” Raymonds said. “They really respond to him. I watch the games, and I see it from here. But that’s Glenn. That’s the gift he’s always had with people.
“I know this: His family background prepared him for all of this. Glenn has class, always did.”
The old coach sounds like a proud father with the Celtics coach and assuredly he’ll get one of those first phone calls should the Celtics win this championship. Still, it’s been a long, hard season for Rivers and he’s never had time to stop and mourn the loss that made all of this possible for him, all of it worthwhile.
No, the words still don’t come easy on Grady Alexander Rivers, but Doc Rivers thinks about him all the time. Maybe Father’s Day ends this season, ends this lifelong chase for a championship, and a can finally go home and take the time to mourn his father’s passing.
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THE WAY OF PURIFICATION... AFTER CONVERSION...Invitation to Holy Communion... Pray
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Posted:Oct 1, 2007 2:39 am
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THE WAY OF PURIFICATION
AFTER CONVERSION
CHAPTER 37
Invitation to Holy Communion
PRAY,
Lord, why are You so gracious to me and so concerned about me? You know how full of defects I am. I offend you so often by my faults and my negligence. How dare I welcome You into my heart? I have often been selfish with You in spite of all Your generosity to Me. The angels and archangels stand deep respect before You. The Saints and the Just have a holy fear of You. Yet, You say, “Come to Me.” Were it not You that say this, Lord, who could believe it, and who would dare approach this holy table? And your loving command I will come. I will think of Your Will and forget my unworthiness, and I shall eat the Bread of Angels. Amen
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CONFRATERNETY
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Book 1 ‒ The Way of Purification
Part 2 ‒ After Conversion
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THE WAY OF PURIFICATION...AFTER CONVERSION.. Invitation to Holy Communion... Think
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Posted:Oct 1, 2007 2:33 am
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THE WAY OF PURIFICATION
AFTER CONVERSION
CHAPTER 37
Invitation to Holy Communion
THINK,
God is so powerful, so great, so perfect, that we are as nothing compared to Him. the angels and saints in Heaven see God face to face and realize how very, very small they are in His presence. As a result they feel a deep indescribable respect to Him. yet God, in His goodness, loves His creatures beyond all telling. He did many things to convince us of His love. He even sent His beloved to show His love in a human way. After living and dying for love of us, Jesus invented a way to remain with us in the Holy Eucharist. In this wonderful Sacrament He males Himself the Food of our souls. Lest anyone refuse to receive Him in Holy Communion, He commanded that we should do so. It is His express wish that I receive Him in Holy Communion.
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CONFRATERNETY
OF THE
PRECIOUS
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Book 1 ‒ The Way of Purification
Part 2 ‒ After Conversion
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THE WAY OF PURIFICATION... AFTER CONVERSION... Invitation to Holy Communion
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Posted:Oct 1, 2007 2:27 am
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THE WAY OF PURIFICATION
AFTER CONVERSION
CHAPTER 37
Invitation to Holy Communion
Christ,
My , often fonder My words: “Come all you labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.” These are My words, and you ought to receive them gratefully and faithfully. They are Mine because I spoke them; but they are also yours, because they were spoken for your salvation. Receive them joyfully from My lips. Let them be deeply carved upon your heart. In these holy words, you see My loyal and tender consideration for you, do not let your conscience stop you from rushing into My arms, I know how unworthy you are of My friendship, bur I love you in spite of that.
2. In spite of your nothingness and your sins, I command you to approach Me with confidence. It is actually My Will that you should receive Me, the Food of Immortality. Through this heavenly Food, which is truly My own Body and Blood, you shall gain unending life and eternal glory. I say, “Come, all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you!” These are consoling words in the ear of a sinner. I, your Lord and God, invite poor and needy you to receive My holy Body. Do not say, “Who am I, that should presume to approach You?” I command you to come and receive Me, for without Me you are lost.
3. Prepare your soul with confession, if necessary, and with prayers. Then approach My altar with confidence and with a burning desire to please Me in your daily life.
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CONFRATERNETY
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Book 1 ‒ The Way of Purification
Part 2 ‒ After Conversion
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Padre Pios Mass... Eucharistic liturgy and conclusive rites
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Posted:Sep 30, 2007 3:48 am
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II. Eucharistic liturgy and conclusive rites
(LAST PART)
And bowing His head He gave up the ghost, writes John on the death of Jesus. It couldn’t be any different for the crucified priest of Gargano at the altar.
~Do you also die in the Holy Mass?
Mystically in Holy Communion.
~Is it out of ardent love or sorrow that you suffer death?
Both one and the other: but more out of love.
~During the Communion you suffer death: in that case you are no longer at the altar.
Why? Wasn’t Jesus dead on the Calvary?
~You have said, Padre, that in Communion the victim dies. Do they place you in the arms of the Holy Virgin?
Of St. Francis.
A compassionate heart dared to hope that the sweet Lord had finally found a soul amongst his creatures where He could rest at ease. The most humble of St. Francis was not of the same opinion.
~Padre, does Jesus detach his arms from the cross in order to rest in you?
It is I who rest in Him!
~how much do you love Jesus?
The desire to love Him is infinite, but practically alas! I would be tempted to say my love was null and I am ashamed of it.
At the end of the Holy Mass Padre Pio would recite the Prologue of St. John with deep emotion and with burning face.
~Why do you weep every time you read the last gospel of the Mass?
And does it mean so little to you for god to talk with His creatures? The escatological vision of the Eucharistic was not absent in the Seraph of Gargano either.
~Why do you weep ‒ sobs and tears were abundant ‒ when you come to the last phrase of the Gospel according to St. John:
“And we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth”?
and does it seem little to you? If the apostles with human eyes were able to see so much glory, what will the glory we shall see in the of God be, when He will make himself manifest to us in Heaven?
~What kind of union shall we have with Jesus in Heaven?
Ah!… We can get an idea from the Eucharist.
This was the Mass of Padre Pio. And there were others present besides.
~Does the Most Holy Virgin attend the Mass?
And do you suppose the Mother to have no interest in the ?
~Do the Angels attend your Mass?
In multitudes.
~What do they do?
They adore and love.
~Padre, who is nearest your altar?
All Paradise.
The Mass would come to an end, but in the heart of the Stigmatist of Gargano there was still the desire to remain crucified at the altar.
~Do wish you could celebrate more than one mass a day?
If it were in my power I would never come down from the altar.
Since he could not remain forever nailed to the altar, the most exceptional Liturgist would make an altar of himself with the intension of rendering the Passion of Jesus visible at all times.
~You have told me you carry the altar with you.
Yes, making the saying of the apostle come true: “carrying in me the mortification of Jesus”; “I am nailed to the cross”;  punish my body and render it servant”.
~I am right then in saying that Jesus crucified walks in the midst of us! You are forever suffering all the Passion of Jesus!
Yes… out of his goodness and kindness, as far as is possible for a human being.
~And how can you work with such pain?
I find my repose on the cross.
Make me an altar for the Cross, the Padre had asked the Lord. The prayer was fully granted, because never before had it been made, perhaps, with so much sincerity of heart. The altar which divine Artist came out with was really very beautiful, indeed: in two millenniums of Christianity was never seen anything similar. It was by far the best.
Jesus was really impressed, because it was the first perfect reproduction of his own.
In his transport, the Stignatist of Calvary would not raise His own Cross on that altar: he delighted in placing to his likeness the crucified Padre Pio.
And now for a word to ourselves.
A Mass! Ask any angel ‒ declares Padre Pio ‒ what a Mass really is and would answer you in truth. I know what it is and why it is done, but as for its worth however, I cannot comprehend it. An angel, a thousand angels, all in heaven, know this and this is how they think. And you, you who have been given the benefit, won’t you reflect on it?
In attending Holy Mass ‒ it is still Padre Pio speaking ‒ concentrate your whole self on the tremendous mystery that is taking place before your eyes: “The Redemption of your soul and the reconcillation with God”.
~Padre, does the Lord love the sacrifice?
Yes, because with it He regenerated the world.
~How much glory does the Holy Mass give God?
Infinite glory.
~What should we do during the Holy Mass?
Commiserate and love.
~Padre, in what manner should we hear Holy Mass?
In the manner the Most Holy Virgin and the pious women attended it. In the way St. John took part in the sacrifice of the Eucharist and the Sacrifice of blood of the Cross.
~What do we gain by hearing Mass?
The benefit cannot reckoned. You will see them in Heaven.
CONCLUSION
In the new heaven and on the earth that John foretells at the end of times, so will the Holy city of Jerusalem be new, coming down from heaven as a radiant bride for its spouse. It is the new tabernacle of God among men. God will live in the midst of his people.
The new Jerusalem ‒ says the exiled of Patmos besides ‒ does not need the sun or the moon, because it is illuminated by the glory of God: the elect shall walk about in that light with name of the Lamb impressed on their forehead.
~Padre, will we contemplate you crucified in Paradise?
For your greater glory.
In heaven, the Seraph of Pietrelcina will be also contemplated by his in Jesus eternally crucified, for the glory of the Father.
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