{"id":3008,"date":"2007-12-02T23:10:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T23:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/ad-te-levavi-and-spe-salvi\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T23:10:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T23:10:17","slug":"ad-te-levavi-and-spe-salvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/ad-te-levavi-and-spe-salvi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad Te Levavi and Spe Salvi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn Introit and an Encyclical<\/strong>
\nThere is an immense hope in the liturgy of the First Sunday of Advent, making it perfectly consonant with Spe Salvi<\/em>, the Encyclical given us by Pope Benedict XVI on the feast of Saint Andrew. Today’s Introit, Ad te levavi<\/em>, is a great sweep upward and away from all that would hold bound our hope. The Introit, resonating with Spe Salvi<\/em>, sets the tone, not only for this the first Mass of Advent, but also for the rest of the Advent season and, indeed, for the whole new liturgical year. “To you, my God, I lift up my soul” (Ps 24:1) or, as Ronald Knox translated it, “All my heart goes out to my God.”
\nBreaking Down the Encyclical<\/strong>
\nAs I prayed over it early this morning, the Holy Father’s Encyclical became for me a theological commentary on the implications of today’s Introit and, indeed, on all the liturgy of Advent. Fortified by several cups of strong coffee, I attempted to condense Spe Salvi<\/em> into 52 propositions or, if you will, subtitles. I share them as a way of inviting you to take the Encyclical in hand, and to study it, meditate it, pray it, and be changed by it during this Advent Season.
\nOwn It and Read It<\/strong>
\nThe Encyclical has 50 articles. There are 24 days in Advent this year. Here is your Advent program: 2 articles of the Encyclical each day, and on one day of your choice, 3. Every Catholic should have his own copy of the Encyclical. Don’t be cheap. Don’t be stingy. Buy the text of the Encyclical or download a copy off the Internet and then make photocopies. One copy of the Encyclical cost less than the daily newspaper. Looking for an Advent penance? Give up reading the newspaper \u2014 or cut down your online time \u2014 during Advent and study Spe Salvi <\/em>instead. It will be salutary for your soul.<\/p>\n


\nHere are the 52 propositions:
\n1. Hope Allows Us to Face the Present
\n2. One Who Hopes Lives Differently
\n3. Saint Josephine Bakhita: The Discovery of Being Loved
\n4. This Valley of Tears, This Exile of Ours
\n5. God, the Framer of the Stars (Conditor Alme Siderum<\/em>)
\nand the Ruler of the Cosmos
\n6. Christ: Both the Way and the Truth
\n7. Christ With Us In the Valley of the Final Solitude, Death
\n8. Living the Present in the Dawning Light of the Future
\n9. What Saint Francis Teaches Us: A Future Worth the Risk of the Present
\n10. Learning How to Wait in Power and Love and Self-Control
\n11. Baptism: Eternal Life After Death
\n12. Praying for Happiness
\n13. Plunged Into the Life of God
\n14. Representations of Our Hope: Imaging Heaven
\n15. Happiness: From “I” to “We”
\n16. Saint Bernard’s Monastic Life: A School of Living and Working Together,
\nOr The Conversion From “I” to “We” and From “Me” to “Us”
\n17. The False Hope Held Out by the Scientific Method
\n18. The Privatization of Religion: Keep Your Hope to Yourself
\n19. Reason and Freedom
\n20. The French Revolution:
\nReason and Freedom,
\nKant Announces the End of the Church
\n21. Marx: The End of Bourgeois Society
\n22. Marx Forgets Man’s Freedom
\n23. Progress in Evil: Things Get Worse As They Get Better
\n24. Reason and Faith: We need God, Or
\nthe Godless Are Hopeless and the Hopeless Godless
\n25. Freedom and Convictions Held in Common:
\nWhen the Church Speaks Her Hope, Our Hope
\n26. Man Not Redeemed by Science
\n27. Man Redeemed by the Love Revealed in Christ Jesus
\n28. Without God, Without Hope
\n29. Loved by Christ Who Died for All Impels One to Live for all
\n30. Augustine the Philosopher Lives for Himself;
\nAugustine the Bishop Is Compelled to Preach and Act
\nin a Simple Way for Simple People
\n31. The Despair of Having Hope for a Future Generation but Not for Me
\n32. The Hope that Comes From God With A Human Face
\n33. Prayer and Hope
\n34. The Prayer That Dilates the Heart’s Capacity
\n35. The Prayer That Purifies the Heart
\n36. Hope and Merit: Opening Oneself to the Gift of God
\n37. Suffering: Only God Can Take Away Sin, the Source of Suffering
\n38. Christ with Man in Hell, the Witness of Saint Paul Le-Bao-Tinh (+1837)
\n39. Consolation : Being with the Other in his Solitude
\n40. God With Man in His Suffering:
\nGod Cannot Suffer in Himself but He Can Suffer With Another
\n41. Offering Up
\n42. Judgment: The Hour of Justice and A Reason to Hope
\n43. When Man Waits for Justice From Man:
\nWhen Manmade Justice Becomes the Tomb of Hope
\n44. Man Made for Eternity:
\nThe Triumph of God’s Justice and a Reason to Hope
\n45. Grace and Justice: Turning Our Gaze to the Crucified and Risen Christ
\n46. Purgatory, Hell, and Heaven
\n47. The Fire of Purifying Love: Purgatory
\n48. The Purifying Gaze of Christ
\n49. Justice and Grace: Christ our Paraclete, our Advocate, our Hope
\n50. The Souls in Purgatory: Never too Late
\n51. Ave Maris Stella<\/em>: Mary Our Star
\nand the Saints, Other Stars in Our Night
\n52. Spes Nostra, Salve<\/em>:
\nA Prayer to Mary, Star of Hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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