{"id":3737,"date":"2010-01-28T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T11:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/blessed-marmion-novena-day-eig\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T11:26:35","slug":"blessed-marmion-novena-day-eig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2010\/01\/blessed-marmion-novena-day-eig\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Marmion Novena: Day Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBlessed Abbot Marmion’s entire chapter XIV, entitled The Divine Office<\/em>, in Christ, the Ideal of the Priest<\/em> deserves to be studied, and meditated, and brought to prayer. I never tire of re-reading it. For this next to the last day of our novena in preparation for the anniversary of Blessed Marmion’s holy death, I chose but a few paragraphs from a chapter that is, from beginning to end, pure gold.
\nThe Eighth Day of the Novena
\nFriday, 29 January 2010<\/strong>
\nO Holy Spirit, Love of the Father and the Son,
\nestablish Thyself as a furnace of love in the centre of our hearts
\nand bear constantly upwards, like eager flames,
\nour thoughts, our affections, and our actions
\neven to the bosom of the Father.<\/p>\n

The primary object of the Divine Office is to praise God, to pay Him homage. But, in His goodness, the Lord allows the soul who carries out this duty in faith and love to draw from it rich fruits of sanctification.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is beyond all doubt, as experience teaches us, that the pious recitation of the breviary has the most beneficial effects on the interior life of the priest.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first and most striking of these is habitual union with Christ in His priesthood of eternal praise. All the glory rendered to God on earth as in heaven ascends to Him only through Jesus Christ. We proclaim this great truth every morning at that solemn moment when we conclude the Canon of the Mass: Per Ipsum et cum Ipso et in Ipso.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When we recite the Hours in communion with the whole Church, Christ, as Head of the Mystical Body and centre of the communion of saints, takes up and unites all our praise in Himself. Even the blessed in heaven must avail of His priestly mediation to sing their heavenly Sanctus: Per quem maiestatem tuam laudant angeli. How imperfect and deficient is our giving of glory! But Christ supplies for our weakness. “If you put in His hands your poor effort,” says Blosius, “your lead will be changed into precious gold, your water into the finest wine.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

V. Pray for us, Blessed Columba Marmion.
\nR. That our lives may be hid with Christ in God.
\nLet us pray.
\nO God, Almighty Father,
\nwho, having called the blessed abbot Columba
\nto the priesthood and to the monastic way of life,
\nwonderfully opened to him the secrets of the mysteries of Christ,
\ngrant, in Thy goodness,
\nthat, strengthened by his teachings
\nin the spirit of our adoption as Thy sons,
\nwe may pray to Thee with a boundless confidence,
\nand so obtain, through his intercession,
\na favourable answer
\nto the petitions we place before Thee.
\n[Express your intentions and requests.<\/em>]
\nThrough our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son,
\nwho liveth and reigneth with Thee,
\nin the unity of the Holy Spirit,
\none God forever and ever.
\nR. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blessed Abbot Marmion’s entire chapter XIV, entitled The Divine Office, in Christ, the Ideal of the Priest deserves to be studied, and meditated, and brought to prayer. I never tire of re-reading it. For this next to the last day of our novena in preparation for the anniversary of Blessed Marmion’s holy death, I chose <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,33,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-liturgical","category-monastic","category-priesthood","category-year-of-the-priest-2009-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-Yh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}