Meekness. Meekness Meekness is the virtue that enables one to overcome the tendencies of anger, revenge, hatred and enmity. Many of its manifestations have already been listed under the heading of …More
Meekness.
Meekness
Meekness is the virtue that enables one to overcome the tendencies of anger, revenge, hatred and enmity. Many of its manifestations have already been listed under the heading of charity, because the principal incentives to anger come from the words or actions of a fellow human being. Thus meekness presupposes the virtue of charity or love of neighbor, which provides the motives and the means of overlooking insult, injustice and injury, real or imaginary, from others.
The vice of anger, to which meekness is opposed, is responsible for very much of the misery in the world. It is a vice in which an animal passion in man is permitted to dominate his words and actions as if he possessed neither reason nor free will. In the brute animals, anger is directed by instinct to the purposes of self-defense and self-preservation, as exemplified when a brute fights for food, or against an enemy, or in defense of its young. In man, anger is also designed by nature to be a means of …More
Meekness
Meekness is the virtue that enables one to overcome the tendencies of anger, revenge, hatred and enmity. Many of its manifestations have already been listed under the heading of charity, because the principal incentives to anger come from the words or actions of a fellow human being. Thus meekness presupposes the virtue of charity or love of neighbor, which provides the motives and the means of overlooking insult, injustice and injury, real or imaginary, from others.
The vice of anger, to which meekness is opposed, is responsible for very much of the misery in the world. It is a vice in which an animal passion in man is permitted to dominate his words and actions as if he possessed neither reason nor free will. In the brute animals, anger is directed by instinct to the purposes of self-defense and self-preservation, as exemplified when a brute fights for food, or against an enemy, or in defense of its young. In man, anger is also designed by nature to be a means of …More
Meekness: I must quote U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who said: "Walk softly, and carry a big stick, and you will go far", He goes on to say that it is: " The exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance of any likely crisis" that will yield success.
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The priest who wears the cassock prays three special prayers each morning while clothing himself. The first one reminds him of the need for perfect detachment and that his true inheritance will be in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The second prays for Perfect Purity of heart and body.
The third prays for perfect submission to Jesus and Mary.
These prayers remind the priest everyday of his supernatural …More
The priest who wears the cassock prays three special prayers each morning while clothing himself. The first one reminds him of the need for perfect detachment and that his true inheritance will be in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The second prays for Perfect Purity of heart and body.
The third prays for perfect submission to Jesus and Mary.
These prayers remind the priest everyday of his supernatural dignity and his role in sanctifying self and others.
The sacred cassock also plays a role in drawing good souls to him and in repelling evil people.
Share with your priest for him to start this practice today!
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The cassock prayer
From Psalm 15
Dominus pars hereditatis meae et calicis Mei. Tu es qui hereditatis meae mihi.
The Lord is the part of my inheritance and of my chalice. Thou art he who will restore my inheritance to me.
The cincture represents the virtue of self-mastery, which St. Paul also counts among the fruits of the Spirit (cf. Galatians 5:22).
Prayer: It is based on 1Peter 1:13. "Praecinge me, Domine, cingulo puritatis, et exstingue in lumbis meis humorem libidinis; ut maneat in me virtus continentiae et castitatis"
(Gird me, O Lord, with the cincture of purity, and quench in my heart the fire of concupiscence, that the virtue of continence and chastity may abide in me).
For the collar.
Subjice me Domine dulcis jugo tuo, dulcique jugo matris tuae Mariae.
Subject me O Lord to Thy Sweet yoke, and to the Sweet yoke of thy mother Mary.
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The second prays for Perfect Purity of heart and body.
The third prays for perfect submission to Jesus and Mary.
These prayers remind the priest everyday of his supernatural dignity and his role in sanctifying self and others.
The sacred cassock also plays a role in drawing good souls to him and in repelling evil people.
Share with your priest for him to start this practice today!
www.vatican.va/…/ns_lit_doc_2010…
The cassock prayer
From Psalm 15
Dominus pars hereditatis meae et calicis Mei. Tu es qui hereditatis meae mihi.
The Lord is the part of my inheritance and of my chalice. Thou art he who will restore my inheritance to me.
The cincture represents the virtue of self-mastery, which St. Paul also counts among the fruits of the Spirit (cf. Galatians 5:22).
Prayer: It is based on 1Peter 1:13. "Praecinge me, Domine, cingulo puritatis, et exstingue in lumbis meis humorem libidinis; ut maneat in me virtus continentiae et castitatis"
(Gird me, O Lord, with the cincture of purity, and quench in my heart the fire of concupiscence, that the virtue of continence and chastity may abide in me).
For the collar.
Subjice me Domine dulcis jugo tuo, dulcique jugo matris tuae Mariae.
Subject me O Lord to Thy Sweet yoke, and to the Sweet yoke of thy mother Mary.
www.stas.org/en/arbp-lefebvre-w…