Life and its Gethsamane's and The Dark Night

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To all on CAF I pray your Holy Week will indeed be holy and blessed…Barb

“And Being in Agony He Prayed More Earnestly”
FR. RANIERO CANTALAMESSA

Here is a translation of the Lenten sermon delivered on March 17, 2006, by Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa in the presence of Benedict XVI and officials of the Roman Curia. The Pontifical Household preacher delivered it in the Mater Redemptoris Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.

http://catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0829.html

What appears in the quote box below is only a portion of the overall sermon.
“Life Is Strewn With Many Little Nights of Gethsemane”
Human life is strewn with many little nights of Gethsemane. The causes can be very numerous and different: a threat to our health, a lack of appreciation of the environment, the indifference of someone close to us, the fear of the consequences of some error committed.
But there can be more profound causes:
the loss of the meaning of God,
the overwhelming awareness of one’s sin and unworthiness,
the impression of having lost the faith.

In short, what the saints have called “the dark night of the soul.”
 
Barbara…thanks for posting this!

Just what I was looking for. 👍

God Bless.
 
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Celia:
Barbara…thanks for posting this!

Just what I was looking for. 👍

God Bless.
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Thanks Barb…me too:)
 
my thanks to you also Barb and thank God for you. It seems you are extensively read and your posts are very good for my meditation. Thank you. A Blessed Holy Week to you and all posters.
 
Thank you all…whenever for some reason I am thanked or another, I am reminded of Jesus who was sad because only one returned to thank Him…hence your thank you messages are really His!
Yes I do read quite a bit and quickly…and usually post what I do read that has first been of real help to me hoping that others may find something in it. The homily in this thread was a big help to me too…encouraging and supportive, tho the homily delivered in Rome. I think too that we tend to have The Dark Night as something terribly remote from the ordinary person in the street and something only for great saints, hence the ordinary person has no claim to such…and not at all so, as the homily witnessed to well. St. John of the Cross too it is my belief did not want the DN to be something beyond the little and humble…rather wanted his insight to help all through difficult indeed spiritual times.

I wish you all a very holy and blessed Holy Week and may Easter break for you all with great joy.

Barb:)
 
As I have been meditating all day today on Christ’s Agony in the Garden, this was so beautiful to me. Thank you!
 
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