Bulletins
December 15, 2013
Download the Bulletin as a PDFLet’s spend a bit more of our Advent time with St. Ignatius. Remember the first order of business in his Spiritual Exercises:
PRINCIPLE AND FOUNDATION
Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord,
and by this means to save his soul.
And the other things on the face of the earth
are created for man and that they may help him in prosecuting the end for which he is created.
From this it follows that man is to use them as much as they help him on to his end,
and ought to rid himself of them
so far as they hinder him as to it.
For this it is necessary
to make ourselves indifferent to all created things in all that is allowed to the choice of our free will and is not prohibited to it; so that, on our part, we want not health rather than sickness,
riches rather than poverty,
honor rather than dishonor,
long rather than short life, and so in all the rest; desiring and choosing
only what is most conducive for us
to the end for which we are created.
To be able to pay those words more than lip service, perhaps we should focus less on what we need to relinquish and ask Our Lord to have a greater desire for Him and only Him:
SOUL of Christ, sanctify me.
Body of Christ, save me.
Blood of Christ, inebriate me.
Water from the side of Christ, wash me.
Passion of Christ, strengthen me.
O good Jesus, hear me.
Within Thy wounds, hide me.
Separated from Thee let me never be.
From the malignant enemy, defend me.
At the hour of death, call me.
To come to Thee, bid me,
That I may praise Thee in the company Of Thy Saints, for all eternity.
Amen.
To able to say those words and mean them, let’s begin with a good act of contrition.
LORD JESUS, have mercy on me, a sinner.
God bless you.
Fr. Christopher J. Pollard
