Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Now or Later

He who does not go down into hell while he is alive, runs a great risk of going there after he is dead.

-- St. Philip Neri
Eleazar and Elephants




Eleazar and Elephants

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Zacchaeus in the Sycamore Tree




Zacchaeus in the Sycamore Tree

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Tissot, James


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Monday, November 19, 2007

Work

Each one performs his task as a workman in the great workshop of the same master; and at the end of the day each one receives his wages, not according to the kind of work he has done, but according to the fidelity, the assiduity, the earnestness, and the love for his master, with which he has labored.

"Behold I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to his works." (Rev. 22:12)

-- Rosmini, A Spiritual Calendar
The Couturier's Workshop, Arles, 1760




The Couturier's Workshop, Arles, 1760

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Raspal, Antoine


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The Man Born Blind




The Man Born Blind

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Bloch, Carl


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Antiochus in Jerusalem




Antiochus in Jerusalem

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Fouquet, Jean


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Sunday, November 18, 2007

Novitiate for Paradise

What is our whole life on earth but a novitiate for Paradise?

"Do not therefore lose your confidence . . . For patience is necessary for you, that doing the will of God you may receive the promise. For yet a little and a very little while, and He that is to come will come, and will not delay. " (Hebrews 10: 35,36, 37)

-- Rosmini, A Spiritual Calendar
Emperor Titus Destroys the Temple in Jerusalem, 1638-1639




Emperor Titus Destroys the Temple in Jerusalem, 1638-1639

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Poussin, Nicolas


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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Beati Mortui

Beati mortui, qui in Domino moriuntur.

O mi Deus, moriendum mihi est certo, sed nescio quando, quomodo, ubi moriar; hoc unum scio, me in aeternum periturum, si in peccato lethali expirem.

Beatissima virgo Maria, Mater Dei sancta, ora pro me, peccatore, nunc et in hora mortis meae. Amen.

Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.

O my God, I have certainly to die, but I know not when, how, or where I shall die; this only I know: that if I die in mortal sin, I shall be lost forever.

Most blessed Virgin Mary, holy Mother of God, pray for me a sinner, now and at the hour of my death.

Amen.
The Israelites on the Bank of the Red Sea, 1621




The Israelites on the Bank of the Red Sea, 1621

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary Tending the Sick and Leprous, circa 1671-74




St. Elizabeth of Hungary Tending the Sick and Leprous, circa 1671-74

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Murillo,...


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Friday, November 16, 2007

Prayer for Those in Their Agony

O most merciful Jesus, lover of souls! I pray Thee, by the agony of Thy most sacred Heart, and by the sorrows of Thy immaculate Mother, cleanse in Thine own blood the sinners of the whole world, who are now in their agony and about to die this day. Amen.
Heart of Jesus, once in agony, pity the dying.
Apocalypse




Apocalypse

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