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   Awake Christ Sleeping in You   
      
      "Face the world as you face a tumultuous and tempestuous sea. Sail   
   across this world in the boat of your interior peacefulness, without   
   losing sight of the harbor.   
      When the strong winds of its desires try to take hold of you, call   
   for help and awake Christ sleeping in the cabin of your heart."   
   --St. Augustine--Sermon 76, 9   
      
   Prayer: I desire you, O justice and innocence, beautiful and comely   
   with lumnious clarity and unquenchable satisfaction. With you there is   
   profound rest and untroubled life. All who enter into you enter into   
   joy.   
   --St. Augustine--Confessions 2, 10   
      
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   September 12th - The Holy Name of Mary   
      
   On this day dedicated to the Holy Name of Mary let us repeat that   
   wonderful prayer of Saint Bernard, responding to Pope Benedict XVI’s   
   invitation to “invite everyone to become a trusting child before Mary,   
   even as the Son of God did.  Saint Bernard says and we say with him:   
   ‘Look to the star of the sea, call upon Mary … in danger, in distress,   
   in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary. May her name never be far   
   from your lips, or far from your heart … If you follow her, you will   
   not stray; if you pray to her, you will not despair;  if you turn your   
   thoughts to her, you will not err. If she holds you, you will not   
   fall;  if she protects you, you need not fear;  if she is your guide,   
   you will not tire; if she is gracious to you, you will surely reach   
   your destination”’  (Pope Benedict XVI, address at Heiligenkreuz   
   Abbey, September 9, 2007).   
      
   Most Holy Name of Mary:   
   In accordance with Jewish custom our Lady’s parents named her eight   
   days after her birth and were inspired to call her Mary. The feast of   
   the Holy Name of Mary therefore follows that of her Birthday, as the   
   Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus follows Christmas. The feast   
   originated in Spain and was approved by the Holy See in 1513; Innocent   
   XI extended its observance to the whole Church in 1683 in thanksgiving   
   to our Lady for the victory on September 12, 1683 by John Sobieski,   
   king of Poland, over the Turks, who were besieging Vienna and   
   threatening the West. This day was commemorated in Vienna by creating   
   a new kind of pastry and shaping it in the form of the Turkish   
   half-moon. It was eaten along with coffee which was part of the booty   
   from the Turks (this is the origin of the of the croissant).   
      
   The ancient Onomastica Sacra have preserved the meanings ascribed to   
   Mary’s name by the early Christian writers and perpetuated by the   
   Greek Fathers. “Bitter Sea,” “Myrrh of the Sea,” “The Light Giver,”   
   “The Enlightened One,” “Lady,” “Seal of the Lord” and “Mother of   
   the   
   Lord” are the principal interpretations. These etymologies suppose   
   that the Hebrew form of the name is Maryãm, not Miryãm. From the time   
   of St Jerome until the 16th century, preferred interpretations of   
   Mary’s name in the West were “Lady,” “Bitter Sea,” “The Light   
   Giver,”   
   and especially “Star of the Sea.” tella Maris was by far the favoured   
   interpretation. The revival of Hebraic studies, which accompanied the   
   Renaissance, led to a more critical appraisal of the meanings assigned   
   to Our Lady’s name. Miryãm has all the appearance of a genuine Hebrew   
   name and no solid reason has been discovered to warrant rejecting the   
   Semitic origin of the word. The Hebrew name of Mary, Miryãm, (in Latin   
   Domina) means lady or sovereign; this Mary is in virtue of her Son’s   
   sovereign authority as Lord of the World. We call Mary our Lady as we   
   call Jesus our Lord and when we pronounce her name we affirm her   
   power, implore her aid and place ourselves under her protection.   
      
   “Therefore a certain Star has risen for us today:  Our Lady, Saint   
   Mary. Her name means Star of the sea;  no doubt the Star of this sea   
   which is the world. Therefore, we ought to lift up our eyes to this   
   Star that has appeared on earth today in order that she may lead us,   
   in order that she may enlighten us, in order that she may show us   
   these steps so that we shall know them, in order that she may help us   
   so that we may be able to ascend. And therefore it is a beautiful   
   thing that Mary is placed in this stairway of which we are speaking,   
   there where we must begin to climb. As the Evangelist says, Jacob   
   begot Joseph, the husband of Mary, so immediately at the very moment   
   of our conversion she appears to us and receives us into her care and   
   enlightens us in her light and accompanies us along this laborious   
   path.” –  St Aelred (110-1167).   
      
    From Anastpaul 2018   
      
      
   When the appointed time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman.….Galatians   
   4:4   
      
   REFLECTION   
    “This most holy, sweet and worthy name was eminently fitted to so   
   holy, sweet and worthy a virgin. For Mary means a bitter sea, star of   
   the sea, the illuminated or illuminatrix. Mary is interpreted Lady.   
   Mary is a bitter sea to the demons;  to men she is the Star of the   
   sea;  to the Angels she is illuminatrix and to all creatures she is   
   Lady.” … St Bonaventure (1217-1274)   
      
      
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   Whenever I say Hail Mary   
   By Bl Alan de la Roche (1428-1475)   
      
   Whenever I say Hail Mary   
   The court of heaven rejoices   
   And the earth is lost in wonderment   
   And I despise the world   
   And my heart is brim full   
   Of the love of God.   
   When I say Hail Mary;   
   All my fears wilt and die   
   And my passions are quelled.   
   If I say Hail Mary;   
   Devotion grows within me   
   And sorrow for sin awakens.   
   When I say Hail Mary   
   Hope is made strong   
   In my breast   
   And the dew of consolation   
   Falls on my soul   
   More and more   
   Because I say Hail Mary.   
   And my spirit rejoices   
   And sorrow fades away   
   When I say Hail Mary.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)