LOYOLA WOMEN'S RETREAT FEB. 16-17, 2020
NOTES
TALK 1 - IDENTITY
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 143:
By faith, man completely submits his intellect and his will to God.2 With his whole being man gives his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture calls this human response to God, the author of revelation, "the obedience of faith".
Gen 3:15
“And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall [a]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
Galatians 5:22-26
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.
CCC 733-734:
The Holy Spirit - God's gift
"God is Love" and love is his first gift, containing all others. "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Because we are dead or at least wounded through sin, the first effect of the gift of love is the forgiveness of our sins. The communion of the Holy Spirit in the Church restores to the baptized the divine likeness lost through sin.
TALK 2 - BAPTISM
Saint John Paul II - Encyclical: Redeemer of Man
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_04031979_redemptor-hominis.html
“Jesus Christ is the stable principle and fixed centre of the mission that God himself has entrusted to man. We must all share in this mission and concentrate all our forces on it, since it is more necessary than ever for modern mankind. If this mission seems to encounter greater opposition nowadays than ever before, this shows that today it is more necessary than ever and, in spite of the opposition, more awaited than ever.” (RH11)
Galatians 4:7
“Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.”
TALK 3 - SACRIFICE & EUCHARIST
Luke 24:13-35 (Road to Emmaus)
Pope Benedict - connection between Sacrifice and Eucharist
http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis.html
St. Augustine’s Homily “... there will be one Christ loving himself ...”
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/170210.htm
Saint John Paul II - five places where we see the Holy Spirit at work:
Gen 1:2
Mt 1:18
Mt 3:16
Luke 4
Jn 20:22
Encyclical: On the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_18051986_dominum-et-vivificantem.html
MONDAY HOMILY
St. John of the Cross “Sayings of Light and Love”
http://www.essene.com/B%27nai-Amen/j-saying.htm
St. Faustina on the Virtue of Poverty (from her Diaries)
The Virtue of Poverty
This is an evangelical virtue which impels the heart to detach itself from temporal things; the religious, in virtue of his profession is strictly obliged to it.
Q. When do we sin against the virtue of poverty?
When we desire something, contrary to this virtue. When we become attached to something, and when we make use of superfluous things.
Q. How many degrees of poverty are there and what are they?
A. There are, in practice, four degrees of poverty for one who is a professed religious; to dispose of nothing without the consent of the Superiors (the strict matter of the vow); to avoid superfluities and be content with necessities (this pertains to the virtue); to readily content oneself with things of inferior quality in what concerns one’s cell, clothing, nourishment, etc., and to experience this contentment interiorly; to rejoice in extreme poverty.
Book:
One With Jesus: The Life of Identification with Christ by Paul De Jaegher
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 143:
By faith, man completely submits his intellect and his will to God.2 With his whole being man gives his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture calls this human response to God, the author of revelation, "the obedience of faith".
Gen 3:15
“And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her seed;
He shall [a]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
Galatians 5:22-26
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.
CCC 733-734:
The Holy Spirit - God's gift
"God is Love" and love is his first gift, containing all others. "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
Because we are dead or at least wounded through sin, the first effect of the gift of love is the forgiveness of our sins. The communion of the Holy Spirit in the Church restores to the baptized the divine likeness lost through sin.
TALK 2 - BAPTISM
Saint John Paul II - Encyclical: Redeemer of Man
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_04031979_redemptor-hominis.html
“Jesus Christ is the stable principle and fixed centre of the mission that God himself has entrusted to man. We must all share in this mission and concentrate all our forces on it, since it is more necessary than ever for modern mankind. If this mission seems to encounter greater opposition nowadays than ever before, this shows that today it is more necessary than ever and, in spite of the opposition, more awaited than ever.” (RH11)
Galatians 4:7
“Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.”
TALK 3 - SACRIFICE & EUCHARIST
Luke 24:13-35 (Road to Emmaus)
Pope Benedict - connection between Sacrifice and Eucharist
http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis.html
St. Augustine’s Homily “... there will be one Christ loving himself ...”
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/170210.htm
Saint John Paul II - five places where we see the Holy Spirit at work:
Gen 1:2
Mt 1:18
Mt 3:16
Luke 4
Jn 20:22
Encyclical: On the Holy Spirit in the Life of the Church and the World
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_18051986_dominum-et-vivificantem.html
MONDAY HOMILY
St. John of the Cross “Sayings of Light and Love”
http://www.essene.com/B%27nai-Amen/j-saying.htm
St. Faustina on the Virtue of Poverty (from her Diaries)
The Virtue of Poverty
This is an evangelical virtue which impels the heart to detach itself from temporal things; the religious, in virtue of his profession is strictly obliged to it.
Q. When do we sin against the virtue of poverty?
When we desire something, contrary to this virtue. When we become attached to something, and when we make use of superfluous things.
Q. How many degrees of poverty are there and what are they?
A. There are, in practice, four degrees of poverty for one who is a professed religious; to dispose of nothing without the consent of the Superiors (the strict matter of the vow); to avoid superfluities and be content with necessities (this pertains to the virtue); to readily content oneself with things of inferior quality in what concerns one’s cell, clothing, nourishment, etc., and to experience this contentment interiorly; to rejoice in extreme poverty.
Book:
One With Jesus: The Life of Identification with Christ by Paul De Jaegher