"O good Jesus, once, when seeking one single soul, wearied by the journey Thou sat upon a spring of water; but now, when seeking me together with the rest, wearied by a longer journey, and the cruelest scourging, and carrying of Thy own cross, Thou sat not upon a spring, /1
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but upon the wood, which could not lessen Thy weariness but only increase it. Would it not be just that at least I should weary myself in continual toil, or certainly to labor in my lament, until I win back the fruit of Thy weariness by true penance and by the gift of pardon?"
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—St. Robert Bellarmine
On the Lament of the Dove, 2, 3.
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For the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, you can pre-order the first English translation of his spiritual work: On the Lament of the Dove.
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"How would the most holy Virgin Mother of God bear it? With what favor would she even show us when we say, 'To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears,' if, while we pronounce these words,
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we neither weep nor sigh, but sing to the Mother of mercy, not as mourners, but briskly and happily? If we do not desire to climb from the vale of tears to the mountain of God, or indeed, if we do not recognize the vale of tears,
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nor reckon that we are in exile, but ever cherish possessions on earth, and perhaps have never once thought of the heavenly fatherland?"
—St. Robert Bellarmine
On the Lament of the Dove
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Let Christians learn from the example of the Hebrews, and with the preachers crying out unceasingly (especially in the times of solemn fasts), let them begin to accustom themselves to tears of penance!
—St. Robert Bellarmine
On the Lament of the Dove 1, 4.
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There are many spiritual treatises, but few devoted to the value of tears. In a never before translated work, St. Robert Bellarmine unfolds the examples of tears in Scripture, and meditations to lament over and the fruit of that meditation. Preorder in the link below ⬇️
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"I pray at dawn, for when I enter my garden I smell a great fragrance exhaled by the flowers which are then blooming; so I take a lesson from them, and pray at the same time that I may send up a grateful odour to God with my flowers." —Cardinal Baronius.
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There's the popular version of St. Francis, and then there's the real St. Francis who called men to repentance for sin, fasted, fought the devil with prayer, and gave up all earthly desires for heavenly ones.
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"In fact, the cult of relics is the detestation of all idolatry. The martyrs are not dead like the idols they destroyed. So, whoever venerates a relic of a martyr, indicates that he rejoices in the destruction of idolatry."
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