tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post2931700979444569785..comments2024-03-12T04:14:16.271-05:00Comments on The Rad Trad: The Jesuit CharacterThe Rad Tradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00899289024837953345noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3348523519788188753.post-2849069237586989512019-08-02T02:09:05.847-05:002019-08-02T02:09:05.847-05:00"In the 16th century, under the influence of ..."In the 16th century, under the influence of a certain school of the Society of Jesus, the prayer of the faithful came to be divorced from the prayer of the Church. The soul, left alone, withdrawn into herself, sought the meaning of the Scriptures by reasonings and no longer went to Our Lord through the Church; from this stems the great difficulty that souls experience in prayer. To my knowledge, thousands of priests who learned, in seminary, to practice this laborious and dry mental prayer, abandoned it after their ordination, to the great detriment of their souls. The liturgy, understood as the authentic organ by means of which the Church prays and teaches her children to pray, belongs to the whole Church, and Pius X strongly engaged all the priests, the bishops, and the religious Orders to cooperate with him in putting in back into vigour. This was part of his instaurare omnia in Christo, “restoring all things in Christ”. So well did Saint Teresa understand this that she said she would give her life for the smallest liturgical rubric. Understood in this way, it [the liturgy] is not the prerogative or the specialisation of any given religious Order; it belongs to the Church!"-Bl. Columba MarmionJosemaria Paulo Jeromino Martin Carvalho-Von Versterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00128928800453615354noreply@blogger.com