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In Reflexion

The Self-control

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Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 4

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Holy Spirit, in the beginning you hovered over the waters (cf. Gen 1,2) and brought order to the chaos. You also want to bring order to the chaos caused by sin, order in our inner and outer life. So much has been confused with original sin and the sins that follow it, that even your friend Paul lamented that a different law dwells in his spirit than in his body and – worse still – that he follows the law of the flesh (cf. Rom 7,23)! With him we lament: Who will deliver me from this body? (verse 24) Read More

In Reflexion

The Gentleness

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Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 3

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Beloved Holy Spirit, You gentle soul guest, let grow in us the spirit of gentleness, that spirit that permeates everything, that transforms and softens our heart, purifying it from all hardships; that is as mild as Your wonderful Bride, our Mother!

“Blessed are the gentle: they shall have the earth as inheritance.” (Mt 5,4) Read More

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The purity of heart

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Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 2

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Beloved Holy Spirit, come You, the eternal and pure light and penetrate us, so that nothing can remain hidden from You, no shadow can live on in our soul, every darkness may go away and everything be inflamed by Your love! Awaken us from all inertia and purify our heart so that it may love as God loves; love as You love, so that You and I may be intimately united in the praise of the glory of God! Read More

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Longanimity

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Meditation Novena on the Holy Spirit – Day 1

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Until the feast of Pentecost, we will contemplate in meditation the fruits of the Holy Spirit, which should bring us closer to the Holy Spirit. They are mostly repetitions of the past year.

At Easter 2020, due to the pandemic, we broadcast retreats live via internet. We want to check if there is interest in further retreats at Pentecost. The topic would be the Pentecost sequence. We ask that you contact us by name. If there is enough interest, then we would write down the reactions that have already taken place in the list of the participants.

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In Biblical Meditations

Ascension of the Lord

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Procession of the Franciscans around the Chapel of the Ascension, Jerusalem

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Acts 1, 1-11

In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven. He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion by many demonstrations: for forty days he had continued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom of God. Read More

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“The Lord of the World”

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A short book review

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Before we come close to Pentecost and after the Ascension of the Lord, wich prepare ourselves in a novena for the most holy feast of Pentecost, I would like to present a book shortly after our broadcasts on St. Joan of Arc. It was written by Robert Hugh Benson, an English Catholic priest in 1907, with the title “Lord of the World”. Read More

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Short review of St. Joan of Arc

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„France“ embraces Joan of Arc (Statue in front of the house of Joan in Domrémy)

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We have dedicated three programmes to St. Joan of Arc. Every day we pray in our community that we may better understand her mission and that her honor may be fully established.

Why do we pray in this way?

As already mentioned in the last broadcasts, Joan of Arc was often not properly understood. One could not imagine that God would intervene in the course of history in such a way and bring about such a change in a wartime event through a young girl. This continues to this day. Read More

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The Maid of Orleans

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Part 3: Passion and martyrdom

Joan of Arc burning at the stake in Rouen (Painting in the Basilica of Domrémy)

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For Joan, the hardest part of her mission now came. Now she was to bear the whole burden of the cross, to taste the suffering that no one who is fully at the service of his Lord is spared.

It would not have been enough for the English to simply take Joan captive and then execute her, knowing full well that the French people would have considered her a martyr. This could have even encouraged them in their efforts to continue the liberation of the country! Their aim was therefore to prove publicly that Joan was a heretic and a witch who had achieved her victories through an alliance with the devil. Read More

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The Maid of Orleans

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Part 2: Joan’s mission

Joan of Arc enters Orléans (Painting in the Basilica of Domrémy)

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Now begins the mission of Saint Joan of Arc at the head of the French troops.

Her very presence showed the soldiers and officers that God would intervene concretely in the situation of France. Thus, the population and the combatants regained their courage and bravery, and believed in the mission of the Maiden.

Her presence was so impressive that many people saw her as an angel of God. Read More

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The Maid of Orleans

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Part 1: The Call

Joan recognizes the king (Painting in the Basilica of Domrémy)

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Today, 16 May, we celebrate the centenary of the canonization of Saint Joan of Arc. For us, who prepare these daily meditations, this is a great feast, because we are very united to this saint in many ways. Therefore, we want to dedicate the meditations of the next three days to her. There will be a lot to tell, because Saint Joan, the Maid of Orleans, is the best documented person of the Middle Ages. Her mission is more than extraordinary! We also hope to glorify in this way God, our Father, who so gifted this saint, who, unfortunately, is often misunderstood. Furthermore, we are convinced that the mission of St. Joan of Arc is of great importance, especially in our difficult times. Read More