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Leader's School
Thur June 6, 7:00pm
St. Benedict's, BA
RE classroom #8

Ultreya-Tulsa
Fri June 7, 7:00pm
St. Mary's, Tulsa

Ultreya-BA
Fri June 21, 7:00pm
St. Benedict's, BA

Leader's School
Thur July 11, 7:00pm
St. Benedict's, BA
RE classroom #8

Ultreya-Tulsa
Fri July 5, 7:00pm
St. Mary's, Tulsa

Ultreya-BA
Fri July 19, 7:00pm
St. Benedict's, BA

Men's Weekend #31
Sept 26-29, 2002
St. John's, McAlester

Women's Weekend #31
Oct 10-13, 2002
St. John's, McAlester

SPIRITUALITY 101
SPIRITUAL REFLECTION- 122
Deacon Jim Breazile o.c.d.s.

A young Christian, full of life and vigor was suddenly at 17 years of age stricken by an extremely painful disease that nearly completely paralyzed him. He was hospitalized because he couldn't be taken care of at home.  In the hospital, after a few days, he ask for a small globe to be brought from his home.  He asked them to put it on the night stand within reach of his hand.  Although he was weak, he would each day pick up the globe and hold it.  They asked him what he was doing with the globe.  He said, "When the pain is particularly grievous, I pick out a country and place my hand on it, today, China, tomorrow Africa, on another day North America, and I offer my pain for them, so that they will come to know Jesus"

After some years the young man began to improve and his pain began to subside. The doctors told him he would soon go home.  The boy was saddened by the news and said, "I will no longer be able to offer my suffering that is needed for all the missions of the world."

By our unity within the Risen Body of Christ, we can provide all the suffering necessary for the redemption of souls of the world, and for the missions of the world.

DEVOTION - Growth in love- 3rd stage
DEVOTIONALS- MEDITATION-SACRAMENTALS-THE ROSARY-49
The Mysteries of the Rosary-7
THE SORROWFUL MYSTERIES: The Second Joyful Mystery

Jesus is Scourged at the Pillar: John 19:1 "Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged." In His suffering in the garden of Gethsemane Jesus took upon Himself all the sins of humanity from the beginning to the end of time.  On his way to death on the Cross, He redeemed those sins one, by one, by absorbing into His body and soul all the pain induced in the world by those sins. By submitting to the scourging, He begins to redeem the sins of the flesh. As the vicious scourge tore into his flesh, He united Himself with all sin in which the flesh was involved.  In His unity in suffering with all sins of the flesh He gave value to human suffering due to sickness.  His redemption reached into the inner depths of mankind and made the negative positive, made weakness strength and provided an avenue through which human sufferings of the flesh could enter into his redemptive suffering.

Paul reminds us of the effect of the solidarity that Jesus had with all who suffer in his letter to the Colossians 1:24. Paul writes, "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filing up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church,"

Whoever suffers in this union with Christ not only receives strength for suffering from him, but in some way completes what is lacking in His afflictions.  Does this mean that we can add to the redemption of the world that the sufferings of Christ brought about? No, the suffering of Jesus is sufficient, and can neither be added to nor diminished by anything that we do.  When He suffered, however, He left His personal suffering open to that solidarity that He has with us, so that we can unit our suffering with His. We can in this way confirm our union with Christ, begun in Baptism. In this way our suffering takes on the redemptive power of His suffering. Through uniting our suffering with His, He in turn joins His redemptive love to our love and allows us to share in the glory that His suffering brings to his Father.

God created each of us to be His glory in the world.  Each in our unique way have the potential to illuminate the world with His glorious light. In suffering, we are privileged to provide the world not only with illumination, but with the redemption of sin won by Jesus our Lord and Savior. We thank and praise our Father in heaven, who knows when we sit and when we stand for allowing us some share in the suffering of His Son. Through prayer He will increase our love, so that we may join in this union more fully. He will provide the grace to rejoice in our suffering, so that others may see our joy and give glory to Him Who lives and reigns with the Son and the Holy Spirit, for all eternity.

THE WHISTLE OF THE SCOURGE
Deacon Jim Breazile o.c.d.s.

Garden arrest
Loyalty pressed
Betraying kiss
Love amiss
Ear cleaved
Sword sheathed
Disciples fled
Promises dead
Passions stirred
When we heard
The whistle of the scourge

Sanhedrin trial
Peters denial
Priestly violence
Divine silence
Judas' despair
Satan's lair
Pilate's test
Innocence professed
Justice marred
Divinity scarred
Angels demurred
When we heard
The whistle of the scourge

NEW CATHOLIC CATECHISM
ARTICLE NO. 1117
As she has done for the canon of Sacred Scripture and for the doctrine of the faith, the Church, by the power of the Spirit who guides her "into all truth," has gradually recognized this treasure received from Christ and as the faithful steward of God's mysteries, has determined its "dispensation." (Jn, 16:13; Mk. 13:52, 1 Cor 4:1) Thus the Church has discerned over the centuries that among liturgical celebrations there are seven that are in the strict sense of the term, sacraments instituted by the Lord.

ARTICLE NO. 1118
The sacraments are "of the Church" in the double sense that they are "by her" and "for her." They are "by the Church" for she is the sacrament of Christ's actions at work in her through the mission of the Holy Spirit. They are "for the Church" in the sense that "the sacraments make the Church," (St. Augustine, De civ. Dei, 22, 17: PI.) since they manifest and communicate to men, above all in the Eucharist, the mystery of communion with God who is love, one in three persons.

THE CHURCH IS THE SACRAMENTS
Deacon Jim Breazile o.c.d.s.

Responding to the Spirits guide
In which perfect truth resides
The gift from Christ it recognized
And seven Sacraments it cognized

Because Spirits person is the Lord
Acting through its role as ward
Determined mysteries dispensation
And responded with simple affirmation

These mysteries Church does provide
And in herself they do reside
And effect the Church as sacrament
Through Spirits work of wonderment

What is the Church it has been asked
Through the Sacraments it is unmasked
For in the Sacraments the church is made
The Sacraments are its cavalcade

Ó2002 DR. JAMES E. BREAZILE, deacon 
JOHN PAUL EVANGELIST OCDS