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Whitsunday. The Gospel. John 14. v. 23. Tuesday Meditation Plaine Path-way to Heaven ~ THOMAS HILL 1634

 

Tuesday Meditation

His feast being the Feast of the Holy Ghost, and the proper office and effect of the Holy Ghost being to give grace, it may be called the Feast of Grace. Therefore this Meditation shall be of the grace and gifts of the Holy Ghost.First: what thing grace is. Secondly: in what manner it is given, on the part of the Holy Ghost, the giver thereof. Thirdly: upon what preparation or disposition on our part, who are the receivers.Of the two first in this Meditation, of the third in the next.

For the first: Grace is a quality or habit inherent in our souls, given us by the Holy Ghost, moving and inciting us to all goodness and diverting us from all badness. This is done for the love of God and a desire to enjoy Him, He being infinite Good and the supreme ultimate end whereunto we are created and ordained.

This, if it be not a perfect definition of grace, yet it may pass for a description thereof. And because the motive for which we are moved to good and diverted from bad is the love of God, grace may be called the love of God towards us, as well as our love towards Him.

For there is this difference between our love and the love of God: we love things because they are already good and pleasing unto us, but God, in loving us, makes us good and consequently makes us love Him again. For “we love not God first, but He loved us first” (cf. 1 John 4:10), and in loving us, makes us to love Him again.

This grace or love of God towards us is the life of our soul. For even as our body is dead when the soul is departed out of it (which gave it life and motion), so is our soul dead when it is bereaved of grace. For grace, being that which moves and inclines us to goodness and diverts us from badness, and sin (moving and inclining us to depravity and badness, and diverting us from goodness) being quite contrary — and the nature of contraries being one to expel the other — sin expels grace.

By reason whereof, such sins as are of the greater sort (and not such as for the littleness thereof we call venial) we call mortal or deadly, because they expel grace and are the spiritual death of the soul. And as a body without a soul, being dead, will soon putrefy and stink so that no man can almost endure it, so does a soul, being dead by mortal sin, putrefy and stink before Almighty God and His Angels and Saints — especially our good Angel that is always attending upon us.

Of this putrefaction and stink the Prophet David, speaking not only in his own person but in the person of every sinner, says thus (Psalm 38:5): “My wounds [to wit, of sin] have putrefied and are corrupted, and stink through my folly.” And this not only before God and His Angels and Saints in heaven, but even to good people here on earth.

For if, according to St. Paul, the good by their good example are a good odour of Christ, then sinners by their ill example are an ill odour. Which is so true that some holy people here on earth, knowing by revelation from God the secret enormous sins of some in whose presence they have been, have withal sensibly smelt a horrible and noisome stink, which they were hardly able to endure.

Thus much concerning Grace, the life of our soul.Now, in what manner it is given.

SSPX The General House Announces the Names of the Future Bishops: Father Marc Hanappier, of French nationality.

Father Marc Hanappier Father Marc Hanappier, a French national, was born in 1990 into a Catholic family of ten children blessed with several vocations: one of his brothers is a priest of the Society, another is a priest among the Capuchins of Morgon, and one of his sisters is a Dominican teaching sister of Saint-Pré. Formed at the seminaries of Flavigny and Écône, he received priestly ordination in 2013. He began his ministry in France in education, first at the Étoile du Matin School near Bitche, and later at Saint Michael’s School near Châteauroux. In 2020, having been appointed professor at the seminary in Dillwyn, Virginia, he first spent a year in Scotland perfecting his command of English while also assisting in parish ministry. At the seminary, he principally teaches metaphysics and dogmatic theology, while also exercising pastoral ministry on Sundays in several chapels. He speaks fluent French and English, has studied German, and has also acquired a knowledge of Spanish. Source

SSPX The General House Announces the Names of the Future Bishops:Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, of French nationality

Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry A French national and born into a Catholic family of seven children, Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry is 42 years old. He completed his priestly formation at the Seminary of Flavigny in France and then at Écône, where he received priestly ordination in 2008. Beginning his ministry at Saint Joseph des Carmes School in southern France, he was entrusted in 2011 with the direction of Saint Louis Primary School in Paris. He fulfilled this office for five years while also serving a chapel in Seine-Saint-Denis and participating in the apostolate of Saint Nicolas du Chardonnet Church in Paris. He subsequently directed the Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle secondary school in Camblain-l’Abbé, near Arras, for six years before being appointed Superior of the Benelux District in 2022, a position he still holds today. Besides French, he also speaks English and continues the study of German and Dutch. Source