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Trinity Sunday. The Gospel. Matthew 28:18. Sunday Meditation Plaine Path-way to Heaven ~ THOMAS HILL 1634

TRINITY SUNDAY
THE GOSPEL
Matthew 28:18

Jesus said unto his disciples: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world.”

Sunday Meditation

The doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, being the main fundamental point of all the frame and building of the Catholic Faith (whereupon all other points are raised and built), was in the primitive Church impugned and called into question by heretics — every person of the Trinity, and almost every particular point pertaining to them. In response, the four first general Councils (next after those of the Apostles) were assembled. These consisted of all the most select and prime men of the clergy (for the laity had nothing to do therein, more than in the first Council of the Apostles at Jerusalem). In these Councils the matter was thoroughly sifted in all points, as men use to sift corn to make the purest bread possible. The opposites were confuted and condemned as heretics, the Catholic verity was declared, decreed, and promulgated. A form of belief was composed by St. Athanasius (surnamed the Great), called the Creed of Athanasius — though it is rather to be called the Creed of the general Council, which commanded him to compose it, approved it when composed, and afterwards ordained for perpetual memory these words:

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

These words (signifying equal glory) were to be said or sung in the public Office or Service of the Church after every Psalm of David, as we now see it used. A solemn holy day or festival was also instituted to the honour of all three Persons together in one God, called Trinity Sunday — which is this day. A Gospel was appointed by the Church to be said or sung at Mass, in which Christ, after his resurrection and immediately before his ascension into heaven, gave commission to his disciples to go and preach the Gospel unto all nations of the world, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost — that is, in the power and authority of those three Persons and one God, in equal terms. This main fundamental point was, by the good providence of God, so fully discussed and established by the four General Councils aforesaid, that never since has any heretic been able to lift up his head, nor so much as his finger, against it.

For this we may in some sort thank those heretics. For if their heresies had not been, the Church would never have so thoroughly discussed that point, nor armed herself so well against all impugners of it as she now is. This is the reason why St. Paul said: “There must come heresies, that they who are approved may be made manifest” — that good Catholics may be discerned from the bad, approved of God, and that the Church may be better armed and fortified against her enemies, and her doctrine more clearly declared. Thus a good effect comes from an ill cause.

Wherefore let us not be dismayed or scandalized at the heresies of these days and their long continuance. For the heresy of the Arians against the Blessed Trinity continued for three hundred years and prevailed so much that St. Jerome said the world groaned under it and wondered that it had become Arian — and yet it had an end. So let us hope that the heresies and errors of these times will also end, and that the Church will be left much more fortified and illustrated thereby.

Saturday, May 30, 2026

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

Saturday Meditation

Though we instruct, teach, prove with never so much art and eloquence, yet unless the Grace of the holy Ghost doth concur, it availeth little. Therefore Christ himself, of those things he had spoken to his disciples before, said thus here: “These things I spake unto you, being present with you. But the holy Spirit, the Comforter, whom my Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and suggest unto you whatsoever I have said unto you.”

Here one might ask this question: Have they need, O Christ, to be told by another those things which thou hast told them before, as though any could tell them more effectually than thyself? Yes. Whosoever speaketh to any good purpose, and speaketh never so eloquently or well, it is the grace of the holy Ghost that giveth life unto it. And therefore we ought to commend the matter to God by prayer, or elevation of our mind to God, more or less. And if we have not time to do more, yet to lift up our eyes at least towards heaven, as Christ for our example did many times in the Gospel, before he began to speak or to do. For as St. Paul saith, “Well may Paul plant and Apollo water, but it is God (the holy Ghost) that giveth the increase.”

Moreover, we may learn here not to arrogate to ourselves that virtue or praise that is due to another, but to give unto every one their due: that which is Caesar’s unto Caesar, and that which is God’s unto God. As Christ did here to the holy Ghost, acknowledging him to be the expected Comforter unto his disciples, and the leader of them into all truth; and himself together with his Father to be the sender of him.

God is more honoured in the service of many than of few, and in the virtues of many than of few, he being the author and giver (as St. James saith) of all good gifts. Wherefore to rob any man of his honour is to rob God of his.

We may likewise observe that the holy Ghost descended upon the disciples, being all assembled together in one room, to signify that the grace of the holy Ghost descendeth not upon us unless we be united together by faith and charity in one room — the holy Catholic Church, the house of God — as they were. For as a man’s spirit doth quicken only those members of the body that are united together, and none else, so doth the holy Ghost (which is the spirit of the Catholic Church, the mystical body of Christ) quicken no member that is not united unto it by the bond of faith and charity.

Before the holy Ghost came there was a great sound, as it were of a vehement blast of wind, to give them notice to prepare themselves. So we, before we address ourselves to prayer or any good exercise, must prepare our hearts and souls thereunto; and no preparation is better than sorrow for our sins and a firm purpose to abstain from sin, according to that saying of wise Solomon: “A just man, in the beginning of his prayer, is an accuser of himself” — that is to say, ought to be an accuser of himself. And in another place: “Before prayer prepare thy heart, that thou be not like one that tempteth God.”

Christ at his Ascension commanded his disciples to go to Jerusalem and sit there till the holy Ghost came down upon them. Christ said not “tarry there” but “sit there.” To sit signifieth quietness or tranquillity of mind, according whereunto Aristotle, the chief of philosophers, saith: “A man is made a philosopher by sitting and resting.” Not meaning bodily rest or sitting (for he himself taught walking, and therefore his disciples were called Peripatetics, that is to say, walkers). He meant not, I say, by the word “sitting,” rest and quietness of the body, but of the mind.

Wherefore, when Christ bid his disciples sit in Jerusalem, he meant they should be quiet in mind, as a necessary disposition to receive the grace and illumination of the holy Ghost. And so it is for us also, especially before prayer and contemplation. And as quietness and tranquillity of mind from all worldly cares and affairs is a singular preparation to receive the grace of the holy Ghost, so it is likewise an effect which the holy Ghost doth cause in us. In signification whereof it is said that at Pentecost the holy Ghost did sit upon every one of them — that is to say, did cause them to have peace and tranquillity of soul, from all inordinate love of the world and the cares and affairs thereof. Which, if we have, is an evident sign of the holy Ghost within us, and a preparation to ascend (as the Prophet David saith) from one virtue to another, until we come to see the God of Gods in Sion, that is, in heaven, upon whom we had the eyes of our souls fixed here on earth.

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

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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

SSPX The General House Announces the Names of the Future Bishops: Father Michael Goldade, of American nationality

Father Michael Goldade Originally from North Dakota and raised in St. Marys, Kansas, United States, Father Michael Goldade comes from a Catholic family of ten children, including three Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X. At the age of eighteen, he entered the seminary in Winona, where he was ordained priest in 2004. He exercised his ministry in Armada, Michigan, for five years before being called to direct the retreat house in Ridgefield. In 2014, he was appointed Prior in Kansas City, where he oversaw both the priory, a large parish, a school, and a community of religious sisters. Added to these responsibilities, in 2021, was the office of assistant to the District Superior. Appointed in the summer of 2023 as Rector of Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Virginia, he now oversees the formation of nearly one hundred seminarians. Aged 45, he speaks English, has studied French, and also possesses some knowledge of Spanish. Source

SSPX The General House Announces the Names of the Future Bishops: Father Pascal Schreiber, of Swiss nationality;

Father Pascal Schreiber At 53 years of age, Father Pascal Schreiber was born into a Catholic family of five children originating from the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. In 1992, he entered the Herz Jesu Seminary in Zaitzkofen, Germany, before continuing his studies at Écône, Switzerland, where he received priestly ordination in the summer of 1998. After five years of ministry in Germany and French-speaking Switzerland, he was entrusted in 2003 with the direction of a boys’ secondary school in Mels, in German-speaking Switzerland. Two years later, he assumed responsibility for the girls’ primary and secondary school in Wil, a ministry he exercised for nine years. Called in 2014 to Rickenbach, at the headquarters of the Swiss District, he first served there for two years as bursar before being appointed District Superior. Since August 15, 2020, he has been Rector of the Herz Jesu Seminary in Zaitzkofen, Germany, where he devotes himself to the formation of more than fifty future priests and brothers from sixteen countries. He speaks fluent German and French, and also speaks English. Source

Monday, May 25, 2026

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

Monday Meditation

The manner of the coming of the Holy Ghost was this. Upon the day of Pentecost, at nine o’clock in the morning (according to our account), the disciples being all together in a room—and as some think, and is most probable, in that great chamber where Christ had instituted and given them for their comfort his Body in the Blessed Sacrament—the Holy Ghost descended upon every one of them in particular, under the visible sign of tongues of fire. The tongues were bipartite, or cloven asunder, all but at the one end. It was done with a vehement wind, filling all the room with the din or noise thereof.

Whereupon the disciples were endued with those gifts which those visible signs signify: to wit, with the knowledge of speaking and understanding all tongues and languages of the world, and that very excellently well—being otherwise of themselves simple, illiterate, and unlearned men. This skill in all tongues and languages was signified by the tongues that descended upon them.In that the tongues were fiery was signified their fiery love of God, wherewith their hearts were inflamed. In that the tongues were cloven was signified their love not only to God, but also to their neighbour, for the love of God. In that these tongues came with a wind or breath was signified that the Holy Ghost inspired or breathed into their hearts the knowledge of all truth, which Christ promised he should suggest unto them. He therefore called the Spirit of verity, or truth; insomuch that Christ bid them not to be studious or solicitous what to say when they were questioned concerning their doctrine, for it should be given them in that very hour, to wit, by the inspiration and breathing of the Holy Ghost.

In that the wind was vehement was signified their vehement and admirable zeal and courage, wherewith they preached the Gospel with whatsoever danger and opposition, torments were joys to them, and death a banquet.With these gifts of the Holy Ghost the Apostles being armed and furnished, they went forth into all the world and planted the Gospel of Christ. They laid the first foundation of Catholic Religion. They are the Fathers of our Faith, without whom we had remained ignorant and out of the state of salvation, as Infidels and Pagans are.This benefit of the coming of the Holy Ghost upon the disciples, though it be past many hundred years in time, yet is it present to us in effect. Thankfulness for a benefit past oftentimes deserveth another at the hands of our bountiful God.

Let us therefore yield God most humble and hearty thanks for so great a benefit, and desire of him those gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost that the disciples had given unto them: to wit, knowledge of tongues—not to speak and understand all tongues and languages as they did (for that is not now necessary), but to order our tongues to speak aright to and of all other persons; also a fiery and ardent love of God and of our neighbour, for and in God; also a vehement zeal, and yet with discretion (for that is also a gift of the Holy Ghost), to the honour of God and the Saints in heaven, especially the Blessed and glorious Virgin Mary; also the knowledge of truth in matters of religion and service of God—not so as to expect to have it revealed or suggested into us in particular, nor to believe or presume any such matter of ourselves (for that is the ready way to error), but to be obedient unto the doctrine of the Catholic Church, united to her head, unto whom Christ promised the Holy Ghost to direct her into all truth; also all other gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost that are necessary for our salvation.

Of which gifts and graces there are many divisions, as St. Paul saith—yea, almost as many as there are men: one having them in one manner and in one degree, and another in another, and all from one Spirit, the Holy Ghost, dividing to every one as he will.

Sunday, May 24, 2026

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

Whitsunday.
The Gospel. John 14. v. 23.

Jesus said to his disciples: If a man loveth me, he will keep my speech, and my Father will come unto him, and we will make our mansion with him. He that loveth me not, doth not keep my speeches: and the speech which you have heard, is not mine, but my Father's that sent me. These things I speak unto you, being now with you. But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom my Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and suggest unto you all things whatsoever I have spoken unto you. Peace I leave unto you: my peace I give unto you. Not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your hearts be troubled, nor fear. You have heard that I have said unto you, I go and come unto you again. If you loved me, you would be glad that I go to my Father, because my Father is greater than I. And now I tell you of it before it come to pass, that when it cometh to pass you may believe. Now I shall not speak many things unto you, for the Prince of this world cometh, and in me he hath nothing. But that the world may know that I love my Father, and as my Father hath given commandment to me, so I do.

Sunday Meditation

Fifty days after the people of Israel were delivered out of their long captivity of Egypt (which was four hundred years), God gave unto them the law of the Ten Commandments in Mount Sinai. Of this benefit they kept a yearly solemn feast called Pentecost, a Greek word which signifieth "fifty days" — as much to say in English, as the Feast of the fiftieth day after their deliverance out of Egypt by their miraculous passing through the Red Sea dry-foot, their enemies pursuing them and being drowned therein.

Christ, fifty days after his Resurrection, having delivered us from the captivity of the devil through the Red Sea of his bloody death, sent the Holy Ghost upon his disciples in Jerusalem, to give them a new law (to wit, the law of the Gospel) and abundant grace to fulfil it, and to plant and propagate it in all the world.

And as the Church of the old law kept a yearly feast in remembrance of the benefit of receiving their law, which they called the feast of Pentecost: so the Church of the new law keepeth this Feast of Pentecost, in remembrance of their receiving the new Law and the grace of the Holy Ghost to preach and plant it throughout the world, and more plentiful grace to keep it than they in the old law had to keep theirs, being but a figure of ours.The coming down of the Holy Ghost from heaven upon the disciples of Christ (his blessed mother being with them) was thus:

Christ, foreseeing the heaviness and desolation of them for his departure (whereof he had told them before — although indeed they had more cause to rejoice because he ascended, as he told them, to his God and their God, his Father and their Father, to prepare mansions in heaven for them), yet they were so much delighted with the sweetness of his presence that it was almost death for them to leave it.

Christ, foreseeing this, I say, to comfort them, told them he would not leave them orphans, but send them another Comforter equal to himself, to wit, the Holy Ghost. Having thus put them in heart, he took them with him to Mount Olivet, a little distant from Jerusalem, and bid them, when he was ascended from them into heaven, to tarry together in Jerusalem in the great chamber where he had instituted the Blessed Sacrament. And after ten days he would perform his promise.

And so he did indeed upon the day of Pentecost, which is now our Whitsunday, in that ample manner that they were spiritually inebriated and drunken therewith. And so the Jews that were there present (which was a great multitude that came thither to see the strangeness thereof) thought and said as much, that St. Peter was fain to make an apology for them, saying they were not drunken as they took them to be, for it was then but the third hour of the day.

Here we may learn that God will not fail to comfort his servants in all their afflictions. Only this was a special favour of Christ to his disciples to appoint them a day; but we must expect our Lord’s time, which he always ordaineth for the best to them that love him.Likewise we must learn with the disciples to be content to leave God sometimes for God — as they did: God the Son for God the Holy Ghost. That is to say, we must leave prayer or any other spiritual exercise (though never so sweet and delightful unto us) to do the works of obedience or mercy when need is, or to omit one good work for another that is more necessary or expedient for the present.

Also we may see how much more sober men were in those days than in these: the people taking it for a sufficient reason to excuse the disciples from being drunk, because it was but the third hour of the day (that is to say, our nine o’clock in the morning), which now is no excuse at all.

Lastly, we may note the reason why, for the most part, they use to begin the solemn high Mass in Cathedral and Monastic Churches, and other places where they have solemn high Mass, at nine o’clock. Which is done in respect of the hour wherein the Holy Ghost descended upon the disciples at Pentecost and replenished them with grace, it being probable and pious to believe that hour is sanctified ever since, and fittest to serve for that use.