Amigo de Frodo
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Daniel E. Flores, Obispo católico, Brownsville, Texas https://amigodefrodo.wordpress.com/home/
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St Jerome was careful about which Latin word for love was most appropriate given the context of the Gk or Hebrew. The Canticle of Canticles is one of the few places in the OT where he chooses “caritas”.
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Stern as death is love,
relentless as the nether world is devotion;
its flames are a blazing fire.
Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.
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El amor es fuerte como la muerte, es cruel la pasión como el abismo; es centella de fuego, llamarada divina: las aguas torrenciales no podrían apagar el amor, ni anegarlo los ríos.
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Cant 8:6-7
Fortis est ut mors diléctio, dura sicut inférnus æmulátio; lámpades eius lámpades ignis atque flammæ divínæ. Aquæ multæ non potuérunt exstínguere caritátem, nec flúmina óbruent illam.
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Quite the sentence:
“Gregory of Nyssa’s apophaticism is a semantic apophaticism, but not a syntactic apophaticism, because it is the relational dimension that becomes the path to the knowledge of truth, at the created level and in the relationship with the Creator.”
-G Maspero
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XXVIII Sunday (Luke 17, 11-19)
-On gratitude as an action,
“grace for grace”,
and inherently festive.
-Sobre la gratitud como una acción,
“gracia por gracia”,
y de carácter inherentemente festivo.
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Bishop Daniel E. Flores Twenty eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Homily
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Ps 66,16
Veníte, audíte,
et narrábo, omnes, qui timétis Deum,
quanta fecit ánimæ meæ.

Los que teméis a Dios, venid a escuchar,
os contaré lo que ha hecho conmigo:

Come and hear, all who fear God.
I will tell what he did for my soul:
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Wisdom 9,4
da mihi sédium tuárum assistrícem sapiéntiam
et noli me reprobáre a púeris tuis,

Dame la sabiduría asistente de tu trono
y no me excluyas del número de tus siervos,

grant me wisdom, the consort of your throne,
and reject me not from your children.
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A brief reflection I gave to the assembled on the topic. Mostly in Spanish, intermittent English.
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Caminata a favor de la vida hoy en Brownsville. Siempre caminamos con la Virgen.
This is the time to pray for and cultivate a resurrection of conscience in our communities, by helping expectant mothers who feel scared and alone, by feeding the hungry, by caring for our elderly,…
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Los caminos de los santos cambian el contorno de la tierra.
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Ps 22,15
Factum est cor meum tamquam cera
liquéscens in médio ventris mei.

mi corazón, como cera,
se derrite en mis entrañas;

My heart has become like wax,
it is melted within my breast.
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Sorrows passing number,
Sweat and care and cumber,
Yea and death, and this for me,
And thou couldst see me sinning:
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For me in tortures thou resignd'st thy breath,
Embrac'd me on the cross, and sav'd me by thy death.

GM Hopkins:
Thou, thou, my Jesus, after me
Didst reach thine arms out dying,
For my sake sufferedst nails, and lance,
Mocked and marred countenance,
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Alexander Pope:
For me, and such as me, thou deign'st to bear
An ignominious cross, the nails, the spear:
A thorny crown transpierc'd thy sacred brow,
While bloody sweats from ev'ry member flow.
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St. Francis Xavier’s “O Deus Ego Amo Te”
Verses 2-3:

Tu, tu, mi Jesu, totum me
Amplexus es in cruce;
Tuliste clavos, lanceam,
Multamque ignominiam,
Innumeros dolores,
Sudores, et angores,
Et mortem, et hæc propter me,
Ac pro me peccatore.

Alex. Pope, GM Hopkins translate:
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Lc 11,23

El que no está conmigo, está contra mí; y el que no recoge conmigo, desparrama.

Whoever is not with me is against me,
and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

Qui non est mecum, advérsum me est; et, qui non cólligit mecum, dispérgit.
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The only way forward for the Church is to strive to be where Christ is, and he is with the poor, for whom the Passion of Christ, the scourging, the rejection, the intimidation and cruelty are lived daily in the flesh.
We have to ask to see him, and that is a matter of the heart.
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Te tienta el espíritu de soberbia, pero al ver a los pobres y desamparados con mente tierna, eres compasivo; amaste la humildad más que la arrogancia: eres testigo de Cristo. Y lo que es más, tu testimonio no fue dado solo de palabras, sino también de obras.
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You are tempted by the spirit of pride, but seeing the poor and destitute with tender mind, you are compassionate; you loved humility more than arrogance: you are a witness to Christ. What is more, your witness was not given in words only, but was rendered also in deeds.
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St Ambrose today (Office for S Denis)

Tentátus es spíritu supérbiæ, sed videns ínopem atque egénum pia mente compássus es, humilitátem magis quam arrogántiam dilexísti: testis es Christi. Quod est ámplius, non sermónis tantúmmodo, sed étiam óperis testi mónium præbuísti.
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Certainly worth a look. He has also written other things on the Cappadocians.
The reference, by the way, is to Nanzianzus. I looked for it in my copy of the Orations :)