‘Canto fermo’ is the term for an existing melody used as the basis for a new composition. The prose and poetry of mystics like John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Edith Stein – all informed by the Gospel – is my ‘melody’. The ‘new composition’ is this blog and my indie novel ‘The Age for Love’. To buy my book go to amazon.com or smashwords.com and download to your kindle, iPad, phone or any reading device.
Sunday, 3 January 2016
CALL UPON HIS HOLY NAME WITH TRUST
The Father never rejects anyone who prays to him in the name of his Son. It is not the name itself that is of special value, but what it stands for; the name of Jesus is all-powerful because it designates the mystery, the power and the mission of the Son of God who became man precisely to be the Saviour of the world.
To call upon his holy name with trust is to appeal to his incarnation, his passion and death, his resurrection; such a call is always heard because it rises up to God supported by the infinite merits of Jesus the Saviour.
- Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen, OCD (as previously).
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