The liturgical music was composed by Pedro Alfaro, Carlos Criado and Iñigo Guerrero.
Enjoy these spiritual moments.
Non nobis, Domine (Patrick Doyle)
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Communion chant: Iesu
WYD Hymn Madrid-2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
JMJ 2011 Mass - Madrid (Videos)
Here you have some links to the videos corresponding to the music that was performed during the opening and closing WYD masses.
The liturgical music was composed by Pedro Alfaro, Carlos Criado and Iñigo Guerrero.
Enjoy these spiritual moments.
The liturgical music was composed by Pedro Alfaro, Carlos Criado and Iñigo Guerrero.
Enjoy these spiritual moments.
The picture of the soul
A few days ago I was watching the old version of the film "The picture of Dorian Grey".
Many of you could think that this has little or nothing to do with faith or religion, but it takes me to a curious reflexion that I would like to share with you all.
The main character of the picture Dorian Grey sold his soul to the devil so he could always be so handsome and young as he appeared in the protrait that a famous painter had made of him. As time went by it was his portrait the one who got older, it showed the signs of old age, but at the same time it also showed the signs of moral degradation, because in the "sale" Dorian´s soul was transferred to the picture.
This turned so disgusting due to his disolute and immoral way of life that he could hardly stood the vision of it.
He even tried to change his life to see if this had any effect on the protrait, but he got nothing because he didn´t want to do what was neccesary to do.
As I was watching the film I wondered, what if everyone of us could have a portrait of our souls where we could see the degradation produced in it by our sins? What if we can phisically see the effects of sins in our soul?
I think that many of us would want to change our lives, we wanted to be better. Make things different so our soul was as pure and clean as it was the day of our baptism, when we were cleaned of the original sin.
Most of us don´t like to see the ugliness that lies within us, that that only God can see.
But we have the best instrument that anyboudy could wish to fullfil this mission: the sacrament of confession.
Let´s go to it, ask sincerely for pardon to God, so He can see us pure and impeccable, to His own Image as He created us.
Links suggested:
Doing things together
What does love look like?
Many of you could think that this has little or nothing to do with faith or religion, but it takes me to a curious reflexion that I would like to share with you all.
The main character of the picture Dorian Grey sold his soul to the devil so he could always be so handsome and young as he appeared in the protrait that a famous painter had made of him. As time went by it was his portrait the one who got older, it showed the signs of old age, but at the same time it also showed the signs of moral degradation, because in the "sale" Dorian´s soul was transferred to the picture.
This turned so disgusting due to his disolute and immoral way of life that he could hardly stood the vision of it.
He even tried to change his life to see if this had any effect on the protrait, but he got nothing because he didn´t want to do what was neccesary to do.
As I was watching the film I wondered, what if everyone of us could have a portrait of our souls where we could see the degradation produced in it by our sins? What if we can phisically see the effects of sins in our soul?
I think that many of us would want to change our lives, we wanted to be better. Make things different so our soul was as pure and clean as it was the day of our baptism, when we were cleaned of the original sin.
Most of us don´t like to see the ugliness that lies within us, that that only God can see.
But we have the best instrument that anyboudy could wish to fullfil this mission: the sacrament of confession.
Let´s go to it, ask sincerely for pardon to God, so He can see us pure and impeccable, to His own Image as He created us.
Links suggested:
Doing things together
What does love look like?
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Only love wins
Only love wins, only!
In our life we can win, but if it hasn´t been with love, for love and living and resting in God´s love, we haven´t really won.We have been defeated by Evil.
And although it seems that we have been defeated, although it seems that we are finished, that we have been left stranded, if there is love in our life, we have certainly won. Christ has won in us.
How true these words are! They belong to a young spanish priest, called Pablo Domínguez. He died only a couple of days after addressing them to a group of cloistered nuns in Tulebras, Spain.
Only with and in God´s love we can get through the difficulties we find in our lives, especially in these troublesome times.
Reading these beautiful words I have remembered others by Saint Paul in a letter to the Corinthians:
Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
Just stay calm and be strong in faith and in love, because if God is in our side, who can be against us?
Links suggested:
A message to the modern world (B. John Paul II)
JMJ 2011 Mass - Musical videos
In our life we can win, but if it hasn´t been with love, for love and living and resting in God´s love, we haven´t really won.We have been defeated by Evil.
And although it seems that we have been defeated, although it seems that we are finished, that we have been left stranded, if there is love in our life, we have certainly won. Christ has won in us.
Pablo Domínguez
How true these words are! They belong to a young spanish priest, called Pablo Domínguez. He died only a couple of days after addressing them to a group of cloistered nuns in Tulebras, Spain.
Only with and in God´s love we can get through the difficulties we find in our lives, especially in these troublesome times.
Reading these beautiful words I have remembered others by Saint Paul in a letter to the Corinthians:
Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
(2 Corinthians 4,16:18)
Just stay calm and be strong in faith and in love, because if God is in our side, who can be against us?
Links suggested:
A message to the modern world (B. John Paul II)
JMJ 2011 Mass - Musical videos
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Stand firm in faith
In these days of the celebration of the WYD, now with His Holiness the Pope Benedict XVI among us, I would like to make a reflection about its deep meaning.
We, christians, are living hard times, we are bullied, insulted and persecuted in many places of the world, just to follow That who is the way, the truth and the life.
That is why it´s so important and hopeful to see so many young people who aren´t afraid of being catholics, of declaring their faith, who carry inside of them the real happiness, that of God´s children. They are our future and our hope, they show us that a better world is possible, that there are still people who work to bring the Kingdom of God to our poor Earth.
Saint Paul told us in his letter to the Ephesians how we must behave in these times:
Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.
Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil.
For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.
Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.
So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.
In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.
Links suggested:
The pencil of God
Christian life according to a saint
Ninety nine balloons
We, christians, are living hard times, we are bullied, insulted and persecuted in many places of the world, just to follow That who is the way, the truth and the life.
That is why it´s so important and hopeful to see so many young people who aren´t afraid of being catholics, of declaring their faith, who carry inside of them the real happiness, that of God´s children. They are our future and our hope, they show us that a better world is possible, that there are still people who work to bring the Kingdom of God to our poor Earth.
Saint Paul told us in his letter to the Ephesians how we must behave in these times:
Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power.
Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil.
For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.
Therefore, put on the armor of God, that you may be able to resist on the evil day and, having done everything, to hold your ground.
So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate, and your feet shod in readiness for the gospel of peace.
In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. With all prayer and supplication, pray at every opportunity in the Spirit. To that end, be watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.
Ephesians 6, 10-18
Links suggested:
The pencil of God
Christian life according to a saint
Ninety nine balloons
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Doing things together.
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Just try to do little things with great love and work for a better world for those we love.
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Monday, August 8, 2011
Arrows in the quiver (V): Christ and the Cross
Lord, I have search for you in the easier way of life, when I am happy, when I am rested, when I am not cold nor hot.
I have even dared to ask for a cross (as if anyone of us doesn´t have one yet, those true crosses which are unbereably heavy). But I want a beautiful cross, those which give us a nice, even presumptuous experience.
But you have given me a really heavy cross, that that makes me suffer in the most absolute loneliness, that, which makes me feel so thirsty that no water can quench me, that, which makes me think that I am completely misunderstood, and makes me hate life.
But then I feel relief when I realized that You are with me, that it is You who carry my cross, and only then I learn another lesson in my life.
Saint John of the Cross
I have even dared to ask for a cross (as if anyone of us doesn´t have one yet, those true crosses which are unbereably heavy). But I want a beautiful cross, those which give us a nice, even presumptuous experience.
But you have given me a really heavy cross, that that makes me suffer in the most absolute loneliness, that, which makes me feel so thirsty that no water can quench me, that, which makes me think that I am completely misunderstood, and makes me hate life.
But then I feel relief when I realized that You are with me, that it is You who carry my cross, and only then I learn another lesson in my life.
Don´t look for Christ without the cross
Saint John of the Cross
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Sunday Snippets - A Catholic Carnival
- Arrows in the quiver: Brief reflexions on every day faith. This week we talk about how to worship Christ in the Tabernacle.
- Biblical quotes that every catholic should read: about Jeremiah.
- Thoughts, Blessed John Paul II: the eyes of God.
- Prayers: The instrument of peace, by Saint Francis.
- Quotes, Blessed Theresa of Calcutta: The greatest wealth.
Related links:
Catholic Principles
Principios Católicos
Arrows in the quiver (IV) ... To the end of the world.
Jesus is in the closest tabernacle to your home, to your work, to the place where you are now.
He, as a loyal friend, doesn´t leave us, whatever the time is or whatever we are doing.
Let your will turns into a worshipper of his close tabernacle, although your body isn´t there, although the church is closed.
How beautiful it would be if a whole neighbourhood, a family, a home, unite their wills to pray to Jesus in the tabernacle from their homes, when they get up, when they go to bed or beginning their daily tasks.
Related links:
Ask and you will receive
The reward
The pencil of God
He, as a loyal friend, doesn´t leave us, whatever the time is or whatever we are doing.
Let your will turns into a worshipper of his close tabernacle, although your body isn´t there, although the church is closed.
How beautiful it would be if a whole neighbourhood, a family, a home, unite their wills to pray to Jesus in the tabernacle from their homes, when they get up, when they go to bed or beginning their daily tasks.
Guardian Angel , now that I can´t be next to Him, fly there to adore Him
Related links:
Ask and you will receive
The reward
The pencil of God
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Thoughts: Blessed John Paul II the Great
There is a message that we must proclaim to the modern world, especially to those who are less fortunate, the homeless, the poor, the sick, the rejected, those who suffer in the hands of others.
To all of them we must say: Turn your eyes to Christ to see what you really are to the eyes of God.
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