Fr Andrew

Pray-er, Painter, Anglican Priest • 1869-1946 • Curated by Akenside Institute • To purchase OUR LADY'S HYMN:

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A fish only lives the complete life of a fish if it is wholly in the sea. We shall only live the complete Christian life when we are wholly in God.

(In the Silence, Retreat 2, Ch. 5)

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Joy is a necessary weapon of the spiritual life...Part of the love of God and our neighbor must be the deliberate simplicity of a smiling soul.

(IN THE SILENCE, Retreat 1, Ch. 6 “Temptation”)

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(GOD’S ADVENTURE, Ch. 6 “The Adventure of Calvary: Prelude”)

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The Lord and Lover of our souls calls to us to make our spiritual adventure. If He appealed primarily to our intellect He could not be the God of the ignorant and unlearned as well as the God of the philosopher and scholar. If He is to be the God of the professor in his 》

[Fr Andrew @FrAndrewSDC]

the intellect as truth or doctrine. Acceptance of the love of God, self-yielding to the love of God, is religion; the explanation of it is theology. Religion—God’s attraction to the soul, the soul’s hunger for God—was before any creed, and it is always a looking for Jesus.

[Fr Andrew @FrAndrewSDC]

The Cross is a laying bear to us of the everlasting heart of the Father."

(Simeon's Song, iv)

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"The incarnation was not an episode in the life of God that had effect and came to an end, but a revelation of His eternal character. The Father and the Holy Ghost, like the Son, are the same today, yesterday and for ever. 》

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(Meditations For Every Day, “Thursday After Trinity XIX”)

[Fr Andrew @FrAndrewSDC]

The saint is not a person with a passionless obedience and no plan of his own: he is a person whose obedience is the passion of his own love’s choice, and who has made deliberately the plan of his own life after the pattern of his adored Master’s.

[Fr Matthew C. Dallman, Obl.S.B. @FrMCDallman]

The next Akenside Press title is coming soon!

SIMEON'S SONG
By Father Andrew

It is the devotion complement to OUR LADY'S HYMN, which can be purchased here:
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but the loyal cooperation of mind and will in the glorious adventure of following the highest behest of God, the King and Saviour of the world."

(Simeon's Song, IV)

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"The thought of Mary pondering, this wonderful woman who has changed the whole status of womanhood, gives us a vision of the living reality of vocation, which is not a slavish obedience to a command》

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"Simeon holding the infant Saviour in his arms is a type of humanity with confidence restored. God has come to humanity in human nature, so human nature has a new confidence in God and in itself."

(Simeon's Song, III)

[Fr Andrew @FrAndrewSDC]

God does not ask us to have a lot to give, but He does ask us to give all that we have. If any one of us today could wholly give himself or herself to God, today a Saint would be born into the Catholic Church."

(Into the Silence, p. 90)

[Fr Andrew @FrAndrewSDC]

"A Saint is just somebody who wholly gives himself or herself to God. There is nothing more simple than to be a Saint, and there is nothing more difficult, but the secret is a very simple one. It is the complete and absolute and utter gift of the whole self.》

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"Prayer gets hold of one's life in a real way, and makes the very breath of the lungs and the beat of the heart activities exercised for the love of God."

(In the Silence, I.iii)

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"Evensong brings the assurance that there is no such thing as a last farewell for those who love in Christ. They can depart in peace, because they know full well that they will find one another again in God."

(Simeon's Song, Meditation 1)

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(MEDITATIONS FOR EVERY DAY, The Annunciation of the BVM)

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“The soul of every Christian is the handmade of the Lord and has its annunciation. God stands on ceremony with all of us, and asks if we will do His will, and we can say, ‘yes,’ or, ‘no,’ just as Mary could.

[Fr Andrew @FrAndrewSDC]

and keep long silences, thinking of these deep, tender things. As Mary had her share and His pain, and at no light cost won her crown, so each Christian soul has its particular share in the travail of the Passion of Christ.”