Saint Victor Church http://www.saintvictor.org Welcome to Saint Victor Church, West Hollywood Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:32:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Spiritual Journey Of Growth: Monsignor Murphy February 19, 2012 http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/02/19/a-spiritual-journey-of-growth-monsignor-murphy-february-19-2012/ http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/02/19/a-spiritual-journey-of-growth-monsignor-murphy-february-19-2012/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:32:49 +0000 Admin http://www.saintvictor.org/?p=945 Monsignor Murphy: The Homily for Sunday February 19, 2012

A Spiritual Journey Of Growth.

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God Is There To Help Us In The Spiritual World.

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How Do You Know You’re Doing God’s Will?

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]]> http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/02/01/january-2012-coffee-house-the-promise-by-bud-hager/feed/ 0 Too Wonderful for Thought, Too Beautiful for Speech:Monsignor Murphy 1/29/12 http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/29/too-wonderful-for-thought-too-beautiful-for-speechmonsignor-murphy-12912/ http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/29/too-wonderful-for-thought-too-beautiful-for-speechmonsignor-murphy-12912/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:27:25 +0000 Admin http://www.saintvictor.org/?p=907 Monsignor Murphy: The Homily for Sunday January 29, 2012

Too Wonderful for Thought, Too Beautiful for Speech

]]> http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/29/too-wonderful-for-thought-too-beautiful-for-speechmonsignor-murphy-12912/feed/ 0 #17 – Commitment to Poverty http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/26/17-commitment-to-poverty/ http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/26/17-commitment-to-poverty/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:06:29 +0000 Admin http://www.saintvictor.org/?p=905 “Your faith may be built upon the power of God” – Saint Paul.  The same experience that we discover as we meditate is that the truth of Christ is not a philosophy but a spiritual path. Confidence comes from contact with that power on that path.

By opening our hearts to the power that dwells in us, we communicate that power.  The sign of progress in your meditation is found in the quality of your life; the depth of your love, the selflessness of your actions, and the depth of your perspective.  The deepening of your way of life makes you see life as a mystery rather than a problem.

The practice of meditation takes us into the depths and out of the superficial.  There is a harmony we come to know.  That harmony
becomes deeper and more resonant.  It is a source beyond ourselves.  We know that harmony is the unifying love of God.  The presence of God now seems more real to us.  The presence becomes a reality of consciousness of our being. We make a commitment to poverty.

Where we are, God is.  God is with us.  The natural evolution is that we think less about ourselves and more about God.  We are not the center of our lives.  He is. As we meditate we discover that the way into that deeper level is so simple and obvious.  We are then in harmony with the power of the love of Christ which is open to us.

Notes from John Main’s Christian Meditation Lectures
Presented by The World Community for Christian Meditation
www.wccm.org or www.wccm-usa.org

]]> http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/26/17-commitment-to-poverty/feed/ 0 #16 – New Path of Life http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/26/16-new-path-of-life/ http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/26/16-new-path-of-life/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:59:37 +0000 Admin http://www.saintvictor.org/?p=902 When we set our feet on a new path of life, we are able to do it because of Christ’s resurrection.  All are invited to share in his glory.  Jesus, after he has arisen, could only be seen with the eyes of faith.  His is mistaken as a gardener or workman, and then, is recognized by Mary Magdalene.

We can see Christ and all of life with this new dimension of faith.    We need the wisdom to penetrate beyond all appearances;  to be open to a new dimension beyond reality.  We are getting in tune with the basic structure of reality.  Everything we see is the reality of God.

Meditation is seen as a way of vision.  We open the eyes of our hearts and learn to see with love.  When we fall in love, we love someone deeply and see them in a new light. Falling in love takes us out of and beyond ourselves into the reality of the other.  Profound meditation follows the same pattern.  We abandon our isolated view of life and travel through the limitless ocean of God’s love.  When we open the eyes of our heart, we begin to see with a new vision startlingly and profoundly intoxicating.  We see knowledge.  We see the one who knows that he is.  We see one-ness; all divisions must be transcended.

We see love.  All is revealed in this love. Revelation takes place in the moment of God’s choosing.  It is a tragedy not to be ready for this moment of love.

Meditation is the commitment to setting out on this road of faith and leaving egoism behind. Meditation is the acknowledgement that God is God; God is One, God is love.  The discovery is the revelation that each one of us is summoned into that One-ness and into that love.

Notes from John Main’s Christian Meditation Lectures
Presented by The World Community for Christian Meditation
www.wccm.orgor www.wccm-usa.org

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]]> http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/19/what-is-catholic-underground/feed/ 0 #14 – Fulfillment Through Dispossession http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/19/14-fulfillment-through-dispossession/ http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/19/14-fulfillment-through-dispossession/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:21:34 +0000 Admin http://www.saintvictor.org/?p=886 “Maranatha” – Say this mantra from the beginning until the end of your meditation silently without interpretation and…” nothing happened”, you say to yourself.

The way toward fulfillment is not on the basis of success.  We are not seeking to acquire anything, but to let go of everything.   Most of what we’re letting go of, we’re better off without anyway.

Go beyond thought and imagination.  Being is what life is all about.  Learning to be the person you are without justifying or making excuses for your existence. You simply enjoy the gift of your own being. Begin in faith.  You can’t come to faith with demands.

The way to faith is the way of dispossession.  Let go of thoughts, ideas and just be.  Say your mantra and gradually unhook.   Sit upright, sit still, close your eyes, relax your face, and quiet your mind.  Listen to the Jesus:  “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”

During meditation, forget results for the first twenty years or so.  Keep up a daily fidelity to your meditation practice.  We find the strength and power by our encountering with the spirit that dwells in our hearts -the fullness of God Himself.

Notes from John Main’s Christian Meditation Lectures
Presented by The World Community for Christian Meditation
www.wccm.org or www.wccm-usa.org

]]> http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/19/14-fulfillment-through-dispossession/feed/ 0 #13 – The Myth of Eternal Youth http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/19/13-the-myth-of-eternal-youth/ http://www.saintvictor.org/2012/01/19/13-the-myth-of-eternal-youth/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:16:22 +0000 Admin http://www.saintvictor.org/?p=884 In our society, one great fear and source of sadness is the fear of aging and of declining.  The sadness arises because the aging process leads us to believe that the myth of eternal youth is an illusion. We feel a limited store of energy and a period of long decline.

The myth of eternal youth contains and expresses a profound truth of human condition – to discover the spring of eternal youth hidden deep in the forest.  This journey symbolizes an interior journey.  If we search for the eternal youth-spring in the externals only, we will suffer
mortal disappointment.  But if we face the discipline of the journey, we find the spring that Jesus speaks of; the spring that is there for all of us to drink deeply from, the spring of living waters.

If we follow this internal journey as we get older, we become more childlike and open.  We experience happiness and freedom along with the knowledge of experience.  Together, we have Christian maturity.

A child has this innocence naturally.  We lose this innocence when we feel we have been hurt and betrayed.  We become, not
wise, but cynical.  Instead of being reachable, we become hardened where we’ve been wounded.  We build up defenses around ourselves to
protect our vulnerability. At that point, we begin meditation.

We often have an urgent sense that we must find our way back to that innocence; to recover the innocence of Christ.

Follow the stream that flows from the spring on our journey.  All the refreshment and guidance we need are there.  Meditation is the stream in our hearts.  The mantra clears the way through the forest.  Stay on the journey.  Say the mantra.

Notes from John Main’s Christian Meditation Lectures
Presented by The World Community for Christian Meditation
www.wccm.org or www.wccm-usa.org

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