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Quote of the day, 7 May: Pope Pius VI
As revolutionary forces targeted France’s monasteries, Pope Pius VI turned to faithful bishops with a plea: defend the nuns. Among them were the Discalced Carmelites of Compiègne, who would one day offer their lives rather than renounce their vows. And in their hour of trial, the voice of Peter answered their faith with fatherly courage.
To what we have already said regarding the vows of religious, we must now add the inhuman decree pronounced against the consecrated virgins—that they be removed from their cloisters, as Luther did, who (to use the words of Adrian VI) “did not fear to profane those vessels consecrated to God, to drag out of their monasteries the virgins dedicated to Jesus Christ who had professed the monastic life, and to return them to the world—or rather, to the devil, whom they had previously renounced.”
And yet the nuns—who are in fact the most illustrious part of Christ’s flock—have often, by their prayers, averted immense calamities from cities. Saint Gregory the Great recalls that this happened in his time in Rome: “If there were no consecrated virgins among us, not one of us would have survived for so many years in this place amidst the swords of the Lombards.” And Pius VI, speaking of his own nuns in Bologna, testifies that “this city, long oppressed by many misfortunes, could not have endured had divine wrath not been in some measure appeased by the continual and fervent prayers of our religious women.”
Meanwhile, the nuns of France—now in the deepest desolation—move our hearts with the tenderest compassion. Many of them, from across the provinces, have written to us of their anguish: they are being prevented from persevering in their institutes and from observing their solemn vows. Yet they have also declared to us their firm and unwavering resolve: they are determined to endure every hardship rather than abandon their vocation.
Therefore, beloved sons and venerable brothers, we cannot help but commend to you, in the fullest manner, their steadfastness and courage. We earnestly entreat you to encourage them with your exhortations, and to offer them—so far as lies within your power—every possible assistance.
Pope Pius VI
Quod Aliquantum, 10 March 1791
Pius VI 1791, Breve Quod Aliquantum, Rome, 10 March. Addressed to Dominique Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld, Archbishop of Rouen, and to Archbishop Jean-de-Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé of Aix, along with other bishops who had signed the Exposition on the Principles of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Italian text available at vatican.va.
Translation from the Italian text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: This detail from a stained glass window depicting the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne was designed by stained glass artist Sister Margaret of the Mother of God, O.C.D. (Margaret Rope). It is one of her most famous windows in the chapel of the Carmel of Quidenham, England. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites
⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
What does it mean for me to stand with those who remain faithful at great personal cost?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.
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Marie du jour, 6 May: St. Edith Stein
Divine virginity has a characteristic aversion to sin as the contrary of divine holiness. However, this aversion to sin gives rise to an indomitable love for sinners.
Christ has come to tear sinners away from sin and to restore the divine image in defiled souls. He comes as the child of sin—his genealogy and the entire history of the Old Covenant show this—and he seeks the company of sinners so as to take all the sins of the world upon himself and carry them away to the infamous wood of the cross, which thereby precisely becomes the sign of his victory.
This is precisely why virginal souls do not repulse sinners. The strength of their supernatural purity knows no fear of being sullied. The love of Christ impels them to descend into the darkest night.
And no earthly maternal joy resembles the bliss of a soul permitted to enkindle the light of grace in the night of sins. The way to this is the cross. Beneath the cross, the Virgin of virgins becomes the Mother of Grace.
Saint Edith Stein
Exaltation of the Cross, 14 September 1941
Stein, E. 2014, The Hidden Life: hagiographic essays, meditations, spiritual texts, translated from the German by Stein, W, ICS Publications, Washington DC.
Featured image: The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor (detail), Joos van Cleve and a collaborator, oil on wood, ca. 1520. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How does Mary’s strength beneath the cross shape my view of purity, suffering, and love?
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Vows for the new year, including:
"4 Bodhisattva Vows
Creations are numberless, I vow to free them.
Delusions are inexhaustible, I vow to transform them.
Reality is boundless, I vow to perceive it.
The Awakened Way is unsurpassable, I vow to embody it."
Upaya Zen Center: Vows for the Coming Year
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Did you know that pyrography means fire writing?
Most of the time I burn illustrations but occasionally I do burn long script, it’s always really tricky and takes a long time because you have to burn slowly. This was a private commission from last year. Wedding vows on A3 board. #art #pyrography #craft #wedding #vows #pyro #burn #woodworking #woodburning #burn
Somewhere.... ' silence ' was never an option.... In Trump Vows*.
* Not priest related, but maybe(?)
A quotation from Catullus:
«
My mistress says she’d wed with me
If Jove himself had sought her;
She says — but write what woman says
In winds and running water.
[Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle
quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat.
Dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti
in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/catullus/72864/
Bernanos was totally wrong in regard to Christianity and the French Revolution. There had never been a “good” Revolution in 1789 which, Bernanos maintained, had turned “bad” only in 1793.
The destruction of Christianity was blatantly present from the very beginning, as is incontrovertibly proven by the simple fact that on October 29, 1789, no more than three and a half months after the fall of the Bastille, the taking of all religious vows was forbidden in France.
Sister Constance in the monastery at Compiègne, for example, could never make her profession as a Carmelite before going to the guillotine five years later. Further proof existed in the fact that just four days after this October 29 decree, on November 2, the totality of church property throughout all of France was confiscated and declared property of the state, completely stripping religious communities of their means of income.
Thus, from its very beginning, the total eradication of religious orders in France was a clearly stated purpose of the Revolution, as was also the humiliation of the once proud Church of France, brought to her knees before her sanguinary enemies by the decree of November 2, 1789. Her confiscated goods would finance the Revolution for ten years.
Professor William Bush
Author’s Foreword
What was this fatal decree?
Sr. Marie of the Incarnation, the sole surviving Carmelite of Compiègne and the first biographer of the martyrs, tells us that Blessed Constance entered the Carmel of Compiègne on May 29, 1788, and was clothed in the habit of Carmel on December 13 of that year. Canonically, she was set to profess her perpetual vows in December 1789. Professor Bush notes that Blessed Teresa of St. Augustine intended to allow Sr. Constance to make her vows on the anniversary date.
A Turning Point for France
On Tuesday, July 14, 1789, revolutionary insurgents stormed the Bastille, a royal fortress in Paris. Their successful siege and capture of the commander marked a decisive shift in Paris, turning popular sentiment toward the revolution and away from King Louis XVI’s weakening administration. Soon, the revolutionary spirit spread across France.
New Cause, New Laws
Meanwhile, in the Constituent Assembly—a governing body formed in June 1789—deputies, emboldened by these events, moved to create new laws aligned with the revolutionary cause. Today, thanks to the collaboration between the French National Library and Stanford University, we can read the daily acts of the Constituent Assembly and discover exactly how the fatal decree of October 28-29, 1789, came into being. Below, we present our translation of the daily proceedings (in italics) from the Assembly’s Wednesday session on October 28, along with a brief commentary for clarity.
Mr. Rousselet
On behalf of the reporting committee, Mr. Rousselet presents letters from two monks and a nun, requesting the Assembly to clarify its stance on the profession of vows. He suggests prohibiting perpetual monastic vows.
Michel-Louis Rousselet was a deputy from the bailiwick of Provins (Seine-et-Marne), located southeast of Paris. Although he served in the Assembly for only two years—from March 30, 1789, to September 30, 1791—those years proved pivotal for Catholics in France. His report, which called for the suspension of religious vows in monasteries, received the support of Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target, a deputy from the bailiwick of Paris-Outside-the-Walls.
Guy-Jean-Baptiste TargetHere, we continue to translate the proceedings from that fateful day in the Assembly…
Mr. Target
Mr. Target requests a postponement on the core issue and proposes the following decree:
“Upon reading the report…the Assembly postpones the question of professing vows but provisionally decrees that the profession of vows will be suspended in monasteries of both men and women.”
Several clergy [who were deputies] argue that this provisional suspension effectively decides the question and invoke the regulation requiring three days of discussion for major issues.
The decree proposed by Mr. Target is adopted.
[Following this, the Assembly session addresses unrelated matters.]
French Revolution Digital ArchiveNATIONAL ASSEMBLY
PRESIDED OVER BY MR. CAMUS
SESSION OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1789
After the secretary reads the minutes,
Mr. de Bonnal
Takes the podium to make what he calls “a few protests” against the decree from the previous day. He asserts that the clergy should have raised objections, and requests that his own be recorded under the title of “observations.”
Mr. Target
Mr. Target notes that traditionally, the minutes do not include individual protests made against the Assembly’s decrees.
This brief dispute concludes with a ruling on the previous question.
The President
The President then calls for the day’s agenda.
Bush, W. 1999, To quell the terror: the mystery of the vocation of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne guillotined July 17, 1794, ICS Publications, Washington, D.C.
de l’Incarnation, M 1836, Histoire des religieuses carmelites de Compiègne conduites a l’échafaud le 17 juillet 1794: Ouvrage posthume de la soeur Marie de l’Incarnation, T. Malvin, Sens. Accessed 16 July 2021, babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c041438717&view=1up&seq=117
Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.
Featured image: This detail from a stained glass window depicting the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne was designed by stained glass artist Sister Margaret of the Mother of God, O.C.D. (Margaret Rope). It is one of her most famous windows in the chapel of the Carmel of Quidenham, England. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites
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