be'el-zebub

For I tell you truly... 

evils and dangers innumerable lie in wait for the Sons of Men. 

Beelzebub, 'Lord of the Flies'

Beelzebub... 

the prince of all devils, the source of every evil... 

lies in wait in the body of all the Sons of Men. 

He is Death, the Lord of every Plague... 

and taking upon him a pleasing raiment [gewaad], he tempts and entices [weglokken] the Sons of Men. 

Riches does he promise, and power, and splendid palaces, and garments of gold and silver, and a multitude of servants, all these. He promises renown [bekendheid,roem] and glory, fornication [ontucht,overspel] and lustfulness, gluttony and wine-bibbing, riotous [losbandig] living, and slothfulness [luiheid] and idle days. And he entices every one, by that to which their heart is most inclined. 

And in the day that the Sons of Men have already become the slaves of all these vanities and abominations [gruwelen,schanddaden], then in payment thereof, he snatches from the Sons of Men all those things which the Earthly Mother gave them so abundantly. 

He takes from them their breath, their blood, their bone, their flesh, their bowels, their eyes and their ears. And the breath of the Son of Man becomes short and stifled, full of pain and evil-smelling, like the breath of unclean beasts. And his blood becomes thick and evil-smelling, like the water of the swamps. It clots [stolt] and blackens, like the night of death. And his bone becomes hard and knotted. It melts away within and breaks asunder, as a stone falling down upon a rock. And his flesh waxes fat and watery, it rots and putrefies, with scabs and boils [korsten en zweren] that are an abomination.

And his bowels become full with abominable filthiness, with oozing [druipende] streams of decay. And multitudes of abominable worms have their habitation there. And his eyes grow dim, till dark night enshrouds them, and his ears become stopped, like the silence of the grave. 

And last of all shall the erring Son of Man lose life. For he kept not the Laws of his Mother, and added sin to sin. Therefore, are taken from him all the gifts of the Earthly Mother - breath, blood, bone, flesh, bowels, eyes and ears - and after all else, life, with which the Earthly Mother crowned his body.

But if the erring Son of Man be sorry for his sins... 

and undo them, and return again to his Earthly Mother... 

and if he do his Earthly Mother's Laws... 

and free himself from Satan's clutches, resisting his temptations... 

then does the Earthly Mother receive again Her erring Son with Love... 

and sends him Her Angels that they may serve him. 

I tell you truly, when the Son of Man resists the Satan that dwells in him and does not his will, in the same hour are found the Mother's angels there, that they may serve him with all their power and free utterly the Son of Man from the power of Satan.

James Tissot - Prodigal Son in Modern Life

For no man can serve two masters. 

For either he serves Beelzebub and his devils ...

or else he serves our Earthly Mother and Her Angels. 

Either he serves death or he serves life. 

I tell you truly... 

happy are those that do the Laws of Life, and wander not upon the paths of death. 

For in them, the forces of life wax strong and they escape the plagues of death."

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hén delgt hij

-van David.-

Tot U roep ik, Heer die mijn rots zijt:

stoot mij niet terug door Uw zwijgen.

Bleef Gij tegen mij zwijgen - ik werd als die in de groeve gedaald zijn.  

Verhoor mijn roep om ontferming: ik kan U slechts smeken om hulp,

vermag slechts mijn handen te heffen naar Uw heiligdom, Uw geheim.  

Werp mij niet weg met de verstoorders, met hen die het kwade bedrijven,

die hun naaste spreken van vrede, doch boosheid heerst in hun hart.  

Rekent Gij met hen af - naar hun werken, naar de heilloosheid van hun daden,

vergeldt wat hun hand heeft voltrokken: wat zij stichtten - verhaal het op hen!  

Nooit hebben zij oog voor Gods werk, voor niets wat Zijn hand heeft voltrokken.

Daarom delgt Hij hen, zet hen niet voort. 

Gezegend de Heer! 

Zacheus

Het is Hij die verhoorde mijn roep om ontferming: 

de Heer is mijn sterkte, mijn schild, 

op Hem is mijn diepste vertrouwen.

Hulp gewerd mij.

Mijn hart is herleefd.

Ik mag met mijn lied Hem weer loven.  

De Heer is de sterkte Zijns volks. 

Hij, de burcht, Zijn gezalfde tot redding. 

Herstel de vrijheid van Uw volk. 

Zegen die tot Uw erfdeel behoren.

Wees hun herder, neem hen met U mee.

Tot het einde der tijden. 

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alle heiligen

Fra Angelico

Morgen is het feest van alle heiligen. 

Dit beroemde feest werd ingesteld, op de 1e zondag na Pinksteren, om elk jaar in de hele stad Rome te worden gehouden, ter ere van de Heilige Maagd Maria, Moeder van God, en van alle heilige martelaren, door paus Bonifatius IV [6e-7e eeuw], nadat hij de tempel had gewijd aan de christelijke eredienst het Pantheon of de Tempel van alle goden genoemd.

En hetzelfde feest werd daarna op verschillende manieren gehouden in verschillende kerken, toen Gregorius IV [9e eeuw] verordende dat het op de eerste dag van november, ter ere van alle heiligen, voor altijd plechtig moest worden gevierd in de hele universele kerk.

John McCoy

V. Kostbaar in de ogen van de Heer.

R. Is de dood van zijn heiligen.

Heilige Maria en alle heiligen, 

bemiddel voor ons bij de Heer, onze God, 

zodat wij Zijn hulp en redding kunnen verdienen, 

die leeft en regeert voor altijd en altijd.

R. Amen.

V. O God, kom mij te hulp.

R. O Heer, haast U om mij te helpen.

V. O God, kom mij te hulp.

R. O Heer, haast U om mij te helpen.

V. O God, kom mij te hulp.

R. O Heer, haast U om mij te helpen.

V. Eer zij de Vader, en de Zoon, en de Heilige Geest.

R. Zoals het was in het begin, zo is het nu, zo zal het altijd zijn.

In de eeuwen der eeuwen.

Amen.

[h.off 31.10]

memling 5

It seems to be a kind of heavenly setting.

The Virgin's throne room, something of that nature.

These saints lived at different times.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria had a vision... 

in which she saw the Christ Child, putting a ring on her finger.

In that sense, she becomes in a way the examplar for all of the nuns...

or in this case, the hospital sisters, who are brides of Christ.

The Lady in green is Saint Barbara...

They are all martyrs, three of these saints were killed.

They tried to kill Saint John Evangelist too, they boiled him in oil, but he survived...

It is believed that you can call upon a martyr to help you have a good death!

Because martyrs have the best death of all, they are baptised with their blood.

They go directly to heaven, they do not pass purgatory.

They were assured of entry into heaven.

Barbara's tower is actually a monstrans, here.

There is a sort of cilindrical glass container within.

And you can see the circular, rounded shape of a host.

Or we could call it a ciborium...

In those they would keep the reserve hosts.

And they were sometimes called 'towers', 'turris'...

Reserve hosts are the left overs of consecrated hosts.

You would need them in the hospital, while someone might be in danger of death...

and one perhaps hasn't the time to go through the whole mass...

You remember that the Mass re-enacts the crucifixion.

An earns merits for salvation, and salvation is what it is all about.

John Evangelist...

The story goes that he had to drink wine that was poisoned.

But than he made the sign of the cross...

So there is a kind of eucharistic connection.

You have the chalice, and at the same side the tower with the host.

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memling 1

Madonna & Kind (Michelangelo)

OLV-kerk Brugge tgo. St-Janshospitaal

St John's Hospital in Bruges... 

was established around 1150 or earlier... 

making it one of the oldest hospitals on the European mainland. 

The date 1188 is that of the first available document.

Ingang Sint-Janshospitaal

As in all medieval hospitals, the chapel was open.

Because... spiritual care was móre important...

than the physical one !

Hospices de Beaune

Patients should be able to hear mass, all of the services... 

that would go on 8 times during the day and night... 

the canonical hours [getijdengebed] or Divine Office.

If they are well enough, they could go into the chapel.

If they aren't, they could hear.

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fra' claudio 3

MERCY

A dead God to me

Look and think, my creature!... 

Who are you... and who am I...

You are a worm that crawls on the earth, today it is and tomorrow it is not... 

I am the Son of the Most High... creator and ruler of the whole universe. 

And for an infinite love incomprehensible to man, I left Heaven and came to Earth...t

ook a body similar to yours, lived poor, despised, vilified, betrayed, scourged, crowned with thorns, condemned, crucified, and died from atrocious pain among the pangs of my mother and the scorn of my people. 

And why all this?... 

For your sins, my creature. 

I redeemed you from the bondage of Satan. 

And you, what is your gratitude?... 

To a divine Heart that madly loved you?

What could I do... that I didn't do it? 

And as a reward, with your sins you deny me the painful passion... 

you make me agonize again on the cross.

-

Look and contemplate, my creature, your God who died for you!...

Oh, if you only knew who your God is! 

And what is hell... and heaven... you would change your life instantly! 

And don't you care about what you need for your salvation?... 

that all the riches of the world benefit you if you then lose your soul?

Oh miserable creature, love your infinitely merciful God: 

with Me you will have everything... 

without Me you will have only pain and eternal death.

I am necessary to your mind and your heart, because I am away truth and life and the only true happiness. Only by returning to Me will you have perfect joy on earth, true light, and in heaven you will be blessed for everlasting centuries, so be it.

-A minor friar-

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coeur brisé

ethiopië 1

The Covenant of Mercy 

From the Ethiopian book: ´The Miracles of St. Mary´

(ተአምረ ማርያም - Te’āmire Mariyami)

One day, our Lord and Savior Eyesus Kristos said unto the Holy Virgin Mariam: 

´What sorrow can be greater than that which came upon Thee for My sake?´

And our Lady Mariam said unto Him: 

´O My Lord and God, there were Five Sorrows that came upon Me for Thy sake, 

and they overcame Me mightily:

1. The First of them was that which came upon Me, when Simeon prophesied concerning Thee in the Sanctuary, saying that the Jews would slay Thee.

2. The Second was the sorrow I endured, when I lost Thee in the Sanctuary, and I was seeking for Thee for three days. 

3. The Third was the sorrow I endured, when I remembered how they had bound Thee Hand and Foot, and how Pilate's men scourged Thy back. 

4. The Fourth was the sorrow I endured, when they crucified Thee between two thieves on the day of the Eve of the Sabbath, and Thou wast naked, and they drove five nails through Thy flesh. 

5. The Fifth sorrow I endured, when I remembered how Joseph and Nicodemus took Thee down from the Cross, and swathed Thee in fine linen, and laid Thee in the tomb.´

And our Lord said unto Her who had given Him birth: 

´Thus saith our Father Who is in Heaven: 

Whosoever shall keep in remembrance the sorrows and sufferings which have come upon Thee for My sake, and the salutation of Gabriel, I will remit to him his sins. 

And whosoever shall give an offering for Thy Name's sake, I will remit to him his sins, ánd I will make him to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. Ánd I will come unto him with Thee, O Thou who didst give Me birth, and I will appear to him three days before his death.´

This was the Covenant... 

which Christ made with His Holy Mother... 

and She told it unto Dexius, who wrote it down...

together with Her Miracles, so that all believers might read it.

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adam 9

And after these words... 

God made a three-cornered seal, and sealed the tomb...

that no one should do anything to him in the six days...

until his rib should return to him. 

And the beneficent God and the holy angels having laid him in his place...

after the six days Eve also died. 

And while she lived, she wept about her falling asleep...

because she knew not where her body was to be laid. 

For when the Lord was present in paradise when they buried Adam... 

both she and her children fell asleep, except Seth, as I said. 

And Eve, in the hour of her death, besought [smeekte]...

that she might be buried where Adam her husband was, saying thus: 

My Lord, Lord and God of all virtue, do not separate me, Your servant...

from the body of Adam, for of his members You made me. 

But grant to me, even me, the unworthy and the sinner, to be buried by his body. 

And as I was along with him in paradise, and not separated from him after the transgression...

so also let no one separate us. 

After having prayed, therefore, she looked up into heaven... 

and stood up, and said, beating her breast: God of all, receive my spirit. 

And straightway she gave up her spirit to God.

-

And when she was dead... 

the archangel Michael stood beside her. 

And there came three angels, and took her body...

and buried it where the body of Abel was. 

Shiva (2008)

And the archangel Michael said to Seth: 

Thus bury every man that dies, until the day of the resurrection. 

And after having given this Law, he said to him: 

Do not mourn beyond six days. 

And on the seventh day, rest and rejoice in it... 

because in it, God and we the angels rejoice... 

in the righteous soul that has departed from earth. 

Having thus spoken, the archangel Michael went up into heaven, glorifying, and saying the Alleluia: Holy, holy, holy Lord, to the glory of God the Father, because to Him is due glory, honour, and adoration, with His unbeginning and life-giving Spirit, now and forever, and to the ages of ages. 

Amen.

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de guardamar

or: de cabezo lucero

necropolis...

estación 8

THE SEVENTEENTH STATION:

The Cemetery Rosary and Events

In early November of 1962... 

Conchita and Mari Loli go to the town cemetery together, in ecstasy. 

They sing the Rosary, once inside, with great devotion, and also place the crucifix on the tombs of various relatives. 

-

Later that week...

Conchita is seen, holding a crucifix through the locked cemetery gate, as if holding it out for as many as 100 invisible people to kiss, which Conchita later confirms the departed souls did.

-

The Message: 

In the popular Garabandal book O Children Listen to Me, author Fr. Robert Francois comments, that this event demonstrates ´that the world of the living and the dead are not separated, and that they are united by one and the same Redeemer.´

The Garabandal events are full of such examples of respect and love for the dearly departed in Christ. The seers would often visit the homes of the departed, to visit their families in ecstasy, and pray over the bed of the deceased family member, or at their portraits, blessing these with a crucifix.

-

We must also note, that the Virgin also taught the girls to pray for the Holy Souls of Purgatory as well. 

Clearly, Garabandal is as much about the afterlife as it is about the present life, for not only must we live this present life for God to have an afterlife with Him, but we must show Love, Compassion, Mercy and Charity toward those who have already passed on. 

For one day, we will be in their places. 

Here we offer you an old prayer... 

to the souls in Purgatory, that the now elderly at San Sebastian de Garabandal learned from the lips of their elders. Generation after generation has prayed this, to aid the souls of their relatives and friends suffering in Purgatory. 

Hopefully this prayer helps us to interiorize the important teaching, that each one of our words, actions, and omissions has eternal consequences. 

No one enters heaven without having purified him or herself perfectly. 

Moreover, it is a spiritual work of Mercy to pray for the souls in Purgatory. 

Let's spread this prayer. 

One day we might need others to pray it for us.

Very dear spouses of the Lord

enclosed in the prison of Purgatory

you who suffer unspeakable pains while in want of God's presence

until purified, like gold in the crucible

of the remains of your faults.

How rightfully do you cry out to your friends

from those voracious flames, begging for mercy!

I sympathize with your pain

and would like to supply enough [merits]

to satisfy for you before the Divine Justice.

Yet, being poorer than you

I appeal to the piety of the just

the prayers of the blessed

the unfathomable treasure of the Church

the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary

and the infinite price of the Blood of Jesus Christ.

Grant, oh Lord, these poor souls

their longed for consolation and rest.

I also trust, grateful souls

that I will have powerful intercessors in you

who will obtain from the Lord [for me]

grace to detest my sins

advance in virtue

subdue my passions

and reach the eternal beatitude

for all eternity.

Amen.

-

Erg dierbare wederhelften van de Heer

opgesloten in de gevangenis van het Vagevuur

jullie die onuitsprekelijke pijnen lijden

terwijl je Gods aanwezigheid mist

tot je, als goud in de smeltkroes, gezuiverd zult zijn

van al wat er rest van de vele fouten.

Hoe terecht schreeuwen jullie naar je vrienden

vanuit die vraatzuchtige vlammen

smekend om genade !

Ik voel mee met jullie pijn, en zou graag

genoeg [verdiensten] willen leveren om te voldoen, 

voor jullie, aan de Goddelijke Gerechtigheid.

Maar omdat ik erbarmelijker ben dan jullie

doe ik een beroep op de vroomheid van de rechtvaardigen

op de gebeden van de zaligen

op de onpeilbare schat, de heiligen, van de Kerk

op de voorspraak van de Heilige Maagd Maria

en de onbegrensde prijs van het Bloed van Jezus Christus.

Sta, o Heer, deze arme zielen

hun verlangen naar troost en rust toe.

Ik vertrouw er ook op, dankbare zielen 

dat ik krachtige voorbidders in jullie zal vinden

die van de Heer [voor mij en de mijnen, ver weg en dichtbij]

de genade zullen verkrijgen

onze zonden te verafschuwen

vooruit te gaan in deugd

onze hartstochten te bedwingen

en de eeuwige zaligheid te bereiken

voor alle eeuwigheid.

Amen.

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kristallen 2

Pacify your heart... 

because today [overlijden Trigueirinho...]

is a day of glory rather than of pain... 

a day of triumphs and of multiplication of the Love of God.

Today the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit receive the fruits... 

of an existence of a giving of self, of surrender, of unconditional love.

Today a part of the Heart of God renews and surpasses itself... 

because a son of His allowed Him to renew Himself... 

through his constant humility, renunciation, and love.

Today, child, contemplate a more brilliant sky in the Universe... 

because a light returned to its origin... 

from where it will continue to give impulses to the human Project... 

because his surrender is eternal.

-

He who having fulfilled his mission offered a little more... 

for love of his friends and companions... 

also surrendered his life for them... 

because the time has come for you to walk by yourselves... 

supported by your own feet and sustaining others.

-

Today the Universe rejoices... 

because he who had renounced his evolution... 

to multiply the Love of God on Earth... 

returned... 

bringing in the crystals of the center of his chest... 

the legacy of his experience on this so beloved planet. 

He did not only bring with himself a learning experience, but a celestial gift to God. 

Because he learned, with all the levels of his consciousness,  to love the Father above all things... 

and to obey Him beyond his own will, even renouncing to continue in the world... 

when his disciples and companions were ready to take a new step.

For you, child, a new cycle and a new time have come. 

A time to mature the Graces you bear within yourself. 

Because a unique legacy was left for humanity... 

over a long period of time... 

and you are a living part of this legacy of love.

-

Therefore, today, raise your eyes to the Heights... 

and instead of grief, offer God gratitude. 

Place your offering at the Feet of the Creator... 

and reconfirm yourself in the adherence to His Plan... 

because it is now that it starts.

-

After having received everything... 

and of having sublime teachings placed within you... 

go and turn what dwells in you into life. 

The world so needs it.

You have My blessing for this.

Your Father and Friend,

The Most Chaste 

Saint Joseph

[15.9.18]

piazzolla

Ave María, gecomponeerd door Astor Piazzolla in 1984

aanvankelijk voor hobo en piano, als Tanti Anni Prima

in de film Enrico IV van Marco Bellocchio...

Maar dat hij aan de Italiaanse zangeres Milva gaf

vlak voor hij stierf, in 1992.

Zij vertelde: ´Voor hij stierf, gaf hij me een stuk 

en zei me: zing het als je voelt dat het tijd is.´

En dat deed ze

- in 2001.

A V E   M A R I A 

P i a z z o l l a

Wees gegroet Maria

naar jouw Liefde

heb ik dorst 

gegroet!

Gegroet Maria

O gouden licht

O zacht viooltje van allen

Gegroet! Ave Maria

Ave! Gegroet Maria

Die het leven beweegt

naar Mij

Het leven inspireert

De adem bent van alles, gegroet!

Ik geloof in je. Kom naar Mij.

Uit jou ontspringt de lucht 

zuivere schaamte

Ik vertrouw je!

Wees gegroet Maria

Moeder van ieder volk

Gegroet! Ave Maria

Ave! Gegroet Maria

Die het leven beweegt

naar Mij

Het leven inspireert

De adem bent van alles, gegroet!

Ik geloof in je. Kom naar Mij.

Ave. 

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immanu-el 7

IGISOBANURO CY'URUPFU

The meaning of death

-Kizito Mihigo-

There is nothing worse than death (2x)

But what a páth for us, a path to good

The greater good.

2x

-

Death is the door that leads to God, the Creator

But in order to get that door open

The summoning Voice 

of God is required.

In Kinyarwanda, 'dying' is:

'to respond to God's summoning'.

3x

There is nothing worse than death (2x)

But what a páth for us, a path to good

The greater good.

-

There is no such thing as 'a good death'

Be it by genocide or war

Slaughtered in revenge

Vanished in an accident

Or by illness.

Those loved ones 

are praying for us.

3x

There is nothing worse than death (2x)

But what a páth for us, a path to good

The greater good.

-

Even though Genocide orphaned me

Let it not make me lose empathy for others

Their lives, too, were brutally taken

But not qualified as Genocide

Those brothers and sisters

They, too, are humans

I pray for them

Those brothers and sisters

They, too, are humans

I comfort them

Those brothers and sisters

They, too, are humans

I remember them

There is nothing worse than death (2x)

But what a páth for us, a path to good

The greater good.

-

My dignity and love

Is not rooted in carnal life

Nor in material possessions

But in humanness

Let 'I am Rwandan'

Be preceded by

'I am human'

3x

There is nothing worse than death (2x)

But what a páth for us, a path to good

The greater good.

-

The understanding of my Salvation

Is my staff in my life's journey

I was saved by faith

Faith that I have in Jesus Christ

That Christianity 

fulfills me as Rwandan

3x

There is nothing worse than death (2x)

But what a páth for us, a path to good

The greater good.

-

Death joins people

to God Who created them

And who live in the Agape Love

of the Father

That Love is my thirst 

That my life longs for

That Love is my thirst

Is the hope of Eternal Life

That Love is my thirst 

Is the direction to Eternal Life

Amen!

There is nothing worse than death (2x)

But what a páth for us, a path to good

The greater good.