Order of St. Michael of the Rosary: ASCENSION THURSDAY CRUSADE

Thursday, May 21, 2009

ASCENSION THURSDAY CRUSADE

Knights of the Order of St. Michael of the Rosary successfully bore the cross to the summit of Flattop in honor of Our Lord's Ascension.

Itinerary:

INVOCATION (Songs 6:10, Psalm 144:1-2, Ephesians 6:11-12, 14-17, Matthew 10:34)

ASCENT (in silencio)

ERECTED CROSS

LECTIO (Thomas á Kempis, Few Love the Cross of Jesus)

CHANT ROSARY

LITANY OF THE CROSS

DESCENT

AVE MARIA

Congratulations to all attending crusaders. For those who didn't make it, we'll be heading out again in a week or two; in the meantime, please offer a fast for the conversion of those who desecrate the cross.

Quis ut Deus!

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ON SUFFERING

When Jesus wants me to understand that He loves me, He allows me to savor the wounds, the thorns, the agonies of His passion...When He wants to delight me, He fills my heart with that spirit which is all fire; He speaks to me of His delights. But when He wants to be delighted, He speaks to me of His sorrows, He invites me -- with a voice full of both supplication and authority -- to affix my body [to the cross] in order to alleviate His suffering. Who can resist Him? I realize how much my miseries have caused Him to suffer, how much I have offended Him. I desire no other than Jesus alone, I want nothing more than His pains (because this is what Jesus wishes). Let me say--since no one can hear me--I am disposed to remain forever deprived of the sweetness Jesus allows me to feel. I am ready to suffer Jesus hiding His beautiful eyes from me, so long as He does not hide His love from me, because then I would die. But I do not feel I can be deprived of suffering--for this I lack strength.

-- St. Padre Pio, Secrets of a Soul

THE FIRST CRUSADE

"Whoever, therefore, shall determine upon this holy pilgrimage and shall make his vow to God to that effect and shall offer himself to Him as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, shall wear the sign of the cross of the Lord on his forehead or on his breast. When, truly, having fulfilled his vow he wishes to return, let him place the cross on his back between his shoulders. Such, indeed, by the twofold action will fulfill the precept of the Lord, as He commands in the Gospel, 'He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.'"

B. Urban II, Council of Clermont, 1095

Order of St. Michael of the Rosary

Thursday, May 21, 2009

ASCENSION THURSDAY CRUSADE

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ON SUFFERING

THE FIRST CRUSADE

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