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A Retreat on the Stigmatine Seal The Stigmatine Seal [A Retreat] Rev. Joseph C. Henchey, CSS STIGMATINE SEAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 TABLE of CONTENTS Introduction 3 To Pray over the Stigmatine Seal 8 Art & Prayer 12 ✟ PART ONE: THE STARS 17 Presentation 17 A. Fr. Bertoni’s 35th Sermon - for the Feast of the Epiphany, 18 on January 6th, of the year 1806, in St. Paul’s, Verona B. Ps 19: The “Christological Constellation” in the Apostolic 25 Mission – a Psalm used for the Feast of the Apostles Psalm 19 B - The Brilliance of the TORAH [A Meditation] 44 PART TWO: THE APOSTOLIC MISSION 60 [cf. C. Stuhlmueller, CP and D. Senior, CP] I. According to St. Matthew 28:19 60 ... euntes docete... “... Make disciples of all Nations...” II. According to John 20:19-28: The Glorious Stigmata 72 and the Apostolic Mission of Forgiveness “... as the Father has sent Me, even so I send you...” III. The Early Church and the Apostolic Mission: 97 Lk & Ac [cf. Stuhlmueller, CP & D. Senior, CP] PART THREE: THE SACRED STIGMATA 117 I. The “Pierced One” and the “Immolated Lamb” 117 II. The Johannine Connection 131 III. The Stigmata of Good Friday 149 IV. The Stigmata of the Resurrection 162 PART FOUR: A PREPARATION FOR DIVES IN MISERICORDIA 177 [November 30, 1980] Presentation 177 I An Exodus Antiphon 178 II. Aperite Portas Redemptori 185 ✟ STIGMATINE SEAL INTRODUCTION 3 THE STIGMATINE SEAL [A Retreat] Introduction [1] The effort of this Retreat will be to take the Stigmatine Seal as a reminder of the biblical reflections spoting the Stigmatine charism for our prayerful consideration. The Greek word for “seal” is sphragis, a term familiar with students of the Sacraments of Initiation: as through them, we are “sealed” for the most Blessed Trinity. Hence, sphragistics is the study of seals and signets. Our effort here will be to ponder the message of our Founder, as depicted in this Seal. [a[ The Latin word is signum - in Greece and Rome signet rings were used to attest to the authenticity of a document. These rings were later superseded by the first stamps and stamp-pads. We think of the ‘seal’ impressed in some way, on our hearts we are ‘signed’ by the charism of Fr. Bertoni. [b] In legal documents, the seal came to symbolize legitimacy and even the personality of a transaction, the individuals involved. Thus, in the Scripture we read: ‘Bind up the testimony, seal the law among My disciples’ [cf. Is 8:16]. The Book of the Apocalypse is famous as “the Book of the Seven Seals” that only the Sacred Stigmata on the Immolated Lamb could open: “... The phrase ‘heart of Christ’ can refer to Sacred Scripture, which makes known His heart, closed before the Passion, as the Scripture was obscure. But the Scripture has been opened since the Passion; since those who from then on have understood it, consider and discern in what way the prophecies must be interpreted... [cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Expos. in Ps 21:11. cf. Ps 22:15].” [CCC 112]. [c] Numerous idioms refer symbolically to the use of seals: ‘under the seal of silence, confession” - “signed, sealed and delivered” - “to put one’s stamp, seal on 1 something”. [2] In our analogy, the comparison is being made between the “seal” and an ”ICON”: as Jesus is the ICON of the Invisible God [cf. Col 1:15] - the KARAKTER [sometimes translated as the ”radiance”, the ‘radiant Light’ of God’s glory, the perfect copy of the Divine Nature [cf. Heb1:1, ff.] - the Stigmatine Seal may present the possibility of reflecting biblically on the charism of St. Gaspar Bertoni. The Stigmatine Seal may be compared, like ICONS, to a flower garden planted upside down - the roots are in heaven with the Most Blessed Trinity, and the fruits, or the flowers on earth, in the hearts and minds of human beings reached through the Apostolic Mission of the Stigmatine. 2 [a] An ICON is a Window on the Mystery. In times such as ours, at the beginning of this New Millennium, images play a central role in so many of the 1cf. Hans Biedermann, “Seal”, in: Dictionary of Symbolism. Facts on File. An Infobase Holdings Company. p. 302. STIGMATINE SEAL INTRODUCTION 4 sectors of life. The hope is that the Stigmatine Seal might influence a bit more our thoughts and condition our personal and apostolic choices. Sacred Images can help to discover even deeper spiritual values for one’s own daily life of self-giving. [b] Some might limit sacred images merely to the simple description of the facts of our faith, or the spirit of the Stigmatine community, without reflecting in some greater depth the revealed mysteries of the faith - or the Seal that describes in some reality the charism of a canonized Saint and Founder of the Stigmatines, Gaspar Bertoni. [c] The art of the ICONS immerses one into the Eastern world of spirituality that can be both familiar and somewhat foreign: these images are ‘familiar’ because 3 the faith between East and West is fundamentally one. However, these images are also somewhat ‘foreign’ because they are typically of the Eastern spirituality. The ICONS, however, can speak to believers of old - and still may have a message for today. In like manner, the Stigmatine Seal might be prayed and developed as we ponder, pray the riches of the charism re-presented, depicted by it. [3] By familiar means - such as form, color and light - the ICONS and the Seal, concretize the religious reality being projected. These images have as their scope to communicate an ideal that stands beyond them - leading to a more committed present, spiritual and apostolic life - as well as to the after-life. These images communicate something of a reflection on the mystery of Jesus Christ, the constellation of saints around Him, and commitment to heroism, and the heavenly- life beyond the stars. Reading the seal from the bottom up, we are moved to the ‘red’ of total self-giving, in imitation of the Martyrs; through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; in the harmony of life together, through the stars and beyond the heavens. [4] To communicate the sublime content, and a realistic hope in striving to attain the Christian ideal, the human mind is much attracted by images, art. The art “empties itself” by leading the viewer, the contemplator beyond what is the form and colors, to the ideal offered. Art is not just a painting on a flat board - but, much more it is a symbol and a ‘place’ of a special Presence, mystery. [a] Art is a kind of intellectual spiritualization, a glorification of matter, much due to the biblical influence, and the charism of a heroic, ‘ordinary’ saint. Even the ultimate glory is presented as a “beatific vision”. All uplifting earthly images but reflect meekly this ultimate, brilliant vision of all Beauty. [b] The ICONS are closely united to the sacramental life - the sacraments spring from the material world, invaded by the Blessed Trinity through the ministry of the Church, in union with Jesus Christ. This elevates the created elements through to some participation in the very being of Christ Himself: “as the Father has sent Me, now I send you...” [cf. Jn 20:19, ff.]. In the hands of the artist, the saint, the image is 2cf. Egon SENDLER, Icona: Finestra sul mistero. Roma: Centro Russia Ecumenica. 3cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter, Orientale Lumen. May 2, 1995. STIGMATINE SEAL INTRODUCTION 5 transformed into a reality, something like the sacraments that ‘transfigure’ the human soul. [c] This is all the result of an interior process: with the sacraments, they are ‘separated instruments’ of the divinity, and act from the very fact that the matter is presented to be poured out, applied for our consumption and use, for an increase of grace in one’s life. With the images, the process is more the work of the contemplator - a challenge presented to each one’s faith, hope, love - memory and imagination. [5] The colors are an exercise in ”polychrome” - much more highly sophisticated in the creating of ICONS, but also most active in the work of imagery. This play on colors has its way of making its impression not only on the eyes, but also on the mind and heart. It is said that ‘each ICON is a festival’ - and each image something of a commemoration, a point of remembrance, a challenge for commitment. In the Scriptures, we are invited to look out on the rainbow, and to praise its Maker! Across the sky it forms a glorious arc, drawn by the hands of the Most High. [cf. Si 43: 11, ff.]. The brightness of the colors leads one to reflect on the stars: - and the eternal life beyond: “... The glory of the stars makes the beauty of the sky, a brilliant decoration to the heights of the Lord. At the words of the Holy One they stand as he decrees, and never grow slack at their watch...” [cf. Si 43:9, ff.]. The Heavenly constellation of these stars is in the form of a Cross, our only Hope for a share in the ever-lasting glory of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. - These stars are also a reminder of the heavens which bespeak, chant the glory of God [Ps 19] - like the apostles, for whose feasts this Psalm is so often used, ‘... their voice goes out through all the earth, and their message to the ends of the earth...!” [cf. v. 4]. This is the ideal of the Apostolic Missionary, quocumque euntes in diocesi et mundo....per quodcumque Dei Verbum ministerium...
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