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Firstfruits “These Were Purchased As Firstfruits for God and for the Lamb.” (See REVELATION 14:4) The Norbertine Canonesses of the Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, 2012 Tehachapi, California USA “Year of Faith” 2012-2013 Issue 30 FirstFruits “These were purchased as firstfruits for God and for the Lamb.” (See REVELATION 14:4) Emmanuel “God-with-Us” - ISAIAH 7:14 “The Son of God presents Himself as the Bridegroom-Messiah come to seal the marriage of God with humanity; in a wondrous exchange of love, which begins in the Incarnation, comes to its summit of self-offering in the Passion, and is forever given as gift in the Eucharist.” - Verbi Sponsa, “Bride of the Word,” 4 Christmas at Prémontré: An allusion to the first profession at Prémontré and official founding of our Norbertine Order on Christmas night 1121. The Bethlehem scene includes, in the foreground, our holy fathers—St. Norbert (“Apostle of the Eucharist”) with his guardian angel and St. Augustine (“Doctor of Grace”). Surrounding the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus are (clockwise) St. John the Baptist, St. Joseph, hovering angels, and other Norbertine Saints. (Artist: Caspar de Crayer, 1655, Averbode, Belgium) “Cause of our Joy” “With the coming of the birthday of the Redeemer, the Church would bring us to the cave of Bethlehem and there teach that we must be born again and undergo a complete reformation: that will only happen when we are intimately and vitally united to the Word of God made man and participate in His divine nature, to which we have been elevated.” - Pope Pius XII, Mediator Dei, 155 Dear Parents, Confreres, Friends, Family and Benefactors, Laudetur Jesus Chrisus in æternum. Amen! “At the evening of life, you will be examined in love” [St. John of the Cross, “Sayings of Light and Love,” no. 57]. As St. Augustine came to know with every fiber of his being, it all comes down to Love. True Love. It was this Love that led the Son of God Himself to become the Babe of Bethlehem, so that banishing all fear from our hearts, He might draw us to Himself in Love. In a world so deeply wounded, where souls are being led away from Truth, it is only His Love than can heal us, unite us, transform us. When we are captured by His Love, when we have had a deep experience of His Love, we joyfully echo in our hearts the words of St. John: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.” Our life is changed forever. “Those who have truly encountered Christ are unable to keep silent about him” [Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Seminarians “Christ dwelt for nine months of the Venerable English College, December 3, 2012]. In this Year of Faith, may we all come to believe in and accept God’s in the tabernacle of Mary’s womb. Love: For in these words, the Christian comes to “express the fundamental decision of his life. Being Christian He dwells until the end of the ages is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new in the tabernacle of the Church’s faith. He will dwell forever horizon and a decisive direction” [Pope Benedict in the knowledge and love of each faithful soul.” XVI, Deus Caritas est, 1]. To all of you - Bl. Isaac of Stella, Sermo 51 With profound gratitude for your who are making our ongoing spiritual and material support, convent expansion a reality: this FirstFruits shares with you the recent General Chapter of our Order, as well as reflections on our life as cloistered Norbertine canonesses. We also Thank you! include photos and an update about our convent expansion project, and a report on the results of our fund-raising efforts, with abundant thanksgiving to God and to you for helping us to reach the budget-goal for the project. Following in the footsteps of our holy father, St. Augustine, and all of the saints and holy souls who have gone before us, may our hearts burn with His Divine Love. “Just as a small fire can set a whole forest ablaze [cf. James 3:5], so the faithful testimony of a few can release the purifying and transforming power of God’s love so that it spreads like wildfire throughout a community or a nation. [L]et your hearts burn with love for Christ, for the Church and for the Mass” [Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Seminarians of the Venerable English College]. Prayerfully and gratefully in the Burning Heart of our Newborn King, “The chief motivation for your sharing life together What does our convent expansion provide for us? is to live harmoniously in the house, and to have one heart and one soul seeking God.” • First and foremost, space for more holy vocations... - Opening chapter of the Rule of St. Augustine, I.2; see ACTS 4:32 the building, in combination with the existing renovated ranch house, provides living and working space for up to 48 sisters (that is, women who give themselves totally to God in lives of prayer and sacrifice, interceding for the needs of the Church and the world throughout the day and night, all for His honor and glory, and the salvation of souls) • Second, a healthy sleeping environment... the dormitories on the top floor replace the sisters’ three used, leaking, deteriorating and damaged modular trailers • Third, additional means of self-sufficiency... the expansion building contains two approved professional kitchens, enabling the sisters to sell their October 28, 2012 artisan cheeses to the public, and their specialty biscotti and jams at venues outside the convent ABOVE: Our most recent community photo taken in our newly constructed enclosed garden (or “garth”) beside a statue of our holy patron St. Joseph represented under his title “St Joseph, the Worker.” “THE purpose of our canonical, God-dedicated life is the radical engagement of our total human existence under the influence of the Holy Spirit to work in our inner life to become more and more uniform with our Master and Savior Jesus Christ, so that we can, like Him, give our life for others, for the confreres in our community, for the people in our Church and in our society.” From Fr. Abbot General Thomas Handgrätinger, Closing Remarks [Citing Conf. John Eudes Bamberger, Thomas Merton. Mönch und Kontemplativer] General Chapter 2012 International Meeting of the Norbertine Order Convened at St. Norbert’s College, De Pere, Wisconsin USA • July 22 - August 4, 2012 ABOVE, RIGHT: Francis Cardinal George was the principal celebrant of the opening Mass Photo Courtesy of St. Norbert’s Abbey What is a General Chapter? The General Chapter is the supreme governing authority of the Norbertine Order, serving as both a fraternal and a juridical forum. It convenes every six years, gathering prelates (abbots) and delegates from the various houses of Norbertines worldwide, for the principal purpose of giving expression to and promoting “the bond of charity, the unity and the charismatic vitality of the entire Order” [Constitutions of the Canons Regular of Prémontré, n. 186]. Bl. Hugh of Fosses, St. Norbert’s successor as abbot of Premontre, chose this structure as the means of unifying into one Norbertine Order the various houses of canons that St. Norbert had founded. Seeking to ensure unity of direction in the Order and fidelity to the charism of St. Norbert, while safeguarding the autonomy and particular emphases of each canonry, he chose to model the structure of our Order after the “the middle way” of Citeaux’s Charter of Charity. Bl. Hugh convened the first General Chapter in 1128, only seven years after the first profession at Premontre on Christmas 1121, attended by the abbots of the first six foundations. LEFT: The General Chapter participants meet in the “aula.” CENTER: Mother Mary Augustine and Sr. Mary John Paul with our Pater Abbas Eugene Hayes, Abbot of St. Michael’s Abbey, Orange, and (left to right) Fr. Ambrose, Fr. Alphonsus Mary, our Provost, and Fr. Stephen, as well as with Fr. Roman Vanasse, O. Praem. of DePere, and Fr. Martin, also of Orange. (1) (2) (3) Recent Visits from Our International Confreres and Consoeurs (1) Sr. Roberta, Mother Hermana, Mother General, and Sr. Akvina from the Slovak congregation of active sisters (2) Sr. Alberta, Prioress, and Sr. Augustina, Novice Mistress, (4) from the canonry of Doksany, Czech Republic (3) Fr. Dominique from Sant’Antimo, Italy (right), with our Fr. Theodore from St. Michael’s Abbey, Orange (4) From left to right: Fr. Abbot Bruno, and Fr. Prior Benoit, both of the Abbey of Leffe, Belgium; Fr. Berthold of the Abbey of Geras, Austria; our Fr. Martin from St. Michael’s Abbey, Orange; Fr. Abbot Paul, Abbot Emeritus of Tongerlo, Belgium; and Fr. Hugues, Sub-Prior, also of Leffe, Belgium The Norbertine Propositum: To follow Christ radically by renouncing property and matrimony, dedicating ourselves to our churches by profession of the vows, in order that we might live the Vita Apostolica in fraternal communion, following in the footsteps of our holy Fathers Augustine and Norbert. “ Dear Friends, — cf. Constitutions of the Canonesses Regular of the Order of Prémontré, n. 19 The Church becomes visible in many ways: in charitable action, in mission projects, in the personal apostolate that every Christian must carry out in his own walk of life. However, the place in which she is fully experienced as Church is in the liturgy; it is the act in which we believe that God enters our reality and we can encounter Him, we can touch Him.
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