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Third O Antiphon - O Radix Jesse. Advent 2012 Father Reto Nay Gloria Retreat in preparation for Christmas Third O Antiphon - O Radix JesseMore
Third O Antiphon - O Radix Jesse.

Advent 2012
Father Reto Nay
Gloria Retreat in preparation for Christmas
Third O Antiphon - O Radix Jesse
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It takes 18 minutes and many tears to get to the end of this session of Father's Gloria.tv Retreat.
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Dear Sur Reto. in your excellent retreat, you might have added: Christ can you not see that they keys You gave to Peter have been grabbed by a usurper and his minions! How long are You determined to wait? Come and deliver us!
Viriditas
Thank you dear Fr Reto from from your friends down under
Jungerheld
I have never understood confession as giving us the grace that we would have gotten if we had done what God was commanding of us. This is very helpful. If people believe it, they should be looking for their next opportunity to go to confession and go frequently!
CatMuse
Thank you Fr Nay.
alexamarie
Thank you Fr. RETO and Gloria Thomas.. wow.. Beautiful... make we weep with joy!
Gloria Thomas
In this ghastly deluge of audacious unbelief, weak as we are, how much strength I see in your anguished prayer for the Church! You have drawn a line between the Truth of Christ and all the wild tide that is pounding against it. You just stand there in the dark and swirling snow, face to face with the divine victim of all this evil, and beg Him to come. "Cito veniat..." And how fast does He come, …More
In this ghastly deluge of audacious unbelief, weak as we are, how much strength I see in your anguished prayer for the Church! You have drawn a line between the Truth of Christ and all the wild tide that is pounding against it. You just stand there in the dark and swirling snow, face to face with the divine victim of all this evil, and beg Him to come. "Cito veniat..." And how fast does He come, who hears you before you cry and Himself is the inspiration of your prayer? The love of God is all the strength of heaven and earth, and we can see that love in you. Mirrowing our sorrow, you are a image of the saying of St. Paul: "When I am weak, then I am strong."
maryjesu
👏 Thank you very much Father Reto, for these beautiful meditations
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Gloria Advent Retreat.
Gloria.TV is holding a special on-line retreat this Advent concentrated on the O Antiphons.
The retreat will be given by Father Reto Nay.More
Gloria Advent Retreat.

Gloria.TV is holding a special on-line retreat this Advent concentrated on the O Antiphons.

The retreat will be given by Father Reto Nay.
AK
Now and forever, praised be Jesus Christ. Hearing truth preached about longing for the Lord to come is so refreshing. Used to have solemn vespers during Advent but that Msgr has been assigned elsewhere. Few seem to keep Advent as a season of penance. May the Lord have mercy on us taking Him for granted.
Germen
GRACIAS P. RETO, POR ESTAS MEDITACIONES DE LAS ANTÍFONAS QUE NOS AYUDAN A PREPARARNOS A LA NAVIDAD.
TERCERA ANTÍFONA:
O radix Jesse: “¡Oh raíz de Jesé, que está expuesta como una bandera a los ojos de las naciones, ante la cual guardarán silencio los reyes, y a la que ofrecerán los gentiles sus oraciones! ven a rescatarnos, no tardes”. 👏 👍 🤗
fr.sourire
Thank you Father Reto for this beautiful retreat (good idea !), well filmed, and edifying teachings in such charming landscapes and church. This Advent is an excellent opportunity for us to better prepare our souls for the coming of the Divine Child, the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Most High, and Very Low, He who was so lowered by love for us and for our salvation, taking the form of a …More
Thank you Father Reto for this beautiful retreat (good idea !), well filmed, and edifying teachings in such charming landscapes and church. This Advent is an excellent opportunity for us to better prepare our souls for the coming of the Divine Child, the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Most High, and Very Low, He who was so lowered by love for us and for our salvation, taking the form of a human infant and dying on the cross as a criminal. What a great and beautiful mystery shown ! Up to us Christians to live in our soul and in the Church at the height of this mystery, despite our weaknesses and our sins, for we share around to men of good will.
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Roger Michael
Many thanks for this retreat! As Uncle Joe said, especially the last quarter of it, very touching and very true!
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lukedaniel
Wouldn't it be like becoming robots (if you will) had God not given us free will?. Wasn't it His love for us that He gave it to us..so we could learn right from wrong with the mind He gave us and for us to be each an individual, just as the different talents and gifts He bestows on each. .. Having free will makes evil possible, we know that..but it also is the only thing that makes possible, love,…More
Wouldn't it be like becoming robots (if you will) had God not given us free will?. Wasn't it His love for us that He gave it to us..so we could learn right from wrong with the mind He gave us and for us to be each an individual, just as the different talents and gifts He bestows on each. .. Having free will makes evil possible, we know that..but it also is the only thing that makes possible, love, joy and good things that are worth having. I guess He thought it worth it..a free will, a power to choose, rather than puppets in which to pull strings. Just my two cents. :)
Uncle Joe
Thank you for the third retreat installment, Fr. Nay. Especially the last 1/4 of it.
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My question is simple yet outrageous and requires some preliminary remarks.
You touched upon Adam and Eve in the Garden and that they were “carried along” with pure grace and that our steps toward Christmas leads us back to the beginning where grace controlled everything.
St. Thomas tells us, Adam was a perfect …More
Thank you for the third retreat installment, Fr. Nay. Especially the last 1/4 of it.

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My question is simple yet outrageous and requires some preliminary remarks.

You touched upon Adam and Eve in the Garden and that they were “carried along” with pure grace and that our steps toward Christmas leads us back to the beginning where grace controlled everything.

St. Thomas tells us, Adam was a perfect man with a nature untroubled by unruly passions and endowed with the most wonderful of supernatural gifts and graces. Yet, both the fallen angels and the First Man were guilty of Pride which lead to their transgressions and, therefore , they must have, at the very least, been created with the capacity to commit sin (the capacity to reject their Creator). This being the case, then neither Adam and Eve were “perfect” creatures nor were the fallen angels who also chose to reject their Creator.

Being Omniscient, God knew that both the fallen angels and Adam and Eve would choose to sin against Him. So then, what could possibly be the reason in creating creatures who not only COULD sin against their Creator but actually WOULD sin against Him? That's part I of my question.

Wouldn't it have been much more practical and pleasant for all concerned (including us) to have been created as beings so full of Love for their Creator, as was the Blessed Mother, that it would have been impossible for the Angles, Adam, Eve or any of us to ever sin against Him? This is part II of my question.

Some would argue that man was created with free will and is therefore able to choose between good and evil. But, considering all the pain that “free will” has caused since creation, why not simply do without it? This is part III of my question.

God created the Cosmos, the stars, the galaxies, and the planets and He has fixed them with order in their places. Free will is obviously unnecessary for the ordered structure of material creation. With “free will” material creation would be chaotic (as is the world of man) yet the material world reflects the Glory of God even without this “free will.”

In addition, much of the life of man occurs without his awareness and, of course, without his free will anyway. Our 'vegetative life' including growth, cell repair, digestion, elimination etc. occur automatically. The input of free will would not only be impossible, free will would be a hindrance to these natural processes not an aid.

Men and angels could be created with the same order and dedication to doing God's Will as the rest of material creation. By completely eliminating the notion of “free will” creatures would still be giving Glory to their Creator as does all of nature but the tremendous suffering, evil, betrayal and ultimately death since the Fall would be eliminated.

Our Blessed Mother was sanctified before her birth. She was preserved immaculate by God's gift and grace. Men, by the sin of Adam, inherited a fallen nature which gives them a strong driving desire for sense which Mary did not have. We clearly do not consider it to be a defect in her numerous privileges and dignity that she did not suffer the same attraction to sin as the rest of humanity.

Why couldn't we all be so blessed as Mary? Even if not to the degree as the Mother of God was blessed, why couldn't we all at least be free from the tendency to commit evil?

To repeat my questions:

Part I
What could possibly be the reason in creating creatures who not only COULD sin against their Creator but actually WOULD sin against Him especially when their sin was foreknown?

Part II
Wouldn't it have been much more practical and pleasant for all concerned (including us) to have been created as beings so full of Love for their Creator, that it would have been impossible for the Angles, Adam and Eve or any of us to ever sin against Him?

Part III
Considering all the pain that “free will” has caused since creation, why not simply do without it?

Part IV
Why couldn't we all be blessed as Mary was blessed? If not to the degree as the Mother of God was blessed, why couldn't we all at least be free from the tendency to sin?

Thank you in advance for your answer.
holyrope 3
Thank you Father! 🤗