Blessed Contardo Ferrini. breski1 on Oct 25, 2007 Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same …More
Blessed Contardo Ferrini.
breski1 on Oct 25, 2007 Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same baptismal font where the Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, also a native of Milan, had been baptized 46 years prior. After receiving his First Holy Communion at the age of twelve, he joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
. Contardo's father, a professor of mathematics and science, taught his son at an early age. Contardo learned to speak several languages. His love for the Catholic faith caused friends to nickname him "Saint Aloysius" (after St. Aloysius Gonzaga). He entered the University of Pavia at age seventeen and, two years later, he was appointed Dean of Students. At age twenty-one he became a doctor of the law at the University. His doctoral thesis, which related Penal Law to Homeric poetry, was the basis of his being awarded a scholarship to the University of Berlin, where he specialized in Roman-Byzantine law, a field in which he became internationally recognized as an expert.
During Contardo's stay in Berlin, he wrote of his excitement at receiving the Sacrament of Penance for the first time in a foreign land. The experience brought home to him, he wrote, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church.
Upon his return to Italy, he was a lecturer in the universities at Messina, Modena, and Pavia. He received his first professorship at the young age of twenty-six. Contardo attempted to discern a vocation as a secular priest, a member of a religious order, or as a married person. Ultimately, he fulfilled his vocation as an unmarried layperson. He vowed himself to God, became a member of the Third Order of St. Francis in 1886, and was also a member of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, to which he had been introduced by his father, a member of the Society.
As a faculty member at University of Pavia, he was considered expert in Roman Law. Over the course of his career he published books, articles and reviews. He taught for a time at the University of Paris. He later became a canon lawyer in addition to being a civil lawyer.
An unconfirmed anecdote about Contardo is that he was asked to attend a dinner party and, once there, found it tedious. His resort was to invite all the guests to join him in praying the Rosary.
In 1900, Contardo developed a heart lesion. In the Fall of 1902 he went to his country home in Suna in order to rest. While there, he became ill with typhus. He died at age forty-three on 17 October 1902. Residents of Suna immediately declared him a saint. His colleagues at the University of Pavia wrote letters in which he was described as a saint. In 1909 Pope Pius X appointed Cardinal Ferrari to open a cause. Contardo was subsequently declared Venerable by Pope Pius XI and he was beatified by Pope Pius XII on 13 April 1947. His body is venerated in a chapel of Milan's Catholic University.
Ferrini is the Patron Saint of Universities, Professors, and Homeric scholarship.
breski1 on Oct 25, 2007 Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same baptismal font where the Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, also a native of Milan, had been baptized 46 years prior. After receiving his First Holy Communion at the age of twelve, he joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament
. Contardo's father, a professor of mathematics and science, taught his son at an early age. Contardo learned to speak several languages. His love for the Catholic faith caused friends to nickname him "Saint Aloysius" (after St. Aloysius Gonzaga). He entered the University of Pavia at age seventeen and, two years later, he was appointed Dean of Students. At age twenty-one he became a doctor of the law at the University. His doctoral thesis, which related Penal Law to Homeric poetry, was the basis of his being awarded a scholarship to the University of Berlin, where he specialized in Roman-Byzantine law, a field in which he became internationally recognized as an expert.
During Contardo's stay in Berlin, he wrote of his excitement at receiving the Sacrament of Penance for the first time in a foreign land. The experience brought home to him, he wrote, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church.
Upon his return to Italy, he was a lecturer in the universities at Messina, Modena, and Pavia. He received his first professorship at the young age of twenty-six. Contardo attempted to discern a vocation as a secular priest, a member of a religious order, or as a married person. Ultimately, he fulfilled his vocation as an unmarried layperson. He vowed himself to God, became a member of the Third Order of St. Francis in 1886, and was also a member of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, to which he had been introduced by his father, a member of the Society.
As a faculty member at University of Pavia, he was considered expert in Roman Law. Over the course of his career he published books, articles and reviews. He taught for a time at the University of Paris. He later became a canon lawyer in addition to being a civil lawyer.
An unconfirmed anecdote about Contardo is that he was asked to attend a dinner party and, once there, found it tedious. His resort was to invite all the guests to join him in praying the Rosary.
In 1900, Contardo developed a heart lesion. In the Fall of 1902 he went to his country home in Suna in order to rest. While there, he became ill with typhus. He died at age forty-three on 17 October 1902. Residents of Suna immediately declared him a saint. His colleagues at the University of Pavia wrote letters in which he was described as a saint. In 1909 Pope Pius X appointed Cardinal Ferrari to open a cause. Contardo was subsequently declared Venerable by Pope Pius XI and he was beatified by Pope Pius XII on 13 April 1947. His body is venerated in a chapel of Milan's Catholic University.
Ferrini is the Patron Saint of Universities, Professors, and Homeric scholarship.
OCTOBER 17, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
BIGGER BARNS?
October 17, 2011
Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr
Father Steven Reilly, LC
Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to
share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who
appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the
crowd, "Take care to guard …More
OCTOBER 17, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
BIGGER BARNS?
October 17, 2011
Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr
Father Steven Reilly, LC
Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to
share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who
appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the
crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be
rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Then he told them
a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful
harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space
to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall
tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my
grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you
have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink,
be merry!" But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will
be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will
they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for
himself but is not rich in what matters to God."
Introductory Prayer: O God, I come to you today with all my human
frailty. You know me better than I know myself. I am in your presence
to accompany and console you, not to seek consolation or a nice
feeling for myself. Even if I get distracted during our time
together, I offer myself to you completely.
Petition: Lord, give me wisdom to understand what is truly important
in this life.
1. The Scorecard of Life: Driving down the road, a bumper sticker
is often seen: "The one who dies with the most toys wins." This is a
contemporary rendition of the mantra of Jesus' rich fool: "Eat, drink
and be merry." Juggling credit cards and all kinds of financing
schemes, many people live life like the rich fool in today's Gospel.
Is the drive for material pleasure, or security, impoverishing my
soul?
2. A Bigger Barn vs. a Bigger Heart: What will truly make us happy?
Glossy magazine ads are, for some, a source of inspiration on this
point. Basically, they are about "bigger barns": a hotter car, redder
lipstick, spectacular vacations. The rich fool believes that by
increasing his capacity for material pleasure, he will be happier.
But it's an illusion. Like the running wheel for a gerbil, it is lots
of movement without getting anywhere. We invest energy and effort
acquiring things, but the bigger barn brings us little joy. That's
because our hearts -- not our barns -- are what really need to be
enlarged. Our heart longs for love. That Augustinian restlessness
will never leave us in peace until we have encountered the Lord who
loves us and discovered him in the relationships ordained by his
providence.
3. When the Final Curtain Is Drawn: At the end of this parable,
Jesus in essence says, "You can't take it with you." There's a place
in Rome in which this is graphically depicted. The Capuchin church of
St Mary of the Immaculate Conception, on Via Veneto, is
affectionately known as the "Bone Church." Inside there is an
amazingly designed and arranged display made completely out of the
bones of four thousand Capuchin friars! While it may strike at modern
sensitivities as somewhat morbid, like today's Gospel it teaches an
important lesson. All those bones look alike. Unless you are a
forensic expert, you cannot tell who was fat or thin, smart or dull,
handsome or homely. Death is the great leveler. Earthly advantages
dissolve. Material goods stay in this world. We go to the Lord to
render an account of our lives at death. As the little sign on the
wall of the Capuchin ossarium says, "One day, we were like you. One
day, you will be like us."
Conversation with Christ: Lord Jesus, so often I find my eyes
looking on the good things of this world more as ends than means. I
need to keep my priorities straight always: you first and then
everything else, inasmuch as they lead me to you. Give me the wisdom
to realize that life is short and it must be lived for you alone.
Resolution: I will live charity today as fervently as if I knew
this day were my last.
meditation.regnumchristi.org
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
BIGGER BARNS?
October 17, 2011
Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr
Father Steven Reilly, LC
Luke 12:13-21
Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to
share the inheritance with me." He replied to him, "Friend, who
appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the
crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be
rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Then he told them
a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful
harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space
to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall
tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my
grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you
have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink,
be merry!" But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will
be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will
they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for
himself but is not rich in what matters to God."
Introductory Prayer: O God, I come to you today with all my human
frailty. You know me better than I know myself. I am in your presence
to accompany and console you, not to seek consolation or a nice
feeling for myself. Even if I get distracted during our time
together, I offer myself to you completely.
Petition: Lord, give me wisdom to understand what is truly important
in this life.
1. The Scorecard of Life: Driving down the road, a bumper sticker
is often seen: "The one who dies with the most toys wins." This is a
contemporary rendition of the mantra of Jesus' rich fool: "Eat, drink
and be merry." Juggling credit cards and all kinds of financing
schemes, many people live life like the rich fool in today's Gospel.
Is the drive for material pleasure, or security, impoverishing my
soul?
2. A Bigger Barn vs. a Bigger Heart: What will truly make us happy?
Glossy magazine ads are, for some, a source of inspiration on this
point. Basically, they are about "bigger barns": a hotter car, redder
lipstick, spectacular vacations. The rich fool believes that by
increasing his capacity for material pleasure, he will be happier.
But it's an illusion. Like the running wheel for a gerbil, it is lots
of movement without getting anywhere. We invest energy and effort
acquiring things, but the bigger barn brings us little joy. That's
because our hearts -- not our barns -- are what really need to be
enlarged. Our heart longs for love. That Augustinian restlessness
will never leave us in peace until we have encountered the Lord who
loves us and discovered him in the relationships ordained by his
providence.
3. When the Final Curtain Is Drawn: At the end of this parable,
Jesus in essence says, "You can't take it with you." There's a place
in Rome in which this is graphically depicted. The Capuchin church of
St Mary of the Immaculate Conception, on Via Veneto, is
affectionately known as the "Bone Church." Inside there is an
amazingly designed and arranged display made completely out of the
bones of four thousand Capuchin friars! While it may strike at modern
sensitivities as somewhat morbid, like today's Gospel it teaches an
important lesson. All those bones look alike. Unless you are a
forensic expert, you cannot tell who was fat or thin, smart or dull,
handsome or homely. Death is the great leveler. Earthly advantages
dissolve. Material goods stay in this world. We go to the Lord to
render an account of our lives at death. As the little sign on the
wall of the Capuchin ossarium says, "One day, we were like you. One
day, you will be like us."
Conversation with Christ: Lord Jesus, so often I find my eyes
looking on the good things of this world more as ends than means. I
need to keep my priorities straight always: you first and then
everything else, inasmuch as they lead me to you. Give me the wisdom
to realize that life is short and it must be lived for you alone.
Resolution: I will live charity today as fervently as if I knew
this day were my last.
meditation.regnumchristi.org
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Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S. Born 5 April 1859
Milan, Italy Died 17 October 1902 (aged 43) Suna, Italy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contardo_Ferrini
Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same baptismal font where the Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, also a native of Milan, had been baptized 46 years …More
Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S. Born 5 April 1859
Milan, Italy Died 17 October 1902 (aged 43) Suna, Italy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contardo_Ferrini
Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same baptismal font where the Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, also a native of Milan, had been baptized 46 years prior. After receiving his First Holy Communion at the age of twelve, he joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament.
Contardo's father, a professor of mathematics and science, taught his son at an early age. Contardo learned to speak several languages. His love for the Catholic faith caused friends to nickname him "Saint Aloysius" (after St. Aloysius Gonzaga). He entered the University of Pavia at age seventeen and, two years later, he was appointed Dean of Students. At age twenty-one he became a doctor of the law at the University. His doctoral thesis, which related Penal Law to Homeric poetry, was the basis of his being awarded a scholarship to the University of Berlin, where he specialized in Roman-Byzantine law, a field in which he became internationally recognized as an expert.
During Contardo's stay in Berlin, he wrote of his excitement at receiving the Sacrament of Penance for the first time in a foreign land. The experience brought home to him, he wrote, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church.
Upon his return to Italy, he was a lecturer in the universities at Messina, Modena, and Pavia. He received his first professorship at the young age of twenty-six. Contardo attempted to discern a vocation as a secular priest, a member of a religious order, or as a married person. Ultimately, he fulfilled his vocation as an unmarried layperson. He vowed himself to God, became a member of the Third Order of St. Francis in 1886, and was also a member of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, to which he had been introduced by his father, a member of the Society.
As a faculty member at University of Pavia, he was considered expert in Roman Law. Over the course of his career he published books, articles and reviews. He taught for a time at the University of Paris. He later became a canon lawyer in addition to being a civil lawyer.
An unconfirmed anecdote about Contardo is that he was asked to attend a dinner party and, once there, found it tedious. His resort was to invite all the guests to join him in praying the Rosary.
In 1900, Contardo developed a heart lesion. In the Fall of 1902 he went to his country home in Suna in order to rest. While there, he became ill with typhus. He died at age forty-three on 17 October 1902. Residents of Suna immediately declared him a saint. His colleagues at the University of Pavia wrote letters in which he was described as a saint. In 1909 Pope Pius X appointed Cardinal Ferrari to open a cause. Contardo was subsequently declared Venerable by Pope Pius XI and he was beatified by Pope Pius XII on 13 April 1947. His body is venerated in a chapel of Milan's Catholic University.
Ferrini is the Patron Saint of Universities, Professors, and Homeric scholarship.
Milan, Italy Died 17 October 1902 (aged 43) Suna, Italy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contardo_Ferrini
Blessed Contardo Ferrini, O.F.S., was born on 5 April 1859 in Milan, Italy, to Rinaldo Ferrini and Luigia Buccellati. He was baptized at the same baptismal font where the Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, also a native of Milan, had been baptized 46 years prior. After receiving his First Holy Communion at the age of twelve, he joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament.
Contardo's father, a professor of mathematics and science, taught his son at an early age. Contardo learned to speak several languages. His love for the Catholic faith caused friends to nickname him "Saint Aloysius" (after St. Aloysius Gonzaga). He entered the University of Pavia at age seventeen and, two years later, he was appointed Dean of Students. At age twenty-one he became a doctor of the law at the University. His doctoral thesis, which related Penal Law to Homeric poetry, was the basis of his being awarded a scholarship to the University of Berlin, where he specialized in Roman-Byzantine law, a field in which he became internationally recognized as an expert.
During Contardo's stay in Berlin, he wrote of his excitement at receiving the Sacrament of Penance for the first time in a foreign land. The experience brought home to him, he wrote, the universality of the Roman Catholic Church.
Upon his return to Italy, he was a lecturer in the universities at Messina, Modena, and Pavia. He received his first professorship at the young age of twenty-six. Contardo attempted to discern a vocation as a secular priest, a member of a religious order, or as a married person. Ultimately, he fulfilled his vocation as an unmarried layperson. He vowed himself to God, became a member of the Third Order of St. Francis in 1886, and was also a member of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, to which he had been introduced by his father, a member of the Society.
As a faculty member at University of Pavia, he was considered expert in Roman Law. Over the course of his career he published books, articles and reviews. He taught for a time at the University of Paris. He later became a canon lawyer in addition to being a civil lawyer.
An unconfirmed anecdote about Contardo is that he was asked to attend a dinner party and, once there, found it tedious. His resort was to invite all the guests to join him in praying the Rosary.
In 1900, Contardo developed a heart lesion. In the Fall of 1902 he went to his country home in Suna in order to rest. While there, he became ill with typhus. He died at age forty-three on 17 October 1902. Residents of Suna immediately declared him a saint. His colleagues at the University of Pavia wrote letters in which he was described as a saint. In 1909 Pope Pius X appointed Cardinal Ferrari to open a cause. Contardo was subsequently declared Venerable by Pope Pius XI and he was beatified by Pope Pius XII on 13 April 1947. His body is venerated in a chapel of Milan's Catholic University.
Ferrini is the Patron Saint of Universities, Professors, and Homeric scholarship.