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The month of November has been designated by the Holy Mother the Church, as a time of prayer and good works on behalf of our beloved dead, imploring our Heavenly Father to bring them home to be with Him forever.
The greatest of all prayers is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is the best help we can give our beloved departed. Holy Scripture says: “Judas, the ruler of Israel, took up a collection among all his soldiers…which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice…thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from their sins” (2 Maccabees 12:43-46).
Let us be with you in prayer to our heavenly Father for our beloved dead. Every day during November, we will remember those you recommend to us as mass, in prayer and in our apostolic labors.
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Fr. Carrol, obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from Cornell University.
He has been President of the Philippine Sociological Society, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Gregorian University, Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Acting Director of the Institute of Philippine Culture, Research Director for the National Secretariat for Social Action, Founding Director of the Institute on Church and Social Issues, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Social Order, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Ateneo de Manila University.
Fr. Carrol is 88 years old.
After our ordination at Fordham University Church, we spent some weeks at the theologians’ villa at Blue Ridge Summit. Then we went to Woodstock in order to finish our fourth year theology.
The first thing I did when we arrived at Woodstock was to visit Father Fisher, my spiritual father. He asked me, “How are you?”, “I am now ready to die,” I answered “What makes you so ready to die/” he asked. ” All my life I have wanted to say Mass,” I said. “Now that I have said Mass, I am ready to die”.
He smiled and said: “You will not die yet; you will work for forty more years.” He said this fifty nine years ago. Father Fisher was not a prophet. But he was a holy man and a wise counselor.
I spent most of these fifty-nine years teaching philosophy. Once. an interviewer asked me: “Could you tell me why you chose to devote your life to philosophy?” “I did not chose philosophy”, I said. I was given an assignment to teach philosophy. So I only fulfilled my assignment.” “Do you mean to say,” the interviewer asked, “that you would not have taught philosophy if you had not perceived an assignment to do so?”. “Yes.” I answered. “How horrible! ” she said.
Sometimes, we tend to look at work done under obedience as somehow unreal and insincere. But Michelangelo painted the Sistine chapel in obedience to the Pope’s request and his paintings were certainly real and sincere. Jesuits who live under obedience are not geniuses like Michelangelo. But we strive to be real and sincere.
Dear Father Provincial, you have just begun to fulfill an assignment which you did not choose. It was chosen for you by Jesus. When we accept an assignment out of obedience to Jesus it becomes our charism for his Mystical Body. Jesus is the head of his Mystical Body.
The Holy Spirit is the soul of the Mystical Body. Some medieval theologians used to say somewhat quaintly that Mary is the neck of the Mystical body. Because when graces from the head are scattered throughout the body they have to pass through MARY. So, if there are days of storm and rain we can always, like Saint Bernard, “Look to the Star, call on Mary: Respice stellam, voca Mariam.” And we are always reassured by St. Stanislaus Kotska, that the mother of God is my mother, “Mater Dei est mater mea.”
Ferriols, R. S.J. (2013, December) Anniversary Message on the 59th Year of My Priesthood, Windhover, 4, 27.