A Sunday Within The Octave Thought About The Primary Importance of Total Surrender of The Heart To God
In the traditional calendar, the Sunday after the Feast of the Ascension is referred to as "within the Octave." That's the result of the Ascension being celebrated as it always has on Thursday until the newfangled calendar shook things up. We would ask why it switched Ascension Thursday (as it was always called) to Sunday, but we've done that in the past. No reason to repeat; no reason to dwell on it. It is what it is. So rather than repeat what we should all know about the divergence of the traditional and the newfangled, let's instead grab on to some pearls of wisdom we can meditate on on this Sunday. It comes from one of our "friends" - a solid, reliable Catholic spiritual writer - Fr. Victorino Osende. His focus is on total surrender to the heart of Gd. It's of primary importance to our desire to grow in our spiritual life, i.e., to grow closer to God. He approaches his subject from an interesting angle: beginning with the first Christians. Thes...