Blessed Solanus Casey

Blessed
now Solanus
Casey, holy doorman,
may you inspire us always to
give thanks.

 

 

Blessed Solanus Casey was officially beatified today. Alleluia

Pax et bonum

Following the example of Venerable Solanus Casey

The teaching assignments are out for next year, and once again I'm being shuffled.

The ego in me bristles. Anger and resentment.

The Franciscan in me, however, shakes his head at my foolishness.

Venerable Solanus Casey - soon to be Blessed - humbly accepted whatever was sent his way without complaint. He simply did what was asked, no matter how much he might have wanted to do something else or be somewhere else.

And he is my patron as a Franciscan.

Moreover, I've been reading Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option, and in it he describes how monks did what they were told, and if they became too good at and too proud of something they were moved to new assignments.

Humility.

Acceptance.

So hard - but this is what I feel I must do.

Venerable Solanus, pray for me.

Pax et bonum

Solanus Casey - a man full of thanks!

How appropriate that this Thanksgiving Day falls on the 140th birthday of Venerable Solanus Casey, a Capuchin who truly knew how to offer thanks to God for blessings received.

"Let us thank God ahead of time for whatever he forsees is pleasing to Him, leaving everything at His divine disposal, including, with all its circumstances, when, where, and how He may be pleased to dispose the events of our death."

I pray that I can emulate his gentle, peaceful, practical, grateful ways.

Pax et bonum