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January 2019

Bayley Seton Hospital Staten Island, NY

Photo of the former Bayley Seton Hospital on Staten Island, re-named by the Sisters of Charity when they took control of the hospital from the US Public Health Service in 1980 to honor their foundress Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton and her father Dr. Richard Bayley.

The campus has been sold and resold since then but the cross still remains on the front of the main building. An urban explorer website of abandoned buildings photographed the prayer plaque on a wall of one of the abandoned buildings.

 

BayleySetonCross on the Building from the Bayley Seton Days

https://expo.silive.com/erry-2018/04/9eaafbc0fa/abandoned_bayley_seton_hospita.html


The Most Holy Name of Jesus

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IHS

IHS stands for the name of JESUS, with various explanations having been given over the years for the amalgam. It was used by early preachers on icons, banners and insignias who promoted devotion to the feast and to the name of Jesus, Himself. Today you will see he insignia in church art of all kinds. In some churches, one could spend a great deal of time counting the number of times the insignia appears on pews, windows, altars and more. While counting, reverently holding the name of Jesus in prayer would be a good pious practice.

 

 


Saints Basil the Great


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St. Basil The Great, a doctor of the Church and founder of Eastern Monasticism wrote and preached in defense of the Divinity of Christ and the truths of the Catholic faith. 

He wrote that our jealousy of those who have more than us isn't so much born of a resentment of them for what they have, but a belief that our unhappiness springs from our lack of the things we covet. It is our envious discontent that causes our suffering. 

In Dante's Purgatorio , the envious are gathered together clothed in sackcloth and have their eyes sutured closed with metal wires. They all have little or nothing and cannot envy what they cannot see.