Lent, Day 35
When the Lord knows that good health is necessary for our soul’s welfare, He sends it to us; and when we need sickness, He sends that too. Sickness makes us discover who we are. – St. Theresa of Avila Numbers 21: 4 – 9 4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to [...]
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All Blessings Flow
Two years ago today, I stood in front of family and friends with my heart pounding so hard I could hear it – waiting for the most beautiful woman I have ever seen to walk through the doors in the back of the room. I had no idea on that day how deep our friendship [...]
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Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more. — St. Francis of Assisi Psalm 23:1-6 A Psalm of David. 1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me [...]
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This quote is exactly what I needed to hear today – I tend to really want to love the “good” but hold back my love for the “bad”. All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves are only hypocrites in the sight of God, if [...]
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You tell me you do not have the time to give two or three hours to prayer; who asks you to do so? No one can be excused from ejaculations because it can be made while coming and going about one’s business. Recommend yourself to God the first thing in the morning, protest that you [...]
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A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head. – St. John Eudes Wisdom 2: 1, 12 – 22 1 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy [...]
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It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger. – St. Ephraem the Syrian Exodus 32:7-14 7 And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down; for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves; 8 they have turned aside quickly out of the [...]
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To be perfect in our vocation is nothing else than to fulfill the duties which our state of life obliges us to perform, and to accomplish them well, and only for the honor and love of God. – St. Francis de Sales Isaiah 7: 10 – 14 10 Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz, 11 [...]
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Wonderful Maker
You spread out the skies over empty space Said, let there be light To a dark and formless world Your light was born You spread out your arms over empty hearts Said, let there be light To a dark and hopeless world Your son was born You made the world and saw that it was [...]
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We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue. – St. Angela Merici Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 1 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east); and the water was [...]
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