14 September 2019

Do It Anyway

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.


                                                                                                   St Teresa of Calcutta

6 September 2019

Beata Viscera

Beata viscera Marie virginis cuius ad ubera rex magni nominis;
veste sub altera vim celans numinis dictavit federa Dei et hominis

O mira novitas et novum gaudium, matris integrita post puerperium.

Blessed flesh of the Virgin Mary, at whose breasts the king of eminent name,

concealing, under altered guise, the force of divine nature, has sealed a pact of God and Man

O astonishing novelty and unaccustomed joy of a mother still pure after childbirth.

5 September 2019

Live in Hope

“I have consciousness of my sinfulness, but I live with hope.
It is bad to despair, because someone who despairs becomes
embittered and loses his willingness and strength. Someone
who has hope, on the contrary, advances forward”


                                                                                St. Porphyrios