11 November 2022
Love and self-control liberate the soul from its obsessions. Reading and
reflection deliver the intellect from ignorance. Regular prayer brings the soul
into the very presence of God.
Saint Maximos the Confessor
On Love
9 November 2022
There is nothing in human life better than mutual love nor anything sweeter than holy fellowship. To love and be loved is a sweet exchange, the joy of one’s whole life, the recompense of blessedness. What can be lacking in the sweetness of this good and pleasant dwelling, this place where God dwells and where he rests? ‘God is in his holy place, God, who makes those of one mind to dwell in a house’.
Baldwin of Forde
There is nothing in human life better than mutual love nor anything sweeter than holy fellowship. To love and be loved is a sweet exchange, the joy of one’s whole life, the recompense of blessedness. What can be lacking in the sweetness of this good and pleasant dwelling, this place where God dwells and where he rests? ‘God is in his holy place, God, who makes those of one mind to dwell in a house’.
Baldwin of Forde
Our Journey
7 November 2022
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
Saint Augustine
Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.
Saint Augustine
True Fasting
6 November 2022
The essence and power of abstinence is not in refraining from food, but in expelling from the heart every remembrance of evil and other such things. That is true fasting, and what – above all else – the Lord demands.
Saint Leo of Optina
The essence and power of abstinence is not in refraining from food, but in expelling from the heart every remembrance of evil and other such things. That is true fasting, and what – above all else – the Lord demands.
Saint Leo of Optina
Virtues of the Saints
4 November 2022
Jesus does not want from me a mediocre virtue, but a high one: He is not happy with me until I become, or at least I am committed to becoming a saint.
Saint John XXIII
Jesus does not want from me a mediocre virtue, but a high one: He is not happy with me until I become, or at least I am committed to becoming a saint.
Saint John XXIII
Called to be Saints
2 November 2022
The active life to be productive must have contemplation. When it (contemplation) gets to a certain height it overflows to active life and gets help and strength from the heart of God. This is the way the saints produced so much fruit, and we’re all called to be saints.
Saint Katharine Drexel
The active life to be productive must have contemplation. When it (contemplation) gets to a certain height it overflows to active life and gets help and strength from the heart of God. This is the way the saints produced so much fruit, and we’re all called to be saints.
Saint Katharine Drexel
Good Thoughts
1 November 2022
Occupy your minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Unoccupied, they cannot be.
Saint Thomas More
Occupy your minds with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. Unoccupied, they cannot be.
Saint Thomas More
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