7 June 2023
We should have frequent recourse to prayer, and persevere a long time in
it. God wishes to be solicited. He is not weary of hearing us. The treasure of
His graces is infinite. We can do nothing more pleasing to God than to beg
incessantly that He bestow them upon us.
Saint John Baptiste de la
Salle
Living By The Spirit
6 June 2023
The Lord died in those days, that we should no longer do the deeds of death. He gave His life, that we might preserve our own from the snares of the devil. And, what is most wonderful, the Word became flesh, that we should no longer live in the flesh, but in spirit should worship God, who is Spirit.
Saint Athanasius the Great
The Lord died in those days, that we should no longer do the deeds of death. He gave His life, that we might preserve our own from the snares of the devil. And, what is most wonderful, the Word became flesh, that we should no longer live in the flesh, but in spirit should worship God, who is Spirit.
Saint Athanasius the Great
The Catholic Church
5 June 2023
The Catholic, or universal, Church gets her name from the fact that she is scattered through the whole world from the one end of the earth to the other, and also because she teaches universally and without omission all the doctrines which are to be made known to mankind, whether concerned with visible or invisible things, with heavenly or earthly things. Then again because she teaches one way of worship to all men, nobles or commoners, learned or simple; finally because she universally cures and heals every sort of sin which is committed by soul and body. Moreover there is in her every kind of virtue in words and deeds and spiritual gifts of every sort.
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
The Catholic, or universal, Church gets her name from the fact that she is scattered through the whole world from the one end of the earth to the other, and also because she teaches universally and without omission all the doctrines which are to be made known to mankind, whether concerned with visible or invisible things, with heavenly or earthly things. Then again because she teaches one way of worship to all men, nobles or commoners, learned or simple; finally because she universally cures and heals every sort of sin which is committed by soul and body. Moreover there is in her every kind of virtue in words and deeds and spiritual gifts of every sort.
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
On Our Efforts
4 June 2023
To turn away from God and carry on with our efforts to sort things out is to turn away from where alone the final answer is – with him.
Norman Nagel
To turn away from God and carry on with our efforts to sort things out is to turn away from where alone the final answer is – with him.
Norman Nagel
God's Will
3 June 2023
Our obligation is to do God’s will, and not our own. We must remember
this if the prayer that our Lord commanded us to say daily is to have any
meaning on our lips. How unreasonable it is to pray that God’s will be done,
and then not promptly obey it when he calls us from this world!
Saint Cyprian of Carthage
The Church
2 June 2023
The church is a collection of souls, brought together in one by God’s secret grace, though that grace comes to them through visible instruments, and unites them to a visible hierarchy. What is seen, is not the whole of the church, but the visible part of it.
Blessed John Henry Newman
The church is a collection of souls, brought together in one by God’s secret grace, though that grace comes to them through visible instruments, and unites them to a visible hierarchy. What is seen, is not the whole of the church, but the visible part of it.
Blessed John Henry Newman
The Eucharist
1 June 2023
This food we call “Eucharist,” and no one may share it unless he believes that our teaching is true, and has been cleansed in the bath of forgiveness for sin and of rebirth, and lives as Christ taught. For we do not receive these things as if they were ordinary food and drink. But, just as Jesus Christ our Savior was made flesh through the word of God and took on flesh and blood for our salvation, so too (we have been taught) through the word of prayer that comes from him, the food over which the Eucharist has been spoken becomes the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus, in order to nourish and transform our flesh and blood.
Justin Martyr
This food we call “Eucharist,” and no one may share it unless he believes that our teaching is true, and has been cleansed in the bath of forgiveness for sin and of rebirth, and lives as Christ taught. For we do not receive these things as if they were ordinary food and drink. But, just as Jesus Christ our Savior was made flesh through the word of God and took on flesh and blood for our salvation, so too (we have been taught) through the word of prayer that comes from him, the food over which the Eucharist has been spoken becomes the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus, in order to nourish and transform our flesh and blood.
Justin Martyr
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