26 June 2023
Let us turn to Jesus! He alone is
the way that leads to eternal happiness, the truth who satisfies the deepest
longings of every heart, and the life who brings ever new joy and hope, to us
and to our world.
Pope Benedict XVI
Beauty
13 June 2023
The Father makes beautiful by means of the Spirit what he creates by means of the Son.
St. Irenaeus of Lyons
The Father makes beautiful by means of the Spirit what he creates by means of the Son.
St. Irenaeus of Lyons
In His Image
12 June 2023
God has made you in his image that you might in your person make the invisible Creator present on earth.
Saint Peter Chrysologus
God has made you in his image that you might in your person make the invisible Creator present on earth.
Saint Peter Chrysologus
Gifts
11 June 2023
We are invited to rejoice in the many ways the Lord has of giving His gifts. This excludes the logic which concludes that since the forgiveness given a fellow Christian by a royal priest is no other forgiveness than given by a pastor in Holy Absolution, royal priest and pastor are the same or differ only in degree. To measure degrees and quantify is the way of the Law and turns away from the Gospel and the gift given. Each gift is each its own precious gift gladly to be received and not to be measured or diminished by its likeness or unlikeness to another gift. Most precious is what can only be confessed of each gift, its proprium.
Norman Nagel
We are invited to rejoice in the many ways the Lord has of giving His gifts. This excludes the logic which concludes that since the forgiveness given a fellow Christian by a royal priest is no other forgiveness than given by a pastor in Holy Absolution, royal priest and pastor are the same or differ only in degree. To measure degrees and quantify is the way of the Law and turns away from the Gospel and the gift given. Each gift is each its own precious gift gladly to be received and not to be measured or diminished by its likeness or unlikeness to another gift. Most precious is what can only be confessed of each gift, its proprium.
Norman Nagel
The Christian
10 June 2023
The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity.
Saint John Climacus
The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity.
Saint John Climacus
On Reading
9 June 2023
Read good and useful books, and abstain from reading those that only gratify curiosity.
Saint Vincent de Paul
Read good and useful books, and abstain from reading those that only gratify curiosity.
Saint Vincent de Paul
The Holy Spirit
8 June 2023
We must realize that the grace of the Holy Spirit is necessary not only for those who teach but also for those who are taught. Unless the Spirit is present in the heart of the listener, the teacher is wasting his breath. Unless there is a teacher within us, the teacher without works in a vacuum.
Rabanus Maurus
We must realize that the grace of the Holy Spirit is necessary not only for those who teach but also for those who are taught. Unless the Spirit is present in the heart of the listener, the teacher is wasting his breath. Unless there is a teacher within us, the teacher without works in a vacuum.
Rabanus Maurus
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