7 August 2023
Without effort, even in the most painful hours of life, we can taste the
admirable poetry of the psalms and find in them light, rest, strength, renewal
of all energies.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Fasting
6 August 2023
Fasting is the change of every part of our life, because the sacrifice of the fast is not the abstinence but the distancing from sins. Therefore, whoever limits the fast to the deprivation of food, he is the one who, in reality, abhors and ridicules the fast. Are you fasting? Show me your fast with your works. Which works? If you see someone who is poor, show him mercy. If you see an enemy, reconcile with him. If you see a friend who is becoming successful, do not be jealous of him!
Saint John Chrysostom
Fasting is the change of every part of our life, because the sacrifice of the fast is not the abstinence but the distancing from sins. Therefore, whoever limits the fast to the deprivation of food, he is the one who, in reality, abhors and ridicules the fast. Are you fasting? Show me your fast with your works. Which works? If you see someone who is poor, show him mercy. If you see an enemy, reconcile with him. If you see a friend who is becoming successful, do not be jealous of him!
Saint John Chrysostom
The Object of a New Year
5 August 2023
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
G. K. Chesterton
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
G. K. Chesterton
On Mercy
4 August 2023
So there is earthly and heavenly mercy: that is, human and divine. What is human mercy? Exactly this: to have care for the sufferings of the poor. What is divine mercy? Without doubt, to grant forgiveness of sins. Whatever human mercy gives away on the journey, divine mercy pays back when we arrive at last in our native land.
Saint Caesarius of Arles
So there is earthly and heavenly mercy: that is, human and divine. What is human mercy? Exactly this: to have care for the sufferings of the poor. What is divine mercy? Without doubt, to grant forgiveness of sins. Whatever human mercy gives away on the journey, divine mercy pays back when we arrive at last in our native land.
Saint Caesarius of Arles
The Eucharist
3 August 2023
As soon as Christ says: "This is my body," his body is there through the words and by the power of the Holy Ghost. If there is no word, then there is mere bread; but when the words come to it, that brings with them that which they speak.
Martin Luther
As soon as Christ says: "This is my body," his body is there through the words and by the power of the Holy Ghost. If there is no word, then there is mere bread; but when the words come to it, that brings with them that which they speak.
Martin Luther
On Virtue
2 August 2023
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
Achieving Happiness
1 August 2023
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
Saint John Chrysostom
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
Saint John Chrysostom
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