29 November 2022
The greatest part of my prayer here and for years now is thankgiving.
What else should I ask, when I have everything?
Gabriela Papayannis
Christ's Passion
28 November 2022
By Christ’s Passion our weakness was cured. By His Resurrection death was conquered. Still we have to be sorrowful for the world, as well as joyful in the Lord, sorrowful in penance, joyful in gratitude.
Saint Ambrose of Milan
By Christ’s Passion our weakness was cured. By His Resurrection death was conquered. Still we have to be sorrowful for the world, as well as joyful in the Lord, sorrowful in penance, joyful in gratitude.
Saint Ambrose of Milan
The story of Jesus
27 November 2022
The story of Jesus is to be proclaimed and celebrated. Some will hear and rejoice, some will remain indifferent, some will become hostile. The story will not always be accepted, but it must be told.
Henri Nouwen
The story of Jesus is to be proclaimed and celebrated. Some will hear and rejoice, some will remain indifferent, some will become hostile. The story will not always be accepted, but it must be told.
Henri Nouwen
On Gratitude
26 November 2022
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
GK Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
GK Chesterton
Evil Inclinations
25 November 2022
There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts will never be sufficient on their own. Only the grace of Christ can win us the victory. Therefore our chief weapons are prayer, patience, and hope. Second, one passion can only be cured by another — a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person’s calling.
Jacques Philippe
There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts will never be sufficient on their own. Only the grace of Christ can win us the victory. Therefore our chief weapons are prayer, patience, and hope. Second, one passion can only be cured by another — a misplaced love by a greater love, wrong behavior by right behavior that makes provisions for the desire underlying the wrongdoing, recognizes the conscious or unconscious needs that seek fulfillment and either offers them legitimate satisfaction or transfers them to something compatible with the person’s calling.
Jacques Philippe
Should We Fall, Not Not Despair
24 November 2022
For to sin, even in the case of those who are most
righteous, is easy, while repentance is not easy for everyone because death is
near; and even before death comes there is despair. It is good, then, not to
fall; or, if we fall, to rise again. And should we fall, we should not despair
and so estrange ourselves from the Lord’s love. For if He so chooses, He can
deal mercifully with our weakness. Only we should not cut ourselves off from
Him or feel oppressed when constrained by His commandments, nor should we lose
heart when we fall short of our goal. Rather, let us learn that a thousand
years in the sight of the Lord are but a single day, and a single day is as a
thousand years (cf. Ps. 90:4). Let us be neither hasty nor tardy, and let us be
always ready to make a new start. If you fall, rise up. If you fall again, rise
up again. Only do not abandon your Physician, lest you be condemned as worse
than a suicide because of your despair. Wait on Him, and He will be merciful,
either reforming you, or sending you trials, or through some other provision of
which you are ignorant.
Saint Peter of Damascus
The Kingdom of Heaven
22 November 2022
There is only one way leading upwards for all who see, lightened with heavenly light. But many and dark and contrary are the ways of those who see not. This way leads to the Kingdom of heaven, uniting man to God: but those ways bring down to death, separating man from God. Therefore it is necessary for you and for all who care for their own salvation to make your course unswerving, firm, and sure by means of faith.
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
There is only one way leading upwards for all who see, lightened with heavenly light. But many and dark and contrary are the ways of those who see not. This way leads to the Kingdom of heaven, uniting man to God: but those ways bring down to death, separating man from God. Therefore it is necessary for you and for all who care for their own salvation to make your course unswerving, firm, and sure by means of faith.
Saint Irenaeus of Lyons
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