30 June 2023
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No
one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
Saint Leo the Great
The Fulfillment of Joy
29 June 2023
Joy is not something one can define or analyze. One is entered into joy. “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord” (Matthew 25:21). And we have no other means of being entered into that joy, no way of understanding it, except through what has been for the Church both the source and the fulfillment of joy, the very sacrament of joy, the Eucharist.
Alexander Schmemann
Joy is not something one can define or analyze. One is entered into joy. “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord” (Matthew 25:21). And we have no other means of being entered into that joy, no way of understanding it, except through what has been for the Church both the source and the fulfillment of joy, the very sacrament of joy, the Eucharist.
Alexander Schmemann
Serving God
28 June 2023
No one can serve God without rising above every worldly preoccupation.
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
No one can serve God without rising above every worldly preoccupation.
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Turn to Jesus
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
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
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