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I do not love You because You can give me paradise or condemn me to hell, but because You are my God. I love You because You are You.Quote from Flannery O’Connor
You do not write the best you can for the sake of art, but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God to use or not use as He sees fit.Another quote from Flannaery O’Connor
Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.Saint Benedict’s Prayer Book
Grant, O Lord, that none may love You less this day because of me; that never word or act of mine may turn one soul from Thee; and, ever daring, yet one more grace would I implore, that many souls this day, because of me, may love Thee more. Amen.St. Therese of Lisieux: Everything is Grace
Everything is a direct effect of our Father's love.....difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens.....her needs.......everything because through them, she learns humility and realizes her weakness. Everything is grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events, to the heart that loves, all is well.St. Gianna Beretta Molla on medicine:
We touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients: in the poor, the young, the old, children..........St. Gianna Beretta Molla on work:
We are apostles, and if we do not want our work to be in vain, but to be effective, there is only one method that will not fail: prayer. We must pray with faith, hope, charity, humility, devotion and reverence.....work can be prayer.....if we offer to the Lord all the actions that we perform, so that they might serve His glory.St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Do you want to be totally united to the Crucified? If you are serious about this, you will be present, by the power of the Cross, at every front, at every place of sorrow, bringing to those who suffer comfort, healing, and salvation.St. John Bosco
Health is God's great gift, and we must spend it entirely for Him. Our eyes should see only for God, our feet walk only for Him, our hands labor for Him alone; in short, our entire body should serve God while we still have the time. Then, when He shall take our health and we shall near our last day, our conscience will not reproach us for having misused it.I also blog at:
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In Honour of World Communications Day 2015
One of my greatest pleasures and privileges as a blogger is to be part of the team at CatholicMom.com. On this website, founded by author and speaker, Lisa Hendey, I write a Gospel reflection for the third day of each … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Catholic family, children, faith, family, large family
Tagged World Communications Day
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St. Gianna: the modern woman’s saint
Also posted at Catholic Insight It is said that God gives us the saints we need in our time. Saints who, by their lives rooted in self-surrendering, self-sacrificing love show us how to conquer the darkness of the world in … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Catholic family, Catholic woman, faith, religion
Tagged modern day saints, Pietro Molla, St. Gianna Beretta Molla
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The month of May and the Act of Total Consecration
” I’d like to renew my Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary,” I explained to my spiritual director. ” I feel that something in my life needs to change.” It has been about one year since I first prayed the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Christian, faith, prayer, religion
Tagged St. Louis de Montfort, total consecration to Jesus through Mary
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Individualism, Hedonism, and Minimalism: Spirit of the world disguised as the Spirit of the Gospel
Father Eric Mah is a priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto. Here is one of his recent thought-provoking homilies. This past Christmas, the Knights of Columbus from our parish generously handed out free copies of a book by Matthew Kelly … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Catholic Church, Christian, Christianity, faith, religion
Tagged Christian discipleship, Gospel of the Rich Young Man, hedonism, individualism, minimalism
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“Look at Him, even just for a moment”
Life is extremely busy. I’m taking another parish nursing online course and my days are filled with family/work/school/volunteer commitments. There’s never enough time. When the calendar is overflowing, it’s easy to rush through prayer, or worse, stop spending time in … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Catholic woman, faith, working mom
Tagged Holy Face of Jesus, prayer, St. Teresa of Avila, Way of Perfection
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The Promise of the Paschal Candle
Also posted at Catholic Insight At the beginning of the Easter Vigil, when the congregation is engulfed in darkness, the entrance of a single source of light from the Paschal candle signifies hope, salvation, resurrection. It is the light that … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Catholic Church, faith, religion
Tagged baptism, Easter Vigil, Paschal Candle, Pope Benedict XVI
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God’s Basin
(From: The Joy of Knowing Christ: Meditations on the Gospels by Pope Benedict XVI) Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end” (John 13:1). God loves his creature, man; he even loves him … Continue reading
“Not My Will, But Yours”
(from The Faith: Reflections on the truths of the Apostles’ Creed from the teaching of Pope Benedict XVI) The three Apostles – Peter, James, and John – were asleep [in Gethsemane], but they awoke intermittently and heard the refrain of … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Christianity, faith
Tagged Garden of Gethsemane, God's will, Holy Week, Pope Benedict XVI
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Jesus, the High Priest
(from The Faith: Reflections on the truths of the Apostles’ Creed from the teaching of Pope Benedict XVI) The Letter to the Hebrews gave us a profound interpretation of this prayer of the Lord [in] Gethsemane. It says: Jesus’ tears, … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Christianity, faith
Tagged Garden of Gethsemane, God's will, Jesus' passion, Lent, Pope Benedict XVI
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