Agape
Only the asceticism of Christian chastity purifies and disciplines love so that it rises above the sensual sphere to become a truly personal act of self-giving.
Help me, a sinner
“Lord, watch out for me today lest I betray you yet again today.” (Taken from a quote by St Phillip Neri}
See Christ
“I can see thanks to the sun light, but if I close my eyes, I cannot see; but this is not the fault of the sun, but mine” – Saint Thomas Aquinas
Live Heaven Now
You are living eternal life right now. And if we’re not living it properly on earth, before our deaths, why should you expect to live it in heaven after our deaths? If we don’t choose to give our lives to Jesus now, why would we expect to be with Him forever?
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
We “wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify (our) yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring (us) to (the) desired end”
Happiness
Only God meets the deepest longings of the human heart, which is never fully satisfied by what this world has to offer. – “Gaudium et Spes” (“The Church in the Modern World”)
Stuff
“possess and love nothing that your are not ready to give up at the first sign” – Words of Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez
Stuff
“possess and love nothing that your are not ready to give up at the first sign” – Words of Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez
A Prayer
Lord, have mercy on me and grant me the grace to be able to say: ‘I have seen the Lord, not because he appeared to me, but because I saw him with my heart.’
Focus
Sometimes in our lives tears are the lenses we need to see Jesus. – Pope Francis