If we truly understood the wonder of the Eucharist, we would never miss Mass on those days when the Church asks us to be present. Through the Eucharist we are given grace to live our lives in light, and we have a chance at supreme happiness (beatitude) and heaven.
Carry on the ordinary service required by your state in life with extraordinary deliberateness and full, conscious self-giving, so that the Peace of Christ may pour forth from you.
The cause of division, resentment and bitterness in relationships. Pride makes impossible demands on others and is not satisfied unless these impossible demands are met. Lord, may I be humble, patient and kind.
You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requires of you: Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. – Micah 6:8
Knowledge of the Father is the ultimate good man can possess because it corresponds to the deepest longing in the human heart for happiness. St. Thomas Aquinas tells us that happiness lies in knowing that we possess the ultimate good we seek.
“The greater a being is, the more it wants to determine its own life. It wants to be less and less dependent and, thus, more and more itself a kind of god, needing no one else at all. This is how the desire arises to become free of all need, what we call pride” Cardinal …
“The greater a being is, the more it wants to determine its own life. It wants to be less and less dependent and, thus, more and more itself a kind of god, needing no one else at all. This is how the desire arises to become free of all need, what we call pride” Cardinal …
“Who will teach me what is most agreeable to God so that I may do it?” Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (feast day July 14th)
“I consider the sufferings of the present to be as nothing compared with the glory to be revealed in us.” Romans 8:18 When you suffer, pray for greater awareness of God’s glory
start with “don’t hate your enemies”
