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Showing posts with label Christian. Show all posts

Thursday, April 14, 2022

St. Therese: Just These Two Things

Jesus does not ask for great achievements: only surrender and gratitude.

~St. Therese of Lisieux




Thursday, March 31, 2022

Elisabeth Leseur: The Power of Suffering


Lord, make us realize that by simply suffering for Jesus’ sake and by bearing “in the body the death of Jesus” [2 Corinthians 4: 10], we can often do more for him and for others than we can by being active. It is very hard to understand this, so please make us realize that our very helplessness can be of great use to others, if we suffer it with and for Jesus. Our suffering works mysteriously, first in ourselves by a kind of renewal and also in others who are perhaps far away, without our ever knowing what we are accomplishing. Christ on the cross has perhaps done more for humanity than Christ speaking and acting in Galilee or Jerusalem. Suffering creates life. It transforms everything it touches. Help us to understand this through Christ, our Lord. 

- Elisabeth Leseur



Sunday, June 13, 2021

Sunday, February 7, 2021

John Paul II: Your Suffering Elevates the World

John Paul II: Your Suffering Elevates the World


I call on you to entrust your anguish to God the Father and to Christ, through Mary; to ask of Him - more than resignation, and even more than courage for your struggle - the grace of love and hope. Look at the Cross of Christ with faith: although it is the instrument of immense suffering, it is above all the sign of immense love, and the open door to Resurrection, which is the ultimate response of the God of love to His chosen Son.

May you offer this handicap of yours together with Christ, and enter into redemption: for your salvation, for the progress of the whole Church, for the graces of conversion that our world needs! Remain faithful to prayer. Try to remain open to others, without turning in on yourselves. Others have a lot to gain from your experience as sick people and as believers. Often, your ordeal has enabled you to acquire an outlook on existence and what is truly valuable, and gain a new degree of patience, of courage, of solidarity, of serenity at the prospect of death - in contrast with the anxiety of those around you - and a mysterious union with God. To all this you can bear witness, making manifest the promise of Jesus: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Even in the silence of prayer, and confined to your bed, you are in communion with the whole world, in order to take part in redemption: your prayer and your offering elevate the world.

~ Pope St. John Paul II

Belgium
May 21, 1985



Sunday, July 15, 2018

St. Alphonsus Liguori: Today






Thursday, January 25, 2018

St. Therese of Lisieux: A Source of Merit!

Do not imagine that love can be found without suffering, for we carry with us our human nature; and yet, what a source of merit it is!

St. Therese of Lisieux


Tuesday, January 23, 2018

St. Therese of Lisieux: Furnace of Love

I cherish the hope that one day Thou wilt swoop down upon me and carry me up until I am lost, a willing victim, in the fiery heart of the furnace of Love.

-St. Therese of Lisieux
 
 
 

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

St. Augustine: The Truth!

People hate the truth
for the sake of whatever it is they love more than the truth.
They love truth when it shines warmly upon them
and hate it
when it rebukes them.

St. Augustine of Hippo



St. Gemma Galgani: If You Really Want to Love

St. Vincent de Paul: Why Trials and Afflictions?

Sunday, January 14, 2018

St. Pio of Pietrelcina: We Must Not Stop!

We must not stop doing good
even if it scandalizes the Pharisees.

St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina



St. Hilary of Poitiers: No Matter How Sinful

No matter how sinful one may have been,
if he has devotion to Mary,
it is impossible that he be lost.

St. Hilary of Poitiers
 
 
 

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

St. Therese of Lisieux: I Will Sing!

I will sing even when I must pick my flowers amid thorns. The longer and sharper the thorns are, the sweeter my song will sound.

~St. Therese of Lisieux



St. Alphonsus Liguori Quotation

When the devil
wishes to make himself master of a soul, he
seeks to make it give up devotion to Mary.

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori




St. Francis of Assisi: Your Deeds

The deeds you do may be
the only sermon some persons will hear today.

St. Francis of Assisi




Thursday, September 21, 2017

St. Teresa of Avila: Detachment


Detachment, if practiced perfectly, includes the other two necessary virtues, love of others and true humility.

~St. Teresa of Avila



Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection: Little Things

We can do little things for God.

~Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection




St. Teresa of the Andes: Infinite Horizons of Love


When a soul gives herself wholly to God, He manifests Himself by letting the soul discover infinite horizons of love that will unite her most closely to Him.

~St. Teresa of Jesus of the Andes






St. John of the Cross: An Altar


The soul in which God alone dwells has no other function than that of an altar on which God is adored in praise and love.

~St. John of the Cross





Monday, September 11, 2017

St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi: In Prayer

... in prayer God teaches the soul, and through prayer the soul detaches itself from created things and unites itself to God.

~St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi