"Another mistake is for the soul to be afraid, thinking itself incapable of receiving great blessings, with the result that, when the Lord begins to grant them, it grows fearful, thinking that it is sinning through vainglory. Let us believe that, when the devil begins to tempt us about this, He Who gives us the blessings will also give us grace to realize that it is a temptation, and fortitude to resist it: I know God will do this if we walk before Him in simplicity, endeavouring to please Him alone and not men."--Saint Teresa of Avila
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Christian Quotes on Fear
"Another mistake is for the soul to be afraid, thinking itself incapable of receiving great blessings, with the result that, when the Lord begins to grant them, it grows fearful, thinking that it is sinning through vainglory. Let us believe that, when the devil begins to tempt us about this, He Who gives us the blessings will also give us grace to realize that it is a temptation, and fortitude to resist it: I know God will do this if we walk before Him in simplicity, endeavouring to please Him alone and not men."--Saint Teresa of Avila
Christian Quotes on Family
Serving Leads to Joy
Expect a Struggle
The Family is a domestic Church
"I think the world today is upside down. Everybody seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater development and greater riches and so on. There is much suffering because there is so very little love in homes and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other; there is no time to enjoy each other. In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
The Familiy & the love for the home
Realize how important one family, your family, really is
Marriage
"Christ is an equal partner in your marriage...Above all, accept the fact that you are not alone as a married couple. Christ is with you, and because Christ is with you, so is His body, and the Church."
--Archbishop Robert Carlson
Surrender/Self-lessness
"Surrender your personal wants to the greater good of your spouse, your family, your community, and your Church...Make sacrifices."
--Archbishop Robert Carlson
Prayer
"Pray together, not just in tough times, but whenever you can."
--Archbishop Robert Carlson
Christian Quotes on Faith and Reason and Suffering
Christian Quotes on Suffering with Patience / Longanimity
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves."
"Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness."
--Mother Theresa
"The more importance given to any clear apprehensions [visions, locutions or feelings], the less capacity the soul has for entering the abyss of faith, where all else is absorbed."
--Saint John of the Cross
I read these great thoughts of the saints and think, really? I am supposed to really accept that this is how God wants it? Suffer to gain happiness? What sort of weird thinking is that? The only answer is He did it so go with it. He said so, so quit thinking like a man. But I am a man!
Comments on Good Resulting from Suffering:
How does God use suffering and adversity to do good? He allows it to purify our souls, aiding us in our understanding of Who created us and to Whom we shall turn for all we need. He is not selfish in wanting us to depend on Him. He is a loving Father, who wants us to know Him, who is Love. Resisting Him is no different from our children resisting us and the good we offer. Sometimes, we have to allow our children to suffer in order for them to know what is best.
Excerpt from Imitation of Christ
1.12 Why Adversity
The Twelfth Chapter
The Value of Adversity
It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things help us to be humble and shield us from vainglory. When to all outward appearances men give us no credit, when they do not think well of us, then we are more inclined to seek God Who sees our hearts. Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.
When a man of good will is afflicted, tempted, and tormented by evil thoughts, he realizes clearly that his greatest need is God, without Whom he can do no good. Saddened by his miseries and sufferings, he laments and prays. He wearies of living longer and wishes for death that he might be dissolved and be with Christ. Then he understands fully that perfect security and complete peace cannot be found on earth.
Christian Quotes on Evangelization
- St. Peter
He should know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
--James 5, 20
"Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them."
- Pope St. Felix III
"There are not over a 100 people in the U.S. that hate the Catholic Church, there are millions however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is, of course, quite a different thing."
- Archbishop Fulton Sheen
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion, wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.
Timothy 1:5-7 NASB
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
- Mother Teresa
"By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart. In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world."
- Caryll Houselander
"I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!"
- Hilaire Belloc
"It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path."
- St. Katharine Drexel
"Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you."
- Mother Teresa
"The world calls for and expects from us simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man. It risks being vain and sterile."
- Pope Paul VI
"We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may never go unless we take Him to them. None of us knows when the loveliest hour of our life is striking. It may be when we take Christ for the first time to that grey office in the city where we work, to the wretched lodging of that poor man who is an outcast, to the nursery of that pampered child, to that battleship, airfield, or camp... "
- Caryll Houselander
"I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only a name, but we are real co-workers and carriers of His love. Today God loves the world through us. Especially in times like these when people are trying to make God "was," it is you and I, by our love, by the purity of our lives, by our compassion, who prove to the world that God "is.""
- Mother Teresa
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
- St. Francis of Assisi
'There is nothing of which apostolic men have more need than interior recollection, in order not to endanger their own salvation while seeking that of others.'
--St. Ignatius of Loyola
"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."
--Jimmy Carter
Ecumenism, as defined by Vatican Council II and Blessed John Paul II, is "the responsibility of the entire Church and of all the baptised, who must augment the partial communion that already exists among Christians until achieving full communion in truth and charity. Praying for unity ... must then be an integral part of the prayer life of all Christians, in all times and places, especially when people from different traditions come together to work for victory in Christ over sin, evil, injustice and the violation of human dignity."
Catholic Quotes on the Eucharist & Mass
The Lord's Day, a gut check on how much you want to be with God
If you don't want to spend an hour with God on Sunday, then what makes you think you want to spend eternity with Him? And if you don't want to spend eternity with Him, don't worry, you won't.
--Fr. Rodger Fleming
Monday, April 9, 2012
Christian quotes on Church and State
Church and State: an article written in the Catholic Encyclopedia, available at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14250c.htm
Christian quotes on Confession
Christian quotes on Love and Charity
Christian quotes on Anger
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Christopher West to speak at ICD (Immaculate Conception in Dardenne Prairie, MO)on April 11 @ 7:00
Monday, April 2, 2012
Divine Mercy Novena
Divine Mercy Novena 2012
Starting on Good Friday, I am joining more than 10,000 Catholics to pray a Divine Mercy Novena!
I'm trying to help this online prayer community (PrayMoreNovenas.com) to get 20,000 people praying this novena for God's Mercy. We all need Mercy, right?
You can sign up for handy email reminders to get the the novena prayers here: http://www.praymorenovenas.com/divine-mercy-novena
After you sign up, maybe you can help spread the word as well. God's Mercy is abundant and overflowing, let's share it!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Comments about Greeks protesting and looting in anger about government spending cuts. Greeks Pessimistic in Anti-Austerity Protests - NYTimes.com
This is what happens when we fail to teach our children some basics Laws of economics. The Greeks are destroying the very places that can save them and employ them! What a bunch of thug loser low lifes! The country is broke and has to cut subsidies and they go crazy, looting businesses, the very source of ANY money to begin with! Then they want to literally kill the members of parliament for doing what they had to do. And they had to do it only because of the dumb liars in parliament who, for the last thirty years, continued the lie that they could give the people everything they needed, without having any money to pay for it! I think this parliament finally deserves recognition for doing what has to be done.
Why don't people learn from all the failed attempts at socialism? It won't work because it can't work. Saint Therese, a doctor of the Church, taught us that without love any task is meaningless.
There is no love in socialism.
One can call a family a small socialist group and it works ONLY because of love. Love is tender and tough, but always seeks the good, the betterment of every individual. Saint Paul taught us how to love our brothers, including a requirement that able men work and not get handouts for nothing. Governments shouldn't be trying to alter God's plan for men. Putting free-loading men outside of the community was a very effective means of removing the sin they were trapped in. Spiritual therapy and tough love are synonymous and socialist governments remove the therapy, the very tool that God taught us to use. Socialism prevents men from becoming all that God wants them to be.
If we don't teach all of our youth, they will end up like these Greek losers. Let us pray and fast for them to mature into men for God.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Pope Benedict prayer & quote on the Eucharist, sacrifices
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI, Blessed John Paul II, and Vatican II on Ecumenism
Benedict XVI also pointed out that "lack of unity among Christians hinders the effective announcement of the Gospel and endangers our credibility", but noted that, "as far as the fundamental truths of the faith are concerned, there is far more that unites us than divides us. ... This is a great challenge for the new evangelisation, which will be more fruitful if all Christians together announce the truth of the Gospel and Jesus Christ, and give a joint response to the spiritual thirst of our times". 1-18-2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Justices Recognize ‘Ministerial Exception’ to Job Bias Laws - NYTimes.com
Great news for all religious institutions! Finally, some common sense in America.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI quote on God's restless Heart--our hearts are restless and so is God's for us
--Pope Benedict XVI, in a homily on the Feast of the Epiphany, Jan 6, 2012