Since relaunching, I’ve been trying to treat the blog as a place for in-depth investigations and what I hope is quality content. The regular run of contemplation-related quotes, both from saints and others, that used to be posted here haven’t materialized in the relaunch.

The reason is that I’ve been putting them up over on Facebook, Instagram, and even what used to be Twitter. Between blog posts and these quotes, there’s something almost every day.

So, you can get updates more regularly on any of those platforms.

But I’ve also decided to compile the memes weekly here. Without any further ado, here are the images from the last week:

The transfiguration of man takes in all the aspects of life. Contemplation gives to man a face of plenitude… There are some beings who manifest this unification. The face of Father de Foucauld is a sort of integration of the whole man. Other faces translate that the eschatological experience is in process but not finished: for example, Saint Thérèse… her face half unified on one side, half in anguish and tragic on the other. Transfiguration remains the secret of God. — Marie-Joseph Le Guillou OP

Immediately before, and for a good while after, my religious conversion, I was of the opinion that to lead a religious life meant one had to give up all that was secular and to live totally immersed in thoughts of the Divine. But gradually I realized that something else is asked of us in this world and that, even in the contemplative life, one may not sever the connection with the world. I even believe that the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must “go out of oneself,” that is, one must go out to the world in order to carry the divine life into it. — Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

The soul will bring forth fruit in exactly the measure in which the inner life is developed in it. If there is no inner life, however great may be the zeal, the lofty intention, the hard work, no fruit will come forth; it is like a spring that would give out sanctity to others but cannot, having none to give; one can only give that which one has. — Saint Charles de Foucauld

Jesus visits me each morning in Holy Communion, and I repay him in my very small way by visiting him in the poor. — Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati