All the quotes posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) this past week, rounding out the end of the Season of Creation and moving into “ordinary time”:
Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible. — Saint Teresa of Avila
Christian spirituality proposes an alternative understanding of the quality of life, and encourages a prophetic and contemplative lifestyle, one capable of deep enjoyment free of the obsession with consumption… To be serenely present to each reality, however small it may be, opens us to much greater horizons of understanding and personal fulfilment. — Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ 222
The good we achieve depends on what we are, not what we do or say. It depends on the grace that accompanies our actions, the extent to which Jesus lives in us, to which our actions are His, acting in and through us. May this truth always be present to our minds. — Saint Charles de Foucauld
Here-below, on the road opened up by faith, love goes yet farther than faith. — Charles Journet
Contemplative in the Mud 