From social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week: It seems to me that Our Lady’s attitude during the months that intervened between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model for interior souls, for those whom God has chosen to live within, in the depths of the unfathomable abyss. — Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity …
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Eyes Set on Christ and Transformed in Him (Quotes Vol. 19)
From social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week: It is not possible to speak or write of the profound love engendered in the heart of the Christian who looks at the neighbour, not according to exterior things like wealth or descent or the like, but as beloved members of Christ’s body, intimately united with him …
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Profit from Weakness and Be a Child in the Arms of God (Quotes Vol. 18)
From social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week: Make an effort to profit from your great weakness and, by it, to become holy. Throw yourself upon Jesus in confidence, like a little child unable to take a single step on her own. Be like the fragile branch which, one day, will bear flowers. — Marcel …
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Never Separate These Two (Quotes Vol. 17)
From Facebook, Instagram, and X this past week: Since mental prayer brings our intellect to the light of God, and keeps our will exposed to the flames of divine love, there is nothing which can better dispel the darkness with which ignorance and error have obscured our intelligence, nor better purify our hearts from all our depraved …
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Where to Find Christ among Us (Quotes Vol. 16)
Heading into the final week of my focus on clerical abuse, here are some quotes on different topics that were posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X recently: The Christian vocation is to walk on water, without any human support, in pure faith, in hope, and in pure charity, even without any feeling, keeping one’s gaze fixed on God. — …
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Four Quotes with Expectations a Little Rearranged (Quotes Vol. 15)
A brief respite from the heavy work on clerical abuse, with these quotes that were posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X recently: We should notice here the difference which exists between the contemplation of Christians and that of pagan [Greek] philosophers. The latter sought only their own perfection, and hence their contemplation affected their intellect only; they desired only …
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Infinity Come to Us and Taking our Everything (Quotes Vol. 14)
A brief respite from the heavy work on clerical abuse, with these quotes that were posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X recently: “To me he has granted his infinite mercy and through it I contemplate and adore the other divine perfections! All of these perfections appear to be resplendent with love, even his Justice (and perhaps this even more …
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More on Contemplation and its Effects (Quotes Vol. 13)
Tomorrow I’ll start my new series of posts on Marcel Văn and clerical abuse. For, now, here are quotes that were posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X this past week: What is meant by the direct acts of contemplation? They are acts which are in no way discursive, but which are made by a simple gaze, above reasoning. And indeed—they …
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They Are for Us and We Have Them
For All Saints Day, remember: For whom are the saints? Well, for us sinners of course! We take them by the hand. Someone who does not give his hand may very well possess all the qualities we can think of, but one thing he could not be would be a Christian. — Cardinal Charles Journet …
Confidence and the Face of Jesus (Quotes Vol. 12)
From Facebook, Instagram, and X this week: I remain convinced that the sick child is the one with the privilege of being closest to his mother. In the same way, the weak soul is the one the closest to the Lord. — Marcel Văn In every human being you can find the Face of Jesus, never forgetting that what …
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Contemplative in the Mud 