The quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) this past week moved from the feats day of Catherine of Siena to the singularity of the demand of God, for our love which is shown in being loved (and showing the same love for his other children). No one saw more clearly the miseries and …
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Holy Week and Easter (Quotes Vol. 34)
This past week, all the quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) spoke of the time we are in: Holy Week and Easter. Contemplation is paradise on earth, a crucified paradise. — Jacques Maritain Contemplation is not anesthesia, imperturbability, deliverance from all that might agitate a person, an ascent to the Sea of Tranquility. …
Consumed More and More (Quotes Vol. 26)
On social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week, the quotes passed through the celebration of the feats day of Thomas Aquinas and Candlemas, and captured the picture of a spiritual life consumed more and more in the divine fire that draws us: Saint Thomas [Aquinas] was a ‘remarkably contemplative man.’ What does that mean? That …
God the Most Vulnerable: Indigenous Baptist and Catholic Perspectives
In the Incarnation, God became vulnerable. He took on vulnerability which he didn’t have otherwise. The Humanity of Jesus introduced this feature of divine love, by letting the vulnerability of material creatureliness have a share in the Godhead. This is how we normally speak. But is it actually right? Does it manifest the truth about …
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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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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 …
This Week’s Quotes Vol. 9
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 …
This Week’s Quotes Vol. 3
These are the quotes/memes posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X/what used to be Twitter in the past week: [In contemplation] conceptual knowledge of revealed truths is not in any way laid aside, or in any way got rid of, it is merely for the moment covered over. All the dogmas thus subsist in the faith of the contemplative, but …
The Only Way is Detachment
One cannot go towards things other than in looking beyond them. That is the only way to make way towards the things that are bitter, just as it is the only way to make way towards those that are sweet. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
The Gospel Continued
The Church is the Gospel continued. This is the simplest, and perhaps the most beautiful, of definitions of the Church. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Contemplative in the Mud 