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. …
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God Does the Work and We Contemplate Him in this World (Quotes Vol. 32)
In this fourth week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) focused in one what contemplation is, how God is working in us to bring it about, and where we can find it. The elevator which must raise me to the heavens is Your arms, O Jesus! For that I do not …
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Between Natural Beauty and Supernatural Suffering (Quotes Vol. 31)
In this third week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) continued the duality of a Laudato Si’ Lent and a Lent of the way of the Cross. To love sufferings and afflictions for the love of God is the highest degree of holy charity. — Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Contemplation, which leads us …
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From Niagara Falls to Golgotha (Quotes Vol. 30)
In this second week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) moved from a Laudato Si’ Lent, i.e., contemplation of God the Creator, to a Lent of mortification, i.e., the experience of the Cross. I am going back again to the water which pours itself out before me. It is also an …
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What Contemplation Is and its Effects (Quotes Vol. 11)
From Facebook, Instagram, and X this week: You must be simple, affable, and kind… Be human, charitable, and always joyful. You must always laugh, even in saying the simplest things. I, as you can see, laugh all the time, showing my bad teeth. Laughter sets the other person at ease. It brings people closer together and helps them better …
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This Week’s Quotes Vol. 6
In addition to the Mountain Suite, the quotes posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) this week were the following. There is quite a bit of the Holy Cross, that feast having been this week, and of Hildegard of Bingen, her feast day being today. We would not want the Cross, no matter how sweet it is, …
I End at the Foot of the Cross
Now is not the time to write, rather to weep. Jesus is dead to give us life. All creatures are mourning. The sun is darkened. The earth quakes. The rocks are rent. The veil of the temple is torn. Only my heart remains harder than flint. I will say no more. Join the poor mother …
Henceforth Lifted Up
The Cross on which the Saviour of the world bled has been henceforth lifted up, for all time to come, as a radiant star capable of purifying from all crime and capable of illuminating all despairs. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Even More
Our Lord saved the world even more by His heroic love on the Cross than by His sermons. His words gave us light, pointed out the way for us to follow; His death on the Cross obtained for us the grace to follow this way. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP (1877–1964)
If It Should Happen…
If it should happen that your soul is invaded by sadness or encounters some small crosses, accept them with good heart so as to offer them to Jesus. Little Brother Marcel Văn CSsR (1928–1959)
Contemplative in the Mud 