Christian contemplation thrown into the muddy highways of the world : encouragement : experiences : resources
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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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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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 …
Always remember that God gives his graces according to the measure of our faith. Little Brother Marcel Văn CSsR (1928–1959)
In mental prayer, the soul is purified from its sins, nourished with charity, confirmed in faith, and strengthened in hope; the mind expands, the affectiond dilate, the heart is purified, truth becomes evident; temptation is conquered, sadness dispelled; the senses are renovated; the drooping powers revive; tepidity ceases; the rust of vices disappears. Out of …
This blog has been going for five years now. Hopefully in that time I’ve learned how to write better. (Some of the first posts are dreadful in terms of style.) In that time, I’ve met many people thanks to this blog, and I’m very glad for that. It is important to “go to heaven together …
I felt the truth of Saint Augustine’s words when he says, “Lord, our hearts are restless until they rest in you”; in fact, foolish is he who pursues the joys of the world, because these are always fleeting and cause pain, wheeas the one true joy is that which faith gives us, and our beloved …
[The theologian] Richard of Saint Victor says: “I receive Christ not alone on the Cross, but also in His Transfiguration on Mount Tabor…” That is to say, in all our distresses, in all our painful inward destitution, we may boldly believe that Christ is present with us. Johannes Tauler OP (1300–1361)
My [spiritual] illness is such that no human intervention can make it cease. Human interventions can give me remedies to alleviate the crisis but they cannot eradicate the cause of evil; only faith can be my hope and my comfort in the next life. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901–1925)
Personal experience of God is the only [experience] capable of opposing the materialism present in our life. It gives to us the firmness of a rock in this world where faith is, simultaneously, attacked in its philosophical bases and held captive by ambient immorality. Tomás Morales Pérez SJ (1908–1994)
Contemplative in the Mud 