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, …
Tag Archives: Gentleness
Delicately and Without Coercion
How should we correct others? How should we show them virtue? How should we speak to them about the truth? Saint Francis de Sales, Doctor of Love, writes to his friend Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, As much as possible, we must touch the hearts of others as do the angels: delicately and without coercion. …
Never Enough
Of what could I speak to you except fraternal charity? That, within you, there are faces full of love, even if you sometimes don’t share the same ideas. It is grace that we must ask for, a grace of gentleness, patience, charity. You will never love enough; you will never forgive enough. Little Sister Magdeleine …
Rest for Our Souls
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls” (Mt 11:29). This rest for the soul is to be found especially in loving contemplation. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP (1877–1964)
Meekness and Seeing Jesus in Our Neighbours
Saint Alphonsus Liguori writes of the virtue of meekness like this: In fact, we are never so meek and gentle toward others as when we feel great tenderness toward Jesus Christ. (The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ, Ch XII, #6) The meaning of this seems very plain to me. If we have our eyes …
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Contemplative in the Mud 