The quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) this past week moved from the feast 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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More Active Life with Contemplation than Without (Quotes Vol. 25)
On social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week, the quotes are not exactly from the usual suspects (though they are not unusual around here either), and after an initial exhortation for last week’s Sunday of the Word of God, the overall focus is the efficacy of contemplation for our active life: Every little word Christ …
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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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This Week’s Quotes Vol. 5
Below you’ll find the quotes posted in the past week to Contemplative in the Mud’s accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter, or, if you were Cardinal Bergoglio, “that 140-character thing”). You might note the images bring out the beauty of nature, and the CitM logo is green-ish instead of blue-ish. These are initiatives for the Season of …
On this Tempestuous Sea
Since your condition obliges you to roll on the tempestuous sea of this world, try never to swallow its waters, but drink rather those of Divine grace, turning in all your needs with a loving, filial trust to the Source of Mercy. Love above all else, and fear to displease, the God of sovereign goodness …
Silent when Silence Calls
It is not for the creature to use empty and insipid words when the Creator Himself deigns to speak. Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
Well, What Does It Matter?
Well, if God wishes us to walk like one who is blind and groping in the dark, what does it matter? We know that He is with us. Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
The Freedom of the Children of God
Today’s first reading at Mass (Latin Rite) includes Saint Paul’s reference to the freedom of the children of God. What does that mean? Surely there are many ways to approach the topic, such as Saint Augustine’s famous sentence: “Love, and do what you want.” Is there, however, a broad, encompassing view of different kinds of freedom and …
To Lose Everything for Freedom
We must strip ourselves of all things, absolutely… Our own judgment must become supple, willing, dependent on God in all that regards our inward life. Once the Holy Spirit has made himself Master of our soul, the great method of prayer is to have none, for in her he then acts with a free hand …
More Suffering, More Favour
God treasures above all the union of our wills with His. When I consider all this, then, truly, my dear Lord, I find so many advantages to affliction, that I can’t help but admitting that the more we suffer, the more we are favoured by God. Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
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