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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Nobody doubts that Marcel Văn saw himself as a spiritual little brother of Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. It’s pretty hard to miss. Thus, we find biographers speaking of a “life placed under the aegis of the ‘Little Flower’,” or “a sort of ideal double of himself” found by Văn in …
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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 morning, Pope Francis published a new apostolic exhortation on the message of Thérèse of Lisieux, C’est la Confiance. The quotes posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) in the past week try to reflect this theme and lead up to it, whatever the Holy Father may have to tell us! Help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere …
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Contemplative in the Mud 