To Pray and Love
“If you pray and love, you will have found happiness in this world.” – St. John Vianney
Gettin’ Nowhere Fast
“I’m in a hurry to get things done. I rush and rush until life‘s no fun” – Alabama This world tells us that increasing our speed will somehow compensate for not knowing where we’re going. “There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part..”. (Luke 10:42)
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Go Big…
Martha did not merely seek consolation from her friend, Jesus. No, full of hope, she asked Jesus for a miracle, a big one: “Even now I know that whatever you ask God, God will give you,” (John 11:22) When we go out to meet Jesus in the Eucharist, at our nearby Adoration chapel, or silently
3-Step Program
Deny yourself, take up your crosses daily, lose your life,Beatitude (that is, be supremely happy)
Get the plank out
“Men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins, the more interested they become in the sins of others. Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.” (Saint Augustine)
The Conversion
In Alcoholics Anonymous, they often speak of two kinds of conversions on the journey from addiction to sobriety: the “Educational Variety” and the dramatic “Road to Damascus” type. But perhaps the most powerful conversion is found in today’s Gospel (Matthew 9:9–13, July 4th, Year I)—the calling of Matthew. He had become a tax collector, likely
Independence Day
“By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude*” (CCC 1731) * beatitude: supreme happiness
Stress free
“The Lord grieves over the rich, because they find their consolation in the abundance of goods. ‘Let the proud seek and love earthly kingdoms, but blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven’ (Saint Augustine). Abandonment to the providence of the Father in heaven frees us from anxiety about tomorrow
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”
“Though the just fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble from only one mishap.” – Proverbs 24:16 Our falling is a given; it is the “rising again” that makes one just.
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