Help me, a sinner
“Lord, watch out for me today lest I betray you yet again today.” (Taken from a quote by St Phillip Neri}
“Lord, watch out for me today lest I betray you yet again today.” (Taken from a quote by St Phillip Neri}
“I can see thanks to the sun light, but if I close my eyes, I cannot see; but this is not the fault of the sun, but mine” – Saint Thomas Aquinas
You are living eternal life right now. And if we’re not living it properly on earth, before our deaths, why should you expect to live it in heaven after our deaths? If we don’t choose to give our lives to Jesus now, why would we expect to be with Him forever?
We “wander in a circle, longing after something to gratify (our) yearnings, yet madly rejecting that which alone can bring (us) to (the) desired end”
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Only God meets the deepest longings of the human heart, which is never fully satisfied by what this world has to offer. – “Gaudium et Spes” (“The Church in the Modern World”)
“possess and love nothing that your are not ready to give up at the first sign” – Words of Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez
“possess and love nothing that your are not ready to give up at the first sign” – Words of Our Lord to Sr. Josefa Menendez
Lord, have mercy on me and grant me the grace to be able to say: ‘I have seen the Lord, not because he appeared to me, but because I saw him with my heart.’
“Never mind the drink. One Communion more and then eternity.” – St Elizabeth Seton (on her deathbed)