Posted: July 28, 2024
“By your example, Lord Jesus, you have taught me to live close to reality and to value ordinary tasks: gathering leftover loaves and fish, fishing, cooking, buying oil, visiting the abandoned and sick, sharing food and clothes, loving, pardoning those who do me wrong… many completely ordinary responsibilities! Each of us carries out ordinary tasks
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Posted: July 26, 2024
“What wisdom was it, what knowledge, that made Our Lady able to accept these things and say, Be it done unto me according to thy word with so whole a will?… What was the secret which enabled her to translate all this suffering into joy? It was the secret of a twofold love, which our Lord
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Posted: July 25, 2024
“What baffling things [Our Lady] would have to face! The slaughter of the innocents and Christ the innocent cause of it, the flight from Herod, the life in exile, and the Child being hunted all his life long; his fasting, so much against the grain for a mother; his choice to be homeless, after all
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Posted: July 25, 2024
“Our Lady knew perfectly well what kind of a world it was into which Christ was to be born. It is strange that she did, for her own life had been sheltered enough, lived in Nazareth, an out-of-the-way village, lying in a ring of hills like the hollow in a chalice. Her future too was
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Posted: July 23, 2024
“The Word of God in the flesh made his abode in [the mother of God]…. He made our human nature divine, and bestowed on us, according to the holy apostle, things the angels desire to look into (1 Pt 1:12). Such is the extraordinary honor and all-surpassing glory of the Ever-Virgin.” –Saint Gregory Palamas (+ 1359)
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Posted: July 22, 2024
“The ways of God are not our ways. It is true that [the spiritual life] goes upward, but by our lowering ourselves. It is true that it purifies the soul, but in the midst of temptations and falls. It is true that its light increases, yet the light is one that is overshadowed with darkness.
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Posted: July 21, 2024
“The ways of God are not our ways. We conceive the spiritual life according to our own way of thinking: that is, in a very human way, especially in the beginning. We imagine that it is a life that always tends upward, in which a person continually ascends and never falls back. We think that
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Posted: July 20, 2024
“In the new and eternal Law, there is only one single commandment, a new commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. To love others as God loves them is to love God as he wishes to be loved. ” –Father Tony El Khoury Intention: Lord, please help us to resist communism and totalitarianism.
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Posted: July 19, 2024
“Love is the path of God to us and our path toward God. To love Jesus is to follow the commandments and the words of the Gospel, in which God speaks and manifests his will of love. We must listen attentively, deeply, for they transform the heart into a source of love.” –Father Tony El
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Posted: July 19, 2024
“The inclination to hiddenness is a quiet mark of holiness. It corresponds to the secrecy of relations between a soul and God. For it seems to be God’s consistent habit with souls to conceal himself even when they are close to him.” –Father Donald Haggerty Intention: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask You to please
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