Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Great graces are often attached to what seems trifling.'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

I am curious as to what folks think these seemingly trifling things might be!

Picking up a piece of thread from the floor for the love of God when nobody else does it.  It is trifling, yet not really; for there are great graces attached to doing this little thing/act for the love of God.  There are great graces attached to doing little things with great love of God.

"The best perfection is to do ordinary things in a perfect manner. Constant fidelity in little things is a great and heroic virtue."

--Saint Bonaventure (1221-1274)

A very insightful quote! When we are doing things in Christ's grace, with a pure intention, how precious it is, however small, because of God how infinitely large!

[Therese]

I do hope that everybody here is making their daily Morning Offering.

[Shin]

Do you have a favorite Morning Offering prayer Therese?

 

[CyrilSebastian]

The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 10 Verse 19     
 
Where words are many, sin is not wanting;     
but he who restrains his lips does well.

[Therese]

Do you have a favorite Morning Offering prayer Therese?

 

I pray a basic traditional Morning Offering, Shin.  All the basic traditional Morning Offerings are all the same to me.

[Therese]

The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 10 Verse 19      
  
Where words are many, sin is not wanting;    
but he who restrains his lips does well.

It is best and safest only to speak when duty, obedience or charity calls for it.

[Shin]

Yes they are similar aren't they?

It is splendid to consecrate the day! 

Let this coming Lent be consecrated to the Lord!

'Blessed the one who loves repentance that saves sinners and has not thought of doing ill, like someone ungrateful before God our Saviour.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

[Therese]

Yes they are similar aren't they?

It is splendid to consecrate the day! 

Let this coming Lent be consecrated to the Lord!

'Blessed the one who loves repentance that saves sinners and has not thought of doing ill, like someone ungrateful before God our Saviour.'

St. Ephrem of Syria

Our Morning Offering turns all the "trivial" things we do in our day into very great things, because through the Morning Offering they are done supernaturally (with a supernatural intention).  Good things done without a supernatural intention are not meritorious at all, so we should be sure to make our Morning Offering every day, uniting all our thoughts, words and actions to Christ's actions and merits. 

[Therese]

Do you have a favorite Morning Offering prayer Therese?

 

I pray a basic traditional Morning Offering, Shin.  All the basic traditional Morning Offerings are all the same to me.

I'd like to clarify something.  The Morning Offering is to be said at all the times, even during periods of sede vacante; the intentions of the Pope mentioned in the Morning Offering in times of sede vacante refer to the five basic intentions that all our Popes have had as their intentions.  I can share them with you when I come across them.  The Morning Offering I usually pray mentions the intentions of holy Mother Church, but when I pray a Morning Offering for the intentions of the Pope it is understood that I am praying for the five basic intentions of our Popes.

[Therese]

"The whole Church is in dissolution."

--Saint Basil the Great (ca. 330 - ca. 379), Epistulae, to Saint Athanasius (in 371/72)

[Shin]

'To pray well requires the whole man.'

St. Philip Neri

[Therese]

"A man cannot have salvation, except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church he can have everything except salvation. He can have honor, he can have Sacraments, he can sing alleluia, he can answer amen, he can possess the gospel, he can have and preach faith in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; but never except in the Catholic church will he be able to find salvation."

--Saint Augustine (354-430), Discourse to the People of the Church at Caesarea, ca. 418

[Shin]

'If any one asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'Woman can never be man's equal, and cannot therefore, enjoy equal rights. Few women would ever desire to legislate, and those who did would be classed as eccentrics. Scripture, and especially the three Epistles of St. Paul, emphasizes woman's dependence on man.'

Pope St. Pius X

[Shin]

'To get good from reading the Lives of the Saints, and other spiritual books, we ought not to read out of curiosity, or skimmingly, but with pauses; and when we feel ourselves warmed, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and follow up the spirit which is stirring in us, and when we feel it no longer then to pursue our reading.'

St. Philip Neri

[Therese]

"Hence, that meaning of the sacred dogmata is ever to be maintained which has once been declared by Holy Mother Church, and there must never be an abandonment of this sense under the pretext or in the name of a more profound understanding.... If anyone says that it is possible that at some given time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmata propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has always understood and understands: let him be anathema."

--Vatican Council (1870)