Quote for the Day

[Shin]

It's good to read these thoughts on St. Jean Marie and St. Francis!

Thank you, you two!

It makes me think how we can tire of anything, and must tire of anything and everything -- but God. He is the true good, that never ends, for which we were created, wholey.

[Shin]

'The first duty of man ordained and brought forth into this world for that end. . . is to know his creator, and being known, to confess Him, and to resign or give up his life - which is the wonderful and peculiar gift of God, - to the service and worship of the Giver; for what he received by God's free donation, may be employed in true devotion, and what was conferred upon him in the state of wrath and unworthiness, may by an obedient resignation make him precious and beloved.'

St. Eucharius of Lyons

[odhiambo]

“Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.”
Thérèse de Lisieux

[Shin]

'To attain the knowledge of God is impossible for those who are still under the control of their passions. Therefore they cannot attain the salvation they hope for as they have not obtained any knowledge of God.

He who fails to attain this end is clearly subject to the charge of being ignorant of God, and ignorance of God is shown by a man's manner of life.'

St. Clement of Alexandria

[George]

Extend your mercy toward others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His mercy from us?
St. Vincent de Paul

[Shin]

Mercy is given to the merciful! 

[George]

Mercy is given to the merciful! 

Shin, this confuses me.

[Shin]

In what way? Forgive me!

[Shin]

If we show mercy to others, then God will show mercy to us?

[George]

If we show mercy to others, then God will show mercy to us?

  I'm not confused anymore, forgive me, somedays it takes me awhile.

[Shin]

You're not the only one my friend!

 

[odhiambo]

Mercy is given to the merciful!

Shin.

Shin, this confuses me.

haji

In what way? Forgive me!

Shin

If we show mercy to others, then God will show mercy to us? Shin

I'm not confused anymore, forgive me, somedays it takes me awhile.

haji

You're not the only one my friend!

shin.

What a to and fro you two. I am glad it all cleared up sort of  miraculously, shall we say?  

[odhiambo]

“If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.”

Thérèse de Lisieux

[Shin]

Haha! Yes, the flowers are not all "equal"! That wouldn't suit at all! 

[Shin]

What a to and fro you two. I am glad it all cleared up sort of  miraculously, shall we say?  

Deo gratias! 

Good afternoon odhiambo! I pray you are having a very blessed one!

[Shin]

'Some there are who seem astonished when they fancy that our good God has, in a certain sense, changed His mode of governing the world since the ancient times: for, in the latter He was wont to be called the God of armies, and He used to speak to the people out of clouds with bolts of thunder in His hands; for indeed, He punished crime with all the rigor of His justice. For one single adultery He put five-and-twenty thousand of the tribe of Benjamin to the sword. For an act of vainglory committed by David in making a census of his kingdom, He sent a terrible plague, which in a very short time swept off seventy thousand of the population. For one irreverent and incautious glance He slew fifty thousand of the Betsamites. And in these our times He tolerates not only vanities and frivolities, but adulteries the most sordid, scandals the most barefaced, nay, and the most frightful blasphemies which many Christians cast on His most holy Name.

How then do we account for all this? Why this difference in His mode of governing? . . .

The holy sacrifice of the Mass is the true and sole reason for such stupendous clemency, for in it we offer to the eternal father the great victim, Jesus Christ.'

St. Leonard of Port Maurice