Quote for the Day

[odhiambo]

"Compassion, my dear Brother, is preferable to cleanliness.
 Reflect that with a little soap I can easily clean my bed covers,
 but even with a torrent of tears I would never wash from my soul the stain that my harshness toward the unfortunate would create."

St. Martin de Porres, Religious;

Great quote!

Really says something to those of us (myself included   ) who have crossed to the other side of the street to avoid a rough-looking homeless person.

Same with me!  Some of them are abusive. I remember a homeless man in my home town in Lira, Uganda, whom women dreaded meeting along the way because he would follow anyone he zeroed in on, especially if it was a woman; He would then stick like a leech, making fun and drawing the attention of passers by. He was often  abusive also.

[Shin]

Sometimes one should avoid them! It's a matter of safety!

That would be different than other unworthy reasons.

[MidnightSun12]

Same with me!  Some of them are abusive. I remember a homeless man in my home town in Lira, Uganda, whom women dreaded meeting along the way because he would follow anyone he zeroed in on, especially if it was a woman; He would then stick like a leech, making fun and drawing the attention of passers by. He was often  abusive also.

I didn't think of that.    I guess the types of homeless people that a man in Canada encounters are very different then the types that a lady in Uganda will encounter...

[George]

We can cure physical diseases with medicine but the only cure for lonliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more who are dying for a little love. Let us not be satified with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So spread love everywhere you go.
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

[Shin]

Good evening George!

The Lord's peace to you, and warmth on this cold night! 

[George]

Good evening George!

The Lord's peace to you, and warmth on this cold night! 

Good evening to you Shin. Yes the winds are rather blustery tonight out here in Indiana, the geese are protesting mightily

[Shin]

Geese. That is making me think of cooked goose for some reason. Haha.

Or the goose rescued from the wolf by St. Vaast.

What kind of geese do you have down there?

[George]

Geese. That is making me think of cooked goose for some reason. Haha.

Or the goose rescued from the wolf by St. Vaast.

What kind of geese do you have down there?

Canadian,and many of them, the other day there had to be a hundred of them ice skating on the lake. You can't eat these guy's they're protected by law.

[Shin]

What you can't? Even in Indiana?

I thought there was a glut of 'em?

Well. The nation certain is going to the dogs, isn't it? Or the geese as the case may be! 

  

[George]

What you can't? Even in Indiana?

I thought there was a glut of 'em?

Well. The nation certain is going to the dogs, isn't it? Or the geese as the case may be! 

  

 

No it's amazing what is protected and what isnt

[Shin]

 

Lord have mercy!

I think if more folks could be persuaded to take up the homesteading life the more the silliness would end. I wish I knew a way to foster it.

I'm always encouraged when I hear about people taking up a simpler life. Wherever one is one can make a beginning at doing with less and making the best with what one has rather than always going out and getting new things. 


'We must not be wise according to the flesh. Rather we must be simple, humble and pure.'

St. Francis of Assisi

[George]

We ought to be like Lilies in the midst of thorns, which, however they be pricked and pierced, never lose their sweet gentle fragrance
St. Bernard

[Shin]

Like the Lilies in the midst of thorns. . .

[George]

A treasure is secure so long as it remains concealed: but when once disclosed and laid open to every bold invader, it is presently rifled;
So virtue is safe as long as secret, but if rashly exposed, it but to often evaporates into smoke. By humility and contempt of the world, the soul like an eagle, soars on high, above all transitory things, and tramples on the backs of lions and dragons.
St. Syncletica

[Shin]

'And the blessed Angels, so loveable in their innocence, are they not the choice work of Thy Fingers, O Wisdom of God I For on the day of their creation Thou didst deck them with an incorruptible vestiture for the work of Thy holy service. These are the living stars of the higher heaven, the lilies of the inner paradise, the rose-trees planted by the silent-flowing waters of Siloe, with their roots immovably fixed in Thee.

O River of peace, O Breath of the garden of delights, O only Wisdom ranging round about the circling bourne of heaven; by Thee they shine, and burn, and glow in perfect wisdom, in virginal chastity, and in the ardours of a deathless love. Blooming in endless youth, they find in our weakness the sphere of their faithful service; for they lead us by the hand like tender guides, and direct our steps as we travel through this darksome world, and ward off the assaults of the enemy, and whisper to us the secrets of Thy will, and brace up our failing hearts to good, and carry up the incense of our prayers to the altar of gold, and always supplicate the Face of our merciful Father for us.'

St. Anselm

[George]

'And the blessed Angels, so loveable in their innocence, are they not the choice work of Thy Fingers, O Wisdom of God I For on the day of their creation Thou didst deck them with an incorruptible vestiture for the work of Thy holy service. These are the living stars of the higher heaven, the lilies of the inner paradise, the rose-trees planted by the silent-flowing waters of Siloe, with their roots immovably fixed in Thee.

O River of peace, O Breath of the garden of delights, O only Wisdom ranging round about the circling bourne of heaven; by Thee they shine, and burn, and glow in perfect wisdom, in virginal chastity, and in the ardours of a deathless love. Blooming in endless youth, they find in our weakness the sphere of their faithful service; for they lead us by the hand like tender guides, and direct our steps as we travel through this darksome world, and ward off the assaults of the enemy, and whisper to us the secrets of Thy will, and brace up our failing hearts to good, and carry up the incense of our prayers to the altar of gold, and always supplicate the Face of our merciful Father for us.'

St. Anselm

Beautiful words, it makes you want to be amongst them, perhaps we are. Do you think so?