Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Come, Lord, work upon us, set us on fire and clasp us close, be fragrant to us, draw us to your loveliness, let us love, let us run to you.'

St. Augustine

[odhiambo]

How magnificent it is to know you have a guardian and protector and friend like this your entire life.

The sad fact is that few realize it.

[odhiambo]

Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" [Jn 3:5].
St. Thomas Aquinas

[odhiambo]

Whenever I am asked if I am born again, I am always at a loss how to answer;
well, not anymore; now, thanks to St. Thomas Aquinas, I know just how to answer that frequently asked question and it will be something like this:
Yes and No! I am not a born again Christian, not the one you have in mind.
I am Catholic. Born again of water and the Holy Spirit at the time I was baptized and confirmed!
How is that for an answer?

[Shin]

Pretty good odhiambo!

The more I think of spiritual virtue, infused virtue, the more I think of how the Christian way of life is so different fundamentally, outside and in, than the worldly way of life.

All the ways of acting, the entertainment, the daily life, everything is different.

It frightens me to see how far I have to go and little I know.


'The reason why the lukewarm run so great a risk of being lost is because tepidity conceals from the soul the immense evil which it causes.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[odhiambo]

Pretty good odhiambo!

The more I think of spiritual virtue, infused virtue, the more I think of how the Christian way of life is so different fundamentally, outside and in, than the worldly way of life.

All the ways of acting, the entertainment, the daily life, everything is different.

It frightens me to see how far I have to go and little I know.

God is merciful; we can but hope.
I have realised that the more we try the more we indeed grow in the faith. Once you start losing interest in some of the things you once thought were vital to a good life, you know you are inching forwards.

[odhiambo]

"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved".
St. Thomas Aquinas

[Shin]

There is no place else to go!

'O most loveable Jesus, the sighs of my heart rise up to you.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

[odhiambo]

There is no place else to go!

'O most loveable Jesus, the sighs of my heart rise up to you.'

St. Bernadette Soubirous

And to think that people actually leave the Church 

[odhiambo]

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

Saint Augustine

[odhiambo]

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.
Saint Francis de Sales

[Shin]

What a miracle to have a mother so full of grace!

'God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.'

St. Augustine

[odhiambo]

What a miracle to have a mother so full of grace!

'God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.'

St. Augustine

This is true even if they may seem undeserving.

[odhiambo]

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine

[Shin]

What a miracle to have a mother so full of grace!

'God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.'

St. Augustine

This is true even if they may seem undeserving.

Yes, it took me time to learn that lesson odhiambo! Thankfully you have learned it!

[odhiambo]

Learning is a lifelong process Shin, it never ends.