Quote for the Day

[Shin]

George that's a great quote for me.

It can be  hard to welcome trials.. but I've always valued self knowledge a great deal.. so looking at it from that light..

[George]

George that's a great quote for me.

It can be  hard to welcome trials.. but I've always valued self knowledge a great deal.. so looking at it from that light..

Yes, the journey towards self knowledge is filled with bittersweet loss and grace filled enlightenment. I'm going to be 62 in 2 months and the trials keep coming, I can't say I welcome them but I have learned to accept them and see the justice and wisdom, and mercy of God in them, knowing where he found me and where I am now. Still, I am adverse to suffering, but I pray every day for the strength to do His holy will. I often ponder on Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, and falling 3 times under the weight of the cross. I've been blessed my trials are small.

Tonight I'll pray for Claire Davis, the young lady who was shot in the head in the Colorado school shooting, she's in a coma, her parents are asking for prayers for their precious daughter.

[Shin]

Let's keep thinking of Heaven on this good journey of the cross!

Praying with you George!

[Shin]

'Love, glory and praise be forever to the Heart of our adorable Saviour, for It is all love, all loving and all lovable!'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

'Souls who aspire to a sublime union with God by contemplation usually suffer interior purgations in one way or another.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

''Christ died on account of our sins in accordance with the Scriptures' (1 Cor. 15:3); and to those who serve Him well He gives freedom. "Well done, good and faithful servant," He says, "you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter into the joy of your Lord" (Matt. 25:21).'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Hope is obligatory. I must, then, hope for my salvation.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[odhiambo]

Do Not Be Anxious
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 6:25

[odhiambo]

"Everything is a reminder of the Cross. We ourselves are
made in the shape of a cross."
 St John Vianney

[Shin]

I never thought of that! 

I mean I am familiar with praying while standing in the form of a cross, but I never thought of it quite that way!

[Shin]

'You must constantly carry the cross which He lays on you, be it interior or exterior, without growing weary or complaining of its length or weight. Does it not suffice that it has been given you by the hands of a Friend Whose all-loving Heart has destined it for you from all eternity?'

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[odhiambo]

I never thought of that! 

I mean I am familiar with praying while standing in the form of a cross, but I never thought of it quite that way!

Well, Saint John Vianney did 

[odhiambo]

"He cannot have God as his Father who does not have the church for his Mother."
Saint  Cyprian

[odhiambo]

"On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand' ( Is 7:9).

 St. Augustine of Hippo

[Shin]

I never thought of that! 

I mean I am familiar with praying while standing in the form of a cross, but I never thought of it quite that way!

Well, Saint John Vianney did 

It's something I will never forget!

[Shin]

"He cannot have God as his Father who does not have the church for his Mother."
Saint  Cyprian

Amen amen. 

[Shin]

'But, my daughter, I am going a step further, and I bid you everywhere and in everything rejoice in your own abjection. Perhaps you will ask in reply what I mean by that. In Latin abjection means humility, and humility means abjection, so that when Our Lady says in the Magnificat that all generations shall call her blessed, because God hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden, she means that He has accepted her abjection and lowliness in order to fill her with graces and favours. Nevertheless, there is a difference between humility and abjection; for abjection is the poverty, vileness and littleness which exist in us, without our taking heed to them; but humility implies a real knowledge and voluntary recognition of that abjection. And the highest point of humility consists in not merely acknowledging one's abjection, but in taking pleasure therein, not from any want of breadth or courage, but to give the more glory to God's Divine Majesty, and to esteem one's neighbour more highly than one's self. This is what I would have you do;'

St. Francis de Sales