Quote for the Afternoon

[odhiambo]

"Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road.
 Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy,
 has always protected you, and loves you as a mother.
 Blessed be you, my God, for having created me."

Saint Clare of Assisi

[Shin]

'Everybody is against us. I rejoice in this, for God will be more favorable to us. . . If we be faithful, God will not fail us.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[odhiambo]

"What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love" 

St John of the Cross,

[odhiambo]

"Avoid slander because it is difficult to retract. Avoid offending anyone for to ask forgiveness is not delightful"

Saint John Cantius

[Shin]

Ho ho, that's a good point! 

[odhiambo]

It is rue, asking for forgiveness is easier said than done!

[odhiambo]

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
St. Thomas Aquinas

[odhiambo]

"When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph."
St. Josemaria Escriva

I believe it! One has to have a firm will, then leave the rest to God.

[odhiambo]

One day St. Teresa of Avila heard someone say: "If only I had lived at the time of Jesus... If only I had seen Jesus... If only I had talked with Jesus..."

To this she responded: "But do we not have in the Eucharist the living, true and real Jesus present before us? Why look for more?"

[odhiambo]

"Where the Bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be;
even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church''
Ignatius of Antioch,

[Shin]

One day St. Teresa of Avila heard someone say: "If only I had lived at the time of Jesus... If only I had seen Jesus... If only I had talked with Jesus..."

To this she responded: "But do we not have in the Eucharist the living, true and real Jesus present before us? Why look for more?"

Very important to remember!

[odhiambo]

"Let us regard the tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a tradition? Seek no further!"

St. John Chrysostom

[odhiambo]

"My heart feels as if it were being drawn by a superior force
 each morning just before uniting with Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
I have such a thirst and hunger before receiving Him that it's a wonder I don't die of anxiety.
 I was hardly able to reach the Divine Prisoner in order to celebrate Mass.
 When Mass ended I remained with Jesus to render Him thanks.
My thirst and hunger do not diminish after I have received Him in the Blessed Sacrament
but rather, increase steadily.
 Oh, how sweet was the conversation I held with Paradise this morning.
The Heart of Jesus and my own,
if you will pardon my expression, fused.
They were no longer two hearts beating but only one.
My heart disappeared as if it were a drop in the ocean,"

 Blessed Padre Pio

[odhiambo]

“ No one is truly poor but except the one who lacks the truth.”
St. Ephraem the Syrian

[odhiambo]

"It is better not to allow anger, however just and reasonable, to enter at all, than to admit it in ever so slight a degree; once admitted, it will not be easily expelled, for, though at first but a small plant, it will immediately grow into a large tree.”
Saint Augustine

[Shin]

'Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart. Rejoice, ye just, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.'

Psalm 96:11-12