Sit, gaze, enjoy

“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart.Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwellingand scatter there, Your cheerful beams.” St Augustine (354-430) Doctor of Grace

What is God inviting me to at an Ignatian Silent Retreat? Nourishment – Discernment – Clarity – Freedom

Be joyful and hopeful because thr Father delights in you

“Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.”  – SAINT MOTHER THERESA OF CALCUTTA

“Let us be careful shepherdswatching over Christ’s flock.Let us preach the whole of God’s plan,to the powerful and to the humble,to rich and to poor,to men of every rank and age,as far as God gives us the strength,in season and out of season.” St Boniface (672-754)Martyr, Confessor, Bishop

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Kings and queens and bishops and popes sought St. Hildegard’s counsel. But the Benedectine nun was perhaps most knowledgeable about admiring and appreciating every creature. Among her most inspirational words: “The Earth sustains humanity. It must not be injured; it must not be destroyed.” “Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of divinity.” “Creation is the song of God.” “Humankind is called to co-create, so that we might cultivate the earthly, and thereby create the...

Show respect foe other people's opinions Become genuinely interested in other people. Always begin in a friendly way. Always begin with praise and appreciation. Go out of your way to make others feel more important. - Dale Carnegie

What baggages will I be holding on to when He calls me HOME?!!!!

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral!!!!🤣

THE CCC in one Year -  My highlights: 68 - In love God has revealed himself and given himself to man. 74.God graciously arranged that the things he had once revealed for the salvation of all peoples should remain in their entirety, throughout the ages, and be transmitted to all generations. 85. The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone. 

The desire for God is written in the human heart!

If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth. --St. Thomas Aquinas

“If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him?” 1 Jn. 3:17

“There is a state of resting in God; an absolute break from all intellectual activity, when one forms no plans, makes no decisions, and for the first time really ceased to act; when one simply hands over the future to God’s will and ‘surrenders himself to Fate.’” – St. Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)

Learning to recognize the voice of God in your daily life is accomplished by building an interior habit of listening, recognizing, responding, listening some more, recognizing and responding, etc. The more you hear the voice of God, the more you will recognize His voice in the most subtle of ways, and the more you come to hear the subtleties of His voice, the more you will be able to follow. In the end, this is only accomplished by an ongoing habit of deep and sustaining prayer. Without that,...

Let us fix our gaze of faith on the Crucifix, and we will find that he was not satisfied only with the possibility of suffering but wished truly to suffer every kind of pain in body and in spirit, because it is not the mere possibility of suffering but suffering itself that brings us merit. 

The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease Pope John Paul II

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati “With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels whence you will draw all the energy you need to fight inner battles. Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we have only if we are pure in heart and mind.”

Being angry about the right things and in the right way is virtuous. But avoiding anger at all times may be a sign of weakness. St. Thomas Aquinas notes how it is a vice not get angry over things one should. He calls it "unreasonable patience." A failure to correct the wicked encourages them to persist in their evil deeds, since there are no reprimands for their wrong actions. It also causes confusion in the community over what is truly right and wrong, and thus may lead even good people to...

Christians, in particular, realize that their responsibility within creation and their duty towards nature and the Creator are an essential part of their faith. (Pope John Paul II 1990 World Day of Peace Message, no. 15)

In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then we will not be afraid of dying. Suffering of some sort seems to be the only thing strong enough to destabilize our arrogance and our ignorance. I would define suffering very simply as whenever you are not in control. Richard Rohr

"We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon him present in us." -St Teresa