Our Relentless Lover

The two greatest dramas of life are the soul in pursuit of God and God in pursuit of the soul…[T]he soul that pursues God can do it leisurely…But when God pursues the soul, He proves a Relentless Lover, Who will never leave the soul alone until He has won it or been conclusively denied. 

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

How Are We To Love God?

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I require that you should love Me with the same love with which I love you. This indeed you cannot do, because I loved you without being loved. All the love which you have for Me you owe to Me, so that it is not of grace that you love Me, but because you ought to do so while I love you of grace, and not because I owe you my love. Therefore to Me, in person you cannot repay the love which I require of you, and I have placed you in the midst of your fellows, that you may do to them that which you cannot do to Me, that is to say, that you may love your neighbor of free grace, without expecting any return from him, and what you do to him, I count as done to Me. 

 Jesus to St. Catherine of Siena

That We Might Have Ears To Hear

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If you want to serve the common good and build a better future, you’ll never do it by hiding your faith in the closet.  You’ll never do it by being Catholic in private and something else in public.  History is made by people with convictions, and the courage and passion to live those convictions. 

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

Bishop Sheen - Right Again!

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"Who is going to save our Church?  Not our bishops, not our priests and religious.  It is up to you, the people.  You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church.  Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops like bishops, and your religious act like religious."

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen