Let Christ In!
If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No! Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.
Pope Benedict XVI
The Life of The Church
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"To contemplate Christ involves being able to recognize Him wherever He manifests Himself, in His many forms of presence, but above all in the living Sacrament of His Body and Blood. The Church draws her life from Christ in the Eucharist; by Him she is fed and by him she is enlightened."
Saint Pope John Paul II
The Contemplative Life
The ultimate fulfillment of the contemplative life therefore lies not in merely seeing God’s truth but living it.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Ponder The Passion of Christ
"St. Thomas Aquinas said that the Passion of
Christ is enough to serve as a guide and model throughout our lives. One day while he was visiting St.
Bonaventure, St. Thomas
asked him where he had acquired such good doctrine as the one that he set out
in his works. It is said that St.
Bonaventure showed him a crucifix, which was blackened from all the kisses he
had given it and explained: 'This is the book that tells me what I should
write; the little I know I have learned from it.' From the crucifix the saints learned how to
suffer and truly love Christ. We too should learn from it…"
Father Francis Fernandez
Seeking Happiness Through Prayer
Let me show you a good way to ask for happiness, even in this world. It is a way that will oblige God to listen to you. Say to Him earnestly: either give me so much money that my heart will be satisfied, or inspire me with such contempt for it that I no longer want it. Either free me from poverty, or make it so pleasant for me that I would not exchange it for all the wealth in the world. Either take away my suffering, or – which would be to Your greater glory – change it into delight for me, and instead of causing me affliction, let it become a source of joy. You can take away the burden of my cross, or You can leave it with me without my feeling its weight. You can extinguish the fire that burns me, or You can let it burn in such a way that it refreshes me as it did the three youths in the fiery furnace. I ask for either one thing or the other. What does it matter in what way I am happy? If I am happy through the possession of worldly goods, it is You I have to thank. If I am happy when deprived of them, it gives You greater glory and my thanks are all the greater.
This is the kind of prayer worthy of being offered to God by a true Christian. When you pray in this way, do you know what the effect of your prayers will be? First, you will be satisfied, whatever happens; and what else do those who most desire this world's goods want except to be satisfied? Secondly, you will not only obtain without fail, one of the two things you have asked for, but, as a rule, you will obtain both of them.
St. Claude de la Colombiere, S.J.
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