Have We Become A Little Too Casual?
(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) God promises to receive the repentant sinner when he returns to Him, but nowhere does He promise to give him tomorrow. St. Gregory
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The Gift of Light
(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Faith is like a dark tunnel: God gives us the Light to take one step at a time. The Light is not given to see the end of the tunnel. Father Walter Ciszek, S.J.
Look Often With Your Inward Eyes
Look often with your inward eyes on Christ Jesus, crucified, naked, blasphemed, slandered, forsaken and overwhelmed by every kind of weariness, sorrow and labor. Remember that your sufferings are not comparable to His either in quality or quantity and that you can never suffer for His sake anything equal to what He suffered for you St. Frances de Sales
Willingness To Suffer Patiently
(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) We need to suffer patiently not only the burden of being ill, but of being ill with the particular illness that God wants for us, among the people that He wants us to be with, and with the discomforts that He permits us to experience. I say the same of all other tribulations. St. Frances de Sales