How Are We To Love God?

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

Look Up! Look Up With the Eyes of Your Mind, Heart and Soul!

en t “When the Host is held on high and a chalice lifted…look up! Look up and see what Mary saw. See a naked man squirming as He bleeds against a blackened sky; see a battered human body, writhing on a tree, prisoned there by savage spikes that have torn through Sacred hands and feet; see thorn-tortured head tossing from side to side as anguished torso labors, lifts and strains; see the eyes of God roll towards heaven beseeching, as broken lips blurt out that soul piercing cry: “My God, My God, Why has Thou forsaken Me?” What is this? This is the Mass. This is Crucifixion. This is what Mary saw at the elevation of Christianity’s first Mass. This is what you should see at the Elevation of every Mass!” (From The Way to God by Father M. Raymond, O.C.S.O. )

Looking for the Worse or the Best?

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons) In dealing with ourselves, we should look for what is worse and make it, with God’s grace, the occasion of spiritual growth. But in dealing with others, we should look for what is best, in order that, as we show mercy to others, God may show His grace and His mercy to us. Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

Do Not Think This Message Got Through

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Pastors should ensure that, unless there is a grave reason against it, churches in which the Blessed Sacrament is normally reserved should be open every day for at least some hours, at the most suitable times, so that the faithful may be easily able to pray before the Blessed Sacrament. (Vatican Council II - Sacramentum Concilium )

Have You Taken A Look Today?

(Photo©Michael Seagriff) [We need to examine our conscience daily]. That the general examination of conscience produces its full effect, namely self-knowledge and self-reform, it should consist of five parts, namely: thank God for His benefits; ask grace to know and root out our sins; demand an account of our souls concerning thoughts, words, actions and omissions, from the time of our last examination to the present; implore God's pardon for our trespasses; and make a firm purpose of amendment. In the general examination the different thoughts and actions since our last general examination are reviewed. How we have acquitted ourselves in: our duties to God (prayers and exercises of piety); our duties toward our neighbor (kindness, charity, obedience and truth); our duties toward ourselves (patience, humility, temperance, purity, duties of our state [in life]). This general examination is ended by asking pardon of God and promising Him that we shall do better in the...

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