That We Might Hear - Words to the Wise

The most evident mark of God’s anger, and the most terrible castigation He can inflict on the world, is manifest when he permits His people to fall into the hands of a clergy who are more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds. They abandon the things of God to devote themselves to the things of the world, and instead of their saintly call to holiness, they spend their time in profane and worldly pursuits. When God permits such things it is a very positive proof that he is thoroughly angry with His people, and is visiting His most dreadful wrath upon them.

St. John Eudes

[This is just one of the stirring quotations 1200 in my book, Forgotten Truths to Set Faith Afire! - Word to Challenge Inspire, and Instruct.]

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Regarding Suffering

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. )

Prayer and That Persistent Pest

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) It is not surprising the devil does everything in his power to get us to lessen the time of personal dialogue with the Lord or to do it poorly. (St. John Marie Vianney from Sermons of the Cure of Ars)

Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

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