"It is necessary to know that one is lost in order to want to be saved." —Madeleine DelbrĂȘl from the book, The Holiness of Ordinary People

The Model Of Patience

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If you are looking for an example of patience, behold there on the cross the most excellent example of patience. For great patience is shown in two ways. Either when anyone endures great pain with resignation or when anyone endures that which he was able to avoid and did not avoid.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Strive To Be A Humble Man

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Humility is a virtue of the will, but it depends on knowledge.  To be humble, a man must realize the lack of proportion between his own powers and the great things toward which his will tends.  Humility does not make a man think less of himself than he ought; it is based on an honest estimate of one's own capacities, and hence enables a man to see what he cannot do and to abstain from trying to do the impossible…It is humility, which makes it possible for a man to see that he can not find happiness without the assistance of God's grace and love.  The humble man does not try the impossible – to save himself without God.  The humble man subjects himself to God, worships God and asks the divine assistance in his pursuit of happiness

Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.

This Is My God!

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God is all powerful; God has a great love for me; God is faithful to his promises.  It is He, the God of mercies, who fills me with the confidence. With Him, I do not feel alone, or useless, or abandoned, but involved in a plan of salvation that one day will lead to Paradise.


St. John Paul II (Pope)

He Was Not Off The Mark, Was He?