Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

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

 

(Image Source: Unsplash.com ) " 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 ultimate fulfillment of the contemplative life therefore lies not in merely seeing God’s truth but living it.  St. Thomas Aquinas

"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