Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

 

 

 

 

(Image Source: cathopic.com ) Adoration is not just one more thing to do, like going to the store, the doctor, etc.   It is an encounter   with   Christ.   His love changes and orders our life. Father James M. Sullivan, O.P. [This is just one of 1200 quotations you will find in Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct! - awarded Seal of Approval by the Catholic Writer's Guild]  

  There is nothing – however simple –- that our lukewarmness won’t present to us as difficult and costly.   Conversely, there is nothing – however difficult and costly – that our fervor and determination won’t present to us as pleasant and agreeable.  St. John Chrysostom

(Image Source - Motoki Tonn on Unsplash) In hope man relies on God's goodness and power to bring man to the possession of God Himself…Hope makes us cling to God as the source of our happiness, the goodness and power from which we hope to receive happiness…The object of hope is eternal life – the vision of God…The virtue of hope moves man to the pursuit of God Himself.   It can be found, then only in the will…[S]ince hope moves man to seek God, neither the saints in heaven, nor the damned in hell can have hope.   The Saints have no hope, because they already possess God…The damned in Hell have no hope, because they have already lost God and know that they can never possess Him. Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.

In as much as [you bishops] are teachers and doctors of the Faith, you have the mission to teach with audacity, the Truth…you must always be looking to the Glory of God and the salvation of souls. Pope Benedict XVI