Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

 

"Through the Holy Eucharist you will fall in love with God. The more you love God,   the more you receive God,   the deeper your love becomes. The more your heart opens, you and Trinity are one. Love demands love in return and love begets love… we ask what must we do? I prefer to say what must we be? We must be lovers who love God back. We cannot help it... When you love, you want to serve…" (From Communion is a Flame Bursting Within by Catherine Doherty)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The only ultimate reason for Bethlehem is Jerusalem; the only reason in God's mind for becoming a Child was so that He might, as man, die on the Cross. In a word, the mystery of Christmas is the mystery of God's unfathomable love that wants to suffer. God took on human flesh so that He might be able to endure pain. That is the mystery of Christmas, the mystery of God's love, in order that loving, He might endure the Cross. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) What is the mystery of the Eucharist? It is the same. You would think that God's love would have been satisfied with His becoming man and as man living, suffering and dying for our sins. And having once died, rising from the dead and returning as man to the Father from whom He came. But no, the mystery of God's love is that He invented a way of showing His love for us not only by being with us and near us but God even invented a way of being inside of us. All of t...

(Photo©Michael Seagriff)  Behold the Heart which has loved men so much, which has heaped upon them so many benefits.   In exchange for this infinite love, It finds ingratitude; instead It meets with forgetfulness, indifference, and outrages and all this at times even from souls bound closely to it in the bonds of a very special love… Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

I desire to unite Myself to human souls; My great delight is to unite Myself with souls. Know, my daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul.  But souls do not even pay attention to Me; they leave Me to myself and busy themselves with other things. Oh, how sad I am that souls do not recognize Love! They treat me as a dead object.  St. Maria Faustina Kowalska

The two greatest dramas of life are the soul in pursuit of God and God in pursuit of the soul…[T]he soul that pursues God can do it leisurely…But when God pursues the soul, He proves a Relentless Lover, Who will never leave the soul alone until He has won it or been conclusively denied.  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

Photo©Michael Seagriff The Sacred Heart of Jesus is the meeting place of two loves: the one, which descends from on high, is the Father's love poured out on the family of His children to draw them to Himself; the other, which ascends from below, is the filial love of His children who, through the beloved Son, ascend towards the Father.  Archbishop Emile Guerry

This Divine Heart is an abyss of all blessings, and into it the poor should submerge all their needs.  It is an abyss of joy in which all of us can immerse our sorrows.  It is an abyss of lowliness to counteract our foolishness, an abyss of mercy for the wretched, an abyss of love to meet our every need.  St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Zeal for the salvation of souls is of so great a merit before God, that to give up all our goods to the poor, or to spend our whole life in the exercises of all sorts of austerities cannot equal the merit of it. There is no service more agreeable to God than this one. To employ one's life in this blessed labor is more pleasing to the Divine Majesty than to suffer martyrdom. Would you not feel happy if you could spend large sums of money in corporal works of mercy? But know that he who labors for the salvation of souls does far more; nay, the zeal of souls is of far greater merit before God…than the working of miracles.  St. John Chrysostom

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) If you wish to know how much a person loves his God, see how much he loves his neighbor.   St. Catherine of Genoa