Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

 

"The wood of the Cross became the vehicle for our redemption, just as the tree from which it was fashioned had occasioned the fall of our first parents. Suffering and death, which had been a consequence of sin, were to become the very means by which sin was vanquished. The Innocent Lamb was slain on the altar of the Cross, and yet from the immolation of the victim new life burst forth:  the power of evil was destroyed by the power of self-sacrificing love. The Cross, then, is something far greater and more mysterious than it first appears.  It is indeed an instrument of torture, suffering and defeat, but at the same time it expresses the complete transformation, the definitive reversal of these evils, that is what makes it the most eloquent symbol of hope that the world has ever seen.  It speaks to all who suffer – the oppressed, the sick, the poor, the outcast, the victims of violence – and offers them hope that God can transform their suffering int...

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

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

There are so many. But let me share a few by asking four questions: Have we become too complacent about the need for confession?   St. Gregory might think so: “God promises to receive the repentant sinner when he returns to Him, but nowhere does He promise to give him tomorrow.”     Do we parents really think that modesty is an outdated virtue?   Pope Pius XII did not mince his words: “O Christian mothers, if you know what a future of anxieties and perils, of ill guarded shame you prepare for your sons and daughters, imprudently getting them accustomed to live scantily dressed and making them lose their sense of modesty, you would be ashamed of yourselves and you would dread the harm you are making for yourselves, the harm which you are causing to these children, whom Heaven has entrusted to you to be brought up as Christians.”     Do you know where the real source of joy lies?   Our beloved Benedict XVI does: “The source...