Monday, August 31, 2015
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Courage For Conflict
'They who want to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come into conflict with it.'
Blessed Titus Brandsma
Painting: Isaac Israels
Blessed Titus Brandsma
Painting: Isaac Israels
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Thursday, August 20, 2015
On This Great Ship
'In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like
a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses.
Our duty is not to abandon ship but to keep her on her course.'
St. Boniface
Painting: Ivan Aivazovsky
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Is This My Decision?
'The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil.'
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Painting: George Frederic Watts
I'm probably the first person ever to put a PS on a blog post - but PS! I also made a graphic (meme) of this quote. Please feel free to save and share it if you like.
I'm probably the first person ever to put a PS on a blog post - but PS! I also made a graphic (meme) of this quote. Please feel free to save and share it if you like.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Kindly Evangelize
'Kindness has converted more people than zeal, science, or eloquence.'
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Painting: Louis Breton
Monday, August 17, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Today I Begin!
'Lord, today is the day I begin!'
St Philip Neri
Painting: Charles Courtney Curran, in US public domain due to age
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
By A Tempest Purified
'Have you ever noticed rocks in the sea, beaten by the tempest? A furious wave dashes against the rock, another and yet another does likewise, yet the rock is unmoved.
'But look at it after the storm has subsided, and you will see that the flood has but served to wash and purify it of the defilement it had contracted during the calm.'
St. Paul of the Cross
Painting: Lionel Walden, Crashing Sea 1904
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Monday, August 10, 2015
Where The Horizon Closes Down
'O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me, and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me.
'I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will open before me, and I shall meet it with peace.'
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
Friday, August 7, 2015
I Am Not Worthy
'I am not worthy,
Lord, mine eyes
to turn upon
Thy starry skies;
But bowed in sin,
with moans and sighs,
I beg Thee, hear me.'
St. Hilary of Poitiers
Painting: Rae Sloan Bredin
Lord, mine eyes
to turn upon
Thy starry skies;
But bowed in sin,
with moans and sighs,
I beg Thee, hear me.'
St. Hilary of Poitiers
Painting: Rae Sloan Bredin
Thursday, August 6, 2015
If the World is Topsy Turvy
'If the whole world is topsy-turvy - if all around
is darkness and smoke
and din - God is still with us.'
is darkness and smoke
and din - God is still with us.'
St. Francis de Sales
Painting: Winslow Homer, To the Rescue
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Monday, August 3, 2015
And So We Pray
'To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.'
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Painting: Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow
Saturday, August 1, 2015
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