Blaze

To Keep Burning

Life as a Bonfire

A Heart Set on Fire

'As a flame increases when it is constantly fed, so prayer, made often, with the mind dwelling ever more deeply in God, arouses divine love in the heart.  And the heart, set on fire, will warm all the inner man, will enlighten and teach him, revealing to him wisdom, and making him like a flaming seraph always standing before God in his spirit, always looking at Him within his mind, and drawing from this vision the sweetness of spiritual joy.'

St. Dmitri of Rostov




Painting: Georges de la Tour

Come, My Light

'Come, my Light,
and illumine my darkness.
Come, my Life,
and revive me from death.
Come, my Physician,
and heal my wounds.
Come, Flame of Divine Love,
and burn up the thorns of my sins,
kindling my heart with the flame of Your love.'

St. Dimitrii










Painting: 'Young Boy Singing,' in US public domain due to age

The First Home

'When man is entirely caught up in his own world, with material things, with what he can do, with all that is feasible and brings him success, with all that he can produce or understand by himself, then his capacity to perceive God weakens, the organ sensitive to God deteriorates, it becomes unable to perceive and sense, it no longer perceives the Divine..'  Pope Benedict XVI, 2006

'God is the first home of human beings, and only by dwelling in God do men and women burn with a flame of divine love that can set the world on fire.'   Pope Benedict XVI, 2006