Rejoice in the measure that you share Christ's sufferings. When His glory is revealed, you will rejoice exultantly. Happy are you when you are insulted for the sake of Christ, for then God's spirit in its glory has come to rest on you.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
On this Memorial of the great Bishop and Martyr, St. Ignatius of Antioch, through the Liturgy of the Hours, we are given these encouraging words from Saint Peter:
Monday, October 15, 2012
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend. And I clearly see that if we expect to please him and receive an abundance of his graces, God desires that these graces come to us from the hands of Christ, through his most sacred humanity, in which God takes delight.
What more do we desire from such a good friend at our side? Unlike our friends in the world, he will never abandon us when we are troubled or distressed. Blessed it the one who truly loves him and always keeps him near.
-Saint Teresa of Avila
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
The Little Way
Unless you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.
For St. Therese the word "little," which many would like to eliminate from her teaching, is the key to everything. She has made the Fatherhood of God live afresh for thousands of the faithful by calling us back from being children with a more or less independent life of our own, to become, as our Lord would have us, littlechildren, with no independent life at all, but depending absolutely on our heavenly Father. ... The present bishop of Lisieux is never weary of saying that St. Therese has shed a new light on one of the oldest and most fundamental of Catholic doctrines: God is our Father.-From Father Vernon Johnson's Spiritual Childhood, Ignatius Press edition, 2001, pages 10-11
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