Twenty-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time October 13, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #42
“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.”
(C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain)
Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time October 6, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #41
“Does God hear the prayers of sinners?” My best possible answer: “Yes and No.”
Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time September 29, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #40
“God stands before God in the attitude that is fitting for God.” (Adrienne von Speyr, Confession, p.21)
Twenty-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time September 22, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #39
“And when he saw them, he said unto them, ‘Go shew yourselves unto the priests.’ And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.” (Luke 17:14 KJV)
Twenty-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time September 15, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #38
“So long as a man is ignorant of his defects and of their real nature, all his endeavor (be it ever so laudable) to overcome those defects will end in failure. Not infrequently we meet persons who, while sincerely bent on reforming, direct all their attention to merely imaginary faults of theirs, thus fighting against windmills and leaving their real defects untouched.”
(Dietrich von Hildebrand, Transformation in Christ, p.43)
Twenty-Third Week of Ordinary Time September 8, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #37
“For the Christian — not only for the contemplative, but for every Christian — the purpose of life is union with Christ.”
(Dom Hubert van Zeller, How to find God, p.3)
Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time September 1, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #36
“No one has ever trusted in the Lord and been abandoned.”
(John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.38)
Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time August 25, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #35
“Man will never yield to, much less be inspired by, what is no better than himself.”
(John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.19)
Twentieth Week of Ordinary Time August 18, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #34
“A holy soul is but a soul freely submitted to the divine will with the help of grace.” (Father J.P. de Caussade, S.J., Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence, p. 55)
Nineteenth Week of Ordinary Time August 11, 2024 Year of the Most Holy Eucharist Reflection #33
“The Holy Eucharist is, then, the flower of the Incarnation, the completion of all the mysteries of the Redeemer’s life as Man. The institution of the Blessed Sacrament was the consummation of the stupendous series of God’s merciful dispensations to His fallen creatures, for Christ came ‘to seek and to save that which was lost’ by giving Himself to man. The end of His Passion, death, and glorification in our nature was that He might forever dwell in His Mystical Body, and therefore in us, members of that Mystical Body, the Church.” (John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.6)