“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, PROVIDED (emphasis added) we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”

(Romans 8:15-18)

Thirtieth Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“But in order to perceive the true answer to the ‘why’ of suffering, we must look to the
revelation of divine love, the ultimate source of the meaning of everything that exists.”
(Apostolic Letter of John Paul II, On the Christian Meaning of Human Suffering, p.17)

Twenty-Ninth Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“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-Eighth Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“Does God hear the prayers of sinners?” My best possible answer: “Yes and No.”

Twenty-Seventh Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“God stands before God in the attitude that is fitting for God.” (Adrienne von Speyr, Confession, p.21)

Twenty-Sixth Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“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-Fifth Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“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-Fourth Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“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-Third Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“No one has ever trusted in the Lord and been abandoned.”

(John A. Kane, Transforming Your Life through the Eucharist, p.38)

Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time 2024

“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)

Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time 2024