“For the glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man consists in beholding God. For if the manifestation of God which is made by means of the creation, affords...
“He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed...
Homily: Thirteenth Sunday Year B Reading 1: God created life; he didn’t make death. He created us in his own image and likeness to live forever. When he breathed life into man and...
“Don't say, ‘That person bothers me.’ Think: ‘That person sanctifies me’. St. Josemaria Escriva When a grain of sand gets into the shell of an oyster, it secretes a substance to coat...
Thirteenth Sunday Gospel BWhen Jesus had crossed again (in the boat) to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he stayed close to the sea. One of the synagogue officials,...
‘Why, words, did I let you get out? I have often been sorry that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.” Arsenius, a desert fatherHow often have we spoken harmful words...
"We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.” St. Clair of Assisi If we love wealth, we will be slave of wealth. If we love to look good,...
Take care above all things, most honored lady, not to insult God’s boundless loving kindness; you would certainly do this if you mourned as dead one living face to face with God, one...
“God speaks in the silence of the heart.” St Teresa of Calcutta When the prophet Elijah waited to hear God’s plan for him, it was in the quiet whisper in silence that...
Homily: Twelfth Sunday Year B Reading: Job was once rich, comfortable, respected, blessed. Then he lost everything, became an object of mockery, afflicted with physical problems. His friends said it was because of...
“Were you to ask, ‘what are the means of overcoming temptations’, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and should you ask me, a...
"There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and...
The Lord does not ask us to struggle alone....We do not make love even our own. God and God alone cam make this kind of love. We have to ask him for it,...
Does not God have the power to resurrect each one individually, either to our honor and glory or to our dishonor and condemnation, reforming and restoring from each one’s same matter? God resurrects...
"The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He...
Homily Eleventh Sunday Year B Reading 1: In the first reading the prophet Ezekiel is proclaiming words of comfort to a people in exile. They are shattered. Their former greatness as a nation...
"Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically. St. Anthony ClaretWhat does this mean or look like? I think that St. Paul summarized this way of living in...
Eleventh Sunday Gospel BJesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would...
"There are three traps of Satan, that steel joy and peace: one, regretting about the past, two, fear for the future, three, ingratitude for the present. "St. Anthony of the DesertWhat are the...
"Don't think about the good you have done, but about the good you are still failing to do." Blessed Edward PoppeWe all fall short of what God desires of us. We sometimes are...
“If you know how quickly people would forget you after you died, you wouldn’t try to please anyone but God” St. John Chrysostom This is a sobering but true thought. We spend so...
"A talkative, over-curious, and restless person is like an oven which is open and exposed on all sides, and which keeps no heat; you will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer...
"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 This...
Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ. St Justin A true Christian...
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that...
