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littleflowerfaith · 1 year
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perpetual-help · 10 months
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Sacrifice without love is pain.
Pain with love is sacrifice.
Pain without love is misery.
Love without pain is Heaven.
Love with pain is purgatory.
Pain without love is hell
-Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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donnadarling · 7 months
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"God is Love, and His Spirit is Peace. I see now that my deeds which have flowed from love are more perfect than those which I have done out of fear."
- The Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska
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portraitsofsaints · 9 months
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The month of the Most Precious Blood   “You come to me & unite Yourself intimately to me under the form of nourishment. Your Blood now runs in mine, Your Soul, Incarnate God, compenetrates mine, giving courage & support. What miracles! Who would have ever imagined such!” St Maximilian Kolbe
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mayflowerofmary · 10 months
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Why do Catholics love Mary so much? Why not just Jesus?
If Jesus Christ is our Brother, and Mary is His mother, than she is also our mother. The Fourth Commandment is "honor thy father and mother," (Exodus 20:12). One can only conclude we are called to not only honor our biological mother, but also our spiritual mother Mary, as both the mother of Jesus and our mother, since we are brothers and sisters in Christ.
But here's also another way to think of it: We as the followers of Jesus are the spiritual Body of Christ, and He is the Head. And where was His body formed? In the womb of His virgin mother! So if we are the Body of Christ, then, again, she is our spiritual mother.
"But then why did Jesus never preach on honoring Mary?" one might add.
Yet, consider this: Nailed to a cross, the pain it takes to speak is unimaginable, as one has to push down on the nails to lift one's body up to even draw breath to speak. If Our Lord's only intention in His words "Behold thy son!" and "Behold thy mother!" (John 19:26-27) was to ensure His mother was provided for...why not just say it in one breath as something like "Take care of my mother!" unless there was a deeper meaning to His words, unless they weren't only meant for John to hear, but for all of us as we read his Gospel? If Jesus came down to earth to share His Heavenly Father with us...it only makes sense that in His infinite goodness He'd want to share His mother with us as well! Not as a goddess to worship but a mother to honor and seek comfort from just as He did on earth.
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atouchofheaven · 9 months
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“There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.”
- Brother Lawrence
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue. ~ G.K. Chesterton
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cheerfullycatholic · 1 year
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secosmolhadoseafins · 2 months
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YOU DON'T NEED A REASON TO HELP PEOPLE.
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mitigatingchaos · 3 months
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A Reflection
A Reflection on Advent. We cannot conceive how the Divine Spirit dwelled within the created and human spirit of Jesus: but neither can we conceive how His human spirit, or that of any man, dwells within his natural organism. What we can understand, if the Christian doctrine is true, is that our own composite existence is not the sheer anomaly it might seem to be, but a faint image of the Divine…
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god-given · 4 months
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"When [Jesus] comes to us in Holy Communion, whether amidst the joys of life’s triumphs or the sorrows of life’s tragedies, he is telling us once again: You matter so much to me that I can’t hold myself back; I must share in all that you suffer, so that you can share in all that I promise."
These words are from a very beautiful article by Fr. John Bartunek, LC, on how Christ suffers along with us.
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rescatada · 1 year
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sophiathesorceress · 1 year
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"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. "- St. Augustine of Hippo
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krist-420 · 7 months
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Quotes from St Padre Pio and St Bernadette
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ptork66 · 1 year
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mayflowerofmary · 10 months
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"The grief of Mary was so great that, divided among all men, it would suffice to cause their immediate death." ~ St. Bernadine
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