God Alone Can Fill The Human Heart

‘Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.’ ~St. Thomas Aquinas

What The Past Is For

“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.” ~Ms Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place

Our Only Glory

“Worldly sisters, priests, bishops, and seminarians are a caricature, and are of no use to the Church. They do not remember the martyrs. They have lost the memory of Jesus Christ crucified, our only glory.” ~Pope Francis, June 6, 2015

May none of us, regardless of our state of life, ever forget the martyrs or lose the memory of Jesus, our only glory.

Until The Cord Be Broken

The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly. ~St John of the Cross

The Feast of Corpus Christi

“It is invaluable to converse with Christ, and leaning against Jesus’ breast like his beloved disciple, we can feel the infinite love of his Heart. We learn to know more deeply the One who gave Himself totally, in the different mysteries of his divine and human life, so that we may become disciples and in turn enter into this great act of giving, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world. ‘Following Christ is not an outward imitation, since it touches man at the very depths of his being’ (Veritatis splendor, n. 21). We are called to learn from him, gradually to be conformed to him, to let the Spirit act within us and to fulfil the mission entrusted to us. In particular, Christ’s love spurs us to work constantly for the unity of his Church, to proclaim the Gospel to the ends of the earth, and to serve men, ‘we who are many are one body, for we all partake of one bread’ (1 Cor 10:16) such is the Good News which gladdens man’s heart and shows him that he is called to take part in the blessed life with God. The Eucharistic mystery is the source, the centre and the summit of the Church’s spiritual and charitable activity (cf. Presbyterorum ordinis, n. 6).” ~St. John Paul II, pope

The Purpose of Your Life

Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile. ~Caryll Houselander

vocation to Solitude

Vocation to Solitude. To deliver oneself up, to hand oneself up, to hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landsccape of woods and hills, or sea, or desert, to sit still while the sun comes up over the land and fills its silences with light. To pray and work in the morning and to labor in meditation in the evening when night falls upon that land and when the silence fills itself with darkness and with stars. This is a true and special vocation. There are few who are willing to belong completely to such silence, to let it soak into their bones, to breathe nothing but silence, to feed on silence, and to turn the very substance of their life into a living and vigilant silence. ~Thomas Merton

What We Really Want

“We do not really want a religion that is right where we are right. We want a religion that is right where we are wrong.” ~G.K.Chesterton

The Burning Flame of Your Soul

“Yes, I am happy, perfectly happy; and do you wish to know where I find true happiness? At the feet of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,… I would strongly urge that, even as the Magdalene anointed the Lord’s feet with tears and perfumed oil, you too would pour out the perfume of constant prayer and contemplation at the foot of the tabernacle. I should like the Eucharist to become a burning flame for your soul, so that, immersed in that flame, it might emerge burning with love and great-heartedness. I should like to see this eucharistic altar, on which Jesus is sacrificed, accept your offering too, so that you may become a victim of love, whose perfume rises to the throne of the Eternal God!” ~Fr. Augustine Mary of the Most Blessed Sacrament (b.1821 –  d.1871)