Posted: March 16, 2025
“Forgiveness is one of the highest forms of mercy and also one of the hardest. But it is worth the effort to extend it more widely. Forgiveness is difficult, sometimes heroic, but it is indispensable. Without forgiveness, evil multiplies ceaselessly. Only the courage to forgive puts an end to evil’s growth.” –Father Jacques Philippe
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Posted: March 15, 2025
“There is a very deep connection, emphasized in Scripture, between one’s relationship with God and one’s relationship with others. Closing one’s heart to a brother means automatically closing one’s heart to God and his grace, while opening one’s heart to another is a sure way of opening one’s heart to God and his abundant blessings.”
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Posted: March 14, 2025
“Whoever suffers and is in darkness sees further than one who is not suffering. The sun has to set before we see the stars. Suffering teaches what cannot be learned in any other way. It holds the highest chair, the teacher of wisdom. And whoever has wisdom is blessed (cf. Prv 3:13). Blessed are those who
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Posted: March 13, 2025
“One day the Lord advised his disciples to close the door when praying. But another day he taught them the Our Father on the road and in the midst of a great crowd of people. He himself prayed both in solitude and in a crowd. If a Christian knows that he should pray in certain
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Posted: March 12, 2025
“What about the human methods and techniques of praying? Again there are many of these. But whichever we find works for us, we must soon make use of those great mysterious powers which reach God himself, the theological ‘powers’ of faith, hope, love. Whatever ‘launching pad’ we use—the rosary, the divine office, our reflections on
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Posted: March 11, 2025
“Christ offered himself, and because he did, the world was redeemed…. With him, through him, in him we too can redeem the world. Here we make the application: our doing little things well, with love—dishwashing, for example—making the connection between our routine daily life and work and the graces it brings to others, perhaps on
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Posted: March 10, 2025
“Today it is no longer possible to be Christian as a mere consequence of living in a society that has Christian roots: even those who are born into a Christian family and receive a religious education must every day renew their decision to be Christian, that is, to give God first place in the face
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Posted: March 9, 2025
“What is the essence of the three temptations to which Jesus is subjected? It is the proposal to exploit God, to use him for one’s own interests, for one’s own glory and for one’s own success. And therefore, essentially to put oneself in God’s place, removing him from one’s own existence and making him seem
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Posted: March 8, 2025
“When I am troubled I find no better antidote or consolation than considering and contemplating Jesus Christ crucified and reflecting on his most holy Passion and the troubles and toils he suffered in this life—and all for us…. When we consider that the spotless Lamb suffered so much toil and torment without having deserved it,
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Posted: March 7, 2025
” [Thus the enemy supposed] that, as [Perpetua and Felicity] would not be able to endure the hard, cruel burdens of persecution, they would give in to him straightaway and very soon be his to gloat over. They, however, being watchfully and firmly on guard in the strength of the inner self, scotched all his
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