by admin | Jan 17, 2013 | Thirty Quotes
“Christ continues to call young disciples…face this challenge without anxiety or mediocrity” (Pope Benedict XVI to Seminarians 20 VIII 2011) Christ continues to call, his voice is not silent: but the call that Christ makes to priesthood is a challenge, the radical...
by admin | Jan 14, 2013 | Thirty Quotes
“God wants us to be happy always” If you were Pope Benedict, would you have written that sentence? I’m guessing most people would think God wants us to be ‘holy’; wouldn’t God want us to spend time praying, because we assume that is what it means to be holy? Perhaps...
by admin | Jan 10, 2012 | Thirty Quotes
“Suffering is not beneath human dignity. I mean: it is possible to suffer with dignity and without. I mean: most of us in the West don’t understand the art of suffering and experience a thousand fears instead. We cease to be alive, being full of fear, bitterness,...
by admin | Jan 8, 2012 | Thirty Quotes
“Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours.” Attributed to Saint Teresa of Avila, here is the whole prayer: Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world,...
by admin | Jan 3, 2012 | Thirty Quotes
“Behold the days shall come says the Lord. Jeremiah 31,31 All these things, however, were done by way of preparation and as a figure of that new and perfect covenant, which was to be ratified in Christ, and of that fuller revelation which was to be given...
by admin | Dec 31, 2011 | Thirty Quotes
“A Sacrament is a festive action in which Christians assemble to celebrate their lived experience and to call to heart their common story. The action is a symbol of God’s care for us in Christ. Enacting the symbol brings us closer to one another in the Church to the...