Families must become places 'of redemption rather than places of wounding, places of reconciliation rather than places of betrayal.' It doesn't take courage to be a fool. It does to do the right thing. Consider today where you can turn from wrongdoing and begin to lay down your life once again, for your spouse and your family. And admit to those places where you need God's divine glue, and ask God to heal you.
—Donald & Lorrie Gramer from Marriage Care Novena The goal of what mankind is called to be is an accomplished fact in Mary. In her, paradise has been restored on earth. In her, God’s dream of mankind has become a concrete reality.
—FR. WILFRID STINISSEN, OCD from Mary in the Bible and in Our Lives The reason that the Jewish Christians of the first century understood the real presence of the Eucharist is because they knew the Old Testament and the prophecies of the Old Testament which were fulfilled in Christ and in the Eucharist. I would also suggest more negatively that one of the reasons many Catholics today and many Christians today do not believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist is because they are not familiar with the prophecies of the Old Testament, and they can't see the fulfillment that Christ brings in the Eucharist.
—Dr. Brant Pitre from Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist Christian faith is not a system. It cannot be portrayed as a complete, finished intellectual construction. It is a path, and it is characteristic of a path that it only becomes recognizable if you enter on it and start following it.
—JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER from Truth and Tolerance In the name of Saint-Malo Parish and Blessed Margaret, the Knights of Columbus say:
Dear friends, Operation Red Nose was a great success! Members of the organizing committee are; Lise Gosselin, Charmaine Gosselin, Jacques lambert, Josée Maynard, Stéphanie Preteau and Leanne Carrière and Father Dominic LaFleur. We congratulate them for a job well done and thank them for the countless hours they dedicated to make this project successful. A big ‘Thank-you’ also to all the volonteers who helped them ! Jean Payette, Grand Chevalier/Grand Knight Pour Les Chevaliers de Colomb de Saint-Malo For the saint Malo Knights of Columbus All the statistics are being calculated, including the total amount of money raised. Stay tuned. Jesus left a deposit of faith, a quantifiable deposit of faith, and said, ‘Now pass this on.’ Jesus never just threw it out there and said, ‘Have a go at it, go after it, just try to get along.’ That is not our Shepherd, that is not our King and Lord. Our Lord has established a body that can teach his truth and pass on His bread from Heaven
—JEFF CAVINS from I'm Not Being Fed As you are hungry physically, you are also hungry spiritually, and you will find some place to eat. Whether it's in the Church or down the street at the Outreach Center, you'll find a place to be fed. But who has the responsibility to feed you, and what is he going to feed you? Jesus Christ has ultimately taken the responsibility to feed us.
—Jeff Cavins from I'm Not Being Fed Only God is guaranteed. All who seek him find him. But only those who seek him find him: ‘You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you, says the Lord.’ Finding him is heaven. Seeking him is heaven’s door. Not finding him is hell, and not seeking is the door to hell. The road to hell is not paved with good intentions but with no intentions, with ‘I don’t give a damn’ or ‘the hell with it’.
—PETER KREEFT from Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing God is a gentleman and will not force heaven on anyone who says, ‘No thank you’. Implied in the encouraging words ‘seek and you shall find’ is a dire warning: If you do not seek, you will not find. Earth is automatic, but heaven is freely chosen and therefore can be freely refused.
—PETER KREEFT from Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing |
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