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Post by Hildegard on May 29, 2019 18:44:25 GMT
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TO the man who gives himself up to the guidance of the Holy Ghost, there seems to be no world; to the world there seems to be no God. - Catechism on the Holy Ghost (Sp.)
LET us open the door of the Sacred Heart, and shut ourselves in for a moment
amidst its divine flames; we shall then realize what God's love means . . . .
- On the Sacred Heart (H.)
THOSE who do not pray think only of temporal things like the miser who,
when a silver Crucifix was presented to him to kiss, remarked:
"That cross weighs at least ten ounces." - Catechism on Prayer (M.)
LOVE for God here consists in loving Him more than any created thing
-- loving Him better than our own life.
- Catechism on the Act of Love (F.)
THERE is not single creature which does not provide us with the means of reaching God. If any of them become an obstacle, it is only by our misuse of them. - On Paradise (Sp.)
WE love a thing in proportion to what it has cost us. You may judge by that Our Lord's love for our soul, which has cost Him His Blood. He is eager for communications and intercourse with it. He longs to see it, to hear it . . . . - Joys of the Interior Life (Sp.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 1, 2019 0:57:53 GMT
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ALTHOUGH Mary knew that God had raised her to the most supreme of all honors - that of being the Mother of God -
nevertheless she regarded herself as the least of all creatures. - Notre-Dame d'Ars, Meditation 19.
WHAT happiness do we not feel in the Presence of God, when we are alone at His feet before the Sacred Tabernacle! . . .
Redouble your fervour; you are alone to adore your God; His eyes rest upon you alone. - Catechism on the Real Presence (M.)
OUR faults are life a grain of sand beside the great mountain of the mercies of the good God. - The Cure d'Ars in his Catechisms (Sp.)
WE should say every morning: "My God, send me Thy Holy Spirit to teach me what I am and what Thou art!"
- Catechism on the Holy Ghost (M.)
A SAINT has called us "Porte-Dieu" (God-Bearers). That is quite true, but we have not enough faith. - Catechism on the Blessed Sacrament (D.)
REMEMBER that when the priest gives you absolution, you
have but one thing to think of -- that the Blood of the good
God is flowing over your soul to purify it and make it as bright as it was made by its Baptism. - Catechism on the Sacrament of Penance (M.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 3, 2019 21:58:47 GMT
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I OFTEN think that when we come to adore Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we should obtain everything we want, if we would ask for it with a very lively faith and a very pure heart. - Catechism on Prayer (M.)
ST. MAURUS instantly left his work to answer the call his
Superior, St. Benedict. The other monks all had something to finish first. - On Self-Denial (Sp.)
WHERE are the Christians today who would be ready, I do not say to give their lives for God, but even to put up with the least unpleasantness or inconvenience rather than disobey Him? - On Hearing Mass on Sundays (E.)
THE Heart of Jesus is infinetely good and loves each one of us, who ever we are. But we must have confidence in Him. There is a certain kind of fear which displeases Him.
- On the Lord's Prayer (C.)
THE devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our
merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the devil's empty. - Catechism on Sin (M.)
WE ought in the morning on awaking to offer to God our heart, our mind, our thoughts, our words, our actions, our whole selves, to serve for His glory alone. - On the Joys of the Interior Life (Sp.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 4, 2019 20:35:04 GMT
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DO you know why Our Lord persists in remaining day and night in our churches? . . . He stays there so that every time we want to go and see Him, we may be able to find HIm. - Style of the Cure d'Ars (P.)
YOU wonder why God, who is goodness Itself, allows us to suffer . . . . But, what would you think of a doctor who lost his patient because he
was afraid to give him the necessary but unpleasant treatment? - Sermon Afflictions.
TO be loved by God, to be united to God, to live in the Presence of God, to live for God! Oh! how wonderful like is -- and death! - Words with which the Cure d'Ars often ended his addresses (D.)
WITH God's help we shall always have power over our emotions. - Of Salvation (Sp.)
WHEN his mother recognized St. Alexis in the lifeless body of the beggar who had lived for thirty years under her palace stairway, she cried: "Oh! that I should have known you so late!" . . . The soul after this life will see at last Him whom she has possessed
in the Eucharist . . . . - Eucharistic Meditation I.
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 4, 2019 20:41:28 GMT
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WE should be able to suffer for Him who
vouchsafed to suffer for us. - Catechism on Suffering (M.)
ONE must do all one can for everybody, expecting no return save from God only. - Catechism on Charity (D.)
NOTHING is more unworthy of a Christian, whose life should be an imitation of a God who is the soul of Honor and Truth itself, than to think one thing
and say another. - Sermon on Lying.
IF God took the name of Father, it was to inspire
us with a greater confidence in Him. - Sermon on Hope.
GOD makes greater speed to pardon a penitent sinner than a mother to snatch her child out of the fire. - Catechetical Illustration from Nature (M.)
HE to whom all power has been given has not yet lost it. - Signs of the Saint's Mission (J.V.)
AN undertaking to be pleasing to God must have three conditions: It must be sincere, selfless and persevering. - Sermon on False and True Goodness.
THE martyrs would not have been martyrs if they had not refused to disobey the commandments of God. - Sermon on the First Commandment.
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 6, 2019 17:37:47 GMT
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We ought to love the Blessed Virgin very much. - The Cure d'Ars and La Salette (M.)
WHAT joy it is to know that when we go out of the house, we are never alone en route. - Sermon for the Feast of the Guardian Angels.
ALL Jesus Christ did, He did for us. His prayers, His tears,
His watchings, His fasting, His preaching, His journeys, His conversations, His miracles - - all those were for us. - Sermon on Love for God.
I OFTEN think that the life of some poor employee who knows no will but that of others may be - - if only she knows how to
profit by it - - quite as agreeable to God as that of a religious who is always confronted with her rule. - Mortification of the Cure d'Ars (M.)
We must take care not to get slack . . . We ought always to be going from strength to strength . . . . - Sermon on False and True Goodness
EVERY evening think over what you have done during the day, and each month over the month, and each year over the year. Thus you cannot fail to correct yourself and when death comes you will be ready and happy to go to Heaven. - On Death (Sp.)
IT is only God that can fill the soul. - Of Holy Communion (M.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 8, 2019 1:13:43 GMT
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THE sun never hides his light for fear of inconveniencing the owls. - Maxim (M.)
OUR Lord carried His Cross - - surely I can do as He did. - Saying - Patience of the Cure d'Ars (T.)
DO not distrust the Providence of God. He who made your corn to grow will assuredly help to gather it in. - Maxim (M.)
WHEN we receive Holy Communion, we receive our joy and
our happiness. - Catechism on Communion (Sp.)
WE must take great care never to do anything before having said our Morning Prayers . . . . The devil once declared . . . that if he
could have the first moment of the day, he was sure of all the rest. - Sermon on the First Commandment.
"GOD," said the Cure d'Ars, "has shown me this great mercy, that
He has given me nothing on which I could rely, neither talent, nor wisdom, nor knowledge, nor strength, nor virtue.
"When tempted to despair I have only one resource: to throw myself at the foot of the Tabernacle like a little dog at the feet of his master." - Interior Life of the Cure d'Ars (M.)
TO possess God, that is the joy of joys. - On the Joys of the Interior Life (Sp.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 11, 2019 16:15:51 GMT
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AS the Disciples on Tabor saw Jesus only, so interior souls see Our Lord alone in the Tabor of their heart. They are two friends who never grow tired of each other. - Catechism on Heaven and Hell (M.)
GOD only gave men ten Commandments, and one of the ten has for its sole object the reverence due to His Name . . . . Yet is there anything nowadays that is treated with less respect than the
Sacred Name? - Catechism on Blasphemy (E.)
IF I were to ask you if you loved God, you would tell me that you did; but that is not enough. You must prove it. - Sermon on the Love of God.
WHEN good thoughts come to us, it is a visit of God the Holy Ghost. - Catechism on the Holy Ghost. (D.)
WE must never despise the poor, because that contempt is reflected back upon God. - Catechism on Love for the Poor (Sp.)
IF we are tempted to thoughts of envy against our neighbor, far from letting him see it by our cold manner, we must go out of our way to be friendly, and do him any service that lies in our power. - Sermon on Envy.
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 11, 2019 16:24:06 GMT
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ST. COLETTE saw and spoke to Our Lord as we speak to each other. How often do we come to church without knowing what we come to do, or what we wish to ask! - Catechism on Prayer (M.)
TO what outrages does Our Lord expose Himself in the Blessed Sacrament that He may remain in the midst of us! He is there to console us, and therefore we ought often to visit Him. - Catechism on the Real Presence (Sp.)
EVERY time we are able to give up our own wishes in favor of those of other people, so long as it is not contrary to the will of God, we acquire great merit . . . .
- On Mortifying Self-Will (C.)
LET us live as the Blessed Virgin lived: loving God only,
desiring God only, trying to please God only in all that we do. - Sermon for the Feast of the Assumption.
THOSE who are led by the Holy Ghost experience all sorts of
happiness in themselves. - Catechism on the Holy Ghost (Sp.)
OUR home is -- Heaven. On earth we are like travellers staying at an hotel. When one is away, one is always thinking of going home. - On Detachment (C.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 12, 2019 18:00:34 GMT
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A GOOD Christian mounts a chariot in this world --- borne by Angels and conducted by Our Lord. - Sermon on the Love of God (Sp.)
NEVER pass a day without thanking Jesus Christ for all He has done for you during your life. - Sermon on the First Commandment.
IF you keep your thoughts fixed on Our Lord after Communion, you will feel for a long time that consuming fire which will inspire in your heart the desire for good and a shrinking from evil. - Catechism on Holy Communion (M.)
HE who does not pray is like a hen or a turkey that cannot rise into the air. He who prays is like an intrepid eagle!
- On the Joys of the Interior Life (Sp.)
THERE is hardly a day when we shall not be obliged to make some sacrifice for God, if we do not want to displease Him and if we want to love Him. - Sermon on Love for God.
WE must always act in the way that will give most glory to God. - Catechism on the Word of God.
WHEN Our Lord sees pure souls coming eagerly to visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament, He smiles upon them. They come with that simplicity which pleases Him so much. - Catechism on the Real Presence (Sp.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 12, 2019 18:15:23 GMT
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THE Saints did not become Saints without many
a sacrifice and many a struggle. - Sermon on Sanctity.
WHEN we want to obtain anything of the good God, let us, after Holy Communion, offer Him His well-beloved Son,
with all the merits of His Death and Passion; He will be able to refuse us nothing. - Catechism on the Holy Eucharist (M.)
DURING the harvest season the harvesters rise early and work hard, but they do not complain, since it is a question of making money. Temptation is the season of spiritual harvest. - On Temptations (C.)
MAKE a note of the difference there is between believing in
the existence of God and believing in Him. - Sermon on the First Commandment.
WE ought to have a charity like that of St. Augustine, who
rejoiced to see anyone very good: "At least," he used to say, "here is someone who will make amends to God for my want of love." - Sermon on the Forgiveness of Others (M.)
HIS death was the price of one dance . . . - Inscription chose by the Cure d'Ars for his Chapel of St. John the Baptist (D.)
IT is in solitude that God speaks to us. - Interior Life of the Cure d'Ars (M.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 14, 2019 18:19:40 GMT
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WE are each of us like a small mirror in which God searches for His reflection. - On the Sin of Impurity (E.)
ONE sin cannot excuse another sin. - On Anger (Sp.)
If we possessed a real penetrating faith like the Saints we should see Our Lord like they did. - Remark (M.)
THOSE who love themselves with a love that seeks
themselves and the world -- that seeks creatures more than God -- are never satisfied -- never quiet. They are always uneasy, always tormented, always upset. - Catechism on the Love of God (Sp.)
YOU can pray by putting yourself quite simply in touch with God. When one finds nothing more to say to Him
but just knows He is there -- that in itself is the best of prayers. - A. , April 1859 -- On Prayer.
WE must love while we suffer, and we must suffer if we love. - Catechism on Suffering (M.)
NOTHING is so contrary to charity as pride. - Homily on the Gospel for the 21st Sunday after Pentecost (Sp.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 16, 2019 22:56:03 GMT
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AT the hour of your death you will see that you have saved more souls by your illness than by all the good works you
might have accomplished in health. - To a sick Religious who had been sent to the Cure d'Ars by his Superior (M.)
ON the Feast of the Sacred Heart, Our Lord places us on His Heart. Ah! If we could remain there always! - Charity of M. Vianney (Sp.)
SINCE we are only in the world for God Himself, we shall never be happy if we do not serve Him with zeal and love. - Catechism on the Instruction of Children (F.)
EVERYONE is ready to run after the latest novelty, . . . But as for Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, He is deserted and forsaken . . . . - Sermon for Corpus Christi.
THE priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus. When
you see the priest, think of Our Lord Jesus Christ. - Catechism on the Priesthood (Sp.)
WHEN we have had the great misfortune to sin, the
adorable Blood of Jesus will ask for our forgiveness. - Sermon for Maundy Thursday.
We must honor God as He requires us to honor Him, or we shall be asked why. - Saying (S.)
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 28, 2019 1:12:41 GMT
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TO love God with our whole mind is to think of Him often, and to make it our principal study to know Him well. - Sermon on the Love of God (Sp.)
GOD acts vigorously and gently; it is good to rely on Him. - Saying - Vocations and Works (J.V.)
OUR Lord takes pleasure in doing the will of those who love Him. - The Cure of Ars in his Conversation (Sp.)
THE Saints did not all begin well, but they all ended well. - Catechism on our Last End (M.)
GOD is like a mother who carries her child in her arms by the edge of a precipice. While she is seeking all the time to keep
him from danger, he is doing his best to get into it. - Catechism on the Love of God (D.)
THE Kingdom of God is within us when we love Him and are in a state of grace. - On Habitual Grace (Sp.)
TO receive the Blessed Sacrament worthily, one must have a great desire for union with Jesus Christ. - Sermon on Communion.
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Post by Hildegard on Jun 30, 2019 19:19:56 GMT
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GOD allowed the Blessed Virgin to be born in poverty, to the end that her nativity should more closely resemble
that of her Divine Son, of whom the Prophets had foretold that He would have no place to lay His head. - Notre-Dame d'Ars, Meditation 4.
WHEN we pray, we should open our heart to God, like a fish when it sees the wave coming. - The Cure of Ars in his Catechisms (Sp.)
ALAS! If we put all our trust in God, how much happier we should be! - Eucharistic Meditation 25.
THE greatest Saints were those who suffered the most. - Sermon on Afflictions.
WHEN you awake in the night, transport yourself quickly in spirit before the Tabernacle, saying: "Behold me, my God, I come to adore Thee, to praise, thank, and love Thee, and to keep Thee company with all the Angels." - Precept (J.V.)
HE is hidden from our eyes under the humility of His Sacrament, to try our faith. . . . - Eucharistic Meditation 21.
WHEN two things are to be done, we may choose the one whichis the least pleasant. - On Self-Denial (Sp.)
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