A reflection for the Gospel today, Feb. 10, 2010
Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591), Carmelite, Doctor of the Church
Counsels and maxims
«A pure heart create for me, O God » (Ps 51[50],12)
Purity of heart corresponds to the degree of love and grace of God. Therefore, when our Savior calls blessed those who are pure in heart (Mt 5,8), he speaks of those who are filled with love, since blessedness is bestowed on us according to the degree of our love. He who truly loves God is not ashamed of what he does for God before the world, nor does he hide it away in confusion though the whole world should scorn him. He who truly loves God considers the loss of all created things to be a gain and reward, together with the loss of himself for love of God… He that with pure love works for God
not only does not care whether or not it is known by others, but does not even do these things that God Himself might know it… It is a great thing to exercise oneself much in holy love, for the soul who has attained the perfection and fulfilment of love is not held back, whether in this life or the next, from seeing the face of God. He whose heart is pure profits equally from being raised up or cast down to become ever more pure. Whereas the impure heart is useless for anything except to produce still more fruits of impurity. In everything the heart draws out a knowledge of God that is flavorsome, chaste, pure, spiritual, full of joy and love.
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See, O Lord, how impure and imperfect, poor and lowly and unworthy we are; Look at Your people and see our sufferings, our loneliness, our hunger, our thirst, our pain, our destituteness, our sickness, our nakedness. Lord, You Whose Name is Mercy, hear our cries and heal Your people. Help us, and carry us, O Lord, carry us like a little child too feeble to walk. We are weak and imperfect, O Lord, and only would it be possible for us to become holy like You, if we do not rely on our own merits- for we have none, O Jesus- but trust fully in You who is Virtue and Holiness. You alone, O God, can create a clean heart for me. You alone can raise me to Yourself and make me holy. Amen+
*Inspired by a prayer of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face
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I considered that I was born for glory… After seven years in religious life, I still am weak and imperfect. I always feel, however, the same bold confidence of becoming a great saint because I don’t count on my own merits since I have none, but I trust in Him who is Virtue and Holiness. God alone, content with my weak efforts, will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits. -St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Story of a Soul
Commentary of the Day from DGO
For the Gospel today, September 30, 2009
Saint Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), Founder of the Jesuits
Spiritual Exercises, 2nd.Week, 12th.Day (trans.Thomas Corbishley)
«Follow me »
The three ways of humility.
The first way of humility is necessary for salvation.
It consists in my subjecting and abasing myself as far as I can,
so that I always obey the law of God our Lord, at least to this extent:
even if men were to offer to make me Lord of the entire creation, even were
my life threatened, I should yet not think of breaking any commandment,
divine or human…
The second way of humility is more perfect than the first.
It means that I so submit myself that I neither seek nor desire to be rich rather than poor, I do not try to be well thought of rather than disregarded, I do not want to live many years rather than few,
where the service of our Lord God and my own salvation are equally
promoted…
The third way of humility is the most perfect.
Supposing that I have attained to the first two ways, and granted an equal
measure of praise and glory to God, I desire to be poor along with Christ
in poverty rather than rich, to be insulted along with Christ so grossly
insulted, rather than to be thought well of: I would rather be thought a
helpless fool for the sake of Christ who was so treated, rather than to be
thought «wise and prudent» in the world’s eyes (Mt 11,25).
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Help me be humble, O Jesus. Help me abandon everything and trust You with my everything. You are My Everything. Help me not want nor desire anything but You.
This site is dedicated to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, the THEOTOKOS +
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you! Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen+
O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer You my prayers, works, joys and sufferings, my every word, thought, and deed, my mind, my heart, my strength, my soul, my will, my freedom, my time, my life and my whole being today and throughout all my life- for love of Mama Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, for Love of You, O Jesus, for the salvation of souls, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Your Sacred Heart, O Jesus.
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I OFFER MYSELF AS A VICTIM OF HOLOCAUST TO THE MERCIFUL FIRE OF YOUR LOVE AND YOUR LOVING FIRE OF MERCY, O ETERNAL TRIUNE GOD! MAKE ME A PURE AND SPOTLESS SACRIFICE LIKENED TO THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY!
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Deep humility, lively faith,
Blind obedience, unceasing prayer,
Constant self-denial, surpassing purity,
Ardent love, heroic patience,
Angelic kindness, and heavenly wisdom.
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O Jesus, inflame my heart with love for You! That my spirit may not grow weary amidst the storms, the sufferings and the trials. You see how weak I am, Love can do all. (St. Faustina)
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O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament!
J.M.J. + ♥
PRAY THE ROSARY EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE.
"O my God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee. I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee."
"Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifferences whereby He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.”
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Jesus, You are Life indeed. WIthout You, Life has no meaning… no purpose.
Totus Tuus, Mama Mary. Totus Tuus ego sum, et omnia mea tua sunt.
“You ask me a method of attaining perfection. I know of love - and only love. Love can do all things.” - St Therese of Lisieux
“Why do we nourish our pride and exalt ourselves? Have we not always failed in our resolutions and when we criticize others, we fail to see ourselves? Let us then ask God to grant us humility, for it is always Him Who never fails us.”
“Instruct me, O Lord, My God, Sweetest Desire and Love of my soul, and help me persevere, in humility, obedience, mercy, charity, and all virtues through which I will become pleasing to You.”
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” -2 Cor 12:9
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, He saves those whose spirit is crushed. Let us NEVER LOSE HOPE.”
“..the Glory of God on the Face of Christ! Ah! How Lovely our God Is!”
“Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit” -John 12:24
How blessed we are to be able to say the Name of Jesus, Our Lord!
“The deeper a soul has fallen into sin, the more it is bound down by the powers of Hell…” -St. Alphonsus
“I don’t want to be a saint by halves, I’m not afraid to suffer for You. I fear only one thing; to keep my own will; so take it, for ‘I choose all’ that You will.” -St. Therese of the Child Jesus
“I am nothing. He is all. I do nothing of my own. He does it.I am God’s pencil. A tiny bit of pencil with which He writes what He likes. God writes through us, and however imperfect instruments we may be,
He writes beautifully.” -Mother Teresa
Make me a servant, humble and meek. Lord let me lift up those who are weak; and may the prayers of my heart always be: make me a servant today.
Domine, non sum dignus. Lord, I am not worthy.
I promised to bear all the pain for you, so I’m bearing it Mama. This hurt, this is all for you. I don’t know how it’s gonna connect but from now on, whatever pain or suffering I’m going through, I’ll offer it all to you. Totus Tuus! I love you.
“I feel that religion with its precepts is not something we can live without, but rather it is the real comfort, the real
strength in life and the only safe way in every circumstance, even the most painful ones of life.” -Alessandro Serenelli
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.” -Our Lady of Fatima
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