Category: Quotes

Quote below references the priesthood and their need for communal living. Taken from
Address to his Holiness Benedict XVI to the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo

In an address to the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo on the 25th anniversary of its founding, the Holy Father went on to say that it “may certainly be true” that living in community is “a form of help in the face of the solitude and weakness of man.” Still, he stressed, communal living is about more than this:

“Communal life is in fact an expression of the gift of Christ that is the Church, and it is prefigured in the apostolic community from which the priesthood arose. . . . Communal life thus expresses a help that Christ provides for our life, calling us, through the presence of brothers, to an ever more profound conformity to his person. Living with others means accepting the need of my own continual conversion and above all discovering the beauty of such a journey, the joy of humility, of penance, but also of conversation, of mutual forgiveness, of mutual support.”

This seems like something lay people could use and share in, too.

“Jesus Christ is the center of the universe. His pierced Heart, as the symbol of His infinite and divine charity united to his human affections and love, is the focal point of all time. Those who lived during the long period before his incarnation and redemptive death and resurrection waited with yearning for the promised redeemer. Those who witnessed the piercing of his side, as well as all people who will live, are invited to gaze upon and contemplate this mystery. . . As Christians lovingly gaze upon his Heart, they are given the grace to believe in God’s mercy and forgiveness.” – from the book The Secret of the Heart

Listen and notice all around you. God is here and present in our lives. Just believe and know you are not alone in this adventure called life.

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” ~ Saint Augustine Continue reading “Today we celebrate The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of our Lord” →

Encyclical Letter, SPE SALVI (SPE SALVI facti sumus—in hope we were saved), of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI to the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, Men and Women Religious and all the Lay Faithful on Christian Hope. Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 30 November, the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, in the year 2007, the third anniversary of Benedict’s Pontificate.

“With a hymn composed in the eighth or ninth century, thus for over a thousand years, the Church has greeted Mary, the Mother of God, as “Star of the Sea”: Ave maris stella. Human life is a journey. Towards what destination? How do we find the way? Life is like a voyage on the sea of history, often dark and stormy, a voyage in which we watch for the stars that indicate the route. The true stars of our life are the people who have lived good lives. They are lights of hope. Certainly, Jesus Christ is the true light, the sun that has risen above all the shadows of history. But to reach him we also need lights close by—people who shine with his light and so guide us along our way. Who more than Mary could be a star of hope for us? With her “yes” she opened the door of our world to God himself; she became the living Ark of the Covenant, in whom God took flesh, became one of us, and pitched his tent among us” (cf. Jn 1:14)

“The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’
is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting
to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” – G. K. Chesterton

“Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

But as for that day and hour, nobody knows it, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, no one but the Father alone.” – Matthew 24:35-36