Have Mary as mother…
If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.
–Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)
Mary models faith…
Mary at her Annunciation models faith for us. She shows us that faith is more than assent, but is also trust, commitment, obedience, and submission. Mary trusted in God’s promises, was obedient to God’s word of invitation in her life, surrendered to the mystery before her, and committed herself to be part of God’s plan of salvation in Jesus.
–Gerald M. Fagin (1938-2012)
God speaks to our hearts…
God has something unique to say to each one of us. God desires to speak to our hearts words of love and forgiveness or consolation or encouragement, or words that invite us to share more deeply in his life. He may want to say to us words of challenge and inspiration that call us to live more generously and compassionately with and with love to those around us… I believe [these] are words that God desires to speak to our hearts:
You are loved.
You are gifted.
You are forgiven.
You are called.
You are invited.
You are sent.
–Gerald M. Fagin (1938-2012)
Each word of Jesus…
Dearly Beloved, each word and deed of Our Saviour Jesus Christ is for us a lesson in virtue and piety. For this end also did He assume our nature, so that every man and every woman, contemplating as in a picture the practice of all virtue and piety, might strive with all their hearts to imitate His example. For this He bore our body, so that as far as we could we might repeat within us the manner of His life. And so therefore, when you hear mention of some word or deed of His, take care not to receive it simply as something that incidentally happened, but raise your mind upwards towards the sublimity of what He is teaching, and strive to see what has been mystically handed down to us.
–Saint Basil the Great (330-379)
Silence is the beginning…
Silence is the beginning of peace. It is in silence that we learn that there is more to life than life seems to offer. There is beauty and truth and vision wider than the present and deeper than the past that only silence can discover… Noise protects us from confronting ourselves, but silence speaks the language of the heart.
–Joan Chittester, (1936-
Silence is the…
Silence is the discipline by which the inner fire of God is tended and kept. –Henri Nouwen (1932–1996)
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