To be entrusted…
To be entrusted with the teaching of the young is a great gift and grace of God.
–Saint John Baptist de la Salle (1651-1719)
Bump into wonder…
Not dawdling
not doubting
intrepid all the way
walk toward clarity
with sharp eye
With sharpened sword
clearcut the path
to the lucent surprise
of enlightenment
At every crossroad
be prepared to bump into wonder
–James Broughton (1913-1999)
The greatest act of faith…
The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.
–Saint Pio (1887-1968)
Jesus is…
Jesus is the Image of the Father, the center of the universe and of history. Jesus is our salvation, the radiance of the God we cannot see, the unquenchable fire of love, the one for whom the angels sigh, the Holy one of God, the true adorer, the eternal High Priest, the Lord of the Ages, the glory of God. Jesus is also our brother, and as such he takes his place beside us, to teach us the path we must follow to reach the invisible. And to make sure that we understand, he translates into visible terms the invisible things he has seen – as man he acts as God would act; he introduces the ways of the family of God on to the Earth and into the family of man.
–Carlo Carretto (1910-1988)
The power to forget…
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
— Saint Basil the Great (330-379)
Holy Spirit: the gift of God…
We receive our faith from the church and keep it safe; and it is as it were a precious deposit stored in a fine vessel, ever renewing its vitality through the Spirit of God, and causing the renewal of the vessel in which it is stored. For this gift of God has been entrusted to the church, as the breath of life to created man, to the end that all members by receiving it should be made alive. And herein has been bestowed on us our means of communion with Christ, namely the Holy Spirit, the pledge of immortality, the strengthening of our faith, the ladder by which we ascend to God.
–Saint Irenaeus (late Second Century)
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