“We certainly should pray all the time, praying with our hands, our bodies, our will, our acts; but in order to delight God and to build up the peace of our souls, besides the prayer in which we offer ourselves to God should be the prayer in which we let God give Himself to us. We should learn to receive the love of God in silence and joy–that is what is meant by relaxing.”
“The Liturgy expresses every passion, every emotion, every experience of the human heart. It is the song of the whole world; but it is also much more: it is the love-song of Christ in man, the voice of the Mystical Body of Christ lifted up to God. All our inarticulate longings and adoration, all our stammered, incoherent love, set in the tremendous metre of the Liturgy and lifted on the voice of Christ to our Heavenly Father.”
“To become bitter, to want reprisals, to give way to hatred, is a temptation for many people; it is a temptation that is going to become greater day by day and hour by hour. It is all the more difficult to combat because it is not recognized by everyone as a temptation at all, indeed there is a growing number of people who think it right to hate...”
Did you know there are thousands of people who swear they were abducted by aliens? There’s also a vast number of people who believe they lived past lives, who think horses are possessed of a collective wisdom that can guide us in life, and who swear by an enormous compendium of consciousness recorded on a non-physical realm known as the astral plane.
“No sooner do you begin to concentrate on the feelings and needs of people around you than your own feelings and needs become less important and your own fears begin to fade.”
“... there is neither room to receive God nor silence to hear His voice, even though He comes as light and little as a Communion wafer and speaks as soft as a zephyr of wind tapping on the window with a flower.”
Christian reviewers are giving Goat, an animated children’s movie, the thumbs up for being a well-made film about a scrawny goat with big dreams who learns that the key to success comes from remaining true to the values taught to him by his beloved late mother.
A jury has found that a TikTok influencer and self-professed psychic, who falsely accused a university professor of the murder of four University of Idaho students, is guilty of defamation and has been ordered to pay $10 million in damages.
“The modern world's feverish struggle for unbridled, often unlicensed, freedom is answered by the bound, enclosed helplessness and dependence of Christ—Christ in the womb, Christ in the Host, Christ in the tomb.”
Franciscans around the world – religious and lay – are celebrating the recent announcement of the Jubilee Year of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182 – 1226 A.D.). This special time – from January 10, 2026, to January 10, 2027, has been proclaimed by Pope Leo XIV in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the death of the “Little Poor Man” later this year.
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