June 17
“God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.”
-Mother Angelica
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The art of accompaniment
June 16
“The Church will have to initiate everyone—priests, religious and laity—into this ‘art of accompaniment’ which teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other (cf. Ex 3:5). The pace of this accompaniment must be steady and reassuring, reflecting our closeness and our compassionate gaze which also heals, liberates and encourages growth in the Christian life.”
-Pope Francis
God delights in your smallest efforts
June 15
“God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, he will accommodate his steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?”
-St. Francis de Sales
We are not accidents!
June 14
“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary. There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.”
-Pope Benedict XVI
The purpose of our lives
June 13
“The purpose of our lives is to reveal God to men. And only where God is seen does life truly begin. Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is.”
-Pope Benedict XVI
The Gospel is a rescue
June 12
“The net of the Gospel pulls us out of the waters of death and brings us into the splendour of God’s light, into true life. It is really true: as we follow Christ in this mission to be fishers of men, we must bring men and women out of the sea that is salted with so many forms of alienation and onto the land of life into the light of God”
- Pope Benedict XVI
Reveal a new way of living
June 11
“The first form of witness is the very life of the missionary, of the Christian family, and of the ecclesial community, which reveal a new way of living. The missionary who, despite all his or her human limitations and defects, lives a simple life, taking Christ as the model, is a sign of God and of transcendent realities. But everyone in the Church, striving to imitate the Divine Master, can and must bear this kind of witness; in many cases it is the only possible way of being a missionary.”
-Pope St. John Paul II
The witness of a Christian life
June 10
"People today put more trust in witnesses than teachers, in experience than in teaching and in life and action than in theories. The witness of a Christian life is the first and irreplaceable form of mission: Christ, whose mission we continue, is the “witness” par excellence and the model of all Christian witness. The Holy Spirit accompanies the Church along her way and associates her with the witness he gives to Christ”
-Pope St. John Paul II
The gentle action of the Spirit
June 9
“Techniques of evangelization are good, but even the most advanced ones could not replace the gentle action of the Spirit. The most perfect preparation of the evangelizer has no effect without the Holy Spirit. Without the Holy Spirit the most convincing dialectic has no power over the heart of man.”
-Pope Paul VI
Under the inspiration of the Spirit
June 8th
“Evangelization will never be possible without the action of the Holy Spirit… It is He who explains to the faithful the deep meaning of the teaching of Jesus and of His mystery. It is the Holy Spirit, who, today just as the beginning of the Church, acts in every evangelizer who allows himself to be possessed and led by Him.
