The Stained Glass Buffalo: Always remember...

07 June 2010

Always remember...

1 comment:

Josef_63 said...: I usually try and stop by and read your blog that I stumbled upon quite by accident. I don't remember if I have left a comment in the past, but will this time. I generally don't like Modern religious paintings but this one struck to close. I have a sister who is a "crack addict" and she is someone that I no longer recognize. She is playing in the devils playground. I am going to print this pic. and give to her. I pray for my sister everyday, in hopes that she will respond to the Lords healing and be made whole. Regretably, I have had to limit my interaction with her, because it is not emotionally healthy for me. I do what I can and hope that this pic. may touch her mind, soul and be FREED FROM THIS HELL, we have all had to live in. In your charity, would you please be so kind as to remember her in your prayers? God Bless you for having this site, it helps a great deal.
John K.; 07 June, 2010 23:18

It is Jesus

“It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is He who reads in your heart your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle.

It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.”
--Pope John Paul II

Carlo Carretto:

How much I must criticize you, my church, and yet how much I love you! You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe more to you than to anyone. I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence. You have given me much scandal and yet you alone have made me understand holiness. Never in this world have I seen anything more compromised, more false, yet never have I touched anything more pure, more generous or more beautiful. Countless times I have felt like slamming the door of my soul in your face - and yet, every night, I have prayed that I might die in your sure arms! No, I cannot be free of you, for I am one with you, even if not completely you. Then too - where would I go? To build another church? But I could not build one without the same defects, for they are my defects. And again, if I were to build another church, it would be my church, not Christ's church. No, I am old enough, I know better.