Today...

"Today we learn that not even death can stop those who carry within them the Love of God"

Truth in Advertising (part II)

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If only it was this simple...

Teresa of Avila...

"You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."

In ruins...

Signs of the Times...

From this month's WNY Catholic

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Truth in Advertising

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... you have set us free. You are the Savior of the world.

John Bosco...

"God is always more willing to help you than you are willing to be helped."

Tim Russert...

"I constantly realize it's a long road, it's a long journey, and we can't get there alone. And so I'm very open and find it quite necessary to ask for help and assistance and inspiration. And that comes in a very powerful way in the form of prayer." - Tim Russert

Happy Ending?

"So what is the best ending in all of literature?

Don't say Ulysses. Everyone says Ulysses.

That's easy. Sentimental Education by Flaubert.

And what happens?

Nothing, really. Just two old friends sitting around remembering the best thing that never happened to them.

How do you remember something that never happened?

Fondly. You see, Flaubert believed that anticipation was the purest form of pleasure... and the most reliable. And that while the things that actually happen to you would invariable disappoint, the things that never happened to you would never dim. Never fade. They would always be engraved in your heart with a sort of sweet sadness."

-Kevin Williamson

Where does He fit?

"...everyone has a 'full plate': All have a litany of family and extended relations, duties, and activities: enough to choke a horse. The number one question discussed is where does God fit in with all these elements of daily life?

The answer: God doesn't fit on the plate - God is the plate. Or to state it more accurately: our relationship with God underlies and affects every aspect of our life. Hence, a small but consistent amount of time and attention devoted to Christian formation works wondrous results."

h/t Perfect Joy

2 = 1

The Christian's own "worldly" experience of faith, his own deepening commitment to the Whole Christ within the process of his personal integration into the family of man, will gradually cause the false dichotomy between God and the world to disappear. God is truly "Other," but His presence to man is normally through matter, through the incarnational way of knowing that is natural to man.

The absolute dichotomy between God and man is within the order of existence, within the fundamental difference between the Creator and the created. It is not within the order of the "presence" of the Creator to the created. Here God has chosen to speak with us in our own language, through the "common" in human life, most especially through man's daily interpersonal communion with his fellow man.

By thus uniting the transcendence and immanence of Christ within his own personal presence to all of reality, the Christian's interpersonal communication becomes the effective material sign, the sacramental presence of the Lord Jesus whose resurrected and glorified presence to the Father continues to reveal itself to men through both the agape actions and the expressed needs of human interpersonal relationships.

Edwin McMahon, JJ & Peter Campbell, JF
Becoming a Person in the Whole Christ