The Stained Glass Buffalo: "I have found the only answer...

09 March 2008

"I have found the only answer...

...is to love You and be loved by You alone."

"My happiness is found in less of me and more of you..."

h/t Cleveland's Cyber Cleric

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: How are things in Buffalo? The migration shift btwn the Northeast and the South/southwest is placing quite a strain on the church.

I've note several church closings along with schools in the northeast, because Catholics have either left the church or move somewhere else.

Here in Texas we have over crowded churches and straining to get schools and churches built. But even as we build we don't have enough priests to fill the void.

Blessings,

Tom; 10 March, 2008 14:00
The Buffalo said...: We are living in interesting times. We are, however, hopeful, that, like Christ himself, the Spirit is born from situations that aren't so neat and tidy.

Giving birth is a messy process... our diocese is in labor.; 11 March, 2008 17:47

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.