26 September 2013
21 September 2013
You have to trust God
“God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a
disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else—God
is in this person’s life.
You can, you must try to seek God in every human life.
Although the life of a person is a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.
You have to trust God.”
You can, you must try to seek God in every human life.
Although the life of a person is a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.
You have to trust God.”
—Francis.
17 September 2013
"You gotta kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight..."
“The more you get involved in the groups that are doing wonderful
work in the church the more you will be filled with joy in being a
Catholic. The corruption, scandal and heresy will fade away like
shadows. You will see clearly what you should be doing and it will be
positive, life filled and life giving. You will soon see all the good
that is going on and the bad you see will fade in importance.
Finally, remember this, we are engaged in a spiritual battle. Why did you think that the church would be free from corruption, scandal, indifference and heresy? It has always been like this and it always will be. Read church history. The complainers and protesters never accomplished very much. The saints did. The saints confronted corruption with radiant lives of simplicity and power. They skewered scandal with radiant lives of purity and goodness. They overwhelmed indifference with radiant lives of zeal and joy. At times they spoke out against the scandal, indifference and corruption, but they always did so based on the authority of their own powerful sanctity.
In other words, overwhelm the world with the light, life and beauty of Christ alive in you.
Don’t curse the dark.
Set alight a life ablaze with glory and goodness.”
– Fr. Dwight Longenecker
(via)
Finally, remember this, we are engaged in a spiritual battle. Why did you think that the church would be free from corruption, scandal, indifference and heresy? It has always been like this and it always will be. Read church history. The complainers and protesters never accomplished very much. The saints did. The saints confronted corruption with radiant lives of simplicity and power. They skewered scandal with radiant lives of purity and goodness. They overwhelmed indifference with radiant lives of zeal and joy. At times they spoke out against the scandal, indifference and corruption, but they always did so based on the authority of their own powerful sanctity.
In other words, overwhelm the world with the light, life and beauty of Christ alive in you.
Don’t curse the dark.
Set alight a life ablaze with glory and goodness.”
– Fr. Dwight Longenecker
(via)
16 September 2013
11 September 2013
06 September 2013
Elie Wiesel...
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Beauty
Beauty is rarely soft
or conciliatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite
alarming." from Donna Tart's "Secret History"
04 September 2013
Mother Teresa
"Love begins at home. Everything depends on how we love each other.
Do not be afraid to love until it hurts, for this is how Jesus loved."
Let the stumbling block become the corner stone...
God
has done everything possible to make you the unique saint that our world
needs right now. The only thing that is in your way is probably
yourself.
02 September 2013
Good Theology
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic,
and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of
loving-kindness, this was good theology.
But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of
self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad
theology.
~ Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
~ Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
01 September 2013
If I've learned...
If I’ve learned anything from video games, it is that when you meet enemies, it means that you’re going in the right direction.
Dragons
Once They All Believed In Dragons
Once they all believed in dragons
When the world was fresh and young,
We were woven into legends,
Tales were told and songs were sung,
We were treated with obeisance,
We were honored, we were feared,
Then one day they stopped believing--
On that day, we disappeared.
Now they say our time is over,
Now they say we've lived our last,
Now we're treated with derision
Where once we ruled unsurpassed.
We must make them all remember,
In some way we must reveal
That our spirit lives forever--
We are dragons! We are real!
We were woven into legends,
Tales were told and songs were sung,
We were treated with obeisance,
We were honored, we were feared,
Then one day they stopped believing--
On that day, we disappeared.
Now they say our time is over,
Now they say we've lived our last,
Now we're treated with derision
Where once we ruled unsurpassed.
We must make them all remember,
In some way we must reveal
That our spirit lives forever--
We are dragons! We are real!
~ © Jack Prelutsky
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