“I ask you to consider that our Lord Jesus Christ is your true head and that you are a member of his body. He belongs to you as the head belongs to the body. All that is his is yours: breath, heart, body, soul and all his faculties. All of these you must use as if they belonged to you, so that in serving him you may give him praise, love and glory.”
St. John Eudes
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“Since Jesus has gone to Heaven now, I can only follow the traces He has left behind. But how bright these traces are! How fragrant and divine! I have only to glance at the Gospels; at once this fragrance from the life of Jesus reaches me, and I know which way to run: to the lowest, not the highest place!”
— St. Therese of Lisieux
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November 22, 2021 at 8:18 am
Tomas Karkalas
Traffic safety signs inform about turns, about potholes on the road, not about lighting poles, but people read the metaphors literally, so they like to chant:
– Jesus, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119: 105).
Beautiful, but what does that mean? Does my life testify to that?
I once read:
– Who doubts, not one who knows, believes