August 5
“Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
-Genesis 1:26, 27
Category Archives: Gracelines
Overcoming false understandings
August 4
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
-Isaiah 5:20
Crowned with glory
August 3
“O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens…What is man that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man that thou visitest him? Thou hast made him little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor.”
-Psalm 8:2, 5-6
What it truly means to be woman
August 2
“The woman’s humanity is realized in the specific ways of a woman. She is a complete human being no less than the man, but according to her own nature. Her sex is not a mere accidental condition that could be abstracted. Her sex, on the contrary, is a reality that fundamentally defines her being and action and corresponds to the specific design of the Creator. Her physical and psychological qualities proclaim clearly what it truly means to be woman.”
-Jutta Burggraf
How do you see yourself?
August 1
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.”
-Jeremiah 1:5
A new saint
July 31
“All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies.”
–Blessed Carlo Acutis
No room for despair!
July 30
“We can find God in his Body, Soul, and Divinity present in all the tabernacles of the world! If we think about it, we are much more fortunate than those who met Jesus on this earth two thousand years ago, because we have God ‘really and substantially’ with us always. It is enough to visit a nearby church. ‘Jerusalem’ is in every church! No room for despair!”
–Blessed Carlo Acutis
Something extraordinary
July 29
“Do not be afraid because with the Incarnation of Jesus, death becomes life, and there’s no need to escape: in eternal life, something extraordinary awaits us.”
-Blessed Carlo Acutis
Life is a gift
July 28
“Life is a gift, because as long as we are on this planet, we can grow in our ability to love. The more we learn to love, the more we will enjoy eternal blessedness with God.”
–Blessed Carlo Acutis
Love and sacrifice
July 27
“I offer all the suffering I will have to suffer for the Lord, for the Pope, and the Church.”
–Blessed Carlo Acutis
