February 27
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
-Venerable Fulton Sheen
Tag Archives: lent
What shackles your heart?
February 26
“Don’t you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: ‘Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart – and very often degrade it – leave all that and come with us in search of Love!'”
-St. Josemaria Escriva
The disruption of peace
February 25
“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
To know Him
Three states of the converted
February 23
“There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.”
-St. Gregory the Great
To be perfect
February 22
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
-St. John Henry Cardinal Newman
Most glorious Lord of life
Easter Sunday
Most glorious Lord of life that on this day
Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin,
And having harrowed hell didst bring away
Captivity thence captive us to win;
This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin
And grant that we, for whom Thou didst die
Being with Thy dear blood clean washed from sin,
May live forever in felicity.
And that Thy love we weighing worthily,
May likewise love Thee for the same again;
And for Thy sake that all like dear didst buy,
With love may one another entertain.
So let us love, dear love, like as we ought,
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
–“Easter”, Edmund Spenser (1553-1598)