January 2011
18 posts
“Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.” -St. Thomas Aquinas
Trials
The difficulties of human life have meaning when they are ACCEPTED as God’s discipline, and if Christians persevere in fidelity to the Word, they are assured of possessing forever the unshakable kingdom of God.
“Just as the infidelity of the people thwarted Moses’ efforts to save them,...”
– Epistle to the Hebrews
“No chain is stronger than its weakest link -”
– GKC - heretics
Forgiveness- By St. Gemma Galgani
My Jesus, I place all my sins before you.
In my estimation
They do not deserve pardon,
But I ask you
To close your eyes
To my want of merit
And open them
To your infinite merit.
Since you willed
To die for my sins,
Grant me forgiveness
For all of them.
Thus, I may no longer feel
The burden of my sins,
A burden that oppresses me
Beyond measure.
Assist me, dear Jesus,
For I desire...
“The moment you love, the world becomes your foe.
Jn17:14”
– GKC -Heretics
“Everything is military in the sense that everything depends upon...”
– GK Chesterton -Heretics
“Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.”
– G K Chesterton, Heretics
A young man may keep himself from vice by continually thinking of disease.
He may keep himself from that also by continually thinking of the Virgin Mary.
There may be questions as to which method is the more reasonable or even questions as to which is more efficient,
But surely there can be NO questions as to which is the more wholesome.
GK Chesterton- Heretics, Ch3
