For this Lent I thought I would reflect on words of inspiration from great minds of the Catholic Faith and from my own upbringing.
To serve when there is no delight in serving,this is true love.
St. Theresa of Avila
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Tertullian
If you can pervert the language and call something entirely different than what it is, then the people who practice Infanticide called "Nurturers" in this world ( The Giver) you can call them nurturers but they are still killers.
Lois Lowry
Prayer is to the soul as rain is to the soil.
Father Bill Casey
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
Hebrews 11:1
The greatest way in which my parents loved me is to discipline me.
Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37
Ask, "What is the loving thing to do when you are confronted with a moral thing to do?"
How do I love God and my fellowman in choosing what to do? Love is the peg on which everything hangs! CARITAS!
My grandchild asked me why I always wear my necklace with the cross? I told him that my parents wore it and they gave me a beautiful necklace with a cross when I was 4 years old and now I imitate that tradition with a necklace with a cross that my husband gave me when we dated and I have worn it for all of my married life up to this present moment. When I look at the cross it reminds me of who I am. I am made in the image and likeness to God which then reminds me of my commitment to Jesus and to my fellowman. It essentially reminds me of my Catholic and Italian identity.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth makes the world blind and toothless.
Gandhi
You don't find yourself until you lose yourself in Christ.
Pope John Paul II
Jesus promised his disciples three things:
that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy and in constant trouble.
G. K. Chesterton
That is all for today and I will continue during this Lent with more pearls of wisdom that I have collected.
See you soon! Alla Prossima!
