I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.
Elizabeth of the TrinityTags: god heaven spirituality catholic catholic-spirituality
No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency.
Fulton J. SheenTags: god faith prayer independence catholicism catholic self-sufficiency catholic-spirituality communion-with-god
You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.
Fulton J. SheenTags: god prayer catholicism catholic father catholic-spirituality request
We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don’t trust and won’t risk. Can we reach a place where we are satisfied with just enough? You are enough. You have enough. Do not worry about tomorrow. God will provide in our lives just as God provides in the Eucharist.
Mary DeTurris PoustTags: belief faith risk trust catholic the-eucharist
Just as the Eucharist fuels our soul and our spirit, good healthful meals fuel our bodies for the work God calls each of us to do in his kingdom. Praying before we consume a meal or when we are feeling exhausted and stressed helps to bring this “body and soul” connection into the light
Mary DeTurris PoustTags: food faith catholic fuel body-and-soul the-eucharist
When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time.
Mary DeTurris PoustTags: food prayer eating mindfulness transformation catholic spiritual-life mindful-eating the-eucharist
Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.
Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.
Tags: catholic communion eucharist sacrament
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: life truth choice free-will people philosophy life-experience decisions philosophical christian life-lessons consequences choices catholic results choices-and-consequences gadfly conclusions truth-of-life making-decisions
... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: truth friend friendship friends courage christian catholic catholic-author true-friends gadfly friendship-and-love friendship-true-and-loyal true-friendship
We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad.
Francis de SalesTags: catholic devotional
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