Lesson Learned

Try, my daughter, never to perform your actions with crooked intentions. What would it avail you to do better than someone else.  If it is from the motive of being admired? ~~Saint Mother Theodore Guerin~~

Indeed what would it avail me.  I need to remind myself that the only one I must please in this life is Almighty God and the praise and glory of  others mean nothing in the end.

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Words of Encouragement!

Let your heart delight in the love your God has for you, personally, individually.

~Saint Katherine Drexel~

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Personally and individually he LOVES me!

Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

Simple Justice

It is necessary to be just, that is to say, to have no preference for [anyone], nor show disgust for any of them. ~Saint Mother Theodore Guerin~

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

Keep Silence With God

In order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence;not a gloomy silence, but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.  One can speak a great deal without breaking silence; and, on the contrary, one can speak little and be constantly breaking silence. 

~Saint Faustina Kawalska~

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A call to silence.  Hmmm, this is something I have not been able to achieve.  I think I love to hear the sound of my own voice.  I have so much to say, and I have to admit, little of it is of value.  I think I must be that gong that makes no music in the midst of the music made by the glorious voice of God.  And perhaps I have this need to avoid silence because I fear God's voice.  What will he ask me to do!?!  And again, working to achieve silence requires effort.  I am LAZY!  I do need help and the assistance can only come from God in whom I MUST rely!  I must rely on the Holy Spirit to achieve this and again I must practice it.  It seems in this quote by Saint Faustina I have found another call to try again!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy

Padre Pio

No pilgrim soul can worthily love God. But when a Soul does everything possible and trust in divine mercy, why would Jesus reject such a spirit? Has he not commanded us to love God according to our strength? If you have given and consecrated everything to God, why be afraid? ~Saint Padre Pio~

Padre Pio, a photo by uCatholic on Flickr.

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Knowing this and having it reaffirmed I say,

Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy