Intimacy with God

Intimacy with the Lord is not a matter of physical kinship; rather it is achieved by cheerful readiness to do the will of God.  ~~Saint Basil the Great

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Thanks be to God!!!

Cathy

The Way

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

Alpacas at The Woods

When you consider creatures, and even yourself you cannot help knowing they  have not made themselves; therefore they have been made by another, more grand, more  powerful.

Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

Picture taken at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, 10/2/2013 of the alpacas and the babies!  Visit WhiteViolet Center for Eco-Justice at www.WhiteViolet.org.

Quiet Reflection

Words of the Fathers

If we were to think each day that we had to die that day we would never sin at all.  If in the morning we imagined that we would never last till evening, and if at evening we thought that we would never see morning, we would never sin       .~~Saint Athanasius

Words worth reflecting upon.

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy 

Monday of Passion Week

HOLY WEEK IS A SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN LIVING

The mysteries of the liturgical cycle no only bring new outpourings of the salvific waters of grace; they also enlighten our minds with insights into the ways of God, ever ancient and ever new.  They teach us more of Christ, they show us more of the meaning of our life in Him, they make us grow in Him, they transform us into Him.  Indeed, the liturgy is the great school of Christian living and the transforming force which reshapes our souls and our characters in the likeness of Christ.

By Thomas Merton

Seasons of Celebration, 53

From Lent and Easter, Wisdom from Thomas Merton

compiled by The MertonInstitute for Contemplative Living

 published by Liguori

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Thanks be to God!!

Cathy

Palm Sunday Reflection

Saint Meinrad, IN Archabbey

Saint Meinrad, IN

Hail, Queen Wisdom!

May the Lord protect You,

with your Sister, holy pure Simplicity!...

Holy Wisdom confounds

Satan and all his cunning.

Pur holy Simplicity confounds

all the wisdom of this world

and the wisdom of the body. 

Saint Frances of Assisi,

"ASalutation of the Virtues," 164-165

From Lent and Easter, Wisdom from St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi

compiled by JohnV. Kruse, published by Liguori

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Cathy

Wisdom of the Sainted and Holy Ones

God is closer to us than our own soul, for God is the foundation on which the soul stands.  Our soul sits in God and in true rest, and our soul stands in God in sure strength, and our soul is naturally rooted in God in endless love.  ~~Julian of Norwich~~

Such encouragement and consolation in these words!!!

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Thanks be to God!

Cathy