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"The Holy Spirit is present in our hearts like an underground spring," writes Father Antoine-Marie Leduc, ocd. He explains how spiritual desires within us indicate the Spirit’s presence.
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“We know that the light of Jesus is always with us,” says Bishop Báez. “Like the man born blind, we allow ourselves continually to be enlightened by Jesus. We weren’t created to dwell in darkness.”
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On this Sunday of the Word of God, Bishop Silvio José Báez, OCD reminds us that Jesus’s entire life is the greatest book alive in which we can read the Word of God.
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Bishop Silvio José Báez, o.c.d. offers this comment that applies to our Sunday Gospel: “Jesus proposes that we should cultivate these three life-giving verbs: give, descend, and serve.”
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Bishop Silvio José Báez, o.c.d. reflects on the Jesus' admonition that we must carry our own cross and follow him to be his disciple. The bishop says that "when Jesus speaks of the cross, he isn't simply talking about suffering. The cross is synonymous with extreme love, like that of Jesus."
Bishop Silvio José Báez, o.c.d. reflects on Jesus's teaching about entering through the "narrow door". The Bishop reminds us that "it's necessary to make a daily effort to go through "the narrow door", which is nothing other than to shape our lives and orient our hearts to love with a love like that of the Father in Heaven."
St. John of the Cross offers a commentary on our Sunday Gospel in The Ascent of Mount Carmel when he discusses "the vanity of rejoicing over riches, titles, status, positions," etc. "If people were better servants of God by being richer, they would be obliged to rejoice in riches."
"Do whatever he tells you" (Jn 2:5), were the instructions from the Mother of the Lord to the servants at the wedding banquet. Bishop Silvio José Báez reminds us that if we put his gospel into practice, our lives will be transformed in unexpected ways...
On the evening of Love, speaking without parable, Jesus said: "If anyone wishes to love me All his life, let him keep my Word.
St. Raphael Kalinowski understands the struggle of a people to defend their homeland against an occupying power. “Can I remain passive when so many people have sacrificed everything for this cause, undoubtedly a national cause?” A prisoner of war condemned to Siberia, he took the Gospels, his crucifix, and The Imitation of Christ.
Here are the beginning paragraphs of St. Teresa's commentary on the Lord's Prayer: "You desire that He consider us His children, because Your word cannot fail."
St. Teresa of Jesus said: “The Lord doesn't look so much at the greatness of our works as at the love with which they are done.”
What concrete results can the widow's two small coins produce?
This year, dear Mother, God has given me the grace to understand what charity is... I had never fathomed the meaning of these words of Jesus: ”You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
St. John of the Cross reminds us that "God’s purpose is to exalt the soul". That is why he came down, "so profound is the humility and sweetness of God".
His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us
Remember the heavenly affection You heaped on the littlest children.
Christian love has a social and political dimension. We love when we design and organize social life in such a way that no one suffers
Our fruitfulness in the world depends on prayer, where we welcome the words of Jesus to begin to think like him, see things as he would see them, and act in every situation as he would
Let us be concerned about our neighbors and in serving them, even when it is repugnant to do this
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