"The man who prays will accomplish more in a year than another in a lifetime." (Louis Lallemant)
If i have any effectiveness in my personal presence or in ministry it is anchored in prayer and Eucharist. Over the past two decades I have come to realize I am able to comfort and connect others only when I am comforted and connected to my inner self. This demands a certain disengagement from this world and giving of myself to the Lord. I am empowered to listen more attentively, love more selflessly, speak more passionately, play more enthusiastically, and laugh more sincerely.
Pray, which begins and ends with listening, silence is very precious in my life. It is silence that makes speech personal. I have come to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the Beloved, without doing anything. As Augustine said, "I am restless until I rest in thee."
My life is a love story. I know today that Christianity is an "affair" of the heart." The real treasures of my faith are those precious souvenirs of silence, those moments of loving encounters with the Bridegroom to whom I belong.
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By loving us, God makes us lovable.
What do you call a soldier without an army? (Deserter)
What do you call a child without a family? (Orphan)
What do you call a fish without water? (Dead)
What do you call a Christian without a Church? [all the above]
The Church is the powerful forming or shaping of God's People to establish His kingdom on the earth. QDM
"Not all who wander are lost!" JRR Tolkien
True, whole prayer is nothing but love!
St. Augustine
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad,
To change without journeying is to be a chameleon,
To journey and be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.
(Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk)
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THE QUOTE OF THE DAY
(St. Augustine)
What do you call a soldier without an army? (Deserter)
What do you call a child without a family? (Orphan)
What do you call a fish without water? (Dead)
What do you call a Christian without a Church? [all the above]
The Church is the powerful forming or shaping of God's People to establish His kingdom on the earth. QDM
"Not all who wander are lost!" JRR Tolkien
True, whole prayer is nothing but love!
St. Augustine
To journey without being changed is to be a nomad,
To change without journeying is to be a chameleon,
To journey and be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.
(Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk)
In every encounter, God asks "Adam, where are you? Where do you stand? How is it with you?" To answer this question, a person must be willing, lucid, transparent. Once someone has left behind the habitual prayers of childhood and has entered into the personal encounter, there is no way back. He must live in the light of God and expose and entrust himself to the light ever more unconditionally. (Adrienne Von Speyr)
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