WORDS TO PONDER

 

WORDS TO PONDER

 

STEP BY STEP…

 

WOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR SON TO BE MUTILATED?

JULY 16, FEAST OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL

 

THE SCAPULAR

 

FLAGELLATION IS RENEWED... AND HOW DO YOU PAY HIM?

Blasphemy, denials, indifference, impurity, pride, sacrileges… all the outcries of deicides, and all the torrent of vileness and ignominy have the awful privilege of reaching Jesus' feet, of rising to His face and profaning it as it was profaned by Judas' kiss… And Jesus Christ does not go away!... He is love's captive, betrayed by His own Heart… He is there, crushed by the outrages of men… He is there, seated on the criminal's bench… He has committed a great crime, the sublime crime of loving man with divine passion…. And see how man repays Him— with neglect and loneliness!...

Extract from the book "Holy Hours" by R. Father Mateo Crawley-Boevey.

OUR BUSINESS

 

SAINT THOMAS MORE’S PRAYER FOR GOOD HUMOR

Grant me, O Lord, good digestion, and also something to digest. 

Grant me a healthy body, and the necessary good humor to maintain it.

Grant me a simple soul that knows to treasure all that is good and that doesn’t frighten easily at the sight of evil, but rather finds the means to put things back in their place.

Give me a soul that knows not boredom, grumblings, sighs and laments, nor excess of stress, because of that obstructing thing called “I.”

Grant me, O Lord, a sense of good humor. Allow me the grace to be able to take a joke to discover in life a bit of joy, and to be able to share it with others.

Amen.

TO PRAY IT DAILY IS A SIGN OF PREDESTINATION TO HEAVEN

 

THE PERVERSITY OF APOSTASY

“Society is at the present time, more than in any past age, suffering from a terrible and deep-rooted malady which, developing every day and eating into its inmost being, is dragging it to destruction (…) this disease is apostasy from God (…) this great perversity may be as it were a foretaste, and perhaps the beginning of those evils which are reserved for the last days.”

Saint Pius X

BAPTISM

 

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