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"I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world, you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world." In the world, we are scattered and flee before Him. In the peace of Christ, we are gathered into Him and exult and rejoice. In the

Annihilate the pain by means of joy St. Teresa of Avila

“They walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.” Many such cases

I think this emphasis that Christianity is not simply a moral conduct code, but more fundamentally an encounter with the living Christ, will be essential for Christianity’s revival and renewal.

Through the Spirit we become citizens of heaven, we are admitted to the company of angels, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God. Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations - we become God. St. Basil

"I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do." The Father has assigned each person some task or work to do that will give Him glory, as Christ His Son glorified Him. In reality, each person has several vocations, and vocations within vocations. An

“For whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved” (2 Peter 2:19)

Two aspects of the spiritual life that I rarely hear discussed are: 1. Spiritual Communion 2. A rule of life for laity

I see this sometimes think about John Dee’s obsidian mirror (which is basically your phone if you think about it) and how he and Edward Kelley would talk to “angels/demons” through it.

Are you an old St. Joseph or young St. Joseph kind of person?

I do not believe evangelization can happen without a form of death. The archetype for the evangelizer is the Crucified Christ. “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.”

Inebriated from drinking of the one Spirit (1 Cor 12:13)

Time to actualize the archetype of the inner priest and offer spiritual sacrifices

When Christ calls someone to follow him and bear fruit, he is calling that person to his or her death, a fructifying death. Christ is the one who chooses the proper seed for sowing “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit”

Consequently, a thing may be called a "sacrament," either from having a certain hidden sanctity, and in this sense a sacrament is a "sacred secret" or from having some relationship to this sanctity Calling Sacraments "sacred secrets" from now on

Certain as I am that what I have done unto the least of my brethren I have done unto Christ. But what if I should discover that the least of all brethren, the poorest of all beggars, the most insolent of all offenders, yes the very enemy himself - that these live within me;

O living flame of love That tenderly wounds my soul In its deepest center

One could indeed say that the sacramental idea presupposes a symbolist understanding of the world, whereas the contemporary understanding of the world is functionalist: it sees things “merely” as things, as a function of human labor and accomplishment, and given such a starting