The span of a raven
Aug
28
2015
God didn’t send us to earth so that we could live comfortably but for us to prepare for the eternal life that awaits us.
God didn’t send us to earth so that we could live comfortably but for us to prepare for the eternal life that awaits us.
All the virtues are aspects of the one, great virtue, the virtue of love. When, as a Christian, you acquire love, you’ve got all the virtues.
When marriage becomes a ‘sacrament’ it removes the couple and their physical marriage away from the old world, unredeemed and without God,
One of the signs of egotism is the presence of some feeling of jealousy within us.
Our moral us to take steps towards our salvation, because otherwise we’ll be lost.
The mountains, the hills, the trees, the sea and the fish all praise God.
No fasting from food is of any benefit to those who don’t fast from their other feelings,
The way to acquire peace is as follows: forget entirely your fall and the sin and give yourself over to the thought of God’s great and ineffable goodness and the fact that He is willing and desires to forgive every sin, however serious, inviting sinners in a variety of ways to come to their senses and be joined to Him in this life and, by His Grace, to be glorified and be eternally blessed in the next.
Every time we celebrate the Dormition of the Mother of God, it’s as if we’re having Easter – the Easter of the summer. Our Lady the Mother of God prepares Easter for us. A glorious crossing “from death to life”. A second Easter, holy spotless, life-giving for the human race, because today “the laws of nature are overcome”.