Today’s One-Liner (#335)
But Joan heard in the whole long story of the Passion and Death of the Lord only two things: He knew that He would not be able to save all, yet He undertook the task,…
Category: Catholicism
Up to Her
She, Joan, is the chosen one, for she feels herself responsible, does this little girl in the Lorraine village, for the fate and the sins of the whole people. While nobody else does, while all…
Every Grain of Sand
Every particle of sand in the glass of time is precious to me, even if I were able to set my facts in order and give an account of them. –Saint Augustine, Confessions, 253-4, translated by…
Today’s One-Liner (#334)
[Augustine] is led from confession of sin to confession of faith and finally to confession of God’s glory. –R. S. Pine-Coffin, translator in Saint Augustine, Confessions. 16
Saint Bernadette
To the end she was what she had been at the beginning, Bernadette, the poor child of Lourdes, doing always with her might what her hand found to do, little enough though that was. And…
Today’s One-Liner (#333)
“Oh, why can’t they leave me in peace!” –Saint Bernadette Soubirous, quoted in R. H. J. Steuart, S.J., in Saints Are Not Sad: Studies in Sanctity from St. Paul to St. Thérèse of Lisieux, edited by F….
All These Egoisms
If there were fewer wars, less craving to enslave or exploit others, fewer national egoisms, egoisms of caste or egoisms of class, if man cared more about his neighbor and really wished to bring together…
Today’s One-Liner (#332)
To meditate each petition of the Lord’s Prayer, trying to enter into the sentiments of Jesus himself when he pronounced it, would doubtless be a good manner of praying. –Raissa Maritain, Notes on the Lord’s Prayer,…
The Little Way
“Her “Little Way”, just because it meant the unremitting and minute implementing of this surrender in each and all of the little things that fill up the immensely greater portion of our lives, was in…
Today’s One-Liner (#331)
The lives of the saints are offered to us for our study in order that we may see therein at their finest and best the virtues, qualities, and motives that made them what they were….