+ For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this. For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we would suffer tribulation (1 Thes. 3:3-4). Let us hear, who have ears to hear. The Christian is appointed to this. For concerning all the faithful...
+ Blessed Feast of the Assumption of St. Mary But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of God...
+ Blessed Feast of the Transfiguration and St. Mary’s Fast Moses and Elijah speak with Jesus of His coming Passion. It is when He is preparing to go to His Passion that He is transfigured. In our life, we shall not enter into the joy of the Transfiguration unless we...
+ Blessed Start of St. Mary’s Fast “But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart” (Lk. 2:19). The Virgin Mother diligently held in her heart everything that she had come to know about the Lord, whether from the Lord’s sayings or from His deeds, and she...
+ So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. (John 11:6). But Christ, who is more concerned with conquering death than removing suffering, whose idea of love is not to raise someone from a sickbed, but to bring him...
+ To identify the movements of the Spirit in our lives, I have found it helpful to use the words: “taken,” “blessed,” “broken,” and “given.” These words summarize our lives, because at each [Liturgy] the priest takes bread, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it. These words summarize our life...
+ The Lord teaches that we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless we revert to the nature of children, that is, we must recall into the simplicity of children the vices of the body and mind. He has called children all who believe through the faith of listening. For...
As Christians, we have forgotten how to love and pray for our enemies. The devil, in his craftiness, has tricked us into not recognizing that we do not love our enemies or bless those who persecute us. The devil makes us think that Christ’s command to love one’s enemy...
“But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation…’ Yet for all the good that Christ did, not even then does Christ despise the Pharisees but defends Himself with the forbearance proper to Him, teaching us to be meek to...
+ Blessed Pentecost and Fast of the Apostles ! This Holy Spirit, for He is most wise and most loving, if He takes possession of a shepherd He makes him a Psalmist, subduing evil spirits by his song (1 Sam. 16:23), and proclaims him king; if he was “a herdsman...
