
Love Conquers All, and Love Conquers Us
‘After the fall, marriage helps to overcome self-absorption, egoism, pursuit of one’s own pleasure, and to open oneself to the other, to mutual aid and to self-giving.’ (Catechism 1609)
‘After the fall, marriage helps to overcome self-absorption, egoism, pursuit of one’s own pleasure, and to open oneself to the other, to mutual aid and to self-giving.’ (Catechism 1609)
‘In the Eucharist the sacrifice of Christ becomes also the sacrifice of the members of his Body. The lives of the faithful, their praise, sufferings, prayer, and work, are united with those of Christ and with his total offering, and so acquire a new value. Christ’s sacrifice present on the altar makes it possible for all generations of Christians to be united with his offering.’ (CCC 1368)
We should take comfort in this: Our Lord is, was and ever will be victorious over Satan, offers each of us his deep love and eternal friendship.
Christ longs from the cross for your heart, and the whole world, to be aflame with love for God.
“If our prayer is resolutely united with that of Jesus, in trust and boldness as children, we obtain all that we ask in his name, even more than any particular thing: the Holy Spirit himself, who contains all gifts.” (CCC 2741)
Practice Advent as the art of joyful waiting for Jesus Christ
“To meditate upon the joyful mysteries … is to enter into the ultimate causes and the deepest meaning of Christian joy.” (Pope St. John Paul II)
Like all saints’ lives, her story also provides a road map to Christ for all of us still in exile to follow.
If we want the pews to be like nets near bursting, “A Good Discourse” is a good place to start.
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