Quotes

11 Feb 2024

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
Saint Catherine of Siena

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
—Maya Angelou

The Christian should be an alleluia from head to foot.
—Saint Augustine

4 Feb 2024

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.
 —Anne Lamott, author

Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. 
—Embolism, Roman Rite of the Mass, prior to 2011

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
—Helen Keller

28 Jan 2024

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Do not go in pursuit of [God] outside yourself. You will only become distracted and you won’t find him, or enjoy him more than by seeking him within you.
Saint John of the Cross

Authority is a service, and as such should be exercised, for the good of all and for the dissemination of the gospel.
—Pope Francis

Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?
—Saint Gerard Majella

14 Jan 2024

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Healing begins with our taking our pain out of its diabolic isolation and seeing that whatever we suffer, we suffer it in communion with all of humanity.
—Henri Nouwen

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.
—Martin Luther

It is no use saying: ”Speak, Lord, your servant wants to hear,” if we never risk the silence to listen. 
—M. Basil Pennington

31 Dec 2023

Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Cycle B

If you want to bring happiness to the whole world, go home and love your family.
—Saint Teresa of Calcutta

One light feeds another. One strong family lends strength to more. One engaged community can ignite those around it. This is the power of the light we carry. 
Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry

The family is indeed sacred: It is the place in which life—the gift of God—can be properly welcomed and protected.
—Pope John Paul II in Centesimus Annus

Jesus is the only person in recorded history whose parents thought he was a child of God rather than their own creative project and possession.
—Polly Berrien Berends in Gently Lead

17 Dec 2023

Third Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals needs a John the Baptist.
—William Allen White, 19th-century newspaper editor

If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
—Michelle Obama, Becoming

John is the voice that lasts for a time; from the beginning Christ is the Word who lives for ever.
—Saint Augustine

The true secret of love consists in this: we must forget self like Saint John the Baptist and exalt and glorify the Lord Jesus.
—Saint Peter Julian Eymard 

10 Dec 2023

Second Sunday of Advent, Cycle B

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were. 
Sidney Poitier, Measure of a Man

Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine.
—Saint John Chrysostom

I call something a miracle when an ordinary person achieves something extraordinary. We all have the potential to create miraculous changes. 
Tina Turner, Happiness Becomes You


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